The Nateland Podcast - 230: #230 Rock Music featuring Dustin Chafin

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

This week, Dusty gets to be Grand Marshal of the Opelika Christmas Parade and the guys debate which character from The Sandlot each of them would be, Then, fellow comedian Dustin Chafin  returns to discuss rock music. The guys debate the best and worst bands, look at rock music conspiracy theories, and assemble their perfect band. Vuori- Vuori.com/nate Vuori is an investment in your happiness. For our listeners, they are offering 20% off your FIRST purchase, but enjoy free shipping on any U.S. orders over $75 and free returns. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/nate. Exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. Mountain Dew: https://lets.shop/2141/dothedew/ The Mountain is calling, you should answer.. Grab your friends, grab an ice-cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold, and DO THE DEW.  Delete Me- joindeleteme.com/Nate Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for DeleteMe. Now at a special discount for our listeners and their loved ones.Today get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/nate and use promo code NATE at checkout.  Aura Frames- AuraFrames.com Save on the perfect gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35-off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames by using promo code NATE at checkout. This deal is exclusive to listeners, so get yours now in time for the holidays! Terms and conditions apply.

Okay, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Hello, folks. Hey, bear. That's the first time I said folks in a while. It didn't come out right. I didn't come out right. I didn't know that I could do it. I'm back. Dusty Slay's back. Welcome. It's been a while. Oh man, I'm pumped to be back. People thought I had died. They thought I was never coming back.

Some people were excited about it. I was scrolling through comments. Some people were very sad that I was gone. And then I read other comments like, oh, Dusty's not on this one. I can't click fast enough. And I find that to be a little ridiculous. It's like, this one. I can't click fast enough and I find I find that to be a little

ridiculous. It's like what what what's the big deal? You know what I mean? I get it when you miss me but if I'm not here and you're excited about it, what's that all about? It's a good episode though. Was it? It's alright. Okay. You told and

you've told people you'll be back as soon as Nate's not here. Yeah. And that's what I always say. Everybody knows that's the deal. Mm hmm. So as long as y'all aren't in the same room together. That's right. One of you will be here. Court order by night.

Okay, well listen. That was a joke by the way. Yeah, it is a joke. I'm here with... Aaron Weber. All my favorite co-host. And? Dustin. Go ahead favorite co-hosts. And? Dustin.

Go ahead. Dustin Chaffin. Dustin Chaffin. There you go. Welcome back. Let's not make it weird guys. I mean, I was looking for it to be on here somewhere. No, I did know, I did know, but Chaffin was not.

It's a weird one. Let me tell you something. People used to call me that, I would chafe a lot. Oh, now we're going down the last name jokes. Wow. I did used to get that a lot when I waited tables. I like I had been riding a horse after a double shift. Save a horse. Yeah.

When I was doing research for this- And Brian Bates. Oh, good to see you, Brian. Hey. I didn't know you were here. All right, yeah. When I was doing research for this week's podcast, which we're talking about music today. I'm looking at Dustin's bio to see what talk about it's basically dusty or everything dusty will do in one day. Okay. Born in a double wide trailer. Yes. Kilgore, Texas. Yep. Uh, rich to me. It was. Double wide.

You were a missionary in Chile? Chile, Santiago, yep. Which you'll probably escape to South America sometime. Sounds like you had a good family. Not really. I'm the only one that hasn't been arrested. Stand up comedy and a huge music lover. I mean, you guys got a lot of customers.

I like the cow hat. Oh, a lot of like the cowhat. Yeah. Oh, and a grandson of Choctaw Indians. Yes. And they got the Indian blood. You got some Indian blood, right? I don't think so. But I'm my area that I'm from is where a lot of the Creek Indians. Oh, okay. Last last kind of place of the Creek Indians. Okay. Trail of Tears. I think they were part of that. I think they were. Yeah. Chockdaws, Chickasaw, Cherokee. Yeah. Well, fun stuff. Good to have you Dustin. I'm excited. I like an awkward start. Yeah. Have you all not done an episode together on the Spy Guests before? I don't think so. Is this the first time you've met? We met at Bridgestone. Okay. And then I think maybe one other place, that's about it.

We don't spend a lot of time together. I typically do take off when there's guests. Not because I don't like the guests, but we have a lot of people on this podcast. So I feel like when there's a guest, it's like, you don't need me. Yeah. It's still fun.

How many people are there? Are you just one? On a podcast? Yeah. I would think two. I think two is the ideal number. Okay. On a podcast? Yeah. I would think two. I think two is the ideal number. Oh, okay. On a podcast.

Yeah. Sure. But one person do all the talking, but you need one person there as kind of an audience. Okay. So no guests, just two always. No. Like somebody just to bounce stuff off of. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, you don't want to just sit in a room and talk to yourself, but- So a producer, somebody running the mic just to be in the room with you. Like even some talk radio shows you listen to and they'll talk to someone but that person never says anything. Right, they're barely mic'd up.

Yeah. Well, we do, this is a show with four people at a desk, just so, sorry it's not perfect, but we're gonna make do with what we got today. Yeah, we're doing it. We're gonna do the do. You know, we got today. Yeah, we're going to do the do. You know, we're doing it. Yeah, we are going to do the do. We're going to cold or warm.

We're doing it. Well, welcome back and welcome back to you. Welcome back to you. That's your third time, I think. Third, fourth. Yeah, it might be the fourth time. A lot of people don't know this, but my real name is Dustin. Yeah. So a couple of dustins on the line. And I will fist fight if you call me dusty.

So you don't really you don't like dusty. Oh, yeah, it's a rough one. Yeah. Dustin. Yeah. So a couple of Dustin's on the podcast. And I will fist fight you if you call me Dusty. So. Oh, you don't like Dusty? Oh yeah, it was a rough one. Yeah. Okay. Teachers, I was like, that's Dusty. You never went through a phase where it was kind of, oh, okay. It's never a Dusty. See, it was the opposite for me.

It's good for you. I had teachers were like, Dusty and every day, every first day of school, I would have to correct them and go, it's Dusty. And then, you know, they were always cool with it. Yeah. How about Dust? I like Dust. Dust is fine. Pretty solid. Dust man, I know, they were always cool with it. Yeah. How about dust? I like dust. Dust is fine. Dust man.

I don't mind. Yeah. I don't mind any of that. Dusted. Dusted. Dusted. I feel like dusted is like almost like a fart thing. Yeah.

Dusted. This whole crop dusted. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Crop dusty. Yeah. I like that.

This is good stuff. This is good stuff. Yeah. This is good stuff, man. This is the Dustin episode, hello. You can already clip out this episode. This is the kind of stuff you could only have with four people on the pod. Yeah.

It was just you, Dustin. You would never have got the Crop Dusty. Well, you have to have another Dustin for that. That's true. Yeah, maybe I do a podcast on my own with a producer named Dustin. There you go. I got you.

Let's do it. Yeah. We were thinking Dustin Nickerson. Sorry. Oh yeah. There's that guy. We'll call it Crop Dustin. Yeah. Okay. I think I got our got news here to read. Yeah. A lot going on with Nate Land. Nate Land news and upcoming events. Sometimes I say when Nate's not here, it's like we're doing a Nate tribute podcast. It is like he died. Yeah. It's like a lot of stuff on the wall and then we're like not here, it's like we're doing a Nate tribute podcast. It is like he died. Yeah, it's like a lot of stuff on the wall and then we're like, hey, here's stuff Nate's doing. Everyone go around and tell your favorite Nate memory. All right, here's, it's broken down into three categories here. The first category is Nate. All right, this is the Nate News. Tickets on sale for big dumb eyes. World tour at natebargottsy.com.

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I was like, I was like, I had no idea. I'll edit on the fly, don't worry about me. The next category is dusty. Okay, you should be really good with this. My next one hour special is being filmed on February 28th. Oh, you added my to that too. I did. Yeah, that was really well done.

Well, when it applies to me, I know how to manipulate it. Okay. February 28th at the Walker Theater. My next one hour special manipulate it. OK. February 28th at the Walker Theater. My next one-hour special is going to be filmed on February 28th at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And you can still get tickets at DustySlay.com. Not very many left to the early show. It will fill up, though. I'm not going to tell you it's going to fill up fast, but it will fill up. We got'm not gonna tell you it's gonna fill up fast but it will fill up. We got time but get those tickets. My promotional team has a way of bullying people in the door last minute. Promotional team? Yeah. Look at that. They'll get people in there. Yeah.

They'll get them in there. Promotional team? Yeah. Well I'm a public figure. And the last category is Nate Landland that applies to all of us. Okay. And Nate-land will be recording Mike Vecchione's hour special in Nashville on December 28. All right. Tickets available for both shows. That's awesome. No indication of how many, but there are some available.

But get them. It's a small room. They're going to fill it. And Mike Vecchione's very funny. He's the best. Last thing, some great podcasts. Catch The Consumers every Tuesday and Don't Make Me Come Back There every Thursday. So you can catch podcast Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, all Nate Land affiliated, so you never have to sit around and listen to your own thoughts.

You can always have somebody speaking into your ears. That is beautiful, Dusty. That is beautiful. You know what I mean though? you can always have somebody speaking into your ears. That is beautiful, Dusty. That is beautiful. You know what I mean though, that is what podcasts are though. Of course. You ever like being like,

oh, pretty sick of thinking these thoughts. Right. What are these other people thinking? Right, all the time. Yeah. And then to have a podcast, it's like you're just talking to yourself, but then you have an audience.

I know, I know. It's like, hey, you guys wanna to listen to the things that I say? Yeah. There's a couple of people that don't. Oh yeah. Little bird does that. There's a couple of people that are pretty public about not wanting to hear what I have to say.

Who's that? I don't know. Random YouTubers. Oh, okay. Yeah. They're not that public because I try to go onto their feeds and see what they're up to creatively. Yeah.

Never anything. They don't even share. Always do. you know, I try to go onto their feeds and see what they're up to creatively. Never anything. They don't even share. They don't even share a photo of themselves. They don't even, there's some weird name and they don't do anything creatively. They just come on and go, you're not doing that right. Right. Right. Well, I'm sure they got, they're happy with how their life's going. Yeah, it's going well. All right. Let me tell you about our next sponsor, Viori. Viori's the new perspective on performance apparel. It is perfect if you

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But nothing public. What would they talk to us about them? What was the experience like? 104 was for a pest control company. Okay. And you know, that went pretty well. I mean, it was mostly guys, so. Did you do my spectrocyte joke?

No. You should have did it. Just, you know have did just you know It's pesticide. It was mostly dudes. It was three dudes and that's tougher and that doesn't happen that often It's usually women that bring men to things. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but at a pest control company It's usually only dudes that work. Do you think they'd have their wives there or something? There'd be like there might be women there. There were women there, but it was majority man. And so, but it was- It's a male dominated industry. Yeah, yeah.

And one of those industries that women really aren't trying to get into. And then the other one was- Poisoning animals. You'd think they'd be into that. Yeah. We had Pescadille come to our house today and it was a lady.

Oh yeah. Really? What was her name? I didn't ask. our house today and it was a lady. Oh yeah? Yeah. Really? What was her name? Margaret. Okay. Was that rude of me not to ask her name? I don't know. Did she do a good job? I don't, I took my dog for a walk while she was in there. You know it's tough to tell if they ever do a good job. Only by do insects show up later. Yeah.

You can only, yeah, you only know if, yeah, if it didn't work. And they go, well, some insects are gonna show up. Yeah. Like, oh, we need to, you need to pay me to do this more often. Yeah. That's what it is. Exactly.

So last week, Nate invited me to go with him to Talk of the Town, which is the local talk show here in Nashville at the station I used to work at for many years. So we went to talk of the town, Nate was on and I hung out and then afterwards he's like, you want to go out to eat? And I was like, sure. So we go to this restaurant and of course, Valley parking and he's like, ah, I don't have any cash on me. You got any cash? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I can do that. And then we get in there. He's like, ah, I don't have any cash on me. You got any cash? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I can do that.

And then we get in there and he's like, ah, I forgot to bring my wallet. So I had to pay for the entire experience. So, you know, I'm not gonna let Nate forget it. Did he bring you on the air with him or did he? No. Did anybody recognize you at the station? No.

No, they did. Okay, okay. I just go up to people, remember me? I. I do not. You worked there for how long? Almost 20 years. Okay. So yeah. Yeah. And I've been gone 10 years this month. Wow. December 17th was my last day there. Wow. 2014. That is how it is though. We always think that when we leave, people are really going to miss us. It's going gonna be a big impact. The world keeps spinning. It does. When I used to wait tables, I would think when I leave this place,

they're gonna miss me, but they're really like, hey, can I get his shifts? Did you leave on bad terms, Brian? No. No. I can't imagine you've ever left the job on bad terms. Well, I haven't had that many jobs because I was there for almost 20 years. But I didn't put in a two week notice like Dusty. You probably did a two month. No, I did.

Well, I told her them on my birthday, November 3rd and I left on December 17th. Oh wow. So a month and a half notice. Yeah. So I gave him plenty of time. They're 20 years. You need to give more than two weeks. Yeah.

Yeah. It's almost better to get for you to give a longer notice because you know that you're quitting. And what I always like about it is any of the drama, any of the work drama, no longer matters to you. Because you're out of there at any time. You're like, I could leave now. I remember I thought they would just leave me alone for that last month and a half, but everybody else still has to work. So they were still, you know, on me about stuff like, hey, what about this? What about this? And I'm like, you know I'm quitting, right? It's not about them wanting you to keep working. It's about you knowing that it don't matter.

But I wanted to go out as a good employee. Oh sure. Did you take anything? Any swag or anything? Nah, maybe some pins or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you think maybe I'll come back to this so I better not burn this bridge? You never know. Yeah. Dustin, have you ever left a job in a blaze of glory, like kicked open a door and screamed at everybody

and let them know what you really think and then get out of there? I feel like that's what my first 10 years of comedy's been. Just drunk, just. Burning drunk. Just burning bridges. Yeah. Just yelling it, you know, people I shouldn't be yelling at. Just getting kicked out in bandit clubs. Yeah.

It's pretty rough, Dustin. What was your weekend like? This weekend? Yeah. Well, it's been fun. My girl is a comedian, my girlfriend of 18 years, Leah Bonema. Very funny. And yeah, she's great.

And we've been driving from LA to Maine and along the way we've been doing like, you know, comedian, my girlfriend of 18 years, Leah Bonama. Very funny. And yeah, she's great. And we've been driving from LA to Maine and along the way we've been doing like, you know, uh, we did a mic drop comedy in Plano and some places in Arizona. And it's like, uh, so our first time touring together and, uh, we did one tour. In 18 years. In 18 years. Cause we, you know, it's like, I don't know if you ever dated a comic. Like this is going pretty well.

Let's try to go on tour together. Well, we're not like comic couple heavy, you know, we, it's like, I don't know if you ever dated a comic. You're like, this is going pretty well. Let's try to go on tour together. Well, we're not like comic couple heavy, you know, we, it's like, we have our own thing going, so I never wanted to be like, ah, she's my girlfriend. I'm the overcomic. Yeah. It's like, some people do it well, like, you know, Bonnie and Rich Voss and like people, but we're just not that, but, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's been great. And the first time we toured once, Nate and Leah, they both opened for me in Iraq.

That was the only time we ever worked together. Okay. Wow. It was when the three of us were in Djibouti, Africa and Iraq for a military tour. Wow. Okay. So yeah, so that's, but being in a car with two dogs and the girlfriend is kind of like a war zone. So it's very similar to that, but it's been cool, man.

Just like, just seeing the country, just driving the car. You know, the capital of Djibouti is? No. Djibouti. Yeah. Djibouti, Djibouti. Djibouti, Djibouti. That's the capital.

Dusty. I mean, you, your wife did stand up and y'all did not, y'all tried to tour together. For a bit. We worked the road quite a bit. Did you? Well, you know, of course we fought, but you know, we fight, you know, even when we're not touring together. She posted a video today talking about your weekend, two Rams button heads together.

We do it every day. You guys, does she still do comedy? No, she does, she has an Instagram that's going pretty well. Too well. Yeah. Oh yeah, nice. She does a little sketch.

Yeah, kind of annoyingly well. Yeah, she makes great stuff though. Yeah. Very cool. Yeah, it is kind of annoying that, you know, like, I've, you know, I've done all these things with comedy and then she'll make a video and they're funny, but it'll, you know, she's got a couple

that have gotten multi-millions of views where I'm like, well, come on. I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, it's not for the weak, like two comics dating each other. No. Because my whole thing is this, like, it's,

there's nobody in charge with us. Like there's, you know, it's just, it's like a comedy condo. It just feels like, you know, and we end every argument with, Hey, I'm going to use that, you know, just like your life is on, you know, Oh yeah. Every joke she does is like about me. My thing is like, like say I'm on the road with Aaron and say, Aaron doesn't do well on a show.

That's not my problem. Right? I don't, you know, but if my wife... You kind of like it, actually. Yeah. But if my wife doesn't do well, it is my problem. Yeah. I go, like, let's say Aaron didn't do well on a set. And then I go on next and I... Just so you can imagine that. Okay. All right. Yep.

And then I do well. I'm with you I do well seen it once yeah I go back to my hotel I call my wife I go yeah the show was really tanking and then I turned it around baby but if it's my wife there's no one for me to tell yeah there's no one for me to tell that I turned the show you go huh they were weird no you can't know how they got straightened up for me but you warmed them up well that's the thing too is that we always Knowing you can't. I don't know how they got straightened up for me, but. You warmed them up. Well, that's the thing too, is like, we always say,

we can't bomb on the same night. Like we have to, you know, we have to spread it around a little bit. Yeah. Well, as comics, we always say, we just want to bring laughter and joy to people. But then if we have a bad set, we don't want anyone on that show to have a good set.

Yeah, exactly. Oh, that is the worst. Cause we want to blame it on the crowd. Yeah, that crowd doesn't deserve joy. Yeah. If you don't laugh at my jokes, you don't deserve happiness. You're just not smart. Yeah.

Walk off. You're like, Oh, this crowd's terrible. And then everybody else does great. You know, Oh boy. That is the worst. Where was I? Oh, I was in Dallas at a corporate gig, did a Christmas party. I had a, the show, everybody there was nice.

It was a great company. It went, it went fine. I did have a moment, you know, like you're set where you're like, I'm kind of like flailing for like 30, like not 30 seconds, but you're just like, I don't know what to do next. Like you can see it in people's eyes. This could be turned bad quick. And I grabbed the mic stand and I shattered the mic stand. Like the top of it that holds the mic, I like reached for it to like, as like crutch. Yeah.

And I just shattered it, dude. And it was so quiet in the room at the time that the plastic hitting the ground, everybody heard it. It was just such a like, what is happening? I go, I just talked about that and that kind of got everybody back. But it was just such an awkward moment you're like I'm strong guys I never get me no I've been working out I had no idea closer just destroying just breaking the mic stand just yeah you're like an 80s

rock band you're smashing the mic stand just apologize to the venue you know I'm sorry I'm up here breaking the mic stand at this place. But it was good. Connor Larson, our buddy from Nashville came with me. It was fun to just pop in, do a show, come on back. We're about to go to Vegas. You and Connor? Oh, that'll be fun. That's great. What about you, Dusty? Actually, maybe the day this podcast comes out, I'll be in Vegas. Well, this is what I this weekend I was I went to my hometown, I was off work and I went to my hometown, like a, opa like Alabama, uh, to be the grand Marshall of the Christmas parade. All right. No Palika. Yeah, there I am. Grand Marshall, dusty sleigh.

That's me and my wife and my daughter both wearing tiaras. They got really into it. They're ready to seize power. And then, oh, I'm sorry. And then I met the mayor. Yep. Mayor Fuller of 20 years. And I received a key to the city of Opelika. That's incredible. Look at that. Look at that. Key to the city. That is legit. Yes. It is a great honor to have grown up in this town. Yeah. To have terrorized it for much of your youth. Yeah.

Well, in my youth, I was a very nice kid. And then when I turned 16, I got a little wild. And so for the, but yeah, I mean, I've been pretty wild in Opelika, but I've always liked Opelika. And you've never disparaged it. Yeah. You've always said good things. You've never talked down on where you're from and it's very nice to get some recognition out of my hometown to have them

He the mayor for he didn't say who the other one was. He's been mayor 20 years He said he's only given out two of these keys He didn't say who the other one was but it was a big deal Very he gave me a hat, but it was a real floppy hat. I don't wear I don't wear floppy hats. So I put it over my other hat. Just to give it some shape. Yeah.

And it was a... What can you do with that key? I assume I can, you know, do whatever I want. I'll ride around with it in the car. Next time I get pulled over in Opel Ica, I'll pull it out and I'll go, better luck next time. Maybe it opens every business in Opel Ica. Yeah maybe so. It's a very vending machine. A lot of people say Dusty doesn't like Christmas. I say no he does like it if it's about him. But this is what I'm going to do a Christmas parade if it's about me. This is what I'll say.

I am not I'm not into Christmas, but I, Right. I'm not gonna, you know, they wanted to honor me and they wanted to do nice things for me. And I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, you know, you know, refuse that. Sure. I appreciate it.

Yeah, of course. And also we had the largest tree in Alabama. Opelac has the largest tree in Alabama. And then Mayor Fuller lit the Lit the tree and everybody cheered and Alabama fan poisoned it. Yeah. Yeah Largest tree in Alabama now, how did it? Where did it come from? I don't know. Is this it right here in the back? Well this guy in this picture right here, this is I need that for my Charlie Brown. Steven Bass.

Oh, yeah. Fan of the podcast. Yeah. Well, he hung we hung out for a while. And that's my wife and Steven Bass. We hung out for a while. Very nice guy. Yeah. He emailed us that plays a pickleball with Kid Rock. Yeah. Yeah. Who doesn't? Yeah. But that's the that's the church in the background.

Opelika is very nice. We've got a very nice town. It is a nice city. And it was a big parade. It was a nighttime parade. Over 15,000 people, I think, were in attendance. Whoa. Yeah.

But I guess what I'm asking is- And there's a nice reel of it on my Instagram, if you want to go check it out. Yeah, I'll pull that up. Yeah. Does Opelika always have the largest Christmas tree? Is that a thing, or is it just this year? I think this year. And I guess Birmingham couldn't afford a tree this year.

Yeah, I guess I'm wondering like, how do they know that or where did they must have some record to show it was only three feet shorter than the one in New York City. We want to watch this real quick. No, you don't have to watch it. But the longest people know it's a quick reel. Roadmaster here. I'm Chevy Chase. This is my wife, Beverly D'Angelo. I sat my daughter on top of the car, which is probably very,

where's your son? We didn't want to take him. He's back in Nashville. Now I was cold. Like Nashville is a lot gets a good bit colder than Opelika. And, uh, man, it is pretty funny how everybody was acting like it was real cold. Like my family, they were all like, Oh God. I mean, I was like, it's kind of cold out here, but it's really not that cold. You just got to layer up. Right.

I'm bummed. I turned the audio off in this video because the mayor said we're having a good time. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. That's awesome, man. What a cool thing. Yeah, that's really cool. For an Alabama boy. Yeah. Big time. I apologize to them for making a joke about Western Susland and getting it bulldozed to the ground. Congratulations, Dusty. But I'll be honest with you, I don't think people cared. Western Zuzun have been around for like 30 or 40 years.

And I think by its end, people are like, it's kind of getting gross here now. It had a real hay day though. A real hot spot for a while. Sign's still there, I'm trying to get it. Yeah, you got to get it. I want that sign go flex that key to the city yeah exactly exactly all right well should we get these comments let's get into the comments here we go miss be karaoke be

Oh comments come from Twitter Instagram YouTube Apple podcast reviews and Nate land at Nate Bargatze dot-com. That's it. Mm-hmm, that's correct. Miss B karaoke B. Dustin is my absolute favorite guest on the show. Nice. All caps. All caps, she's that excited. You know Miss B karaoke B? I don't and she's a good time.

Karaoke, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you want. Yeah. Those are the fans. Yeah. I like that. All caps, I mean, yeah. I like that. All caps.

I mean, yeah. I mean, she's Miss B, but she's also karaoke. Yeah. Right. Karaoke B in the streets. That's right. Miss B in the. You just need one fan in this.

That's the house. This is it right here. Okay. Okay. William Galeano. You think that's it? Galeano. Galeano.

I have a feeling once Dusty makes enough money or gets tired of comedy, he will disappear from the face of the earth. Oh yeah, that is 100% accurate. And we won't even, there won't even be a goodbye. It'll be like, it'll be like Good Will Hunting when Ben Affleck shows up to Matt Damon's door. It's gonna be me and Brian walking into the podcast

and Dusty's just gone. Yeah. That's it. I give it three weeks. He'll climb out of that bunker and be like, I got to talk to people. I got to record another special. After the special, I don't even know what jokes there'll be. What jokes are even left? Yeah.

Okay. Thank you, William. I appreciate that. I do appreciate it. I just feel like he knows me. All right. Kevin Hayes. I want to be mayor though. I think I'll be mayor of Opelanko. That's what I was going to say. McMinnville. Yeah. I thought I might start in McMinnville and that way if I kind of mess up, I'll learn some things and then take it to Opelanko. I think that that little snippet right there is gonna hurt your chances of making it go. I wanna be your mayor just to get all the kinks out

and then I'll be the mayor of a real city. No, but I think I could do it though. I mean, what is to be, you know, I mean, I think mayor to me seems just like a fun gig. Yeah, did you tell that to this guy who's done it for 20 years? Yeah, he's been doing it for 20 years. He's been doing it like a fun gig.

Just give us some keys to people. You're not doing it for 20 years if it's like really grinding you down. That's what I think. Yeah, it's what you guys only 45 years old. OK, Kevin Hazel, man, Brian won't let you all talk about anything even remotely risque, even if it's clean, kind of kills the humor sometimes.

I agree. The only part I disagree with is his thing at the end where he says sometimes. As we all know, Brian dictates the culture and the content of this podcast. Yeah. All right. Does he say something you'd like to say? I'll let it slide just this one time. Well, it's got to come out on the fly.

It's got to be organic, right? Yeah. He'll give you one pass today. Okay. All right. Well, it's gotta come out on the fly. It's gotta be organic, right? He'll give you one pass today. Okay. Well, you guys cut me off. I was about to talk about being drunk as a comic and then you're like, okay, next. Oh, did we? Oh, no, we've talked about being drunk all the time.

Oh yeah? Yeah, I think this episode's on alcohol. Is that the one we're doing? Is it really? Yeah, okay. It's why we're having you as a guest. Yeah. This is my first day clean, I love it.

Well, congratulations. On this episode, say whatever you want. I'm kidding. Just for Kevin Hayes while Logan light I like that name. Hello You cannot convince You cannot convince me otherwise For most of the show Aaron is just checking his email and nodding every now and then Amen, brother. Yeah That's cool man next

comment. I'm just kidding. I mean I've definitely done that before. For Logan Light she's really coming in pretty heavy. Just sitting in a bit. Yeah. You think Logan's a woman? I thought so. I think that's a guy's name right? Yeah I thought a guy. You think so? Yeah. You think a woman would have a road house? A roadhouse? Logan's roadhouse. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like a Wolverine. I was, well, I know a girl named Logan. Okay.

Yeah. Do it. Maybe it's like Taylor. I don't know if you do or not. I think you do. I think so. Yeah, you know, Logan. I don't know if that's her name.

Yeah, you don't even know Dustin's last name, so. Yeah, it's all right, though. I'm sorry about that. It's okay, buddy. I'm just gonna call you Dustin. It happens. Yeah. You don't even know Dustin's last name. So yeah. It's all right though. I'm sorry about that. It's okay buddy. I'm gonna call you Dustin. It happens. Brynn. You ever had to bring up somebody on stage you forgot their name? All the time. Yeah. What's your go-to? Is there like uh- Clubs and colleges. They give like 40 credits. Yeah. And you're just hoping that you get it right. That's why he doesn't go on the road with his girlfriend. Yeah that won't work. Yeah that is the worst. I forget your name. I did it here. Oh, yeah, you did it here on the Nightline Live hosting a few weeks ago. Yeah, what'd you do? I just

had to be honest. I mean, it was the first comic up. I went out and did a set and then first comic up with somebody I'd never met before. Man, this next comedian, one of my dear friends. Her first name finally came to me and then I think maybe her friend in the audience yelled her last name. I was like, that's it. There it is. Yeah. Come on up. I always write it on my hand, just in case. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. You make a joke out of it too. I love this guy so much. You know, well, that's as long as you get it, it's fine. It should always write it if you're hosting. Uh, you know, well that's as long as you get it. It's fine. It should always write it if you're hosting Have you ever had your name forgotten being brought up? Oh, yeah. Yeah, just like because I did a lot of You know kind of uptown rooms in New York and it'd be like this next guy You're gonna just win a cowboy hat broke bad guy. Give it you know

They just say some ridiculous insult because they can't remember your name or even they can put it on you Yeah, and then you're just like up there falling some horrible thing. They just, you know. Yeah. I just had it couple weekends ago, St. Louis. I've done St. Louis a bunch of times since I started Stand Up. I've done the small room at the Helium a couple times. I'm back. Now I'm doing the big room. Two shows. They're both basically sold out. So I'm thinking, Oh my, this is like different, right? So I get in the green room.

The first thing I hear is the, the, uh, the sound guy go, all right, who's ready to see Adam Webber? That just happens. No matter. I was like, okay, I could not have, I mean, I basically sold out two shows and I'm Adam Webber. So it just, it just happens no matter. I was like, okay, I could not have, I mean, I basically sold out two shows and I'm Adam Weber. So it just happens. Well, it's like you think, you know,

when you go through clubs for a while and you think, you know, when I finally start selling these shows, yeah, then I'll get some respect. I'm gonna do whatever I want. And then it just feels just exactly the same. Yeah, yeah, which is kind of good. It's good to stay humbled like that. Yeah, anyway. It's kind of like doing this podcast. And you didn't know my name, yeah. I mean, I remember, yeah, which is kind of good. It's good to stay humbled like that. Yeah. Anyway, it's kind of doing this podcast.

And you didn't know my name. Yeah. I mean, I remember, yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm sure this karaoke B is not happy. Yeah. Miss B karaoke B. Miss B. So you got her name wrong.

Yeah. Just like I got the karaoke part, right? That's how you handle it. You just got to get half of it right. Yeah. Like I used to, I opened for Aries Spears a few times and he would always like smoke like half a cigarette in the green room right before he went up.

And I always thought, you know, when I'm selling out shows, I'm gonna smoke in the green room too. And I just never do. Right. You know, I don't feel like, I still feel like, I don't know, I see comics smoking cigars in the green room before the show and I think they've sold it out. If I start selling it out, I can do whatever I want to do, but I still don't feel like I have that authority. Good. Now a couple of clubs have allowed me to do

it. The mothership, they let me smoke cigars in the green room. Comedy works, Denver, not downtown, the Denver comedy Works South, let me smoke in the green room. Chicago's ain't, he's let me smoke in the green room. These are all great clubs. Yeah. And they, yeah. And so it's real cold in Chicago and Denver too.

And they worked it out for me that I could. And then in outside of the Comedy Works in Denver, it is outside of Austin, the mothership it is Mad Max on those streets. It is, yeah, 6th Street. Yeah. I remember the first time, you know, I've been doing comedy forever,

in New York you could smoke on stage. Ah, yeah. And that was crazy. Love that. You still technically can here, right? I don't think so. I think you can smoke on stage. If you're Chappelle, maybe. If it's, yeah, and I saw Chappelle at the Ryman,

he did smoke a bunch on stage, but I think youappelle. If it's yeah and I saw Chappelle at the Rhyme and he did smoke a bunch on stage but I think you can because it's part of a performance. I don't think you can do it at a comedy club. I think you can technically do it at a comedy club. Really? They would have to clear it I guess. I don't know and I think if it's part of a performance you can get away with it. Because the smoking plays. I don't think they'd be happy. No nobody would be pumped about it. No. Yeah you gotta be a pretty big name to be like packing, packing cigarettes. Six minutes bottle of showcase. I'm going to try it tonight. I'm just show tonight.

I'm going to see what happens. Are you tell me, are you friends with Chappelle? Uh, friendly. Yeah. I was, you know, back in the day, I mean, now he's kind of your show a lot, right? Uh, not my show. I used to run the Boston comedy club. Yeah.

Well, it's not my show. It was a club, but yeah, it was like a, but you booked it, right? Yeah. I did for a little while. Yeah. I like crazy how we worded. I like how Brian keeps pushing it on you.

No, no, this is your thing. Okay. This is how we got you on the podcast. We sold it. I mean, it's your best friends with Dave. She probably, yes, that's, I mean, Nate's a whole nother thing, but Chappelle, not so much, you know, but, um, yeah, I mean, it's your best friends with Dave Chappelle. I'm crying here, Nate. Yes, that's I mean, Nate's a whole nother thing, but Chappelle, not so much, you know. But yeah, I mean, I was there right before he went to Africa and all that stuff. We hung out.

You're the one who talked about it. You got to you got to get out of here. Go to Djibouti. I've been to Djibouti. Go check it out. Go to Djibouti. Djibouti. Yeah. OK. All right. Here we go. Brynn, 3669. Go to Jabooty. Jabooty Jabooty. Jabooty Jabooty. Yeah. Okay. All right, here we go.

Brynn3669, I'm terrified to ever have a conversation with a professional comedian because if I've learned anything from watching slash listening to tons of different comedy podcasts, it's that a comedian can find the insult in any compliment. What does that mean? Absolutely. Oh my God.

Get over yourself, Brynn. Yeah, geez. I think that mean? Absolutely. Oh my God. Get over yourself, Brenda. Yeah, geez. I think it's like after shows. I think people say stuff. Like when my, one that I hate is like tough crowd, you know? Even when you got up there and just turned the show around Oh yeah, yeah. and pulled it out of them.

And then they, you know, that's the first thing they say to you. You didn't see all that work I did? Yeah. You know, it's like that bothers me. I don't know. Yeah, they didn't seem that into it. I'm like, yeah, I had a great show.

Yeah. Yeah. I loved it. I think that's what we were talking about. People get, uh, you know, it was pretty funny or something like that. Yeah. The little things that, yeah, it just, they belittle it just enough. They just like, objectively, we know our men as compliments, but it's

also fun to complain about stuff. Yeah. Right. But also learn to compliment better. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Just fist pound. Great job. Whatever. It's really funny. I like that new stuff. Every time. That show was really good. That's easy. That's all we're looking for. That's all you want. Yeah, Brian. I think Bryn 3669 is right on. Or at least with me. I

mean, I can always find something, but I just did a... Because you're looking for it. Yeah, you're pretty good. We all are. I'm insecure, so I'm expecting it, but I just did a show, I did an hour somewhere, and the lady came up to me afterwards, she said, I remember when she got up there,

I saw you open for Nate Bargatze and so and so, like one of the arena shows, and she said, I really feel like you were funnier this time. And that really annoyed me. I was doing eight minutes in an arena, doing an hour on this show. Yeah, a little bit different circumstances, but the whole, I didn't take it as a compliment,

I just took it as, did I bomb? Oh yeah, sure. Oh, those shows are impossible sometimes. You should have said, you know what? I didn't see you at the arena show and I like that better. You're probably first too, people walking in. You know what, I didn't see you at the arena show and I like that better. You're probably first to walking in. You know what I mean?

It's not easy for those shows. What does that mean? Just assume I'm first. Yeah, cause it's tough. People are just trying to walk in. You don't think he comes right before Nate? You don't think there's any comics before Brian? Yeah, I don't know. I'm always right before Nate.

I don't know what you got worked out. Why before Nate? Why couldn I don't know. I'm always right before Nate. I don't know what you... You've got worked out. Why before Nate? Why couldn't I go after him? I gave the kids stage time. I'm like blindsided. I'm Sandra Bullock, so I get the good spot. Nate brings Brian out and they do bumping mics. That would be amazing. All right. John Bungard. Bungard. Yeah, that's better than Bungard. It might be Bungard, but Bungard sounds... Bungard. The Bungard family. Bungard. Bungard. Bungard. Yeah, that's better than Bungard. It might be Bungard, but Bungard sounds like the Bungard family. Bungard. Bill Bungard. Come on, Bungard.

Y'all reference the Sandlot a lot. That's a lot to say. Sandlot a lot. Y'all reference the Sandlot a lot. But if you do, you can't do, y'all reference the Sandlot quite often. Yeah. You gotta do a lot.

Well, he actually put, y'all reference the Sandlot movie a lot, and I took out the word movie because I feel like that's obvious. Oh, my God, well that's your fault. Well, I guess it is. It would have flowed better. I guess it is. Was that a necessary edit?

I thought at the time it was. How pressed are we for time? You gotta take two syllables away. That actually changed the whole shape of the sentence. I'm sorry, John Bungard. You're right, Aaron, but at the time, I'm thinking about Nate's Nate's reading this. I'm like I gotta cut this down as much as possible. You all referenced... You took out movie. I'm gonna go ahead and add it back in for John. Alright. You all reference the Sandlot of these characters. Nate is Benny. Okay. Brian Smalls. Aaron Hambino. And Dusty is Squintz. Love the pod. Well, maybe John, maybe

it, well, I'll take back the apology. And I only accept because Squintz gets kind of the hot girl in the end. So I will, I will accept that. He does. He marries her and they have a ton of kids. Yeah. Wendy Peffercorn. Yeah. I don't think I saw sound like you never saw it. I'm over bad news bears. Okay. Yeah. This is kind of it's like after that. Yeah. I think early 90s. It was early nights. You're not about the same age. Yeah. I'd seen bits and pieces, but I was on a plane recently and thought I've never watched this all the way through. So

I watched a fun movie. I had news. Bears is great too. The all the way through. So I watched a fun movie. It seems fun. I had news bears is great too. Oh, the first one. Yeah. I would agree with this except Nate being Benny. No, Benny the jet rotary. Well, it's just always like that's that's why we're not going to. We're not going to make that reference because you're going to go, oh, you mean the guy who became a professional.

Yeah. The hero. Yeah. He is competitive. The guy who always supported smalls and said, hey, here's a glove, here's a hat. And then Aaron's hand be no? Why? I think we know why.

Yeah, that was right on. I'm the only comedic relief of the shit now because he's the fat kid. But he steals that movie. And he's still making content now. You play ball like a girl. He's actually funny on the internet now. He's great. I know who that is. He's actually funny on the internet now. He's been in a bunch of stuff. Caleb Party. My dad used to say be like Benny. He used to

say that to me and my brother. Be like Benny. Yeah, he was a cool kid. And you didn't listen. Not it and how he lifted up everybody else. Oh, okay. So you didn't listen. Cause there's a kid that's kind of the outcast, right? He's the nerd and the other kids aren't accepting. And Benny, the leader of the group goes, no, y'all accept him and brings him in. And I think that there's a lot to take out of that. And another thing that makes me like Squints is that he pretends to drown.

I never would drown in real life. I would have to pretend because I'm such a good swimmer. Everybody knows that. Really? Yeah. Never had a current situation like now something that just... No. I can handle current fears. Even at a young age? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I almost drowned once. A lake or something, yeah. I forget what happened, they pulled me out. Pretty rough. Drinking days?

Yeah, it was nine. Just got some of that whiskey. Yeah, it is. We've all been there. Alright, Caleb Partee. That's nice. It's like party, but you're like party Yeah, you can be part a part. I like a little part a I don't know Brian could have edited the name who knows

That's right. It actually was Caleb part a movie I Felt I felt like in the 90s or 2000s It was a lot of big-time comedians in big venues commanding the attention. But now it seems you can find a lot of smaller slash up and coming comedians in small venues through short videos. Do you think comedy has become bigger over the past 10 years? Or do you think it's just being circulated on social media more and not seeming more popular to

a casual fan? I'm curious your thoughts on that Dustin. I uh, no, I didn't. You gotta do the end. You gotta throw the end in there. Throw the end. Uh, yeah. Dave Chappelle's best friend. That's my best buddy. Let me call Dave. Davey!

You started Facebook, right? I did. MySpace. We were the MySpace generation. Um. Tom? Yeah, Tom. Tom was good. You started Facebook, right? I did, MySpace. We were the MySpace generation. Tom? Yeah, Tom. Tom was good. But I remember that. Remember when like Dane Cook was just like the first person

to really like explode with the internet. So watching that changed everything. I think that was, that's when, cause it used to be just a handful of guys, as far as like, you know, guys that could sell out. Yeah. It was just like the Chappelle's and the Chris Rocks and the Chappelle, my buddy, you know, and then it just, you know, guys that could sell out. Yeah. It was just like the Chappelle's and the Chris Rocks and the Chappelle, my buddy, you know,

and then it just, you know, then it became more about guys like, you know, Dane Cook that could just, you know, market it and call it, you know, he was hitting all those colleges. And then he was the first one that really emphasized the meet and greet. And that was a big deal. Like I remember when he was talking about meet and greets,

he's like, you gotta talk to them after, you gotta get their emails, you gotta, you know, so I feel like comedy changed just from that. But but yeah, I think it's as big as it was. I think, you know, I still think there's only like 12 guys that are like really selling out crazy venues. Yeah. But I think it's, I don't know. I think it's bigger. I think it's bigger now. But I think it's because more people can see it because of the internet. I don't know. But I just think there's bigger now, but I think it's because more people can see it because of the internet. I don't know, but I just think there's, you know, it's like, there's no Carl, no, you know, there's no, like, just like, here's an example.

Like I was in Grand Rapids, right? And Nate, I was at the comedy club, Dr. Grand's. I sold out all of my shows, but then across the street on a Saturday night, Nate also sold out an arena at the same time. So it wasn't like he sold out the arena and then there were no people left to buy tickets to my show. My show was still sold out. So it's like, it just shows that, you know, there's a lot. I've been to multiple cities where that's the case.

There'll be a bigger comic than me selling out. Yet I'm still selling out my shows, even at theaters. Yeah, but but in the 90s, though, I mean, there was, you know, the early the late 80s in the 90s, it was lines around the corner on Monday. But how many arena acts were there in the 90s of comedians? Well, it was Kinnison. It was Dice. Kinnison was an arena. Yeah. Towards the end he was absolutely. Yeah.

Kinnison Dice. That's two. Uh, Steve Martin was the ultimate of all time. Like he had the, he sold out at the Astrodome and he had a funny joke too. He's like, how many people have cats? He's like, okay, seven. So if Steve Martin were in an arena in a town, though, you think Bobcat Goldthwait still selling out the club down the street? I think so. If Police Academy four had just come out,

absolutely. That's a bad, that's a bad call. But you have a good, you have a good presence. And so you're going to sell. So yeah, I don't know. I think it's just seven flow. I don't think, but I don't know if there's like, like the biggest biggest comic like a Carlin and Pryor and all that stuff I feel like some of that's missing. Yeah, it's the biggest coming now is Nate. You're basically saying he doesn't really say yeah You bet. Wow, that is crazy. Yeah, you're basically saying your friend Nate It's not smart enough to impact the culture in a meaningful way All my dates eliminated. That's crazy, dude.

You know. Call Chappelle. I don't know, but I do agree that it's so watered down with social media that everybody has an opportunity to have a voice that, yeah, I mean, you don't have the cultural icons like you used to have, because an HBO special was a huge deal that not everybody was getting. And now there's-

Well, Nate is like, he's the biggest of the family comic, where it's just like, that's why I was talking to people, I said, you look out in that audience, and there's like the Nana and the kids, and like, nobody's doing that. And that's the beauty of what he's doing. Where it's like, you're not taking your kids to Chappelle or Bill Burr or anything like that.

So I think that is the phenomenon of him. I mean, if you're a fun parent, you are. I bet Kevin Hazel is. Were you taken anywhere as a young, like a concert or anything as a child? Yeah. What was it? Well, I remember seeing Toby Keith at Opryland.

How old were you? We were all, I don't know, nine or 10. His mom was a Toby Keith fan club. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, she was. My mom took me to Zeppelin when I was seven. Oh yeah? That's awesome.

So that's pretty cool. Yeah, I went to stuff, you know, I went to a few things. We get it, your mom's cooler. Yeah. She was cool, yeah. I went to a lot of NASCAR races and football games. There's more of our thing. Yeah.

That's why you got keys to the city. Yeah. In Alabama. Exactly. Exactly. All right, Joe, I think we all agree on what we just, our debate. I mean, there's, not really, it's, you know, it's not a debate as much as it's just, you know,

certain things change and certain things don't, but I think, you know. I said to you off the podcast, but I want to publicly compliment your jacket. Oh, thanks buddy. It's a good shirt. Appreciate it. Yeah, it's a good shirt.

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Joe Brock just surprised my wife with tickets to Dusty Show when he comes to Salt Lake City in February. The only problem is she's pregnant and the baby is due the next day. I hear when you have a baby at Disneyland that they get a lifetime pass to the parks. If we have a baby at Dusty Show, does he have a similar policy?

Yeah, and the babies do the next day. So no big deal, just come on out and the baby will come the next day. But if you do have a baby at the show, I will give you some free tickets in the future. How about merch, a little merch? Give the dad a cigar. I'll deliberately leave, yeah.

Well, I wanna keep it vague, because yeah, I don't want to make some big promise and then legally it gets pulled up. Right. I will give you two tickets to the late show of my office. No, no. Special recording. If the baby comes and we have the ambulance comes

and we have to deliver that baby in that show, this family, these two people and their baby, free tickets for life. Are you going to help out if that happens? Are you gonna get in there? I'm gonna stay up on stage and do commentary. Push, push. Yes, push, push, breathe, push.

Get some sheets. I'm gonna do that. Now, is that true that if you have a baby at Disneyland, they give you a lifetime pass? It can't be true. I don't think that's true. I don't think it's happening. That's like when they say if your roommate dies in college, you get straight A's.

Have you ever heard that? No. You never heard that? I've heard that. I have heard that. I forgot about that. Yeah, it's like I don't think that that's true. But it's a good way to get a... I think some schools like Ivy League are true. I don't know what happened to him. I know I'm pretty sad about it. I know my GPA turned around. I saw this over the weekend. Did you know Disneyland, LA is in it? Land, that's the one in Los Angeles. Disney World, that has ORL. That's Orlando.

Did you know that? I did not know that. I like that, but I did not know that. Yeah, I love it. Never thought about it. Yeah, I never thought about it either, but it's pretty crazy. It is pretty crazy. I'll never mix it up again in my head, because I talk about Disney a lot.

You know, I never mix it up because, this is how I remembered it, because being from the South, I always felt like it was a bigger deal that Disney World was in the South, and Disneyland was in California. Yeah, it's so funny. Where's the bigger one? Orlando, barely in the South, Disneyland was in California. Orlando barely the South but yeah. It's totally the South but I get it. Orlando? You guys keep wanting to make things not the South just because it's not Redneck.

Okay. Florida's pretty. I didn't mean to upset you. Orlando's not redneck. OK. Florida's pretty I didn't mean to upset you. Because you said Canada is the South, right? Well, well, yeah, I mean, I guess. Calgary is. Yeah, I feel like once you get so far north, you're back to the South again. Because it goes over the world. Yeah.

So just geographically. You don't think Orlando, you don't think it's like Southern? I don't. But you do. I do. I think Florida has that sensibility for sure. And what is Southern? I think the top half of Florida, Orlando's close.

The top half of Florida I consider the South. Orlando's... What's the bottom half? New York. Orlando has a Nashville vibe in the sense of tourist and all that. Miami, Little Havana. I mean, it's a real, you know, we're doing cigars and sandwiches and a lot of food and music. Just like Oxford, Mississippi. Yeah.

Dancing with your shoes off. Yeah, absolutely. I love it. Aaron. Okay. I was reading it like it was to you. This guy's name is Aaron. You're telling me Dustin isn't coach beard from Ted lasso He's funny. I don't that's that guy's a comic, right? I don't know never seen the show never seen sure Wow, that's that's right. Bureau. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would think I don't know. I don't watch any shows. Oh, you don't Not one never binge the show like four episodes Not one show? You've never binged a show? Like four seasons? Cobra Kai!

Cobra Kai I've binged a little bit. That's your thing? Well, it was the nostalgia of it. Okay. I love... Oh, that coach. Oh, I was thinking it was the other guy. Okay. The younger, better looking guy. I was hoping it was that guy, the funny one.

When people tell you you look like someone, it's never the person you want to be. It's never the person you want ever the guy you want yeah you can do all the exercises you want but you're still the hambeen oh yeah he's all right he's funny too Brian you skip one Oh Zack and Laura Nelson couples YouTube people said Dusty looks a lot like Hardy and we could see it a little bit. However, we thought the funniest thing is if you would imagine Dave Grohl dressed up as undercover boss that nails Dusty perfectly. Yeah, I can see that. Dave Grohl in disguise. Yeah, I mean I've heard I've heard them both before.

I definitely don't think I look like Hardy. I just think we have a similar aesthetic. My mustache is more like Dave Grohl's. We do have more of a similar facial hair, you know, but you know, that's, but I'm not, I'm not a fan of either of them, to be honest with you. I'm just kidding. I mean, their looks are fine, but I don't like- They look good, but-

Dave Grohl's got a couple of songs I like, but overall, not a fan. No, I'm not into it either. All right. Okay. Brian Kienle. Kienle, Kienalia. What do you think it is? Kienle. Kienle? Kienle. Kienle. Kienle? Kienle. Brian Kienle. Canalia, what do you think it is? Kenley. Kenley?

Kenley. Kenley. Kenley. Brian Kenley. You gotta say it fast. Yeah, real fast. Dustin looks like a police sketch artist trying to draw Nate based on poor eyewitness description.

Man, you guys give these fans a lot of airtime, man. I know. It is a mistake. It is a lot. Some people say that I guess we could be related, sometimes. We're two good looking guys. Well, I mean, there's definitely that.

You don't have big dumb eyes though. Yeah. Oh, okay there. Oh, there we go. That's all you gotta do. Yeah. These were just like the pain of New York probably made us look alike.

You've been through some cold winters together. How about they say couples start looking alike? Yeah. Going through New York. Yeah, you just live in New York for so long, you just got it. You just have that same tortured look. John Trailey. Tra- no, I added an L in there.

John Trahy. Where'd the L come from? I don't know. I thought there might be an L around it, but there's not. I don't think there's an L on this page. Not even close by it. I don't think there's been a good country song since the 1970s. Even George Jones said, they're going to have to call that something else.

Well, this guy must be very old. Yeah. I mean, because I'm going to disagree real hard. You would say the nineties, right? Brian's, oh yeah. Dusty says at least 85. I mean, there's still good country songs. I just think popular country music is not really country. I mean, even the urban cowboy soundtrack is great.

Yeah, it is great. It's such good stuff on there. Well, that's our segue in today's topic is music. Mostly rock music, but we'll talk about some country. Okay. Dustin, you had a podcast, Dustin's our segue in today's topic is music, mostly rock music, but we'll talk about some country. Okay. Dustin, you had a podcast, Dustin's Vinyls. Yeah.

And I listened to it. It's great. I think you were the one. You were the one. You and Miss B. Karaoke. Can't get anybody to listen to that thing. You told me today, you're like, wow, thanks. Yeah.

We're worried. I needed you about two years ago. Yeah, I apologize. It's all right. But Better Late Than Never. Yeah. How many vinyl records do you own? I don't know how many, but I have a wall, a wall, I guess, of vinyl.

How often do you rearrange them? Not that often. I don't do alphabetized, because there's no way I could do that. I just do sections like rock, jazz, country, that kind of thing. And I like just not knowing what's in There because I forget what you what I buy. Yeah, so I love just going

All right, let me get some jazz and oh forgot about this in Indiana or when I did that gig or whatever But I was telling him I that's what I love about Collecting vinyl is like when you when you're on the road because it's like that's a you can always kind of count on a record Store most towns have them Yeah because it's like that's a you can always kind of count on a record store. Most towns have them. Yeah. Especially if they have a college or something. And so that's a fun thing to kind of like just go in and meet those guys at the at the record store and that kind of thing. My two favorite cities that I've been to with record.

Omaha, Nebraska had a really great section of town with a couple of really big record stores. Super fun. And Springfield, Missouri has a couple of cool record stores. Oh, all right. Yeah, Springfield's pretty cool. I think I've been there. I don't do it a lot, but I bought quite a bit of vinyl. I like the way a vinyl feels.

Yes. The thing, I like the way it looks, I like the way it smells. At the insert, the lyrics. But when it comes to playing it, I honestly would rather, I mean, I'm like, I'm changing it every, I'm flipping it every 30 minutes. I'd rather go just put a playlist on. I don't know, I kinda like that. I like just, you'm changing it every, I'm flipping it every 30 minutes. I'd rather go just put a playlist on.

I don't know. I kind of like that. I like just, you get, cause you got to stand. I mean, my eye watch is always telling me to stand up. Yeah. That's true. So I like flipping it over.

It's that nostalgia. Yeah. And hearing the crackle. Yeah. I love that. The crackle song. Like the old record. Yeah.

I heard you say that record stores usually know what they have. Okay. But antique stores, sometimes you'll go in there and they don't realize what they got and you'll find some great deals. It's changed a little bit because vinyl is more popular, but yeah, if you find those antique places on the side of the road, sometimes they'll just have a crate in the corner and you'll just get some, I've got some good Beatles and

things like that. They had no idea that it was even in there or how much these things are worth. So yeah, if you're looking for that kind of stuff, I think the antique places are like a goodwill, sometimes like a salvation army, that's where you're going to get the good stuff. Now let me ask you, you've lived in New York, LA, Chile, country music. What's the people respect it? Do they like it?

Uh, I don't care. I like it. Um, I'm more I'm more I do love 70s, you know, country music. I think that's probably outlaw country. I think outlaw country Chris Christopherson, Johnny Whalen, you know, that kind of stuff. I feel like that's probably the peak, but I think there's some good, I like Dwight Yoakam a lot. I think there's a lot of stuff to happen after that that's still good, but I don't know if there's a question

like about country music. Well I just mean does LA, do people out there like country music? I think I know the answer. I think so. I saw Charlie Crockett out there, the Greek. I don't know if you know Charlie Crockett. Yeah a lot of people in LA. Yeah California has a lot of good country, a lot of California country. Well Bakersfield. It's very southern,, be honest with you. It feels Southern. Bakersfield. Merle Haggard was out of California. Buck Owens, yeah, Bakersfield. Yeah. Jesse Daniel. All California country.

What's Jesse Daniel sing? Well, he has a really good song called, Working Hard, Both Day and Night. Working Out Here There. working hard both day and night. Working out here that featured on the special working man by dusty slide on Netflix. So did you have a favorite band growing up? Favorite band? What point in my life?

The high school, the high school was actually the cult. I don't know if you guys know that band, but that was like, yeah, it's like a native American kind of rock vibe English band. It was just like, yeah, you know, then mom introduced me to Zeppelin was pretty cool. So I think, you know, my parents had good record collection. So it was like, it was either like Cheech and Chong or it was just like, you know,

Blood Sweat and Tears and Doobie Brothers and like all that kind of stuff. Blood Sweat and Tears has got some great stuff. Yeah, it's good. You do kind of listen to just what your parents listen to, right? Kind of. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. You do kind of listen to just what your parents listen to, right? Kind of. Yeah, it's just kind of passed down there.

Yeah, it's like you're influenced by, or like brothers, usually I had a big brother that was into good music and stuff. Oh, when I grew up, it was the era of, my brother was starting to limewire, he was like getting his own music, right? So it was kind of like rebellious, the music that we would listen to. We'd listen to right? So it was kind of like rebellious, the music

that we would listen to. We'd listen to it with headphones on. What was your rebellious music? Limp Bizkit, that kind of stuff. He's still out there, man. Still doing it. Oh, they're crushing it, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, yeah, I mean, late 90s, I loved me some Limp Bizkit, man. Gosh, I loved it. But I think you need an influence. I still wanna hang out with Fred Durst a little bit. Cause if you don't have an influence, it's like sometimes I think you make bad choices. Cause I remember like, I was, when I was on my own

thinking about music, it was like Twisted Sister or something just cause the videos were all on. So that was, I mean, my wall was covered in Twisted Sister. So that was like, just cause nobody was saying that's not great music. How old are you? His age. We're about the same age.

Same age. 75. 83, 83 same age. Yeah. 75. 83. 83 this winter. Guys, this is a rough show. I love Twister Sister. Nobody knows your last name. They call it your age.

It's a lot. But Twister Sister was fun when we were kids. That band should have been a great band. Like their first, We Ain't Stop Rock and Roll. We ain't gonna take it. Well, that's Stay Hungry. No, should have been a great band. Like their first, Use the Big Song. Rock and roll. We ain't gonna take it. Well that's Stay Hungry. No, we ain't gonna take it. That's a great song,

but it's like, You Can't Stop Rock and Roll, which is their first album, but they were kind of closer to Metalhead. I mean Motorhead, sorry. What about that? There was one with a Sam Kennison video. A Sam Kennison was in the video.

There was one. Oh, Wild Thing. I wanna stand up and tell the rest of the class. Wild Thing? I wanna rock. I don't think that was Kennison. That was one. Oh, Wild Thing. You want to stand up and tell the rest of the class. Wild Thing? I want a rock! Rock! I don't think that was Kinnison. That was just them. That was Twisted Sister. Was it? Yeah. Kinnison did, well he did the video

as Wild Thing. Tonewoke? Yeah. No, it was just like, you make my heart scream, Wild Thing. It was like a 50's cover. Wow! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wild Thing. Yeah, from Major League. Nah, nah Major League. You make my hearts sing. You make everything. What were they not taking? Groovy. What? We're not gonna take it. We're not gonna take it. Take what? Society. Yeah, well the whole, the videos dad is like a military dad and he's like on him because he wants to be a rock star and he's like I'm gonna do what I want to do like I think that's the vibe to it okay right

yeah yeah no that makes sense I know it was about something in particular now it's about like GMOs that's the new rebellion now I don't want any poison in my face. We're not gonna take it. Food die. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Fine sugar. So Dusty, Southern Rock was maybe kind of the highlights was passed before you even got into it. Leonard Skinner and Almond Brothers. Yeah. Did you like them? Oh yeah. Do you like Southern Rock? Of course. Actually people hate this about me but I do like the Allman Brothers, but I'm not as big a fan of them. Allman Brothers are amazing.

They are very good, but it's just not, it's just not as much my style as say Leonard Skinner. People hate you for that? Yeah. Allman Brothers are a little more of a jam band. Well, they're the Southern Beatles, we've always said. Like they're the most talented of all. I mean, I love some Dwayne Allman. Dwayne Allman's got a lot of stuff that I really love. of a jam band. Well, they're the Southern Beatles, we've always said. Like they're the most talented of all those things.

I mean, I love some Dwayne Allman. Dwayne Allman's got a lot of stuff that I really love. He did Derrick and the Dominoes with Eric Clapton, which I love that album, big fan of that. Yeah, I got to meet Derrick Trucks. That was a pretty big deal. Oh yeah. It's like he was, cause he was like six,

I think his uncle was the drummer for the Allman Brothers. And then I saw him he was like 16 and at the beacon and he filled in as the guitarist for the Almond Brothers. I talked to him it was great talk to him about that it was phenomenal. Yeah there's videos of him I think 11 or 12 or something playing with him. Crazy how good he is like a kid. Yeah so nuts. Yeah there's a Dwayne Almond album that I have I guess it's just maybe it's just a greatest hits but he has a... Do you have the Greg Almond and Cher album? That's a Dwayne Allman album that I have. I guess it's, maybe it's just a greatest hits,

but he has a- Do you have the Greg Allman and Cher album? That's a great album. Oh, I don't have that. But he has a- It's not everything now. He has a- Yes.

You should pull it up though, it's pretty good. A Hey Jude cover, with I think, Wilson Pickett maybe is singing. It's really good. And- This is a wild album cover. Whoa.

Greg Almond. It's called Almond and Woman. I have this album. I own this album. To the Hard Way. Yeah. Um, I'm trying to just- It's fantastically bad. They're kind of pretzeled around each other in this- Well, they dated.

Confusingly. They dated. I imagine they're involved. They dated for a little while. Is this in between? We're sunny in all this? I don't know. They probably divorced. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely divorced. Yeah, that point. Because this is late. Like she was with him when she was younger. You think these guys are hooking up here? I think so. Just a little bit. A little bit. But then they decided to do this album together and just just because

you're together doesn't mean you should, you know, do this. But it's pretty bad and great at the same time. Is it not a good album? It's, you know, it's the, I always say a lot of the 80s stuff, you know, it's pretty kind of intoxicated. You know, there's a lot going on. Some of the choices made, one of the best choices, the movies, music. Can you imagine they're looking through the photo?

They've done a photo shoot and they're looking through and they go, I think that's the one. This picture seems Photoshopped. I don't think they had that back then. Yeah, I mean, this must be a real photo. I think it's a real, they had a fan. There's a fan involved. Cher is hot in this. Or he falls.

I think Cher was beautiful. Cher was beautiful. Just take one and see if it sticks. Yeah. Guys, we're playing around now. We've got what we need. Let's just try this one. Yeah, let's do a silly one.

Yeah, I'm into share. I didn't realize I was into share. Oh yeah. Put some young share. Forget it, man. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, this is probably like your age share right now.

She's probably, you know, what are you under 40? 42. Okay. She's probably like 42 there. Yeah. So that's why you're attracted to it. This, um, this is the, uh, Dwayne Allman, the anthology also has Aretha Franklin singing The Weight. Really band.

Yeah. Really great. Yeah. Dwayne Allman. Love that guy. Yeah. Allman Brothers are fun. Yeah. But I'd like Lender Skinner. I think that's, you know, there's something about it that just, you know, kind of sticks out out of all that stuff. Yeah. I mean, the first six albums really great. Uh, and people started dying. Yeah. And, but I, cause I only listened to greatest hits when I was growing up. Right. Yeah. So I went back later and I, when I was working the road, I bought all those albums and I just was driving forever. I didn't have a,-in for anything on my car.

I just had a CD player. I'm driving all over the country. And it's like, you really dig in. It's like, it's really great stuff. Every song is great. I think I've said this before on here, but they're one of the few bands that has, I think, two signature songs, Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama.

Yeah, those are pretty signature, sure. So associate. But Simple Man. I'm not saying that's always a good song. I'm just saying those are, everyone knows those songs. Yeah, well, Free Bird is, you know, it's kind of like their stairway to heaven. I mean, it's just such a beautiful.

You're saying about like, what's the, if they came back and did one concert, it's like, what's the encore song? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Free Bird, probably. But yeah, yeah, but I think of the two of them. Yeah. It's hard to follow.

It's hard to, you know, you have jokes like that where you're like, you do your clothes are too early and then you're like, oh yeah, I still got nine minutes left. Now you're pulling out an open mic joke or does some guy's sweater, whatever. I'm still in my merch again. Once again. So I got this merch. Just second merch, bitch. For less money this time. I don't know if that's ever been done.

You go back and do another merch. Oh, I've seen guys do it for like nine minutes. Ah, stop. Brian's making up testimonies. Done it all. I have done it all. But yeah, I think it's hard to follow Freebird. It's like, that's the one that.

I looked up the top Southern Rock and there's just some website ranking of all time and Freebird was one. Yeah, there were Almond Brothers and Leonard Skinner kind of dominated the top 10. OK, there was a few there. Marshall Tucker Band had some. Yeah. Can't you see? Yep. Bob Seeger had some.

Bob Seeger, man, that's talk about Silver Bull. Bob Seeger is so great. I wouldn't say Southern Rock. I would just say rock. But yeah, we've Detroit. But Bob Seeger is so great. I wouldn't say Southern rock. I would just say rock, but- Yeah, well, Detroit. But Bob Seeger. Yeah, I know Detroit. Yeah, it's good stuff.

Unbelievable. He has an album called Beautiful Loser, which I don't think there's any of his greatest hits off that album. And I love it. I think I own it. Yeah, I think I have that one. Yeah.

Charlie Daniels kind of could be both, right? Country and Southern rock? Yeah, I think so. I saw him play once. I don't think I saw him play once. Yeah, I don't think he was even really considered that country for a while. Yeah. Well, he was a guitarist and then he played with Bob Dylan. Yeah, I think he did some stuff with Bob Dylan and then it just any money

picked up the fiddle. Forget it. That's when he blew up, but he was kind of like a guess kind of like Glen Campbell's. Well, it's a studio musician or whatever. He has Charlie. Daniels has a great song called Reflections where he's like, he talking about Elvis

and Janis Joplin and Ryany Van Tant all dying and singing about it and dang, it's a good song. Yeah, Charlie's great. Do you ever see Elvis? No. I'm not that old. I'm your, not that old, Jesus. Yeah, yeah, I didn't think you did,

but you're Elvis fan, right? I'm Sun Records Elvis fan. I'm not like, all right, mama, all that, that, like, but maybe that first record. And then I feel like he's a guy that they just, they just put in the wrong direction, records, they put in the wrong direction, man. I really feel he could have been just an amazing, you know, that they just kept it more rockabilly and just kind of true to kind of what his voice and not all that other stuff.

Once you start making movies, forget it. I mean, I like the late Elvis. Some of that music's kind of fun. I've never heard anyone actually like Elvis's music. People talk about, I think people like Elvis as the phenomenon that he is, but nobody's ever been in the car. I like some Elvis music. I've never heard go,

let's put on some Elvis. Well, that's true. I like Suspicious Minds. Yeah, Suspicious. I like it better when Dwight Yoakam says it. Yeah, for sure. For sure. You ever been riding around? I got, hold on, let me put on the.

Never. Pass me the aux cord. Here I am, here I am. Here I am, here I am. Here you go, what is this? But I have put Elvis on some playlists in the past. I do like Elvis. That stuff ages so.

That stuff sounds awesome. I just like his movies. Probably the best, probably the best Christmas album. Is Elvis Christmas. Yeah. Are you lonely tonight? You know that one? Yeah.

Are you lonely? I don't know. I don't remember. You said, I heard you. Hunk of Hunk of Burning Love. I love that one. I heard you say that at concerts, we've talked about it on here recently,

concerts, you went to see Creed. Yeah. You're making fun of Elvis? Yeah, Creed rules. I'm not making fun of Elvis. I'm just, I don't think people listen. I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying.

I'm getting it. But we were talking about banter in between. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You said Elvis was the best at the banter. Well, yeah. I mean, Frank Sinatra, really funny. You know, Sinatra has a live at the Sands and about probably 20 minutes, he just does a set and he's just ripping on the casino and he's ripping on like all the,

the pack and everything. It's really funny. But Elvis was funny cause he was just kind of banged up towards the end there. So he had started Elvis, like a Beatles song and then just forget the words. Like, I don't know these words, sing it with me, you know? And then he would just like, you know, but yeah, he was funny in between songs. The late stuff is really good. What about Joe Cocker? You ever listened to the, that first album, Joe Cocker?

I love it. It's a, and they asked one with Leon Russell. It's a live album. Really great stuff. I remember Joe Cocker fans in here. Jumbalooshie did a great Joe great job. I don't think he did. Joe Cocker had it seemed like he had the first record that came out, which was really great. And then they wanted him to

immediately tour and he didn't want to do it. And Leon Russell was like, I'll do everything you just come and tour with me. And I think Joe Cocker just got on that tour did a lot of drugs, just got run down. And I think he just kind of exited music for a while. Yeah. He died at age 70. So see, I know up where we belong. It's not young, but that first album with a little help from my friends, me and Brian's age. That's not young. Feeling all right is great. Great song. Yeah. And yeah. And that album, they had an album together, a live album. I love Leon Russell.

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you Eagles fan yeah I mean you've seen that documentary that's fantastic on Netflix that's the two-parter, right? Yeah, you see the dynamic. It's about the reunion. Yeah, everybody was really talented in that band, but I think I get Eagles out. Like I'll do the greatest hits and then I can't do it for another couple of years. You know what I mean? Like I can't listen to an Eagles song all the time, but there's some great albums, you know. Great albums for sure. We brought up, this might have been before you joined the podcast, Dusty, Hotel California and people wrote in like four different explanations what that song's about. I just thought it was about hell. Right?

There's a conspiracy theory that on the cover, he's there with the president of the satanic organization or whatever, but they say it's not true. I mean they were all kind of satanic back then. They kind of were. It was like zeppelin, had those weird like symbols and stuff and then like they were, I think uh who's the guy uh Sammy Davis Jr. or whatever. Yeah he was like a saint. There's uh Eddie Murphy talked about Sammy Davis Jr. Yeah like a saint. Yeah there was this weird just a weird type just a weird type, drugs, too many drugs, I think, part of it. And then just, you know, people just kind of getting into weird stuff, a lot of mystical stuff. Yeah. It was just counter-cultural too. Yeah.

At that time. Just, you know. I've never heard anything. I think Hotel California is talking about True by Hilton. Love those, by the way. A lot of demonic stuff going on in there. Great breakfast, great free breakfast. I love those by the way. Great breakfast, great free breakfast. You guys are all big music fans.

I'm really not. Who is, do you consider the greatest guitarist or some of the greatest guitarist of all time? I don't know. I mean, there's so many people. It's all the classic people that everybody says. I mean, here's who I always hear, Jimi Hendrix. Every list. Let's do ones you don't hear. I'm going to go Junior Brown. Oh yeah, Junior Brown. I'm going to say Junior Brown is a-

Highway Patrol. Yeah, yeah. That's a guy you're not going to hear in these conversations. I don't know that it is. Yeah. He's fantastic. Yeah, he does a steel guitar.

He built his own guitar. It's like it's part steel and part electric and it's pretty great, but he's like a rockabilly guy, but really great stuff. Like Surf Rock, which I love Surf Rock, Dick Dale. It's like, I don't know who's like the greatest, right? It's like, you know it when you hear people play

that you're like, wow, this is really great. And of course, I mean, it's like, you can never have a list where Jimi Hendrix is not number one, right? But he's like, yeah, he's great. I think Eddie was the fastest. Eddie Van Halen, yeah. I think he was the fastest. Dwayne All But he's like, yeah, he's great. I think Eddie was the fastest. Eddie Van Halen. I think he was the fastest.

Dwayne Allman's really great. Eric Clapton's great. I mean, those guys are- Who's the guy from Queen, Brian May? Yeah, that guy's great. What about- Stevie Ray Vaughan has to be in this conversation. Absolutely.

Yeah. Sure. What about, I can't believe his name is escaping from Guns N' Roses. Slash is great. Yeah I just saw Guns N' Roses probably about four months ago and you know it's funny because you know Axel's, God bless him, you know he's he was doing everything he could you know. He was really trying man and he was you know his voice just I mean I saw him in the 80s and it was just like his voice was it was cracking live because you just can't do that all the time. You do that night.

I mean, that's the thing about comics. Like we don't, we're not screaming like that. So he, you know, he was pretty rough, but, and then they just kept bringing out slash to make up for, you know, Axl not being able to sing that great. And so he just did, you know, probably the extra two hours of just slash. He's just, he's playing like just all this blue stuff. And he was amazing. Well, you know, that's what they said about free bird, right?

That's why free bird started to become so long because it was a way to give Ronnie Vanzant a break on the vocals. So they would do these longs and they started getting longer and longer. Free jam band is just, they're giving the singer a break as well. Yeah. Does all my brothers sing Ramblin' Man? giving the singer a break. That's why. Yeah. Does all my brothers sing Ramblin' Man? Yes.

Yeah, that's a great song. Yeah. That's probably their most famous, I would say. That's like a comic song. Like you feel, you know, like a road comic song. Yeah. Like you feel. Yeah, like Chris Stapleton is really great.

He has that song called Traveler, which never gets an A. Oh, what a song. That album is fantastic. I know. I like that song as a, as a comic. Sure. I got that's such a bad album is fantastic. I know I like that song as a as a comic. I sure I got that. I bought this album, right? I went into Grimes.

I bought this Chris Stapleton album. The guy was like, this guy's really good. I bought it. Vinyl and now just a CD. I'm just listening to it in the car. I'm a traveler. Listen to the whole thing. I love it.

Next week, he plays with Justin Timberlake at the CMAs or whatever, Tennessee Whiskey. And suddenly this guy is like a gigantic sensation. And I felt like I really wanted to make a post about how much I love this Chris Stapleton guy. And I just missed it by a week. Because everybody, and I'm not saying I was the only one, but I was on that for one week

Before it felt like the whole world. I don't get why would it matter? It wouldn't matter but it's like after the fact it's like well, yeah, of course you love this guy We all love him. Well, you know we before I felt like I would have been like well You like to be the guy that likes the band first. Yeah. Yeah hundred percent and if other people like it dusty will start to hate Yeah, yeah, if other people like I, Dusty will start to hate. Yeah. If other people like it. I'm kind of like that. A lot of people do that.

Well, Charlie Crockett. Exactly. Charlie Crockett, I don't know if you guys know him, he's phenomenal. Love Charlie Crockett. But I saw him on a Zoom show during the pandemic and it was Willie Nelson's barbecue or Fourth of July or whatever, but they did it. It was all on Zoom. Oh, yeah.

And then he just did like a little set on there. I was like, this guy's awesome. And I followed him and then now he's huge. He's so great. I wish that he would just cover every country song that I like. Oh, yeah. Because I love his covers. I mean, his, his original stuff is great, too. But clown is amazing. Charlie Crockett covering songs is my favorite thing in the world. I have an album where he just all covers. Yeah, there's two, there's like a blues bonanza and then there's one other where it's just a- Like a jukebox thing or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one.

Gosh, those are so good. Yeah, but Sergill Simpson I like too, far as country, newer country I think. Yeah, culture wall. Yeah, well his cover of Promise is amazing. Oh, yeah. That's so good. That's the first thing I ever saw and I didn't even know it was a cover,

but I could not stop listening to that song for like, weeks straight. You guys became best friends. For weeks straight, I just listened to that promise over and over again. It's so good. And then when you hear the 80s version of the pop song, you just want to hear his, you know,

as soon as you hear it, it's so good. It's so great. I feel like in the 80s and 90s, um, movie soundtracks were a big deal in music videos would often have scenes from the movie and vice versa. Oh, CMT used to be the best. I mean, they had a Ricky Skaggs had a song called, uh, uh, country boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that, that video was really great. And, uh, I didn't hold up though. I watch it all the time.

I love that video. Okay. You don't think it holds up? No. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's so great. Okay. Well, they had running scared with, uh, Billy Crystal and, uh, who's that other guy?

Gregory Heinz. Gregory Heinz. And it was like the, uh, McDonald. What's his name? The Michael McDonald. Yeah. And he, they're like all in the video, but yeah, name? Michael McDonald. Michael McDonald, yeah, yeah. And they're like all in the video. But yeah, I think they used to do that more.

Yeah, I mean, I used to watch, we didn't have cable, so I had to watch Friday night videos. Oh, yes. I'd record it and watch it. But I feel like, yes, I have those videos that would show scenes from a movie. Back to the Future was- Yeah, it was a whole part of the whole thing.

Yeah, it was a big thing. I don't feel like that's the case. The Lion King was like one of the last ones that, well, I don't think they're making blockbusters as much as they used to either. You know, they're not making movies like, you know, like, uh, but some of the, uh, superhero movies, like, uh, Guardians of the Galaxy, those both had pretty, pretty great soundtracks. It was all like seventies, eight and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, I think he means more like in the videos with the actors. Like Top Gun, that soundtrack was a big part of the movie. Like when you think of it. Well, the Lady Gaga song has parts of the movie in it, you know, and she's singing in and they're showing clips of the movie. She did one of the, I guess the love song in it. I don't know. The last Top Gun. Oh, I'm talking about the original. Oh, the original. Oh, I think you're talking about. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. Danger Zone. Yeah. That was the first time I saw a comic was Kenny Loggins. It was like, I guess the music guy or whatever and then I saw it was, I think it was, I forget what it was, somebody, the guy that writes, Mario Joyner was like the comic and he was just like,

he was this, you know, Kenny Loggins fan. So just the widest crowd you know. And I remember watching this guy and I was just like, ah, this is great. And I think I was the only one that really was getting it. And I was a kid, but that was the first comic. I don't know if you guys, do you remember your first comic, like the first standup comic you saw? First standup comic I saw, whoever opened for Brian Regan,

was the first show that I saw live. Here in college. Steve Rogers. I remember there was a a guy I remember you had a bit about like a school bus And then he sold the CD where it was him with a school bus I would like to find out who that was he was the first guy I saw the South Bend, Indiana the Morris performing Morris theater, okay there I didn't see any live comedy as a kid There's Brian Regan. Yeah. I didn't see any live comedy as a kid.

So it's like, it's possible that, you know, the first standup comedy I saw live was just other local comics, you know? Uh, Todd Berry was one of my earliest, uh, comedy shows. Uh, Neil Hamburger I saw pretty early on actually with Todd Berry again. Uh, I had a hard time with Todd. I felt like I was doing Todd Berry in the beginning. Oh, yeah. I don't know if you guys did that when you first started,

you kind of sounded like people and you had to like stop watching them. Oh, yeah. Todd was one of those guys where I just felt like my brow would go down. Hey, start talking lower. I love Todd Berry. I love Todd Berry. Those aren't roadstraps. Those are speakers, baby.

Yeah. It was so funny. I love Todd. Those aren't roadstraps. Those are speakers, baby. When I was in college, Red skeleton. No one knew he was. No, it was a guy. It was here at Zany's who was Bob Euker's color commentator in the movie, major league, the guy who doesn't say anything, because seeing the movie major league, yeah, it'd been a while, but yeah. Uh, the guy in that movie was up, was a standup comic and he came to Zanies and

someone else went to see him and met him afterwards. He did a lot of impressions. Okay. It'd be fun if he just didn't say anything in the standup. It's very Kaufman. Yeah. There used to be a guy, there was a guy for a while who would do open mics in Nashville and he would wear a kilt and he would just not say anything. Really?

He would just walk up there and just stand there for four minutes. Just standing? Let me tell you. And he's not doing comedy. That's the best opener though. He's got too much politics, dude. He, I mean, how quickly we were over that, about 15 seconds, you're like,

all right, this is not funny, dude. Yeah. And he did multiple mics. He would just ruin the show. Yeah, that was a guy that I would just tell, I would be like, you can't, you're not allowed to do it. Well, I think Joe Kelly did do that at his mic. He was like, we're not doing this. Yeah. Yeah, you can't just fill a buster Did you guys not even fill a buster just?

Did you guys ever try something stupid like just cuz you thought it was genius I remember one time I did a I bought a goldfish and And this is like early open mic because I just you have no what you're doing, because you're just trying and you want to be different and edgy and weird and whatever. So I bought a goldfish and then I put it in a glass of water and I was on stage and some holding the glass with the goldfish, but I never mentioned it. And what I was going to do, I was going to swallow it at the end. Whoa. I was like, I'm going to be that guy. And then, and then I would, you know, every time I would, I would almost

drink it and then go back into the jokes or whatever. And it was just, it was horrible. And then I, you know, and I remember seeing just, you know, the fish poop in there was like, I'm not, I'm not swallowing this thing. Yeah. But in my head, I was going to swallow this goldfish. It's just like crazy Kaufman weird. Yeah.

Weird thing. Like I'm burning through 40 goldfish a week. I did it once and I was like, I'm just going to do jokes. I'm just going to do jokes. No, I never swore. I just did it the one time. You get your omegas. Yeah, that's good for you.

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Yeah. Creed, yeah, love that Creed, man. First concert I saw was Guster at the Bama Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. Ray LaMontagne opened. I had never heard of him. I love Ray LaMontagne. He was so great.

One of the worst stage presence I've ever seen. I've seen, I've heard something like that. Barely moved, never said hi. Hurley really gets mad if anybody makes a sound while he's on stage. Fuck, the music was great. It was really great. And then, man, I've seen Guster multiple times.

OAR, not OAR, who does he? Yeah, Third Eye Blind. Seen a lot of Kiss, I saw Kiss at Bridgestone. Nice. Unbelievable, just the spectacle of it. Great show. And they had a lot of songs I didn't know were Kiss that I was just aware of.

So Kiss was unreal. That's crazy. I had a guy. Tedesky Trucks was awesome with the rhyme in the song. Anyway, yeah. This guy, this is a local band in Charleston and I got him to, I was trying to, there was no stage time in Charleston. And I got him to, I was trying to, there was no stage time in Charleston.

So I was trying to get more stage time. So I got this guy to let me open for him, but he was opening for another band, right? So he wanted me, he goes, he tells me before the show, he goes, all right, he goes, after my set, I want you to go up. He goes, I got you this gig, so I need you to do this for me. So he goes, all right, he goes, after my set, I want you to go up. He goes, I got you this gig, so I need you to do this for me.

So he goes, when I go out, when I come back in, I want you to go out and go, oh, that was really good, huh? Give it up for, I'm not gonna say the name, but give it up for that band, huh? They were really good, huh? How about, I bet it, I bet we get them to do an encore, huh? And then this, we're in a small room, there's 30 people in there,

and he wanted me to go on core, on core. And I don't think anyone did it. And then I turn around and he's coming back out, right? Like he's about to play. And then the guy over the loud speaker goes, yeah, that's not how it works. We gotta break all this stuff down and we gotta move, you know, we gotta, I go, okay.

So then I'm like, they had let me do stand up in the middle. So I was like, all right, well, I'll just start doing jokes. Then the guy goes, yeah, that's not how it works either. We gotta, you gotta break all these mics down. We gotta, so it's so embarrassing. But my other, the guy he was opening for was my friend too. So he was like, I'll just, once they get it all situated, I'll let you do some time before my band goes up. And then I'm like so bad at comedy that after all of that, I finally get to go up and do my 10 minutes and I just bomb and it's just embarrassing.

It's like a whole production for just like, I just wanted a little stage time. Yeah, all right. None of that back then. It was all bad, but that is what I needed. I needed more embarrassing experiences to get tougher as a comic. I think comedy and music is tough to pull off. Like when it's like a band, I don't know if you've ever worked with other bands and stuff.

I don't think it always works. I did one time, it was like a Bamboozled, it was like a tour, kind of like a van warp tour kind of thing. It was in Jersey. And I was, you know, not at my best. I'm gonna say maybe we did some stuff in the parking lot. And so I get to the gig and it's a tent and I'm sitting there and then Robert Smygle is the comic with me.

Okay. You know, Triumph the Counter. Yeah, yeah. Who's like a genius, has written all these amazing things. So it's me and him, I'm supposed to go up and then it's gonna be him. And there's like a band that's like a rancid, kind of like, you know, crazy punk band on the stage.

And so we're supposed to follow this band. And it's just like, they're just crushing with all these kids and stuff. And as soon as they get off, we're in this one tent, they go, all right, man, we got free pizza and stickers in our booth, like outside. And so the whole audience, I'm with this one tent, they go, all right, man, we got free pizza and stickers in our booth, like outside. And so the whole audience, I'm with this Emmy winner, the whole audience just leaves. And they all just go to this tent for free pizza and we're just standing there.

We can never beat free pizza. Yeah, you can never you can never beat free pizza. Yeah, I did. I did a comedy festival in Wilmington years ago, and they used to have, Nut Street used to be underground. That was the comedy club. And then above they had another show and like a laundry mat. So the laundry mat show was packed and we're all going, and then Nut Street's closed, but they're going to open at some point.

So it's like, they go, they basically call me up on stage and then, or maybe they go, all right, Nut Street's open. And then everybody goes down to Nut Street and then they introduce me to stage. And I'm like, it was like we went from a pack show to completely empty. And I'm like, all right, I signed up for this festival, cost me money. Is there any, I mean, I kind of has a concerts that stand out as really bad. Like, that was so disappointing. Like seeing live shows?

Yeah. I saw Bob Dylan wish I hadn't. I hear a lot about Bob Dylan. When did you see Bob Dylan? I saw him at the Fontenelle here in Nashville. Yeah, I mean 2015, 2016. Yeah, I think Bob Dylan after the 70s maybe is not worth it yet. Yeah, since he went electric.

Since he went non-verbal. Yeah, I know. He played no hits. He played all new stuff. He barely looked up. You know, he's just looking down at his guitar. It was pretty bad. I mean, it's like, it's such a weird thing like how do you write so many great hits and then you like never even accidentally write a good one for 40 years? Yeah. Well there's a conspiracy theory that high school kid wrote blowing in the wind. And he stole it from him? Mm-hmm. Oh wow. Okay but even if he... it from him? Oh wow.

Carlos Menci of folk music. Even if you take away that one, he still had some other. Yeah, and nobody takes that seriously. Well, I had tickets to go see him with Willy at the Hollywood Bowl, and I and towards the end there I just ended up selling the tickets. Like I just thought it was going to be one of those experiences.

It was like, I don't want to see this. It was like, I wish I hadn't seen it. I think the most disappointed I ever was with a concert was Dolly Parton. It was probably broke my heart. Time to bring her down. Broke my heart. Finally somebody saying it out. Broke my heart. So my gut feelings about, well, here's the deal with Dolly. I love Dolly. She's

great. You know, whatever good, good songwriter, whatever. So I got tickets for my girlfriend for her birthday and it was Dolly and in New York city. So I got tickets for my girlfriend for her birthday and it was Dolly in New York City and I was so excited in the big picture of her and everything. She's like Dolly Parton and then it's like a little, there's like little tiny things says Niles Rogers is going to be like the other act. And so we get there and everybody's crazy, everybody's dressed up like Dolly, like everybody's going bananas for Dolly Parton, you know, it's a real small venue and we get up there and she, you know, they introduce her and she's they just introduce her first, which is weird. And then she gets up there and she sings, I always love you and then nine to five and then leaves. And it was like, that's it. She's did two songs. I paid like $300 for these tickets. Wow. Two songs. She's gone. And then Niles Rogers, who, you know, he wrote some David Bowie songs that he's a jam guy and he's down the great things.

Who cares? Nobody was coming for Niles. And he did like an hour and a half and she did two songs. That's like, if you went to see Nate and Nate did a ice coffee with milk and then Bates went out 45 minutes. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It's a great analogy. Hey, Niles Rogersgers, he won a lot of Grammys. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. But he was great. He did like Duran Duran songs. I apologize to Niles Rodgers. I think Billboard just put out top 100 country singers of all time, and Dolly Parton was number one. Yeah, I have a problem with that. That's not surprising. It's like that's pretty annoying. She is great. country singers of all time. And Dolly Parton was number one. And it's like, that's pretty annoying.

Like she is great. She had a lot of hits. Morgan Wallen too. He was like, he was way up. Like it was like, and which I agree with. I'm not a fan of what he does. Post Malone? I know people do love him.

Post Malone was not on the list, thankfully. But it was like, you know, it's just like number one. Even over Loretta Lynn, I would put her over. Yeah, give her a top 20. I mean, she's influential, she's still around, people like her, she's done great things, but. Not before Patsy, Kyle, and all that stuff, yeah. But this is all art, it's not just female.

Yes. So over Johnny Cash, over everybody. Yeah, I want to say Johnny Cash was, he was top 10, maybe number two. Willie Nelson, I think, might've been number two. And he's done really great things, but I mean, they were, I mean, I would say- Merle Haggard should be.

Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, even Hank Williams Jr. was like up in the 50s. Ernest, Hardy. I like the third. George Alon. He's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hank the third. You ever seen him? I never seen him. Fantastic. I've seen him in the, uh, he has the grandfather. I like wild and wonderful whites. Yeah. Documentary when he sings old country hits really good. It's really yodels and stuff like he's fantastic. All right. Build your all time. Great rock band drummer, guitarist, bassist, singer.

All right, build your all time great rock band, drummer, guitarist, bassist, singer. I'll build it. You go first? You go first. This is gonna be tough. I just wanna hear you do it. All right, I'll do it. At their peak?

Yeah, you pick them out from their prime and you put them in. It can be from different eras, different genres, different bands. I'll say, because I'm trying to think of people we haven't mentioned yet. Vince Neil. Okay. You know Vince singer? No. Motley Crue. Okay. That's your singer? Yeah. Nice. Yeah, okay. I thought he was criticizing. Well, a little, a little criticized, but if you,

I'm 80 what year though? Not like now. No, no, no. I said at their peak. Oh, their peak. Okay, gotcha. I'm trying to think again. people, we haven't guitar or drummer, uh, the deaf leopards drummer, the one arm guy. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. I forgot his name. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. He's got one. He's playing the drums. I like it. I like, he's working extra hard. All right. Um, Jean Simmons. Wow. That's your bass player? Yeah. Okay. I'm letting you fill in what they play.

Of course it's my bass player. So now I gotta get lead guitar, right? Lead guitar, you got this. You got this. I'm trying to think of someone we haven't talked about yet. Well, you can talk about it. It doesn't have to be that.

It doesn't have to be a new song. I know, I just don't want you guys to think I don't know what I'm talking about. No. You can lift one of our, yeah. Slash. Okay, That's not bad. I mean, that's a, that's Tommy Lee. I don't know. That's a, I mean, that's a glam band for sure. That's a hair metal. That's me. That's me. Oh, you love the hair

metal. You're the hair metal guy. Okay. Were you at Laura's birthday party? I was. Velcro pig. They were fantastic. Yeah. They were a good time. When I was in college, they were the big band, the college band. Okay. And Bobby Bear Jr. I remember would come. You know Bobby Bear Jr.? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know you're talking about. Bobby Bear and his son would come and play on our college campus. Absolutely. We covered him on the show. Yeah, yeah. Hey, Bear. Hey, Bear.

Do you know Bobby Bear? Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, that went nowhere. All right. That's a good question. That was good. That was my answer. That was good. I mean, that was solid. What about you? That was so we should. Don't overthink it. Let's say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, you're going to. We want mine's going to you're all going to hate mine. Mine's not going to be good either.

I think that's why he should go last. OK. OK. I'll put a Pino Palladino on BAM. Yeah, you are. Who's that? Who's that? Jazz, but he plays with John Mayer Trio. OK. Wow. Getting classy on it. You Jazz, but he plays with John Mayer Trio. Okay. Wow. Getting glassy on us here. You know Paladino? I'll do...

You don't know Paladino? Let me do Corey Wong on the guitar. Of course, of course. Corey Feldman, over Corey Feldman? Yeah. Corey Feldman's... The Corey's. Stage side, ready to go if something goes wrong.

Who's Corey Wong? Corey Wong is... You don't know Corey Wong? Come on. He's like a funk guitarist. He plays plays with Vulfpeck but he does his own stuff. I like him a lot. I didn't see this coming. And then I'll do Nate Smith on the drums and then singing. Who's Nate Smith? He's these are just he's just a drummer. He didn't have

play with the band? Plays with a bunch of different bands. Just plays by himself. Yeah. He's like a mercenary dude. Okay. He'll he'll go in wherever you need him. And then singing. Yourself. I mean, it would be fun to play with these guys. See, I'll do Robert Plant with those guys. Nice, Robert Plant. Good choice.

All right. That's not bad. Okay, let's go, let's go. Leavon Helm on the drums. Yeah, buddy. Yep, let's go. Cause you can sing a little bit. Sure, sure. We'll get that in there. Oh, see, I didn't think about that. Yeah, let's go. Cause you can sing a little bit. Sure, sure. We'll get that in there.

Oh, see I didn't think about that. Yeah, let's go. It's good to have a singer drummer. Let's go on the piano, Elton John. Piano? I didn't know we were at the piano. Let's do dueling piano. Elton John.

What? Leon Russell, dueling piano. Oh no. Who's on harp? Let's get that going. It's a crazy band you got here. Bass, who's the guy from Primus? Let's go with that guy.

Okay. Let's go with that guy. Let's go with that guy. He knows his name. Tears up a bass. We're so bad, we're like the one-hour drummer. The guy from- Yeah, okay, what do we got left? We got guitar and we got a singer.

So, singer, let's go, let's go Freddie Mercury. Let's go. Big pipes, let's go big pipes. Big pipes. Freddie Mercury. What kind of music does this band play? They play country. It's all country. And when they've all got a little Levi now does a little country.

Elton John has a little bit of a country album. That's brought out. So country. Who was my bass player? The Primus guy. Yeah, he's a bit of a guy. He seems like a bit of a redneck guy. He's great. He's a great bass player. They can figure it out. Yeah. He's like bass player, the Primus guy. Yeah, he's a bit of a, he seems like a bit of a redneck guy. Well, he's great. He's a great bass player. They can figure it out. Yeah.

He's like a funk guy. So we need a lead guitar now. What do you got? What do you got? Who's it gonna be? Brad Paisley. Who tears it up? Brad Paisley.

Brad Paisley's unreal. He would bring a funny element. He would bring some comedy to it. Okay. Dwight Yoker. And a bit of, oh, I don't know. Nick Thune. Let's go, yeah, oh, I don't know. Nixon? Let's go, yeah, that could be a good one.

Johnny W. plays guitar. Rick Roberts is good. Johnny W. for the win. Johnny W. for the win. Rodney Carrington. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Johnny W. plays guitar. And, and, uh, uh, uh, Steve Martin on banjo.

Wow. I can just end it there. I got nothing. I can't follow that. That's super amazing. No, no, you can just end it there. I got nothing. I can't follow that super amazing band. No, you can. You can do a real one. Do a real one. Wow, a real one.

No, that mine's real though. And you already talked about your great closer and then you got nine minutes left. That's what's happening right now. I'm gonna tank. This is gonna be great. Yeah, I didn't know we were adding pianos and stuff. No, let's go back.

I thought we were just doing the bass. I'll put Corey Henry on piano. Rock. Any instrument you want. Oh, yeah, I like that know we were adding pianos and stuff. No, just go back. I thought we were just doing the bass. I'll put Corey Henry on piano. Rock. Any instrument you want. Oh, yeah, I like that. Any instrument you want. Okay, we got, all right. I didn't even put a fiddle player in my head.

Okay, we got Woody Allen on clarinet. Yeah, there you go. All right, now we're talking. Coming out of the cake. Now we're talking. We got Matthew McConaughey on bongos. There you go. All right.

Yeah, now we got a little drum circle going. Woody Harrelson on the kazoo. All right, all right, all right. All right, all right. Okay. That's, as far as real drummer, I'm gonna go Animal from the Muppets. Okay.

Oh yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. And if I was to do a realist- John Bonham? Yeah, Neil Peart would be in there for me. I think he's the greatest drummer of all time. Rest in peace. Yeah, he was great.

Oh, they can't, did they have to be alive? No, no, no, no. Okay. Please. Guitarist, yeah. He just built Led Zeppelin. The LTV, Jimmy Page. I mean, I think they're the greatest rock band of all time.

I think they're better than the Beatles and everybody else. I love Led Zeppelin. I will fight that all day. Yeah, guitarist. Who's the guy? That's the problem. I'm gonna go Hendrix, I guess. Yeah, just an early Hendrix.

Yeah, I don't want to sell out. I want to keep it weird though. I'm gonna go- Mike Huckabee on bass that's a good one Dana Carvey on harmonica John Tesch on piano John popper John Tesch was great What am I missing? Saxophone. Clinton. Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton. I was thinking Michael Bolton. Michael Bolton. Nice. Kenny G. Michael Bolton. Did Michael Bolton do something with him?

Kenny G. He's the singer. He's saying. They get people get those confused. But I think Michael Bolton just sang. Dave Kaas, somebody like that. Smooth jazz. Janis Joplin, I think, has the greatest voice. Yeah, I was actually I wanted to switch out

for Freddie Mercury, but I like Janis. Janis Joplin, I think has the greatest voice fall. Yeah, I was actually, I wanted to switch out Freddie Mercury, but I. I like Janis. Janis is good. Yeah. Joe Bonzel? Ju Bonzel? Who's Ju Bonzel?

That was Oak Ridge Boys. Yeah. Oak Ridge Boys. Hennie Youngman on the fiddle. Oh my. Yeah, yeah. Take my band, please. Yeah, what about Yo-Yo Ma on the cello? There's a Judy

Tanuta on the... John DeToy on the Yo-Yo Ma? What's that called? The accordion? Yeah weird Al. Weird Al on the accordion for sure. There's a joke I heard it was in DC years ago I think his name was Andy Klein. I was a good Andy Klein's DC comic I feel bad if I got his name wrong because the bit was so funny. He had a bit about whenever a musician dies, they always go, you know, he's up there jamming with Hendrix right now. You know, he's up there jamming with Hendrix. He's like, yeah, all that guy's doing is making that jam session worse. It's like you're in heaven and you're like, all right, we got Jimi Hendrix on guitar. We got Keith Moon on drums.

We got Mozart on the piano and then we got Kevin's uncle. I think about that joke all the time. I think that's very funny. Yeah, very funny. What Andy Klein on lead comedian. Who's opening for this band, for your band? Oh, gosh. Who's opening? Yeah. For your band, when that you want your band? Oh gosh. Who's opening? Yeah. For your band.

When that you when your band that you just created goes to play, who's opening? Hanson? Hanson? Yeah. For me, New Kids on the Block. Hanson's great. I saw that. Go listen to some of Hanson's new stuff.

I'm serious. That's something no one's ever said. Oh, you're so wrong about that. You're so wrong about that. No one I've ever been riding around with. Just like your Elvis comment. I never heard said. Oh, you're so wrong about that. You're so wrong about that. No one I've ever been riding around with. Just like your Elvis comment. I never heard that.

Oh, yeah. Oh, no, no, no. I'm not saying. But go listen to Hanson still doing music. Oh, yeah, they're great. Chris Hanson. Yeah, Chris Hanson. All right.

Can I share before we wrap it up a few conspiracy theories? Oh, please. Rock music is not going to be as good as what is this. But we just had. Well, like I said, this should have been, please. It's not going to be as good as what we just had. Well, like I said, this should have been the closer because it's not going to be as good as what I have here, but I'll throw out a few. You guys know an artist, Andrew W.K.? Yeah. Party hard.

Oh, I know a little bit about this conspiracy. Apparently the conspiracy theory is he doesn't exist. It's actually Dave Grohl playing this guy. Oh, I didn't know that they thought it was Dave Grohl. I thought that they just was... It's like the Garth Brooks thing. A character creator. Yeah, that just kind of like every other people are playing him.

He's not always the same. I'd say the fact that he looks nothing like him is probably... Well, you don't have to be sure. He looks very AI though. Yeah, he does look AI. He looks like Dusty if he was on Undercover Boss. But I just think it's one of those things where they're like, he can be played by different people at different times

and you know, and it's like. Yeah, that guy doesn't look real. Is he ever really the same guy? Right. He only had the one song, right? Party Hard was the big one. Yeah. But that was a great song.

Yeah, it was fun, I remember that. All right, I got this one from Destin's Vinyl. Oh, wow, okay. Billy Squire's song, Rock Me Tonight. The video was so bad, it killed his career. Absolutely. Have you ever seen that video? No.

It's... Do you guys know Billy Squire? I know Billy Squire. Play a little bit of the video. It's just, it's the last thing you want, you know, from your rock star is this video. It's like when you're doing it. It's like, yeah. It's weird camera angle. What's he doing?

It's weird camera, he's humping the ground. He's got like a halter top, like cut, you know. What does he do? Shoulder thing. Now he's taking his shirt off. Billy Squire, you got the da da da da. Da da da da. Stroke Me?

Look at the dance, look at the dance. He's like, look at these dance moves. I mean, cause Stroke Me is a great song. That's a great song. That's a hard rocking good song. Like he had some good hits and then this just like. That's what. Ruined it.

Adam Sandler pulls up to in the Billy Madison movie when he's in high school. Da da da da da da da. Da da da da. It's such a great guitar riff. But that's what we, you know, and then this came out. I think it's, what's this one called? Dance to a Party Tonight? Rock Me Tonight.

Rock Me Tonight, yeah. Tonight spelled wrong. Yeah. Love it. Yeah. I was watching this Yacht Rock documentary on HBO that just came out. Yeah. It basically talked about all these guys who,

once MTV came out, they they were like you could be a musician and be not charismatic and like visually uninteresting right until until MTV all these yacht rock guys just died this would make me think like what is this guy doing well that's the thing I'm managing Christopher Cross doing this well you didn't know what people look like that was the best part like nobody knows what Boston looked like or like you know half of these bands Molly Hatchet, any of those guys look like. That was the best part. This reminds me of that. There's the David Bowie and Mick Jagger.

Oh, Mick Jagger. Dancing in the streets. When they take the sound out and put in the other sound effects. Yeah, just the feet. Yeah, yeah. That's what that reminds me of. But yeah, I think, you know, things like this can definitely ruin your band. One of the greatest bands ever. What's the song? Coulter Personale.

Yeah. Oh yeah, that's good stuff. Look that up, Dancing in the Street. What's that band? Living Color. Living Color. We can beat-roll that out. Good job, because I covered it. I think Cold Personality is probably

one of the greatest rock songs of that era. And then they did Glamour Boys, and it's like a Barbie thing, and it just took everything out of their rock image, and I think that ruined them. Because they should have been a bigger band. They were an all-black rock band, which, you know, that's rare, and they were great. And that Cult of Personalities, fantastic. But then this, that video came out. I don't know if you have the video, but it's like, it's Glamour Boys.

But it's, yeah, it's just the worst and it just ruined their whole image. They're walking around with like, you know, Ken Mask on and stuff. And it's just really bad. Oh my goodness. It's like. bad. Oh my goodness. It's like... Yeah, this is... Well, wait. I mean, I... This is okay now. It gets a little weird. I mean, they're just jamming right now. Okay. Paper mache car. There it is. Yeah, they're doing that kind of stuff with those masks. Like that stuff. And they were like, what? It seems very 80s to me

Well, that's the problem the 80s ruined a lot of people. Yeah Including us. I wish I'd started in the 80s All right, that's you're a big Grateful Dead fan or a fan Well, I've just become a fan of the Grateful Dead in the last few years I don't know why I've been sleeping on them all this time But I really does a lot of people like them maybe I bet you few years. I don't know why I've been sleeping on them all this time, but I really- Probably because a lot of people liked them. Maybe, I bet you're right.

But I like them, I'm into them. Yeah. Yeah. All right, their 50th anniversary farewell show in 2015, they're playing their closing rendition of Viola Lee Blues, a rainbow appears over the stadium, and the conspiracy is they paid $50,000 to beam a fake rainbow into the sky

at just the right moment. I saw the video on YouTube, it looks real to me. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, or cloud seating, you know, who knows what else. Yeah. All right, I thought that would be more interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not a Grateful Dead guy, I'm more, I don't know,

not really. I'm into, I mean, it's like, the album, this is what I say, anybody wanting to get into the Grateful Dead guy. I don't know, not really. I'm into, I mean, it's like, the album, this is what I say, anybody wanting to get into the Grateful Dead and you're not into them, this is what you do. I think you go on Spotify. Okay. And you-

You've heard to be drug-free though and be into that band, you know? Well, I'm not advocating for that, you know what I mean? And- And you, Ed, you, Cornell, Cornell Live 5877,

that album is, that's the one? That's the one that'll hook you? That is a Jane. Okay. Phil, I'd always heard this, Phil Collins in the air tonight was about, he witnessed someone let a man drown.

And then the always conspiracy theory was, he witnessed someone let him and around and then the always conspiracy theory was he was at a concert yeah put the spotlight on him and called him out there in front of the audience you guys heard that and then he's saying like right to his face like it's the whole thing that's the thing there was no internet to disprove that yeah we were all just running around thinking that Let's end the show right there. That's it. That's the closer. It's hard to follow that one. I'll do a couple more. Kiss, I always heard growing up it stood for Knights in Satan's Service. Well, Texas, yeah, we had to burn our kiss albums Yeah, like in the church look at those guys though. It's hard to start to be like no. No. No, that's not what it stands for guys

Look at them. You know, I mean, it's just for Jewish Jews from Queens, you know Yeah, they just they weren't that attractive and so they found a way to kind of know they do look cool But if you if people think that and then you go well, let's see them and we'll decide. And you go, no, no, I can see it. And great show. They put on, I saw like a later show and it was great. ACDC they were saying was Anti-Christ Devil's Child. Wow. Or Alternating Current Director. What a band. That's one of my favorite concerts, ACDC, at the Garden, the Black Ice Tour.

They were coming here to Nissan Stadium. And then you go, no way that means Antichrist Devil Child. What are some of their songs? Who cares? It's such a- Highway to hell, back in black. Okay.

Have a drink on me. Supertramp. Supertramp. Yeah. Wow. You guys are going back. You guys are going back. Supertramp's awesome.

Their album cover for Breakfast in America, which I love that if you put in a mirror it looks like they're predicting 9-11. Yeah. Oh you know this? Yeah, oh yeah. That's the thing. Why does it look like they're predicting? Well, look at that the twin. The U and the P. Yeah. If it was backwards it would look like 9-11. And then she's got the glass right over the twin towers. That's supposed to be fire I guess. Yeah, that's reaching. You think? So what but what's the implication Towers. That's supposed to be fire, I guess. Yeah, that's certain. That's reaching. You think?

So what, but what's the implication of that? That the band Supertramp was somehow involved in 9-11? I don't know. It's just... I know. A lot of predictive programming. I'm just saying, well, what's the next, what follows that? There was lots of predictive programming, they say, of 9-11.

Like, very, throughout movies, there was very, for a long time. But when was this? This was like, what, 82? Yeah. Years and years. But what? It was very for a long time. When was this? This was like what 82? Yeah. Years and years. But what? It's insane. Take some time. To what end? Why would they put these clues out? Just like who's putting the clues out? This this album artist? The Satanist. Maybe they didn't even realize what they were doing.

Oh okay. Like maybe it just. There's like a Simpsons one where they're like the the I forget, like, it's like, I don't know, the the the he's holding up a newspaper and it has something like 9-11 on it. And Bart's standing there with a bunch of money in his hand. It's like there's a lot of stuff like that. Who knows if it means anything? But people have spent a lot of time digging these things.

I think I know it doesn't. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, who knows, but. What are the super 9 11? Well, the Simpsons, they say predict lots of things. Yeah. They're always saying because they've been on for 30 something years. They're on the pulse of the culture and stuff. They're starting to say that about this podcast now. Because we're 230 episodes in, they'll say. Aaron predicted in episode 46 that... Anyway. All right. Stephen King killed John Lennon.

Oh, wow. Wow. I never heard that one. So... So, it's House, though. Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, looks apparently a lot like Stephen King. Kind of debug it. He said, Stephen Curtis Chapman.

I was like, Stephen Curtis Chapman killed John Lennon. That'd be better. Okay, all right. Mark David Chapman looks like Stephen King, or especially back in 1980 when it happened, or whatever. And I'm not sure why they hired Stephen King, but apparently his piece, his whole message of peace, Ronald Reagan and the likes did not like that,

because that goes against what they were doing, So they had him killed by Stephen King. Stephen King. Yeah. You know, there is another theory on that too, that, you know, Paul McCartney was killed years ago in a car accident and they wanted to keep the Beatles going. So they just replaced him with a, they had a, they had a Paul McCartney lookalike competition where they were looking for somebody that looks and sounds similar to Paul McCartney. They found this guy and then, but since Paul McCartney and John Leonard were best friends, that's when Paul McCartney

started to fight with John Leonard. The two of them started to fight because this was not the real Paul McCartney, but he had to keep it and they said John Leonard was about to expose the secret. And then on one of the albums, if you play it backwards, it says Paul is dead. Paul is dead. And then a lot of the covers of some of the Beatles albums, they'll have stuff like alluding to Paul being dead, like Abbey Road, Paul McCartney's in all white,

no shoes, you know. Why would they allude to it? Well, they're just trying to put it out there that he's dead. Yeah, they had to keep making those Beatles records, man. Yeah. That's my man. They want you there now, but not really now. Yeah.

Just kind of tease you. Yeah. Garth Brooks is a serial killer? Oh, yeah. Is this the guy that killed John Lennon or is this Stephen King? That's Stephen King. Yeah. He looks like he'd kill some people.

All right, so in 2018 Garth Brooks made a tour announcement and on the video, and then Tom Segura made a joke that said Garth Brooks looked like he's killed multiple people before and it grew legs and has taken off and now there's this conspiracy theory that whatever town he's in touring, multiple people disappear. Wow.

That Garth Brooks is the guy. I think he kills country music. Sorry. He's great. He's got friends in low places. Garth Brooks, Garth Brooks had a nice run, but yeah, looking back, it's not the dance. It's not the best. There's a really great song.

Low Places is one of the greatest. And I love some of the, I love a lot of those songs, but yeah, it's like, yeah, it's not the, it's not the country that I enjoy the most. Yeah, looking back on the memory of all the things we shared. For a moment. And then I kind of mentioned it, but that thing he did was he's trying to be the grunge singer.

Oh yeah, Chris Gaines. Chris Gaines. I mean, that was like the first of, you know, this. Yeah, you know, we talked about one on here. He wanted to get out of the limelight. So they did the whole Chris Gaines thing. He killed his career. He did the whole Chris Gaines thing. And then when he came back, it was a different guy playing him. But since it'd been a little while, people didn't catch on as much. Well, we're talking about Bates was always thought about doing this, creating this alter ego. And then he just goes out.

It's just the filthiest com insult. That's what I want him to do. It would be great. I want, I don't need filthy baits, but I want edgy baits. That's what I want. Who Bates really is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you want. Yeah.

I wear a mustache or I don't think you need to. think you should wear the long shave your head shave your head at Laura's 80s party Yeah, the Velcro pygmies. That was my dusty sleigh hair That's what you should wear and just come out and just do just they do they are doing a dirty show now It's anies. I think a late night show. You should just come out in that character. Yep. I want to come out I got a few dirty jokes I'd like to do. And they're just stuff I think about, you know, you know, and I'm like, well, I'll never do that joke. But I got some from over the years. You got to get it out.

It's like a cleansing. Yeah. Well, I just think they're funny and I'd like to I'd like to do it. Mm hmm. Yeah. Well, my church is having an open mic night, so I'll go practice it and then... Well you guys kind of all started clean, right? Just pretty much? Yeah, somewhat. I'm probably a little cleaner now than how I started, but I never was very dirty. Yeah, yeah. That was pretty edgy and then I had to kind of like go down a cleaner road for...

For your dry bar taping? Well just working with Nate, you know? Just like that, I mean, it's like you just you just kind of get rid of that stuff Mm-hmm. Just kind of grow up a little bit. I think it is. Mm-hmm All right That was fun Thanks for coming. Thanks buddy. Good to see you buddy. Thanks, buddy. I'm glad we got dusty and dust in yeah same room together This has been a great Really great podcast. Yes. a great uh really

You're asking. You're asking. This Friday, I am in Fort Worth, Texas at Hyenas Comedy Club. Only a few tickets left. So if you wait till Friday night, you might be too late. It may be sold out. Get them now. Edgy Bates coming to Hyenas.

Edgy Bates with the wig. Probably not this Friday, but I need a little time. But come to Hyenas this Friday. But get your tickets quick before they sell out. January 3rd and 4th, I'm in Lexington, Kentucky at comedy off-Broadway Comedy uproar. It's a great club All right, yeah, that's a great and where can we find one more one more? I like how Brian always gives the full calendar. I love it. No, we need it give us your Google calendar

Yeah, give you a good Netflix special I love it. No, we need it. Give us your Google calendar. Give us your Google calendar. Sorry we don't have Netflix specials. Hang on. Yeah, yeah. I'm mentioning something coming up in three weeks.

You're talking about February 28th. Well, I'm, you know, I'm filming a thing. Pretty big deal. Yeah. All right. I was just gonna say January 11th. Yeah. I'm in Fort Myers.

I'm just making fun of you a little bit. Two shows. You do your whole calendar. You pull up your website. Top 10 country songs about the cities I'll be in this month. That's how Dusty does it. Come on. I got to stick up for Brian.

I'm trying to expose people to good music out here. That's right. I like it. Yeah. All right. Good stuff. All right. And all I want is for people to, I

want people to be able to focus on Brian's upcoming show. I don't want it to get lost in the shuffle. People don't listen to Always We Gov though, so you kind of tell people a few weeks out where you're gonna be. That's right. That's right. That's a great point. Sometimes people are behind, you know. That's a great point.

I'm sorry. It's okay. I'm sorry. It's all good. No, it's not. It's all good. Just try to remember how it was when you were at our level. Well, when I was at your level,

I didn't even have the podcast. There you go. There you go. But we do, so we're gonna use it. Well, when I was at your level, I didn't even have the podcast. There you go. There you go. But we do, so we're going to use it. All right, Dustin, what you got? I got nothing. Friday, let's see, December 13th, 14th, I'll be with Nate Bergazzi. I think you guys heard of him.

We will be at the Comedy Magic Club in Hermosa Beach. Oh, great club. And yeah, I'm excited. That's going to be filming Nick Novicki and Julian McCullough. And then I'll be headlining Des Moines Funny Bone, December 27th and 28th. Awesome. Pretty excited to be out there first time.

So it's got a lot of fun. It's a great club. Yeah, I'm excited. Are you upset with me about me saying that? Yes, I am. I'm sorry. I mean, we'll talk off air about it, but yeah. The Florence Alabama show got canceled.

Oh, no. Uh, we'll talk, we'll talk about it off air, but it is no longer happening. I will not be in Florence this, this weekend. Yeah. Uh, but what that has done is allowed me to kind of regroup and collect my thoughts for my 2025 dates. Okay. I'll tell you what, I'm hitting the ball, hitting the, hitting the ground. I'm hitting it, hitting the ground running Detroit.

I'm in Detroit. And then, uh, hold on. Let me pull it up. Detroit, a house of comedy, never done stand up in Detroit before. So that's exciting. That's January 17th and 18th. Then I'm doing a Texas run down your ways, Dustin, San Antonio, Houston, Austin. Uh, I'm all over.

So Aaron Weber comedy.com. Come check me out. Do you live in Texas? Doesn't know we live in Hollywood. Okay. Yeah. Okay. If you're from the morning raise, if you had tickets to Aaron's December

13th show in Florence, Alabama, come to my show at Fort Worth same night. You you're night's free now. Come on out. It's only across a couple of states. It's not an ideal. It's fun to get some tunes. Yeah, just hop in the Florence International Airport and fly to Florence. Alright, I'm gonna do two. Go ahead. Do as many as you want.

I'm just gonna say this podcast is coming out on Wednesday. Tomorrow night on Thursday I'm to be in Las Vegas. Uh, part of the rodeo. I forget where I'm at, but, uh, Las Vegas in Las Vegas, go to dusty sleigh.com. You can find exactly where I'm at the, uh, David Copperfield theater MGM grand. I think. Yeah.

It's a big deal. It's going to be great. And then on Tuesday, since we won't have a podcast until the next Tuesday 17th, Zany's. Boom. I have a show here. Dusty says Grand Old Comedy Show. I had one the same night and I canceled it.

Did you? Yeah. Oh, come on. I don't want to compete against you, Dusty. Nobody does. I just, I don't think it's even competing. It's like, we're like, you're right about that. We're doing a Zany's takeover, a Nate Land takeover that night.

Yeah. And yeah. If only it worked like that. Yeah. Well, I think this has been a really great podcast. I think so too. I like the way it was run. I feel good about it. I want to just close out by saying I did get the key to the city in Opelike, Alabama. I want you guys to know.

Nice. Nice. Incredible. Thank you, Mayor Fuller and the city of Opelike. Very cool. Dusty's coming for your job. I got you guys to know. Nice. Nice. Incredible. Nice. Thank you, Mayor Fuller and the city of Opelika. Very cool. Dusty's coming for your job. And uh. I got the best western key. Yes. And uh alright. Thank you guys. Thanks for joining me. Uh it's been a great time and we're having a good time.

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