Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Dusty Slay

Episode Date: May 20, 2022

Santino sits down with Dusty Slay to chat about Dusty's trailer roots, the time he met Kid Rock, his homecoming for his 10 year reunion and we talk about how much we both have a crush on John Mayer and much much more! 00:00 What Up Whiskey Ginger Fans 02:20 Dusty Skipped College 07:00 Dusty’s Humiliating Line Dancing Video 09:07 I Met Kid Rock 12:43 Told My Dad I’m Gonna Do Netflix 18:29 Dusty’s Favorite Thing 18:51 Santino & Dusty Discussing John Mayer 29:00 Talking About Mark Normand 32:51 Crazy Rodney Dangerfield Joke 35:50 Dusty’s 10 Year High School Reunion 45:29 Dusty’s Homestead 47:44 Santino & Dusty’s Favorite Comedies COME SEE ME ON TOUR!!! https://www.andrewsantino.com ORDER SOME MERCH!!! https://www.andrewsantinostore.com Join our Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/whiskeygingerpodcast SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! INSIDE TRACKER Find out what your lacking and what your excelling in with Inside Tracker go to https://www.insidetracker.com/whiskey for 20% OFF the ENTIRE store! BRICKHOUSE NUTRITION Get healthy and get your GREENS! https://fieldofgreens.com Promo code WHISKEY for 15% off your first order SQUARE SPACE Get that site up and running now! 10% off your order https://squarespace.com/whiskey BESPOKE POST Go to https://boxofawesome.com PROMO Code WHISKEY Follow Santino on Insta and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino Whiskey Ginger Insta and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast/ & https://twitter.com/whiskeyginger_ Whiskey Ginger Clips: http://www.youtube.com/c/WhiskeyGingerPodcastClips Produced and edited by Joe Faria #whiskeyginger #dustyslay #andrewsantino #podcast #netflix #cheetosantino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What up, Whiskey Ginger fans? Welcome back to the show. Got a good one for you today. Dusty Slay, my boy. This dude is great. A Southern belle. He is the man. We caught up on some Southern stuff because I got some Southern family. He's awesome, man. So funny. Go see Dusty on tour. Such a great writer. I think he's very funny. Come see me on tour. AndrewSantino.com AndrewSantino.com to come see me. I only got four dates left. Next weekend, I think, is when I'm in Tahoe, Vancouver. Then I go to Montclair, New Jersey. New Jersey.

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I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again today. I stumbled a little bit, but I still got it out. It's Dusty Slay, and it rhymed. It rhymed. Once again today, Dusty Slay. Dude, good to meet you. We've never met before. We have not.

We have a lot of mutual friends uh one of which is aaron weber a great comic from uh nashville well no is he from nashville no he is from alabama yeah but he lives in nashville lives in nashville and then kind of grew up in nashville yeah where did you grow up i'm from alabama too wow what's that like well it's great i mean it's like everybody everybody seems to have an idea of what Alabama is, and in some ways it's accurate, but it's just... Roll Tide. Roll Tide. You know, I also grew up right next to Auburn, so I can get into a little War Eagle, too. Did you go to either of them?

Oh, no. No, I skipped college altogether. I did about two days in a community college. By the way, skip college is like the way of saying, I'm too bright for college. I skipped it. Yeah. I didn't even go to college. Right. It's like some people are geniuses and skip high school and go right to college. I just skipped college and went right to the world.

Very smart, man. I get it. That's the way to do it. I wasted four years at Arizona State, and all I got from it was genital warts. I mean, that's kind of the only thing that really came of that, unfortunately. Yeah, and you couldn't do that without college. I know. Well, if I knew then what I know now.

You know what I mean? I wouldn't have done it. Yeah, you know, I moved to Charleston, South Carolina during my college years, and I worked at a restaurant, and Charleston has a college downtown, so I feel like I got everything you get from college without the diploma. Or the wasting the money on it. Right. What are we talking? What restaurant you work at?

I worked at a restaurant called Hyman Seafood. Hyman Seafood. And it's a joke that I have, but it's located- Hyman's? Is it plural or singular? Hyman? It's a last name. Mr. Hyman.

Bob Hyman. Dan Hyman. So it's a last name mr hyman bob hyman dan so it's uh yeah eli hyman ah and uh good jewish lad yeah located on the same block as a restaurant called sticky fingers okay this now you're not it's sticky fingers is gone now but i have an old screenshot of the map where it was there and then i say you know one time i was working there and a lady asked me she goes oh are you one of the hymens and i was like yeah because they named me dusty hymen but you know how that old thing starts you you start out at sticky fingers and then you work your way into the hymen yeah you work your way into the hymen you don't go right to the hymen you gotta get stinky fingers for before you break it before you break into that hymen's restaurant and sometimes you may not make it to the hymen's you may always be stay i'm i've always been a sticky fingers guy i can see that yeah i can see that you're a married

man though now i am married so none of that stuff is happening anymore absolutely yeah it doesn't apply i like the idea that that's this old joke that's like oh once i got married i stopped having sex i want to start this new let's let's kind of rip that apart. I think after you get married, all you're doing is having sex. I mean, you had to schedule this show around sex sessions with your wife. That's true. Yeah. That's how busy you are with having sex with your wife. You know, and I say the great thing about being married, it's like, you know, if you go out to the bar and you're single and you don't get laid, you're like, oh, I'm a loser, right? But if you go out to the bar and you're single and you don't get laid, you're like, oh, I'm a loser. But if you go out to the bar and you're married and you don't get laid, you're like, I'm a good dude.

It's fine. Yeah. Yeah, the night was normal. I was at the gym the other day. I tried to make this a joke. I wasn't able to articulate it. But I was at the gym and I saw this girl, very attractive. I felt like she was looking at me. I kept looking at her.

I don't know what I was doing. And then as I was leaving, the thought in my head of my old self where I'm kicking myself for not talking to this girl. And then I'm like, oh, you're married. You made the right move. And it's just like, I guess what I mean is it's just like a flip. All the times that I used to kick myself for not talking to a girl, now I congratulate myself. Right. And they like you more. They're like, look, this guy didn't bother me at all.

But like nothing changed about me. I didn't become more confident. I'm just like, oh, I don't have to do that anymore. That feels good. It feels good. Yeah. I mean, I was like, I did it right and got married. I did go and talk to the girl yeah i got married to her now i don't have to do that anymore that's right and your

wedding of course was at ak mart so yeah you always promote the venue we got yes we got married at a chapel we had no wedding nice yeah good for you it was really great you didn't do the party thing no we didn't have a lot of money me my wife, we bought our wedding rings at a pawn shop. All right. And then we went and got married at a chapel. My wife's Canadian. It'd be hard to get all her family here. Half my family doesn't get along with each other. It's like, I don't drink anymore. What will we even do? Yeah. What would be the party? We'd get together, eat pimento cheese sandwiches. Everybody would be upset that there was no booze or I'm just paying everyone to drink. The pimento cheese sandwiches did sound nice. When you said that, I did kind of get a little image of how fun that would be. It is good. Just waving at each other, eating cheese sandwiches.

Well, all of the Southern weddings that I went to as a kid, a lot of my family wasn't drinkers. So that's what the wedding would be. Nobody was a drinker in your family? Not really. I mean, my mom partied a bit, but she wasn't really a drinker. I think she was more going out for the dancing and the- That's like you. Are you a dancer? Did you inherit her dance moves? Oh, no. I have a video of me trying to line dance with my sisters, and it's the most embarrassing thing.

Can we show it on the show can you send it to me and we can put it on the show okay because i'd like that yeah i would really like that yeah i can't line dance so i'm not criticizing because i don't know i've seen it i've i've you know i get it i just that's not for me it's a nice video we're in the living room of the trailer i grew up in and we have the old wooden box tv yeah but we've gutted the tv out and there's a stereo inside of that hole and a tv on top of the box with the speakers this is a jeff foxworthy joke yeah i mean and it is real life that's why i was i you know i've always been a jeff foxworthy fan because i'm like who knew me more than je Foxworth? He did. I mean, no one. His descriptions obviously hit home so well for so many people.

But how true was that to his life? Like, do you ever think, was that really his life? Or was he good at observation? Was he like the Southern Seinfeld? Yeah, it's tough to say because he worked for IBM. Yeah. He quit IBM to go off and... I get questioned about that.

Did you ever see the documentary about Bruce Springsteen where he kind of openly was like, I didn't live all those lives that people thought. When he would write these beautiful songs like, Oh, yeah. Coal miner son, whatever he was talking about, in this dusty bar. He's like, I think he was a regular suburban kid.

But he made it sound like he was from this small town. Oh, yeah, that's interesting. Living on this blue-collar collar lifestyle, but really I think he was just a son of a white collar guy, suburban kid. Yeah. He just had the gravelly voice. But boy, did he ever have a beautiful voice? You know, I met Kid Rock. Kid Rock lives in Nashville and I met him and I told him that I, yeah, Bob. Yeah. And I always liked the line. i'm not straight out of compton i'm straight out the trailer right so i said i love that because you know i was living that life i was living in a trailer and he laughed and he's like that's funny because i wasn't living that right so he so he grew up kind of well yeah i don't know how well off he was but he wasn't living in a trailer sure

and you lived in a i had chelsea lynn on the other day you know her yeah i don't living in a trailer. Sure. And you lived in a, I had Chelsea Lynn on the other day. Do you know her? Yeah. I don't, we communicate a little bit. She may come to my show on Friday. She's cool. I like her.

Yeah. She grew up in a trailer as well. Yeah. And she told me that when a double wide came to town, big deal. Were you a single or were you a double guy? I mean, I was single wide and people will say that to me after shows.

They'll go, oh, you know, I grew up in a double wide and it's like, oh, you grew up in twice the trailer that I grew up in you're a billionaire right as far as i'm concerned yeah i mean at my trailer park it was just i don't know 15 trailers and on each end were double wides oh the big dogs got the ends yeah they bookended it and my buddy lived in one of those

double wides and i remember his stepdad had a laser disc and i went back and told my mom my mom worked at a plant that made vhs tapes and seriously yeah and so i went told her i was like talking about how excited i was about the laser disc she really got upset with me she didn't get upset with me much but that was it yeah that's where she puts her foot down it felt like it really hit her in the heart. Well, because you're attacking her income in the way that she puts food on the table. You're like, you know what they got over there? Something way better than what you make, mom.

Right. And you deserve to be punished for that. I should, yeah. I should have been punished. Yeah. I would have hit you for that. I was emotionally punched. You were by your mother's.

Yeah. Was it just you and your mother? Did you have siblings and stuff? I have two older sisters. Okay. we have the same mom different dad uh we never i i don't i don't feel like my sisters are half sisters but i like you know i mean i like to paint the picture well that's me too i'm the same way i my sister is a half sister but she's my sister as far as i know i have other half siblings that i don't really see or know oh yeah that's fun because I never know when I'm going to run into somebody that's related to me. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's a gamble. Well, I have a younger sister. We have the same dad, different mom. So my younger sister not related to my older sisters. Mm-hmm. And she's 18 years younger than me. That's huge. So we don't really know each other that well.

I mean, I try to get to know her, but I don't think she likes me. Why would you say she doesn't like you? Well, she got, you know, I got married and I didn't have a wedding, right? So no one was invited. Sure. But she got married and had a wedding after I got married. She got married, had a wedding, didn't invite me. I get it. So I always wondered, did she not invite me because I didn't invite her? Or was I not even on the radar? I think she probably doesn't like you.

I think your original thought was correct. I think so. She doesn't like you. And I'm like the, you know, I mean, I don't think of myself as famous, but of my family. You're more famous than them. And I've never heard of anybody in your family. Yeah. Yeah.

Why are they not inviting me? I would think that I would be the guy to invite. But maybe they don't want the attention all on you because it's their wedding day that could be it you walk in dusty's here fuck you know people are losing their minds that could be it you know what i mean the the dudes can't stop talking about you they want pictures the women are just fawning over you you know what i mean it's yeah it's how do you how do you control all those emotions it's true you know and sometimes my family also doesn't understand what I'm up to. Like I told my dad, I go, hey, I'm going to do Netflix.

And he goes, oh, that's great. And then he goes, what's Netflix again? Oh, no, dad. But he has Netflix. So once I was like. Is it your Netflix he has an account? Actually, I have his, but it's my. That's so good that you you're he doesn't know what it is but you're on his account yeah good man but it's my stepmom i mean she's running the

oh she's running the show yeah yeah she's driving the ship as it were yeah that's most households yeah so he doesn't know but there aren't they proud to know that you're oh yeah i mean once he really put it together he's like oh this is great did you do know did you're... Oh, yeah. I mean, once he really put it together, he's like, oh, this is great. Did you do the 15 with Netflix as well? No, just the 30. Just the 30. I didn't know if you had done the earlier ones too because they had done 15 minutes and the 30, and now you're doing an hour with them.

I hope so. I think so. Yeah, I hope so. I don't know if it's just a rumor, but that's what I heard. Okay. Through the grapevine. Well, I hope so.

I mean, I'm still doing... Like earlier today, I did some stuff with Netflix. Yeah, I that's what I heard. Okay. Through the grapevine. Well, I hope so. I mean, I'm still doing it. Earlier today, I did some stuff with Netflix. Yeah, I think you're in the right slot. I think if it didn't do well, they would abandon me. Sure. They would go, you know what? We're going to cut ties. Well, we can just call them.

We can call Kevin, Netflix over there and just talk to one of those fellas up at the tip top. Yeah, see what they're up to, you know? Probably nothing. Like, how's the metrics or whatever it is. Yeah. Ask them what the analytics are. Yeah. And let's see if they'll give it to you. Yeah. They don't seem to give it out too much. They don't exist. It doesn't exist. I think they don't even, I think when they say we don't talk about it or give out the numbers, I think cause they don't know how to find it. That is interesting. Like, uh, you know, women

used to say, and it may be, they still do, but they liked a mysterious guy. Like a quiet guy is mysterious. And as a guy who talks all the time, I always thought, well, that's just because that guy's dumb. Right. That guy's an idiot. So in that sense, Netflix is like, yeah, we don't give the metrics out. Maybe they don't know how to calculate. They don't know where it is. Yeah. Right. Or they found it and they lost it. You know, have you ever like misplaced a way to get to a site that you were like, I just don't know how to get back to that page to log in. Oh yes. Maybe I'll stumble across it on accident another time.

That's what Netflix is to me. They really don't know how to do their own thing. So, but you know what? It's doing good for you. Yeah. I mean, maybe they never thought that it would get big.

They just assumed it wasn't going to work out. Yeah. They're like, we're going to try this thing. And if it works great, if it doesn't, it doesn't matter.'t matter yeah yeah i think that's what they're doing and they're also doing we're doing netflix shows or by the time this comes out the shows have all been done the festival of a thousand shows so many shows it's too many shows i did

i have voiced my opinion a little bit it's a little it's too many shows i mean i think on the night i i do mine there's seven other things as well. Wow. Too many things. But I guess people are coming. They are. I don't know where people come from. I don't do things. Like, since I quit drinking, I don't go to things.

You never go out. It's like I don't go to concerts. I don't really go to comedy shows. If somebody I know is coming to Zany's and I got the night off i'll go see it you pop by but it's it's uh i so i it blows my mind that all of these people are just like going to things what's the night with you and the wife what's the night out well we have a baby now um so like we'll go get food yeah or something but bring it home neither of us are foodies people come to town and they're like, oh, where should we go? And we're like, well, we go to this Mexican restaurant down the street all

the time. And it's like in a strip mall, you know? But Nashville has so much good food too. They do have so much. We'll go bowling. One time we went bowling. My wife was so bad at bowling that she got mad at me. And it just became a really not fun night. I've been there. Especially if you're bowling pretty well and they're bowling poorly, you're the reason that they're bowling bad. And I wasn't even bowling well, though. But I was just like, we're just here for fun.

But she kept throwing gutter balls. And she's like, this is not fun for me. Yeah, you should have put up the rails. You got to put up the kiddie rails. I should have put up the rails. You got to know better, dude. At least that way the score's racking up. Uh-huh.

It doesn't matter if there's skill involved. No. Well, bowling, I think skill at a real level, but at a novice level like us, you're blindly hucking. You're just going for it. My mom was a bowler, and she was good. Like, what is good? You know, I don't know.

Over 200? They were in a league. Oh, okay. And their team would always get second place, I think. So not that good. I guess. Not as good as you would be if you got first. Right, if they were the champions. Right.

But they said they would drink. I know I said my mom was not a drinker, but now it's like she said that they would always drink and party, and they got voted most annoying team to bowl. It like your mom loved to drink yeah maybe you're right maybe i don't know what was happening i was naive i had no idea bowling is one of these sports right or activities whatever you want to call it drinking is almost a prerequisite like darts pool any bar games in general or things that are a bar. You kind of have to have a beer with it. Right.

What kind of psycho are you that goes to the bar and throws darts sober? Weird. Really weird. Weirdo guy. And also, you better be real good at darts. To go sober and to play amongst a bunch of drunk people. Maybe that's a good hustle. You and I should go sober.

Oh, yeah. See if we can tell. Are you good at darts? I don't know. Do you have any of these knick-knack skills? Are you good at one small. No, I don't know. I have any of these knickknack skills. Are you good at one small skill? Is stand up the only thing you're very good? I think so.

Yeah. You know, and that's why I don't even mind saying I'm good at stand up. Well, you are good at stand up. Because I am not good at a lot of things. So I'm like, I don't feel I feel like it's okay to brag a little bit if you have one thing. Well, that's the, yeah, you're not stepping on other people's toes. That's your thing and you're pretty fucking good at it. So why not?

If I'm in a bar in Nashville and I see a musician and he's really just crushing it on the guitar or singing, whatever, and then tells a joke and it bombs, that's my favorite. Because I'm like, you can't have it all yeah you're not allowed to ball and usually singers are good looking so what's annoying is when a singer's good looking and he's razzing up the crowd any john mayers who who is not only a great guitarist but also sexy handsome does like a little quip in between that kills me yes because he's he's hot and he's talented and he's got that, like, charming, I don't know, I just picked this thing up yesterday, and everyone's like, ah!

They lose their mind. Right, right. Yeah, that's a little, he's a little, he's walking the line. Even though I like him a lot, he walks that line of, like, you son of a bitch, you hot, talented son of a bitch. I do like him, too. Yeah, he's very good. It seems like you shouldn't like him, but he's really good. On paper, you're supposed to not like him.

I think it's the line, I want to run through the halls of my high school. I want to scream at the top of my lungs. That's the one line that's like, I'm not into it. Your Body's a Wonderland also is not my favorite line. Yeah. Your Body is a Wonderland is, it's a line that's like, it's not your body first of all your body's not a wonderland right a wonderland is a wonderland where the trees are made out of candy and the river's chocolate that's a wonderland right now your body is complex and i'm nervous about touching you and

i'm scared that i'm not doing it all right that's what it is and once you're comfortable touching each other that much it really that is not much of a wonderland. Not a wonderland. No. You've already figured it out. At the beginning stages, it's like an old war zone that might have some undetonated bombs laying around. Yeah. So you got to be careful.

And now when you're married, now your wife's body is a nice place to hang out. Yeah. We have a good time. It's nice. I'm not wandering around. I know it now. You know where to go. And it's like, you know, if, if ever, like I, in the past I had, you know, I get dated a girl for a long time and I felt like that I was really doing things right. And then you break up and you go get with another girl and you think, oh, now I've got it really worked out. Right. And you don't. You don't.

She's different. Yeah, and you probably don't know what you're doing almost all of the time with women because our instincts got to be wrong. Your instincts are like, I know exactly how to make her feel good. And then you hear them talk about you to her girlfriends and then you're like, oh, they, right, I don't.

Right, because if a woman likes you, she's nice. Yeah, she's going to be nice to you. So she's going to make you feel like you're really doing it right. You're doing it good, buddy. Yeah. You're doing a great little job. Yeah. It's almost condescending.

No, I like when you do that. Only when you grow as a couple do you start to admit where they start to admit, where they go, you know, I don't really love when you blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's a hard one to hear, but you're gonna hear it if you've been doing something for a while and then she tells you she doesn't really like that you're like oh that that was my whole thing that was one of my key moves yeah that does let you down but also that we deserve it and i women know to tell us more that stuff because we don't really know we're such simple creatures where touch penis and we're good that's it and anyway kick it flip it bop it twist it pass it but we're happy it's we're touched i'm

very happy but with you complex machine they're way more you know what they are they're more you know like those old sound boards uh an operating service with all the plugs and button that's what it's like oh yeah women's bodies are the inside of an airplane cockpit and men's are stick shift. Yeah, like a sound machine, a sound board where you have all these things. And the only thing I know is the volume. Yeah, I'm cranking up the EQ as hard as I can. That's the only one I know. But I know that that one gets loud and it does work,

but you have to learn that sometimes the treble needs to be turned up or down, right? Yeah, and then a guy comes along with all fingers like he's working a piano and he's able to do it. And I'm like, do those things even do anything? Maybe they do, though. They may. We'll learn at some point. In here, we pour whiskey.

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And you said, I'm never not touring. Do you tour? Are you one of these guys that does like 40 plus weeks a year? Yeah. I mean, when I, um, I signed with my management, my manager asked me and I had never had this before. She goes, how much do you want to work? And I was like, I don't know, just fill the calendar. And suddenly my calendar was full. I had, uh, the first couple of years calendar was full i had uh the first couple of years i was with her i worked just about every weekend of the year yeah i mean you never took a weekend off i mean i was just like i had never had this opportunity i mean i had my whole career uh i had been emailing clubs basically going hey will you let me come do comedy sure that's how

kind of we all we all start in that route. Or you get thrown off weekends or nights where somebody canceled or that kind of thing. Yeah. So I was suddenly, so this year is the first year that I've been like, well, let's try to take one weekend off a month. That's good. And then in June, I got a few weeks off. So I'm trying to take just a break, middle of the year, second half of the year, slammed. You do need it because I think you burn out super fast. I mean, I've seen older guys that talk to me about, not to mention names, because whatever. But there was an older comic who, he was like, oh, I'm going down to somewhere in Florida.

And I was like, oh, that's great. And I was young, super young comic. And he goes, yeah, man, I'm picking up a check. And I said to myself, man, I hope I hope I'm not just saying that at some point. I'm just going to pick up a check. Right. Like it was laborious. Like he didn't really want to go.

And of course, you do have moments where you're like, I don't know if I want to go do this this weekend or do this city. But I think to avoid that, you have to give yourself some chunks of time to just walk away from standup a little bit. Yeah. I mean, for me, it's like when I'm doing week, week, you know, week after week, it's like my comedy is getting really sharp and my set is really tightening up and it's like everything comes together and it's like, I'm getting callbacks, I'm working in all these things. And then I think, oh, if I take a week off, I'm going to blow that. But it just seems like if I take a week off, when I go back, there's more of a creative spark. So the stuff that I've been tightening now,

I don't know. I don't know how it works, but there's a way that now I'm seeing it differently. Oh, I totally agree. That happens. So there's new tags that come in, new ideas come in. And it's like, I don't know, it's so weird. Like I don't even sit down and write jokes anymore. You never write down. No, because, and that's all I used to do. But now it's just like, I'm doing it so much that I don't know. I can't say that if I were to sit down and write, it wouldn't help me.

Right. But like Mark Norman showed up to the show last night. He had two or three new jokes he had just written he's like oh this is about the chapelle thing that just happened and i'm like well that's amazing i wrote a joke four weeks ago and that's my new one well but that's most people norman is a machine yes he is he just you know he's a hey i'm gay you know right he has got he's got that he has that that plug in him to just keep pumping and pumping him but i do think that's a personality trait too i think some people aren't built for that kind of i'm not that kind of way either i don't i like to massage a concept or an idea for

a little while i can't write it at lunch and do it that night i mean i've done that before but that's definitely not my go-to that's tough tough. Yeah, I mean, the last, I had a joke about them trying to pass a bill to get rid of daylight savings time. And I just thought of this joke at home one day and I was like, oh, this seems really good. And I did sit down and write it down. Okay. And then it's been going really well,

but now I'm like, how long can I do this joke? Are they passing the bill? What happened to it? But I like the idea that they don't know the audience doesn't know so you can just keep saying that i do that sometimes where i'll go this guy in in germany oh he just and it happened four years ago oh yeah they're not gonna look it up you know if you just start referencing things like they were gonna pass this bill i don't even know if they passed it when you do that they're already in they don't give a shit oh yeah it could already

be over because the concept is good enough where, you know. Yeah. It doesn't matter. I mean, Chappelle does, what, like in his last special or a special or two ago, you know, he was doing like Bill Cosby jokes. And you're like, it's a little old. Oh, yeah. It's a little old, but it's like it doesn't matter because the concept exists and it's fun. It doesn't matter.

Yeah. And then when the special's not new anymore, will we even know how long the Cosby thing was? Of course not. Like, I wrote a joke. I got a tornado joke about laying down in the ditch and during a tornado, and I guess in Kansas, a bunch of people laid in a ditch and were killed just recently. Bad advice from you.

And so someone commented on my video, and I'm like, about that. I was like, I wrote that joke in 2016 okay this has nothing to do with that back then it was safe to go in a ditch I don't know about now tornadoes change over time that is funny to think week it can look people have said this does comedy hold up I don't I don't know you can look at a lot of old stuff of guys that I used to love growing up and some of the jokes I look back and I'm like that's not that funny anymore yeah I think about that Steve Martin Rodney Dangerfield stuff where I go is this joke hack or were they the first to do it I think it's a probably it's a probably a little bit of both because time makes things hacky when someone when someone says something is present in

in or someone says it's a hacky in present time. I'm always like, I think time is what makes something quote unquote hacky because you're like heard that a million times. Right. But then also after enough time has passed, it's probably not hacky anymore because it's already been, you know what I mean? Like enough has gone by. Now it can come back into the zeitgeist or whatever.

Like I heard Steve Martin on an album. He's tapping the mic and he's going, is this thing on? Is this thing on? I was like, did he do that first was he the first person maybe maybe well he got he just got yelled at for king tut did you see this like it wiped through the internet quickly oh no people are mad about king tut obviously because you know they're like this is racially insensitive well how did people find this funny and the baby boomer generation of course is like you weren't there you didn't't get it, it was a time period. And even I was like,

I didn't really remember it. Obviously, that was before our time. We're the same age. But also, I never put much thought into it. So it was like, yeah,

that was a dumb character he did. Yeah, I never liked it, but not for any reason other than I just didn't find it funny. It just wasn't. I just, and I also kind of never saw it.

Do you know what I mean? I think I maybe saw it on YouTube and I was like, okay. But to go back at all the old comics bits would be exhausting because you'd probably hate most of them, of people that you like. Oh, yeah. I heard a Rodney Dangerfield joke where he goes,

I get a lot of women because of who I am, a rapist. And I was like, oh, whoa. I don't care about anything really you know it's like i've listened to so much comedy that i'm like but i was just listening to that and even i was like whoa dude yeah that's he well you gotta go for it you know you gotta put it out there you gotta swing as hard as you can rodney was one of those guys that was a part of that culture was as much as they talk about current comics and shock comedy and stuff, they did all that shit too. Do you know what I mean?

Oh, yeah. That was just as shocking for their generation as anybody that talks about filthy shit today. Yeah. I just think there wasn't, Dirty back then wasn't really sex talk Dirty. Right. It was more like that kind of stuff, Dirty. Oh, yeah. Where now, you know, that older generation that mocks the young people and Dirty and sex talk, like yeah but our your dirty was you know vietnam war jokes right and that was gross and dirty for your

time yeah or like if someone does a 9-11 joke now which you have a whole album coming out dusty slay it's called 9-11 was my job uh not an inside job was my job and it's coming out in september yeah because i played a big role yes you know in 9-11 yeah you did actually you know what i you imagine if they booked you if they're like this is the guy that did it your face right right right when they could yeah i feel like they really could the news could put me on and then everybody would go i knew it i knew it was him did people from your hometown how big was your hometown i don't know population not we're right next to auburn university so there's enough people out there yeah so we got are you a big deal back home i don't know but you know what

i mean like if you go to a restaurant used to go to when you were young would people be like holy shit well i think people would be happy to see me. Okay, that's good. But I, you know, I did a show in my hometown, in Auburn, they opened a club and a lot of people came and it was really weird. Like, you know, I had my merch table set up and it was like, it was a weird, like rapid fire, family reunion, class reunion type thing.

Where like people that I remember from high school, but either they're not on facebook or we're not facebook friends it would be like my uncle and aunt i'd be like oh great to see you and then they buy a shirt and then it's like people that i haven't thought of since high school so 20 year old memories resurfacing in my brain good or bad uh all i guess not really good or bad but just like oh i'll remember you maybe maybe there's uh there was a couple of girls that i'm like oh i remember thinking they were a little older than me i thought they were really attractive yeah so when they came in it's like i remember having

crushes on them uh-huh so i'm like that's a weird memory to come back because now they're at your show yeah and now they're crushing on you yeah but now you're unavailable and you're better now buy a shirt and get the fuck out of my life exactly no but that is a cool like did you are you a did you go to your high school reunion are you one of these guys or no i did i went to the 10-year reunion good for you but i was my 10-year reunion i was still drinking i was pretty overweight and i was sweating a lot. Yeah. I just remember I was drinking and I had a kind of a bowl cut. I had a different look.

I had a real Austin Powers look going. And my forehead hair got really sweaty. And I remember going to the bathroom and toweling off a few times. But it was still fun, right? I just love you paint this picture like i was fat and sweaty and drunk sadly wiping away sweat but you're like i'm having a good time yeah it was still fun see i didn't go i'm sad i didn't go because i think it would have been fun but i was working and i was gigging i think and i was like i just can't go yeah and 20 years just happened right 20 years just happened. Right. 20 years just happened for us. You graduate 2000. Yeah. No, no, no.

No, no, no. No. I'm 2002. Okay. I was 2000. I got held back a few years. Okay. Okay.

I'm 38 and I'm 02. That's when I graduated. Okay. You might've been a little bit smarter than me. Well, I didn't get held back. I don't know that I shouldn't have, but I didn't. I don't know if I got held back, but now I'm thinking about it, I probably did. Maybe it was just a birthday.

Look me in the face and say, I didn't get held back. You didn't get held back. I got held back? Yeah. It was always weird to see the kid that did get held back because you're like, I knew that you were a grade above me and now you're in my class. And they can't be mean to you because you're like, hey man, don't talk to me that way, guy who got held back. Yeah, you might be older and bigger, but we all know that you're not as intelligent

for whatever reason. Yeah, we had our, yeah, the 20 year, I think they sent out a thing, an email, saying that they were going to do it. And I had a girl that I had gone to high school with had said, would I, for the tenure maybe, had said, would I be interested in performing? And I said, I'm going to have to politely decline.

And she's like, oh, we were really kind of hoping you would surprise us and say yes. I just, those kind of things are hard for me. I can't, I have, I get really shy around the family idea of like performing. When I go back to Chicago and I perform, oof, like I just did the chicago theater and the hardest thing it's not nerves you're i'm anxious about family and family friends being

there oh yeah just because i just you're like i don't know you you they know you as the little boy they saw oh yeah and and if you have family jokes that you know are slightly exaggerated like they're like, Oh, we know that's not true. I know. Don't you, do you ever feel weird when you say something?

Well, like for me, it's strange. Like I have a dad and a stepfather. And so I use them. I, I intertwine those. When I say dad, sometimes I'm talking about my stepdad,

sometimes talking about my biological father, but, but only they will know. So when I did a joke in Chicago, just like that, I thought that is funny that only half, you know, only a small portion of the room goes, well, that's not him. That's that's got to be the other one. Yeah. You know, and it's just easier to combine. I do that. I can combine people in my life where it's like I can't be like telling you like my brother in law's cousin's sister.

It's like, no, that's just my sister now. Of course. Yeah. cousin sister it's like now that's just my sister now of course yeah you have to and sometimes you have to merge a story from this person and this person because it's close enough where you're like it's too good to not use this detail for this story right belongs over here yeah yeah it's so funny they belong together right i think people i think that's a i think comedy audiences are so smart these days they know all that stuff anyway and they don't give a shit oh yeah because they're so keen it used to you know there was that that ongoing joke of like oh the audiences are dumb no no i think now because the internet and because of this kind of stuff they're as keen as they've ever been so they get it but they still are like we don't give a fuck we want a good joke oh yeah

well i have jokes about my mom smoking right but my mom actually never smoked. But I did have Marlboro gear because my uncle smoked, my grandfather smoked, my sister smoked. And so all of their stories, I'm just like, you know what? That's my mom now. Why not? Yeah. Yeah. My dad smoked and my step and all the women he ever dated smoked. And I did get saved Marlboro miles.

Oh, yeah. I got myself a windbreaker, a Marlboro windbreaker. And I did get saved Marlboro miles. Oh yeah. I got myself a jet, a windbreaker, a Marlboro windbreaker. And then a Zippo was huge for me. Oh yeah. He made me promise I wouldn't smoke like the Zippo. He was like, what do you want it for?

And I was like, I just like fire. Such a cool thing. It's a cool thing. Yeah. But he was like, you just have to promise that you're not going to smoke with it. Like,

that's not the reason you're getting it. And of course I did end up smoking. Right. But I promised him I wouldn't. Yeah. Well, yeah. well yeah it's like what you give me a zippo of course i'm gonna i'm gonna try at least try to smoke some cigarettes with it yeah i'll promise you and i mean it i did mean it when i said it yeah i smoked actually the first thing i smoked was a cigar oh yeah instead of a cigarette because a buddy's dad had a humidor and he stole a cigar and we smoked it under a bridge very red hot chili peppers oh yeah and uh the most disgusting i mean i was like barfing all day on the way home

because i we inhaled oh you know any better we were just doing this and it was so much smoke and we stunk like shit it was so stupid it's so dumb when you're trying to look like do you remember the first time you you got drunk or got stoned and were you super young did you try stuff when you were super young i did a few things but i feel like i blossomed a little late i mean i was 17 the first time i remember getting drunk that's not that i don't think that's that late i don't think okay that seems pretty on the nose people i guess from alabama people always think that i should be drinking bourbon at 13, I guess. Well, I'm sure some of those people were.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I definitely have some relatives that I'm like, you're aging too fast. You know what I mean? Like, you know too much already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're old souls when they're 20. Yes.

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I mean, I got a cousin. He's,'s you know it's 16 he's taking apart a car and working on a mustang and i'm like i don't know you shouldn't know all this but you need that guy around that's a helpful man oh yes in case something goes awry because you're not fixing it no oh no sometimes people think i know about cars but i it's not true do you have a niche nerd thing that you nerd out about like i don't know i feel like i can do a lot of little things in a way like i you know i i can you know i can change the ceiling fan out i took a lamp that's a lamp that you plug into the wall and i hardwired it into the ceiling you know so i can do something but do you have i'm saying i want to know do you have like a you you know, everyone is a nerd

in their own world. I don't, the word nerd gets overused. It's like, I'm a Star Wars nerd. You're like, you just like Star Wars. Oh yeah.

But do you have a thing that you are kind of obsessed with that you spend a lot of time on that's your thing that you nerd out about? Well, I guess gardening. I've been getting into gardening.

You're a green guy. And kind of homesteading. I'm looking into that. Right now, I bought some land in a more rural part of Tennessee. OK. And I'm having the I found an Amish Mennonite community that builds cabins. Really? So I have them building me a cabin that's coming in August.

This is incredible. Yeah. And I've planted a bunch of fruit trees out on the land. Wow. So I'm planting this whole orchard type getaway type thing. Is it like, do you want to utilize it for other people to use at some point? Or is this all just for you? I think a little, I think for other people to utilize. Maybe like a wedding venue or something like that? Well, I was thinking more of just a, there is a venue in this town that they do some shows. So my kind of my thought is i could bring comics especially if they do

you know nashville i could say hey maybe come on a sunday night do a show out in mcminnville stay out at the place we'll cook out have some cigars this is cool you know just hang out i got a little creek i gotta i got a whole vision i don't know how i'm gonna pull it off because i do comedy every weekend yeah it's gonna be tough you might have to take a couple of weeks off. Yeah. And I have a baby, but I'm hoping that as my baby begins to walk, she'll help. And help out. Yeah. As in start cooking and cleaning. Yeah. Digging holes for the trees. Yeah. Yeah. Don't dig a hole too deep and don't lose the baby. Right. Yeah. That is a fear. It happens and it might happen out there, but you know what? We'll have another. You have another. You always can have another. I want want to go to this what are we going to call it i don't know yet i i um well

let's make it up right now yeah and this has got to be it well i can't change it with my last name anything like if you name it slay ranch then it feels dark yeah it feels like what's going on out here murderous right yeah but maybe that'll keep your first name is sweet dusty sweet yeah right because you know like i forever three amigos one of my favorite movies of all time dusty bottoms was probably one of the greatest names of all time so what a great movie i didn't watch that for a long time and i watched it as an adult for the first time and i'm like this is a great movie so so good yeah one of my favorite jokes is when there's a plane that's flying overhead and he goes oh look it's a male plane and he goes how can you tell and he goes you don't

see the little testicles dangling off the back of the plane it's such a good joke it's such that movie is is is just rich with those tiny little miniature jokes that by the way when i was a kid i caught some of them but then as an adult re-watching it it's because it's my wife's favorite movie we'll watch oh my god between that and big which is my favorite movie okay i've not watched it in a long time oh big is so good it's just got a ton of little bullshit jokes yeah because anytime you can take the the ideology of a child and put it in the body of an adult it's all it's funny i mean that was our whole yeah every movie of our childhood was big person with little little child brain right like tommy boy do you know i mean dumb and dumb tommy boy is exactly where my It's funny. I mean, that was our whole, every movie of our childhood was big person with little child

brain, right? Like Tommy Boy. Do you know what I mean? Dumb and dumber. Tommy Boy is exactly where my mind went when you said that. That's what I mean, though. It was kind of like, that was the ideology of comedy in our youth was, can you put a little child's mindset or thought process into an adult brain and body?

And inherently, it's funny. I mean, that was like like every comedy movie i loved was adults acting talking thinking like kids and even up to like elf everything everything will farrell had done was also big person body little child thought process it's so true and steve martin the jerk the jerk was exactly that yeah wow all that stuff was how that stuff was, how can we do childlike humor in an adult body? Wow. But it doesn't do it anymore. Now the comedies have to have nine movie stars, and one of them has to be an ex-wrestler.

Yeah, you know, I heard someone say that the best comedies are the actors don't realize they're in a comedy. That's really good. And I feel like that now everybody is very self-aware that they're in a comedy. They're really kind of breaking down that fourth wall, which I don't love when they like, they do this now in comedies often where they talk to the camera or they throw something to the audience, which happened so rarely in the old days that it was like awesome when it did. Yeah.

But now it's a part of the joke. Yeah. You know, like Wedding Crashers, when it came out, I just, it blew my mind. I loved it. So funny. But now it does, to me, I'm like, I bet it would still be funny, but it doesn't hold up

like 10 years ago movies. Like Uncle Buck forever will be- So good. You know, a great movie to me, but I don't know. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. So great. Yeah.

You see what I mean, though? It has to be someone in one of these characters that has the mind of a child right dell griffith had john candy has the mind of a child in that he is a childlike whimsical playful idiot and i just think that's a little missing we don't have enough of those movies now where you're like make this adult kind of a fucking goofball but in a in a sweet way yeah and there's an arc where you feel sorry for the guy at one point it's like in wedding crashers do you really feel sorry that owen wilson doesn't get i mean he does get the girl in the end but no i don't feel bad for him you're like oh you've been getting laid

the entire movie i don't feel bad that you've not found love right but also you've been you've been getting laid on the idea that all of these people believe that you belong at their wedding so you're so you're a con artist who's getting laid, and now you try to con your way into one girl, and you didn't get it. I don't feel too bad for you. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Oh, sorry, I'm sorry you didn't find love. And then in the end, he does.

He does, which I wish he didn't. It would have been funnier if he didn't find love. I agree. Kind of like the twist for Farrell in old school, that he ends up, you know,, like his wife, you know, his wife kind of like demands that he's becomes this guy that he's really not. And in the end he kind of still is this forever teenager. You're like, give me that.

I like that. Leave him out to dry. I like it. Yeah. And then the whole, at the end he, you know, he kind of meets up with Luke Wilson's wife, our ex-wife. Yeah. Yeah.

Ex-wife. Yeah. yeah, ex-wife. Yeah, and it's like, let crazy people have crazy people. Yeah, yeah. We don't need a beautiful, nobody needs a perfect loop, you know? Yeah. No, that's the one thing I think I hope our generation, as we get older, takes over of the comedy space. I hope they start making movies again. Because it's all cyclical, right?

They're making movies that we loved when we were kids. I'm hoping that we get to make movies or be a part of movies that we loved when we were kids yes you know what i mean bring it back like what's your what's your all-time favorite if you're feeling like you need just to break out a laugh and just sit down and just a stupid dumb beautiful movie to watch well i i do love uncle buck and that's why i want i like happy g Gilmore. I like the old Adam Sandler movies. I mean, that's my childhood. That's my teen years. Yeah.

You told me Schindler's List too. That was a big one on your. Yeah. Hilarious. It's a laugh a minute, that whole movie. I mean, it really gets good. By the end, it's really funny. It is very, very.

Did you, have you ever thought about writing a film? I don't know. I have thought about it. I mean, you know, I wrote a, I had a TV show that I sold to ABC that didn't get made about my, it was,

well, it was, I don't know that we had a, maybe the dusty road or something. It was about me being in a trailer park as a kid. And then I had basically sold the same idea, new script to Hulu for a cartoon for an animated series. That's awesome.

It was going to be really great. We already had artwork drawn for it. We wrote a script. I had a guy that writes for Family Guy helping me write it. We had this great script. We had artwork. And I don't know what happened. We all thought this is going to be the thing.

That's the story of this business. Yes. We literally casted the movie. We started shooting. It's gone. It didn't exist. thought this is going to be the story of this business yes we literally casted the movie we started shooting it's gone it didn't exist i mean like when i was doing the abc show it would be like we would always get notes and then it would be like all right all right and then we would adjust the notes with hulu they're like we love it there was barely no notes yeah they were like we love this and then you know but it is what it is what it is. So it's like, and I had another idea for a restaurant TV show.

And then immediately the people I was working with kept changing everything. And I was like, oh, I don't want to, now I don't want to do it. Yeah. I pitched an idea to you. You go, we love it. And then now you've, it's not my idea. They just knock it out of the sky. Yeah.

Yeah. I did a deal with NBC one time and I wrote this show about growing up at uh the dog track my grandfather was a a gambler who worked at the dog and horse track and it was you know about that and they were like what if we put said it somewhere else and i was like it's the whole show oh yeah the whole fucking show is about growing up at a dog track a dog track is a wild place isn't it beautiful though the idea because everybody knows everyone well people think horse track and they think of you know famous derbies that they are aware of you know like the the the uh why can't i think of the name the most famous one the kentucky derby yeah and like that's their mindset but ours was in this kind of dumpy, shitty, sad, blue collar,

picking up tickets off the floor at the end of the night. And I loved that world. And the dog track was even more underneath that because greyhounds racing is sad. Well, that's in Alabama. There's no gambling. You're not allowed to gamble. There's no lottery.

But for some reason in shorter Alabama, there is a dog track where you can go and gamble. I don't know how it exists all cash at some point they even put in slot machines and they were advertising it on billboards and it's like that's illegal somebody knows a dirty secret about the sheriff and then he's not he's like look just do it and and they shut down the slot machines but kept the dog track but i went and i had exactly what you said in mind. Fancy Kentucky Derby. I thought we're going to, I'm 21 now. I thought we're going to go. We're going to have some drinks.

There'll be some women around. This is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to make some bets. And it was just the oldest, poorest looking men I've ever seen. I was actually like worried that we were going to get robbed. And then there was a guy that came up. I remember writing the notes. I wasn't a comedian, but I thought, I have to write this down. And it was just a guy. His name was Butch. He was older.

He had suspenders, a big gut, missing some teeth. And he came over, and he wanted to help us. And he helped my friend. And my friend ended up winning quite a bit of money because he told you what to pick yeah yeah and then you know butch wanted his cut of course and but it was like my friend still ended up making quite a bit of money god bless butch yeah i know he's not around anymore but god bless him probably not there's no chance but he just lived that's what he does he just lives at the track that was my grandfather he worked the window of the dog track and the horse track.

But that was only because he wanted to keep betting. But what's crazy about the track back then was, not only are people betting on the dogs or the horses wherever you are, they're also betting on other shit there. Like they're playing OTB at other fucking races. And there's card games going on. These people are such degenerate gamblers they can't gamble without

gambling on something else beautiful it's a beautiful culture I just can't I can't get into gambling at all it I guess I've grown up with no money and I just can't see just finally getting some and then throwing it away I mean I'll

waste it on other things. What's your most wasteful thing? What are you like, oh, I shouldn't buy this or do this, but I do it all the time. Well, I think gardening has become that. Oh, but that's beautiful. You're contributing to the environment. But I think probably it's DVDs and books. I don't even read. I don't- You just like the look of them but i'm like i always think they're gonna ban a book or ban a dvd and i'm like i better buy it before they like in 2020 they started banning all the uh cop shows and stuff and i was like well i better buy the entire

uh series of andy griffith uh just in case in case they ban it because it's like a real show of my childhood yes I don't even know if I've opened the DVDs you know how many episodes I've seen of that show my father's from North Carolina

oh yeah and it like Andy Griffith was on in the background of my home and I mean constantly

oh yeah if I call my dad right now I bet you he's watching either Andy Griffith or sports something if there's a game on he's watching that if's watching either Andy Griffith or sports. Something, if there's a game on, he's watching that.

If not, it's Andy Griffith or the History Channel. Big, loves, he can't get enough. And also he's transitioned now in his more older age to Ancient Aliens. Loves Ancient Aliens. Well, see, that's up until History and Aliens, it's my dad. My dad will not watch any movie with anything pertaining to space. He's like, I don't care about space. I don't want to know about it.

But he's watching Andy Griffith, baseball, or he has the baseball package. He'll watch any. He'll listen to baseball on the radio. Does he keep score? Does he do that? He doesn't do that. Because that guy that goes to a baseball game and keeps manual score, to me, is beautiful but also very sad. It's very sad. You you're like thank god there's someone that still does it also

what's going on yeah there's a guy at a baseball game at the dodger game we saw you know he still had the headphones on so he's listening to the broadcast because some people love listening to the broadcast oh yeah and also keeping score my go-to is like i don't make fun of this person because they might that might be their thing that makes them mentally feel good but also um that's a lot that's a lot to do instead of just enjoy the fucking baseball game yeah i mean i don't i don't get it i mean i think growing up where i grew up there's not there's not a lot of sports to go see like if you grew up in a big city you can go see but it's like we have i used to go go to a lot of Auburn University football games.

Me and my mom would go watch women's college basketball because the tickets were super cheap and it would be something for us to do. Right. And my dad actually likes women's basketball the most because – There's more heart? Well, because he used to play basketball, right? But he played basketball in the country with all white dudes where there's no one can slam it. Right. So they ran plays.

And that's what he's like. He's like, I love watching the women. They're still running the plays. You know? I love that your dad's like, see, I like this. Nobody can put it in the hoop. Right. I like that no one can just put it right in.

I like that you got to run a couple of plays, maybe miss a jumper and go to the other side yeah he's like when we were playing no one could slam dunk he's like he likes chess when no one wins right stalemate exactly exactly well dude now you're close to probably the greatest women's franchise in basketball history at university of tennessee that women's team is like the greatest they're one of the most winningest take your dad to university of tennessee women's basketball because they had like at one point they i think they were the one the most championships or something uh a girl that went to my sister high school candace parker who's very famous now oh yeah she went there she's like one of the ones of the greatest wnba players of all time but she went there and i remember my dad went to university

of tennessee that's why I say that. And he was big on the – he was like, the women's basketball is better than the men's basketball. Oh, yeah. He loved it. Well, it's also, I think, because they had a good legacy to them. In the men's basketball, he would just complain about – Oh, yeah.

He just, you know. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, my dad complains about men's basketball because he's like, oh, they travel every play. And I don't know. Maybe they do. I think a lot – there's a lot of carries now because you can't put your hand underneath the ball.

It has to always stay on top or on the side, but everyone does this when they're... It's almost like on the side bottom. Right. So you could call it, but, you know. And he also did some high school refereeing. Oh, this guy's serious. Yeah, so when you... Yeah, you learn the, you know, he also did some high school refereeing oh this guy's serious yeah so when you yeah you learn the you know the play and my dad i remember my dad trying to teach me how to

shoot basketball i mean i can't i mean i'm okay at sports you got a little pickup game but it's it's embarrassing the way i shoot a basketball i think your form i mean i used to could just throw it up like this and i would hit it you would with the it's almost like the two the bat the basket throw the old basket throw fling it up like that hit it off the backboard i mean i was nailing them i mean three point shootout at the rec center one time i you know i got like second place no one ever cares about second place but no we know that after your mom's bowling trophies right but this is kind of runs in your family. We're like, we don't need to be the best. We'll be near it, though.

Yeah. It's nice to be right near it. Right. Which is funny because in a lot of sports, too, when you, like, you know, like F1, I've gotten into F1 because of that documentary, that Drive to Survive, and I never knew anything about it.

I still don't know anything about it, but I love watching it. Yeah. But when you podium at all, when you're second and or third, it's insane. it's so impressive that the the rudest thing about podium is first is way higher and second is a little bit lower and third is basically on the ground right you're not even on the on the thing it's so rude it's

like wait why can't it just be a place where all three of them are right near each other and we just designate obviously this is guy one two three yeah you know my family was a my mom's side big nascar family growing up yeah i mean they're still into it a bit but when i was growing up i mean the the dale earnhardt kyle petty um alan kawicki davy allison days it's like that's a big deal to you like it was you know and all of these guys just suddenly died like you know tragically all of these guys just suddenly died. Like, you know. Tragically too, huh? Like plane crashes, car wrecks, helicopter crashes.

I mean, they were just dropping out here. And I liked Kyle Petty because he drove the mellow yellow car. And I liked mellow yellow as a kid. I remember having, I was in a choral group. Well, it was an elective in school. You know, you had to. Sure. And they wanted us to dress nice one day for it. And my mom put me in my newest Kyle Petty t-shirt.

So, like, everybody's dressed. I mean, I got a brand new shirt. It was new. That's nice. Nice is new. You know, it's like Kyle Petty. The car is, like, floating in space or whatever. So it has the stars.

Cool. But it looks like paint droppings. Oh. Yeah. You know what I mean? So so it's like i have school photos of me in i think i have one of me in a kyle petty t-shirt but with a turtleneck underneath okay so that's fancy yeah you fancied it up i mean there is no style in my my mom and dad no style my dad wears overalls every day, and my mom still talks about not knowing how to dress. But I got to tell you, overalls, very comfortable and also quick to get out of. Yes. Just slip, snap, and you're gone.

That is true. Access is nice. So, okay, let's list some Southern-only foods or drinks that you might—moon pies? Are you a big moon pie fan? I did. As a kid, I would eat a lot of moon pies. I'm not into them now. I try to do better for my body. But a couple of moon pie here and there is fine. Yeah. People that don't know, if you can find yourself a moon pie, if you're not living near the South, if at some point you do go, I think grab a moon pie, it's worth it. What about cheer wine? You're a cheer wine fan? Cheer wine I like. I feel like I was, you know, like an RC as a kid.

You were more of an RC kid. I liked RC. Also, Blue Bell ice cream. Well, that's huge down by you guys. Yes. I mean, it was so big that there was a lawsuit for Blue Bell for it killed people. And they washed it away and were like, no big deal. Because they had some weird bacterial infection.

Oh, yeah. That came from it. And you know what? Doesn't matter. It's still delicious. way and we're like no big deal because they had some weird bacterial infection oh yeah well came from it and you know what doesn't matter it's still delicious i can't you know as as like as i've gotten older i've like tried to be more health conscious i'm trying to pay attention to foods and i'll tell my parents and if it's something they like they could you could tell them there is poison in this right now that's gonna kill you and they're like they they would be offended by it like i'm eating it how dare you talk that way about this delicious meat? You've forgotten where you've come from. I come from poison food. Yeah. No, I think it's, it's better to be conscious as

you get older. I get it. But also there's still childish things that I'll never get away from that. I like last night, I, last, I got a donut at 1030 at night because there's a great little donut shop by a great sweet little man. And he's got a little window and it's cash only. And I feel like I'm supporting small businesses. Do I need a couple of donuts at 1030 at night? Of course not. But do I want it? Yeah. So I'm going to get it. I'm going to get myself a couple of donuts and also fine. I'll walk more today. Right. There needs to be some exchange. There is something about eating something like that, like a tub of ice cream or a donut where you're like, you know you don't need it, you're eating it,

and then when you're done with it, you're like, I regret it in a way, but I'm also like, I will do it again. I will do this again. That is true. Okay, listen, you're on tour. Plug what you're up to in the next couple of weeks or so. This will come out in a week. So where are you going?

Well, next weekend I'm going to the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga. Chattanooga? Yeah, I go there. I usually go there once a year. I love it. It's a lot of fun. Okay. And then I'm going to Magoobie's Comedy Club.

I've never been, but I love's comedy club i've never been but i love the name i've never been either in they it says baltimore but if you look up the address it's a little different of a city yeah i feel like that's all the clubs yeah i do the chicago improv which is in schomburg that's the schomburg improv as we call it yeah quite a bit of ways have you done zany's downtown i have not but you can get on that Zany's rope because you're a Zany's guy out in Nashville. Yeah, and now Lucy that books all the stuff at Zany's Nashville, I think, is now starting to run the Chicago clubs too. She should because she's incredible. We love Lucy.

Shout out to Lucy and also a Webb, her husband, Aaron Weber. Yes, absolutely. Good guy who played golf with me inside the hotel in Austin. We hit the simulator and boy, oh boy, was he bad. Oh, was he bad? Yeah, love him to simulator and boy, oh boy, was he bad. Oh, was he bad? Yeah. Love him to death. Boy, oh boy, was he bad. He told me that he's been golfing a bit. This was bad.

Wow. Okay. Because he told me he's gotten into golfing. No, no, no. In real life might be good. This was bad. Well, my dad lives on a farm and he always told me, he said, he always felt like golfing was a waste of a good cow pasture. That's right. So we never golfed. But then lately my dad, my dad goes, you ever go golfing? And I was like, no, he goes, I got into it a little bit. I'm like, is my whole childhood a lie now? Yes. It's like, you tell me these things and it's like, you were like, oh, I golfed a little bit. It is actually your whole childhood is typically a lie.

I mean, my dad used to tell me, he told me the gas thing on your car, right? When you unscrew the cap, if it doesn't have the thing that attaches, he said, put it on the gas pump. That way, if you drive off and forget it, you at least remember where you left it and you go back and get it. So as an adult, I'm doing that. And then he puts it on top of the car and I go, whoa, you always told me to put it on the gas pump.

He goes, ah, you'll be so far down the whoa, you always told me to put it on the gas pump. He goes, ah, you'll be so far down the road. You won't want to come back and get it. I'm like, you know, I've lived my whole life this way. I like that. We adopt these things where our parents are like,

I just said that once. Yeah. You're like, yeah, but I meant a lot to me. I was a child. Yeah, but I didn't mean it.

Just, just get in the car and shut up. Our whole childhood is a lie. That's going to be the name of this episode. Cause our whole childhood. Typically, as you get older, you're like, I didn't. I thought that mom was mom. And they're like, no, we just said that to you, you idiot.

Yeah. That's our whole childhood. But one more date. Yeah, give it. In June, I'll be in Huntsville, Alabama. Ooh, Huntsville. I've taken off most of June, but I have one weekend in Huntsville. I like it.

I've done that. I've done the Huntsville because I've done Zanies and then they drive you down to Huntsville. Yeah. And I was, uh, happy to learn. The guy was like,

I was like, he's like, have you ever been to Huntsville, Alabama? I was like, no. And the driver was like, you're going to like it.

It's great. The crowds are going to be great. And I was like, yeah, I hope, I mean, you know, I was positive about it.

And he goes, you know, NASA's like right down the street. I was like, is it really? He goes, yeah. One of the campuses here has a lot of rocket aerospace engineers and rocket scientists. I was like, is it really? He goes, yeah, one of the campuses here has a lot of aerospace engineers and rocket scientists.

I was like, no shit. And he was like, yeah, it's more diverse than you think. And I was like, wow. And I was soaking that in. And then about five minutes later, he goes, the KKK started right down that road too. And I was like, okay, just leave me with the NASA information.

I didn't need the other half of it. But he was like, that one's right down that road. I go, well, let's just stay on these roads then, and then we'll just get to the venue. But it's diverse. Well, you know, the fun thing about Huntsville is, like, I'm from Alabama. I love Alabama. I love to go there.

But it's not always the best comedy audiences. Yeah, it was okay. It was okay. And Huntsville, it is that weird mix where you'll have the the phds from from nasa but then also the regular huntsville folks and it's like i don't know um i've had some really great shows in huntsville and some others where people are just kind of looking at me like because i think that i have this look sometimes where it's like like a really more of a redneck crowd will be attracted to me based on the look, but then not really that into my comedy. And then sometimes I get people that

don't come based on my look, but what if, but they do show up, they're like, oh, we like this guy. You're an anomaly. Yes. You're, you're a perfect opposite of, nobody knows what they're going to get when they see you. I think that's right. And that's beautiful. That's why when I did JFL in 2018, I think it blew people's minds because I walked out looking how I look and then did jokes and they were like, oh, this isn't what I thought he would do. Yeah, this guy's got jokes here. Is he not going to sing

a song? Go see this man live. You are a very funny comedian. I think you're super talented. Go see Dusty on the road. Your website is what? Dustyslay? Dustyslay.com.

Dustyslay.com. Go see him. We end the episode the same way. I appreciate you. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Look into that camera right there. That's your camera.

And you got to end the episode with one word or one phrase. It's going to be embedded forever in history. So one word or one phrase, whenever you'd like. Well, we're having a good time. In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey. You're that creature in the ginger beard.

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