230: #230 Rock Music featuring Dustin Chafin
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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 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, 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 was a good episode, though. Was it? It was all right. Okay. And you've told people you'll be back as soon as Nate's not here. Yeah, that's what I always say. Everybody knows that's the deal. As long as y'all aren't in the same room together. That's right. Court ordered by Nate.

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-hosts. And...

Dustin. Go ahead. Dustin Chafin. Dustin Chafin. There you go. Welcome back. Let's not make it weird, guys. I mean, I was looking forward to be on your show. No, I did know. I did know. But Chafin was not. It's a weird one. Let me tell you something. People used to call me that. I would chafe a lot. And now we're going down the last name jokes. Wow.

I did. I did used to get that a lot when I waited tables. I look like I had been riding a horse after a double shift. Uh-huh. Save a horse. Yeah. When I, uh, was doing research for this. Brian Bates. Oh, good to see you, Brian. Hey, I'm always, I didn't know you're here. Uh,

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 to 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. That seems rich to me. It was. Double wide, huh? Double wide, yeah. You were a missionary in Chile? Chile, Santiago, yeah. Yeah. But you'll probably escape to South America sometime. Sure. At some point. Sounds like you had a good family. Yeah. Yeah.

Not really. Okay. I'm the only one that hasn't been arrested. Okay. Leave it there. Stand-up comedy and a huge music lover. I mean, you guys got a lot in common. I like the cow hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Big fan. Oh, and grandson of Choctaw Indians. Yes. And they've got the Indian blood. You've got some Indian blood, right? I don't think so, but my area that I'm from is where a lot of the Creek Indians were. It was the last kind of place of the Creek Indians. Trail of Tears, I think they were part of that. Yeah, I think they were. Yeah. Choctaw's Chickasaw. Yeah. Cherokee.

well so fun stuff good to have you dustin i'm excited i like an awkward start yeah well y'all not done an episode together on this podcast before i don't think so yeah first time you've met or 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 yeah together i typically do take off when there's guests not because i don't like the guests but we have it's a lot of people on this

Yeah. 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 ideally? Just one? On a podcast? Yeah. I would think two. I think two is the ideal number. Okay. On a podcast. Yeah. But one person do all the talking, but you need one person there as kind of an audience. Okay. So no guests, just...

No, always. Like somebody just to bounce stuff off of. Yeah, I mean, you don't want to just sit in a room and talk to yourself. 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, yeah. Well, we do, this is a show with four people at a desk, just so. Sorry, it's not perfect, but...

We're going to make do with what we got today. Yeah, we're doing it. 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, Dustin. This is your third time, I think?

Third or 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 Dustin's on the podcast. And I will fist fight you if you call me Dusty. Really? You don't like Dusty? Oh, yeah. It was a rough one. Teachers, I was like, that's Dustin. You never went through a phase where it was kind of, oh, okay. Never a Dusty. See, it was the opposite. It's good for you. I had teachers were like, Dustin, 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. Dust man. I don't mind. Yeah. I don't mind any of that. Dusted. Dusted. I feel like dusted is like almost like a fart thing. Yeah. Dusted. Crop dusted. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Crop dusty. Yeah.

I like that. This is good stuff. This is good stuff, man. It's a Dustin episode. You can already clip out this episode. This is the kind of stuff you can only have with four people on the pod. If 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. 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. Yeah. Then there's that guy. We'll call it Crop Dustin. Yeah.

Okay, I think I 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, 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 natebargatze.com. Yeah. CBS Christmas special airs December 19th. And if you're looking for a backseat driver...

check me out as the new voice of ways check nate out okay oh yeah check me out okay you're like ron burgundy you're gonna read whatever's like i had no idea i'll edit on the fly don't worry about me again the next category is dusty okay this should be you should be really good with this uh

my next one hour special is being filmed on February 28th. Oh, you added my to that too. I did. Yeah. It was really well done. Well, it's when it applies to me. I can, I know how to manipulate. Okay. Uh, February 28th. 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 dusty sleigh.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 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. Promotional teams. They'll get people in there. Yeah. They'll get them in there. Promotional team. Yeah. Well, I'm a public figure. I'm a big deal, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And the last category is Nateland. That applies to all of us here. And Nateland will be recording Mike Vecchione's hour special in Nashville on December 28th. 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 up. 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 podcasts 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? 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 know, you have an audience. I know. I know. It's like, hey, you guys want to listen to the things that I say? Yeah. There's a couple of people that don't. Oh, yeah. Bill Burr does that. There's a couple of people that are pretty...

Pretty public about not wanting to hear what I have to say. Who's that? I don't know. Random YouTubers. Okay. Yeah. They're not that public because I go, you know, I try to go onto their feeds and see what they're up to creatively. Never anything. 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.

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I didn't do a lot. I had some corporate Christmas parties that I performed at. I just didn't show up. 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. Did you do my spectra side joke? No. You should have did it. Just, you know.

It's a pesticide company. It was mostly dudes. Mostly dudes, and that's tougher. And that doesn't happen that often. It's usually women that bring men to things. Yeah, but at a pest control company, it's usually only dudes that work there. Who do you think they'd have their wives there or something? There might be women there. There were women there, but it was majority men. It's a male-dominated industry. Yeah. And one of those industries that women really aren't trying to get into. Mm-hmm.

And then the other one was... Poisoning animals? You'd think they'd be into that. We had pest control come to our house today and it was a lady. Oh, yeah? Really? What was her name? I didn't ask. Margaret. Okay.

Was that rude of me not to ask her name? I don't know. Did she do a good job? I took my dog for a walk while she was in there. 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 going to show up. Yeah. They go, we need to, you need to pay me to do this more often. Yeah. That's what it is. 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, valet 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, I forgot to bring my wallet. So I had to pay for the entire experience. So, you know, I'm not going to 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.

No, they did. Okay, okay. I just go up to people. Remember me? Yeah. I do not. You worked there for how long? Almost 20 years. Okay, so yeah. And I've been gone 10 years this month. December 17th was my last day there, 2014. That is how it is, though. We always think that when we leave,

People are really going to miss us. It's going to 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 going to 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 a 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 notice. I did. Well, I told 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 them plenty of – You've been there 20 years. You need to give them more than two weeks. Yeah. It's almost better for you to give a longer notice because you know that you're quitting. Yeah.

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 on me about stuff. Like, hey, what about this? What about this? And I'm like, you know I'm quitting, right? Exactly. 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. Did you think maybe I'll come back to this so I better not burn this bridge? You never know. Yeah. You never know. 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 has been. Just drunk. Burning bridges. Yeah, just yelling at people I shouldn't be yelling at. Just getting kicked out in bandit clubs. It's a pretty rough 10 years. What was your weekend like? This weekend? Yeah. Well, it's been fun. My grandbabies.

My girl is a 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, we did Mic Drop Comedy in Plano and some places in Arizona. And it's like, it's our first time touring together. And,

And we did one tour- In 18 years. In 18 years. 'Cause you know, 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 have our own thing going. So I never wanted to be like, ah, she's my girlfriend. I'm the over comic. Package deal. Yeah. Some people do it well. Like, you know, Bonnie and Rich Voss and like people, but we're just not that.

But yeah, 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. Wow. When the three of us were in Djibouti, Africa and Iraq for a military tour. Wow. So yeah. 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 seeing the country, just driving the car. You know what the capital of Djibouti is?

No. Djibouti. Is it? Yeah. Djibouti, Djibouti. Djibouti, Djibouti. That's the capital. Dusty, I mean, your wife did stand up, and y'all tried to tour together for a bit. We worked the road quite a bit together. Did you? Of course we fought, but we fight even when they're not touring together. Sure.

She posted a video today talking about your weekend. Two rams butting heads together. We do it every day. Does she still do comedy? No, 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 week, like two comics dating each other. Cause 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?

Like your life is on, you know, every joke she does is like about me. My thing is 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 doesn't do well, it is my problem.

Yeah. I go, like, let's say Aaron didn't do well on a set. Yeah. And then I go on next. Let's see if you can imagine that. Okay. All right. Okay. And then I do well. I'm with you. I've 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.

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. They were weird. 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. 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. You walk off, you're like, oh, this crowd's terrible. And then everybody else does great. Oh, boy. That is the worst.

Where was I? Oh, I was in Dallas at a corporate gig. Did a Christmas party. I had the show. Everybody there was nice. It was a great company. It went fine. I did have a moment, you know, like your 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 turn 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 a 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 that? 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. Just breaking the mic stand. Yeah. You're like an eighties rock.

You're smashing the mic stand. Just apologize to the venue. 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 weekend, I went to my hometown. I was off work, but I went to my hometown of Opelika, Alabama, to be the Grand Marshal of the Christmas parade. All right. Snopelika. Yeah, there I am. Grand Marshal, Dusty Slay. That's me and my wife and my daughter both wearing tiaras. They got really into it. They're ready to seize power.

Oh, I'm sorry. And then I met the mayor, Mayor Fuller, of 20 years, and I received a key to the city of Opelika. That's incredible. 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...

But yeah, I mean, I've been pretty wild in Opelika, but I've always liked Opelika. 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. The mayor, 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. Wow.

He gave me a hat, but it was a real floppy hat. I don't wear floppy hats, so I put it over my other hat. Just to give it some shape. Yeah. Floppy hats. What can you do with that key?

I assume I can do whatever I want. I'll ride around with it in the car. Next time I get pulled over in Opelika, I'll pull it out and I'll go, better luck next time. Maybe it opens every business in Opelika. Yeah, maybe so. It's a vending machine. A lot of people say Dusty doesn't like Christmas. I say, no, he does like it if it's about him. That's right. That's what it is.

That's what it's supposed to be. I'll go to a Christmas parade if it's about me. This is what I'll say. I'm not into Christmas, but I'm not going to... They wanted to honor me and they wanted to do nice things for me, and I'm not going to refuse that. Sure. I appreciate it. Yeah, of course. And also...

We had the largest tree in Alabama. What? Opelika has the largest tree in Alabama, and then Mayor Fuller lit the tree, and everybody cheered. Then an Alabama fan poisoned it. Yeah. Largest tree in Alabama. Now, where did it come from? Is this it right here in the back? Oh, yeah, that's it. That's it. Well, this guy in this picture right here, this is Stephen Bass. I need that for my Charlie Brown.

Oh, yeah. Fan of the podcast. Yeah. We hung out for a while. And that's my wife and Stephen Bass. We hung out for a while. Very nice guy. Yeah. He emailed us. Plays pickleball with Kid Rock, he says. Yeah. Who doesn't? Yeah.

But that's a church in the background. Opelika is very nice. We've got a very nice downtown. It is a nice city. And it was a big parade. It's 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. I think it was only three feet shorter than the one in New York City. Do we want to watch this real quick? No. Oh. You don't have to watch it, but as long as people know... Dusty Slate here. We're in Opelika, Alabama at the Snowpilika Parade. It's about to get started. I'm the Grand Marshal. We're having a good time. It's a quick reel. National Land... Roadmaster here. I'm Chevy Chase. I'm Chevy Chase.

This is my wife, Beverly D'Angelo. Hi. I sat my daughter on top of the car, which is probably very unsafe. Where's your son? We didn't want to take him. He's back in Nashville. Yeah. I was cold. Yeah. Like, Nashville is a lot, gets a good bit colder than Opelika. And, man, it is pretty funny how...

everybody was acting like it was real cold like yeah 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 gotta 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 oh that's awesome man what a cool 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 Sutherland and getting it bulldozed to the ground. Congratulations, Dusty. But I'll be honest with you. I don't think people cared. Western Sutherland had been around for like 30 or 40 years. And I think by its end, people were like, it's kind of getting gross here now. It had a real heyday, though. Yeah. 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. They'll give it to you. Exactly.

All right. Well, should we get into these comments? Yeah, let's get into the comments. Let's do it. Here we go. Miss B. Karaoke B. Oh, comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and Nateland at NateBargazzi.com. That's it. Mm-hmm. That's correct. Miss B. Karaoke B. Dustin is my absolute favorite guest on the show.

All caps. All caps. She's that excited. Do you know Miss B, Karaoke B? I don't. And she's a good time. Karaoke. Yeah. That's what you want. Yeah. Those are the fans. 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. You just need one fan in this house. This is it right here. Okay. Okay. William Galliano. Hello.

You think that's it? Galeano? Yeah, 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 Good Will Hunting when...

Ben Affleck shows up to Matt Damon's door. It's going to be me and Brian walking into the podcast and he's just gone. Yeah. That's it. I give it three weeks. He'll climb out of that bunker. I'll 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. Yeah. 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 Opelika. Oh, my God. 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 Opelika. That's great.

That's a great campaign ad. I think that that little snippet right there is going to hurt your chances of making that book. I want to 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 – 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 like a fun gig. Right.

Just give out 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. That guy's only 45 years old.

Okay, Kevin Hazel. Man, Brian won't let y'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, Dusty, 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? 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 were like, okay, next. Oh, did we? Oh, no, we 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. That's why we're having you as a guest. This is my first day clean. I love it. Well, congratulations. On this episode, say whatever you want. I'm kidding. Yeah.

Just for Kevin Hazel. Logan Light. I like that name. LL. You cannot convince me otherwise. For most of the show, Aaron is just checking his email and nodding every now and then. Amen, brother. 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. Logan Dark. You think Logan's a woman?

I thought so. Oh, I think that's a guy's name, right? Yeah, I thought a guy's name. You think so? Yeah. Wolverine. You think a woman would have a roadhouse? A roadhouse? Logan's Roadhouse. Oh, yeah. It's like a Wolverine. Well, I know a girl named Logan. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Do I? 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.

It's all right, though. I'm sorry about that. It's okay, buddy. I'm just going to call you Dustin. It happens. Bryn! 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 a... 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 just did. You ever had somebody forget your name? I did it here.

Oh, yeah. You did it here. On the Nightland Live hosting a few weeks ago. Yeah. What'd you do? I decided to be honest. I mean, it was the first comic up. I went out and did a set. And then the first comic up was 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 out her last name. I was like, that's it? There it is. Come on up. I always write it on my hand just in case. Oh, there you go. You make a joke out of it too. I love this guy so much. Well, as long as you get it, it's fine. You should always write it if you're hosting. Have you ever had your name forgotten being brought up?

Yeah. It's just like, cause I did a lot of, you know, kind of uptown rooms in New York and they'd be like, this next guy, you know, he's wearing a cowboy hat, broke back guy, give it a, you know, they just say some ridiculous insult because they can't remember your name or even care. Well, they gotta put it on you. Yeah. And then you're just like up there following some horrible thing. They just, you know. Yeah.

I just had it a 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...

Is the sound guy go, all right, who's ready to see Adam Weber? That just happens to matter. I was like, okay, I could not have...

I mean, I basically sold out two shows and I'm Adam Weber. Yeah. 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 out. Then I'll get some respect. I'm going to 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. Yeah. And you're doing my name. Yeah.

I mean, I remember. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm sure Miss Karaoke Bee is not happy. Yeah. No, she's not. Miss Bee Karaoke Bee. Miss Bee. So you got her name wrong. Yeah, it happens. I got the karaoke part right. That's how you handle it. You just got to get half of it right. Happens. Like I used to, I opened for Aerie 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 going to smoke in the green room too. Yeah, yeah.

And I just never do. Right. Yeah. 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 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. Uh, the, um,

The Mothership. They let me smoke cigars in the green room. Comedy Works, Denver, not downtown. Comedy Works South let me smoke in the green room. Chicago Zany's let me smoke in the green room. These are all great clubs you're mentioning. Yeah. And so it's real cold in Chicago and Denver too. And they worked it out for me that I couldn't. Nice. And then outside of the Comedy Works in Denver, or outside of Austin,

The mothership, it is Mad Max in those streets. It is. Sixth Street. Yeah. I remember the first time, you know, I've been doing comedy forever. You could, in New York, you could smoke on stage. Oh, yeah. And that was just, 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. 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 think if it's part of a performance, you can get away with it. Because the spoken plays. No, nobody would be pumped about it. No. Yeah, you got to be a pretty big name to be like packing cigarettes. Six minute spot on a showcase. I'm going to try it tonight. I'm going to show tonight. I'm going to see what happens. Are you friends with Chappelle?

Friendly, yeah. Back in the day. Because he used to be in your show a lot, right? Not my show. I used to run the Boston Comedy Club. That's what I mean. 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 it's not 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 this way i mean it's your best friends with dave chappelle yes that's i mean nate's a whole nother thing but chappelle not so much you know but um yeah i mean i was there right before he went to africa and all that stuff um

We hung out. You're the one who talked about it. You got to get out of here. Go to Djibouti. I've been to Djibouti. Go check it out. Djibouti, Djibouti. Which part? Djibouti, Djibouti. Yeah. Okay. All right, here we go. Bryn3669. 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? Oh, my God. Get over yourself, Brent. 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 turn 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 can 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, I loved it. I think that's what we were talking about. People go, you know, it's pretty funny or something like that. The little things that annoy you. They belittle it just enough. Objectively, we know are meant 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? Just fist pound. Great job. Whatever. It's really funny. I like that new stuff. Every time though, that show was really good. That's easy. That's all we're looking for. That's all you want. Yeah, Brian. Uh,

I think we're in 366 and I was right on, or at least with me. I mean, I can always find something, but I just did. Because you're looking for it. Yeah. 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 you 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 felt like you were funnier this time.

And that really annoyed me. I was doing eight minutes in an arena. I'm doing an hour on this show. Yeah, a little bit different circumstances. But the whole, I didn't take his comment. I just took it as, did I bomb? Oh, yeah. Oh, those shows are impossible sometimes. Yeah. You should have said, you know what? I didn't see you at the arena show, and I like that better. Yeah.

You're probably first, too. People are walking in. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's not easy for those shows. What does that mean? Just assume I'm first. Yeah. Because 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've got worked out. Why before Nate? Why couldn't I go after him? I gave the kids stage time. I'm like blindside. I'm Sandra Bullock, so I get the good spot. Nate brings Brian out and they do bumping mics. Yeah.

That'd be amazing. All right. John Bungard. Bungard. Bungard. Yeah, that's better than Bungard. It might be Bungard, but Bungard sounds... Bungard. The Bungard family. Oh, 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. You got to 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. Well, that's your fault. Well, I guess it is. I guess it is. Was that a necessary edit? I thought at the time it was. How pressed are we for time? You got to take two syllables away. Thank you.

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 reading this, so I'm like, I got to cut this down as much as possible. So you took out movie? I'm going to go ahead and add it back in for John. All right. Y'all reference the Sandlot movie a lot. Boom. I love it as well. A little surprised no one has pointed out that you could easily be grownups of these characters. Nate is Benny. Oh.

Okay. Brian Smalls, Aaron Hambino, and Dusty is Squints. Love the pod. Well, maybe, John, maybe, well, I'll take back the apology. And I only accept because Squints gets kind of the hot girl in the end. So I will accept that. He does. He marries her and they have a ton of kids together at the end. Wendy Peffercorn. Yeah. I don't think I saw Sandlot. You never saw it, huh? I'm over Bad News Bears. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, this is kind of... It's like after that. Yeah, I think early 90s. It was early 90s. You're not about the same age. Yeah. I'd seen bits and pieces, but I was on a plane recently. And you saw it. I've never watched this all the way through. It's a fun movie. It is fun. Bad News Bears is great, too. The first one. Yeah. I would agree with this, except Nate being Benny. No. Benny the Jet Rodriguez. Well, it's just always like, that's why we're not going to make that reference. Because you're going to go, oh, you mean the guy who became a professional baseball player? Yeah, the hero.

Yeah. He is competitive. The guy who always sported smalls and said, hey, here you go. Here's a glove. And then Aaron's Hambino. 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 he is. He's been in a bunch of stuff. Caleb Partey. 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...

Lift it up, everybody else. Oh, okay. So you didn't listen. Because there's the kid that's kind of the outcast, right? And 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? No. Like something that just – No. No.

I can handle current fears, man. Even at a young age? Great swimmer. 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. I was nine. Just got some of that whiskey for a dip. Yeah, it is. We all been there. We all been there. Yeah. All right. Caleb Party. That's right.

That's nice. It is nice. It's like party, but you're like party. Yeah. A little fancy. It could be partay. Partay? I like a little partay. I don't know. Brian could have edited the name. Who knows? That's right. It actually was Caleb Partay Movie, and then he took that out.

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 thus seeming more popular to a casual fan? Okay.

I'm curious your thoughts on that, Dustin. You got to to the end. You got to throw the end in there. Throw the end. Yeah. Dave Chappelle's best friend. Let me, let me call Dave. You started Facebook, right? I did. MySpace. We were the MySpace generation. Yeah.

Tom? Yeah, Tom. Tom was good. But I remember that. Remember when like Dan Cook was just like the first person to really like explode with the internet? Oh, yeah. So watching that changed everything. Yeah. I think that was, that's when, because 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 Rock's and the Chappelle, my buddy, you know, and then it just, you know, then it became more about guys like, you know, Dan 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 got to talk to him after you got to get their emails. You got to, you know, so I feel like comedy changed, uh,

Just from that. 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, you know, it's like. There's no Carl, no.

you know, there's no like, just like, here's an example though. 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 he, it wasn't like he sold out the arena and then there were no people left to buy tickets to my show. I got you. 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 in the 90s, though. I mean, there was, you know, the early, the late 80s and the 90s, there was lines around the corner on Monday. But how many arena acts were there in the 90s of comedians? Well, it was Kinison, it was Dice. Kinison was an arena act? Yeah, towards the end he was. Absolutely. Yeah. Kinison, Dice, that's two. Steve Martin was the ultimate of all time. Like, he sold out the Astrodome.

And he had a funny joke too. He's like, how many people have cats? He's like, okay, seven. And he's like, so if Steve Martin were in an arena in a town though, you think, um,

Bobcat Goldthwait still selling out the club down the street? I think so. If Police Academy 4 had just come out, absolutely. Maybe that's a bad pull. But you have a good presence, and so you're going to sell. So yeah, I don't know. I think it's just ebb and flow. But I don't know if there's the biggest comic like a Carlin and Pryor and all that stuff. I feel like some of that's missing. Yeah. Because the biggest comic now is Nate. You're basically saying he doesn't really say anything. Yeah.

Wow, that is crazy. You're basically saying your friend Nate is not smart enough to impact the culture in a meaningful way. Which we agree with you. Is that what you're saying? You're trying to get 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, you know, he's the biggest of the family comics.

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, you know, that's the beauty of what he's doing where it's like, you know, you're not taking your kids to Chappelle or Bill Burr or anything like that. So I think that is the phenomenon of him. And 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? No.

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 ten. 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? Oh, that's awesome. 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 you go. Those were our things. Yeah. That's why you got keys to the city 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, it's a good it's a good shirt. Yeah. You know what we all need to get more of? Say it with me. Get off of our butts and get into some action. And it's fun to do that.

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The do. Joe Brock just surprised my wife with tickets to Dusty's 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's show, does he have a similar policy? Yeah. 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. Okay.

How about merch? A little merch? Give the dad a cigar. Yeah, yeah. Well, I want to 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 special recording. Chattanooga. 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 going to get in there? I'm going to stay up on stage and do commentary. Okay.

Push, push, breathe, push.

Get some sheets. I'm going to 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. It's like I don't think that that's true, but it's a good way to get up. I think some schools, like Ivy League or something. I don't know what happened to him. Yeah.

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. 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. Yeah.

And Disneyland was in California. Orlando, barely the South. Totally the South. Orlando? He wasn't even here for that debate. He says Miami's the South. You guys keep wanting to make things not the South just because it's not redneck. Florida's pretty. I didn't mean to upset you. Orlando's pretty redneck. Because you said Canada's the South, right?

Well, yeah. 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? Orlando's close. The top half of Florida I consider the south. What's the bottom half?

New York. Orlando has a Nashville vibe in the sense of tourist and all that. So that's, that's Miami, little Havana. I mean, it's a real, you know, we're doing cigars and sandwiches and a lot of food and music. Yeah. Just like Oxford, Mississippi. Yeah. Dancing with your shoes off. Yeah, exactly. I love it. Aaron, uh,

Okay. I was reading it like it was two years. Yeah. This guy's name is Aaron. This guy's name is Aaron. You're telling me Dustin isn't Coach Beard from Ted Lasso? There it is. He's the funniest guy. I don't. That guy's a comic, right? I don't know. I've never seen the show. You've never seen the show? Wow. That's right up your alley. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I would think. I don't know. I don't watch any shows. Oh, you don't?

Not one show? You've never binged a show? Like four seasons? Cobra Kai. Cobra Kai I binged a little bit. That's your thing? That's your thing? Well, it was the nostalgia of it. Okay. I love... Oh, that Coach Beard. Oh, I was thinking it was the other guy. Okay. The younger, better looking guy.

It was that guy, the funny one. When people tell you you look like someone, it's never the person you want. It's never the guy you want. You can do all the exercises you want, but you're still the Hambino in here. He's all right. He's funny, too. Brian. You skipped one. Zach and Laura Nelson. Couple's YouTube account. People have 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 them both before. Yeah.

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. 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 mean, 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...

Kenali. Kenali. What do you think it is? Kenley. Kenley? Kenley. Kenley. Kenley? Kenley. Brian Kenley. You got to 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. It's

Some people say that I guess we could be related, you know, sometimes. We're two good looking guys. Well, I mean, there's definitely that. You don't have big dumb eyes though. Oh, okay. That's all you gotta do. Yeah. I think it was just like the pain of New York probably made us look alike. You've been through some cold winters together. How they say couples start looking alike.

Yeah. Going to New York. Yeah, you just live in New York for so long, you just got it. You just have that same tortured look. Mm-hmm. John Traley. No, I added an L in there. John Trahey. Where'd the L come from? I don't know. 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. Because I'm going to disagree real hard on that. You would say the 90s, right? Yeah, Dusty says at least 85. I mean, there's still good country songs. I just think popular country music is not good.

really country and 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 mostly rock music but we'll talk about some country okay dustin yes had a podcast dustin's vinyls yeah and i listened to it it's great i think you were the only you were the one you and miss b karaoke can't get anybody to listen that thing you told me today you're like wow

think. Yeah. We're worried. I needed you about two years ago. Yeah, I apologize. It's all right. Better late than never. Yeah. How many vinyl records do you own? I

I don't know how many, but I have 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 I buy. So I love just going, all right, let me get some jazz. Oh, I forgot I bought this in Indiana when I did that gig or whatever. Yeah.

But I was telling him, that's what I love about collecting vinyl is like when you're on the road. Because it's like, 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 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 don't do it a lot, but I bought quite a bit of vinyl. I like the vinyl feels. Yes. The thing. I like the way it looks. I like the way it smells. 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 kind of like that. I like just, you get your, you get out, cause you got to stand. I mean, my iWatch is always telling me to stand up, you know? Yeah. So I like, I like the flipping it over. It's that nostalgia, you know? Yeah. And hearing the crackle. Yeah. I love that. The crackle song. Like an 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 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. Yes. Country music, what's, do people respect it? Do they like it?

I don't care. I like it. I do love 70s country music. I think that's probably... Outlaw country? I think outlaw country, Chris Christopherson, Johnny, Waylon, 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 that happened after that that's still good, but I don't know if there's a question about country music. Well, I just mean...

the la people out there like country music uh 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 it feels southern and baker's hill for merle haggard was uh out of california yeah jesse daniel all california country what's jesse daniel saying

Uh, well, he has a really good song called working hard, both day and night, uh, working out here there, uh, featured on the special working man by dusty slide on Netflix. So did you have a favorite band growing up? Favorite band? Uh, 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, it's like a native American or rock vibe English band. It was just like, uh,

Yeah. You know, then mom introduced me to Zeppelin was pretty cool. So I think, you know, my parents had good, you know, 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 got some great stuff. Yeah, it's good. You do kind of listen to just what your parents say.

listen to, right? Kind of. Yeah, it's just kind of passed down. Yeah, it's like you're influenced by, or like brothers, or usually I had a big brother that was into good music and stuff. 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 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.

yeah yeah i mean yeah i mean late 90s i love me some limp basket man gosh but i think you need an influence i still want to hang out with fred durst a little bit because if you don't have an influence it's like sometimes i think you make bad choices because i remember like i was when i was on my own thinking about music it was like twisted sister or something just because the videos were all like so that was i mean my wall was covered in twisted sisters so that was like just because nobody was saying that's not great music how old are you

His age? We're about the same age. 75? 83? 83 this winter.

God, this is a rough show. I love Twisted Sister. Nobody knows your last name. They call out your age. Yeah. It's a lot. Twisted Sister was fun when we were kids. That band should have been a great band. Like their first, you can't stop rock and roll. We ain't gonna take it. That's 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. What about that? There was one with a Sam Kennison video. Uh,

Sam Kinison was in the video. There was one. Oh, Wild Thing. If you want to stand up and tell the rest of the class. Wild Thing? I want to rock. I don't think that was Kinison. That was just them. That was Twisted Sister. Was it? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was in the video. Well, he did the video as Wild Thing. I think that was his song. Tone woke? Yeah.

- No, it was just like, "You Make My Heart Scream," "Wild Thing." It was like a '50s cover. - Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - "Wild Thing." - Yeah, from Major League. - ♪ You make my heart sing ♪ ♪ You make everything ♪ - What were they not taking? - Groovy. - What? - We're not gonna take it. - We're not gonna take it, yeah. - Take what? - Society. - Yeah, well, the whole, the video's dad is like a military dad and he's like on him 'cause he wants to be a rock star and he's just like, "I'm gonna do what I wanna do." I think that's the vibe to it. - Okay.

Right? Yeah. Yeah, no, that makes sense. I didn't 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 food. We're not gonna take it. Food die. Yeah. Seed oils. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Fine sugar. So, Dusty, Southern Rock was...

kind of highlights was passed before you even got into it. Leonard Skinner and Allman Brothers. Yeah. Did you like them? Oh, yeah. Did you like Southern? Of course. Actually, people hate this about me, but...

I do like the Allman brothers, but they, I'm not as big a fan of them. Allman brothers are amazing. I did. They are very good, but it's just not, it's just not as much my style as say Leonard Skinner. I got you. 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. Uh,

He did Derek and the Dominoes with Eric Clapton, which I love that album. Big fan of that. Yeah. I got to meet Derek Trucks. That was a pretty big deal. Oh, yeah. He was like six... I think his uncle was the drummer for All My Brothers. And then I saw him...

he was like 16 and uh at the beacon and he filled in as the guitars for the alma brothers i saw him i talked to him it was great to talk to him about that it was phenomenal yeah there's videos of him i think 11 or 12 or something playing yes playing with crazy how good he is unbelievable kid yeah so nuts yeah there's a dwayne allman 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 allman and cher album that's a great oh i don't have that

but he has a, he has a, you should pull it up though. It's pretty good. I hate Jude cover, uh, with, I think, uh, Wilson Pickett, maybe a singing. It's really good. And, uh, this is a wild album cover. Whoa, Greg Allman. It's called Allman and woman. Uh,

I have this album. I own this album. To the hard way. It's fantastically bad. They're kind of pretzeled around each other in this confusing way. Well, they dated. I imagine they're involved. They dated for a little while. Is this in between? Where's Sonny in all this? I don't know. They probably divorced. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely, definitely divorced. Okay.

At that point. Cause 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 cause you're together doesn't mean you should, you know, do this, but. Right. 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, um,

You know, it's pretty kind of intoxicated. You know, there's a lot going on. Some of the choices made weren't the best choices. The movies, music. Can you imagine they're looking through the photo? They've done a photo shoot. Yeah. 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. I mean, this must be a real photo. I think it's a real. It had a fan. There's a fan involved. Cher is hot in this. Cher is beautiful. Cher is beautiful. Let's just take one and see if it sticks. 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 Cher. I didn't realize I was into Cher. Oh, yeah. Put some young Cher. Forget it, man. Yeah.

And 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 her. But this is the Dwayne Allman, the anthology, also has Aretha Franklin singing The Weight. Really? Yeah. Really great. Yeah. Dwayne Allman. Love that guy. Yeah. Allman brothers are fun. Yeah. But...

I'd like Leonard 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. Yeah. Uh, and people start 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, a plugin 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 that,

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, Freebird is, you know, it's kind of like their stairway to heaven. I mean, it's just such a beautiful. You think about it, 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. Freebird, probably. But yeah, but I think of the two of them. Yeah, it's hard to follow. You know, you have jokes like that where you do your closer 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 some guy's sweater, whatever. I'm selling my merch again. Once again. So I got this merch. You do a second merch pitch. Second pitch.

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. God, 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 this is just some website ranking of all time and Freebird was one. Yeah. They were... Allman Brothers and Leonard Skinner kind of dominated...

the top 10. Okay. There was a few on there. Marshall Tucker band had some. Yeah. Can't you see? Yep. Bob Seger had some. Bob Seger, man. That's talk about silver bullet band. Bob Seger is so great. I wouldn't say Southern rock. I would just say rock, but yeah, we Detroit, but Bob Seger, Detroit. Yeah. 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 could be both, right? Country and Southern Rock? Yeah, I think so. I saw him play once. 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. I think he did some stuff with Bob Dylan. And then when he picked up the fiddle, forget it. That's when he blew up. But he was kind of like a, I guess, kind of like Glen Campbell as well. Studio musician or whatever. Charlie Daniels has a great song called Reflections.

uh where he's like he's talking about elvis and janice joplin and ryan eventant 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... We're not that old. 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. But maybe that first record. And then I feel like he's a guy that they just put in the wrong direction. Oh, yeah, Sun Records. They put in the wrong direction, man. I really feel he could have been just an amazing... That they just kept it more rockabilly and just kind of true to...

Kind of with 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' music. People talk about it. 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 I like it better when Dwight Yoakam sings it yeah for sure for sure have you ever been riding around I gotta hold on let me put on the never pass me the aux cord but I have put Elvis on some playlists in the past I do like Elvis that stuff ages so that stuff sounds awful I just like his movies probably the best probably the best Christmas album

It's Elvis Christmas. Yeah. Are you lonely tonight? You know that one? Yeah. Are you lonely? I don't know. I don't remember. Burn in love. Hunk of hunk of burn in love. I love that one. Men in black. I heard you say, though, at concerts, we 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 to this. I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. I'm kidding. 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. I don't, 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 pack and everything. It's really funny. But Elvis was funny because he was just kind of banged up towards the end there. Yeah. So he would start an Elvis, like a Beatles song and just forget the words. Like, I don't know these words. Sing it with me, you know. And 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 listen to that first album, Joe Cocker? I love it. And they had this one with Leon Russell. It's a live album. Really great stuff. No Joe Cocker fans in here? Did he die young? Jumbo Lushi did a great Joe Cocker. I don't think he did.

okay 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

He died at age 70. See, I know. Pretty young. Up where we belong. It's not young. But that first album, with a little help from my friends. It's me and Brian's age. That's not young. Feeling All Right is great. Great song. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And they had an album together, a live album. I love Leon Russell. I'm a big Leon Russell fan. His stuff is great. Our next sponsor, you know we love, Delete Me.

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Yeah. I mean, have you seen that documentary? That's fantastic on Netflix. The two-parter, right? Yeah. You see the dynamics. It's about the reunion. Yeah, everybody was really talented in that band. But I think I get eaglesed 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, for sure. We brought up, this might have been before you joined the podcast, Dusty, Hotel California. Yeah.

And people wrote in like four different explanations what that song's about. I always 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. It's like,

They kind of were. They were. It was like Zeppelin. Yeah. Had those weird like symbols and stuff. And then like they were, I think, who's the guy? Sammy Davis Jr. or whatever. Yeah. He was like a sick guy. Eddie Murphy talked about Sammy Davis Jr. Yeah. Like a sick guy. Yeah. It was 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. You know. Okay.

I think Hotel California is talking about True by Hilton. 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 guitarists 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. Yeah. Highway Patrol. Yeah. Yeah. That's a guy you're not going to hear in these conversations. Yeah. He's fantastic. And he has, he built his own guitar. It's like it's part steel and part electric and it's pretty great, but he's, 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 every, 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. I think he was the fastest, you know. 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. Uh,

Stevie Ray Vaughan has to be in this conversation. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Sure. What about, I can't believe his name's 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, Axl's, God bless him, you know, he was doing everything he could, you know? Yeah.

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 cracking live because you just can't do that all the time. You do that night. I mean, that's the thing about comics. We're not screaming like that. So he, you know, he was pretty rough. And then they just kept bringing out Slash to make up for it.

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 Van Zandt a break on the vocal. So they would do these longs and they started getting longer and longer. Free jam band. Yeah. They're giving the singer a break. That's right. 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. What a song. That album is fantastic. I know. I like that song as a comic. Sure. I got that. I bought this album, right? I went into Grimey's.

I bought this Chris Stapleton album. The guy was like, this guy's really good. I bought it. Vinyl? No, just a CD. I'm just listening to it in the car. I'm a traveler. Listening to the whole thing. I'm loving 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.

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. But a week before, I felt like I would have been like. Well, you like to be the guy that likes the band first. Yes. 100%. And if other people like it, Dusty will start to hate. Yeah. If other people like something. I'm kind of like 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 once.

when during the pandemic and it was Willie Nelson's barbecue or 4th of July or whatever, but they did it as it was all on zoom. And then I just, he just did like a little set on there. It 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. Uh,

uh 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 uh blues bonanza and then uh there's one other way to jukebox thing yeah yeah yeah that's a good one those are so good yeah but sergio simpson i like too far as country newer country yeah culture wall yeah his cover of uh uh promise is amazing oh

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. Me too.

Y'all just became best friends. Yeah. For weeks straight, I just listened to that promise over and over again. It's so good. It's so good. And then when you hear the 80s version of the pop song, you just want to hear his. Yeah. As soon as you hear it. It's so good. It's so great. Yeah. I feel like in the 80s and 90s, movie soundtracks were a big deal. And music videos would often...

have scenes from the movie and vice versa. Oh, CMT used to be the best. I mean, they had, Ricky Skaggs had a song called Country Boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that video was really great. Oh, it doesn'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. I think it's so great. Okay. Well, they had Running Scared with Billy Crystal and who's that other guy? Gregory Hines. Gregory Hines. Yep. And it was like the McDonald. What's his 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 part of the whole thing. Yeah, it was a big thing. I don't feel like that's the case. The Lion King was one of the last ones that...

Well, I don't think they're making blockbusters as much as they used to either. They're not making movies like that. But some of the superhero movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, those both had pretty great soundtracks. It was all like 70s, 80s stuff. I think he means more like in the videos with the actors and stuff. Like Top Gun, that soundtrack was a big part of the movie when you think of it. Well, the Lady Gaga song has parts of the movie in it. And she's singing it 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 thought you were talking about. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. Danger Zone. Danger Zone. Yeah, yeah, 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 who it was. Somebody, the guy that writes, Mario Joyner was like the comic. And he was just like,

It was this, you know, Kenny Loggins fan. So just the widest crowd you'd ever seen. 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. It was the first show that I saw live. Steve Rogers? It wasn't Steve Rogers. I remember it was a guy, I remember he had a bit about like a school bus.

And then he sold a CD where it was him in the school bus. I would like to find out who that was. He was the first guy I saw. It was South Bend, Indiana, the Morris Theater. Oh, okay. There. It was 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. Okay. You know, uh, it's 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 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 road straps. Those are speakers, baby. Yeah, yeah. It was so funny. When I was in college-

Saw Red Fox. Who'd you see? Red Skeleton? No one knew who he was because Samford's son hadn't come on yet. No, it was a guy. It was here at Zany's who was Bob Uecker's color commentator in the movie Major League. The guy who doesn't say anything. Okay.

You guys seen the movie Major League? Yeah, sure. Yeah, it's been a while, but yeah. The guy in that movie was a stand-up comic, and he came to Zany's, and some of us went to see him and met him afterwards. He did a lot of impressions. It'd be fun if he just didn't say anything in the stand-up. He's very Kaufman. Yeah, yeah, 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. Standing? Let me tell you. And he's not doing comedy. That's the best opener, though. You got too much politics, dude. I mean, how quickly we were over that.

I mean, 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, dude. Yeah. You can't just filibuster. Did you guys? Not even filibuster. Just stand there. The opposite of filibuster. Did you guys ever try something stupid? Like, just because you thought it was genius. I remember one time I did a, I bought a goldfish.

And this is like early open mic because you have no idea 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 so I'm holding the glass with the goldfish, but I never mention it. And what I was going to do, I was going to swallow it at the end. I was like, I'm going to be that guy. And then –

And then I would, you know, every time 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. It 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. It's so stupid.

But I did it once, and I was like, I'm just going to do jokes. But you're getting your fish swallowed. I'm just going to do jokes. No, I never swallowed. I just did it the one time. You're getting your omegas. Yeah, that's good for you. Yeah. Isn't it funny how the people we love the most are often the hardest to shop for? Hilarious. Look.

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Is there a concert that stands out to you guys that being so good or so bad, like the best or worst? Creed, Bridgestone Arena. Yeah. Creed. You 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 LaMonte. And he was so great. One of the worst stage presence I've ever seen. I've seen, I've heard barely moved. Yeah. Never said hi. He really gets mad. If anybody makes a sound while he's on stage, the music was great. He's really great. And then, man, I've seen Guster multiple times. Oh, a R not a way. R who did I see? Yeah. Third eye blind. I've seen a lot of kiss. I saw a kiss at Bridgestone. Nice. Uh,

unbelievable just the spectacle oh 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 i had a guy this tedeschi trucks was awesome with the rhyming i saw anyway yeah this guy this is a local band in charleston and he uh 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 got 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 uh 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'd get him to do an encore, huh? And then this, we're in a small room, there's 30 people in there. And I, 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, over the loudspeaker goes, uh, yeah, that's not how it works. We gotta, we gotta break all this stuff down and we gotta, we gotta move, you know, we gotta, uh,

I go, oh, 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 got to break all these mics down. So it's so embarrassing. But the guy he was opening for was my friend too. So he was like, 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. Yeah. It was all bad, but that is what I needed. I needed, I needed more embarrassing experiences to get tougher as it comes. 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.

One time 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 want to 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 Smigel is the comic with me. Okay. Triumph of the counter. 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 going to 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 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 it.

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 laundromat. So the laundromat show was packed and we're all going and the 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 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. It cost me money.

is there any i mean i kind of has concerts that stand out as really bad like oh that was so disappointing oh like seeing live shows yeah i saw bob dylan i wish i hadn't i hear that a lot when you see bob dylan saw him at the fontanelle and here in nashville yeah i mean 2015 yeah i think bob dylan after the 70s maybe it's not worth yeah play 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. He was just looking down at his guitar. It was pretty bad. I mean, it's such a weird thing. How do you write so many great hits and then you never even accidentally write a good one for 40 years? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, there's a conspiracy theory that a high school kid wrote Blowing in the Wind. And he stole it from him? Mm-hmm. Oh, wow. Carlos Mencia 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 Willie 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. Yeah. I 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... It broke my heart. Time to bring her down. Broke my heart. Finally, somebody's saying it now. It broke my heart. So, I got feelings about Dolly Parton. Well, here's the deal with Dolly. I love Dolly. She's great. You know, whatever. Good songwriter, whatever. 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 a little tiny thing 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, uh, you know, they introduce her and she's, they just introduced her first, which is weird. And then she gets up there and she sings, uh, I always love you. And then nine to five and then leaves.

And it was like, that's it. She did two songs. I paid like $300 for these tickets. Wow. Two songs. She's gone. And then Niles Rodgers, who, you know, he wrote some David Bowie songs. He's a jam guy. And he's talented. In the grand scheme of things, who cares? Nobody was coming for Niles Rodgers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 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 Ice Coffee with Milk, and then Bates went out for 45 minutes. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Yeah.

That's a great analogy. Hey, Niles Rodgers, he won a lot of Grammys. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But he was great. He did like Duran Duran songs. Yeah, I apologize to Niles Rodgers. I think...

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 doesn't surprise me. It's like, that's pretty annoying. Like, she is great. She's 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...

uh,

You know, it's just like number one. Even over Loretta Lynn, I would. Yeah. Give her top 20. I mean, she's influential. She's still around. People like her. She's done great things, but. Not before Patsy. No. And all that stuff. Yeah. But this is all artists, not just female. Yes. Yeah. 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. That's nice. He's done really great things, but I mean, there were. Yeah. Yeah.

I would say Merle Haggard should be Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. Even Hank Williams Jr. Was like earnest party. I like the third Georgia line. Yeah. Hank the third. You ever seen him live? I never seen him live. Fantastic. I've seen him in the, uh, the, the,

he has the grandfather i like the wild and wonderful whites documentary when he sings old country it's really good voice it's really yodels and stuff like he's fantastic all right build your all-time great rock band drummer guitarist bassist singer build it you go first you go first this is gonna be tough i just want to hear you do it all right i'll do it um

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. That's your singer? No. Motley Crue. Okay. That's your singer? Yeah. Nice. Nice. Yeah, okay. I thought he was criticizing. Nice. Well, a little criticized. But if you, 80, what year though? Not like now. No, no, no. I said at their peak. Oh, their peak. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha.

I'm trying to think again. People we haven't... Guitar... Our drummer, the Def Leppard's drummer. The one-armed guy? Yeah. Okay, cool, cool, cool. I forgot his name. Nobody knows. Come on, he's got one arm. He's playing the drums. I know. I like it. He's working extra hard, that guy. All right. Gene Simmons. Wow. That's your bass player? Yeah. Okay. I'm letting you fill in what they play. Okay.

Of course it's my bass player. So now I gotta get lead guitar, right? Lead guitar. 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. I just don't want you guys to think I don't know what I'm talking about. You can lift one of our...

Slash. Okay. That's not bad. I mean, that's a... Tommy Lee? I don't know. I mean, that's a glam band for sure. Yeah. That's a hair metal... That's Brian. 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 piggies? They were fantastic. Yeah. They were a good time. When I was in college, they were the big...

Big band, the college band. Okay. And Bobby Bear Jr., I remember, would come. Do you know Bobby Bear Jr.? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know who you're talking about. Bobby Bear and his son would come and play around college campus. 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 my answer. That was good. I mean, that was solid. What about you? That was solid. Ah, yeah.

We should save him. Don't overthink it. Let's save him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You're all going to hate mine. Mine's not going to be good either. I think that's why he should go last. Okay. Okay.

I'm putting Pino Palladino on bass. Bam. Yeah, you are. Who's that? Who's that? He's a jazz band. He plays with the John Mayer Trio. Okay. Wow. Getting classy on us here. Pino Palladino? I'll do... You don't know Palladino? Let me do Corey Wong on the guitar. Of course. Of course. Corey Feldman. Over Corey Feldman? Corey Feldman's stage side ready to go if something goes wrong. Who's Corey Wong? Corey Wong is... No, no. Corey Wong? Corey Wong?

Come on. He's like a funk guitarist. He plays with Wolfpack, 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 just a drummer. He didn't play with the band? He plays with a bunch of different bands. He plays by himself? Yeah, he's like a mercenary. He'll go in wherever you need him. And then singing. Yourself. Yeah, man.

I mean, it would be fun to play with these guys. I'll do Robert Plant with those guys. Nice, Robert Plant. Good choice. All right. That's not bad. Okay, let's go live.

uh leave on the helm on the drums yeah let's go because you can sing a little bit sure sure oh say i didn't think about that yeah it's good to have a singer drummer let's go on the piano elton john let's get that i don't know where the piano is elton john what leon russell 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. Let's go with that guy. I don't even know his name. Tears up a bass. We're so bad. We're like the one-armed drummer. Yeah. Okay. What do we got left? We got guitar and we got a singer. So singer, let's go Freddie Mercury. Let's go. Oh, wow. Big pipes. Let's go big pipes. Freddie Mercury. What kind of music does this band play?

They play country. It's all country. Well, they've all got a little. Levon L does a little country. Elton John had a little bit of a country album. Leon Russell done some 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. He's like a funk guy. So we need a lead guitar now. What do you got? What do you got?

Who's it going to be? Put in Brad Paisley. Who tears it up? Brad Paisley. Brad Paisley's unreal. He is unreal. He would bring a funny element. He would bring some comedy to it. Okay. Dwight Yoakam. And a bit of, I don't know. Nick Thune. Let's go. Yeah, that could be a good one. Johnny W. Johnny W. Johnny W. for the win. Johnny W. for the win. And then Johnny W. plays guitar. Okay.

And Steve Martin on banjo. Wow. You just end it there. I got nothing. I can't follow that. That's super amazing. No, no, you can. You can do a real one. Do a real one. Wow, a real one. No, that mine's real, though. You already talked about your great closer, and then you got nine minutes left. That's what's happening right now. I'm going to tank it.

This is going to be great. Yeah, I didn't know we were adding pianos and stuff. I thought we were just doing the bass. I put Corey Henry on piano. Any instrument you want. Oh, yeah, I like that. Any instrument you want. Okay, we got... I didn't even put a fiddle player in there. Okay, we got Woody Allen on clarinet. Yeah, there you go. All right, now we're talking. Coming out of the gate. Now we're talking.

Uh, we got Matthew McConaughey on bongos. Yeah. Now we got a little drum circle going. Woody Harrelson. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Uh,

As far as real, drummer, I'm going to go Animal from the Muppets. Okay. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. If I was to do a real list... 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. Okay. Guitarist...

You just build Led Zeppelin. What do you... Jimmy Page. I mean, I think they're the greatest rock band of all time. Yeah. 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 going to go Hendrix, I guess. Yeah. Just an early Hendrix. Yeah. You know, sellout. Right. I want to keep it weird, though. I'm going to go. Mike Huckabee on bass. Yeah.

That's a good one. Dana Carvey on harmonica. John Tesh on piano. I'll do John Popper. John Tesh was great. I'll do John Popper, man. Saxophone. Bill Clinton. I was thinking Michael Bolton.

Michael Bolton. Nice. Kenny G. Michael Bolton. Didn't Michael Bolton do something with it? Kenny G's a singer. He's a singer. People get those confused, but I think Michael Bolton just sang. Dave Kaha, somebody like that. Smooth jazz. Janis Joplin, I think, has the greatest voice. Yeah. I wanted to switch out Freddie Mercury, but I... I like Janis. Janis is good.

Joe Bonzel? That was Oak Ridge Boys. Henny Youngman on the fiddle? Take my band, please. What about Yo-Yo Ma on the cello?

There's a guy. Judy Tenuto? I just showed. Yeah. What's that called? John DeToy on the Yo-Yo Ma? What's that called? Accordion. Yeah. Yeah. Weird Al. Steve Urkel. 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. That was a good name. It's 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. He'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 Andy Klein. Yeah. Very funny. Yeah.

Put Andy Klein on lead comedian. Who's opening for this band, for your band? Oh, gosh. Who's opening? Yeah, for your band. Hanson? 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. 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 said, just like your Elvis comment, I never heard that. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I'm not saying, but go listen to him. Hanson's still doing music. Oh, yeah. They're great. Chris Hanson? Yeah, Chris Hanson's still doing music.

All right, can I share, before we wrap it up, a few conspiracy theories? Oh, 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 in a few. You guys know an artist, Andrew WK? Yeah. Party hard. 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 created? 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 know how people show you. He looks very AI though. Yeah, he does. He's 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, is he ever really the same guy? 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 Dustin's Vinyls. Oh, wow. Billy Squire's song, Rock Me Tonight, the video was so bad it killed his career. Absolutely. Have you ever seen that video? No. Do you guys know Billy Squire? I know Billy Squire. Yeah, play a little bit of the video. It's the last thing you want from your rock star is this video.

It's like when you're doing it's like. What a weird camera angle. What's he doing? It's a 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. Stroke me. Look at the dance. Look at the dance. He's like, look at these dance moves. I mean, because 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. Yeah.

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 tonight party 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 basically talked about all these guys who once MTV came out 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 imagine 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 hatchett nobody knew what any of those guys look like that was the best part this reminds me of that um there's the um

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

That's good stuff. Look that up, Dancing in the Street. What's that band? Living Color. Living Color. We can pull that out. Good job, because I cover that. 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. Yeah.

And they were great. And that song, Cult Personality, is fantastic. But then that video came out. I don't know if you had the video, but it's Glamour Boys. It's just the worst. And it just ruined their whole image. They're walking around with Ken mask on and stuff. Oh my gosh. And it's just really bad. My goodness. It's like...

Yeah, this is... Well, wait, let's see. I mean, I... This is okay now, but I think it gets a little weird. It gets a little weird. I don't think it is. 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 we 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. Dusty, 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... Probably because a lot of people like 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. Or cloud seeding. You know, who knows what happens. All right. I thought that would be more interesting. I'm not a Grateful Dead guy. I don't know. Not really. I'm into it. 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, um, 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, uh, Cornell, Cornell, uh, live five, eight 77. That album is, that's the one that is a jam. Okay. Okay.

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 was at a concert, put the spotlight on him and called him out there in front of the audience. You guys heard that? And then he sang right to his face. It's a whole thing. That's the thing. There was no internet to disprove that. We were all just running around thinking that stuff. Yeah.

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, man. Look at those guys, though. It's hard to be like, no, no, no. That's not what it stands for, guys. Look at them. You know what I mean? It's just four Jewish dudes from Queens. They weren't that attractive.

And so they found a way to kind of- No, they do look cool. But if people think that, and then you go, well, let's see them and we'll decide. And you go, no, no, I gotta go see it. And great show. They put on, I saw like a later show and it was great. ACDC, they were saying was Antichrist Devil's Child.

Sort of alternating current director. What a band. That's one of my favorite concerts, ACDC. Okay. At the Garden, the Black Ice Tour. They were phenomenal. We're coming here to Nissan Stadium. And then you go, no way that means Antichrist, Devil Child. What are some of their songs? And they go, oh, Highway to Hell, Back in Black. Okay. Have a drink on me. Super Tramp.

Super Tramp. Super Tramp. Wow. Dusty, you'll like this. Breakfast in America. Their album cover for Breakfast in America, which I love. The name of that album. If you put it 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 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 tower. That's supposed to be fire, I guess. Yeah.

Yeah, that's reaching. You think? But what's the implication of that, that the band Supertramp was somehow involved in 9-11? I don't know. It's just a lot of predictive programming. I'm just saying, well, what follows that? There was lots of predictive programming, they say, of 9-11. Throughout movies, there was for a long time. But when was this? This was like, what, 82? Yeah. It's insane. To what end?

Why would they put these clues out? Yes. 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. Maybe it just, there's like a Simpsons one where they're like the, the, um, 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 up. I think I know. It doesn't. Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay. I mean, who knows, but.

Whether the Simpsons predicted 9-11? Well, the Simpsons, they say, predict lots of things. Yeah. They're always saying the Simpsons. 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. They're not saying that. Because we're 230 episodes in, they'll say. Because I'm on it. Aaron predicted in episode 46 that... Anyway. All right. Stephen King killed John Lennon.

Oh, wow. Wow, I never heard that. Never heard that one. So... That's all his house, though. Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, looks apparently a lot like Stephen King. I'm kind of debugging it. You 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. By Stephen King. Yeah. You know, there is another theory on that too that, you know, Paul McCartney was killed. Yeah.

Years ago in a car accident, and they wanted to keep the Beatles going, so they just replaced him with 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 Lennon were best friends, that's when Paul McCartney started to fight McCartney.

with john lennon the two of them started to fight because this was not the real paul mccartney but he had to keep it and they they said john lennon was about to expose yeah the secrets and then on one of the albums if you play it backwards it says paul is dead paul's dead and then a lot of the covers yeah of of some of the beatles albums they'll have stuff like uh alluding to paul being dead like abby road paul mccartney's in all white no shoes yeah you know

Why would they allude to it? Well, they were just trying to put it out there that he's dead. Yeah, they had to keep making those Beatles records, man. Yeah. They want you to know, but not really know. Just kind of tease you. 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. 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 looks like he's killed multiple people before.

And it grew legs and it's 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. The only thing he kills is country music. Sorry, I'm kidding. He's great. Yeah, friends in low places. Garth Brooks had a nice run. But yeah, looking back...

It's not the best. Or the dance. It's not the best. There's some really great songs. Low Places is one of the greatest. And I love some of those. I love a lot of those songs. But yeah, it's like, yeah, it's not the country that I enjoy the most. Yeah, looking back on the memory of the dance we shared. All the things we shared.

For a moment. And then I kind of mentioned it, but that thing he did where 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. Did you talk about that? He wanted to get out of the limelight. So they did the whole Chris Gaines thing. So he killed his career. They 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. We're talking about Bates was always thought about doing this.

creating this alter ego and then he just goes out and he's just the filthiest insult comment. That's what I want him to do. It would be great. I don't need filthy Bates, but I want edgy Bates. That's what I want. Who Bates really is. Yeah. That's what you want. Will I wear a mustache?

I don't think you need to. I think you should wear the long hair that you wore 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... They are doing a dirty show now at Zany's, 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 i'd like to i'd like to do it yeah well my church is having open mic night so i'll go practice it and then well you guys kind of all started clean right just pretty much just yeah somewhat i'm probably a little cleaner now than how i started but i never was very dirty yeah yeah yeah that's pretty edgy and then i had to kind of like go down a cleaner road for

For your dry bar taping? Just working with Nate. You just kind of get rid of that stuff. Just kind of grow up a little bit. That's what it is. That was fun. Thanks for coming, Dustin. Good to see you, buddy. I'm glad we got Dusty and Dustin in the same room together. This has been a really great podcast. I'm running it. You remember I'm running this one?

Oh, my bad. Yeah, we'll let you wrap this up. Yeah, I want you guys to know. Put a bow on this, brother. It's been a really great podcast. But, you know, there are, before we get out of here, there's a couple of things I'd like to know. I'd like to know where Brian is at this week. Oh, thank you for asking. Yeah. 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. 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 Off-Broadway, it's a great club. All right.

All right. Dustin Chafin, where can we find you at this weekend? 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. Sorry we don't have Netflix specials selling out theaters. Hang on. Yeah, yeah. I'm mentioning something coming up in three weeks. You're talking about February 28th. Well, you know, I'm filming a thing. Pretty big deal. Yeah. All right. I was just going to say January 11th. I'm in Fort Myers. I'm just making fun of you a little bit. Two shows. 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've got to stick up for Brian. I'm trying to expose people to good music out here.

here that's right i like it okay yeah all right good stuff all right 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 always week of though so you kind of tell people a few weeks out where you're gonna that's right that's right that's people or sometimes people are behind you got you know that's a great point i'm sorry yeah 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. 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 fun. Nick Novicki and Julian McCullough. And then I'll be headlining Des Moines Funny Bone, December 27th and 28th.

Pretty excited to be out there. First time, so that's a lot of fun. It's a great club. 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. We'll talk about it off air. It is no longer happening. I will not be in Florence this weekend. Oh, gosh. 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 ground. I'm hitting it. Hitting the ground running. Detroit, I'm in Detroit. And then, hold on, let me pull it up.

Detroit 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. I'm all over. So AaronWeberComedy.com. Come check me out. Do you live in Texas, Dustin? No, we live in Hollywood. Okay, yeah.

If you had tickets to Aaron's December 13th show in Florence, Alabama, come to my show at Fort Worth. Same night. Your night's free now. Come on out. It's only across a couple of states. It's not a big deal. Get some tunes. Just hop in the Florence International Airport and fly to Florida. All right. I'm going to do two.

Do as many as you want, though. You do three. I'm just going to say this podcast is coming out on Wednesday. Tomorrow night on Thursday, I'm going to be in Las Vegas, part of the rodeo.

I forget where I'm at, but... Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, go to DustySlay.com. You can find exactly where I'm at. The 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 Slay's Grand Ole 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 Zanies takeover, a Nate Land takeover that night. Yeah. And yeah. It's only work 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 Oklahoma. I want you guys to know.

Nice. Incredible. Thank you, Mayor Fuller and the city of Opelika. Very cool. Dusty's coming for your job. I got a best Western key. Yes. And all right. Thank you, guys. Thanks for joining me. It's been a great time and we're having a good time. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform.

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