15: #15 | What Happened in the Year 2000?

Summary

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Public Figures Podcast: Episode 15

"#15 | What Happened in the Year 2000?"

Date: May 13, 2026
Hosts: Dusty Slay, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber
Location Recorded: Zanies Comedy Club, Nashville

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Overview

This episode marks a new series concept for the podcast: an annual, year-by-year look back at life, culture, and personal experiences—starting with the eventful year 2000. The trio of Nashville-based comedians dive into their widely different perspectives from that year: one was in grade school, one was finishing high school, and one was working in TV news. Their stories weave through Y2K panic, pop culture, bizarre jobs, early adulthood, and sports, all with the show’s typical blend of honest nostalgia and playful banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Setting the Scene: Where Were They in 2000?

• Dusty: Senior year of high school in Alabama, focused on fun—not college. (“I wasn’t thinking about college whatsoever.” – 78:32)
• Brian: Eight years old, second or third grade, with vague memories of news and adult anxiety about Y2K.
• Aaron: 28 years old, working for a TV news station, covering Y2K, presidential politics, and living “grown-up” life. Bought his first house for $67,500, and became an uncle.

Y2K Panic & Its Reality (72:10–77:15)

• Brian recalls the media coverage and how TV news prepped for disaster.
• Aaron explains how huge resources and a total technical overhaul prevented catastrophe: “They spent hundreds of billions of dollars to prevent things from happening.” (74:08)
• Dusty shares how, as a teenager, he and his friends loitered outside downtown Auburn on New Year's Eve, hoping to witness something apocalyptic while also wanting to be able to escape. (“We wanted to see it… but wanted to be outside of it so we could get away.” – 77:01)
• Philosophical tangent: Did the simulation start in 2000? (“Some people believe the world ended and now we’re all living in a simulation.” – 73:09) Dusty doesn't buy it, but touches on the "NPCs" (non-playable characters) theory.

Personal Milestones & Life Changes (87:00–88:52)

• Aaron bought his first house in Nashville for $67,500 at auction (“Would you feel weird about buying a house somebody got killed in?” – 87:42)
• Dusty became a big brother at 18 (his dad remarried). His grandfather was born in 1900—a 100-year family spread.
• Both Aaron and Dusty reflect on family, adulthood, and the weirdness of generational overlap.

Pop Culture Explosion

Music

• Dominant forces: NSYNC’s “No Strings Attached,” Santana’s “Supernatural,” Faith Hill’s “Breathe,” Eminem’s “Marshall Mathers LP,” country crossovers, and new metal (Limp Bizkit, Slipknot).
• Notable moments: Santana and Rob Thomas’s “Smooth” defined radio; the popularity of boy bands and the counterculture rebellion of rap/nu-metal.
• Favorite tracks: “Smooth,” “Kryptonite” by 3 Doors Down, “Amazed” by Lonestar, and more (109:10–109:55).

Movies (107:03–108:36)

• Big box office hits: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (Jim Carrey), “Gladiator,” “Meet the Parents,” “X-Men,” “Remember the Titans,” “The Patriot,” “What Women Want.”
• “American Beauty” wins Best Picture at the Oscars.
• Discussion on which years were truly great for film (“99 was one of the best years ever for movies.” – 107:17)

TV & Reality Shows (110:02–111:51)

• Survivor debuts, Big Brother launches, and reality TV takes off.
• The West Wing wins Outstanding Drama Series; era of Friends, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, and the Drew Carey Show.
• Kids’ favorites: Boy Meets World, Family Matters, and Disney sitcoms.
• Best sitcom theme songs? Fresh Prince, Golden Girls, Family Matters, Andy Griffith.

Technology & the Internet

• PlayStation 2 launches: revolutionary for both gaming and as an affordable DVD player.
• The Sims and simulation games come out.
• Game nights were more social: “it was interactive because you’re actually hanging out with your friends… not online” (99:54).
• Google is profiled for the first time in Time magazine; Google Images is invented after J.Lo’s green dress at the Grammys (“They created Google Images because of this dress.” – 105:35).

Sports & History

• 2000 NFL Playoffs: “Music City Miracle” (Aaron was there – 91:42), Titans’ first Super Bowl appearance.
• John Rocker’s controversy.
• Olympics in Sydney, Vince Carter’s iconic dunk.
• Subway Series (Yankees vs. Mets), Roger Clemens bat incident.

What Was Life Like? Vignettes & Reflections

• High school freedom: Dusty partied, worked at Papa John’s (with an eclectic crew), and bluffed about college at Auburn.
• Work life: The camaraderie of pizza delivery and odd corporate gigs.
• Transformation of adulthood: Segment on how time perception shifts: “When you’re a kid, the years are defined by what grade you’re in… When you get a job, your 10 years will pass, you’re like, what happened?” (82:09–82:31)
• Nostalgia: Reflection on how high school felt like forever, but adulthood years fly by.

Fast Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You gotta think, your whole life—Foston. Like Austin with an F.” – Dusty, on weird family names (05:17)
• “We never talk… The podcast, when the camera goes off, we all go to our cars, we don’t say a word to each other…” – Brian (02:06)
• “I texted Dusty yesterday to see about getting our kids together to play. And he was not having it.” – Aaron, on parenthood and introversion (06:41)
• “Who needs water? Might as well sing about raccoons.” – Dusty, on using A.I. for songwriting rather than brute-forcing it (54:11)
• “Some people believe the world ended and now we’re all living in a simulation.” – Dusty (77:15)
• “I had flame boots and listened to Slipknot.” – Dusty, ex-goth confession (97:52)
• “Would you feel weird about buying a house somebody got killed in?” – Brian, on murder houses and real estate (87:42)

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Important Timestamps

• Y2K Panic & Start of 2000: 72:10–77:15
• Personal milestones, family events: 87:00–88:52
• Pop culture (movies, music, tech): 105:05–109:55
• Sports highlights (Music City Miracle, Super Bowl, Olympics): 91:42–115:54
• Reflections on time, youth, adulthood: 82:06–85:47
• Nostalgic technology (PlayStation 2, Google): 98:29–105:35
• Reality TV & sitcoms: 110:28–111:51

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Notable Quotes

• “We wanted to see it [Y2K]… but wanted to be outside of it so we could get away.” – Dusty (77:01)
• “They spent hundreds of billions of dollars to prevent things from happening.” – Brian (74:08)
• “When you’re a kid, the years are defined by what grade you’re in… You get out and get a job and 10 years will pass and you’re like, what happened?” – Aaron (82:09)
• “We had a cool crew. The manager was kind of a goth guy… I had flame boots and listened to Slipknot.” – Dusty (97:52)
• “I bought my first house in 2000… $67,500.” – Aaron (87:18)
• “Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas—unbelievable.” – Brian (109:10)
• “Some people believe the world ended and now we’re all living in a simulation.” – Dusty (73:09)

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Tone & Language

• Conversational, Comedic, and Openly Reflective: The hosts freely tease each other, riff on personal anecdotes, and embrace both “dumb” and profound questions.
• Candid: Willing to reminisce honestly about wild years, family quirks, and how social dynamics shift with age.
• Playful but Insightful: All three comedians show vulnerability—about parenting fears, life regrets, and the joy of nostalgia—while always ready with jokes.

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Final Segment

The episode closes with the hosts recapping their upcoming comedy gigs and social media projects (117:13 onward), with reminders to check out everyone’s YouTube specials, new podcasts (“Life of Dad”), and the upcoming film "The Breadwinners." Dusty wraps: “Thanks for tuning in. This has been another great edition of the Public Figures podcast…” (118:38)

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In Summary

Episode 15 of Public Figures is a playful—and sometimes poignant—time capsule of the year 2000, seen through three sharply different personal and comedic perspectives. The hosts cover the world-shaking Y2K panic, the launch of reality TV, the dominance of boy bands, sports miracles, and their own milestones—all through the filter of self-mockery, stand-up humor, and the lived experience of everyday American oddballs. It’s a perfect listen for both nostalgia buffs and fans who want to see behind the curtain of three comics' lives before they were “public figures.”

Transcript

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

What is this your first date?

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Liberty. Liberty.

[Dusty Slay]

Liberty. Liberty. Okay. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Public Figures podcast. My name is Dusty Slay. I am one of the hosts, along with my friends, Brian Bates. Hello. And Aaron Weber.

[Brian Bates]

Good morning, everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

We're pumped to be here.

[Brian Bates]

We're three professional comedians.

[Dusty Slay]

That is true.

[Brian Bates]

We are out of Nashville, Tennessee.

[Dusty Slay]

We are all professional comedians. That's true. Based out of Nashville. And. Well, I just want to, you know, I want to kind of echo what you're saying.

[Brian Bates]

No, I agree. That's why I said it. Up top.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, do you live in Nashville?

[Dusty Slay]

We're based here.

[Brian Bates]

I'm based here.

[Aaron Weber]

But if you guys were a little more successful, you could live in Nashville. Well, I live in Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh. But I do live in Davidson County. I mean, doesn't that count? Yeah, I mean, I pay Nashville tax.

[Brian Bates]

I'm not in Davidson County.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's great working.

[Brian Bates]

But we're recording this live from Zany's Comedy Club, located in the heart of Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

That is true. And that's where we're based right now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So that's. That's where we're based.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's the foundation.

[Aaron Weber]

That is podcast. That is true. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And. And we are all professional comedians. Yeah. There's no confusion about that.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you're going to challenge us on that. Brian, come on.

[Aaron Weber]

I challenged myself.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we're all working.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, we were gone last week because we did two episodes, so last week we weren't here. So, you know, we're having to get reacquainte it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What have y' all been up to? Like, I haven't. We don't. We never talk.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

And the podcast, when the. When the camera goes off, we all go to our cars, we don't say a word to each other, and we drive home to our separate lives and separate families, and we. We never check in on each other. I just want to see what you guys have been up to.

[Dusty Slay]

I call my wife on the way home, and I go

[Brian Bates]

another day at work. Yeah. You know, like, the mythbusters guys hated each other. We. We talked about that. Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They look like they're friends on the show, and then they. They hate. Or they, like, just weren't friends.

[Dusty Slay]

You think they hated each other because they knew they were living a lie?

[Aaron Weber]

Seemed like that would make them bond.

[Brian Bates]

Turns out, the greatest myth of all.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Really eats away at you, though. I think over time.

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think it can. Because you said they got a myth wrong. They busted it.

[Brian Bates]

My grandfather, who's a physicist.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Saw them do a calculation wrong on the show and wrote in and corrected them.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He said they did. They did something wrong. They were trying to calculate the velocity of something, and he was like, no, that's not it.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it your grandfather that works for NASA?

[Brian Bates]

No, I never had a grandfather that worked for NASA.

[Aaron Weber]

I assume he did.

[Brian Bates]

I have an aunt that works for now.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I thought it was an uncle.

[Brian Bates]

No, my. No, no.

[Aaron Weber]

It goes deep.

[Brian Bates]

My grandfather was a head of the physics department at South Alabama.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And did, like, contractor.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm from Alabama, but that just sounds funny. Head of the physics department in South Alabama at.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet they have some physics you could get on board.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm talking about. Not at South Alabama.

[Brian Bates]

In South Alabama, if you got a ball, it'll roll down a hill.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

No need to look into it much more than that.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

What's your grandfather's name?

[Dusty Slay]

Density Foston.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I thought.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Austin with an F. Yeah. In front of it. The story in the family is my great great grandmother who went by Boogie. That was her name. She was at the hospital, and I think these are the days. You remember the days where when you gave birth to a kid, your husband just wasn't there at the hospital.

[Dusty Slay]

I. I don't know that, but I've

[Brian Bates]

heard comedians talk about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Like, the husband wouldn't come into the delivery.

[Aaron Weber]

And Rachel has a joke about it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So she's in there, and she's in a fight with her husband at the time. And so to spite him, this is the story. She makes up a name on the birth certificate.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Just because she knew that he wouldn't like it. And that was Foston Neff Weber.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And it became a family name. My brother is the fourth Foster Neff Weber. The fourth.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

But then he had a son and didn't continue it. Five feels like too much. Five feels like you're English.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I Mean to me. I mean, you would have kept it going. Well, I mean, your brother had to grow up with the name, so it's his choice. But I just feel like if it's four, you gotta do it.

[Brian Bates]

I thought there's a little pressure, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like your. Your brother's strength, though. And he was like, I'm not gonna do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but could he More kids.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I feel like you got to do it on the firstborn son, Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, I guess that's true. That's how it works.

[Brian Bates]

It's a little weird if you don't. It's almost a little personal against the firstborn son. I forgot. Yeah, well, it's like the second son. He's who I want to carry my name on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

First one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta think your whole life, and, you know, the whole life, you go Foston. Yeah. Like Austin with an F. With an F. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, your whole life.

[Brian Bates]

Every day you have to do that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

That's tough. Anyway. Well. All right, guys. Well, I'm pumped to be back. I didn't do any comedy this past weekend, but since we were here, I did go off and do some comedy. I went to McKen, Texas. I went to. I did a corporate gig there.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Then I went to Dallas, Texas. Then I went to Houston, and then I flew out to la, did a

[Brian Bates]

show for the Netflix is a joke comedy show.

[Dusty Slay]

Netflix is a joke? Yeah. I mean, there were a lot of pictures going around about with the Netflix as a joke. Lot of. I don't know. There was a party, a lot of famous people. I was gone. I did my show.

[Brian Bates]

Were you invited to that party?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I mean, because I. They knew I wasn't going to be staying, so I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to clarify something earlier that we said we were joking when we said we never talk to each other.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

People always think we really do don't like each other. We basically text as soon as we get home.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It never stopped.

[Brian Bates]

And then we had separate chains without one of us.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, gosh, they're texting me again.

[Aaron Weber]

You see those three dots come up?

[Dusty Slay]

You're like, stop it.

[Aaron Weber]

But no, we talk at least by text all the time.

[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

I texted Dusty yesterday to see about getting our kids together to play.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he was not having it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I said, you said, I'll come close to you. And I was just thinking how close? Because you could come over to our house.

[Aaron Weber]

I was taking Eleanor to the park. And I thought, well, let me see if Destiny wants to take his kids apart, give his wife a little Mother's Day reprieve. And I said, I'll come over your way and come to one of your parks. And he's like, we ain't leaving the house.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we're not celebrating Mother's Day.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'll be honest. When you text me, my wife was gone, and I was at home with all three kids, so I gave her a little Mother's Day reprieve.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

Call it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that makes sense. You can't really.

[Dusty Slay]

It is hard. Dark. Yeah. With the little baby, it's hard. I mean, because when the baby's cool, the baby's cool. But when he's crying, it's like, yeah, what do you want from me, guy? You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

That's beautiful. That's beautiful.

[Brian Bates]

What is it that you want?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I'm holding all different positions. I mean, that's all I can do. We think I'm going this way. This way. You want to go upside down? What do you want from me?

[Brian Bates]

So Olive, I think, is like. We think she's teething really bad right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, she has a lot of teeth for her age, but I think she's got some new ones coming. And she's been real fussy last few days. And it is. It's kind of funny. You're like, just, I'll do whatever you want me to. Just, what do you want right now?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they don't answer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I try wording it different ways. They just don't answer.

[Dusty Slay]

My son, my. My Sammy, he gets like that word. He. He'll ask you for something, you give it to him, and then he doesn't want it, and then he asked for something else. And we're like. After a while, we're like, listen, buddy, we' playing your games here. Yeah. Look at all these dishes you have here. Now, this is everything you could ever ask for. You're. You're rolling around on the floor. Go to your room, buddy. Get out of here.

[Brian Bates]

Was go to your room a punishment when you were growing up?

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't have a room. Really? And

[Brian Bates]

you had a room.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on.

[Aaron Weber]

Couch.

[Brian Bates]

At my mom's house, a shower curtain. But it was a room.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, at my mom's house, when I was younger, we did. We lived in a two bedroom trailer, and I had two sisters, so it was like, I didn't really have a room. You know, I had a place where I could put some stuff. But we shared a lot of beds.

[Brian Bates]

But you're okay. But if someone said, go to your room, you knew what they were talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, okay. But it was back then, for me, it was, go outside.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really? Not, go to your room. Go. Just get out of my face.

[Dusty Slay]

Get out of this house. Go somewhere. You come back when it's dark.

[Brian Bates]

What was yours, Brian? Was it, go to your room. Is that a punishment?

[Aaron Weber]

It would be. Go to the wing, like one of the wings of the house.

[Brian Bates]

Would you grow up in a mansion?

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Dusty, go to your room that's over there. We'll still see each other, Brian.

[Dusty Slay]

They were like, go work on the railroad for a while.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't remember.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't have any. There was no technology in my room growing up. Didn't have a TV in there. Not a video game system, anything. Right. But I had friends that had, like, a TV and an Xbox and a computer in their room, and they would get sent to their room as my punishment.

[Aaron Weber]

Surely they couldn't do that.

[Brian Bates]

You're like, this is all the best stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. This is where I want to be.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly. There was no punishment at all. My room stunk. Dude. I said a bed and, like, some books.

[Dusty Slay]

Just old. What was it he played with a little ladle in there or something?

[Brian Bates]

Spatula.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, a little spatula.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

This is when I was older than that.

[Aaron Weber]

Do y' all do timeout?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, we try all sorts of things. A timeout usually works pretty good. I take Sam in his room, he cries, he screams. He tells me to go away, and I go, you're not leaving until you chill out and then we can talk.

[Brian Bates]

Is that tough for you to do?

[Dusty Slay]

Nah, I'm into it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like. Like, you know, other kind of punishments are harder. Yeah. But, yeah, you know, you go sit in there and he, you know, runs around, and eventually he comes around, he chills out, he gets tuckered out, and we go, all right, buddy, let's talk.

[Aaron Weber]

I have this joke, but I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I don't know how to parent.

[Brian Bates]

No one, you know, no one does.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just telling you what I do.

[Aaron Weber]

But, yeah, I have this joke.

[Dusty Slay]

Diane. Diane. I'm sorry. You know, Diane. I forget her last name. That comments a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Weber. Oh, my mom.

[Aaron Weber]

No, Diane Williams.

[Dusty Slay]

Diane Williams. Yeah. She'll. She tells me all the time. She goes, you better get it together

[Aaron Weber]

and cut your hair.

[Dusty Slay]

She tells me to cut my hair, like, because it's vain. Yeah. I go, diane, if I cut my hair, I would look better than I do now. So I'm humbling myself here.

[Brian Bates]

It's an act of humility to keep the hair that way.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on, Diane.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll move on from what I was

[Brian Bates]

gonna say, but I wanna.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I want to hear it.

[Aaron Weber]

What was I. What were we even talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

Punishing, not.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, time out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I have this joke because we. We asked our pediatrician. How long should you do time out for? Have you ever heard like a rule?

[Brian Bates]

Is it a pediatrician's jurisdiction?

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, what we. It wasn't really a pediatrician, but for

[Brian Bates]

the purpose of the job, that's the dentist. How long I should ground my son?

[Aaron Weber]

Who should you ask that?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know, just a friend or family member.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, I guess I'll change the joke. But that's why it's not working. The premise, the setup is not realistic chat GPT.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know who to ask those

[Aaron Weber]

kind of questions anyway. The answer is one minute for every year of their life.

[Brian Bates]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so.

[Brian Bates]

So how old Eleanor right now?

[Aaron Weber]

Five. She just turned four.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It's kind of my joke. Like, I got some good news and some bad news. Yeah, I like, I want her to start dreading birthdays like the rest of us. Like, I don't even talk about it,

[Dusty Slay]

but one minute per year. So a timeout is four minutes, but

[Brian Bates]

for a kid, that feels like an eternity. Right. And we've done seeing the comedy long enough to know four minutes can be a long time.

[Dusty Slay]

It can be, but yeah, I feel like it needs to be longer. Yeah, 40 minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

But.

[Brian Bates]

But maybe you do a multiplier based on the gravity of the offense.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever do a timeout and go, man, it got peaceful out here.

[Aaron Weber]

My joke is that has to flip eventually.

[Dusty Slay]

This house is chill without a 54 minute timeout.

[Aaron Weber]

I would love would be a dream.

[Brian Bates]

They Brian, go take 54 minutes to yourself.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but if they were like, but as you're walking off, if they went

[Brian Bates]

give me your phone, that would change.

[Aaron Weber]

It would be tougher if I could sleep, I'd still do.

[Brian Bates]

But you probably still read the paper, right?

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to. Yeah, I'd like to.

[Brian Bates]

I would love to get. I would love to get the paper to my house and just not. And just.

[Dusty Slay]

What paper?

[Brian Bates]

Any paper.

[Aaron Weber]

You can get the paper delivered.

[Brian Bates]

The Williamson County. I don't even know Times, Tennessee, The Gazette.

[Dusty Slay]

That sounds like not the Tennessee.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you ever have something you want to do, like an activity and your kids act up. And you threaten not to go, but you want to do it yourself, so you give in a little more.

[Brian Bates]

So it's an empty threat.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it happened for us yesterday, Mother's Day. We were going to go out to eat and get some dessert, you know, afterwards, Mother's Day, and Eleanor was just acting, so. And we kept threatening, all right, we're not going. But we both secretly wanted to go ourselves. So we kept like, I'm gonna give you one more chance.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Get this right. Like, I'm coaching her. Like, come on, I want this ice cream.

[Dusty Slay]

We've done that with TV. We got a YouTube channel set up where I blocked a lot of things. And so I'll let my daughter watch some of that. And so punishment. I'll be like, you're not gonna watch tv? But then we're like, well, it's kind of a break for us, too.

[Brian Bates]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course. It's got to be a different punishment.

[Brian Bates]

You can have them write lines or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember that? Do you ever get punished with that at school you got to write.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, I guess so.

[Brian Bates]

I had a teacher once make me write down the definition of sarcasm like 20 times on a piece of paper.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Because I was being sarcastic.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. How long is the definition?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know, but it was pretty long. But I remember thinking, I clearly already know this. Yeah, I'm using it.

[Dusty Slay]

And now you're really effectively in your class right now, and you're cementing it in for me.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. Yeah. I'm learning more about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm learning some new tricks.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You're like this. I'm doing sarcasm. You want to know the definition?

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

I was. Let's say I had one night with Nate in Colorado Springs. That was. That was fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we did a show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just had a quick getaway. We like to do that from time to time.

[Dusty Slay]

Did a spa day.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, just relax and chilled out.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Colorado Springs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I told the story about you going to the Air Force. In fact, remember Cole, our former intern?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, he never met him, but I've heard. I remember hearing about him.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't he come on our show and do the.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I was there.

[Aaron Weber]

College. Oh, okay. That was the day. You're right. You're right. That was the Sonny Gray episode. Okay. Anyway, his younger brother goes to the Air Force Academy, which is a big deal to, you know. Air Force Academy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So his dad came and I met his younger brother. But Cole, it's hard to believe, already graduated from Auburn.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Dude, I thought he just was here making his choice.

[Brian Bates]

He just did the selection show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, just his selection show. He already graduated. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

How about that? Time flies, man. Yuck.

[Aaron Weber]

And then this weekend, I was home. I did Zany's Saturday Night, the All Star Show. And, you know, I'm trying to do new material to my specials getting ready to come up. I don't. And I told myself, no matter how it goes, don't go to your old stuff. You gotta stick with the new stuff. And I went out and the first joke bombed. And by my second joke, I went into my old material. I panicked.

[Brian Bates]

You're doing easy out.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I may start going back 10 years ago. Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But, yeah, it's tough when you're trying to do all new stuff, and especially if you feel good about it. Yeah. And then the first one bombs, you go, oh, dang. Well, maybe this is not good. And then you do the second and it bombs, and you go, do I even know how to write jokes anymore?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It didn't help that the host forgot my name.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's never good. When I had to walk out there, who was the host, I don't want to say. But he didn't. He didn't.

[Brian Bates]

He forgot his name, too, didn't he?

[Aaron Weber]

I do know his name.

[Dusty Slay]

It's never good when the show's called All Stars, but you don't know any of their names.

[Aaron Weber]

He didn't forget my name. He forgot who was next on the list. He got up there, he was like, oh, God. He's like, I gotta. And I just walked out.

[Dusty Slay]

You got one job.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You do in that moment. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

One job. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I've done it, though. It's easy.

[Aaron Weber]

But I say this every time. Zany's Nashville has so many talented comedians these days. Not just clean comics, just super funny guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there's been some fun, fun local shows here.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't seem to agree, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I do, but I was just thinking about this person that I saw on one of the new material Mondays from Out of town, and she was doing, like, really dirty material, and it was bombing. And then she goes, oh, I forgot Nashville. Clean comedy. As if we only have clean comics and as if the audience only likes clean comedy. And the fact. And she's bombing because it's dirty. Because the audience is like, what is she doing up there? And not that her jokes are just bad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Sometimes I'll try new jokes on new material Monday, like I will tonight, and they'll bomb. And I'm thinking, that's just because I'm doing clean material, and you guys don't want to hear that. And then I'll come over here and do Nateland, and I'll bomb again. I'm like, no.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I was wrong.

[Brian Bates]

They were hoping that would go well.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They wanted it to go well for the sake of clean comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It didn't. Where were you?

[Brian Bates]

I was in Salt Lake City. Wise guys Comedy club. Great weekend out there. I went to the. The Mormon Vatican. I forget what.

[Dusty Slay]

That's pretty cool.

[Brian Bates]

It's okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You and I did that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I went back. I went back with. I had Jay Flake with me.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. You mean just walking around downtown?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. No, the actual temple downtown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right downtown.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't think it's bad.

[Dusty Slay]

You said it was okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't believe you think it's great.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the only reason I'm hesitant to say it was great is because everywhere there are. It's under construction right now. And every building that looks like. I'd like to go check that out. It's locked there's only really one building you can go into.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Beautifully manicured.

[Dusty Slay]

I like the architecture. That's what I mean. I mean, I'm not.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

But I. I'm not against the Mormon people. I think they're very n. What?

[Brian Bates]

I'm not either, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Brian. Brian has said, I'm surprised that you like it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, we'll save that for the text thread later tonight.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I like. You know what it's like the first time I went to Salt Lake City.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was the only time it was like this. I don't know what was happening, but downtown there were so many Mormons, and all the women were dressed so nice, and like, they just, you know, they were, like, very modestly dressed, but also very, like, you know, attractive. And I was just like, this is great. I love this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because it was like, you know, they weren't. I don't know, I just felt like, oh, a little step back in time.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember.

[Brian Bates]

I get that.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember our. What we did when we went there?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

We. We spent about 30 minutes walking around, and then you're like, hey, there's a mall across the street. We went over that mall and walked around for like two hours.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, I went to that mall, too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, It's a really nice mall.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's where that guy recognized me and Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And he took a picture with us, and then we go, you coming to the show tonight? He was like, like, nah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I love that. I. I've been. I've walked around a mall where my show is in the mall, and people are like, oh, you doing a show around here? Yeah, right there in this mall. Yeah. They go, ah, wish I. Wish I got tickets.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm here tomorrow night, too.

[Dusty Slay]

It's. It's not sold out.

[Brian Bates]

I'll give you tickets.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Think, ah, it's probably sold out, man. Not even close.

[Dusty Slay]

You can come.

[Brian Bates]

I'll sit you right up front if you want. Great weekend out there, wise guys. Keith is the man. It's just a great club.

[Aaron Weber]

It is.

[Brian Bates]

The shows were all really good. Jordan Macon, or I can't remember his name.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But he hosted.

[Dusty Slay]

He's great.

[Brian Bates]

That's one of those clubs where the hosts are, like, headliners. It was just a hot show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

From the jump. And then we flew to Washington, D.C. i did the D.C. improv on Sunday.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Brian Bates]

Basically perfect club, too.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great club.

[Brian Bates]

It was just so great. And everybody there was so nice. So thank you to everybody who came out to those shows.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I feel like you guys got really detailed about your weekends and I just said where I was at, but I liked my shows too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And I actually like the Mormon people.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too.

[Brian Bates]

Did I know you said it like I was.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I think you. What you would like about it is they have your same philosophy of there's no. If you walk in that church or whatever, there's no images, there's no statues.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

There's nothing.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm down with a lot of. A lot of this. Not all their stuff, but I'm down with a lot of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course, the only Christian that he worships is Christian Bale.

[Brian Bates]

You saw. Apparently he's shouting you out the other.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. That's what I'm talking.

[Aaron Weber]

That was my segue into that. Yeah, I wanted to talk.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what I'm talking about. I mean, that was pretty cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, tell us, tell us.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Shane Gillis was on. Somebody emailed me in in the morning and told me this and I was very excited about it, but Shane Gillis is apparently on a podcast that's here in Nashville. Right.

[Brian Bates]

Busing with the boys, Busting with the boys.

[Dusty Slay]

And he talked about being in a movie with. With Christian Bale. And Christian Bale was like, you'll never believe who I met. And he goes, dusty Slay and you.

[Aaron Weber]

That's incredible.

[Dusty Slay]

And yeah, it was like, really great. Yeah, because even, you know, it's like. What's funny is like Shane seems really surprised by his answer. Well, I was not in a negative way.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, it was more like, oh, this guy. Truly, how big of a fan of stand up he is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Is that. He didn't say, oh, I saw Kevin Hart somewhere.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was Dusty Slay, like a comic.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's really incredible. That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

So he's out there talking about meeting you to other people.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, that's wild.

[Brian Bates]

That is crazy, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

But it validates our story, you know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, most people take me serious,

[Dusty Slay]

but I think they believe us. But I just like it, you know, Here we go. Somebody else saying it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Double talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's what we need out here, confirmation.

[Aaron Weber]

What? Can I share some Nateland news with you?

[Brian Bates]

I would love.

[Dusty Slay]

I just want you guys to know that that is how it goes with everything I say. And you guys will one day realize that and it'll be, you know, have

[Brian Bates]

you ever been Wrong about something.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I have been.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A long time ago.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. No, of course I've been wrong. But I do admit when I'm wrong. But people like to. They love to come at me. They love to. And they go about. There was a post, and I'm not even. I don't even think I'm in the Public figures Facebook group anymore, but I was scrolling Facebook and I saw a post where a guy was talking about how we were talking about the picture with the stars. And he goes. And then they gave him an explanation and they still didn't believe it. And then all the comments were like. Like a true contrarian or whatever. And I'm like, if you believe something and then somebody just presents you with some flimsy picture, you don't just change your whole tune. You know what I mean? Come on. It's not contrarian. It's just like, that's not enough for me. And then now they're, like, putting out pictures with the stars in it. They go, oh, I guess Dusty's on to it. But they are, though. I was at home. I forgot about these movies. Moon photos I took. Didn't put those out day one. But I forgot about these.

[Brian Bates]

Here's. Here's my question. Then we can move on because we've harped on this enough, but do you think the reason the stars weren't in those pictures is because NASA was manufacturing them and forgot to put the stars in? Is that the explanation?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think they forgot. I think.

[Brian Bates]

Why do you think they're not in the picture?

[Aaron Weber]

Nobody will even talk about it. I think Dusty brings it up and

[Dusty Slay]

you're like, oh, well, I think it's all a distraction and they'd rather us talk about it. They don't really care because people questioning the narrative, they don't give it any. I don't think they pay any mind to it. It doesn't make any difference, but it forces us to fight about things.

[Brian Bates]

And you think they deliberately withheld putting stars in the photo so that we would have debates about why there aren't stars in the photos?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, yeah, Mission accomplished.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if this is the. This debate. Is that rampant outside of this podcast,

[Dusty Slay]

but you're not on the same algorithm.

[Brian Bates]

That is true. That is true. I'm mostly John Boy right now. That's what I'm watching.

[Aaron Weber]

I listen to the we're having a Good Time podcast, and you guys should check it out if you haven't. Dusty, you said something There, I thought could be a joke for you because he was talking about the moon, all this stuff, and he's like, why aren't they posting pictures? He's like, if I was on there as soon as I landed, I'd be get on Instagram and Facebook and up. It was just very funny how you present it. Like, why aren't these astronauts going on their socials? And like, look at this one.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly, exactly. I mean, even just from a standpoint of like, even just a fan, like say you don't do anything in entertainment and your new family photos are your big post. Yeah. You can't wait to post them. Yeah. Of course, people, like go on Facebook on Easter or Christmas or Mother's Day. It's flooded with. Oh, look at picture of my mom here. You know, you're an astronaut. You land, you go. I'd be loading it up on the, on the bus ride back to the station.

[Aaron Weber]

The ocean in the capsule.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Floating.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. This went to space.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the wi fi password?

[Dusty Slay]

I'd be live streaming the. The flight down into the. Into the ocean.

[Brian Bates]

You'd be on kick live stream.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if I accept the premise of this. I feel like they're pumping out all kinds of content. They're everywhere. There's all kinds of.

[Dusty Slay]

They're dragging it out. Okay, let's get on with it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me share some Nateland news. Nateland presents The Showcase Season 4. Last week, Heather Land premiere her showcase set this Thursday at 7 o' clock central. We've got Chris Martin. All right, Chris is a British comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

Play?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so. He is a bridge.

[Brian Bates]

Same name as him.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, Chris Martin from Coldplay was in town this weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Was he really?

[Aaron Weber]

He and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple graduated from Vanderbilt.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I just read the state. Then Gwyneth went over to exit in and sang some songs.

[Brian Bates]

You know, the only reason I know that they were married is because when they got divorced or separated, they said that they consciously uncoupled. That's how they worded it. We've consciously uncoupled.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I hope to do with you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, you don't want to do it while you're asleep, you know, But

[Brian Bates]

Chris Martin, I was at that show that he performed at, very, very funny, had a great set. So make sure you check that out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, He's a British comedian, he lives in the U.S. former writer on the Late Late show with James Corden.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

And so we got a new comic every week on the Nateland YouTube channel. Nayland has a new podcast called Life of Dad, and we're recording this on Monday. It came out today. Comes out every Monday. Hosted by Tom Riles, Mike James, and Lee Kimbrell.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a hot podcast.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

Mike and Lee, we know very well, very funny comedians here in Nashville. I know Tom. He used to do warm up for the Ellen show for many, many years. He's the founder of Life of Dad, a worldwide community of dads. They have a huge following. And, yeah, the first episode came out today. That's great. We've been talking a lot of dad stuff today.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we did.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they'll have us on sometime.

[Brian Bates]

But Mike, you know, Mike James has been on the podcast a bunch. Very funny. Lee Kimbrell's a buddy of ours who I'm will be on here at some point. He's really great.

[Dusty Slay]

Just became a dad.

[Brian Bates]

Just became a father. So that's kind of his perspective. But go check out those guys. They're all really, really good dudes.

[Dusty Slay]

And Mike's kids are nearly grown.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So it's got the full spectrum of it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And the Breadwinners coming to theaters May 29th.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Starring us three and Nate.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm pumped about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, and Graham Case, Pete and me. Still out there. Graham was on last week. It is still out there.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not going away, but watch it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, serious.

[Aaron Weber]

It's great. Everybody loves it.

[Dusty Slay]

I like he just said it's still out there.

[Brian Bates]

Watch it while you can.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, let me. The Breadwinner coming to theaters May 29th.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm pumped about it.

[Aaron Weber]

We're very excited. I was listening to the we're having a Good Time podcast, if you guys are familiar with that. And Dusty said he wants to take his kids to see the Breadwinner because they've seen him on TV so often that they don't care anymore. So he wants to see him.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, this is what I said.

[Aaron Weber]

It was the most narcissistic thing I've ever heard.

[Dusty Slay]

This is. No, you know, you know, you know, Brian lies.

[Brian Bates]

This is Dusty. The Dusty's curated YouTube for his kids is all just videos of him. Hey, look, it's your dad on Nashville Square.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

My daughter doesn't even know. I do stand up.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that true?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, this is. This is what I said. That. But caught, like, back in the day being on tv. Was a huge deal. But now we have all these smart TVs. So. Okay, I'm on YouTube. YouTube or something. Sometimes even, you know, sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

Why are you showing them clips of you while they're playing? Like, why are you watching you?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's like if you pull up YouTube, like, you know, I, you know, a video of mine, if it's been watched in the past, may just pop up and they go, oh, there's dad.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

So I'm on the tv. So it's not that big of a deal.

[Brian Bates]

Well, there's. There's no difference in their mind between, like, YouTube on the television and actual.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Stuff that they. That I can just load on the TV myself versus being on tv. So I think it would be. Might be cool for my daughter to. We're sitting in a movie theater.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And watching a movie. And then all of a sudden, there I am. Yeah, I think that'd be exciting.

[Brian Bates]

That would be exciting.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You know, well, May 29th, that's coming out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, go see it. They're on the full press tour right now. Man, I'm seeing it everywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's gonna be good.

[Aaron Weber]

Speaking of Nate, his Big Dumb Eyes tour this weekend will be in Providence, Rhode Island. Albany, New York, Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Syracuse, New York. So.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I also want to say, I am my. My special working man that used to be on Netflix. I had a two year lease with Netflix, so it's off Netflix now. But I'm gonna post it on YouTube on the 26th.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It'll be there.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so how about that?

[Dusty Slay]

So go watch it and share it back. Yeah, it's mine.

[Brian Bates]

I love that.

[Dusty Slay]

So, yeah, so I'm gonna put it on YouTube, so share it with a friend. If everybody listens to this pot that listens to this podcast, shares it with one person, that'd be very good.

[Brian Bates]

And then they share it with one person.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they share it. Put it in an email, say, if you don't share this with 10 people, you'll have bad luck for 5 years.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember those?

[Brian Bates]

I do remember.

[Aaron Weber]

I still see on Facebook. People will do the thing where they'll say, I bet five of my friends won't share this. Isn't it crazy?

[Dusty Slay]

I unfriend those people.

[Brian Bates]

I go.

[Aaron Weber]

They're usually my family members because I consider it. You guys want to get in these comments?

[Brian Bates]

Let's do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. These comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and [e-mail]. this comes from the Man Made Disasters episode comments in this episode, we did not know that it was about man made disasters until most of the way through.

[Brian Bates]

That's on me.

[Dusty Slay]

I liked it. I like that you like.

[Brian Bates]

You like being ambushed with the top.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I just thought you were bringing up stuff.

[Brian Bates]

It was an interesting thing to have Kathleen. It was her first time on a podcast that we all respect so much as a comedian. Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I almost didn't want to step on whatever she wanted to talk about with a topic.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I didn't want to close us in.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Too much.

[Dusty Slay]

I liked it.

[Brian Bates]

We ended up talking about a lot of it, but I know that's the stuff she's. She's into.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Weird stuff like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I tried to shoehorn it in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. This first comment comes from Taylor Brantley. Interesting way to spell Taylor. But this is my first encounter with Kathleen, and I was not disappointed.

[Aaron Weber]

I think everyone's great. Loved her.

[Dusty Slay]

She's great. It's shocking that this is the first time you've heard her, but yeah, she's great.

[Aaron Weber]

You're not great, Taylor, but Kathleen is.

[Brian Bates]

Well, go check out some of her.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm saying that. I'm saying that.

[Brian Bates]

Go check out her stand up if you liked her on here. Yeah, she's like who she is on the podcast, who she was. That's just. She takes that right on stage, and that's who she is. That's. That's pretty cool. People are like, she's the female version of Dusty. A lot of people are saying, you guys really vibed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we. Well, we do vibe. She's not as into the conspiracy as me. You know, when I tried to get into a bit of the conspiracy with the Malaysian airline, she shut that down pretty fast. But I like that she's digging in.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, she digs. Yeah, she digs.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. This one's coming from Adam Schmidt, the Rearranger. Or maybe fing slay.

[Brian Bates]

Fang slay thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Slay. Yeah. I don't know how to say it, but, yeah, I know. Fing sway. Feng shui.

[Brian Bates]

What does this say? Feng shui. Feng slay.

[Dusty Slay]

Fung slay. I don't think it's a good. I don't think it's a good name because none of us can say, well, but I like where your head's at.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good pun, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a good pun. I like where your head's at, but, you know, we can't say it. I even know what feng shui is, and I still, still couldn't get it. So that's tough. But I think maybe we call it because someone did talk about the spelling of rearranger, that if you don't put that little hyphen in there.

[Brian Bates]

Rearranger.

[Dusty Slay]

Rear ranger. So that could be a different kind of shot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And you're a ranger for rears.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bravo.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I did a. A corporate last week for the Kentucky Petroleum Marketers Association.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And that.

[Dusty Slay]

Petroleum.

[Brian Bates]

Petroleum.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Kmma. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, kp. Yeah. Kpma. Oh, I left off the P. Yeah, yeah, kpma. Okay. But that was tough to. I had to work on saying. I kept saying Kentucky Petroleum.

[Dusty Slay]

How do you.

[Brian Bates]

Spoonerism.

[Dusty Slay]

That sounds like the, you know, no offense to them, but it just sounds like the most useless organization. How do you have to market petroleum? We're getting it.

[Aaron Weber]

It.

[Dusty Slay]

We're buying it.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think a lot of their work now is making sure that they have like the same incentives from the government as like EVS and stuff like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. So they're not marketing to us, they're marketing to the government.

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean, I don't really understand what they do. They're very nice people.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably marketing to like Shell or somebody.

[Brian Bates]

Like, look, I know they had a heck of a cheesecake at the reception. That's all. That's all.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what people ask me sometimes with corporates. They go, do you cater your material? Material?

[Aaron Weber]

I go.

[Dusty Slay]

Most of the time I don't even know what the company is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. You find out up there. What do you guys do?

[Aaron Weber]

Was there a silent auction?

[Brian Bates]

There was a silent auction.

[Aaron Weber]

Anything good?

[Brian Bates]

They had a lot of interesting stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you get anything?

[Brian Bates]

I didn't. I thought about it. I thought about getting a Larry Bird jersey autographed by Larry Bird. It was pretty cheap, but then some. Some other guy got it.

[Aaron Weber]

Keep looking at my shirt. It's. It's my new merch here. Yeah, I was at 8th and roast across the street before this and barista said, that's a funny shirt.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How about that? Brian's got on the new Aaron Weber bobblehead T shirt. I've got merch for the first time. That's a great long time.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a great shirt.

[Brian Bates]

That's Zach Woomer, who has done some work with you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Bates]

Z guy out of Philadelphia. Really talented.

[Dusty Slay]

Zach's great. Zach artist designed my cover for my Crock Pot comedy album. Yeah. Kind of an unknown album, but it's a good. It's a good cover.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait, wait, Go grab some merch.

[Brian Bates]

I got those at the shows. Come out and get them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. This episode is sponsored by Better Help May is mental health awareness month. Reminder that whatever you're going through, you don't have to do it alone. Life is a journey. You know that guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Some days feel good, other feel overwhelming. Really. Whatever's keeping you up at night, it's easy to feel like you have to figure it all out on your own. But the truth is no one has all the answers except Dusty. And no journey should be alone.

[Dusty Slay]

It is true.

[Aaron Weber]

Have some. Having someone with you to listen, to understand and to support you can make all the difference. Therapy can be a place to gain unbiased support with maybe in mental health awareness. This is an opportunity to check in with yourself and understand where you are right now. Maybe you've been feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, unsure.

[Brian Bates]

Just pointing at me for all of these. I don't. Because I use BetterHelp.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought you meant like. Like a wreck.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't have to be on this journey alone, guys. Find support and have someone with you in therapy sign up and get 10% [e-mail] public figures wow, look at that guys.

[Dusty Slay]

We did it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's better. H e l p.com public figures Donna

[Dusty Slay]

Worley if we return to horseback standard of. To the horseback standard of travel we can look forward to Brian's easier to canter tours.

[Aaron Weber]

Well that is true.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Canter is a good word. Not trot, not gallop. Canter. She. She picked the best word.

[Dusty Slay]

She did.

[Brian Bates]

I like dressage, something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what that means.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's where they like crip walk.

[Dusty Slay]

I think she's related to Daryl Worley.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, probably. She has to be.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Not a lot of whirly's out.

[Aaron Weber]

There's not.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I like this one. This guy got on this name quick. Yeah, he was the. He was early to the Internet here. This is Bob.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if that's his email address. Bob gmail.com.

[Dusty Slay]

if Aaron hears a horse with no name in other context does he then need to go?

[Brian Bates]

Interesting Like Pavlov's dog. Yeah. Do I have a Pavlovian response to the song? Not yet. I'll tell you. I have a Pavlovian response to cheesecake.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Finish Soul man, which is the song. They play that song before every show at Zany's for 30 plus years. I think they've played that same song before every show at Zany. So when I hear it elsewhere, I get a little rush of adrenaline as if I'm about to go on stage.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Brian Bates]

If you were in your car and you started to hear Soul man on the radio, you'd be like, yeah, kick into show mode a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Get nervous.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you get a little nervous.

[Dusty Slay]

Turn. I'd turn it off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I would. I'll change the channel. I don't need to hear this, man.

[Aaron Weber]

One of those guys who I think lived in Nashville recently passed away.

[Brian Bates]

The guy who wrote it, I think I was at a show once. He came to the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I was at a show once when he was here.

[Brian Bates]

And maybe we. Maybe was the same show.

[Aaron Weber]

Could have been.

[Brian Bates]

We've done a lot of the same shows together.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I know that guy's name too, and I can't.

[Aaron Weber]

Steve Blue Brother Crawford. Wait, I didn't know Steve Cropper.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they say it in the song.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Steve Cropper, ladies and gentlemen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, there's. Okay, because there's two songs that Zany's plays before.

[Brian Bates]

It's Soul man and then another song.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, so the other one, I, I, that's a country singer, Blues guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

His daughter used to come to the shows. Okay, very good. But I can't think of anybody's name right now. Okay. I have a newborn and I don't get the best sleep right now.

[Brian Bates]

I, I hear you.

[Dusty Slay]

Jake Stevens. Aaron has told the origin story of Dusty's wave a few times before. And I swear, it gets me.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's supposed to be every time.

[Dusty Slay]

Every time. Okay. Just picturing Gotcha during a show that's not going well is the most hilarious thing to me. Yeah. You know, you think about, you know, if you, if you wave to somebody and you put your hand right in front of their face and you go, gotcha. You know what I mean? I, like, I really was playing around with the wave for a while, trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and now, I don't know, I'm still waving on stage, but now I can't, I feel like I can't do the joke anymore. I've done the joke on the Tonight Show. I did the joke on a Netflix half hour. I did the joke on Working man, and it's like. Like, I can't keep doing the setup. And without the setup, you know, some people will know what I'm doing.

[Brian Bates]

I think you're stuck.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you're. I think you're like Bert with taking a shirt off, but I think you're stuck.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But, you know, who doesn't like a wave? You know, you go, hey, all right. We're having a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Welcome to Loves.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that is. You know, you walk in, you got. Yeah. They go, welcome to Loves. And you just give them away. If you don't have to say it. Anything, you just wave all the way through. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know? Yeah, I love doing that. I got new wave jokes now, though. I'm not gonna do them, but I do have some new ones.

[Aaron Weber]

Some new wave jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Not new wa. New wave. Like, not like the music. Oh, they're not new wave jokes.

[Brian Bates]

Like, nu. With two little dots on it. Whatever. You know what I'm talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You remember new metal? We grew up on new metal. Corn, limp biscuits, stuff like that. Yeah. And it's new. And you with the two little dots,

[Dusty Slay]

you know, I loved one album by Corn.

[Aaron Weber]

I grew up on Corn.

[Dusty Slay]

I liked. Yeah. The real stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But. But Limp Biscuit is one of my favorites.

[Brian Bates]

They were so unironically awesome for so long.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know where that was going.

[Brian Bates]

So in.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, the first three albums, unbelievable to me.

[Brian Bates]

To the Matthews Bridge.

[Dusty Slay]

But it felt like then Fred Durst felt like he was trying to get too cool with rappers. Right. And then eminem on the D12 album, his final track on that D12 album, Roasted Fred Durst pretty hard. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I feel like it took all history cred. Maybe wasn't even a popular album, but that. That roast was pretty strong, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Some of these, you know, Kevin Hart just did a. They just had a roast for Kevin Hart.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Last night.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They can, I feel like, change a perception of someone if they just keep going in. I'm not seeing anybody necessarily last night,

[Brian Bates]

but you know what it also can do? If you sit there and laugh at the jokes about you, that can change the perception of you, too. Like, a good way Lizzo. Yeah, in a great way. Lizzo was on there last night, took a beating, just relentless. But every time they cut to her, she was, like, dying laughing. It seemed like she loved sincere and I was just like, oh, maybe she's super cool. I don't. I have no idea. The Bieber. Justin Bieber roast before that, I thought of him as kind of a joke. I remember because I'm older than him and I was just like, this kid stinks. Like, his music. And then he did that roast and he handled it so well. I was like, oh, this guy might rule. I have no idea. It can change your perception of people.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Yeah, I agree. Can you take a joke? Yeah, but I don't think that's how you. You. You know, when you listen to Eminem roast, Fred Durst and that song, you didn't come away of that going, I bet. I bet Fred loved that. You know, But I do think Fred is. You know, he's still out making it. We're on a first name basis.

[Brian Bates]

I think that they still are. They're huge in, like, Russia stuff right now. Eastern Europe.

[Dusty Slay]

No West Borland. To me, when West Borland left, that was kind of the. The end of. Of Limp Bizkit for me.

[Brian Bates]

The fourth album, the Monkey Mask.

[Dusty Slay]

He was the guy who had the big pupils. Yeah. That's played like the six string bass or like. I don't know what he played. He played guitar, but it was. Had like a seven string on it or something. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he looked crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think he left when it was turning a little bit, like, because, you know, they were getting into rap, but it was almost like they were beefing. And I think my feeling is Wes was like, I don't. I'm just trying to play music.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get back to the good vibes of Limpis Ye.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly. Okay. Luke. Arian. Dondo area. Ariadondo.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Redondo. What do you think?

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. As someone named Luke, I have an. I have to unfortunately remark that Luke wasn't an apostle. He was an evangelist, but not an apostle.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's my bad.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thank you.

[Brian Bates]

That's all good.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks for clearing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Wrote a book.

[Brian Bates]

It's an easy mistake to make.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that. I love that that's his last name. But the comment starts with as someone named Luke.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, dude, we're not focused on that first name.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's talk about that last night, bud.

[Aaron Weber]

Luke was a doctor.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. What do you think a doctor was doing back then?

[Aaron Weber]

I bet you would trust a doctor back then more than you would.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he probably had herbs and stuff and he probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just good stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm into that.

[Brian Bates]

And everyone died at 35.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, that's what they say, but I don't believe it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't believe it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the Middle Ages. I think you're. I don't know, Jesus time. I think people live longer than that because Jesus died at 33. Like, well, he was going to die two years anyway.

[Brian Bates]

No, but I don't think he was a young man. He wasn't considered a young man at the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, people grew up harder. So, you know, they probably aged quicker because, you know, you had to do

[Aaron Weber]

stuff like 70s or 80s.

[Dusty Slay]

You didn't get to wake up and go, ah. And then, you know, watch Netflix and microwave a Hot Pocket. And I guess I better go to the store, right? Pick up some energy drinks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Get the day going.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. I could wake up and work. Hope I don't get diarrhea or my whole family will die this week.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. See, I think that's what it is. I think there were more diseases.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, gosh.

[Dusty Slay]

So. So there would be more kind of like bigger die offs. So when you com. Combine the ages die off.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds like a competition. So when you're having a real die

[Dusty Slay]

off over there, so you had people living like 90 to 110, but then you have all these people dying of

[Brian Bates]

leprosy, saying that brings the averages, it

[Dusty Slay]

brings the average down. That's what I think.

[Brian Bates]

I'd like to see the mean. Mean. The median and the mean.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, just.

[Brian Bates]

Just to see.

[Dusty Slay]

These comments come from the geography episode. Amy Ball. Miller Graham is one of the best guests. Plus I like to learn geography, believe it or not. I ended up getting myself a big map of the US And I have it hanging in my living room so I can follow along better when you guys talk about the States. I guess I need to get a world map now.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think you do.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, I'm sorry I was having a hard time.

[Brian Bates]

I honestly think you need to find a better podcast for yourself.

[Dusty Slay]

She said, thank you, Amy. She said, believe it or not, we believe you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's really nice. Thank you. Do y' all do that? Do you ever plot out? I've got on my Google Maps, I got every venue I've performed.

[Dusty Slay]

I do too saved on there.

[Brian Bates]

So you can kind of. I zoom out and just look at. That's all the places I've done comedy right there.

[Dusty Slay]

I do that too. I guess I can't put it on the screen, but I.

[Brian Bates]

You can take a screenshot and send it to me.

[Dusty Slay]

I do that, too. Look at that.

[Brian Bates]

I want to see. Yours is probably much more than me.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the thing about it is, they're probably similar, but when you zoom in, more start to open up. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, if you were to zoom in here to just, like, the Nashville area, there's all, like, all kinds of little places.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it's fun to see. I also got a little map at my house with little pins.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Just to keep an eye.

[Dusty Slay]

Believe it or not.

[Brian Bates]

Believe it or not. I got one.

[Dusty Slay]

You can believe it if you want to, but you don't have to.

[Aaron Weber]

I think she was implying.

[Dusty Slay]

Now I like it. I appreciate her.

[Aaron Weber]

This is how lame I am. I so into you guys that I went and got a map to follow you now.

[Dusty Slay]

We appreciate it, Amy. We do appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we do.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. This we do. I don't need it to sound like it doesn't, but I just. When she said believe it or not.

[Brian Bates]

I know we joke around a lot, but we really do, so thank you, Amy.

[Dusty Slay]

Believe it or not, guys. Okay, this one's. Next one's coming from Becky. Just a one name here.

[Brian Bates]

Becky with an eye.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

With the good hair.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I. I don't know where that's coming from. I thought you were gonna explain it, but Beyonce reference. Okay, Say what you want about Dusty's A.I. use.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, I will.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm about to.

[Dusty Slay]

But when I played his raccoon song for my husband and daughter, they both said, why do I like this so much?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, boy.

[Aaron Weber]

I think everyone's loving it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great song.

[Brian Bates]

Where is it in the video? Where I can actually go to when the video starts? Right here. Okay, here we go. Here. I'm going to play a little bit of it. Do we have the copyright to this? Oh, nobody does. It's fake.

[Dusty Slay]

Hold on. So I've been creating these dark tone things. These are good songs. I threw some steak on the ground that I wasn't gonna eat. Guess who came along and said, look at this meat. It was a raccoon. And he really loved that steak. The way he was going to town. I knew he thought it was great.

[Brian Bates]

He was looking around like, no one will believe this.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, really, What a dream this truly is. I mean, it's a good jam.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow, it's a hot song.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, don't die now. It's just, you know, I just took this, some footage from my own trail.

[Brian Bates]

That's the real raccoon from your yard.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And that guy's living large.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I found some Old kind of freezer burn steaks that were dug deep down in there. And I go, I. I got the trail cam. I want to see what happens.

[Brian Bates]

You already had the song made at this point?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I made the song around the video.

[Brian Bates]

All right, I like. What was the prompt for this little Nora Jones esque.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I get it. I get into the prompts.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I really dig in. I got some other ideas right now. I got a good trailer park song.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's very funny.

[Brian Bates]

You put Morgan Wallen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And now none of the AI country is not very good.

[Brian Bates]

I hate sounds very hokey.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I hate the AI country voice. So I do more. I like more lounge songs like this. I got a bathroom song that sounds like a Disney song. It's very good.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty. AI is killing us. You're the big. You're the problem.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I figure it like this there, you know. You remember John Henry? The story of John Henry? He used to. He worked on railroads or whatever, and then the steam engine came along, and John Henry was like, I can beat the steam engine.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And so he raced the steam engine, and then he beat it.

[Brian Bates]

But didn't he die?

[Dusty Slay]

And he died, and the steam engine continued. I go, why try to fight the steam engine?

[Brian Bates]

Because you're gonna die anyway.

[Dusty Slay]

Just work with the steam engine.

[Brian Bates]

Might as well sing about raccoons.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Who needs water?

[Aaron Weber]

I know for a fact your daughter asked you a question about Jesus and she said, let's go ask ChatGPT.

[Dusty Slay]

That is true, too. And that's where I was like, this is dark. You just asked your dad.

[Aaron Weber]

And then if I don't know, I'll go ask Chad.

[Dusty Slay]

Because, you know, this is what I think is scary about AI though. I. I watch some tiktoks and people they talk about, they say, don't use AI because they go, oh, it said some stuff to me. And then as they keep talking, they reveal that they're like, just having conversations with chat gbt like it's their friend. Yeah. I go, don't do that. What are you doing? Talk to me on TikTok. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm out here.

[Aaron Weber]

You are out there. Every time I go on Twitter, I'm like, why am I reading this person's post? I don't know who they are. And then I'll scroll down. It's because Dusty's replied to them. I love it. It's the reason I stay on Twitter is just to watch Destiny.

[Dusty Slay]

It's fun. And most of the ones I respond to are probably bots, but I just. That's why I'm like, I don't care. I can insult them because it's likely they're a bot. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I think it's fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, Next is Sane Kane.

[Brian Bates]

Sane Kane.

[Dusty Slay]

As a graphic designer for the last 25ish years. The advent of AI will probably mean I won't be able to retire as a graphic designer. Maybe I should pivot to being a chiropractor.

[Brian Bates]

Interesting. Think of a way to combine the two, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, there is a way, because a lot of times you can. You can use AI to create a graphic and give yourself an idea of how you might like it to go. But, you know, if you're. If you are a graphic designer, you can probably do a better job, you know, but you can get, you know, you can get. Get. You get a little thing in there where I can design a pretty good poster, I think. But then when you start putting the text on there with AI, it doesn't look very good and you don't want to do your face. You can do a poster and. And then you could draw the text on there and stuff. So I think there is still room. But it's not just graphic designers. AI is going to take a lot of jobs.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I would also say, S. Kane, if you've been a graphic designer for 25 years, I mean, the amount of. Of technology that has entered into your industry since then, I don't. I mean, maybe AI is like, fundamentally different than the rest of them, but you've adapted to all of these other changes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. 25 years ago. What are you using? Colored pencils?

[Brian Bates]

Pre Photoshop?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, using crayons and markers, colored pencils, cutting out newspaper letters.

[Brian Bates]

Serial killer. But, yeah, get into chiropractor.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You'll adapt, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know why I said that about chiropractor?

[Dusty Slay]

Because.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, because Dusty said that's his backup career.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I love a chiropractor. A lot of us in here, we go to the same chiropractor. We go to Bradshaw in Old Hickory. Great, great. Chiropractor.

[Brian Bates]

What's his name?

[Dusty Slay]

Brad Shaw Bradshaw.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you said it like I was one.

[Dusty Slay]

His last name is Bradshaw.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Dr. Bradshaw.

[Brian Bates]

Was his first name Brad? No, Bradley Bradshaw.

[Dusty Slay]

First name's Doctor. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Is he a doctor?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what a doctor is, but.

[Brian Bates]

Does he have an M.D.

[Dusty Slay]

guys, I call him doctor.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a doctor.

[Dusty Slay]

Capra. I call him. Mr. Dr. Bradshaw. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You request calls you doctor as well.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He's great though.

[Brian Bates]

I always think of that. Hannah's old joke. Who's your doctor? Dr. Dre.

[Dusty Slay]

Remember that joke?

[Brian Bates]

That's a great joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Can I use that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Can I get all her old material?

[Dusty Slay]

I took one of the jokes.

[Brian Bates]

Did you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I, you know sometimes, somewhere. Yeah, sometimes when my older comic friends will quit comedy. But they, you know, they don't announce that they've quit. They just kind of are not doing it. I go, I asked a guy one time, I go, he, he said he was retiring. He later denied it, but he said he was retiring. And I go, hey, hey, can I have some of your jokes? Because he had some good jokes. Yeah. And then next thing, he never responded. And then he's like doing comedy again.

[Brian Bates]

I go, that was the kick that he needed to get back in.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

He's like, dusty Slay's interested in my stuff. Maybe I do got something.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. This is a tough last night here. Chandler, repair.

[Brian Bates]

Let's do, let's go.

[Dusty Slay]

Repair. Yeah. Chandler, La pair repair. That's a tough loss.

[Brian Bates]

Sure is.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty. Well, all right. Well, I like it. Dusty is 100.

[Aaron Weber]

Correct.

[Dusty Slay]

If anyone says they want to stay with standard time and not switch, then they don't know what daylight savings time actually is. If everyone understood it, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who wanted it to get dark at 5pm I agree. Because they ask the question, they go, do you want to get rid of daylight savings time? And people go, yes. So they go, yep, people want it to. Because I think most people would like it to be lighter later. Now people that go to work early, probably, I don't know, I prefer going to work when it's dark. You don't even see what you're missing.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody get together, figure something out. But we don't have to change the clocks, right? You know, just figure something out. I don't know. I don't want to get into the weeds.

[Aaron Weber]

30 minutes. Meet in the middle.

[Brian Bates]

Let's meet in the middle. I say that would really mess.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's make it so that the sun comes up at 10 o' clock in morning.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we're working on dimming it right now and then we're gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Once we block it out. Stop this. This is the name of the next person we went from Bob to this. Stop the Lego motion. The US tried doing year round daylight savings time in 1974 and had to cancel it due to public outcry. Over how dark and dangerous. Dangerous it was in winter mornings.

[Brian Bates]

You're not going to please everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

People are going to get upset no matter what. What you do.

[Dusty Slay]

And this was 1974. People could get outraged about things back then. Now we're outraged every day about something new.

[Brian Bates]

You had to work for your outrage back then.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What, you had to write a letter.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

To your senator or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Now people would be outraged until the next thing came up to be outraged about. So I say everybody's outraged all the time. We're on edge, Brian.

[Brian Bates]

What was that like? Like, did you. Did you have outrage?

[Aaron Weber]

1974. I was alive, but I don't remember that.

[Dusty Slay]

What are you born? 72.

[Aaron Weber]

71.

[Brian Bates]

Why? You have to overshoot it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I knew that. 10. 10. 10. See, I'm born in 82.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, 91.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Spring, guys. It sneaks up on you. Next thing you know, it's wedding season.

[Brian Bates]

We're already there.

[Aaron Weber]

Big trips.

[Brian Bates]

Spring now, is it?

[Aaron Weber]

All right, let me start over.

[Brian Bates]

No, keep going. I'm just saying. I mean, it did sneak up on us. It's already here.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, let me start over. Spring snuck up on us, guys. Didn't it?

[Dusty Slay]

Didn't it feel like it snuck up on you out of nowhere? I didn't even know it was spring.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. Well, that's because it's your new year. It's. You're still in the first month of the year, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But suddenly it's weddings, trips, rooftop hangs, and way more photos getting taken. And I realized that if I wear glasses, you're in the same frames in every one of those moments. And I wanted to mix it up a little bit. So if you don't actually love your frames, you start noticing it in real fast this time of year. Because there's a lot going on before I found Warby Parker buying glasses. I'm gonna be honest with you guys. It felt like a chore. It was either confusing, overpriced, or just not great styles. Like, why did it feel like I needed a whole system just to figure out what I was buying? And don't even get me started on trying to get it to guess if frames would look good from a tiny picture online.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I won't.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why we love Warby Parker. They just make the whole thing so easy. Their virtual try on is insane. You just use your phone camera and can see the frames on your face in real time. Our producer, Abigail, has done it. It's not confusing. It's so clear. Unlike others. Here she is doing the virtual try on. It's. It's so easy. And she got exactly what she saw during the virtual try on. Here's the best part. I even got to the best part yet. Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, God.

[Aaron Weber]

Their prescription glasses start at. Anybody want to guess? I'll tell you. $95.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good deal.

[Brian Bates]

That's a really good deal.

[Aaron Weber]

So you're not stuck choosing between cheap looking frames or spending a fortune. Warby Parker offers also offers contacts, eye exam sunglasses, basically everything in one place. So it's the perfect time to upgrade your glasses for spring. Buy one prescription pair and get 20% off any additional prescription [e-mail] Nateland that's 20% off additional prescription pairs when you go to W A r b y. Parker.com Nateland

[Dusty Slay]

Michelle Parker. You are all mispronouncing Colorado, but not in the way you make fun of Brian. For native residents say call arado.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's rado.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how she Colorado. Okay. I was born and raised there and heard it pronounced that way my whole life. I moved to Tennessee when I was in my late 30s, and I was shocked to learn that nobody outside of the state, or at least nobody in the south, pronounces it correctly. Well, Michelle, listen, we don't care, okay? We're not going. How do they do it? I'm from a town called Opelika, and nobody even in the state could sometimes pronounce it correctly.

[Aaron Weber]

Clearly, you guys do care, because when I say it the way I want to say it.

[Brian Bates]

Opela. How do you say Opelica?

[Aaron Weber]

Talk about Colorado.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's fine. It just was funny to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Me.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, thank you, Michelle.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Michelle.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, everybody, I don't know if you noticed, but when we started this podcast, I had three drinks over here and I'm down to one.

[Brian Bates]

And you need to take a break.

[Dusty Slay]

I need to take a. Just a real quick break.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Finally, dude, let's talk about NASA.

[Aaron Weber]

Go to NASA.gov are we going to keep going?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we can keep.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, we can. Do you want to wait on him? I mean, we can vamp the two of us.

[Aaron Weber]

We've been here long enough.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we've been here long enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Been doing this six years, man. We can figure something out to talk about. So what are your hopes and dreams? Yeah. What would you say your biggest fear is?

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty leaving the room and we just have to talk to each other.

[Brian Bates]

It's just me and you. Have you had Friends like that in your life that you think is a very good friend, but you realize they're not a good one on one friend. Like, I have comedy friends where I'm like in a group, we're buds, but then one on one, it's like, I need somebody else to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

To really carry this.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me ask you this, okay. If you were in a car ride with someone you didn't know, would you prefer there'd be two guys in the car you didn't know or just would that make it more awkward or less awkward?

[Brian Bates]

It would make it less awkward to have two people you know, don't know. But do they know each other?

[Aaron Weber]

Let's say no.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. No, that's way less awkward because then it's three people meeting each other.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then there's always that weird dynamic where only I would want one person in the front, one person in the back. Don't you hate when you're driving and there's people in the back and they're having a good conversation, you can't even hear them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you're stuck up there like an Uber driver.

[Aaron Weber]

Does that happen a lot?

[Brian Bates]

I think so, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You see an olive just back there setting it up? No.

[Brian Bates]

No. But sometimes, like if they're. If you're driving a big group, like

[Aaron Weber]

a family, somebody gets out the front.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it's just like you and like, you know, a whatever aunt in the front and you're driving and then they're having so much fun in the back and you can't, you can't hear them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you talk and they can't hear you. Oh, Dustin, we missed you, man. Good to see you, dude. Yeah, we really got into it.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, good.

[Brian Bates]

What's your biggest fear?

[Dusty Slay]

Well.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, the Hannah virus.

[Dusty Slay]

No,

[Aaron Weber]

how do you say it?

[Dusty Slay]

Hanta? I don't know. What are my fears?

[Brian Bates]

I'm talking about like clowns or spiders or stuff like that. Do you have any fears, like ghost.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah, I'm afraid of ghosts.

[Aaron Weber]

What about demons?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think they're pretty much the same.

[Brian Bates]

Same?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you know, aliens, ghosts, demons, all one and the same. And also I think there could be some good, you know, some angels, but I don't think angels are going to be presenting themselves in a scary way.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Although in the Bible they were always scared when they showed, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I think. Yeah. I mean, I think any supernatural being is a little scary.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And if you saw some of the, you know, the figures that are described in heaven in the Bible, those would be pretty scary, you know, like the. I mean, there's some wild ones, but. Okay, so I want to say, before we get into the topic, you know that I love to trash people in the comments. It's really fun to me. But I do appreciate that you guys write in and watch the podcast. Yeah. It's more fun for me to make fun of you. And I was thinking as I was peeing that, Michelle, that I was saying we don't care and we don't care how you pronounce Colorado. But. But I appreciate you listening to this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You get some of your best thinking done while you're peeing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Sometimes they're very long. My. Sometimes I wake up in the night and I go to the bathroom and my wife wakes up and she thinks that there's water running because it's been going for so long.

[Aaron Weber]

Turn that faucet off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I got a strong bladder.

[Brian Bates]

I had food poisoning this weekend. Oh, real bad, man. Woke up at 4:00am I just threw up for four hours straight.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Brutal.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry to hear that.

[Dusty Slay]

Growing up, what do you think it was?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I couldn't pinpoint. I didn't. I didn't eat that crazy the day before. I think it was just something. Something hit me the wrong way.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I had a joke like that, I think, where I said, I get food poisoning and they go, oh, I never. I've dropped the joke. I think it's a good joke.

[Brian Bates]

You can't narrow down what caused it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

When you just eat bad all the time, it's really tough to narrow.

[Brian Bates]

It's a joke for you. But that was my real life.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Could have been Chipotle. Could have been Taco Bell.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It could have been the gas station hot dog.

[Brian Bates]

First of all, Chipotle and Taco Bell on the same day is insanity. I've never done that.

[Dusty Slay]

Never done it.

[Brian Bates]

No. I've gone to. I've gone to the same fast food place more than once in a day. But those are some low, dark days

[Dusty Slay]

in my life where you go. You have that joke where you go, see you tomorrow. And they go, you know, you'll be back today, or something like that. You say that to them, you know, I'm coming back tonight.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know what? Hannah gave me the tag. Oh, yeah, I remember that. I'd forgotten about that joke. Maybe I'll bring that back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

It wasn't bad, but it was one of those, like, you know, you're driving to a gig and back, and I got McDonald's on the way, and then you're driving back and you need gas around the same time and. Yeah, look, I'm not proud of it.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, you have a. I'm older than that now. You have a whole album that was Lost.

[Brian Bates]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

And you should do all those. Like when I watched your half hour signature dish. Yeah, I liked it. But I was like. I was like, there's no jokes from the Aaron Weber Lost album on here. Yeah, it was a lot of great jokes.

[Brian Bates]

I gotta record them somewhere. Yeah, I'm gonna record him.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. This week I had this idea and I've been told more by more than one person. It's probably a bad idea.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. But you. You've been told by two people that we think it's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. And that you guys are all I care about.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

But I want to prove these other people wrong.

[Brian Bates]

And Michelle Parker.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. So back years ago in Nateland, even before Dusty joined, we did the decades, we did the 70s, we did the 80s, and we did the 90s. And those. They were fun. Yeah, they were fun to do. Obviously, you were too young to remember the 70s and 80s and not much of the 90s, and Nate couldn't remember a lot of it either. So it's more fun when we have real memories of these events. So I suggest, you guys, what if we start with the year 2000 and not do decades, but go year by year?

[Brian Bates]

I love it.

[Dusty Slay]

I love the idea.

[Aaron Weber]

And it could get tough because I think a lot of these years are going to be kind of starting to get a little similar as we go, but we're going to see what happens.

[Brian Bates]

Things are going to take a turn in 2001. 1. I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but a 2000, I think, was a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. And I'm not saying we'll go every. Like, if we have a guest or something. We're not going to just force it on them. Sure. Kind of like the states we're going to go.

[Brian Bates]

We can revisit it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

States which we still haven't finished.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you're right.

[Aaron Weber]

We're going to keep doing those, too.

[Dusty Slay]

We did talk about it, but then I feel like you sprung now. 2000 is a. It was a pretty memorable year for me.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

So I think. But I feel like you kind of sprung this date I. On us today. No, where you go. I don't Know, I. I wasn't ready when you go. We're going to be talking about the year 2000 today.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought I said that in the text to you guys.

[Brian Bates]

Do you need to go pee again before we record this?

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, in the book, we're having a good time. I talk about the year 2000 a lot. I don't know if I say it by the year, but, you know, the year 2000 is when I graduated. How school.

[Brian Bates]

In the year 2000.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, well, let's start with what we were all doing there. There's 10 years apart, each of us. So it should be a little bit interesting to see what we're all.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, you started 2000 in a bunker for Y2K.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

So, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Talk a little bit about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What were you doing in 2000?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, in 2000, I was, you know, I. I had, you know, it's my second half of my senior year.

[Brian Bates]

Well, can I ask, do you remember. You all remember the Y2K? Let's start at the very beginning.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you want to go in chronological order?

[Brian Bates]

Well, not necessarily, but it feels like a good place to start talking about the year because it'll illustrate what different places we were in life.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Going into the year 2000, I was eight years old.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So I have memories, but very different memories than the two of you would have had.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember Y2K? Tell me about what that was like.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I was 28 years old.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And I was working at TV news station. So it was well on our mind

[Brian Bates]

and it was covered. You covered it a lot on the show.

[Aaron Weber]

The night of New Year's Eve, we. Yeah, leading up to it, we had a lot of stories on it to prep for it. And then on New Year's Eve, we had it like, super staffed to see because we didn't know what was going to happen. And if everything started crashing, we wanted to be ready.

[Brian Bates]

What was worst case scenario? Do you remember?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I think it's like airplanes

[Brian Bates]

would fall out of the sky.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Like, that was worst case scenario. Like, people just didn't know. And I feel like. Because the truth is, nothing really happened.

[Dusty Slay]

Some small things, according to some people. Some people believe the world ended and now we're all living in a simulation.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, well, put a pin in that. I would like to get back to that.

[Aaron Weber]

I would, too. I would say hold that thought. Some very small things happen, I think, but nothing major. And there's the argument. Conspiracy theorists say, oh, it's just the Media overreacting and all of that. I don't know if that's conspiracy theorists. And I would say it's no, because we got the word out and people did the proper adjustments.

[Brian Bates]

They spent years and hundreds of billions of dollars to prevent things from happening. So a lot of people made sure that the world wouldn't fall apart.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't remember when I first heard about it.

[Brian Bates]

It.

[Aaron Weber]

It probably was before 1999. But 1999 especially started ramping.

[Brian Bates]

We're all procrastinators. We knew about it for years, but

[Aaron Weber]

yeah, so all these basically, if you don't know what Y2K is, most computers ended in two digits. 99, the year 99. And when it rolled over to 00, they were afraid would think it's 1900. Is that right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was. The way that coding worked. Yeah. Decades and decades ago is you really had to consolidate information to save space. So they started abbreviating, you know, a four digit year. They cut it down to two. And that saved all kinds of space in the code and programming. But then that started to cause all kinds of problems. Think about the banking system, the financial system, everything that has all this code written in and all of a sudden it's two zeros.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like there were people trying to swipe their credit card in like 97 and their expiration date was 2000 and the machine wouldn't know how to process it. So they had problems leading all the way up to. But yeah, yeah, that spent hundreds of billions to fix this. You got to reprogram all this stuff. And then pretty wild.

[Dusty Slay]

Wild.

[Aaron Weber]

What was your luck? You remember better than I do. What was your memory of it?

[Brian Bates]

I remember, you know, whatever. I think I was eight years old.

[Dusty Slay]

Was.

[Brian Bates]

I was that second grade? How old is eight?

[Aaron Weber]

It's probably second, maybe third.

[Dusty Slay]

Second or third? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Second grade. Yeah. I don't remember. I remember hearing about that something might happen, but I. And I remember watching the news and stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian on there.

[Brian Bates]

Seeing Brian in Montgomery, Alabama. We were watching. We watch a news Channel five. Yeah, I don't, I don't remember a ton about that. I think. Was it a Sunday? I think I remember going to church on New Year's.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so. I could be wrong about that, but I really don't remember.

[Dusty Slay]

My grandmother was worried about it and she never came to our house. But she came to our house that night, you know, to stay. And I was 17 and I was like, you know, we were. We always partied on New Year, but we Were me and my friends were a little scared. So we went to downtown Auburn, but we didn't go into downtown. And me and a few of my friends, we kind of sat on the outside watching the countdown, you know, kind of hoping.

[Aaron Weber]

What did you think was going to happen?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we thought, you know, that. Well, to us Auburn was, you know, it's pretty big city. That's the closest we got.

[Aaron Weber]

But what would happen? Like the traffic light would start flashing.

[Dusty Slay]

We didn't know. We thought, what. What is going to happen?

[Aaron Weber]

Happen?

[Dusty Slay]

Right. We weren't conspiracy theorists, but people were acting. I was very much asleep back then. But people would, you know, they were talking that some stuff might go down and we were like, what's going to happen? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you just wanted to be in it when it happened.

[Dusty Slay]

We wanted to see it. Yeah, yeah. But we wanted to be outside of it so we could get away.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, and then, you know, from our standpoint, nothing happened. Happen.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. But realistically, maybe we're living a simulation.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, some people do say that. I don't believe that, but I think that I don't believe in the whole simulation thing. But they're probably some, you know, they call people NPCs non playable characters. People are just walking around out here. But they're not real. People do say they're out here. I kind of tap into that a little bit. But. But yeah, no, I don't. But people do say that. Even like, even like 2012 with the Mayans calendar, a lot of people are like, that did happen. Or some people even say that the Mayan calendar was a little off and they meant 2020 when covet happened, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But 2000 was great.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so we've established I was working at News Channel 5. Yeah. You were in second or third grade.

[Brian Bates]

Second or third grade.

[Aaron Weber]

You were graduating high school that year.

[Dusty Slay]

I had my. Yeah. You know.

[Brian Bates]

Is it January you're going into senior year?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm senior year, you know, as it, you know, because it's like, you know, whatever it is, August to May,

[Aaron Weber]

I graduated 1990, 2000. 2010.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I graduated in May of 2000. So my senior year is still.

[Brian Bates]

So you've had senioritis for years now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'm. I mean, I'm having a good time though. I'm partying a lot, you know. You know.

[Brian Bates]

Are you thinking about college, getting your studies?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, not thinking about college whatsoever.

[Brian Bates]

Extracurricular I had.

[Dusty Slay]

They had like a work exploratory or Something. I forget exactly what it was called.

[Brian Bates]

A job.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, you could get a job as long as you could prove that you had a job. You. We had the block scheduling, you know, so you had four classes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And you could get out of school on, on the fourth block.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

So I. Oh, that second half, I only went to school for three blocks, so I would get out every day early. But my job wasn't until like you know, four or five. So. So I could sit around, I get out at 1 and go see a buddy of mine and then go home and play some video games.

[Brian Bates]

Getting out of school at 1, at 17, that's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Right? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You had a car at this point?

[Dusty Slay]

Had a car, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What was the car?

[Dusty Slay]

I think by this point it was a four door 1999 Saturn with great.

[Brian Bates]

1999 new.

[Dusty Slay]

But it was practically new. Practically new. My dad bought it. But it was. Was very basic. Gray bumpers, stick shift, no power steering.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

No power windows.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Very unattractive car. I had CD player. CD player for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, one that I had installed myself where you could take, you remember how you could take the screen off? Oh, so cool. Had a little graphics on it and, but I, you know, I had a, a Ford Bronco 2 and then a full size Bronco leading up to that, which were very cool cars, but. But they were pretty raggedy.

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[Aaron Weber]

You know, they say that the older you get, we all say this, the faster the years go. And it really does feel that way. And in a way, it's mathematically true because like, like Daisy's five today.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I was just thinking about this. Go ahead. But, yeah, I was just thinking about this.

[Aaron Weber]

So she just completed. A year is 1/5 of her life. Whereas for me, a year is 1/54 of my life. So you look at it that perspective, you can see why it feels that way. And the other thing. I'm sorry, there's more thing I was gonna say is you feel like a decade can pass and you're like, what happened? When you're a kid, the years are defined by what grade you're in.

[Brian Bates]

Totally.

[Aaron Weber]

So there's a clear distinction between years. You're learning different things and different grades. It's easy to separate them. But then you get out and get a job and your 10 years will pass. You're like, what happened? It's all runs together.

[Dusty Slay]

I had that exact thought, thought today because my daughter turned five today. And I think it's like, it seems like it was no time from her being born to being five years old. But the four years less time that I spent in high school seemed forever. Like forever.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

When I graduated high school, I felt like I'd lived just full life.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Like so many life experiences. And, you know, now I've have done it three times.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think you're, you're. You experience fewer new things as you get older. Right. And your brain only perceives the passage of time insofar as it is experiencing new things.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

New sensations, new sights, new Sounds all of those things.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember graduating and I went to an eye doctor, and this pretty attractive, whatever, the. I don't know, woman, she wasn't the eye doctor, but she was receptionist. Whoever is in before you see the eye.

[Brian Bates]

The hygienist.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but that's the dentist.

[Brian Bates]

The eye. Gentle.

[Dusty Slay]

But she said to me, she goes, you know, they say high school is the best years of your life, but she said, that's not true. Don't believe it.

[Brian Bates]

No one ever did. They say that.

[Dusty Slay]

They used to say that all the time. The best years of your life. And I go, I had a great time, fun, but it was nowhere close to the best years.

[Aaron Weber]

Did she say what they were?

[Dusty Slay]

No, you didn't.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I miss it.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you say there's a difference between the most fun time of your life and the happiest time of your life.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Right. Like, wouldn't you say these last five years with your children and with your wife and your career doing well, that's the half. I mean, that's. Yes, you're happy. On a deeper, more profound level, I

[Dusty Slay]

would for sure say that out loud

[Brian Bates]

on a public podcast, but you know what I mean.

[Dusty Slay]

No, for sure. It has more meaning to it.

[Brian Bates]

Totally.

[Dusty Slay]

But in a lot of ways, you're

[Brian Bates]

having more fun in Charleston, drinking and smoking and getting in fights.

[Dusty Slay]

Honestly, I would say some. I think about this a lot. The. The last two years that I lived in Charleston, where I didn't drink and I rode my bike everywhere and I took control of my life. I look back on the. As like two of my happiest years.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Even though, you know, my life, I'm much more 6. I had no money. Yeah. I had. I had a. I slept on an air mattress at my apartment. Right. I lived in a really crappy apartment. Yeah. But it was downtown. I was getting off work at Hyman's, eating frozen ice, frozen yogurt every day. The time. Going to coffee shops and sitting and writing jokes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just had a full day off. Yeah. Nothing. No responsibility.

[Brian Bates]

Nobody relying on you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Nothing. Not. I didn't have a car. No car payment, no insurance, no health insurance. I'm just walking down to the coffee shop, living the drink, drinking a coffee, eating an oatmeal raisin cookie and writing jokes and, you know, writing jokes and staring at women and it was a beautiful time.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Beautiful time. And. But my life has more meaning now. And I am more appreciative.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I don't know. I don't know where I got off on that.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know why you rejected my wording of that. Because I think we're saying this same thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, maybe we are. Yeah. I just h. Wanted to say the.

[Brian Bates]

I think people say. When people always say high school's the best time of your life or college is the best time of your life, I think they mean it's the most fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, maybe you're right.

[Brian Bates]

But it's not the best time of your life. They say the happiest time of your life is the years after when you become an empty nester as a parent. That's when, like, statistically, the baby boomers, you're the happiest because they go.

[Dusty Slay]

Because then we went down to Florida and abandoned our grandkids. Well, I'm just kidding. I'm kind of kidding.

[Brian Bates]

But I think it's that. That stage in life when your children are adults.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's when people are.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I should be headed into right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you'll get there. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

With, you know, technological advances and.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'm gonna get on board with AI.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Freezing. You're gonna have to come. You're gonna. Transhumanism.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, humans and robots combined together.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It'd be a bit of a cyborg.

[Brian Bates]

Download your subconscious onto a hard drive.

[Aaron Weber]

I bought my first house in 2000.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

In Donaldson, not too far from Europe. Really, Donald? Yep. I still have it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. That's your. Okay. Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of people don't know that Brian's a real. Real estate.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I paid $67,500 for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

In 2000.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Bought at auction.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was one of those.

[Brian Bates]

Murder in the house or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably. There was, I guess, I don't know, the bank foreclosed on it or something. Some real estate company bought it, fixed it up to flip it, and sold it at auction.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

I bought it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Would you have bought. Would you feel weird about buying a house somebody got killed in? Buddy in college had a. We called it the murder couch. He bought it at a police auction. We think somebody was shot and killed on the couch.

[Dusty Slay]

That's tougher than the house.

[Brian Bates]

It was a white. That's what I was thinking is a white leather couch. It's a great couch.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

But there's some stains.

[Dusty Slay]

That's insane.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, some blood stains.

[Brian Bates]

We don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

We could be syrup.

[Brian Bates]

We didn't do a lab.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no stains. It's Gonna be really good to have on that couch.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Some bullet holes.

[Brian Bates]

It's a nice couch.

[Dusty Slay]

That's comfy. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it was the murder case.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You have to disclose that kind of stuff, right, when you sell the house?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess so I think you have

[Brian Bates]

to say people have died in it or whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you can ask the question, are the murderers still around? Is this a neighborhood thing?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Who did it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Was this like a fluke thing or is this a problem in the neighborhood?

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's happened three times just in this house. Also became an uncle in 2000.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And where was comedy at this point? Were you even thinking about it or no? No, not even.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a sister born in 2000.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

At 18? Yeah. My dad remarried and had another daughter.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

We.

[Brian Bates]

It's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

She was born in 2000. My grandfather was born in 1900.

[Aaron Weber]

That's wild.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's quite a spread.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I've told this story before, but in 2000, my dad and I and my mom went to. But just. She didn't care. We went down to spring training and

[Dusty Slay]

I just like that. Me and my dad. My mom went, too, but she didn't care.

[Aaron Weber]

She was just being nice, tagging along. Yeah, of course. But we. We drove down to Florida for spring training. We were big Braves fans. We went to brave spring training. I think we had this misconception that spring training is going to be not so many people and that you're going to be a little bit more like

[Brian Bates]

the secret thing, like backstage almost.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because it's almost like practice and interacting a little bit more with the players. And that wasn't the case at all. It was packed.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

They're ticketed games.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

2000, you said?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, the Braves were coming off. Coming off the hot 90s of the Braves.

[Brian Bates]

Rest in peace, Bobby Cox, by the way, over the weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's the game. I mean, I went to more than one spring training game, but I've told this before. Andrew Jones caught the third out out center field, threw it in the stands, and I caught it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

That's.

[Brian Bates]

A Hall of Famer did that to you.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Is he in the hall of Fame?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Andrew this year.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's in. He's in the hall of Fame.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what else happened Braves around that time? John Rocker.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys remember that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I do remember that.

[Aaron Weber]

That happened. I. I had to look it up,

[Dusty Slay]

but I don't remember it. But since you're talking about him being

[Brian Bates]

the best reliever in baseball. Is that what you're talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm talking about him being your favorite player based on a Sports Illustrated article you read. You're like, this guy gets me.

[Dusty Slay]

I went back and looked. I did not remember John Rocker 2000. I was not paying attention to any of that stuff. But I. That guy's wild.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He doubled down multiple times. But this article came out over Christmas in 1999. So right before 2000. Then they banned him from spring trading for like a certain. Like a month or something. And then he appealed it and they lowered the band. So I saw him down there. It was the media. There was a media frenzy because this was when all this was happening. So I remember that happening.

[Brian Bates]

And I used to love how he. He would sprint out of the bullpen like a crazy person.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you've ever watched Eastbound and Down, they say that that character, Kenny Powers is loosely based on John Rocker. Just his energy on the field.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So, yeah, it's crazy. You were there when that was going down.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Oh, another incredible sports thing that. Right when 2000 started, I think January 8, 2000, I was at the game. One of the greatest, most memorable plays in FL history. The Music City Miracle. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

You were at the game?

[Aaron Weber]

I was at the game.

[Brian Bates]

The same seats that you still have the season tickets.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't have season tickets anymore.

[Dusty Slay]

But what happened?

[Aaron Weber]

It was the first season of the Tennessee Titans.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

In their new stadium.

[Brian Bates]

You never seen this play, Dusty, I don't think. Famous NFL play.

[Aaron Weber]

And this is the set, the scene. This is the playoff wild card game. First. The first playoff game the Titans are hosted. Everything's the first year of the Titans and they'd had a great season, but Buffalo Bill scored a touchdown or maybe kicked a field go. Bottom line is they took the lead with 16 seconds left in the game. It appeared the game was over and the Titans great season was over. And then they kick off. And we don't have to watch the whole thing.

[Brian Bates]

No, I want to see the.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to see crazy play. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's he doing here, this Frank Wycheck? He throws it back across the field to Kevin Dyson.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And as I think I've shared on this before, Nate loves the story. I'm yelling, get out of bounds. Get out of bounds.

[Brian Bates]

To try to get a field goal

[Aaron Weber]

because I didn't think he was going to make it the whole way. And I wanted him to get out

[Dusty Slay]

of bounds before the clock expired.

[Aaron Weber]

So I'm the only one in the stand yelling, go out of bounds. But he scores, and it's incredible.

[Dusty Slay]

The lateral really never works. Yeah, but that's why it's a miracle.

[Aaron Weber]

And people in Buffalo still say it's a Ford pass that he did. It was very close.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I. I get that argument. I get it.

[Dusty Slay]

Especially if you're Buffalo.

[Aaron Weber]

But they did have instant replay then,

[Dusty Slay]

because, you know, in Nashville, you know, our team's not very good, but Nashville's cool, and Buffalo has great food, and I like the. I like the Bills, too. But I'm just saying the city, people. The city is not as cool as Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I like it. I'm going to be there November. Come see me at the.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying I don't like it, but. But you get what I'm saying, though.

[Brian Bates]

Of course. Of course.

[Aaron Weber]

And the Titans went all the way to the super bowl that year.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The first year.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Lost in the Super Bowl.

[Brian Bates]

It's been.

[Dusty Slay]

Who'd they lose to?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the Rams. St. Louis Rams.

[Brian Bates]

Kurt War, Greatest show on turf.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. I was in. I watched that game in Manchester, New

[Brian Bates]

Hampshire, in standard definition, I'm sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably. Probably because that was the 2000 presidential election, which was the crazy election with Bush and Gore that, you know, had to go to the Supreme Court. But that was the New Hampshire primary, which is a big thing. Gore's from Tennessee. So we were up there covering, and we went to a bar to watch the Super Bowl. The Rams took a pretty good lead in the first half, and for whatever reason there was, everybody in there was cheering for the Rams, and I was getting so mad that I left at halftime, drove back to my Motel 6 pretty far away. Watch the game. Second half in my motel room by myself. Had to go back to the bar after it was over to pick up my friends who I left. But I was so mad.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that attitude. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You wouldn't stand for the Titans fighting, slander.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Year one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm a die hard dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I've been with him since day one. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Nobody took. It was taken as a serious. My friends weren't as upset as I was, and they were making me mad.

[Dusty Slay]

I get that.

[Aaron Weber]

So I had to go watch it by myself.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that attitude.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Gore got the nomination for the Democrats, and the Democratic National Convention was in LA that year, and I got to go to LA to cover the convention.

[Brian Bates]

Is that when you met that?

[Aaron Weber]

That's when I met Martin Sheen.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. From the West Wing. President Bartlett. Yeah. That's amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys party, you and Martin.

[Aaron Weber]

So we did not party, but I was just the right place, right time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think Martin partied a little bit. You got something like Charlie sh. Yeah, I think he partied a way in the day. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you watch that Charlie Sheen documentary, I think he alludes to some partying.

[Brian Bates]

The Martin, he's pretty straight laced these days, though, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

But I just happen to be staying the rest.

[Brian Bates]

This was, like, such a crazy busy year for the two years, y'.

[Aaron Weber]

All.

[Brian Bates]

You both had so much going on.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd say more for. For Brian. I was mainly hanging out. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Got a Saturn.

[Dusty Slay]

I was mainly. I was mainly partying with my buddies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I was being nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Second half of 2000 got wild, though, for me because I graduated and my mom was gone a lot, and I kind of took out. Took over the house. And this is a trailer. No, this was a. You know, know, When I was 15, we moved out of the truck.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So. And I. Yeah, I mean, the house became a bit of a party, but we get into that and the. We're having a.

[Brian Bates]

Were you working right at. Right out of high school?

[Dusty Slay]

I worked at Jim Bob's Chicken Fingers in high school, and then I quit that. And then I think by the end of 2000, I was working at Papa John's or Western Sizzling. Maybe both. Yeah, I did a little. Little stint in each. I think it was Papa John's first started delivering pizzas.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I was really doing something with myself. And a lot of people were asking

[Brian Bates]

me, how's Papa John's back then?

[Dusty Slay]

It was so good. It was actually so cool, you know, because it was like. It was kind of on the line of Auburn and Opelika. So there were a lot of people from Auburn that worked there. A lot of people I went to high school, worked there. We had a cool crew. Yeah. You know, and it would just felt fun. Like, I feel like you see pizza livery places now, and it feels. Feel sad. Yeah, it can, but not. But back then, man, it was like we had a cool crew, attractive women working. I know I've said that a lot, but it makes things better.

[Brian Bates]

This is a real theme.

[Dusty Slay]

We're talking about the year 2000. I'm 18 years old.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But you know what I mean? But it's like, it makes things cooler, you know, if you're at a party and it's all, dude, makes you step

[Brian Bates]

your game Up a little.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly. Everybody presents themselves a little better.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody's trying a little hard.

[Dusty Slay]

We also had a bit of a goth faction at the Papa John's that I worked at. You know, a couple of people that worked there were a bit goth, you know Goth.

[Brian Bates]

They said golf.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, no, not, not golf.

[Brian Bates]

Pictured everybody looking like pains.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no, the opposite, the opposite of that.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Goth. Painted fingernails.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we had a few because the new metal. The manager was kind of a goth guy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then. So a few of his friends worked there. But they were cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know. Yeah. I mean, they were older.

[Brian Bates]

Black eyeliners.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, stuff like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Getting into it, were you into it?

[Dusty Slay]

I wasn't into it, but I like them as people.

[Brian Bates]

You had an arm sleeve at one point, I'm sure, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean I, you know, I was, you know, I had flame boots and I listened to. I was listening to Slipknot and what

[Brian Bates]

do they call those? Arm socks. You remember what I'm talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I would just see kids at the mall with this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me ask you guys this.

[Brian Bates]

I was never this stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I never had that. But I did wear some fingerless gloves for a while.

[Brian Bates]

Oh God. Why?

[Dusty Slay]

Because I was cool.

[Brian Bates]

Why would you do it when you were doing what? Just hanging out, Fingerless gloves.

[Dusty Slay]

Just being cool, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Big sleigh.

[Aaron Weber]

You should try it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah,

[Aaron Weber]

I never really got into video games. I had an Atari when I was a kid. By the time I got to college, my roommate had a Nintendo. So we would play that. But that was it. But this says, in 2000, the PlayStation 2 came out the best selling video game console of all time.

[Brian Bates]

It was incredible.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember playing that, that quite a bit. PlayStation 2 was Tekken, Tag, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto.

[Aaron Weber]

And the reason, Some of the reasons. See if this rings true for you guys. At launch in 2000, standalone DVD players cost more than the console itself. So many people bought the PS2 just to watch movies.

[Brian Bates]

We did use it almost primarily as a DVD player in the house. Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't even know it could do that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, it could. And then, and then the later consoles were. Became Blu Ray players too. And people did the same thing with that.

[Dusty Slay]

We were for sure doing that, but we were playing games. Yeah. I mean, cuz it was tag. And tag was really fun because I, I moved, I. I moved into a trailer and all my buddies would come over and we would like, you could play tag and tag where you rotate. So we'd have a whole room full of people, you know, they're all smoking cigarettes inside the trailer and what's ticking T Tech.

[Brian Bates]

That's the game I have pulled up right here.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, fighting game.

[Brian Bates]

It's a fighting game.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So you just, you know, you're just playing and yeah, it was interactive because you're actually, it wasn't online. You're actually hanging out with your friends. It was a, it was a great time.

[Aaron Weber]

That was the best time of your life.

[Dusty Slay]

One of them. I had many best times of my life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there is with video games. It did used to be very social in the fact that community. There would be people there in the same spot playing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Bates]

And I know that it's still community based, but it's all online now and it's just a guy alone in his room. I know, but I remember the sleepovers and. Yeah, hanging out and it's like 10 people in a room.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Halo 2, that was, that was our big one. We were growing up. But yeah, it's the same.

[Dusty Slay]

But Even like Nintendo 64, Goldeneye, Smash Bro Bros, all that stuff. Me and my daughter are playing Smash Bros on the 64 at home today.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What about the Sims?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I love the Sims, but that

[Aaron Weber]

also came out in 2000.

[Dusty Slay]

Not a social game, but I had, I had the Sims.

[Aaron Weber]

What is the Sims?

[Dusty Slay]

It's, you know, you just, you know, you on a computer. I had it on a computer. And you're just, you know, you, you know, you like create a person and then you can, you know, get in a relationship and make a family and you get a job and you build a house and.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I should have been into the Sims.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Help me out.

[Brian Bates]

Sim City. I was real into Sim City.

[Dusty Slay]

There was a Sim City 2000.

[Brian Bates]

Sim City 2000 is probably the best.

[Dusty Slay]

It was really good. Really good.

[Brian Bates]

So much fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I love those simulation type games.

[Aaron Weber]

The other big thing that happened in 2000 was reality shows blew up. That was the year Survivor came out.

[Brian Bates]

Big Brother still on, by the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Still on season 50.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess they do two seasons a year, Moss. But I just remember that too. Like, I've never really. I mean, obviously there's some reality shows I've watched, but I didn't really like it out of the the gate. But Survivor was on my network. It was a CBS show. I mean, still is where we worked. There was a woman from Clarksville, Tennessee that was on the first season. Those people became celebrities. Yeah, that was. People have to say, oh, back. We had three channels. Obviously we had a lot of channels in 2000, but still, it felt like. Like you could become a much better chance of being a celebrity.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what I'm talking about from earlier in the conversation. Like, I've been on TV a bunch and my kids don't even really have a concept of what that is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course they're young, but back then, being on that was the only screen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You know, so they're correct in a way. Yeah. Kids, they're correct. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just love Mike. Our algorithm, if we put up YouTube, would be Ms. Rachel and Peppa Pig and Bluey. That's what in your house, I just see all these dusty sleigh videos.

[Dusty Slay]

We got a few YouTube channels. I got, you know, I got my YouTube channel. I got the kids YouTube channel. I gotta. Yeah. And then I got another account.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's just. It's just fun to think about. Like.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, because I got stuff that I wanted to go through, my kind of news stuff that I like to watch on one, and then I got more the comedy one one. And then I got one for the kids. But some of them creep into the kids one, you know, it's bound to. Yeah. And I, you know, I show the kids the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I thought they go, this is boring. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you go, tell me. That was a tough week.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember back when I told you I went to the Democratic convention in LA in 2000.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

It was at the Staple center and they had like in the lobby, different things, not, not politics related. On display. Like tech companies were showing stuff. First time I ever saw HDTV was. Was there on display. They were showing it. The difference in it and the quality.

[Brian Bates]

It's crazy, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you gasp?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I gasped, but I was a little bit older than you were when you saw the iPhone.

[Brian Bates]

I remember at a friend's house, Will Clark was my buddy, he had an HDTV in his house. And we went. It might have been the Super Bowl. It was a football game. San Francisco Giants and same name. But I walked in and I was like, whoa, that looks. I've never seen a TV that looked like that. And then it was so fun to see as people showed up. Everybody walked in and was like, whoa, what kind of TV is this? It's crazy. Yeah, you see standard deaf TV now and you're like, we were watching that. Dude, that looks terrible.

[Dusty Slay]

Even sometimes. Like a YouTube video. That's five or six years old.

[Aaron Weber]

What is it?

[Dusty Slay]

Crap.

[Brian Bates]

It's like four ADP.

[Dusty Slay]

And you're like, dude, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'm not gonna make my eyes try to watch this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The other thing, I. I still think I still have this magazine. I was trying to do some research before we went out to LA to be up on it, and there was a Time magazine article. I think Al Gore was on the COVID And I thought, I'm gonna buy this and read about just to catch up on some stuff. There was an article in there about this new website called Google. Google, wow. And I'm like, okay, this sounds pretty cool. I'd never heard of Google until I read this article. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And they're doing pretty well now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's before they took do no Evil out of their mission statement. Do you know that?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

Their original mission statement was do no Evil. And then they kind of unceremoniously took that out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Once they took down Ask Jeeves.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Ask Jeeves is gone.

[Brian Bates]

Their Alphabet now they're not even Googling more.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

But the company's called Alphabet.

[Aaron Weber]

At the. At the Grammy Awards that year in 2000, Jennifer Lopez wore a plunging green silk dress. I think probably remember.

[Brian Bates]

I should look this up. It.

[Aaron Weber]

It became such a search, global search, that Google created Google Images.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I see why, but that's pretty crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

They created Google Images because of this dress.

[Brian Bates]

Because so many people wanted.

[Aaron Weber]

So many people were googling it and they didn't want text based. They obviously would just want to see it. So they created Google Images.

[Brian Bates]

I don't want to hear some dude's description of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I want to see it myself. I thought that was interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So what music were you guys listening to in 2000?

[Brian Bates]

2000.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll help.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe joint. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Let me see. See what was.

[Aaron Weber]

What was going on at the Grammys. Santana won eight Grammys.

[Dusty Slay]

For sure. Was listening to that album with Rob Thomas and Smooth, he tied Michael Jackson.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Smooth. One record of the year. Album of the year was Supernatural.

[Dusty Slay]

That was great.

[Brian Bates]

I want to say. Was smash mouth. Was this a big smash mouth.

[Dusty Slay]

Somebody wants to start. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I ain't the sharpest.

[Aaron Weber]

The Marshall Mathers LP.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Marshall Mathers. Oh, Smash Mouth. All Star was 1999.

[Dusty Slay]

Great album, though. Great album.

[Aaron Weber]

NSYNCS, no strings attached.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. This is like boy band era is

[Aaron Weber]

the huge boy band era.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then like Eminem and the new metal is all kind of a rebellion against that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

NSync and Backstreet Boys and all those guys.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I sent you a link

[Dusty Slay]

to what other music you got there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, keep going through it.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, Well, I think I might have to.

[Brian Bates]

You want to go to the movies?

[Aaron Weber]

Those are the top domestic. Yeah, either one's fine.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we can get movies right here. 2000.

[Dusty Slay]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas. That was a good one, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the Jim Carrey?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Gladiator. Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good list.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if Meet the Parents X fans, I wouldn't say it was

[Aaron Weber]

one of the best years for 99.

[Brian Bates]

Was like one of the best years ever for movies.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I went through this list and I was like, whoa, I didn't realize Sixth Sense tanked at the box office because it's like 108 on there. Yeah, yeah. It's because it came out in 99.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was just trickle over from the. The year before.

[Dusty Slay]

Big Mama's House. You remember that? Martin Lawrence. Yeah, it's very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Martin Lawrence is great.

[Brian Bates]

Big mama's house. 17 million.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, the Patriot and what women want. Mel Gibson had a big year.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then things just got. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, Jim Carrey had a big year, too.

[Dusty Slay]

What else was Jim Carrey in?

[Aaron Weber]

When I look through that list, I'm

[Dusty Slay]

like, oh, remember the titans gone in 60 seconds away? Me, myself and Irene. Okay, so that's two.

[Aaron Weber]

That's two. I feel like I saw a third one on there.

[Dusty Slay]

Unbreakable.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Space Cowboys.

[Brian Bates]

Green Mile.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For the Oscars, I just had American Beauty.

[Dusty Slay]

That was a hot one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What was going on at the office? Gladiator won this year. I'm pretty sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Where did I. Braveheart won the year before. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

American Beauty 1.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Best pitcher beat out the sixth sense, cider house Rules, the Insider, and the Green Mile. Green Mile was shot here in Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, that's a great movie.

[Aaron Weber]

Old Prison.

[Brian Bates]

So Gladiator must come out later in the year, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

So did win.

[Brian Bates]

He had one stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe the next year we'll talk about that 2001 episode. Okay, sports. We can talk more about music or we can talk about TV shows.

[Dusty Slay]

I just wanted you to read a couple more bands from the. From 2000 or albums.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't have the list here in front of me. I just had the top selling. The top selling album in the United States was In Sync, Snow, strings attached,

[Brian Bates]

number one song of 2000, Breathe by Faith in Hill.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was a good one.

[Brian Bates]

I don't really. I can't think of that. By the name. How did it go?

[Aaron Weber]

It would definitely.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it says just breathe or something. I don't know. Is that it? Okay. That's a good song. But Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas. Unbelievable. Maria. Maria. That was a good one.

[Brian Bates]

That made my heart. How does Smooth go?

[Aaron Weber]

Smooth.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I know. I know it, but I. I can't catch it. I can't.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know the lyrics.

[Dusty Slay]

I can say my name. I was a big one.

[Brian Bates]

Vertical Horizon. Remember them? They had, like, three great songs.

[Dusty Slay]

Bent by Matchbox 20. Amazed by Lone Star. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Three doors down. Rest in peace, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Kryptonite. Oh, gosh.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron, what TV shows were you watching?

[Brian Bates]

A lot of Law and order at age 8?

[Aaron Weber]

Going on 9.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. We're a big Law and Order family.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Probably, man.

[Aaron Weber]

West Wing.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of not West Wing yet. West Wing just started in the year 2000.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, maybe it was 2000. Yeah. I think 2000 is when it started. So we hadn't caught on yet. I was watching a lot of Boy Meets World. I think I'm. I'm starting the age where I can watch six comms. So is Boy Meets World, you know, Family matters.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that 2000 house? Oh, man, those are great.

[Brian Bates]

I'm catching the reruns on, like, I think it was called Fox Family at the time, and then it became ABC Family, and then Disney Channel had reruns and then the Disney Channel shows for kids, Lizzie McGuire, stuff like that.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you got for 2000?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I sent you a list of the top shows, I think as far as this, Emmy Awards, The West Wing 1 Outstanding Drama Series. It beat out the Sopranos, the Practice, Law and Order in er.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Friends and Frasier. That's big.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Willie Grace won best comedy series, beating out Frasier, Friends, Sex in the City, and Everybody Loves Raymond.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody loves the West Wing is.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Drew Carey show. I used to love that show. I really did. I thought Drew Carey show was great. And nobody ever talks about it now, but I love that show.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, they don't.

[Dusty Slay]

You didn't like it?

[Brian Bates]

I. I never watched it.

[Aaron Weber]

I never watched it either.

[Brian Bates]

I never watched.

[Aaron Weber]

So I have to take your word on. I mean, it was great.

[Brian Bates]

I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember the theme song like Cleveland Rocks.

[Dusty Slay]

Rocks Ohio, because it took place in Cleveland. Oh, yeah, it was great. Some of these shows, Tristan liked it.

[Aaron Weber]

So many of these shows from the 80s and get it together. Yeah. These shows in 80s and 90s, so many of them are just known now. For their.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's give a shout out to Tristan. Giving a thumbs up on that, you know, when we. When we come. Because people did comment. We want more.

[Aaron Weber]

Tristan, how old are you?

[Brian Bates]

Tristan, that's enough. All right. What do you think?

[Aaron Weber]

The.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think? The best. Let me do a clean cut. This might be a clip, depending on your answer. You gotta wait. It's gotta be clean. It's gotta be. Hold on real quick. Let's do it. Let's get real quiet. What do you think the best sitcom theme song is of all time?

[Aaron Weber]

Golden Girls. Pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

Golden Girls has got to be number one.

[Dusty Slay]

Fresh. Fresh Prince.

[Aaron Weber]

Fresh Prince is up there.

[Dusty Slay]

Best of all time, probably. Yeah. I mean, come on.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, there's so many good ones, though.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the golden hair? Dukes of Hazard's great. Waylon Jennings.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Really great.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think this will be a clip, but I'm enjoying the conversation.

[Dusty Slay]

What is your. What's the Golden Girls?

[Brian Bates]

Thank you for being a friend.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's a good one. That's a. Travel down the road and back again.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Andy Griffith. They just whistle, but that's pretty iconic. I can't whistle, but. Yeah, that's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Can't whistle either.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, I'll share a few sports facts and then we can wrap it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

The World Series was the.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

We matter. It's a grand tradition this day and age to read any good news on a newspaper page. That's a good one. Love and tradition of the grand design. Some people say it's even harder to find. That's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

It's beautiful, guys.

[Dusty Slay]

There must be some magic glue inside these seven.

[Brian Bates]

You know, Steve, you ever watched the beginning of that show? Steve Urkel. Not. He's kind of a whatever character.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then he just steals. Every scene he's in. They go, we got to build the whole show.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Happy Days was kind of like, my friends, really.

[Brian Bates]

Fonzie was just a side quest character.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I'm sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

My friends at the Confused Breakfast podcast, they have a really great theory following. Yeah, that's what it's called.

[Brian Bates]

That's what this podcast is.

[Dusty Slay]

Sometimes it's most of this last five minutes, it's following the actor who plays Carl Winslow, whatever his name is, through. Through movies like Die Hard and Crocodile Dundee and.

[Brian Bates]

And.

[Dusty Slay]

And. And on into Family Matters. And it's my favorite movie conspiracy of all time.

[Brian Bates]

That it's the same character.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, obviously it's. You know, it's Fictional. It's very good.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I've seen it.

[Dusty Slay]

Because you've shared it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Very good. Confused Breakfast podcast. Not this breakfast. You should do it, though. You should do the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

I would love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Sports. The 2000 World Series was the Subway Series between the Mets and the Yankees.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, the Subway Series.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember that. Do you know what a memorable moment from that World Series?

[Brian Bates]

The Yankees won.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The guy ate a sandwich.

[Brian Bates]

Was there. Was there a fight?

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of. You're getting close.

[Brian Bates]

Was it something with Roger Clemens? Yeah, something.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. Mike Piazza, his bat broken back the mountain, and Clemens just kind of heaved it toward Piazza. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's still weird. His aunt, like, I think he said, oh, I thought it was the ball. Then he was like, I wasn't just. I just wasn't thinking.

[Brian Bates]

It was just.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I wasn't zoned out, but it was kind of crazy. Okay. Dusty's like, move it along.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, these guys are fired up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

High tea.

[Aaron Weber]

2000 Olympics was in Sydney, Australia.

[Brian Bates]

This is the steroids. They were ramped up on everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The 2000 Olympics was when Vince Carter literally jumped over a guy to dunk.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And we won gold that year.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Lakers won the NBA championship. It's their first of three straight. This is Kobe and Shaq.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Beginning of the three peat. Phil Jackson's the coach at this point, too, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I've already covered this Super Bowl. Well, that was the 99 season. The Super Bowl 2000 season. Titans were the best team in the NFL.

[Dusty Slay]

Really.

[Aaron Weber]

But couldn't get past the Ravens.

[Brian Bates]

Couldn't get it done. The Ravens were good. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. That was fun.

[Brian Bates]

That's it.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a good year. Y2K. We were the class of the new millennium.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe we should do that at the end of each year. We should just give it last thought. Was it a good year? Was it a bad year? What do we think? It's a good year for me. I was just cruising through second grade.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was a great year. I graduated high school. I got money from my family for graduating. I. I used it all summer to not work and buy, you know, recreational activities for me and my friends. And we partied and it was in Papa John's and I worked at Papa John's and probably Western Sizzling, too. And Office Depot. Maybe now Office Depot was later.

[Aaron Weber]

But is this when you were telling people you're going to go to Auburn or.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I was actively lying about attending Auburn, probably at parties and when did

[Aaron Weber]

you join the army?

[Dusty Slay]

2001.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, we'll get there. Yeah, Save it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would say 2000 was a good year.

[Brian Bates]

Good year.

[Aaron Weber]

It was, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where does it rank out of 54? It wouldn't be the top 10 year.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I don't think so. I don't think so. I've said this before. I like my. I was 28 going on 29. I like my 30s better than my 20s. I like my 40s better than my 30s. So far, I've like my 50's the best. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I love that. Yeah, that's great.

[Aaron Weber]

So. All right, Dusty, you want to wrap it up?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I'm leading this podcast. Yes. Okay, listen, guys, this weekend I'm still off. I don't know if you'll be somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

This week I'm gonna be. This is Aaron Weber speaking. I'm gonna be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the Fort Lauderdale Improv. Last time I was there, a couple years ago, it was the Dania Beach Improv.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I believe it's the same building. It's in the same spot, but it's now called the Fort Lauderdale Improv. I'm there all weekend. Jay Flake will be with me. It's gonna be a good time. Come on out. If you're in the Fort Lauderdale area,

[Dusty Slay]

you know, I did. I am off, but I'm coming back in June, so I'll just give you a heads up. I'll be at first weekend, I'll be at the Irvine Improv in California. Second week, I'll be at the Mothership in Austin, Texas, and then I'll be in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Atlanta.

[Brian Bates]

Love it.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what my June is looking like.

[Aaron Weber]

I am off this weekend, but next weekend I've been pitching these shows for a while, but I'll be in Denver Greeley, and then two nights in Casper, Wyoming, and then June 11th at the Beacon in Topeka, Kansas. Our buddy Adam Bush is opening for me.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

It was the biggest show he's ever done.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's great.

[Aaron Weber]

So excited about that.

[Dusty Slay]

You'll be in college. Colorado, Colorado.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Colorado. Colorado, yeah. Colorado. Colorado.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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