16: #16 | Which Wolf Are You Feeding? with Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Summary

Public Figures | Episode 16: "Which Wolf Are You Feeding?" with Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Release Date: May 20, 2026
Hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Guest: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

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Episode Overview

This episode is a lively, comedic, and heartfelt conversation featuring stand-up comic and actress Anjelah Johnson-Reyes. The hosts and Anjelah trade stories from their comedy careers, discuss the unique challenges and hilarities of being recognized (or not) in public, share personal experiences related to movies, airports, and even littering—and dig into the practice of gratitude. The episode is loaded with playful banter, TV nostalgia, behind-the-scenes moments, and a poignant discussion about which "wolf" we feed—highlighting the importance of perspective and gratitude.

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1. Public Life and Recognition (00:30–08:53)

Key Points:

• The hosts joke about their relative levels of celebrity (“public figures”) and the awkwardness of being recognized.

• Dusty recounts being recognized at the airport while feeling sick:

  “It's harder when you don't feel good… still want to be friendly, but you're also like, I might throw up.”
  (Dusty, 01:35)

• Stories of mistaken identity and unexpected moments of being recognized (or not), often in the presence of more famous friends.

• Humorous take on the expectations of public encounters:

  “Let’s have a conversation about something. Yeah, let’s take a picture. Yeah, let’s wrap it up. You know, anything…”
  (Dusty, 02:28)

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2. Nate Bargatze’s “The Breadwinner” Movie Premiere (07:01–10:18)

Key Points:

• The hosts attended the Nashville premiere of “The Breadwinner,” Nate Bargatze’s first feature film.
• Reflections on their roles in the movie—described as “fun little Easter eggs” and not pivotal to the plot.
• Dusty brought his 5-year-old daughter to her first-ever movie in a theater, delighted that the film had nothing he found questionable, unlike some Disney fare:

  “There was nothing like that in this whole entire movie… my daughter loved it the whole time.”
  (Dusty, 09:08)

• His daughter spotted him on screen: “That’s you, dad.” (09:51)

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3. Comedy on the Road and Weirdest Gigs (10:24–25:14)

Highlights:

• Aaron’s adventures at different improv clubs and confusion about club name changes.
• The hosts reminisce about their childhood beach trips (Dauphin Island, Panama City, 30A).
• Dusty talks about filming a commercial for Sheetz gas stations, performing stand-up inside a brand new (not yet opened) store:

  “Sheetz is upper tier. Gas station on the road, it’s upper tier.”
  (Aaron, 18:03)

• Weirdest Stand-Up Venues: Dusty recalls standing on the actual bar in a Winston-Salem bar for a show (19:00).
• Brian and Dusty swap war stories about gigs in prisons, nursing homes, Hope Lodge, and even cancer centers:

  “I did a Christmas party once where I didn’t know anybody… showed up at somebody’s house…”
  (Brian, 23:11)

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4. Family Fun, Baseball Games, and Parenting Moments (25:08–27:56)

Highlights:

• The group enjoyed a Sounds minor league game in Nashville with their families.
• Dusty’s positive and negative heckling at the baseball game, and his son joining in.
• Funny struggles explaining extra innings to kids:

  “She’s like, they’re gonna keep going?”
  (Aaron, 25:49)

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5. Podcast Comments, Bits, and Jingle Challenges (29:07–38:48)

Comment Reads:

• The hosts answer listener comments about everything from kidney stones, Mountain Dew diets, and Y2K, to pop culture references.
• Impromptu singing of jingles ensues (“Oscar Mayer Wiener,” “Love That Chicken at Popeyes”).
• Dusty admits:

  “I don’t really like Popeye’s chicken… I stopped at a gas station Popeye’s. Ah, this is not good.” (36:26)

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6. TV Theme Song Hall of Fame (37:59–71:22)

Highlights:

• An ongoing playful debate about the best TV theme songs of all time.
• Favorites discussed: “Friends,” “Golden Girls,” “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Drew Carey Show,” “Full House,” “Cheers,” “Family Matters,” “Step by Step,” “Monk,” and more.
• Angela and Dusty recall throwing “Friends” watch parties and how nostalgia can shift appreciation for theme songs.
• Age shocks: Discovering the actual ages of “Golden Girls” cast members and current stars like J-Lo and Snoop Dogg.
• Joking about Snoop Dogg’s transformation:

  “Learn your ABCs. But this guy, he killed a guy.”
  (Dusty, 68:18)

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7. Stand-Up Recording Nightmares (78:29–83:37)

In the Spotlight:

• Angela talks about challenges during her special “Ugly Baby” (available on YouTube), dealing with a disruptive audience member, and how even positive heckling can ruin a taping:

  “Everybody else in the theater is having a great time… you took the energy from way up here, we’re having a great time to just, like, pop the balloon…” (Angela, 80:08)

• The group discusses similar horror stories and the importance of managing audience energy for recordings.

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8. Gratitude, "Two Wolves," and the Fungila Podcast (84:00–114:05)

Core Discussion:

• Angela introduces the premise of her podcast “Fungila,” focused on gratitude and changing perspectives through a “matitude” (what annoys you) and “gratitude” (what you cherish) format.
• The panel explores annoyances (“leaf blowers,” airport behavior, littering) and daily gratitudes (air conditioning, running water, modern conveniences).
• Angela and Dusty bond over being born the same week and sharing similar “moon landing” conspiracy questions.
• Brian delivers the episode’s “which wolf are you feeding?” parable, sparking a moment of reflection:

  “The one you feed.”
  (Brian, 87:47)

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On public encounters:
  "It's harder when you don't feel good… still want to be friendly, but you're also like, I might throw up."
  — Dusty, 01:35

• About being in “The Breadwinner”:
  "I think Nate probably fought to keep us in it… not pivotal to the plot."
  — Brian, 103:40

• On weirdest stand-up shows:
  "I did a bar show and the comedy was on the bar… you had to stand on the bar."
  — Dusty, 19:00

• On gratitude and the “two wolves” story:
  "Which one wins? The one you feed."
  — (Brian’s parable), 87:47

• On theme songs:
  "No one told me. I just don’t like it gonna be this way. Your job’s a joke. You’re broke. Life’s the OA. It’s just like I almost threw up."
  — Dusty, 38:09

• On littering:
  "I just wanted to see what the guy looked like that just would throw his trash right out the window, like…"
  — Dusty, 97:49

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9. Special Features

• Angela’s “Ugly Baby” Special:
  Out now on YouTube; she shares the real story behind the title and comedic viewpoint.

  "A lot more [ugly babies] than are willing to admit, is what I've learned." (Angela, 72:56)

• Angela’s Podcast "Fungila":
  Joining the Nateland Podcast Network—features gratitude-based discussions, available weekly.

• Updates & Plugs:
  All hosts share their upcoming show dates, with Dusty’s new YouTube special “Working Man” releasing May 26th.

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10. Lightning Round: “Matitude” or “Gratitude” (114:13–116:00)

Quickfire decisions: Would you be mad or grateful in these scenarios?

• Receiving “K” as a text response.
• Over-attentive restaurant servers.
• Friends posting on social without responding to texts.

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11. Memorable Callbacks & Running Jokes

• Dusty's transition from conspiracy theorist to family man.
• Brian attempting to “connect” with the group and getting roasted.
• The ever-present debate: are theme songs better because the shows were genuinely great, or are we nostalgic?
• Angela’s and Dusty’s playful but earnest complaints about life’s inconveniences.

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12. Closing Notes

The episode is a seamless mix of nostalgia, lighthearted snark, reflections on the stand-up grind, and real warmth among comics. It brings special attention to gratitude, the practice of shifting focus, and how human connection and perspective make life—no matter the fame level—richer.

The “Which Wolf Are You Feeding?” theme is both a literal and metaphorical thread running through the hour, inviting listeners to reconsider which perspective is most nurtured in their own lives.

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Listener Takeaways

• Even public figures struggle with self-doubt, awkward encounters, and the weirdness of fame.
• Practicing gratitude can shift your whole experience, whether you're dealing with airport madness, leaf blowers, or career disappointments.
• The stories, inside jokes, and candid confessions underline one big truth: it’s the little things, the everyday moments, and the community we share that matter most.

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To hear the full episode and catch every laugh and insight, visit [Public Figures on Audioboom Studios] and look out for Angela Johnson-Reyes’ podcast “Fungila” and her special “Ugly Baby” now on YouTube. Don’t forget to feed the right wolf!

Transcript

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Foreign. Hello, common folks, and. Hey, bores. Welcome to the Public Figures podcast. We are Public Figures. Your ordinary citizens, the general public. We're here with celebrity Dusty Slay. Okay, thank you, celebrity Aaron Weber.

[Aaron Weber]

Good morning, plebes. Thanks for listening.

[Brian Bates]

And I'm celebrity Brian Bates. But you guys know that because we're celebrities, right? No introduction needed.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Public Figures, you know, I've always, you know, you guys, when I said public figures originally, you guys really came for me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

As if. I said celebrity, but I said public figure.

[Aaron Weber]

But you were telling a story about, oh, it's so hard to get recognized in public all the time and stuff, weren't you?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think you were either.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Now he was telling a story about someone coming after him. He's like, well, as a public figure, you got to accept that people are going to come after you.

[Dusty Slay]

But I will say I flew. I didn't feel great this weekend, and I flew somewhere and I got recognized a couple of times. It's harder when you don't feel good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because you're like, still want to be friendly, but you're also like, I might throw up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Your wave only comes up half the way.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you were gonna say it made you feel better.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I mean, it always feels good, you know, to get recognized. Especially if you don't feel good. You might be like, I don't know. I was just sitting there and I was like, oh, gosh, I feel bad. And then these guys come over and they go, hey, yeah. And they start talking to me. But then they weren't, like, getting to it. You know what I mean? Like, they weren't like. They kept going, yeah, we saw you over there and we thought, I bet that's him. And they kept doing. I go, yeah, it's me, guys. It's like, what are we doing?

[Brian Bates]

What did you want him to get to either.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's have a conversation about something. Yeah, let's take a picture. Yeah, let's wrap it up. You Know anything but go. We hate. You know, we don't believe in the moon landing either. You know anything.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Well, I've been nicer lately. But then people keep messaging me saying, no, we want you to be mean so you can't win with people. But yeah, yeah, you know, they're all idiots. So this is all jokes.

[Aaron Weber]

It's all jokes.

[Brian Bates]

All jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Three comedians, kernel of truth, but jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they always say there's a little truth in comedy. Yeah, that's what they say. But is that true? I don't know. I don't know if that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

How many times have you seen a comic do a great joke and you go, did that really happen? And they're like, nah, it's all completely made up. They don't even have an uncle jokes about an uncle.

[Dusty Slay]

They love to say that, though. There's always a little truth in comedy and say, where are you getting that from? People who say that don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know what I like about your comedy? Dude, we're all thinking it, but you're saying it. Yeah, that's what I. That's what I like about your.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

You say the things we're too scared to say.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I always say there's a little truth in our ad reads.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, there's gotta be some truth somewhere.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, of course.

[Brian Bates]

Well, welcome, everyone. I'm so excited you guys are with us for another episode. We couldn't do it without you.

[Aaron Weber]

We couldn't.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Dusty could. He does every week his own podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, much smaller.

[Brian Bates]

And I could not do it without you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I do it, you know, with a portion of the audience. Much, much smaller version.

[Brian Bates]

I'm one of those people. Yeah, I listen.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think if the. Remove the overlap. I think the fans of your podcast and the fans of this one, if there were a war, I think I put my money on yours.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think so.

[Brian Bates]

300.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they've all got bunkers and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's a good chance if someone sees you out in public, they're gonna knows you. They may not know me, but I guarantee you, if they know me, they're gonna know you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's interesting, but, you know, one time we were. When we were doing the podcast in Atlanta for the breadwinner. Yeah, that. Remember that lady yelled out at you breakfast and came running across the street.

[Brian Bates]

That's true. That is true.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't acknowledge you at all.

[Dusty Slay]

Not. It took her a minute. Yeah, she did.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you Got a subtle look to you. So it takes a while.

[Brian Bates]

You just blend in.

[Angela Johnson]

Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

So I could see how she wouldn't recognize you right away.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I really needed that because that was right after the Christian Bale thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And, you know, I needed a. Oh,

[Dusty Slay]

it did just happen.

[Brian Bates]

I needed a little ego boost and I came at a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you got just a regular person. She was cute, attractive. Okay. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

That's debatable, but depends on who you. I mean, Christian Bale's a good looking dude.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But she ran across the street.

[Brian Bates]

She did.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Through traffic.

[Brian Bates]

She did that was in.

[Dusty Slay]

She got hit by a car. She's dead now. But that was his last fan. Know me.

[Brian Bates]

Breakfast.

[Dusty Slay]

Boom.

[Aaron Weber]

I went to a Vanderbilt football game. This is two seasons ago now with Nate Bargetzi and Connor Larson, our friend.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Three comics.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

Way more famous than the. The me and Connor. Right.

[Brian Bates]

I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Especially at a Vanderbilt game. I thought it would be crazy walking around. We walked to the concession stand and some guy walks up and goes, holy, are you Connor Larson? And Nate took a picture of them. Wow. Nate goes, I'll get the picture.

[Dusty Slay]

That's amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Took it of him. I loved it.

[Brian Bates]

I've been out with Nate and they've recognized me and not him.

[Aaron Weber]

Really? They thought you were Mike White.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, not recently, but years ago. We were in a movie and at the checkout popcorn line, and somebody came up like, hey, I know you from Zany's or whatever. And I'm like, yeah, he does comedy too. And they're like, okay, cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Good for you, man. Keep it up. Anyway.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it happened another time when he was doing theaters. We were walking down the street afterwards and he had a hoodie on. And we walked past some people and they acknowledged me, recognize me.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that.

[Brian Bates]

Didn't realize that was him.

[Dusty Slay]

Didn't recognize him dressed as Eminem.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's what he looked like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, good to see you guys. We got to do two fun public events.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure did. We sure did.

[Brian Bates]

Wednesday night, we to go to premiere of the Breadwinner.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

That was very fun.

[Aaron Weber]

The first feature film from the Nate Land production company. How about that?

[Brian Bates]

Sure not to be the last. And it was at theater here in Nashville. Nate was there, of course. Mandy Moore, the three girls who play his daughters were there. The three guys who a lot of people are saying stole the movie, stole the show.

[Dusty Slay]

Were there you guys in particular, I really liked your scene because the way it had been talked about leading up to it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It made it seem like it was going to be nothing and it was good. Yeah, I liked it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. I think there was a good chance that it could have been nothing.

[Aaron Weber]

I would have got.

[Brian Bates]

Really didn't add much.

[Aaron Weber]

There was no plot to it at all.

[Dusty Slay]

But I think it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was a fun little Easter egg.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it was good.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it added something.

[Aaron Weber]

If you go see it, it comes out May 29th. If you go see the breadwinner, get to your seat early. Happens pretty quick. I think a lot of people are going to miss it getting to their seats like as the credits are going.

[Brian Bates]

But it is the very opening scene. Jared Curtis, who is the star football player going to Vandy Nate, he's in a scene with Nate. And then we're next.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Right after that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. And that became a little bit of national news. I don't know if you knew that or not about him. About what signing, about him being in the movie.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Clay Travis, who's a sports writer among other things, was at the movie premiere. He tweeted it and then all these outlets picked up the story about Nate putting him in.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, all right. Get a little press going.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, go see the movie. It was, it was. It's a great movie to take your family to. It is very funny moments.

[Dusty Slay]

I took my five year old daughter, who I've never taken to a movie, who I don't like her watching, you know, basically anything. I show her Disney movies and I'm

[Aaron Weber]

always like, in your own YouTube.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm always like, I wish this wasn't in there. Why do they have to put this in a Disney movie? There was nothing like that in this whole entire movie. It was, it was like my daughter loved it the whole time. I didn't feel like, oh, I wish she didn't see this or not even one small little thing was in there like that. And when we left, my daughter said, can we get this movie at home? So yeah. And I go, of course not. But

[Aaron Weber]

not for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But yeah, I mean she really liked it and I thought it was exciting because that's the first movie I got to take her to and you were in it and I was in it and I didn't tell her.

[Brian Bates]

And what did she say when she said.

[Dusty Slay]

She said, that's you, dad.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, she recognized you right away. Oh, that's really cool. That's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Very fun.

[Brian Bates]

As someone who has a 4 year old, your daughter was so well behaved. I mean, at that time especially. My daughter is just a mess because it's close to bedtime. She's wild. But. But Daisy was so well behaved. And I was so impressed with.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How good she did.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you. Yeah, she had a good time. We got her some boots. She had a little sunglasses.

[Brian Bates]

Very cute. Very cute.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a lot of fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I was home this weekend, so what about. What about you?

[Aaron Weber]

I was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the Fort Lauderdale Improv. Used to be called Dania Beach Improv. Oh. And then I don't know why they changed the name, but now it's called the Fort Lauderdale Improv.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

As far as I can tell, they changed the logo on the stage and that's about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we talked about this a little bit, that maybe the name Fort Lauderdale is just a little more recognizable.

[Aaron Weber]

But you think locals are going to know what Dania beach is? I'm not against changing the name. I just didn't fully understand why they changed.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess that's a good point.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I was like, fort Lauderdale Empire. Look at me moving up. Different clubs. And they go, nope.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's in Dania Beach.

[Aaron Weber]

It's in Daniel Beach.

[Dusty Slay]

That's probably why.

[Aaron Weber]

Exact same building. You know, same everything.

[Dusty Slay]

The clubs love to do that. The Toledo Funny Bonesburg.

[Aaron Weber]

The Raleigh Improv is in Cary.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. They love to, you know, put it in a different town.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

So I think that's it. They go, we're actually in Dana. So we should switch this up, probably.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we had a. A great weekend. We had three shows. Jay Flake was with me. Big crowds. Just a good time. Just a good time. I went to the beach for maybe 20 minutes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Every time I'm up, shirt on, shoes, black socks. Yeah. Yeah. Jay and I look.

[Dusty Slay]

You and Jay?

[Aaron Weber]

We looked weird out there. We did walk around for a while. We were like, we should probably just go on. Let's go get lunch somewhere. We walked around. That's how I always. On the road, if I'm near a beach, I'm always like, I feel like this trip is something of a waste if I don't. I gotta go look at the beach.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I'm not around the beach here in Nashville. Right. And here I am. It's almost insulting to the people that don't get to be at the beach right now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And so I went out there and then you just look at it and you're like, I think that's all I'm gonna get out of this. Just kind of look at it, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

That's why a cigar is nice at the end of the night. Go sit out on the beach. Just enjoy yourself out there. Feel the breeze. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you don't have to get in the water.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. You can just sit on a chair in the sand or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Maybe next to some people and they

[Brian Bates]

go, oh, they go, sir, can you move? What was your go to beach growing up? Did you have one?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably Dauphin island hot spot. Yeah. On a. In Alabama.

[Brian Bates]

How long did that take to get there?

[Aaron Weber]

Like, it's. We got to drive from Montgomery to Mobile, pick up my grandparents, and then it's like. I don't know,

[Brian Bates]

in general.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably five hours.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, probably five.

[Brian Bates]

Like, okay. I thought Montgomery was way on down there.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty far down, but, you know, we made some stops.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, especially with kids and stuff. Where was your. Did you go to the beach growing up?

[Brian Bates]

Panama City.

[Dusty Slay]

Panama City, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom.

[Dusty Slay]

Pcb. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it trashy back then or was it kind of. It was more of a family spot. Now.

[Brian Bates]

I have a joke now where I say most all my friends. Parents were going to 30A, but we couldn't afford it, so we went to 29B.

[Aaron Weber]

I hadn't heard of 30A until, like, two years ago. I don't even know what it did. It come out of nowhere. Has it always been.

[Brian Bates]

I don't remember it growing up.

[Dusty Slay]

Seaside. That. Yeah. I mean, I. About 10 years ago, I started going there. Maybe even more than that.

[Aaron Weber]

You're a 38 guy?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. We were doing. Me and my friends were doing comedy at a theater on Seaside.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. So.

[Dusty Slay]

So they would book us at the theater and then let us stay with the actors of the Seaside Repertory Theater.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So we would go do comedy there for.

[Aaron Weber]

It's in Florida. 30A is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's where the Truman show was filmed.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Really? In Seaside? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's this idyllic little seaside town, but upscale.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's beautiful. It's nice. But honestly, for, you know, for me and, you know, my age bracket, at least at the time, pretty boring. I. Beautiful beach, but pretty boring.

[Aaron Weber]

You like it more now, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Probably so my kids. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Guys, let's talk about razors. My old razor was the worst. It would get dull way too fast, irritate my skin. On top of that, the price for refills were insane. Be like $30 for eight refills.

[Dusty Slay]

That is insane.

[Brian Bates]

Total scam.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it is a scam.

[Brian Bates]

I got a rough, thick beard.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Can't just have any razor. That's why I switched to Harry's Plus. And honestly, first shave, I noticed it immediately. Smoother, way more control. Just feels like a premium shave. It's barber quality shave. It's the handle's actual metal, so it's got weight to it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The blade glides. No tugging, no clogging like the usual drugstore stuff. It's got a pivot system that really follows your face. Plus, every cartridge includes a lubricated strip with al alloy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

What about you? Where were you at?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you know what? I filmed a commercial for the gas station, Sheets. Sheets has been hooking it up for me. You know, I did. I did a corporate gig with Sheets several years ago. Probably five years ago. It's awesome. And actually, me and Kathleen Madigan did sort of the same corporate gig.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

At Sheets. But yeah, I did a Sheets commercial. And I don't know, no one said, I can't talk about it. But I. But they're doing a new campaign. Sheets is a gas station, basically in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they're great. And they've been hooking it up. So I flew to Washington, D.C. drove out to Virginia, did a commercial. It's great.

[Aaron Weber]

What. What's the. Are you just a guy in a gas station or something?

[Dusty Slay]

We're doing some comedy. Doing standout.

[Aaron Weber]

In a gas station.

[Dusty Slay]

In a gas station. A gas station. I don't know if they want me to give away their thing. Yeah. But I'm. But I'm doing some comedy in there.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Brand new store in Virginia that we Went to.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

It was cool.

[Brian Bates]

Cause like, when you say we, who, who you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Were there other comics?

[Dusty Slay]

There's two other comics, but I don't know if I can.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't want to give away that they were there.

[Aaron Weber]

I like to say their name. But do you like them or not?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I like them. I don't know them and I don't work with them a lot. Okay. Yeah, they're good.

[Brian Bates]

If you knew them, you probably wouldn't like them.

[Dusty Slay]

No, there's a chance.

[Aaron Weber]

Write down who they are, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you know them.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And. But the. But you know those people that worked at that Cheats. They're going to be opening that store. Yeah. And that was pretty fun because they're like, you know, they're just hanging out in the store.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And here's these comics coming in, filming a commercial and they're like.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's just the employees in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And then the crew. The film crew.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, because it wasn't open yet. One guy was like, I appreciate you doing this for the store, man. And I. And I said, no problem.

[Aaron Weber]

But like, you're doing the.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just love what she is doing. I'm happy to help in any way that I can.

[Dusty Slay]

But you know, Sheets is. It seems like a good company.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, Sheets is upper tier. Gas station on the road, it's upper tier.

[Brian Bates]

I think there are more states than what you said that have Sheets, and

[Dusty Slay]

they may be, but they're a bigger deal.

[Brian Bates]

I think this is going to. But take you to the next level.

[Aaron Weber]

They have over 830 convenience stores across seven states. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan.

[Dusty Slay]

You're right. All right, so. And these are good markets for me. People see me, I go to do comedy in all these places. Yeah. So I hope people go, I guess in a commercial there. We got to go see. That's our boy, right? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What's the weirdest place that you've done stand up comedy?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, there's so many. But you know, one time in North Carolina in.

[Aaron Weber]

I hope it gets weirder.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just the state in what is Winston Salem.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I did a bar show and the comedy was on the bar. You had. The stage was all. You had to stand on the bar.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it an active bar where alcohol is being served?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. So but they're all. They're all in on it. So it was a Great audience.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a small bar. It's full. People are sitting at the bar. And I'm in just in one spot on the bar, standing up there, doing comedy. I have it filmed, but the audio is so bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Were there guys belly up, getting drinks and, like, at your feet?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but it was. It was actually a good show. I had a lot of you.

[Brian Bates]

The only one on the bar that was a few.

[Dusty Slay]

At this at a time. Yeah. They would introduce, and then you kind of climb up on the bar and do your comedy. But I headlined it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, but it was all comedians.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

What it you thought there might be other kind of actors?

[Brian Bates]

That's what I was thinking, actually. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, no, I mean, I've done stuff like that, too. I mean, back in the day in Charleston, I mean, I've done hosted burlesque shows, and it's always a disaster, but, you know, you're just doing anything to get stage time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

When you live in Charleston, there was no standup scene. So I did, you know, I did. I used to try to open for my buddies, local bands in Charleston.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And, you know, and that. I had a. I got a. I got a guy. I knew both bands, and they were going to let me do comedy in between their shows, in between their set. So I go up in between. But before one guy, he was an older guy, and he was. He was. You know, he's really trying to get some hype going for his band. And he goes, listen, he goes, I got you this gig. And he said this to me backstage. He goes, so when you come up, this is what I want you to do. He goes, I want you to go out to the audience, the audience of maybe 20 people, right. And. And go, oh, give it up for these guys. They were really good, huh? And how about a. How about an encore? How about get. And then. And then you start. And then he goes and start chanting, encore, encore. And try to get them into it. And. And then. And then we'll come back out and play another song. And so I go, okay, I don't want to do this. This makes me terribly uncomfortable. But so I go out and I do it. I go, ah, keep it going for those guys. They're really good. Encore. And I go, encore. And then I turn and look. They're not chanting. Yeah, they're not chanting on.

[Aaron Weber]

Just you.

[Dusty Slay]

Just me. And I turn and look, and he's coming out of the. He's coming back out of the green room to play like. Like, just like they were actually. And Then the guy over the, you know, the boom mic or whatever goes. He goes, yeah, that's not really how it works here. We gotta. We gotta break down all this equipment, and then we gotta get flipped out for the other band.

[Aaron Weber]

You got overruled by the.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So then, you know, I was slotted to do comedy in between. So I go, all right, well, I'll just do my comedy. And I start my jokes. And he goes, yeah, that's not really how this works either. We gotta. You know, we gotta break down all the equipment.

[Aaron Weber]

He's just saying this in front of everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So then the other band was my friend, too, so he goes. He goes, don't worry about it. Well, once we get set up, I'll let you do five or 10 in front of us before we get started. And I go, okay. And all that. And then I bombed for five or 10 minutes. It was pretty humiliating and not. Not worth it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you stay for the whole show?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Because they were my friends, and I was. I was still drinking back then.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I got over it. But, you know, it's that kind of stuff, though. You. You humiliate yourself enough that you get pretty strong on stage.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I think that's what you got to do.

[Aaron Weber]

What about you, Brian? We're. Weirdest place you've ever done stand up. Weirdest room, weirdest environment.

[Brian Bates]

I've done a prison.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, me too.

[Brian Bates]

I've done. I remember.

[Dusty Slay]

How'd prison go for you?

[Brian Bates]

Not well. Everybody was like, oh, these guys, they're a great audience because they're just so happy to have somebody there, and not for me. They're like, we're gonna head on back to our cell. 23 hour lockdown, but I'm gonna head on early.

[Aaron Weber]

Walking a crowd in a prison.

[Dusty Slay]

How about solitary for me?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd like to hear no one talk

[Brian Bates]

with the Scared Straight program. Like, they bring me in if they want them to settle down, but I've done nursing homes. I've done. I did a Christmas party once where I didn't know anybody. Like, it was one of Nate's friends, and he asked me and did another guy to go do it. Just show up somebody's house and Is it good? It was about as good as you could expect for somebody pretty new into comedy. Showed up at somebody's house.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

They were supportive.

[Dusty Slay]

I've done that gig in town, that nursing home gig back in the day. You be on the west side. It was like. I don't know. I don't remember who booked that? But you did. I mean, about the cancer.

[Brian Bates]

The Hope Lodge. Yeah, yeah. That's a cancer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay. And it was. It was very rough.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I did a.

[Aaron Weber]

It's hard to complain, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Stink.

[Dusty Slay]

But I. You know, what's wrong with y'?

[Aaron Weber]

All?

[Brian Bates]

We have cancer.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, get it together.

[Aaron Weber]

Lighten up.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, no offense to them, but it is. I mean, they. Some of them were not very nice. Like, they like, ah, this is the best you got, you know? Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The Hope Lodge is kind of like Ron McDonald House. It's for families that come in from out of state that they can stay there for free.

[Aaron Weber]

So people in a very tough time of their life.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

And the idea being, let's do a show, give them a little reprieve, maybe share some laughs.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

But you have to be in a receptive attitude for the show.

[Dusty Slay]

And they were older.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was not, you know, And. And like, I remember one time, I forget what a. Some guy was doing. Like, he. He was either talking or whatever, and. But I. I couldn't figure out what he was doing. And then his phone rang, and it was the. The loudest phone I had ever heard. And he answers and he's yelling into the phone. I go, oh, this guy can't hear.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So he's not enjoying the show.

[Brian Bates]

Well, and then yesterday, Sunday, right. Aaron threw together a little get together for all of us at the Nashville Soundscape.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We are good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Enjoying the game together.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you're listening. There's a photo of us, our entire family together.

[Aaron Weber]

We had all the kids out, just hung out.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a good time.

[Brian Bates]

It was a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

Watch.

[Aaron Weber]

The game ended in a walk off for the sound.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I. I brought Lucy to maybe four or five baseball games since we've been together. She is unbelievable luck. Every game would go to. It's either extra innings or a walk off or something. I mean, she.

[Brian Bates]

Bad luck.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, she hates it. She's having to explain the concept of extra innings to her. The first was very funny. She's like, they're gonna keep going. Yeah, we gotta have a winner.

[Dusty Slay]

You told me yesterday. You said that at after nine, when it was tied, she goes. So that's nine, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. As if we just do nine and that's that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, we're gonna keep going.

[Brian Bates]

We were. Dusty and I were sitting there yesterday, second inning, and Dusty goes, so the sounds, they're not very good, huh? And I'm Like, I have no idea what the record is. I was like, why do you say that? He's like, well, they're losing one to nothing and just walk that guy. It's the second Eddie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, it's not a good look. Yeah, I. You know, when you don't know a lot about a team, they're losing and they're walking guys, it's not a good look. Yeah, but you know what? They turned it around.

[Brian Bates]

Turned it around.

[Aaron Weber]

They turned it around.

[Dusty Slay]

It was. It was really bottom of the night.

[Aaron Weber]

That last inning was exciting. Yeah, Baseball can be fun, man.

[Dusty Slay]

And I was yelling at. I, I got to, you know, I was yelling at the batter in a positive way, some positive reinforcement. And. And my son started to yell, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you're talking about the guy on the other team. You were yelling mean things.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, I was yelling mean things to a guy. Well, he was. He had bad sportsmanlike conduct, and I didn't care for him. He. He. This is what he did. It was his turn, like, whatever. He had to walk to the base.

[Aaron Weber]

He got walked.

[Dusty Slay]

He got walked. And then the bat boy came out, and he was just standing there waiting on the guy to take off his stuff. And the guy took all day.

[Aaron Weber]

He was taking his time.

[Dusty Slay]

He was milking this guy. Wait, you know, you got walked. You didn't hit a home run, you know, and then he went to first, and then they. He tried to, like, lead off too far, and then. And then they threw the ball to first to catch him. And. And then he ran way out of the. The lane. And they called him out because he ran out of the lane. Yeah. And then he tried to argue, and I was like, good call. Get out of here.

[Brian Bates]

Get him out of here.

[Aaron Weber]

It was just two minutes of this guy not getting on Dusty's good side.

[Dusty Slay]

I loved it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's fun to watch.

[Dusty Slay]

I like it. It was a lot of fun.

[Brian Bates]

It was a lot of fun. Thank you, Aaron, for putting that together.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm glad it worked out.

[Brian Bates]

And, guys, we got some merch. How about this, you guys? You folks asked for it. Here it is. Public figures, if you're listening.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a hot shirt.

[Brian Bates]

It's a shirt. It is a hot shirt.

[Dusty Slay]

I love a white shirt with the red collar like that.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you call that? Is that a style of shirt?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's called something, but I. Okay, what is it? A ringer. A ringer, which is really the perfect tee for one that has public figures on it. You know, because a ringer, like, in the boxing world is like, you're saying they're an amateur, but they're really a pro.

[Aaron Weber]

A dead ringer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's right. And you can get this on Nate's website, right? Where can you get this? Nate Land entertainment website.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so.

[Dusty Slay]

So get one of those. Yeah, send it to my house, because I'd like one.

[Brian Bates]

And we'll see if we can get you one.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Can you guys want to get some comments?

[Aaron Weber]

Let's do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews, and [e-mail] first one comes from Cleedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Cleedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Cleedy T. Judd.

[Brian Bates]

Poor Cletus. I don't know if you guys keep up with Cletus, but he had some kidney stones, had to cancel some shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

He said last week was the worst week of his life.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

You get him lasered out of there or what?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. But he said he was in a lot of pain and drinking a lot of milk.

[Dusty Slay]

He drinks a lot of milk and Coke?

[Brian Bates]

Is that what does it?

[Dusty Slay]

That's what one guy told me. I used to work with a guy at Office Depot, and he told me he doesn't like to drink milk because milk and Coke mixed together gives you kidney stones.

[Aaron Weber]

Why was he mixing them together?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know, but I always thought in that scenario, you give up the Coke, not the milk.

[Angela Johnson]

Sure,

[Aaron Weber]

Diet Coke. I could Diet Coke all day over milk, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

But I don't think that guy knew what he was talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so either.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Cleedy does, because Cleedy says, what a great episode, man. I think you guys really showed off how professional you are at comedy. Really made me think how much I am not a figure in the public guy. Keep up the great work. Thanks for making Wednesdays fun. God bless.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks, Cleedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks. You don't need to put yourself down, though.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I hope you never get kidney stones.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's something I hope for Cleaty.

[Aaron Weber]

That would be tough. I used to work with a guy named Cliff, and he. He only drank Mountain Dew. He said he hadn't had a drink other than Mountain dew since the 70s.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

He said I'm doing fine. He did have cancer.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

But he said other than that, his body was in great shape.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, good. Well, Cliff, you know, he should be in their commercial. Yeah, that's how he should do it, too. I've been Drinking this since the 70s.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm out here working. I'm doing great. I am currently stage three cancer right now. But other than that, and it's worth it.

[Brian Bates]

I'm not stopping. Greg Jones. I work for a software company fixing Y2K bugs and computer programs. Usually it was banks or insurance companies, but my claim to fame amongst my co workers was finding and correcting a mistake in Budweiser's code. It was a routine that calculated whether whether the beer was skunky or not. So Budweiser drinkers everywhere, catastrophe averted. You are welcome.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, thank you for that, Greg.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I appreciate that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty wild.

[Brian Bates]

Skunky.

[Aaron Weber]

Skunky is like not good. You know, if you take a beer out of the fridge, if a beer gets warm and then it's. If you put it back in, it's, it's. We just call it. It got skunked. It goes bad.

[Dusty Slay]

If you don't want temperature and then warm and then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, if the temperature changes, it can get skunked and it tastes sour and it gotcha.

[Dusty Slay]

We would have drank it, but my

[Aaron Weber]

mom reminded me my grandfather who worked for the Air Force, he worked in the computers or something.

[Dusty Slay]

So many people in the military. That's why I'm from Montgomery for this, for this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's why my mom grew up in Montgomery is because of the Air Force base there. But he worked on the Y2K problem for the government since the 70s. That's how far ahead they were getting of it.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of 70s, right? Just he, he's been working there long as Cliff's been drinking Mountain Dew.

[Aaron Weber]

Man, it was a big decade. A lot was going on that was going on.

[Dusty Slay]

Working on Y2K for 30 years.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think they were looking ahead. They got to fix this. We got to reprogram some stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Sooner guy 44. Geez, Brian, how about more? Tiger woods won the US Open, broke a major record with a dominant 15 shot victory. Michigan State won the national championship in B ball.

[Aaron Weber]

Who cares about that?

[Brian Bates]

Bob stops in his. I think he means stoops. In his second year at OU went 13, 0 and 1. OU's seventh national championship. Less Al Gore stories, more sports.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what podcast you think you're listening to. Sooner Guy.

[Brian Bates]

Sooner Guy wants more Oklahoma.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We should talk more about Oklahoma sports.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That is a huge void in the history of this show.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, the episode was about the year 2000. There was a presidential election unlike any in our history.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And I was sharing Personal stories about covering events in Al Gore being from Tennessee. So it's not like I have some, you know, some agenda.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm sure.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we had the Tiger woods had more time, we could have got to the sport.

[Aaron Weber]

We were just about to get to Oklahoma. Sports. We usually have a section just.

[Dusty Slay]

If we had more time, we could have talked about Bob Stops, maybe his brother Mark.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

Mark Stops. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Lucas Stolt. You think that's right?

[Aaron Weber]

Stolti.

[Brian Bates]

Stolti.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet it's Stolt. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron and Dusty's duet was amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was wondering, could each of you try to sing some jingles to see who's best?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

I would love to hear Breakfast Burrito Boy sing the Popeyes commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

Love that Chicken for Popeyes. I guess I'm not Breakfast Burrito. Do you not even let me do

[Brian Bates]

the thing that they're asking for?

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know. Do you know the jingle, the Popeyes?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I just heard it from Mr. Has to talk Over Everybody.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you heard it melodically before?

[Brian Bates]

Love that Chicken at Popeyes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's it.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Lucas, sorry that Dusty had to chime in over.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry. I didn't know Breakfast Burrito Boy was going to do it.

[Brian Bates]

At least let me finish the. And then he says, love the pie. Keep it up, guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry, Lucas. Sorry. Yeah, sorry. Bbb yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Better Business Bureau over here.

[Dusty Slay]

My bad. I mean, I didn't know you'd do it.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I sing on here all the time on this podcast. I take requests.

[Aaron Weber]

You didn't Jump does impressions. He does everything.

[Brian Bates]

So he wants some jingles from all of us. What's. What's a jingle? You want to sing what's a jingle? Let me think of one. Oscar Mayer wiener.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I don't know if I know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't do any hot dog.

[Aaron Weber]

Just rule of thumb for my life. I don't do any hot dog jingles.

[Brian Bates]

My baloney has a first name. It's O S C A R. My baloney has a second name. It's M A Y E R. Is

[Aaron Weber]

it M A Y E R or M E Y E R?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's me.

[Brian Bates]

The M E Y E R could be either one.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty good, though. That's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Go ahead.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't, you know, I. The, you know, the. The jingles have. Feel like they have to be brought up and then organically. Yeah. And you get inspired and you. Cars for Kids break into it. Oh, Cars for Kids. I think Is the most annoying one of all time, isn't it?

[Aaron Weber]

At least it's a good organization.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but the. We buy junk cars. That's an annoying one, too.

[Aaron Weber]

FreeCreditReport.com had a real run.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Of incredible jingles. Do you remember that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember free credit reports started out for me. Well, there was a. There were a bunch of them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, it's really. It's just got to come with inspiration. Lucas Stolt can't just.

[Brian Bates]

Lucas, we're not puppets here.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We gotta do it organically. Get over yourself.

[Dusty Slay]

You did get Brian to sing the Oscar Meyer song.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And the Popeyes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Love that chicken for Popeyes. I love that jingle.

[Brian Bates]

If I think of some more.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'll be honest with you, I don't really like Popeye's chicken.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you for your honesty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You usually don't share. You're upset about something, so I appreciate you.

[Aaron Weber]

Breaking news.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, granted,

[Aaron Weber]

he's gonna drop a bomb on us like that.

[Angela Johnson]

Believe this.

[Dusty Slay]

I stopped at Popeyes. It was a gas station. Popeye's. Oh. And I got some chicken. And I was like, ah, this is not good.

[Aaron Weber]

Go to a standalone restaurant. I should go to a standalone building where they're getting the same chicken from the same truck.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And tell me how that tastes.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Kate the great. I think Friends has to be thrown in the ring for the best theme song. Everyone would wait for the clapping part and then clap along like it was meant to be interactive. Yeah. You used to tell me, Dusty, you would do that, Right? You throw a Friends party and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, the thing about Friends is I liked it. I really liked the show 20 years ago or so when it was coming

[Aaron Weber]

out, when it was live.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I was even watching early reruns. In around 2004 or so. I would get off work at Office Depot. I had no Friends. I was living in Charleston. I would come home. I would watch more breaking news. Some episodes, I think I would watch a couple episodes of Conan. And then I would watch some Seinfeld episodes. And then Friends.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I loved it. But Seinfeld, still good to me. Friends, I don't enjoy that show anymore.

[Aaron Weber]

I get it.

[Dusty Slay]

And so the theme song is not good to me now. So no one told me. I just don't like it gonna be this way. Your job's a joke.

[Angela Johnson]

You're broke.

[Brian Bates]

You love.

[Dusty Slay]

Life's the oa. It's just like I almost threw up

[Aaron Weber]

just thinking it now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I like Jennifer Addison.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. Courtney Cox.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Jennifer, Lisa Kudrow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they were all great. Chandler, Matthew Perry.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Matthew Perry was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Rest in peace. A guy just went to prison for killing him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Good. Good for the justice system. And I like Matthew Perry. He had a couple of the whole nine yards. Really great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He had one with, I think, with Chris Farley, where they were like Frontiers.

[Brian Bates]

I think that was Chris Farley's last movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that was a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a recurring character in the West Wing.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

He discovers that the vice president is involved in a scandal.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Doesn't he play two different characters in West Wing?

[Aaron Weber]

At the beginning of West Wing, they're at a Hollywood party and somebody says, hey, is that Matthew Perry? So Matthew Perry's in the universe of the West Wing. But then later in the show, Matthew Perry is a guest star on the show. So you're like, well, who did they see at the party?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, that's funny.

[Dusty Slay]

It's kind of like Ocean's Twelve. You ever see that movie Ocean? Ocean eleven. Fantastic. Ocean's twelve. Fine.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

But in the movie, they pretend that

[Aaron Weber]

Julia Roberts is Julia Roberts. Yeah, I liked it.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you?

[Aaron Weber]

I like this.

[Brian Bates]

It's a ridiculous little tongue and cheek. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Jennifer, it's like, you look like Julia Roberts. And you're like, you know what? You look like Brad Pitt. You look like George Clooney. This is crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Come to think of it, we're an incredibly goodlook friend group.

[Brian Bates]

Jennifer Marson Gill.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Marson Gill's one name, right? It sounded like the comment was from two people. Jennifer. Jennifer Mars. And then somebody named Gilbert.

[Brian Bates]

Jennifer Mars. And Gil. I'm with Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, geez.

[Brian Bates]

I absolutely love the Drew Carey show. It was unique and had a great ensemble cast. I agree it gets overlooked and should be talked about more. Also, not a 2000 show, but the greatest theme song ever, in my opinion, goes to WKRP in Cincinnati.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Drew Carey show was great.

[Brian Bates]

If you ever wonder Wondered whatever became of me I'm living on the air in Cincinnati.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Cincinnati, wkrp.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I never heard this. Even this. Of this show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I mean, that's right up your alley. That's your style of music.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great.

[Aaron Weber]

That could be Christopher Cross right there.

[Brian Bates]

You guys need to get out of

[Dusty Slay]

From Under a Rock. I hate to disagree with Jennifer Marson Gill after just agreeing with me, but that may be one of my least favorite that I've ever heard.

[Brian Bates]

That's two seconds.

[Aaron Weber]

You hurt.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's the worst thing I've ever heard Now.

[Dusty Slay]

Drew Carey show. It was really great. I mean, they had a good cast and I don't know, I loved it. No one ever talks about it. It's too bad. Yeah, I used to watch it a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Some things just fade away with time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, it's gonna be not long. Nobody's gonna be talking about this show.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't believe that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You'll be talking about it on his other podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Somebody will.

[Brian Bates]

Andy Wexler. I've been enjoying the guys teasing Brian often about being the old man until this episode when he mentioned he was born in 1971. And I realized we're the same age.

[Dusty Slay]

I read this comment and this was one of the funniest things that I read in a long time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Did he fax this comment in or

[Dusty Slay]

was it I love this, that this guy was, like, laughing along. Yeah. So old.

[Brian Bates]

And my guess, unless he was born late 1971 like me, he's older than I am.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy's really old.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Grandpa, go back where you came from.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Meld this in. Joel Evans. Aaron's big Slay Ocherson remark. Didn't get enough.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Appreciate that.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I think I stepped on your joke.

[Aaron Weber]

That's okay.

[Brian Bates]

I hate when I do that.

[Aaron Weber]

I step on you all the time.

[Brian Bates]

That's what we do on purpose. But it's not true.

[Dusty Slay]

I felt like it got enough. Just enough.

[Aaron Weber]

It got what it did.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I felt like it did. I mean, it was a good. It was a good reference.

[Aaron Weber]

But I appreciate that because I was

[Dusty Slay]

talking about wearing fingerless gloves and Aaron wanted to let me know how cool I was.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. But I said something, tried to be funny. Right. At the same time, and I'm sorry you didn't get the love it deserves.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, dude, this show, there's so much humor flying around at any given time. It's bound to overlap every now and then.

[Brian Bates]

Andrew.

[Aaron Weber]

Laur.

[Brian Bates]

You guys hit the nail on the head with the classic video game parties. My buddies and I spent so many hours playing Halo and goldeneye back in the day, eating new at the time, stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut and sipping full Sugar Mountain Dews. Ah, the good old days.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, maybe throw a surge in there every now and remember. A surge?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Your heart rate up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, seven year old.

[Dusty Slay]

It really was like. I mean, it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, just, I don't know. It was a good time. I mean, it has to end. You can't keep doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course. Some guys do.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

And it keeps drinking Mountain Dew.

[Aaron Weber]

This is a Cliff co worker, by the way.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but it's. I actually. I bought Goldeneye for Nintendo 64. I bought a 64.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I just wanted it, you know? And then my daughter's been messing around with the games, and she played it, and she didn't know how to. I wasn't in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And she didn't know how to shoot the gun. And she was like, I didn't know how to use the gun. And the guys just shot me. And she goes. The screen got so red. I guess it was. I guess that was blood.

[Brian Bates]

You don't want your daughter watching anything, but you have her play that.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't have her play it is what I'm saying. She's learned to put the games in, and I just forgot. But to be fair, the. The game is so low. Grass probably pixelated.

[Aaron Weber]

The graphics are so bad that it's

[Brian Bates]

hard to even take serious.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I don't want her seeing that. I apologize to her.

[Brian Bates]

Kelly Pittman. Heart attacks increase 10 to 24% during daylight savings and go down when we gain an hour. That tells you everything you need to know.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, actually, it doesn't. I'd love a lot more details about why that happens and how we know that, and a lot of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

I googled it.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree with Kelly.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's not all we need to know. I think a little more. I need more.

[Dusty Slay]

You want daylight savings during daylight, say, oh, oh, oh.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You backed away from that pretty quick, huh? Well, that's all you need to know. Yeah, it turns out Dusty did need to know.

[Dusty Slay]

All I need to know is she's wrong about this.

[Brian Bates]

I googled it. It just basically says you lose an hour's sleep that first day, and it gets you off enough to. Apparently, a fourth of the world has

[Aaron Weber]

heart attacks, throws your body out of whack. Yeah, I don't think.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, go ahead.

[Aaron Weber]

I know you misinterpreted that to be funny, but that is funny to think. She said 24% of all people have heart attacks. Said it increases by 10 to 24.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Fourth of the world.

[Aaron Weber]

I wasn't saying artifact. 25 of people get hearted.

[Dusty Slay]

That would be wild if the fourth of the world had a heart attack. Every time they do this, and they kept doing it, they're like, no, we're not ending it.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty's like, I need my sunlight.

[Aaron Weber]

I was at a football game. 25,000 people went down all at once.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you do need sunlight, though.

[Brian Bates]

Jim and Denise, we noticed that Brian and Aaron have professional headshots on IMDb, but the horse trainer, Dusty Slay does not. Definitely makes one think that his role in the film was minimal. Get a headshot on there. Dusty being the horse trainer is a big deal.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'll tell you what, my role is minimal, so let's not think I'm playing a major role.

[Aaron Weber]

You have an award nomination. Yeah, the Indie Vilta Indieville TV Awards. You're nominated for Best Indie Comedian.

[Brian Bates]

Look at that Nashville scene. He was best.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me see if he got nominated for Best Corporate.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'll tell you what. One time I.

[Brian Bates]

Among the critics.

[Dusty Slay]

This is when I put out Wet Heat and I hired a PR firm. I, I, I don't know, got a subscription to IMDb. Yeah, I updated everything I went through. I got very detailed with it. I updated it and then like a day later it, I don't know, resorted back to this. So I said, okay, I don't care. I didn't care before, and, and then I put in a lot of work and now I don't care again. So.

[Aaron Weber]

But that we're listed behind Jared Gerdes on the, on the call sheet there, Brian. Yeah, that's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So, yeah, I mean, I appreciate you pointing that out, Jim and Denise, thanks for bringing that to light.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, this is what you're gonna be known for now is the horse trainer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think people were going, oh, what is, what's Dusty's IMDb looking like? And why is he not updating? Does he even show up here? I'm probably not even listed.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, let me hit View all.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I gotta, yeah, you gotta get.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry, that was just the top cast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you gotta.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there you are right here at the bottom.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Horse trainer.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So there you go.

[Aaron Weber]

What does it say about me on I am IMDb? It says you're married with two kids. Dusty sleigh is known for Dusty Slay, Wet Heat, the Breadwinner and Circle Sessions. What is that, 2020, a little segment they did about you on the Circle Network. That's where most of the tickets come from, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I, there's, there's way more things. I mean, I hop on here and edit this. The Breadwinner. It's big that I'm in there, but I don't think I'm known for that. That's not even out to the public yet.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna tell everybody that's what you're known for.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Breadwinner since you have two kids. So you need to update that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Alex Meyer.

[Dusty Slay]

Does my wife have a headshot?

[Aaron Weber]

Let's go to her.

[Dusty Slay]

She.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a lot more activity on here, I'll tell you that. Yeah, she's got a headshot on here.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

She's Canadian famous.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. There's videos of her. Look at that. She looks way more active in the world.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Whenever Brian says that's great, he's. That's his way of saying, let's move on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Brian Bates]

You are correct.

[Dusty Slay]

That's great.

[Brian Bates]

Got one more comment here, Alex Meyer. Dusty's going from don't chat with AI like you're having a conversation to admitting most of this tweet I replied to are probably bots. I think it's fun. Within 30 seconds is the epitome of Dusty Slay, and I am here for it. Love the pod. Keep up the great work.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, I laughed along with this comment because it is funny, okay? But I'm not having a conversation with the bot on Twitter. What I'm talking about is these people, they go. These people that I follow on TikTok, they go, AI is a demon. Don't communicate with it. Let me tell you what happened to me. They. And then they go, I've been sitting around for hours having personal conversations with AI, talking with IT about religion and things like that. And I go, yeah, that's your problem. You got in too deep. You just got to go in, tell AI it's stupid, and then get out of there. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

I saw on the news, the bots

[Dusty Slay]

are, you know, people running bot farms in other countries.

[Brian Bates]

What's the purpose of bots?

[Dusty Slay]

They just probably monetize, and I'm probably helping them get. Make money.

[Brian Bates]

I saw in the news that all these college commencement speeches are going on now, and. And very often when the speaker brings up AI, they're doing them.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, I've seen a few videos.

[Brian Bates]

One of them was at mtsu.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They're bringing it up in a positive way. And the audience booze. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And as soon as they bring it up, all the students boo.

[Dusty Slay]

Especially a place like that. Like. Right. Because they're technology people.

[Brian Bates]

Where. Yeah, yeah. It was the guy who runs.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it not.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they're music people.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The guy who runs Big Machine Records.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And he said something about AI, and they're like, boom.

[Dusty Slay]

He's probably making a ton of money, and he's probably losing money now because of it. So.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, interesting stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty. Go ahead and make your songs with AI.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll be right back.

[Brian Bates]

Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You want to send us off, Brian?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I will make some songs though, by the way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I didn't want to leave Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Ha.

[Dusty Slay]

I got a new one that I've created that you think you'll really like.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, we are back with the one and only birthday girl, Angela Johnson.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Angela Johnson]

Stealing that from Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's your birthday.

[Dusty Slay]

It's my birthday today.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, but no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

But Dusty is against holidays. He's against celebrating things. So I'm gonna focus. All that energy I would have given to him. To you, Angela. Happy birthday.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you you so much.

[Dusty Slay]

I, I support it now.

[Brian Bates]

Birthdays are the one thing you your birthday, you celebrate, not Jesus's but yours,

[Dusty Slay]

I'm, I'm against celebrating my own birthday. I told my family I'll celebrate for my kids because they like it and I'll do celebrate my wives. But I, Yeah, I mean, I, I told him, I go, let's not make a big deal here, guys.

[Angela Johnson]

So you're not doing anything today?

[Dusty Slay]

I. No, I didn't really do anything today, but, like, my wife has gotten me a massage for tomorrow.

[Aaron Weber]

At the house?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, just out of place.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Now, next week is Memorial Day, and we were going to record two episodes today so we could be off. You're like, guys, it's my birthday. Well, you're saying you don't do anything.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't want to spend the whole day down here with you guys.

[Angela Johnson]

I have some follow up questions with the massage.

[Aaron Weber]

So do I.

[Angela Johnson]

Because you, you give me, like, I don't like massage vibes.

[Aaron Weber]

He only gets them from men like you.

[Angela Johnson]

You don't strike me as a guy who gets massages.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't get them a lot, but I do enjoy a massage.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, that's good. Do you like deep, Deep tissue? Do you have like a. Yeah, I

[Dusty Slay]

like, you know, I don't want to, you know, don't be too rough with me, but I. Yeah, I'd like to really get in there.

[Angela Johnson]

But don't tickle.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, right.

[Angela Johnson]

Massage is a waste.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't tickle. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And don't they upcharge for tickling?

[Dusty Slay]

Usually. And I don't like when they talk to me while it's, you know, like, let me. Don't ask me how it's been going. Let me, Let me just enjoy the, you know, the whole tranquility of it all.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Hot stones. You do hot stones?

[Dusty Slay]

I've never done hot stones.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay. I have another.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that the way to go? Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay. Do you have a preference of music or sounds when you're getting a massage?

[Dusty Slay]

I do like when they kind of put on music that sounds like massage music. Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean?

[Angela Johnson]

I, I do not like it when they play music that has, like a melody to it. No, because I'm like, now I'm like, following the melody. Like, just give me, like, I want,

[Aaron Weber]

like, you want a soundscape.

[Dusty Slay]

I want water flowing down.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you. A fountain of rocks, some native flutes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Angela Johnson]

That's all I want.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, you're looking out over a barren planet.

[Angela Johnson]

If I hear a piano come in during my massage.

[Aaron Weber]

Too much. Too much.

[Dusty Slay]

I like, like, traditional Chinese classical music. Like whatever that instrument, the Chinese Instrument? Yeah. Chinese and Japanese classical. It's the same kind of instrument.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're probably talking about a. That.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet I am. It's a string that does hang. Of course. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a traditional Chinese zither.

[Brian Bates]

You would know if you heard 21 or 26 string.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think a 26 string is going to be the best.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

More strings the better, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, but it's like that. It just. I don't know, it feels good. It's relaxing.

[Angela Johnson]

That's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like it.

[Angela Johnson]

Well, I hope you enjoy your massage.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, I brought this up last time you were on, but, Aaron, you weren't here, so I want to share it again because I think it's interesting fact. Angela and Dusty born the same week and they have a child born the same week.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson]

We are the same person.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Neither graduated college.

[Angela Johnson]

Nope.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Both have some questions about the moon landing.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Angela Johnson]

Let's go. Let's go.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

She knows some stuff. She went to Johnson Space Center. Some questions weren't answered.

[Aaron Weber]

You went undercover.

[Angela Johnson]

I sure did.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's nice to have some, you know, rational, thinking people on the podcast once in a while and not people that just accept every narrative thrown at me.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

It's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous framing of the situation, but happy to have you here. I am. Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I've been wanting to have you here just to tell. Because you said we could go 50 years ago. We can't go now.

[Angela Johnson]

Something ain't right, let me tell you.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, well, we lost the technology. Just trying to build it back.

[Aaron Weber]

No one's ever said that. No one's ever said that. Just.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, I'm sorry I brought it up, but I want you to know you have an ally date. Bestie.

[Aaron Weber]

I wanted you to know that NASA didn't go.

[Brian Bates]

We lost the blueprints to the lunar lander.

[Dusty Slay]

If I could find the video, I'll find it. I'll bring it in.

[Brian Bates]

And I also wanted to ask you because you were at Nate's movie premiere.

[Dusty Slay]

The breadwinner.

[Angela Johnson]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

What is the secret to get on the red carpet? Because I tried and they said no.

[Angela Johnson]

What?

[Brian Bates]

I got denied? And they said, sir. I was like, I'm in the movie. And they're like, sorry. And then like, that's Angela Johnson.

[Angela Johnson]

And honestly, I just followed John Cristian. He was walking on. So I was like, do I go next? And they're like, yeah, sure, that might

[Aaron Weber]

have been the move. It's just follow somebody like that.

[Angela Johnson]

And then I had my name on my ticket envelope, and I just showed it to him. So she wrote it on the board.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, maybe I should have done that. I'll be honest. I showed up. I didn't know that it was a red carpet event. I didn't know what I was coming to. Didn't dress appropriately.

[Angela Johnson]

No way.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't know press would be there. I thought it was a private screening of the film. I showed up. I didn't know who to talk to. I just stood around, and then I saw everybody do the red carpet. And me, Brian and Dusty were like, we're in the movie.

[Dusty Slay]

I talked to people.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's go get a picture.

[Dusty Slay]

I talked to several people about getting. I just. I took my daughter. I just wanted to get a picture with her on the red carpet.

[Angela Johnson]

And they wouldn't let you.

[Dusty Slay]

And then a guy eventually comes around. He goes, you guys trying to get a picture? And then he takes. And then we go, oh, yeah. And it seemed like he's about to hook it up. And he takes us to a place that we could have easily just walked up to any time that we wanted. Popcorn stand and took a picture.

[Angela Johnson]

And the cutout of Nate. They took you?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, so still not. Still not on the empty red carpet

[Aaron Weber]

that no one's on. That's right.

[Angela Johnson]

Did you get nervous when you saw the red carpet? You're like, oh, I'm not dressed.

[Aaron Weber]

If I had a bigger role in the movie, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

And you were dressed five.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And first of all, you were dressed. Ready?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, thank you.

[Angela Johnson]

You guys were so good, all of you. I was so happy when I saw you guys on the screen. Your acting skills were on point. I was like, okay, boys, let's go.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that.

[Angela Johnson]

You guys did really good.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Angela Johnson]

How did you feel watching yourself?

[Brian Bates]

Weird. It's so fast that you're like, whoa, that's me. And then it's over. And you're like, I don't even know how I did. Can we rewind that? But you can't.

[Aaron Weber]

You should have asked, though. That would have been funny. You guys might. We run that back? I want to watch that again.

[Brian Bates]

I was sitting next to Nate. And so as soon as my scene was over, which is the first, what, three minutes of the movie?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

All right, I'm out of here. It was fun, but it was surreal.

[Angela Johnson]

How'd you feel?

[Brian Bates]

It was cool.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it was very cool. They had a real close up of me way too, like, too close. I was like, yo, zoom out.

[Brian Bates]

A little jump scare, everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, nobody did that, but it was

[Angela Johnson]

perfect for what it.

[Aaron Weber]

The crowd didn't gasp when my face came.

[Dusty Slay]

My. My area. They did.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, no.

[Dusty Slay]

We were last row and people were still like. Like, wow, is this 3D?

[Aaron Weber]

It was a big shot of my dumb head. But, yeah, it was. I mean, I've never been in a movie, so it's. It's crazy to see yourself in one, you know? And Dusty brought his daughter and she got to see him in the movie, and that was probably cool.

[Angela Johnson]

What was that like with your daughter scene?

[Dusty Slay]

She was very excited. She was very excited.

[Angela Johnson]

How old is she?

[Dusty Slay]

5.

[Angela Johnson]

So does she understand the movie?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, this is what I was saying, you know, to Brian, is that, you know, because of YouTube.

[Aaron Weber]

I was there too, by the way.

[Dusty Slay]

We're like, well, Brian was. Who was harassing me about it. But with. With. With YouTube, it's like. Like we could be on TV any time. It's almost like being on TV means nothing.

[Aaron Weber]

You mean on the literal TV right at home?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Being on TV almost means nothing because I can upload, you know, I could upload my daughter to the tv.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But to be at the movie. So I didn't tell her that I was in it, and I was. It was quick. I'm glad she noticed that I was there. But she did notice on her own, and so it was exciting.

[Angela Johnson]

What did she say? She goes, dad.

[Dusty Slay]

She goes, that's you, dad. Oh, yeah, it's very exciting.

[Angela Johnson]

How'd that make you feel?

[Dusty Slay]

I felt great. Well, I go, yeah, well, yeah, I'm on TV all the time. But

[Brian Bates]

why are you surprised?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Yeah. I do have three Netflix special, but, yeah, thanks, daughter.

[Angela Johnson]

The reason why I asked is because I had a little kid one time. I was in the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks, which obviously got a lot of kid fans from that. And I remember meeting a little kid at the mall, and she said, I saw you in the Chipmunks. And I said, you did? And she goes, yeah, did you see me? Like, she didn't understand. She thought that I could see her back from the tv. And I was like, oh, but I guess that was a long time ago, before YouTube, and we could watch it on TV. So that does make sense.

[Brian Bates]

How old are you?

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I'm thinking about. How old was the kid?

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, I don't, like, under five, like, in that range.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

But it is a long time ago.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't Even see you now, kid.

[Aaron Weber]

I say that, but I've also admitted on here before that when I was very young and people died in television shows and movies, I thought that the actors were actually dying. And I remember thinking, wow, what a sacrifice for this film. They really believed in this movie. They were willing to die for the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

The moon landing stuff's making more sense now.

[Brian Bates]

I remember watching your movie that came out last year, maybe before Candy Cane Lane.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, yes, with Eddie Murphy.

[Brian Bates]

And in that movie, the little figures come to life, and the little girl is the first one to, I guess, experience it. And I thought my daughter would totally go along with this if, if it happened to her, because kids just live in a fantasy world. That's fun. And I mean, maybe not for you,

[Aaron Weber]

but I was the least fun kid ever. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think about, like, you take your kid to Disneyland, right, or Disney World, and you meet Mickey Mouse. I don't know. Mickey Mouse is walking around. What do kids think that is? Do they think that that's Mickey Mouse?

[Angela Johnson]

I. I think. Well, we just met Mickey.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

She's never seen Mickey on TV or anything, so she doesn't really know who Mickey Mouse is. We just tell her that's Mickey Mouse. And so we went and took a picture with him, and we were doing, like, the character breakfast at our, at our resort we were staying at, and it was a Disney resort. And so she went to take her picture with Mickey Mouse. And then she says, do you want to come eat breakfast with us? And, like, was inviting him to come sit and eat with us, like. But she doesn't understand who Mickey is. She just thinks, here's this thing that we're being happy about, and we're all saying, oh, say hi. Oh. And we're like. So she's just, like, going along with it.

[Dusty Slay]

And you're like, nah, that guy's probably an alcoholic.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we were just looking at our IMDb page before you joined us, because we got a movie on there now,

[Angela Johnson]

and look at that.

[Brian Bates]

And yours might be a little bit better.

[Angela Johnson]

No, barely, Barely.

[Brian Bates]

Let's say you were the resurrection of Gavin Stone. You were the number two in that movie, right?

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah. Yep.

[Brian Bates]

I think our family wedding.

[Angela Johnson]

Yep. And these are all from so long ago. That's how not better.

[Brian Bates]

What was the movie with James Gabafini and Julia Louis Dreyfus?

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, enough said.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that was a great movie.

[Angela Johnson]

That was a good one. That was fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you've been in a ton of stuff.

[Angela Johnson]

I, I. Hey, I'm blessed. I I can't. I could do the whole the grass is always greener thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I've seen this cover of this. I've never watched this movie, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I. This is one of the movies I gave you when I liquidated my collection to you. This is one of the movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

Do you want me to sign it for you?

[Aaron Weber]

I do. I actually might want it back now. I didn't know.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah. I play the maid, Catherine Keener.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great movie.

[Dusty Slay]

It just. The COVID to me, it seems like they're. It's, like, too artsy.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's James Gandolfini and Julia Louis Dreyfus sitting on a stoop, and they're looking in different directions.

[Dusty Slay]

It seems like it's, like a lot too much of a love story.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a romantic comedy drama.

[Dusty Slay]

What this makes it seem like.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that is what it is. But it's good.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it good? Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, it was a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. James Candolfini died after the film was completed, but before it came out.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Angela Johnson]

Very sad.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Enough said.

[Angela Johnson]

I cannot stand you. Cannot stand you.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Angela, another thing I wanted to ask you. The thing I wanted to ask you, get your opinion on last week. Aaron asked the question, what is the best TV theme music of all time? Theme song. Oh, the best tv, I said, while you're thinking about it. I said Golden Girls. Dusty said Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I think that's so popular.

[Aaron Weber]

I actually want to reintroduce one of the conversation that never came up.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Gilmore Girls next.

[Angela Johnson]

I didn't watch it. I wouldn't even be able to tell you. Oh, that's the Gilmore.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a Carol King song.

[Brian Bates]

You really thought Angela was going to get behind you on that?

[Angela Johnson]

I didn't. I'm sorry, I didn't watch. But my husband watches Gilmore Girls. Okay. He would be down with him on

[Aaron Weber]

the podcast next week.

[Dusty Slay]

Can we hit us with a little bit of it?

[Aaron Weber]

It Want me to play it?

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, no, we don't.

[Angela Johnson]

Acapella, please.

[Aaron Weber]

If you lead, I will follow anywhere that you tell me to if you leave you need me to be with you I will follow. You don't know the song. There's a big song.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's a good. Sounds like a good song, but I. As a. I feel like you just. I don't know. And maybe they all do this, but I feel like you just can't take a song and make it the theme song and then that be an Iconic theme song.

[Angela Johnson]

Well, Friends did that. The

[Brian Bates]

song the Rembrandts. Is that. Who sang that?

[Angela Johnson]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I kind of ruled that one out.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I guess. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

It's earlier, though.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay. I mean, it's popular because of the Friends.

[Brian Bates]

Did you do the clap?

[Angela Johnson]

Of course. Of course.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Bestie did too. Who didn't with those Friends parties?

[Angela Johnson]

What were the other submissions for Best Cheer Matters.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, cheers.

[Angela Johnson]

Family matters. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the old Old Women.

[Brian Bates]

Golden Girls. Golden Girls, Full house.

[Dusty Slay]

They're probably our age.

[Aaron Weber]

If you look at the ages of the women on that show, they're like, I think one of them is in their 40s.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It doesn't make sense. I think they were supposed to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Betty white was like 46.

[Dusty Slay]

But I saw. I saw some hair swapping pictures where they put modern day hair on and they look younger. Yeah, totally.

[Angela Johnson]

I saw that too. It is the hair.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Blanche Devereaux. Old Blanche, played by Rue McClanahan. She was 51 when the show came out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Jennifer Lopez is currently like 52 or 3 or something.

[Brian Bates]

No, I think she's older than that.

[Angela Johnson]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think she's older than I am.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the benchmark. She's 56.

[Angela Johnson]

No way.

[Aaron Weber]

56 years old. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

My God.

[Brian Bates]

People my age are the rock.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Shaq,

[Aaron Weber]

Snoop Dogg, all your peers.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And me. The four of us.

[Angela Johnson]

The four of us?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Bobby Lee is the same age as you two.

[Angela Johnson]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. He's 54 years old.

[Brian Bates]

Bert Kreischer and I have the same birthday, but he's a year younger than.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a little younger than you.

[Brian Bates]

A year, not a little.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess he's considerably younger than.

[Angela Johnson]

Considerably.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, Snoop really made a transition. You know, he. There's ABC songs for kids that he, you know, he's playing, and I like to tell my kids, when that comes on, I go learn your ABCs. But this guy, he killed a guy.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even know that.

[Angela Johnson]

Did he?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. He had the song. Murder was the case. Murder was the case that get.

[Aaron Weber]

At the very least, he talked about killing.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah. At the very least. At the very least.

[Brian Bates]

That's the same. Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well,

[Angela Johnson]

which one is the. This day and age.

[Aaron Weber]

That's family.

[Angela Johnson]

Is that. Is that what that. That's the one that kept popping in my head.

[Brian Bates]

What was the one you did on your. When you would shoot on your tour

[Angela Johnson]

and you did a. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that was the Full House One.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they did, like, a spoof of it.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, we did a spoof of it, and now I can't.

[Dusty Slay]

Everywhere. Everywhere you look. Step by Step. Had a good one, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't remember it, but step by

[Aaron Weber]

step, that's all you need.

[Dusty Slay]

Day by day. Fresh start over.

[Angela Johnson]

I'll be honest. I thought you were giving me New Kids on the Block first, and I was like, step by step.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll make it better the second time around.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think step by step. Because they were like step siblings.

[Angela Johnson]

Huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Right, right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

And they. In the. That was a good cast.

[Angela Johnson]

I'll tell you what I didn't like.

[Dusty Slay]

It's fun. Patrick Duffy, Suzanne Somers.

[Angela Johnson]

They were good. Yeah, that was a good show. Isn't that show connected to another show? I think it was like a spinoff or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe it's Three's Company spinoff. After Susan Somers has been through a couple of marriages.

[Aaron Weber]

Step by step. There was a. It coexisted in the same universe as Family Matters in Full House.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a crossover episode where Steve Urkelle.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Launched himself in a jet pack.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Both shows have jumped the shark by this point. And the jet pack crashed into the Lambert Foster household in Wisconsin.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

Happy Days theme song. That's another good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Happy Days. That's a. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And Three's Company.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Come and knock on our door.

[Angela Johnson]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Classic.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, that's the whole podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, guys, for tuning in.

[Dusty Slay]

Speaking of Gemma the Shark,

[Brian Bates]

but don't you feel like if a show's good, then the theme song just seems better because you love the show?

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Brian Bates]

I really got into Succession on HBO a couple years ago, and I could skip the intro if I wanted to, but I would watch it.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't.

[Brian Bates]

Because I like it so much. And same with Game of Thrones.

[Aaron Weber]

I would watch Sets the mood.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, here's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Finally.

[Dusty Slay]

What about Monks?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it's a jungle out there.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

That's Randy Newman.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Randy Newman. Monk.

[Angela Johnson]

I didn't. I didn't get down with Monk.

[Brian Bates]

People think I'm crazy. We're out of time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's a great song. It's a jungle out there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

You got a good ear.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks. Appreciate that.

[Angela Johnson]

You sing.

[Aaron Weber]

It's nice to.

[Brian Bates]

A little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Just on this podcast, mostly. But the.

[Dusty Slay]

The. You never watch Monk.

[Angela Johnson]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

You got to give it. Just give one episode ago.

[Angela Johnson]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Just one episode.

[Angela Johnson]

There's Another show. I've given an episode, too. I've given multiple, and I just couldn't get down. I think it might have been Game of Thrones. No, I've never watched Game of Thrones. What is a popular one? And I'm like, I just can't get down with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Monk is light. It's fun. You're not gonna get. You don't have to watch every episode. What is it? He's a detective.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, I like detective shots.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't have to. It's a little. It's comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a detective with severe ocd.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Brian Bates]

Louisiana. Law doesn't really have one, does it?

[Angela Johnson]

It what?

[Brian Bates]

Does LA Law have a theme?

[Angela Johnson]

LA Law? What year are you. Are you talking about Law and Order? Svu.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. They're all the same.

[Aaron Weber]

LA Law.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Angela Johnson]

Yes, it does have a theme song. Oh, yeah, it's one of my ringtones.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry, I was trying to connect with you.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Ridiculed for trying to connect. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Never try to connect.

[Aaron Weber]

Never try to connect.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm gonna try again because I was at the baseball game with these guys this weekend, and I saw their children, and I thought about your new special, Ugly Baby.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Angela Johnson]

Which one's ugly?

[Brian Bates]

I'm not gonna say which one, but we all know there's one in the group, right? That's kind of the point of your special. I'm joking. I'm joking. Just trying to.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian's sniper, man.

[Dusty Slay]

He's trying to connect at our expense.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I do.

[Dusty Slay]

Expense of his co host.

[Aaron Weber]

Whatever.

[Brian Bates]

No one's ever taken a shot at me.

[Angela Johnson]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Well done, but no. Your special is called Ugly Baby.

[Angela Johnson]

It is.

[Brian Bates]

And how many people out there do you think have ugly baby?

[Angela Johnson]

A lot more than are willing to admit is what I've learned.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you think that people should be saying it? They should be going, take a look at my baby. I know he's ugly, but check it out.

[Aaron Weber]

You mean when they're showing pictures to friends?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, I thought.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know if the scenario you just painted was them, like, going to a doctor and going, look, my baby's ugly. Do something about it. But you're saying just prepping people.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, it's. She says more than. I don't think it needs to be prepped.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

I don't think it needs to be prepped, but I have had friends who have ugly babies that do not know they're like, in denial. Because not that somebody's saying, hey, your baby's ugly. They're like, no, they're not. But I had a friend tell me one time that, oh, my gosh, my baby was so beautiful when they were born. Like, gorgeous. And I saw her baby when.

[Brian Bates]

Just name names.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know that any baby is beautiful when they're born. Like, the moment they come out, that's a tough moment.

[Angela Johnson]

It's a squishy moment.

[Dusty Slay]

They've been through a lot.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's tough to be, like, judging their beauty. I just been through something.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever wake up and build camera right away?

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you got a couple months. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We all think our baby is super cute when they're born, but Aaron and I both said we look back at photos of our child when. And I'm like, I don't even remember her looking like that.

[Aaron Weber]

It is amazing how blinded you are.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The love for your own child. Right? I remember pictures of my baby when she was young, and I was like, this is the cutest baby ever. And I think she. She's very cute now. And I look. But, you know, she had some health problems and things. First she was all banged up, and the pictures are bad, and. And she was being overfed by the feeding tube that we had. And I look back now, I'm like, yo, it's a terrible picture. But I remember thinking, wow, what a great picture of this baby.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Aaron Weber]

We're all just blinded by. By love, huh?

[Angela Johnson]

That's what it is. People are blinded.

[Brian Bates]

You're a little too hard on your baby. Just then you're like, what do you mean going in? I'm like, she was fat. She was ugly.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, she wasn't that bad.

[Brian Bates]

She was disgusting.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's not. I want to be very clear.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, they can really put on some baby weight. You know, you're feeding them because you're like, this is how they go to sleep.

[Angela Johnson]

I love a chunky baby.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. People would say that about my babies. They would go, oh, real chunky baby to go. What do you want a malnourished baby? You better bring you a real thin baby. Go. Look at this. We barely feed it. Right, right?

[Angela Johnson]

Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Watched his elbows.

[Aaron Weber]

Your outdoor space is important and should feel like you. Abigail, friend of the podcast, producer of the podcast. She just bought a new house and had to get the space on the outside to match how she decorated the inside.

[Angela Johnson]

I did. So there's my picture, there's my rug. I was Going for like modern slash farmhouse style. Wayfair came in and pulled my idea together. I had this table, but it just felt like something was off. I looked into Wayfair and I got this beautiful rug. It pulled the entire space together. I think so. And now it's one of my favorite places to be. Look how cute it is. I also got a bird feeder. That's how much stuff Wayfair has. Just like from bird feeders to rugs,

[Aaron Weber]

a little bit of everything. It looks great. And Wayfair has it all in one place. Outdoor seating, grills, major appliances, storage, patio lighting, rugs, decor. Wayfair is your one stop shop for home. Over 20 million verified 5 star reviews help you make the right call. Real customers, real feedback, real homes get prepped for patio season. For way less, head to Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. That's W A Y-F A I R.com Wayfair Every style, every home.

[Dusty Slay]

Wayfair Every style, every home.

[Brian Bates]

You just. So your special just came out last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, babies, congratulations.

[Brian Bates]

Crazy amount of views.

[Angela Johnson]

It's. It's doing all right. Can you pull it up, please? Can you give me one more view really quick?

[Brian Bates]

I looked this morning. It's like what, 700,000 something.

[Angela Johnson]

No. Is it? I thought it was like five something.

[Aaron Weber]

600,000 right here.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh,

[Aaron Weber]

you were looking at her subscribers.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

1.7 or something.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, so we're doing all right. And you know, self produced, self finance.

[Aaron Weber]

Love that.

[Angela Johnson]

Self directed, everything. I did it all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Where did you film this at?

[Angela Johnson]

This is at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, California. And you got this thing out quick. Yeah, it was a little stressful for sure. My last special we filmed in October and it didn't come out until May. This one we filmed in February and came out in May.

[Aaron Weber]

Hustling.

[Brian Bates]

And it was the end of February.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, it was February 28th, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

So you, you put up, put out a new hour pretty fast.

[Angela Johnson]

Well, it took me three years to write it, but I filmed it and edited and all of that kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, you get to my favorite part.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. So, so, okay, when you said October or whatever, that was my last one. But, but years. 20.

[Angela Johnson]

20.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

Through two.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I think.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Keep going, Aaron.

[Angela Johnson]

We're getting there.

[Aaron Weber]

We're scrolling through the special. Thanks.

[Brian Bates]

Keep going.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you in here?

[Brian Bates]

Just keep going. It's my favorite part.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Angela Johnson]

My boy, B. Bates.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, Ron Hortman. There Too.

[Angela Johnson]

Ron Hortman.

[Brian Bates]

All right, now, when Nate taped one of his specials, Aaron was there for it. And there was a guy sitting in front of him who was, what, chanting, saying every line, repeating.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate, he was enjoying the show, but then he would hear a joke and then converse about it with the guy next to him. So annoying after it.

[Brian Bates]

And Aaron finally put his hand on his shoulder and said, enough.

[Aaron Weber]

I did.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, shut it.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you for doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

I shut it down.

[Brian Bates]

And you had something kind of similar yourself.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, I did. Mine was, like, a lady who had too much alcohol, and she was in the front row, and I thought she was doing that with her friend next to her. It turns out that wasn't even her friend. It was just. She came with this guy, and she had too much to drink. After everything I would say, she would have something to say about it, and it wasn't loud enough to where the whole audience could hear. She was in the front, so only I could hear. And, like, the few people around. And that is the worst.

[Dusty Slay]

It is the worst.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Cause then you look insane. Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

So bad.

[Angela Johnson]

So what happens is for everybody listening and watching at home, this is what happens. Everybody else in the theater is having a great time. When you stop the energy to address a heckler or somebody that nobody knew about, it's jarring. So you took the energy from way up here, we're having a great time to just, like, pop the balloon, and everything sucked out and was like. And now people are like, oh, she's reprimanding somebody. Oh, somebody's getting in trouble. It immediately changes the energy, changes the vibe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

But I had to shut it down because she was distracting me. And then I started delivering my jokes angry because I was annoyed.

[Aaron Weber]

Your whole energy shifted.

[Angela Johnson]

And I go, I gotta stop her, because I'm gonna record myself in a way that I don't want to be recorded. So I'm just gonna stop her and hope that everybody in the audience rides with me after this. So I had to stop it. And then made some joke about, okay, everybody pretend like you still have good energy. And then they laughed, and then I just jumped right back in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

But it's just. Yeah, it was too late.

[Dusty Slay]

What about the lady? Did she have to leave?

[Angela Johnson]

No. And that was a thing, too, is I gave her, like, options. I didn't want to, like, be mean about it and be like, get out. But also, I want. I need her to stop. So I was like, do you want to sit in the back? You can sit in the back and chat with your man. If you want. Like, go sit in the back and where nobody could hear you, that's fine. But she was just, like, drunk and, like, you know, whatever. So it's like, okay, well, just. If you're gonna stay here, just be quiet. You could laugh, but don't talk anymore. And then. Then at that point, I have Danielle and, like, security, like, waiting to. But they don't know what to do at that point because we're taping. They can't just come right in the front row.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

And, like, stop it.

[Dusty Slay]

That could be fun for a special, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

If someone bts out of my show during the special, I think I might try to keep it in.

[Angela Johnson]

Keep it in. That would be kind of fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It happened. Eddie Murphy special heckled. Yeah. And they left it all in. Yeah. One of the Delirious or Raw. One of those. Somebody yelled out something.

[Brian Bates]

I don't remember that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. A couple Bill Burr albums, the same thing happened. Got Left it in. I hosted an album taking much lower stakes than your show. But it was just like some comics were recording an album, and I hosted it for him. And a guy in the crowd had an annoying laugh.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, no.

[Aaron Weber]

And I said, you gotta leave. I go, you're gonna ruin the whole thing.

[Brian Bates]

I think I'll ruin this.

[Aaron Weber]

You were there probably, right.

[Angela Johnson]

What did you say?

[Brian Bates]

What was it at Third coast? Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Laughter is the worst too.

[Aaron Weber]

And I knew who it was. It's a guy that we liked and knew, but he just had an annoying laugh. So I guess you gotta shut it down or you gotta leave.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Did he shut it down?

[Aaron Weber]

He. I think he left.

[Dusty Slay]

I heard him.

[Brian Bates]

But that.

[Angela Johnson]

You're a real one for that.

[Aaron Weber]

I was like, I gotta be mean so that they don't have to be.

[Angela Johnson]

You're a real one. For that. I would. I appreciate that.

[Dusty Slay]

Never saw that guy again.

[Aaron Weber]

I haven't seen him in, like, years.

[Dusty Slay]

Maria Bamford. There was an album I listened to with her, and she said that to an audience. Audience member. Like, she was like, I appreciate you laughing, but your laugh is throwing me off. You gotta stop it.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah. That's tough.

[Dusty Slay]

Because people think, oh, I'm just laughing. And it's like, yeah, but you're laughing wrong. Don't laugh like that. Yeah. Ever. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You got to be careful if you can't see that person, because sometimes they might have something special going on. And, you know. Right.

[Angela Johnson]

I hear what you're saying.

[Brian Bates]

You yell out into the void. And then.

[Dusty Slay]

But even then, they still ruin the recording. Something well, recording's different.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, congratulations.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you. I appreciate it. Worked really hard on it and, you know, would love for everybody to watch it. And look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

Dave Shamban, David Sham.

[Aaron Weber]

He edited Dusty edited mine.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, he's great.

[Dusty Slay]

David's the best.

[Angela Johnson]

I went and sat with him and we went through. So I was like, I thank you so much for going through piece by piece with. I was so nitpicky. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, can you show me every camera angle possible for this shot? Because I am not liking it. And we went through a bunch of times, did, like, slow push in, did all these different things. So I'm like, all right, let's figure something else out. And he was right with me the whole time. So grateful.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, David used to do comedy here in Nashville. When I moved here, he was on the open mic scene. Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, that's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

I forgot about that. Yeah, that's cool. David's great.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so. But exciting news that we're very exciting.

[Angela Johnson]

What could be more exciting than Ugly Baby?

[Brian Bates]

I know your podcast, Fungila, is coming over to the Nateland Network. Look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

Welcome. Welcome aboard.

[Angela Johnson]

Thank you. Very excited, everybody.

[Brian Bates]

So tell us about Fungala. What can we expect?

[Angela Johnson]

Okay, so Funula. It's my. The premise of my podcast is gratitude, okay? And it's a mental health and comedy podcast. And the reason why it's a mental health podcast is because gratitude is one of my tools that I use for my mental health, for whenever I'm struggling, anxiety, depression, whatever it may be.

[Aaron Weber]

Should listen to this.

[Angela Johnson]

The gratitude is one of my tools that I use. And when you practice gratitude, it helps change your perspective, change your energy, raise your vibration. So what we do is we start with a matitude, and that's the thing that makes you mad. Like, what gets on your nerves, what annoys you, what makes you mad, that's your matitude. And then we move into gratitude, and we talk about five things that we're grateful for. Sometimes we don't even get to the five, because each thing leads to another story, another story that we start talking about your life, and we get to know each guest through the lens of gratitude, finding out what they're grateful for throughout their life, whether it's something that happened in kindergarten or something that happened yesterday in the parking lot at Kroger's. Like. Like, whatever it is that somebody is grateful for, we get to know them through that lens. And it comes out every Tuesday. It's called Funjula. And. Yeah. And we're super excited to be a part of the Nateland family.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome. Love that.

[Brian Bates]

So could Dusty instead switch and do five magnitudes, five things that are annoying him this week? Yeah. Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Ready?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I. Yeah. I mean, this.

[Brian Bates]

Where do you start?

[Dusty Slay]

Walk around out here and. But there's plenty to be grateful for. I love that. This very biblical based where it's like, you know, in prayer, when you're praying, pray, you know, give thanks.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And not just what. Let me ask God for things.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Be thankful for the many things that you have.

[Angela Johnson]

Totally. And also just really helps change your perspective on things because every single one of us can get into a mood where we're like, oh, man, why me? If something's happening to you, like, you got bad news after bad news and you're like, oh, why is this happening to me? But then if you shift your perspective for a second and search for some gratitude within your life, well, thankfully it's not. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Thankfully, I don't have to blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you immediately start changing your. Your perspective from this, like, negative place to looking up. Kind of like even a simple visual is you have your camera and you're looking down. You're gonna see all your chins. All your chins are right here because you're looking down. But when you start looking up. Hey, angles, let's go. She looks good when she looks up. You know what I mean? Same kind of thing.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, St. Augustine describes sin as collapsing into yourself. Sort of the metaphorically, but also just the example you gave. A lot of times we see it now. It is a physical collapsing into yourself on your phone or whatever else. Right. So there is something really meaningful about just opening up, opening up to the world.

[Angela Johnson]

That's a great visual.

[Brian Bates]

There's a, you know, I get into

[Angela Johnson]

Native American, I can't stand you right now.

[Brian Bates]

Symmetry. And there are two wolves inside all of us.

[Angela Johnson]

I can't see.

[Brian Bates]

Did you know that, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

There are two wolves.

[Aaron Weber]

You too?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, yeah, okay. All of us.

[Dusty Slay]

Two wolves.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Not in you.

[Brian Bates]

One is. Is angry and spiteful.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And the other one is happy and grateful and they're constantly fighting each other.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And the little boy. There was a grandfather telling the story. And his little boy said, well, which one wins? And he said, the one you feed. How about that?

[Angela Johnson]

We are profound on this podcast that

[Dusty Slay]

really took a turn in a way.

[Angela Johnson]

I.

[Aaron Weber]

Powerful stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I was ready to make fun of that.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was a joke

[Angela Johnson]

too.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you may start with the magitude.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, let's do it. Let's go around the table and do our magitudes and gratitude.

[Brian Bates]

Now I was on her podcast this week and I shared. Just share those real fast. I shared hotel rooms that still don't have a plug by your nightstand.

[Aaron Weber]

Ridiculous.

[Brian Bates]

For your phone.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you think we're doing in there?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Playing chess.

[Brian Bates]

And then I shared. We took our daughter to see Peppa Pig and it still didn't start on time. You know, it's the first time she's ever set in a movie and they show all the previews and some of them were intense. They were like intense movie previews.

[Angela Johnson]

So that's, that's kind of like know your audience. These are kids that are watching this.

[Aaron Weber]

Usually they do tailor it to the movie that it's coming.

[Brian Bates]

And I'm not saying it was like scary. It was Superman. Like it was, it was last summer

[Dusty Slay]

with that stuff can be scary for the Peppa.

[Aaron Weber]

Like what is as or less intense as Peppa Pig?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

There's not much to show, right.

[Dusty Slay]

How about just show some popcorn ads?

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Then skip it. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Get the movie start.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So this week. So now that the days are getting longer, which I like that. But it didn't get dark till like 8 o'. Clock. These. And we put our daughter to bed, you know, start putting her bed around 7:30. So these lawn services, which I know they have a business but they will work right up until sun goes down. So we're trying to get our daughter to bed and they're running the leaf blower. They're running the.

[Dusty Slay]

I hate a leaf blower.

[Brian Bates]

They're running the, the lawnmower and it's so loud around us and I'm like, I understand it. You technically can do it, but how about stopping at least by six? So that's my. I don't want people to have a successful business.

[Dusty Slay]

I, I agree with you. Just get started earlier. And also don't run the leaf blower.

[Aaron Weber]

You'd rather the leaf bl.

[Angela Johnson]

Why are you so passionate about leaf blow?

[Dusty Slay]

It's just so loud and if it's. And then it, if it's not electric, which I, you know, listen, I support gas powered things but it's, it's feel like you can just smell it in the. And it's like I'm just trying to enjoy a, a nice day out on the porch and there's. And then it's just smelling everywhere and it's like what Are you doing? What are you doing?

[Aaron Weber]

Why are you doing moving leaves, man?

[Angela Johnson]

Would you rather them rake?

[Dusty Slay]

I'd rather them rake.

[Angela Johnson]

Remember raking?

[Dusty Slay]

Sweep. Rake, sweep. Cut it up with a lawnmower. It's faster.

[Aaron Weber]

Lawnmower is just as loud.

[Dusty Slay]

But it's faster, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Really.

[Dusty Slay]

Just knock it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. What about mowing it and then leaf blow?

[Dusty Slay]

That's what they do. I hate it.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So that's my matitude.

[Angela Johnson]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I support you.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Dusty. I thought you would.

[Angela Johnson]

Let's. Let's. Let's go. Aaron, what. What's your magnitude of this week?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm really. I'm grateful for everything. So I don't really have matitude. I don't really have.

[Angela Johnson]

Nothing made you mad this past week.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty will take yours.

[Angela Johnson]

Nothing made you go.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what? I really. I hate to just do an airport thing because I feel like we complain about the airport all the time, but it's where we spend so much of our lives.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

I really think there needs to be some sort of class on how to walk around in the airport.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I've just. I bumped into so many people this week because people just walk and they get trapped in this little. My whole world is right here. Right. I got these blinders on and they forget there's a flow of people behind them walking. I'm just walking into old. They're just walking. La dee da. Stop and look at their phone calls. And they're. You're in a society. You're in a civilization. Be a part of it. We need you out here. Be a part of this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a living, beating thing. This world, you know, I love.

[Angela Johnson]

Turn that into a positive a little bit. We need you out here. You're trying to save lives out here, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

And then the headphones. A lot of it is. These guys have. They have headphones on. Headphones. When we need you to be aware of what's happening. It's a real scourge.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The headphones. I really think headphones are net bad on the world because I think, like we were talking about earlier, I think it also forces. I don't know if it's good to just go, hey, let me retreat into my own little world here. You know, to heck with everybody else. I got my headphones on. I got my little thing. Let me just walk, you know? Don't have to worry about other people.

[Dusty Slay]

People.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go.

[Angela Johnson]

That's a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What scourge mean like a Plague. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

One of his. Can I interrupt? One of his biggest, which I think we all agree with, is the people at the baggage claim. They get right up by the carousel, so it blocks everybody from seeing.

[Dusty Slay]

Dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Fort Lauderdale, it was like. It was a zoo.

[Dusty Slay]

The baggage claim, it's so annoying.

[Aaron Weber]

You go, if we. And I wanted. And I. And I. And I'm not courageous enough to. To say something to everybody, but I'll go, you know, we should all back

[Brian Bates]

up a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, we should back up. Is everybody back up? Everybody 10ft back?

[Angela Johnson]

Let's do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Some airports, they have a little line there by the baggage claim, but nobody obeys that.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, everybody have to tell them. Then they're never going to get it. They're just gonna go, this guy's so annoying. You guys. Trying to control people at the baggage claim. Don't tell me where to stand, buddy. I'll stand wherever I want. And they'll be on a podcast going, this is what I hate. When I'm at the baggage claim, just waiting on my back. Some guys, like, stand back, like, hey, we're all waiting on a bag, buddy. But I get it. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But now I'm trapped in this thing, right? Like, I go, I'll stand back, you know? But now it's tough to see my bags, but. But I'm not making any change in the world.

[Brian Bates]

Because they're in front of you. They don't see you, right?

[Aaron Weber]

So I'm way back there, and I go, I'm doing what's right, but nobody else is. So now, in order for me to have a competitive advantage in this terrible world they've created, I have to myself walk up there in front of the bag. So the only way to win is to play by the rules they've created. It gets me in a spiral there, but once I leave the airport, I'm great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

As soon as I get my bag, I will make a thing out of it. I go, sorry, that's my bag. Couldn't see it back there because everybody up there.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll say that.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that. Sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Can y' all excuse me? That's my bag. I've been waiting on it back there where you're supposed to be. Thanks.

[Angela Johnson]

Get out of here, Penny.

[Aaron Weber]

Something like that.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that's the way to go.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry, I've been saying you had your headphones in, couldn't hear me, but that's my bag. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Ye. I like that.

[Angela Johnson]

That's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

Like that.

[Angela Johnson]

That's a real good attitude.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, let me ask you guys something.

[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Have you ever checked your bank statement and realized you were paying for something you completely forgot about every day? Or even worse, paying for it twice? Yes, even worse than that. Three times.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, hold on.

[Brian Bates]

Keep going.

[Dusty Slay]

I just. I just found out I was paying for Hulu twice. Can you believe that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I found out because I use Rocket Money.

[Aaron Weber]

Good.

[Dusty Slay]

And Rocket Money really just. It just helps out a lot with that kind of stuff, you know, Sometimes. Sometimes, you know, you forget that you're paying for something and then you install Rocket Money and then you're like, oh, well, that cleared that up.

[Brian Bates]

And it tells you what you were paying.

[Dusty Slay]

It does. And then you're able to. Through them, they can get, you know,

[Aaron Weber]

it's not vague about it.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry. I wasn't ready for the ad lib. Yeah. Okay. So we love Rocket Money, and we do love it. Rocket Money contract subscription and has the ability to cancel unwanted ones within the app within a few taps, saving users over 880 million in canceled subscriptions. You can set budgets and goals, get personalized insights and regular reports, and receive a real. And receive real time alerts for large transactions, upcoming bills, refunds, and low balances. Users who create a financial goal with Rocket money save over $70 on average within the first 30 days. So that's what I was trying to say in the ad lib.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Dusty Slay]

It just. It helps. Rocket Money is a personal. It helps. You know what I mean? Like how. How am I supposed to ad lib better than that paragraph? That's a good paragraph.

[Aaron Weber]

Rocket Money is good.

[Brian Bates]

It helps.

[Dusty Slay]

Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Try it for $0 at rocketmoney.com Nate. That's rocketmoney.com Nate. Rocketmoney.com Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

But you. Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

I hate littering, you know, because.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean? Like today I was sitting. That's the thing, right? I don't support the narratives of global warming and climate change. Okay, But I just. I don't want us to just throw our trash on the ground.

[Aaron Weber]

Why not?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's. It. First off, it looks bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay?

[Dusty Slay]

Just to have trash everywhere.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you were deeper in that.

[Dusty Slay]

Nope. Well, what do you mean, no, you

[Aaron Weber]

don't like how things.

[Dusty Slay]

Look, I don't know why you're attacking me.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trying to. I'M just trying to have fun.

[Brian Bates]

You don't like litter?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm very pro litter.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me just say that nobody, like. Nobody likes looking at litter.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Although people. I don't think a lot of people. It registers with them that they don't like it. A lot of people just think, I'm going to throw this down and somebody else will pick this up. I was waiting to turn into the Home Depot day, and a guy in front of me just throws his rapper out the window. I followed the guy around the parking lot.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, he did.

[Dusty Slay]

He was. He made the worst, like, trying to park. I go, does this guy think I'm following him or something? He's trying to lose me because I

[Angela Johnson]

followed him because he was right.

[Dusty Slay]

And I didn't say anything in the end, but I just wanted to see what he looked like. I just wanted to see what the guy looked like that just would throw his trash right out the window, like,

[Brian Bates]

because what do you look like?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not going to tell you. But he's going into. He didn't look like me, but he's going into the Home Depot. All you got to do, every Home Depot, every Lowe's, there's trash cans waiting for you. Of course. Just hang on to it. Throw it away in there. Throw it in the floorboard of your own car.

[Aaron Weber]

Leave it there for months.

[Dusty Slay]

When you go. Yeah. When you go to the gas station, gather it up, throw it over the trash can.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

But this idea that, that, like, I live in Hermitage. And when you get off the interstate and you go. You take a right and you go past the gas stations. And then before you get to the red light at the end, there's always like a full trash bag has been thrown out of someone's car. It's busted all over the street. Yeah. And somebody has to come along and clean it up. I just don't understand what's going on.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, let me. Let me steal me on the other side for you. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

We live in a world that's incredibly polluted in ways that the problem's gotten away from us. Right. My one little.

[Dusty Slay]

Like their minds and their souls.

[Aaron Weber]

My one little piece of trash at the car is less than a drop in the bucket. And the inconvenience that it is to me to hold on to this trash me, it's not worth. I'm not gonna fix all the whole world. Right. I'm not gonna fix the whole world. So this means nothing. And it's not actually contributing to the problem overall.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Because it's so bad.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how I feel when I'm waiting for my bag at baggage claim. I go, I know my bag's gonna be last, and I could stand way back there, but I don't want to walk up when it finally comes. I want to be in position, ready to go, despite. Because overall, who's it really hurting, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Ever play counselor on your podcast?

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, not yet. This is the first time I have a good littering story for you that you might feel good about.

[Aaron Weber]

Pro littering or anti.

[Angela Johnson]

Anti littering.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, I'll set this one up.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this one. This will make you feel.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I'm against littering, by the way. I'll make that clear.

[Dusty Slay]

Sure.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, let's go check around his car out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Although my car is not a good indicator of that.

[Angela Johnson]

So my brother was driving one time and he's at a stoplight and the car in front of him rolls down the window, throws a full bag of fast food out the window. It wasn't even like a gum wrapper or something, which is still. Don't throw your gum wrapper. Just put it in your trash in your car. And like you said, do it later. Through a full trash, out the window. My brother behind him puts his car in park, goes and grabs the guy's bag and knocks on the window and he says, you dropped this.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson]

And he gave it back to him.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson]

That was a long time ago. Now. People carry guns and stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I was gonna say.

[Angela Johnson]

But I do remember that story. And my. My brother, he also does not like littering.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

At all. I don't either.

[Aaron Weber]

What brand of fast food was it, do you know?

[Angela Johnson]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that weirdly, I think that is important. Important to the story.

[Dusty Slay]

And the problem is the guy who got the fast food bag, he wasn't like, he didn't. He didn't self reflect. Oh, you know what? I shouldn't be littering. He goes, who's this guy think he is?

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Telling me that I can't. I pay taxes in this city. I can throw my trash down if I want to. Just a fast food bag. It'll break down in 15 years.

[Aaron Weber]

15,000 years.

[Brian Bates]

Is your brother a big guy?

[Aaron Weber]

No, he's just a man of conviction.

[Angela Johnson]

Just very bold.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

He does have a lot of tattoos, though, so maybe that's scary, but that would scare me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm okay. I'll tell you what, I'm okay with. Littering crumbs.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Like any food, because the bird's gonna come eat it. Like, I will dust off my daughter's stroller, all her crumbs.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Angela Johnson]

For sure. That's for the birds.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What about a piece of gum? You throw that out the window.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay. If I'm gonna do a piece of gum and I have nowhere to put it, I have no paper or nothing to put it in, I will put it somewhere where I know nobody's gonna step.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

You know what I'm saying? I'm very. Because I cannot stand stepping on gum. I'm like, that is so rude. You people walk on this sidewalk, you'll put gum right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Angela Johnson]

I will go and put my gum, like, under a rock or something.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll bury it.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, Yeah. I won't. I won't just leave my gum out there, but I will. It's.

[Dusty Slay]

You know when I smoke cigars in public and there's nowhere to throw the butt? I like to. I throw it on the ground, and then I stomp on it and I try to rub it out of existence. And that was.

[Aaron Weber]

Turned it into a stain on the ground.

[Dusty Slay]

Disappear. Well, I figured the rain will come.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Wash it away.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

These are good attitudes, you guys. Let's move into gratitude. Now that we're all worked up, I

[Dusty Slay]

do like how you started by saying that you didn't really feel like you had a. And I knew that that was a joke, but the more you got into the baggage thing, I didn't know I'd

[Aaron Weber]

get that fired up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I got worked up pretty bad this weekend.

[Angela Johnson]

I felt it.

[Aaron Weber]

The Fort Lauderdale one was some of the worst behaved people at an airport I've seen in a long time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I'm not perfect. I do things wrong all the time. Right. But.

[Brian Bates]

Right. Oh, I thought that was rhetorical.

[Angela Johnson]

Shall we?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

What are you grateful for this past week?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I mean, this kind of seems obvious. Maybe not even. You're like, come on. But I'm grateful that I made it in Nate's movie because there was a good chance we were going to be on the chopping block.

[Aaron Weber]

We thought. I thought we were, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And I think Nate probably fought to keep us in it because our role, as we've already said, was not pivotal to the plot. Right. But, you know, obviously I was excited about being in a movie small or not so very grateful that Nate kept

[Angela Johnson]

me in his movie, that I've been on a chopping block before.

[Brian Bates]

I'M sure it's not fun.

[Angela Johnson]

It's not fun. Especially when you've invited friends to come over and watch it.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man.

[Angela Johnson]

And you had a. You had a little viewing party at

[Aaron Weber]

your house for a TV show.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah. And you were cut out and you didn't now. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Can I ask what show?

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, yeah, it was. Why am I blanking on the name? It was my first co star. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Can you go to my IMDb really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Angela Johnson]

My brain just blanked.

[Dusty Slay]

IMDb.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah. And. And the funny. And I got another story. Remind me to tell you the IMDb story about this show too. Okay, okay, Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Before that, you're the.

[Angela Johnson]

No. Go up the box.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that Cameron Diaz?

[Angela Johnson]

No. What?

[Brian Bates]

Ugly.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, maybe it's not on there anymore. It's a crime show. Bald guy. Back in the day. Detective gritty bald guy.

[Aaron Weber]

The Shield.

[Angela Johnson]

The Shield.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, my. And it's not on there anymore.

[Aaron Weber]

It used to be on there. See it?

[Dusty Slay]

Even IMDb was like, she's not in this.

[Angela Johnson]

Exactly. But it used to be. Or it was on my bio or something. Anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

So this.

[Dusty Slay]

You're almost reliving it again right now.

[Angela Johnson]

I know. I just pull up my. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Little viewing party right here.

[Angela Johnson]

Rickles.

[Dusty Slay]

Rick.

[Aaron Weber]

Don Rickles.

[Angela Johnson]

Is that his name?

[Brian Bates]

No, Rick.

[Angela Johnson]

Anyway, I forgot his name. Okay. So anyway, I.

[Dusty Slay]

Is my first Don Rickles in the Shield.

[Angela Johnson]

What's his name? Chiklis. Chiklis. Chiklis. Michael Chiklis. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I love the idea that the shield is Don Rickles, though.

[Angela Johnson]

Hilarious. Oh, my God. I was like, he just insults all the criminals.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll tell you this.

[Angela Johnson]

We're coming in and out of my brain. So I book. It was my first co star role that I booked. I auditioned for. Oh, my gosh. I could take it back all the way to the audition story. I crashed the audition. I lied on my resume to even get this audition. And while I'm auditioning for this role, the casting director is reading my resume. And she was like, oh, you were on. And she named a show that was a lie. And I was like. She was like, oh, you were on csi. And I was like, yeah. And she goes, that's funny. I cast that show. I don't remember you.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, you gotta pay better attention to your clients.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You go, well, you know what? I don't remember you.

[Angela Johnson]

Was one of those moments where I was like, huh, that's weird. Did my audition? Ended up booking it. So that one I did.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson]

And that was the Shield. I play a homeless teenager. And it's the last scene of the movie and of this.

[Brian Bates]

Of the episode.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, of the. Excuse me. Of the episode. Thank you. It's the last scene of the episode.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm teenager.

[Angela Johnson]

Exactly. The guy Rick loves. Get out of here. I couldn't remember any. So he's asking me. The detective is. I'm not. Not chickless Rickles, the different other detective is asking me if I've seen this guy, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, can I bum a cigarette? And I start asking him for a cigarette and he's like trying to help me because I'm this homeless kid on the streets. And then I just ignore him like, whatever. Get out of here, man. And that was my big scene.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna win an award for this because I'm so good. Woo, woo, woo. I have a preview party at my house. I invite all my friends. I have a picture of this night with all of us sitting on the couch ready to watch my episode. And we're watching it and I know my scene's the last scene of the episode. And you know how sometimes when you're watching a show and it's right before the 10 o' clock news, the news pops up.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Angela Johnson]

Right at the end on the side. And then it's just like, like, it's like the credits are rolling. That is happening. And I didn't get to see my scene yet. And I was like, wait, wait, how are we already on the news? My scene hasn't come on yet. And they cut it.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Chopping.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like they should tell you if you get cut.

[Angela Johnson]

They should, right?

[Aaron Weber]

They should. There's got to be.

[Dusty Slay]

That sounds like me about 2015, Last Comic Standing. I mean that's, you know, there's no guarantee that I would be there, but you know, I was. I was, you know, on that episode

[Angela Johnson]

you had to watch and find out if you made the episode.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Did you? And you didn't make it.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but I was with. I had, you know, five roommates at the time. We're all watching.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, man.

[Brian Bates]

And they showed you in the room, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but not.

[Angela Johnson]

But look at you now. Look at all these pictures of you.

[Brian Bates]

I know, I know.

[Angela Johnson]

Incredible.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

So, yes. Grateful that you didn't get on the chopping block. Because that would have sucked for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

That's a good gratitude.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Angela Johnson]

And you did really good in it.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Angela Johnson]

I was so proud. I was cheering cuz I Seen you were sitting behind me. You and Lucy were up here and then you over there. I was like, I want to like, do high fives and stuff. Y' all were so good.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Angela Johnson]

That was good. Okay. What's a gratitude?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably the NASA space program.

[Brian Bates]

Just for inspiring how we've come as a human race.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. For just taking the next step into the great beyond.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody's got to do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm glad they did.

[Angela Johnson]

I'm glad it's America.

[Aaron Weber]

My real. Yeah, my real answer. And it's going to sound like just. It's a fat thing, but it's air conditioning.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been thinking about it a lot this past weekend. It's starting to get a little hot in Nashville. And how grateful I am that I am in a position and I live in a place and a time where I can basically be in an air conditioned room whenever I want.

[Angela Johnson]

Want.

[Aaron Weber]

And how for most of human civilization, if it was hot out, you just had to deal with it.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There is no way around it. You know, you might build your house a certain way where wind would funnel through it. You had to do all kinds of stuff like that. Dude, I can make. If I want it to be 68 degrees in my house, I can do it on my phone. Takes two seconds. And we take it for granted until it goes out. And then you're like, oh, my gosh.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But this is how I've lived basically my whole life. I can control the temperature of any room that I'm in.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, and I'm.

[Angela Johnson]

It's luxurious.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. It's incredible. Yeah, it's incredible.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I feel like no pun intended, but your example kind of takes the wind out of my sails here.

[Aaron Weber]

But I hope that wasn't intended.

[Dusty Slay]

That was terrible because I, I.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you about to say air conditioning?

[Dusty Slay]

No. I did think that today. Because I get into this idea of. Think about gratitude in things that we take for granted every day.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Because when you have big accomplishments or, or big things in life, like I've just had a baby. I'm thankful for that.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. But it's like, it's easy to be thankful for all of these big things, but there are things every day that we utilize that some countries don't even have. Yeah. Like totally.

[Aaron Weber]

Totally.

[Dusty Slay]

And my, my gratitude was going to be running water. Like, if you've ever had a busted pipe and been without water for any amount of time in your house, you realize how much you Use water all the time to wash your hands, to drink, to take a shower, to toilet your plants, to flush the toilet, to make ice. I mean, all day you're using water. And it, like. And, And. And all of our houses, we can turn. We have cold water, we have hot water. You want to take a hot shower? Yeah. You realize how I mean the same with air conditioner. Like. Like there's an expression. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. And I'm told that that is because they. Once a week, families would bathe and they would start off with a hot bath, and the husband who would go and work would take the first bath, and then the mom and then the kids, and then the last one to bathe would be the baby. And the water was so dirty at that point that they might lose the baby in the water. Now, I don't know if that's true, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that is where the expression comes from.

[Dusty Slay]

But we have just, you know, maybe our water's poisoned. Who knows? But at least does.

[Brian Bates]

He's the only one could switch his gratitude before it's over with.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they are killing us all. But guys.

[Dusty Slay]

But it's pretty amazing. Like, I was watering my plants today. We haven't had rain in a while, but I'm still able to water my plants.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, I'm able to give my family a bath, run the slip and slide for my kids.

[Angela Johnson]

You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

It's. I don't know. I just.

[Angela Johnson]

And we subconsciously use it too. Like, you know, you use water to wash your hands, but I think you don't realize how often you do that. We had our water turned off the other day. They were working on something, and my husband even told me, he's like, they're turning the water off. And so in my brain, I was like, all right, so can't shower, can't whatever. And I think of like, the big things, and then I'm making something to eat for my daughter, and I get stuff on my hands, and I go to rinse my hands, and I'm like, oh, oh, oh, I can't even do that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Like just the thing that we don't even think about it. We just take it for granted.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

We flush the toilet with cleaner water than a lot of countries have to drink.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

I was talking to a guy from India, an older guy from India, and he was telling me the part of India that he's from, they turn the water on one time a day at like 4am and everybody gets up and they have all their containers, and they turn the water on, and you fill up all your containers, and that's your water for the day. He's like, if you oversleep, you just don't have water that day.

[Angela Johnson]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

So insane.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

That's wild.

[Aaron Weber]

It's an embarrassment of riches here in a lot of ways.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know?

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, it really is. Look at that. These are really good gratitudes, you guys. Thank you. Thanks for participating.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we got about five minutes before we wrap up.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

Usually do a rapid fire. I don't know if we have time for rapid fire. Unless you really want a rapid fire.

[Angela Johnson]

No. What do you.

[Dusty Slay]

How rapid is it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, how rapid is it?

[Angela Johnson]

It's really just you guys. I'm gonna give you a situation, a scenario, and then you tell me if you would be grateful for it or mad about it. Would it be your matitude or would it be your gratitude?

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay. All right, all right. Someone replies K to your text.

[Dusty Slay]

Mattitude.

[Brian Bates]

I really don't care, but I would say mattitude.

[Aaron Weber]

If it's somebody I know and love, it would annoy me. If it's a random person I don't want to talk to, I'd appreciate it.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, right?

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good one. That's a good one.

[Angela Johnson]

Okay. Your server at the restaurant is almost too attentive.

[Aaron Weber]

Attitude that annoys you.

[Dusty Slay]

Nah, I'm going. Gratitude. Too attentive is a little annoying, but I'll take it over. I can't.

[Brian Bates]

I hate it when I can't finish a story because they're coming over every two minutes and butting in. That was the punchline.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody at your table appreciates it. They're waving them over.

[Brian Bates]

So for Aaron, it's a gratitude toward me.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, all right, all right.

[Angela Johnson]

We'll do one last one. Okay. You see your friend post an Instagram story, but they still haven't texted you back.

[Brian Bates]

Back again. Matitude. That's dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna go. I wouldn't even know when the story was posted. Versus have you responded to me?

[Aaron Weber]

So you wouldn't. You wouldn't be upset enough about not being texted back to look into it that much? Like you're not gonna go see what they're doing online? I've. I've been out to some people for things. Like, I've hired people to do stuff, and they're not responding. And then I see they're on social media, and I go, dude, dude, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I've had that. I don't know about a friend. I guess I don't have friendships like that.

[Dusty Slay]

I. I think that would be hard to be a gratitude, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know?

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

To be like, well, you're not texting me back, but you're posting and I'm happy to see you're still alive. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was worried about you.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah, I was worried. Thank God you are still alive. Won't he do it?

[Dusty Slay]

Hope he didn't schedule the post.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Angela, thank you for coming.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you're the best. Thanks for doing this.

[Brian Bates]

Go check out Fungala podcast now on

[Aaron Weber]

the N land on the Nateland network, the same YouTube you're on right now.

[Brian Bates]

Click on over this weekend. Well, actually, if you're listening, this comes out Wednesday, I'm in Denver tonight at the Black Buzzard. Then Tomorrow night, Thursday, May 21st, I'm in Greeley, Colorado. Then two nights in Casper, Wyoming. Come see me this Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, four chances to see me.

[Angela Johnson]

I never been to Wyoming.

[Brian Bates]

I haven't either. My first time.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, fun.

[Brian Bates]

I'm looking forward to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Black Buzzard sounds like a name somebody would give for you, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they give me a lot of B names, so. Yeah, that's. That's true. Sounds like a place that I wouldn't normally perform and, you know, but we'll see. Are you. You're taking a break right now, right?

[Angela Johnson]

I am. I'm on a break. I finished my tour. So anything I'm talking about right now is just my special ugly baby.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome. Go check it out on YouTube now.

[Brian Bates]

All right. What about you, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

I. Wow. Where am I gonna be? Detroit Act Royal Oak, Michigan. I'm doing the comedy Castle. I've never done it before.

[Dusty Slay]

Love it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm doing that in July. And then August, I'm gonna be in Phoenix. I'm a pretty light summer for headlining stuff, but I could be working.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I got some more shows I want to mention.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, let me if you're gonna go all summer, I don't have anything this weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And then August, Phoenix, Arizona, the Desert Ridge Improv. And then I'm pretty busy the rest of the year after that. Go to aaronwe comedy dot com. This is Aaron speaking. Aaron webercomedy dot com. Check out all my dates on there.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Love you.

[Brian Bates]

Goodbye.

[Dusty Slay]

I just want to say on May 26, I'm gonna put my working man special on YouTube. And so if you're over there, you're watching Angela's special. When you're done, go ahead and click on over to mine on May 26th, the working man will be on YouTube. And I gotta. You know, I got a hot June coming up.

[Aaron Weber]

Irvine, Austin.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm doing Lake Charles. I'm doing it's five o' clock Somewhere festival in between Austin and Irvine. It's not on my calendar. I don't know why that is, but a bunch of country people, that's cool.

[Angela Johnson]

That's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you gonna do that bit at the school?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I've not done it in a long time. And I feel like they always think that that'll be good, but people at a country music show, they don't want it.

[Angela Johnson]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They go.

[Angela Johnson]

Sometimes people don't laugh at themselves.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Angela Johnson]

Oh, man. I did a. A Raiders joke. Well, I had a joke about being a Raider and I made a joke about the Oakland Raiders when we were in Oakland at a charity event where the Oakland Raiders were at. They could not laugh at themselves. They didn't like it. So maybe don't do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Good call.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I wanted to mention Juno Levith. I'm in Topeka, Kansas, at the Beacon and just added. Go ahead. Does he finish laughing at my dates? Just added, never been there before. Heard you guys. He's still going.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like you've been doing it the whole time. And we went around and then we came back and you're still.

[Brian Bates]

It hit me. I have some new dates I want to get out there. You guys have been talking for years about the Grove and Little.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm finally going there.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

6-12-13.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Arkansas. June 20th, I'm at the Palace Theater in Gallatin, Tennessee.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that. All right, October 15th through the 17th, I'm in San Francisco.

[Brian Bates]

Come on. Mine's within the next month. All right, thank you so much. Thank you, Angela, for coming on. And Dusty, thank you for all you do.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

We'll see you next week, all right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, sir.

[Angela Johnson]

Bye.

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