17: #17 What Happened in the Year 2001?

Summary

Podcast Summary: Public Figures – Episode 17: "What Happened in the Year 2001?"

Hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Release Date: May 27, 2026
Podcast: Public Figures (Audioboom Studios)

Overview

In this episode, comedians Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay revisit the year 2001—a landmark year for American history, pop culture, and technology. In their signature laid-back, conversational style, the hosts reminisce about the pivotal events of 2001, blending personal anecdotes, banter, and cultural commentary. The episode covers 9/11, technological advances, musical milestones, pop culture, and personal stories from each of the hosts’ lives.

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Key Topics and Discussion Points

1. Opening Banter & Promo Roundup

[01:08–04:09]

• Dusty plugs the release of his Netflix special "Working Man" now streaming for free on YouTube, encouraging listeners to share it with friends.
• Brian and Aaron joke about the “industry talk” and self-promotion in comedy, referencing a viral “I turned it down” story about a rapper’s exaggerated college scholarship offer.
• The group rib each other over their specials, YouTube channels, and status as comedians.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty: “If you’re watching this right now... I just put my first Netflix special, Working Man... Now it’s on YouTube for you to watch for absolutely nothing… Just tell one friend about it.” [01:22]
• Aaron: “That doesn’t know about it.” [01:48]
• Brian: “Netflix offered me, and I’m like, no thank you.” [02:53]

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2. Memorial Day, Holiday Philosophies & Reading Habits

[04:23–13:25]

• Light jokes about working on Memorial Day, paid time off, and struggles with nontraditional work schedules as comedians.
• Dusty expresses a contrarian view on holidays: “I think we should have a lot less holidays… Trying to get off work every other day out here, trying to go to the bank.” [06:56]
• Extended riff about inflexible city dump hours and holiday closures.
• Hosts discuss reading habits—favorite childhood books (Roald Dahl classics), the struggle to finish books as adults, and the humble pleasures of reading.

Notable Moments:

• Aaron: “Both pretty unlikely for me, but it feels good to be reading a book.” [08:59]
• Dusty: “Reading is nice.” [09:43]

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3. Quirky Science, Dishwasher Hacks & Home Tips

[13:38–18:25]

• Aaron shares factoids: not pre-rinsing dishes is better for modern dishwashers; “turbidity sensors” adjust cleaning based on how dirty plates are.
• Dusty jokes, “Plumbers all over this country need to be sending you money right now.” [14:43]
• Aaron demos a “science tip” for cooling your car on a hot day—open the trunk or rear window and pump the front door to vent hot air faster.
• “If you hold a key fob up to your chin, that extends the range.” [17:33]
• Fears and conspiracy-light humor about Wi-Fi mapping and cancer warnings on routers.

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4. Travel Stories & Airbnb Woes

[23:25–36:00]

• Brian recaps recent shows in Colorado and Wyoming, highlighting local quirks (Greeley’s distinctive manure smell, friendly towns, Denver parking headaches).
• Extended, hilarious anecdote about a confusing bed-and-breakfast arrival in Greeley involving two helpful (but possibly suspect) old men and a stubborn lockbox ([29:01–34:48]).
• The group debates the pros and cons of hotels vs. Airbnb, focusing on check-out hassles, sharing space with strangers, and the rise/fall of Airbnb popularity.

Highlights:

• Brian: “He gets an exacto knife out of his pocket, and he’s trying to pry it open... Old man two comes out of his room. He’s like, y’all got it yet?” [31:56]
• Dusty: “No more new music. No more new movies. We’re not putting it out.” [35:36] (Dry Dusty humor on modern saturation)

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5. Listener Comments & Community Shoutouts

[41:15–55:35]

• The hosts riff on praise and criticism from listeners (notably, a running joke about Dusty’s singing, with one listener begging him to stop).
• Light-hearted back-and-forth escalates into playful jabs, evoking laughter at their own quirks and misunderstandings.
• Responding to miscellaneous topics: babies’ looks, baggage claim etiquette, whether annoying laughs should be called out at shows.
• Recurring gag: Dusty will continue singing despite negative feedback: “I’m not going to stop singing… I’ll be singing the same amount.” [49:29]

Timestamps:

• Z Boogie’s comment: [41:18]
• Kathy’s anti-singing plea: [47:50]

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6. 2001 in Pop Culture: Major Events & Memories

[74:27–121:46]

A. 9/11 Reflections

[74:45–84:55]

• Each host shares his personal memory of the September 11 attacks:
  • Brian was at work at a TV station: “It was mainly just national news…we’d do local cut-ins, occasionally telling people... no one wants to hear from the Nashville affiliate right now.” [75:23]
  • Aaron was in elementary school and remembers the day being cut short: “I remember getting an announcement…there’d been a bad plane crash in New York City.” [80:17]
  • Dusty: “I was 19…had just failed to get into the Army... My sister called me, ‘hey, they just hit the Twin Towers’... I turned it on just in time to see the second plane hit.” [81:19]

B. Tech Innovations & Trends

[86:15–98:53]

• The group reviews tech milestones of 2001:
  • iTunes and the release of the iPod: “A thousand songs in your pocket.”—Steve Jobs [86:38]
  • Microsoft’s Zune gets a surprising shoutout as Dusty’s alternative to iPod: “Brown Zune matched my Buick LeSabre’s woodgrain…” [87:19]
  • The Xbox debuts with "Halo," with Aaron remembering all-night sessions: “We would play that split screen 15 hours… It was the most fun game.” [88:26]
  • Wikipedia launches: “Best website of all time.” [99:00]
  • The Segway: The hosts mock its uncool image and recount the (true) story of the company owner's death on a Segway.

C. Music, Movies, Sports, and TV in 2001

[100:06–115:10]

• Top singles: "Hanging by a Moment" (Lifehouse), "Fallen" (Alicia Keys), "Drops of Jupiter" (Train), Destiny’s Child, and Linkin Park’s "Hybrid Theory" as the best-selling album ([103:05]).
• Sports: Barry Bonds breaks the home run record (73), Ichiro wins Rookie of the Year and MVP, Diamondbacks win the World Series after 9/11, Lakers win the NBA championship ([105:17], [108:15]).
• Movies: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone," "Monsters Inc.," "The Fast and The Furious," "Ocean’s 11," "Lord of the Rings" ([112:04–113:17]).
• TV: "Gladiator" wins Best Picture at the Oscars; "The West Wing" dominates the Emmys for drama. Blue Collar Comedy Tour is the top standup tour.

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Memorable Quotes & Notable Moments

• Dusty (on modern holidays): “Trying to get off work every other day out here, trying to go to the bank. These days, they’re like, ‘ah, we’re closed’.” [07:00]
• Aaron (dishwasher “hack”): “You can actually over clean your dishes and the dishwasher won’t clean them as much.” [13:52]
• Brian (Airbnb story): “He gets an exacto knife out of his pocket, and he’s trying to pry it open... Old man two comes out of his room. He’s like, y’all got it yet?” [31:56]
• Aaron (on 9/11’s confusing aftermath): “You didn’t know when 9/11 was over officially… so, for the longest time after that, you’re like, there could be other stuff still coming.” [80:16]
• Dusty (on the year 2001): “In a lot of ways, 2001 was one of the wildest [years]… but all in all, good year." [118:48]
• Aaron (pop culture cycles): “Nothing’s new under the sun.” [35:29]
• Brian (on aging): “Every decade I’ve enjoyed more… when we get into a few years from now, I’ll start figuring some stuff out.” [120:39]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:22 – Dusty’s special on YouTube
• 04:09 – Memorial Day, paid holidays banter
• 13:38 – Dishwasher/Science hacks & home tips
• 23:25 – Brian’s travel/comedy stories (Colorado, Airbnb saga)
• 41:18 – Listener comments begin
• 47:50 – Kathy Lewis’s anti-singing plea / Dusty’s response
• 74:45 – Major section: What happened in 2001? (9/11 memories)
• 86:15 – Tech advances (iPod, Zune, Xbox, Wikipedia)
• 100:06 – Pop Music and Culture of 2001
• 105:17 – Sports review (Barry Bonds, World Series, Lakers, Earnhardt)
• 112:04 – 2001 movies (Harry Potter, Monsters Inc., Lord of the Rings)
• 115:10 – Air travel, security, pre/post-9/11 cultural shifts
• 120:39 – Reflections on aging; personal notes from each host

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Tone, Style & Takeaways

This episode encapsulates the hosts’ friendly, irreverent, and insightful comedic style. The conversation blends nostalgia, skepticism, and humor as Bates, Weber, and Slay weave personal tales into their critique and celebration of 2001—a year marked by seismic change and enduring cultural moments.

Listeners can expect to:

• Feel the collective weight and confusion of 9/11 as seen from three different vantage points.
• Reminisce about early 2000s technology (iPod, Xbox, Wikipedia) and the pop culture that defined a generation.
• Laugh at travel mishaps, day-to-day annoyances, and the quirks of aging out of what’s “cool”—all delivered with the hosts’ trademark chemistry.

For those interested in comedy, history, or just a smart, funny look back at a pivotal year, this episode is a must.

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For further details or to check out referenced specials and tour dates:

• Dusty’s “Working Man” special
• Aaron Weber’s tour dates
• [Brian Bates’s tour dates](various; see episode or online listings)

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Next Week: The hosts hint they’ll continue their year-by-year lookback at the 2000s, with more stories and perspectives to come.

Transcript

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night. It's the Public Figures podcast. Happy to have you here. Sit back in your chair, put your feet up. Enjoy the next four and a half hours of your favorite podcast, which comes out every Wednesday. I'm Aaron Weber, one of the co hosts, alongside my good friends, my compatriots, my fellow comedians, Nashville's finest, Brian Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Hello.

[Aaron Weber]

With a stern handshake at the table to my left is Dusty Slay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, all right. We're having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Professional comedian, multiple Netflix specials. Catch him on tour all over the place. And me and Brian do comedy as well.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, you know what?

[Aaron Weber]

What's that?

[Dusty Slay]

If you don't mind, since you just said that. If you're watching this, if you're watching this right now. I just put my first Netflix special, Working Man. I leased it to Netflix for two years. I got it back. Now, as of Today, it's on YouTube for you to watch for absolutely nothing. Go watch it. Share it with one friend of yours. Just tell one friend about it.

[Aaron Weber]

That doesn't know about it.

[Dusty Slay]

That doesn't know about it.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I have any friends who don't know about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, I appreciate it.

[Aaron Weber]

All my friends are in this room right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but, sorry, I don't mean to. I don't mean to steal your momentum. I felt like you had a great intro going, but you did. I didn't tell you to mention the Netflix, and you said it, so I thought this seems like a good.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not a Netflix special anymore. It's accessible to the people, man. It's on YouTube. Go check it out. It's on Dusty Slay's YouTube channel. Just a couple clicks from where you are right now, probably.

[Dusty Slay]

And that being said, though, Wet Heat is still available,

[Aaron Weber]

so don't cancel your Netflix subscription yet. There's still another Dusty special on there. And a half hour, if I'm not mistaken.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

And me and Brian do stuff as well. But excited.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian has a special on the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's right. Any updates on that?

[Brian Bates]

It's on the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. So. No.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. I'm sorry. I won't interrupt you.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all right. We're excited.

[Brian Bates]

And my special is on this YouTube channel. I believe in what Nateland is doing. And you don't have to leave to go see it. Just stay here. If you're subscribed to this channel, you'll see it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I'm talking about. It's going to show up on your feed right here.

[Brian Bates]

Netflix offered me and I'm like, no, thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, good. It's about time you put your foot down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, somebody does.

[Dusty Slay]

I would. Yeah, I heard about that conversation. Just, you know, it's just people talking in the industry.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian Bates told Ted Sarando.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I can't think of his name.

[Dusty Slay]

You're like that. You're like that video going around YouTube or Instagram now. That guy goes, I turned it down.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man, that's one of my favorite videos. If you haven't seen it. It's a rap. I wish I knew the rapper's name. I think he's a successful rapper, but he tells one of the most egregious lies in the history of podcasting. He claims that he got offered a scholarship to be in a band in college, but turned it down to do rap. And when pressed for details about the scholarship, he goes, couldn't remember. It was a. It's a big college, though. Yeah, they offered me 15 million.

[Dusty Slay]

10. 15, 10 million.

[Aaron Weber]

5 million, something like that. And the guy goes, they offered you $5 million to be in a band? He goes, I turned it down.

[Dusty Slay]

And some comments that you would say. Said you could see these ideas popping in his mind as he's saying it was a scholarship.

[Aaron Weber]

Like you had to go to school for this decade.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So none of it makes any sense, but it's an all time great clip. Go and check that out. Well, we were.

[Dusty Slay]

That's Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

That's. That's what Brian does.

[Brian Bates]

I turned them down.

[Aaron Weber]

I turned it down.

[Dusty Slay]

I turned it down.

[Aaron Weber]

They offered me like 15 million, 10 million, something like that. 5 million, something like that.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what they offer you, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. How would you not remember it was 15 million or 5 million?

[Dusty Slay]

I was just so younger.

[Aaron Weber]

I was just so younger, like I didn't know what it was. It's good stuff. Well, we're recording this, as we always do, a couple days before it releases. Here it is Memorial Day here on Monday. So we got a shell crew here. Just a few guys here in the room holding it down for us. What's going on, everybody? Y' all doing okay?

[Brian Bates]

Just. Yeah. Same amount of guys as always, but. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, there's usually six people sitting in here not paying attention, and they're not here this week, so I was just excited. We got three people actually engaged.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm excited to be here on Memorial Day. Thank you, Dusty. Great time with my family and.

[Dusty Slay]

But all these people in entertainment. I'll go. You got every Monday off. I mean, that's all entertainment. Everybody in entertainment, they're just off work all the time.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I was over Nate's house, and. And my daughter was there, and she wanted to go swimming in the pool. And I said, honey, we don't have time because Dusty wants to work on Memorial Day. Yeah, she cried.

[Aaron Weber]

It was also raining, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, well, it's raining. It's not very warm,

[Aaron Weber]

but we're happy to be here. I can't think of another place on earth I'd rather be next to you two guys here at the table. Nateland Studios here in Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

This is also the thing about a day off, like Memorial Day, when I worked in the pesticide industry, and I would get Memorial.

[Aaron Weber]

The heartbeat of America. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I would get Memorial Day off, and it meant I still got paid for that day, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, it was a paid.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a day's off. But if we PTO don't do the podcast today, we just do two. Another day.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, but we. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So you don't really get any time off.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, you're just shifting the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You're not getting any off. You're kicking the can down the road, as they like to say.

[Brian Bates]

Well, unfortunately, yeah, Memorial Day fell on a week after your birthday.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's all right. We hope you had a good Memorial Day celebrating everybody out there. Hot dogs, hamburgers, whatever you got into.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know what Memorial Day is for?

[Aaron Weber]

Memorial Day is for in memoriam of people who've died in the armed forces.

[Brian Bates]

Is that true, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Probably. And listen, I. I mean no disrespect to anybody on Memorial Day, but other people sacrifice for us. Why do we get the day off?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, they get the day off, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they get the day off. We work.

[Aaron Weber]

You're the only person in America fighting for less holidays.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I. I think we should have a lot less holidays.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

Trying to get off work every other day out here, trying to go to the bank. These days, they're like, ah, we're Close. We're close.

[Aaron Weber]

And they go, it's Thanksgiving, sir. We get one day off a year to spend with our family. Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

Some thanks for me, huh? The dump. The city dump. Nashville city dump. You can. You know, they close all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

What a tragedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Why you just leave the trash can out there?

[Aaron Weber]

Are you going to the dump?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, not very often, because I never. I never know when they'll be open. Or sometimes they go, the bins full.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, the bin.

[Dusty Slay]

I go, the bin.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't you have a pile somewhere?

[Dusty Slay]

Get another bin.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, come on. Dump that out at the next dump. Yeah, take that to another dump I brought up.

[Dusty Slay]

I have my whole truck loaded down. The lady goes, ben's full.

[Aaron Weber]

I go, was there another dump you can go to?

[Dusty Slay]

I got. No.

[Aaron Weber]

I go behind a Kroger.

[Dusty Slay]

I go, let me try to get it in there. She was upset, but she let me try and guess what. I got it in there.

[Brian Bates]

We were talking earlier about holidays to get rid of.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty said, first of all, Martin Luther King Day, that'd be gone. He said, ax that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the only one. It feels strong. No, that's not true.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm joking about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Just Christmas.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not against people having a day off, okay, If. Especially if, you know, if you work hard, you got a salary position, you get an extra day. I know that when I sold pesticides, I loved that, getting that day off course. But what did I want to do? I just wanted to drink and eat hot dogs, you know? I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, I guess, but I just want to drink and eat hot and go.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, so you should only have a day off if you run a marathon and read a book?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know, maybe read a book. I don't know about running a marathon, but, you know, which one would you

[Brian Bates]

be more likely to do?

[Dusty Slay]

Read a book.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, me too. Reading a book right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Both pretty unlikely for me, but it

[Aaron Weber]

feels good to be reading a book.

[Brian Bates]

What is it?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't even know, but I'm reading it. I got it at my nightstand, and I just read a little bit before every night. You sound like the guy's always in the middle of a book. Well, it is a book I don't want to talk about.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

On the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I see.

[Dusty Slay]

I read children's books a lot. Yeah. And I don't know how to pronounce this first name. Raul Dahlia. He wrote like, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda Charlie and the Chocolate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox, which all of those were movies. And I read fantastic Mr. Fox the other day. It's not very long. And I really, I was like, this is fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it could be nice, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Reading is nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's good.

[Dusty Slay]

But you know, I could read that in one sitting. The problem is I feel like reading and I pick it up and I start reading. I go, I could get into this. But then the next day I don't feel like it. And then I don't feel like it for months.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it's tough to pick up where you left off. You're like, I got to start the whole book over now.

[Dusty Slay]

I started White Fang one time and I read quite a bit of it.

[Aaron Weber]

White Fang, Jack London.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So I read quite a bit of it and then I just stopped out and never got back into it.

[Aaron Weber]

White Fang, wow. 1906. Yeah, that book came out. I remember that. Call of the Wild and then another big one in or something. Anyway, yeah, the Call of the Wild by Jack London. Anyway, this is the kind of, I would say the banter, the back and forth, the rapport that we have. It's a pretty good illustration. Let's clip that and use it as a trailer. The last 10 minutes.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty. What book you think he's reading?

[Dusty Slay]

Probably some book about how mathematics in society is destroyed. The societal building blocks of culture.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a lot of good words in there. I don't really know if I know what you mean, but yeah, it's a lot of good buzzwords in that for sure. But my wife is always reading a book. She's never not in the middle of a book and she makes fun of me for it and I have to go. I think, I think overall, I've still read more books than you my entire life. Wow. I still. If we were to add it all up and she really reads them non stop, I thought she just always got

[Brian Bates]

puts on Instagram, she reads the books.

[Aaron Weber]

But anyway, I got to catch back up. So I'm. I'm trying. I'm trying to get into it.

[Brian Bates]

It's Harry Potter.

[Aaron Weber]

I can tell though, do the audiobooks for that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I. You remember that time I discovered that math thing? I do remember we talked about that on here. Yeah, it's pretty fun. I saw another guy talking. I didn't discover this one.

[Brian Bates]

We talked about it on Nateland. Not on here.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Different podcast. That is true. Our old podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

But I. I saw another one online the other day that I thought was pretty Interesting. It's about nines.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But that's what yours was.

[Dusty Slay]

Now mine was about. I don't know. I don't want to go too back into mine again. But, but this one is like, like, say, like take the teens. Take all the teens.

[Aaron Weber]

11, 12, 13.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, let's start with. Let's start with 13.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You add 1 and 3 and that's 4. Right. And then the 1 and 3 makes a 13. So you subtract 4 from the 13 and you get 9. All the teens are like that. It always comes out to nine if you do that. And then when you get to like the 20s, you would say, say 23. You do 2 plus 3 is 5, and then 5 minus 23 is 18. 18, 1 plus 8 is 9. It always comes to 9.

[Aaron Weber]

That's cool.

[Brian Bates]

Well, there's a riddle I think we've shared on this podcast. It's because of that that it works. Do you remember that?

[Aaron Weber]

Which one? I do it.

[Brian Bates]

I had heard it and I think you told it on here about the

[Aaron Weber]

pick an animal that starts with yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then a country that starts.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And I think it only works because of that what he just said principle right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what is the use of that?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if there's a use, but I just think it's people just kind of being blown away by mathematical anomalies like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like it. I feel like when I bring up stuff like that, it gets trash for what's the point of even knowing that? But I think it's less useful than

[Dusty Slay]

what I think you're thinking about the old podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe a little bit. Maybe a little.

[Brian Bates]

I think you are too, but I think you. He might have had a sidekick over there that was agreeing with.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, of course, I saw. Here's the kind of science I've been into lately. I've been reading. You know that if you. The less you wash your dishes before you put them in the dishwasher, the cleaner they get.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So you can actually over clean your dishes and the dishwasher won't clean them as much.

[Dusty Slay]

You think maybe it's like you, you wash the dirt. Like, like, if you, like, you can wash a stain into a shirt.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it has nothing to do with the dishes themselves.

[Brian Bates]

And you say reading, you mean you watch a tick tock video 100.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not reading a book about dishwasher.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, so that's not the book.

[Aaron Weber]

That's not the book. Cross out that topic. We'll work our way down Eventually. No, it's. A lot of these dishwashers have something called a turbidity sensor that will. That will adjust kind of the flow of the water depending on the feedback that it gets. So if you scrub off too much food, then it will think that the plates are cleaner than they actually are. So you should rinse off, like, food and excess things.

[Dusty Slay]

Plumbers all over this country need to be sending you money right now. People are going to be putting full bowls of oat.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I mean, don't do this.

[Brian Bates]

Calling for this.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's an instinct to, like, let me just clean this. And it's basically clean. And then you put it in the dishwasher.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm against that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Yeah. But that blew my mind.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I also saw another thing about how to. How to get in your car when it's hot out. I watch this woman before you.

[Brian Bates]

Let's clip this.

[Aaron Weber]

Now the instinct. Let's clip this. Hold on. Here's something fun that I learned. If you go to your car and it's hot out, the instinct is to just blast the AC right away.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not what I do.

[Brian Bates]

That's not what I do either.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, what do you do?

[Dusty Slay]

I get in and roll all the windows down.

[Brian Bates]

I do, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, here's what you should do.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And there's science behind this.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You open your trunk or your back window, and then you take the driver door, and you open and close it like a fan, and you pump the hot air out of the car.

[Brian Bates]

The way.

[Aaron Weber]

The way physics works, if you have that back door open and then you pump the door, all that hot air is going to go out the back of the car. And then you turn on the ac.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's not going to be cool, but it'll.

[Aaron Weber]

It takes the edge off.

[Dusty Slay]

I think if. If you do that, you're so sweaty by the time you get in, you go, oh, this feels pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

But you know what I mean? I'm not talking about a normal hot day. I'm talking about where you open up the car and you're like, geez, there's like a different climate in here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Can I leave my dog in here?

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly. And you got to pump it out with the door. Try that next time. Next time you're. It's hot out. Open up the trunk. Pump it out with the door.

[Brian Bates]

Honey, I know we're late, but pump that truck.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm talking 15 seconds.

[Brian Bates]

Okay?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, just pump it out.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I like that. Especially if you have a hatchback.

[Aaron Weber]

A Hatchback's perfect for that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I can see with the hatchback, but I just have a regular trunk.

[Aaron Weber]

Just hoping. Oh, or like a sedan. Yeah, Might not work for a sedan.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta fold the seats down.

[Aaron Weber]

There's gotta be somewhere for that. Here's what you do. Take apart your car.

[Dusty Slay]

I do that. I always get in, roll all the windows down and let that kind of let the hot air out, as they say.

[Aaron Weber]

But I'm saying you can. You can expedite that. If you pump it out with the door. Yeah, with the door.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It wouldn't work with his truck though, would it?

[Dusty Slay]

I gotta.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you open that back window?

[Dusty Slay]

I can pump it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Get it out of there, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

But I have to crank the truck just to open the windows.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not. Oh, it's not a manual window.

[Brian Bates]

Turn the air condition off.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'd like to see you try it next time it's hot out. Try some of this. I'll pump it and report back. I appreciate that.

[Brian Bates]

I just want to see you out in public.

[Aaron Weber]

You look a little insane.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll do the video.

[Aaron Weber]

But it works.

[Dusty Slay]

Just pumping this hot air out.

[Aaron Weber]

Also, if you hold a key fob up to your chin, that extends the range.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

By pretty significant amount.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like the idea that my brain is being used as a bit of a receiver.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not your brain, it's a skull. It's. Your skull's being used as an antenna and it's extending the signal.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that's what happens with wireless headphones.

[Aaron Weber]

If you use two, it's all a mess. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

The one connects.

[Aaron Weber]

I read a thing. Actually read it. Not a tick tock this weekend about how WI fi. You can map out somebody's house in 3D using Wi Fi.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's all. We're all done anyway.

[Dusty Slay]

That's why, you know, you might as

[Aaron Weber]

well hold your key.

[Dusty Slay]

I stopped doing it, but I used to cut my WI fi off every night when I went to bed.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I didn't stop doing it because I don't believe in it. Yeah, I just, they, you know, they wore me down. Yeah, I'm exhausted with it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

WI fi cutting it off and then cutting.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

And what is it people do with your WI fi?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they fry, you know, they kill you. And the. My. I had. I order. I ordered a WI fi extender from the company that I get my WI fi from, and they go, oh, yeah, everything's fine. The guys installing and I Go. How can I cut this wireless off and just use it as a regular router? You know, stuff like that. They all think you're insane.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

On the box that they gave me, it was like, this may cause cancer. And I go, okay, so I'm crazy. Yeah, but you're telling me this is bad.

[Aaron Weber]

They're just covering their bases, dude. But the signal. Imagine just a signal sent in in every direction from the. From your router, right. You can detect where you get signals back from that. That frequency or whatever the. Whatever it is, and you can map out everything in its range. And it's like perfect 3D.

[Dusty Slay]

How a bat or how the daredevil sees. Mm.

[Aaron Weber]

Does that help?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, not. Not really, but it's. It's my. It's. The problem's on my end.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. You remember the end of Batman when Morgan Freeman goes, oh, yeah, that's. It's basically that. And you have one of those devices in your house right now.

[Brian Bates]

That was the Dark Knight.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right, the Dark Knight. Anyway, where were you this weekend, Brian? You want to get into that? We got a couple minutes here.

[Dusty Slay]

I like, though, when this stuff comes up.

[Aaron Weber]

What's that?

[Dusty Slay]

What you just talked about WI Fi. Because people will get into thinking, oh, you think of. WI fi is a conspiracy, huh? They. And it's like, no, but there are stuff that can be done with it, and it's probably bad for us all.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Way to go, Aaron. Feeling now he's a partner in crime over here.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, five seconds ago, Brian didn't even get what you were saying. Now suddenly he's like, ah, what's this ridiculous.

[Brian Bates]

That's kind of why I lost interest. I can tell it's quacks talking about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian's like, whatever, just kill me and I don't care. Just do whatever.

[Brian Bates]

The boxes may cause cancer. Which Dusty already agrees with. So. He agrees with what? If he didn't agree with the premise, he'd be like, ah, they're trying to trick me. They're trying to tell me something interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's a good point.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course I would be. But the fact. The fact that they're admitting it, I go, well, yeah, because I already believe this.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

So whether they say it or not doesn't. Doesn't change me. But the fact that they do say it, I go, well, yeah, that's confirmation.

[Aaron Weber]

So you believe them when they say. When they issue a warning, I believe

[Dusty Slay]

that their product is bad for your health.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

And so whether they say it's Bad or say it's not bad. I still believe it's bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's got nothing to do with me being like, now I believe you. It's just like. Thanks for admitting it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You respect their honesty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I appreciate it. And I didn't set the extender up, by the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Good for you, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Take that, Comcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm not saying the name of the.

[Aaron Weber]

Take that. Xfinity. AT&T.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying spectrum.

[Aaron Weber]

TDS.

[Dusty Slay]

Name a bunch

[Brian Bates]

of guys. You know, lately I've been more intentional about what I wear day to day. I've noticed you've commented on it.

[Dusty Slay]

I was just saying that today.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You weren't here, but we were talking about you.

[Brian Bates]

I lean into pieces that feel easy, comfortable and still put together.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Easy like Sunday morning.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. It just makes getting dressed simpler. Quince has been my go to.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The fabrics feel elevated, the fits are clean, and everything just works without needing to overthink it. Quint says all the wardrobe staples for spring. Think 100% European linen shorts and shirts from $34.

[Dusty Slay]

I love linen so much. I'm 100% clothing guy and linen is great.

[Brian Bates]

Clean, 100% Pima cotton tees with a softness that has to be felt.

[Dusty Slay]

Love cotton.

[Brian Bates]

Their pants also hit the same balance. Relaxed and comfortable, but still polished enough to wear pretty much anywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what you want.

[Brian Bates]

I recently bought one of their linen shirts. It's very comfortable and the quality of it is amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Love linen.

[Brian Bates]

When I received it, I was pleasantly surprised because it did not cost what other high end brands cost, but it felt better than the other high end brands.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to quince.comnate for free shipping on your orders and 365 day returns.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. That's a good return policy.

[Brian Bates]

A whole year.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Now available in Canada too. That's Q U I n c e.com Nate for free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com/nate I. Yeah, I've been out west.

[Aaron Weber]

Wild Wild Baits.

[Dusty Slay]

Colorado.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I was in Colorado Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday I was in Denver. Thursday I was in Greeley, Colorado.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been to Greeley.

[Brian Bates]

You have?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great town.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It smells like kalmanure.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. They don't like it to bring it up though, as I was told.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I brought it up on stage.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And what I said was, which is True. I googled does Greeley? And then Google finished the rest of the sentence. Smell like calm. And so I'm like, you don't really have to click on to find the answer when that's the first thing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Does Greeley smell is the first one. Second one is have an airport. Third is smell bad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But Greeley was a great town. Denver crowd was kind of small, but it's downtown Denver. It's.

[Dusty Slay]

I love Denver, too.

[Brian Bates]

It's tough. My opener said she had to pay $50 a park cheese and I was only paying her 25, so not a good night for her. That's a joke about that. But, I mean, she did say she paid $50. Bart.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

52nd bucks. I know. So who. I mean, I'm not Nate Bargazzi here. Nobody wants to pay 50 bucks just to park to see me. Not even the actual show, which was 10.

[Aaron Weber]

Shame on Greeley for having anywhere that charges.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no. That was Denver.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, shame on Denver.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Greeley, you can park wherever you want.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Plenty of cow pastures to park in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then I drove over the Manure Conversation. Yeah. They have, like a big meat processing plant.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I love Greeley.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was great. Shout out to Stephanie McHugh. My opener. And then. Well, you always mention your openers.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just because it's a woman. You laugh.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Just because you remember her name right away. It's a difference between you and Dustin.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that is true. Then I drove over to Casper, Wyoming, as I've said many times. My first time ever in Wyoming. I loved it. Beautiful drive. Loved the wide open spaces.

[Aaron Weber]

It is a beautiful drive out there, isn't it, man?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Mountains. You get out and you walk around, you know, I didn't breathe in the air.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I did. I did. It was like it was wide open, but then I'd see mountains in the distance. I didn't really go through any mountains.

[Aaron Weber]

Wide open spaces. You know that song?

[Dusty Slay]

I do know it.

[Aaron Weber]

By the Chicks.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But then, yeah, Casper's great. I mean, my opener shout out to Chad Sheehan drove me up into the mountains. Snow covered mountains.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so. Walked around snow mountains.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Does Casper, Wyoming have anything to do with Casper the Ghost? Is there any relation?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so.

[Dusty Slay]

What about the mattress?

[Brian Bates]

I don't even know the mattress.

[Aaron Weber]

Casper Mattress. We're Helix people on this podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So they don't know a lot about Casper, but the.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, when I was in Wyoming, I went To. I forget where I was at. I did a kind of a corporate event on the southeastern part of Wyoming. And I drove from Utah, Salt Lake City, and drove across and rented a car. And then I. In order to save a little money, you know, I returned the car a day early. And then I would. I got a ride to the airport the next day, but I had to return the car to the airport. And when I took the car to the airport, there was no Uber, no Lyft. I could not get out of the airport once I dropped the rental car off. So I waited for a cab. I called a cab and waited for a long time for the cab. And finally they came. And the lady was from North Carolina, and she's like, I love it here, but I just missed the trees. There's no trees. And where we were at, there were no trees. But then I got back to my hotel and I was like, there's trees everywhere around here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Not at the airport.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. These small airports, when you drop off a rental car, it's wild because it's just so. Like yesterday I dropped off my rental car at Casper airport, really small, and there is nobody to greet you. You know, on a Sunday, they just say, write down your mileage on this post it note.

[Aaron Weber]

It's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Put it in this box with your key. And you just got to trust that, you know, that they're trustworthy.

[Aaron Weber]

There's just not enough volume going through those that they can trust people.

[Dusty Slay]

They're usually very nice. I did that in Butte, Montana. I actually. I messed up big time in the morning. I. I was late getting to the airport, and then I forgot to put gas in my rental car when I got there. And then there was no one to talk to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I just had to drop it off with, you know, without gas in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I've done a couple times. You can just do that, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I called them.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they'll charge you for it, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I'm saying, sometimes you're like, I don't.

[Brian Bates]

Whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I called them and I wanted to find out what it was going to cost, you know, and it took them a couple of days to get back to me. And they call and they go, well, cost us about 40 bucks. Fill it up. So about 40 bucks. And I go, oh, okay. I mean, I thought they would be like, yep, 300 bucks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's $40? So a multiplier of four it's gonna be. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they were like, yeah, just. Yeah, we filled it up so that's what it'll cost. Wow. I go, wow, that's very nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I always love Butte, Montana.

[Brian Bates]

I want to share this story with you guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

In Greeley, the booker said, hey, unfortunately, the hotel we always use is. Is filled up, so you mind if I put you in a bed and breakfast? I don't like bed and breakfast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but you're the guy.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I am Mr. Breakfast. Yeah, that's true. But I don't like Airbnbs. I don't like. I just want a hotel.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting.

[Brian Bates]

Every time I go to Airbnb, there's something.

[Aaron Weber]

Something happens.

[Brian Bates]

There's something with getting the key, the code, the WI fi. Something's not right. And I just want a hotel and I want someone at the front desk if there is a problem. I get to this Airbnb and there's an old man out there. When I say old, he's like 70.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so my age, objectively old.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, he's about 70. I'm not saying.

[Dusty Slay]

He's saying sir to you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And he's out there taking a picture of an rv. He's like going around it, taking a picture with. I don't know what he's doing. I don't know if it's his RV or just someone's RV he's a fan of or whatever. And I get my bag out of my trunk and he goes, can I help you take your bags in, young fella? And I said, no, I got it. I'm good. I said, do you work here? He's like, no, but I'm staying here. And he said, have you checked in yet? I'm like, no. He said, come on, I'll show you in. He's like, go through the back door. He said, man, this place is so nice. And he said, my daughter bought it for me. I don't even know how much it costs, but it is so nice. And he said, how much was yours? And I said, I don't know. Someone bought it for me too.

[Dusty Slay]

Your daughter bought it for me too.

[Brian Bates]

So then we get to the back door and he's pulling on it and he can't get. I said, well, they emailed me. There's a code. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. He's like, what's the code? So now I'm thinking, wait a second, is this guy even staying here or is he like some serial killer?

[Aaron Weber]

Does he seem with it or is something a little off?

[Brian Bates]

He seems like for a 70 year old, he seems with it. I mean, he seems like a guy who probably drives cross country. He looked like a former trucker. That's what I would describe him.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And I. I mean, I. I would give any. I mean, people. It's amazing I'm still alive. Just go along. Not hurt someone's feelings. So I give him the code. We go in. He's like, what. What's your room number? And I tell him, he's like, oh, let me show you. It's up here. So we walk upstairs.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you doing up here?

[Dusty Slay]

We gotta have a talk after this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's not like it's a giant hotel, right? It's. He's. He could just stand there and watch me go to it. It's not like I'm gonna keep some secret from him. Yeah, there's like 10 rooms.

[Dusty Slay]

Definitely not.

[Brian Bates]

So then we go up there, and he's. Oh, yours. Yours right there. I'm still thinking, this guy may not even be staying here. He might just come in to kill people. But he goes to his room. He goes, I'm right here. My. My name so and so we need anything, let me know. I'm like, okay, thanks. I'm thinking, I will never, ever need from you. I know. He. He goes, his room. I start pushing the keypad to get the lockbox to get my key out. It won't work. It will not work. I keep trying, and I keep trying. I'm like, what is wrong with this thing? This other old man shows up, checking his room, and I'm like, I can't get my lockbox. He's like, you got to push it. You got to. You know, he's. He's. Whatever. Yeah, he goes in his room. I can't get in. There's nobody at the front desk. I finally go over to old man number one.

[Aaron Weber]

It turns out I do need help.

[Brian Bates]

I'm like, I can't get my lockbox open. Can. You know, he comes out. He turns his flashlight on his phone. None of us can see. He's shining it on it on the thing. It's one of those old combination locks where you can barely see the numbers. He gets an exacto knife out of his pocket, and he's trying to pry it open. Old man two comes out of his room. He's like, y' all got it yet? And we're like, no, not yet. So he comes out. He tries to help. He's trying to do it. Both pulling on it. I'm like, this is my worst nightmare.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this just like an old man camp that they should.

[Dusty Slay]

They're all watching from a camera somewhere. That's why these old men try to get in this room.

[Brian Bates]

I finally, like, I got a phone number. Let me just call them. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. Let me try this. Like, you know, old men, they want to. They want to make it work. They don't want anyone's help. Unlike me, who just wants to.

[Aaron Weber]

In the process, they're all learning your combination to your room.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I gave it to him so many times, none of us could really see the numbers.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Finally, they give it up, and they're like, that ain't the number. Call. And I called. I'm like, hey, I've been trying. And the guy goes, oh, sorry, I gave you the wrong number. He goes, it's because they gave me 3 036. It's 5036. We had to change it recently.

[Dusty Slay]

And you go, hey, by the way, your locks are all cut up. I think somebody's been trying to break in.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So then I try that. It opens immediately. Doors open. Good. And then that old guy goes, hey, can I see your room? See what? How the layout is your room?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, gosh.

[Brian Bates]

And I'm like, sure. So he comes in, and he looks around, and he's like, ah, that's pretty nice in here. He's like, I kind of like my layout better, but I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me see how your sheets feel, Brian.

[Brian Bates]

Then he goes, come look at my rooms. See how it is. So now I think I'm definitely going to get murdered, but I want to be nice, so I'm like, you know, I'll do it. So I'll go over to his room.

[Aaron Weber]

How different could the rooms be?

[Brian Bates]

They're not hardly any different. He's just an old man that was lonely, and he's like, check this out. You know, come look at my room. I'm like, oh, man, it's pretty nice. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go now. And he goes, wait, wait, wait. Let me give you one more thing. And then he takes a bag of Werther's originals and just dumps a bunch in my hand. What he didn't know is I already had my own bag. He's like, these are great. I was like, I know they are, because I have some over there in my room. But that's why I don't like staying there. And then that night after the show, I get back to the Airbnb. The code outside on the door won't Work. And I keep doing. I keep doing. I finally have to call again, and the guy's like, yeah, I think the battery's getting low on the keypad.

[Aaron Weber]

So, yeah, we come out here. Why don't you fix that? You knew that that was.

[Brian Bates]

I had to get in a different door, but that's why I just want a hotel.

[Aaron Weber]

Every now and then, you get an Airbnb that works flawlessly, but they are few and far between, man. There's always something like that going. I don't like one where there's other people in the house.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That are around. You know, that's kind of the whole appeal of it to me is I have my own place.

[Brian Bates]

You mean people you don't know?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Strangers.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. And the Airbnb, I think they're going down a little bit because of some things that you and I have both joked about. Our jokes are different, and I don't do mine now, but we've joked about the amount of things they want you to do to check out.

[Aaron Weber]

It's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

That's such a hacky premise.

[Dusty Slay]

Go ahead.

[Brian Bates]

But it's like every comics had that joke. Go ahead.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you can. You know, this is what I thought the other day about jokes, too. It's like, at this point, we've all. We've talked about everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Nothing's new under the sun.

[Dusty Slay]

We shouldn't make. I think all new music should be halted. We don't make new music anymore, Everybody.

[Brian Bates]

No more making an album right now.

[Dusty Slay]

No more new. No, but that's just hobby. No more new music. We're not putting it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Especially love songs. They're all. They're all done.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Movies. I think we can all stop all

[Aaron Weber]

movies after the breadwinner, by the way.

[Brian Bates]

Breadwinner's.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's already been made.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. If it's been made, put it out.

[Dusty Slay]

But after that, we got enough movies. We got enough music. I think there's still room for comedy. Yeah, but they. A lot of comics, but no new jokes should be fired. And. And just. But I think at this point, if you have a topic that you're talking about, you got to assume that out here in the world of comedy, 18 other people have already joked about it, and you just got to be unique.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why it's. I think that's why it's got to be a story or like, you dealing with it instead of just like, abstractly talking about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, but it's like, that is the problem with airbnb and also sometimes the checkouts. I mean, it's a hard checkout. Like I got, you know, I stay at this one hotel, Brand Marriott. And I'm like, highest status now because I stay at the same one.

[Aaron Weber]

I've heard of it.

[Dusty Slay]

And so now I can get late checkout every time if I want.

[Aaron Weber]

That's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Sometimes up to 4:00pm Late 4:00pm yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a late check in for the next.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. But the last Airbnb I stayed out is in Florida. Now, they had already told me we're, we're packed this weekend, so we got to turn and burn here. But I didn't even think about it. I'm just hanging out, having coffee. My. My buddy Vince, he's by the pool. Somebody knocks on the door. I go, who's this? I open it. It's the cleaning crew.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I have to leave right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Pack up, brother.

[Dusty Slay]

And I was like, oh, geez, I don't like that. Hotel would never do that to me.

[Brian Bates]

Just leave, Vince. Yeah, yeah, See, he came back.

[Dusty Slay]

You're gone.

[Brian Bates]

He's still there. That's wild. Why do you guys like Airbnbs?

[Aaron Weber]

I like having. If I got a buddy with me, I like having a living room, you know, and maybe like Jay Flake, sometimes he'll bring his Xbox and we'll set that up and we'll play in the living room.

[Brian Bates]

But say ex wife.

[Aaron Weber]

As far as I know, Jay Flake does not have an ex wife.

[Dusty Slay]

And I don't know what benefit to having a living room that would be.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean, a shared space?

[Dusty Slay]

If he brought his ex wife.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's where I would have to sleep. I guess

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

You want to get into it? Who wants to read it?

[Dusty Slay]

I think you're running this.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna be honest, the name Z Boogie did not sound like someone that would really appreciate this podcast from start to finish. And the ad reads and I appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

It yeah, insult us, doesn't it Z Boogie?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There might be an insult somewhere in that comment that we didn't catch.

[Brian Bates]

Probably.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet Z Boogie's riding A dirt road. Getting hammered, though, probably right now that's what I would think. He's throwing beers out of the driver's side. Oh, Z Boogie Landon in the back.

[Aaron Weber]

Love that Dawson Rodriguez. I love Brian insulting us and I grow up. It's slowly becoming my favorite part of the show. Also, shout out to Aaron for the plebes reference. All right.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if that's a spell, Dawson.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if plebes is a reference so much as just a word, but that's true. Was plebes a reference to something?

[Brian Bates]

No. Dawson's probably just dumb.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Dawson. Dawson with an A D, a W. Dawson Rodriguez.

[Dusty Slay]

Dawson Rodriguez. Also, you don't expect to see.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think Rodriguez is coming and it comes hard. Yeah. Sorry about that. Dawson, Lisa M. Thank you for listening, by the way. Dawson, Dawson. Lisa M. Dusty. Questioning should people be warning others about their ugly baby is the hardest I've ever laughed at this podcast. I don't remember you doing that.

[Dusty Slay]

I think what was happening was they were talking about how people will have ugly babies and then not tell you and be like, oh, my baby's so pretty, or whatever. And I. I think I was saying, do you expect him to be like, oh, I'm gonna show you the baby? But, yeah, they're ugly.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, brace yourself. Yeah, not a good look right now. I want to warn you, all babies are beautiful.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree. See, I. I have a hard time, you know, I mean, because poor little babies, I mean, they're gonna grow up. They got a world of stuff coming at them, right? And just. I got. You gotta let them live in peace out here.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree. Tara. Brian doesn't. Tara Metchley. Meckley.

[Brian Bates]

They need to know right out of the gate that they're ugly before they

[Aaron Weber]

could even understand words.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'm joking.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. Tara. Aaron, I'm a little.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry. I'm a little too edgy for Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. Honestly.

[Dusty Slay]

He is.

[Brian Bates]

He's grow up a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

He's. He's a harsh guy.

[Aaron Weber]

He really is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just want to hang out at a Bread and Breakfast in Wyoming.

[Aaron Weber]

Bread and Breakfast? That's where I stay.

[Brian Bates]

A twofer.

[Aaron Weber]

It's just two meals.

[Dusty Slay]

You can't even stay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just bread and breakfast.

[Brian Bates]

Things out of there.

[Dusty Slay]

Not even a place to sleep.

[Aaron Weber]

There's places to take a nap after you eat, but you can't.

[Dusty Slay]

The first name of Cracker Barrel.

[Aaron Weber]

Tara Mekli. Aaron. I think the Solution to your baggage claim problem is to stop checking bags. If you can't fit everything you need in a carry on in a backpack, you're bringing too much. I understand that in theory, Tara, but the reality is, if I'm gone four or five days at a time, and if I'm bringing merch now on the road, you're going to have to check a bag. You just have to. So it's just. It's the world I live in also, you know, I think I shouldn't. I shouldn't have to change the way I live because other people are misbehaving. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I gotta put my foot down somewhere.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Because it's like this.

[Aaron Weber]

I also like being annoyed by this every week. I know that sounds weird, but I like being annoyed by.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I get it.

[Aaron Weber]

You get it?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I do get it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because checking. It's like this. You check a bag, or you have this extra carry on, no matter what, you're holding somebody up somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Because if you're not checking a bag, then you're at TSA and you got to put your personal item, and then you got to put your check. You got to take up two bins. It all takes a little longer. And then when you're getting on the plane, you're struggling to get it up in the overhead. And then when it's your time to get it out, you go, oh, which one is it? Which one is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Actually, mine's back there. Can I grab that?

[Dusty Slay]

I can't get it. Can you help? I can't get it. Could you hand me that blue bag back there?

[Aaron Weber]

No. Why don't you wait till it's your.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, and then. And then everybody's held up by it. But if you just check the bag, then no big deal.

[Aaron Weber]

But, Tara, I'll say on a shorter trips now, I do just take carry on for this exact reason, but most of the time, I can't.

[Brian Bates]

I don't understand how. I was thinking about this yesterday, Airplanes, if you're allowed one carry on, was flying United yesterday, and there's a size limit on what that carry on is. It seems like they should know how much bin space they need, but yet I feel like very often they're like, oh, we're running low on bin space. Sometimes you got to check it, you know, at the gate.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Who is it? Some comic, had a great bit about it. They always act like they're mad at you. We didn't know you're going to bring bags on the flight.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We're about to take off, but we didn't know y' all have all this stuff with you.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they do do that. Like, we can't leave. They go, six more.

[Aaron Weber]

We need six more bags checked right now. Right now?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Golly. Yeah. I don't know why they can't figure that out. I guess some bags people bring.

[Dusty Slay]

And also, how do they know how many bags we have out there to know what needs to be checked? They eyeball it, you think?

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. They go, oh, geez.

[Dusty Slay]

Because a lot of times I, you know, I used to have just a backpack and I put it under there. But, you know, now, you know, I don't travel light, so that's why I take offense to Tara.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't have to declare a carry on. Like, you do a check bag when you get your boarding pass.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what that means.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, you have to indicate that you have a carry on in some way. Yeah, you do sometimes.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, not a carry on. I just let them know I checked a bag.

[Aaron Weber]

But you don't ever have to do a carry on.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm just wondering.

[Dusty Slay]

I do a carry on. I don't let them know.

[Aaron Weber]

Spirit. He had to let them know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Kathy Lewis, I love the podcast. You are all great comedians. Thanks, Kathy. Next comment comes from Dan. She keeps going. You're all great comedians, but please, Dusty, stop singing. You are so tone deaf. You make fun of Brian pronouncing words wrong. Well, I beg you, don't sing. It's just so wrong.

[Dusty Slay]

Kathy, if you want to marry Aaron, just say it. Okay, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Kathy and Aaron sitting in a tree.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's like, take it easy. Aaron sings, Brian sings. But you're coming at me. Did I cut. You guys ever hear me come on here and go, hey, I'm a great singer? It's called having a soul and some spirit and wanting to bring joy to people's lives. Just because Kathy Lewis has no joy in her life and loves when you sing, apparently. And loved Brian's Oscar Meyer wiener cartoon. If you got, you know, if you guys want to get a room, Brian knows a bed and breakfast in Wyoming. There's a lot of other old men that can help you guys get to your room.

[Brian Bates]

That was Greeley. Thank you very much. What, you're saying you're tone deaf, so you take the joy out of her life?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, there's nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There's no prosthetic for that, you know, the movie.

[Dusty Slay]

This Kathy Lewis. Yes.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Sin of a Woman.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. It's been a while since I've seen that.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember Al Pacino comes to the school at the end and gives the big speech?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm not going to stop singing. I'm not going to sing more.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. That's what I was trying to think of.

[Dusty Slay]

But I, you know, I'll be singing the same amount.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, so you're not going to try to stick it to her, but you're not going to back down?

[Aaron Weber]

No, yeah, I was. I was sure nothing would change from that comment.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, but please, Dusty, stop singing.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I beg you. I beg you. Don't sing. Yeah, don't sing. I beg you, Kathy.

[Dusty Slay]

You just wait till I think of a song. Okay? You think I'm on here trying to.

[Aaron Weber]

It's gonna be a long song.

[Dusty Slay]

You think I'm trying to get a record deal on the podcast? I mean, I'm just. I'm just letting it loose. Right? I'm not going. All right, guys, vocal warm up.

[Aaron Weber]

Dan Galvin, the same guy, wrote and sang all three of TGIF's most iconic theme songs. Full House, Family Matters, and Step by Step. Well, that's pretty unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Think about including that.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that you, Dan Galvin? Is that who wrote this? Who wrote that?

[Brian Bates]

No, he probably just knew that fun fact and didn't know the person.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like that's an important part of the fun fact.

[Brian Bates]

We're not going to know the person.

[Aaron Weber]

Jesse Frederick.

[Brian Bates]

There you go.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you would know him. He frequently collaborated with songwriter Bennett Salv. Oh, yeah, that's where you know him from.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Dan.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a rare condition, you know. That's a good song.

[Aaron Weber]

Also, Perfect Strangers, I never watched that show, but I've heard of.

[Dusty Slay]

I used to watch it. Was it balky?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, balky. A lot of people listen to that as the best. There's so many TV theme songs. People have been listening. Like, that is a great.

[Aaron Weber]

Really, really good. You guys missed about Suicide is Painless, the MASH theme song.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great.

[Dusty Slay]

I never watched it, but you know

[Brian Bates]

the biggest show theme song, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

You don't Suicide. Well, there is no words to it. It's just.

[Dusty Slay]

It just wasn't. I don't feel like there was. I don't know. I feel like my dad wasn't into it and so it just wasn't something that we got to watch.

[Aaron Weber]

I get it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's.

[Aaron Weber]

It's probably good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to do what a lot of people have been begging me to do for quite some time. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to connect to a personal hotspot here on the podcast. Look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you want me to go with the comments while you do this?

[Aaron Weber]

I had her. No, no. Just give me a second.

[Dusty Slay]

You want us to just all sit here?

[Aaron Weber]

No, just let me just vamp for 10 seconds. Oh, my God. You're professional.

[Dusty Slay]

I am being a professional. Trying to just move it along while you're like. Like I'm gonna try to connect.

[Aaron Weber]

You go. Okay. While you do that, you want us to just take over for a bit? No, dude, let me have my moment.

[Dusty Slay]

Be professional. Be professional here. I'm just trying to connect to a hot spot so I can get the MASH theme song going.

[Brian Bates]

Suicide is painless.

[Aaron Weber]

Act like you've been here before. Dude, we're on episode 400. Okay. We should know all the.

[Brian Bates]

While he's vamping. Dusty, sing the Cheers.

[Aaron Weber]

I connected to the hot spot, but now. Now we got another alert. Well, it is in the title of the song, so I can't Cheers.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I got into Cheers pretty hard about 10 years ago when I moved here. I watched all the episodes of Always Sunny in Philadelphia up until that point, which I love that show. I used to. I've become a little less desensitized than I used to be. And I find the show too harsh to watch now. But when I was, it would be the opposite.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm less desensitized, so I've been re. Sensitized.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, okay, you're right.

[Dusty Slay]

And then. But I started watching. I just was craving a bar show after that was over, so I started watching Cheers. I'd never really watched it. I'd seen an episode. It's so good.

[Aaron Weber]

It's great.

[Dusty Slay]

And I love the theme song, but I can't think of it at all. I have no idea where everybody knows your name. Yeah, I'm not singing, though. I'm just doing a musical stuff. Yeah, now I'm just doing instruments.

[Brian Bates]

I'm with Kathy on this.

[Aaron Weber]

Elizabeth Bowerman, speaking of gratitude. Our family is so thankful for you all. Mostly Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you, Elizabeth.

[Aaron Weber]

What kind of twisted family is this? God. This family just emailed this email from their bunker, everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thank you, Elizabeth, because I gotta tell you, Kathy really hurt my feelings.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Teresa. Oh, I'm gonna be for real. If I. If I ever see a comedian reprimand someone for laughing, I'd Never support them again. People are showing up for you. Get over it. What is that a reference to?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we talked about, like, people having weird laughs and being distracted.

[Aaron Weber]

I would never do that at a normal show. Do whatever. But if someone's recording something.

[Brian Bates]

Something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's disruptive, and if I were the host, it's kind of my responsibility to go, hey, you gotta tone it down.

[Dusty Slay]

They actually. It's like, I understand what Teresa is trying to say 100%, but it's like, even regular shows I've had. I had a regular show. I don't want to say where. Because I think the person would know that it was them, but it was a person I knew, and they were in the audience and they were just being supportive, but they always had a weird laugh.

[Brian Bates]

We'll see if I can figure this out.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, what kind of laugh?

[Aaron Weber]

Like, what kind of laugh?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't remember. But it's just like the whole show, like. Yeah. Sort of like. Like, so loud. So much louder than everyone else that. That it became part of the show.

[Aaron Weber]

People would laugh at that laugh.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And it's like, that's not what Teresa is describing now. I've had shows where I did showing up for you. Get over it. It's like.

[Brian Bates]

Like.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's. It's a distracting thing that that person's showing up. But there's also an entire audience full of other people that showed up, and they want the best from me. But if I got this one, I got the joker in the front row. Yeah. That I gotta deal with Derek Str. The whole time. That it could ruin up. Ruin it for everyone else.

[Brian Bates]

How long ago was this?

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't kick him out. I. I dealt with was. Yeah. I don't know. Let's say six years ago.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. It's been a while. Trying to figure out.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, that'd be 2020. It was probably was 2021. Probably something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, I think I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It was.

[Aaron Weber]

Write it down on that paper.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'll just say it was Salt Lake City. It was at Wise Guys.

[Dusty Slay]

And, I mean, I was thinking. I was like, I very well could have been someone like that there. But no, this was a place I know very well.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I knew.

[Brian Bates]

I.

[Dusty Slay]

But you know, a large portion of the audience.

[Aaron Weber]

Opalike, Alabama now.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's only a couple places, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Michael Hedges air.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty Vamp while.

[Dusty Slay]

Too bad your Tom's Chewy bites are gone.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty. Fill in while you're.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I had What a shame. That Tom sent me a custom signature dish, Chewy Bites. And. And I go, what a. They sent me two. So I got one in my office at home, and then I go, I'll put one in the studio. And I walked in here during the show, and Andrew Dorfman, the owner of Zany's, is just eating the Tums out of there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I go, what are you doing? That's the problem. He goes, I thought somebody just left Tums out. And I go, do you not see it's a special thing? And at that point, I go, well, give me a couple.

[Dusty Slay]

I ate a few.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, why not?

[Dusty Slay]

I would get Heartburn mid podcast and eat a couple.

[Aaron Weber]

You'd reach back there without even telling them and get some. Yeah, sneaky. I didn't know you could.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, what's the story on the Brian Bates pillow up here?

[Aaron Weber]

Alicia or Alicia Alisa.

[Dusty Slay]

Alicia.

[Aaron Weber]

From my. From Miami. From Dania beach, who owns the taco place. You know what I'm talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

She's the best. She's come to every show that I've done.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

In the area.

[Dusty Slay]

She is the best.

[Aaron Weber]

She owns a great taco player. Coyote taco.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. She brought me a bunch of tacos.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And so she.

[Brian Bates]

Some, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And she brought this. This gift, this pillow.

[Dusty Slay]

She knew you were tired.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a Brian.

[Brian Bates]

Well, she's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I signed one, and then she gave me the other one there.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so there's more than one?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She's selling these.

[Aaron Weber]

She's got one, too that I signed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She's making money off of it.

[Aaron Weber]

A Brian Bates body pillow.

[Brian Bates]

Well, thank you. There was one that was going around. People were, like, mailing it different places.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a flat Stanley?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, like a flat Stanley.

[Dusty Slay]

When that guy gave you those Werther's Originals, you should have said, come back to my room. I got something for you, too. And give him one of those pillows.

[Brian Bates]

Here, buddy. Think of me. Well, thank you. Alicia. Alicia Alessa.

[Dusty Slay]

I think her name's probably Alicia. I was thinking Funny Business.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's Alicia.

[Dusty Slay]

Alicia. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

Everybody I know pronounces it Alicia.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, dog.

[Dusty Slay]

Alicia.

[Aaron Weber]

Then it's probably Alicia. I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry about that. Alicia.

[Dusty Slay]

Everybody I know says Alicia.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me make sure, because I feel like we've brought her up enough that I feel like.

[Dusty Slay]

But Alicia at Funny Business.

[Aaron Weber]

Alicia Smith.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Alicia. Funny Business really wants to emphasize Alicia.

[Aaron Weber]

And she owns Coyo Taco C o Y o, taco. Great Taco place in the Miami area.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, if you're down there. Very good.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway. Anyway. Michael Hedges. Aaron's Randy Newman impression is hysterical. The people want more. Short people got no reason. Short people get no reason.

[Dusty Slay]

Kathy Lewis is going crazy for it. Well, yeah, he's going crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Finally, somebody good.

[Brian Bates]

That was Randy Newman.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's Randy Newman.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not bad.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

Your other. Your mom.

[Brian Bates]

You got a friend, a special Randy Newman.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how he sounds. I'm a fan, but let's not pretend.

[Dusty Slay]

Your Monk one was very good.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He's a jungle out there. Yeah, it's the same. He does the same impression.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the same artist.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He says Brandon Newman did the Monk theme.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, he said the Monk. Your Monk impression.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought he was doing Monk.

[Dusty Slay]

That's every impression.

[Brian Bates]

Like I watch Monster.

[Aaron Weber]

You thought that was my Tony Chalhou?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he does a great Randy Newman, but every impression. Sounds like it.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, here's my Chandler from Friends. It's jungle out there. People think I'm crazy. We're out of time. He's got a song named Rednecks. That is pretty crazy. You should look that up. David Burns. Will someone please help breakfast with the word aloe? I can't believe no one has spoken. Up.

[Brian Bates]

Up.

[Aaron Weber]

And then to sing the Baloney Song when talking about hot dogs, it's. I wish I had an Oscar Meyer wiener. Get it together. Love you guys. A lot of. I don't know what's happening in that comment.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you can the ad read something. And I didn't have the ad read in front of me, so I didn't

[Aaron Weber]

know you were talking about a. A razor. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

He said something like a lowy. And. And I. So we lied.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe it was alloy. Because it's about metal.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So we didn't know.

[Brian Bates]

I asked, I stopped. I said alloy. And you go, yeah. Are you?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I was gonna say yeah no matter what.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, because you guys always support me when I say something wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

We're trying to get through the ad read, man. Yeah, well, go buy a Harry's Razor.

[Dusty Slay]

So.

[Aaron Weber]

But I didn't know the hot dog. They had a different theme song for the hot dog.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's true. I did.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know it? Do you know the hot dog song?

[Brian Bates]

I wish I had an Oscar Mayer wiener. I can't remember how the rest of it goes.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess.

[Brian Bates]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess that's the most important part.

[Dusty Slay]

I just.

[Brian Bates]

Are you still talking about Kathy?

[Dusty Slay]

I just told you, I don't do hot dog theme songs.

[Aaron Weber]

But do you remember in the Alabama area? Area in the.

[Brian Bates]

In.

[Aaron Weber]

In Alabama. I really struggled there for a sec. There was a. I don't even remember what it was for, but they had a commercial. Call Goldberg. Call Goldberg. 800-600- I remember Mama.

[Dusty Slay]

Goldberg's a deli in Auburn.

[Aaron Weber]

We live so close but so far apart. SB with the breadwinner coming out next week, A little behavioral. This week. A little behavioral guidance. Seems appropriate. Can I yell hey, bear when I walk in? Is it okay to cheer when I see each one of you on scene? When I see each one of your scenes? Yeah. You are welcome to do that. People on the whole won't know what you're doing. You might embarrass the people that you're with. But I'd appreciate it.

[Dusty Slay]

And don't cheer too long at our scenes, because you could step on our line.

[Aaron Weber]

You will miss the scene. If we come on screen, don't tap the person next to you and go, hey. That's because by the time you'll turn back to the screen, it will happen to me.

[Dusty Slay]

At the premiere, you know, my scene was a little longer, and I feel like now it's hard to even know what I'm doing in the scene. And I understand. Nobody said this to me, but I understand why they would have cut it down, because our. The subject matter once we talked about seems like it wouldn't have necessarily fit with the rest of what was going on. So I understand it, but I'm real quick in there to where I'm like, what did that guy do? Yeah, what happened?

[Aaron Weber]

But I know what you did.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They make it clear.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

People will know summer's around the corner. And honestly, nothing kills the summer vibe faster than pulling out your clothes. And it smells like regular detergent.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true, right?

[Aaron Weber]

You know that generic clean scent where it's like, what, have you been hanging out in the hospital? That's why I've been using laundry sauce. I'll admit I thought it was a condiment when I got. Got it, but now I realize it's the best laundry.

[Dusty Slay]

About to wash this food down.

[Aaron Weber]

That's exactly. Their laundry pods make your clothes smell unbelievable. Like actual luxury fragrances. I'm talking Australian sandalwood, Italian bergamot, Egyptian rose, or rose.

[Dusty Slay]

That's three of my favorites.

[Aaron Weber]

I love all those areas. It's as if your T shirts came back from vacation before you did. And the scent lasts. You throw On a hoodie days later. Still smells amazing. But it's not just about smelling good. Dusty. Those pods actually work. They're packed with bioenzymes that crush stains from barbecues, sweat, coffee spills, hiking days, all of it. Plus the pods are pre measured, so there's zero guesswork. Just throw it in there. And what used to feel like a chore, it's going to feel like a personality upgrade. Isn't that right? It's also just made its target debut. You can find laundry sauce in select Target stores now for a limited time only. Our listeners, that's you, gets 20% off your entire order when you use code Nate land@laundry sauce.com. that's 20% off your order@laundry sauce.com with promo code Nateland. After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. It's time to make laundry day the best day of the week. Mark Rubin, the real deal Y2K. Oh, here we go. So we'll be at 3 1407. That's oh, 31407 on January 19, 2038. Computers store date time as seconds since January 1, 1970. 32 bit computer systems measure time as assigned integer. Highest possible value is 2,147,483,647 at exactly 03:1407 on January 19, 2038. Adding one more second will cause the intrature to overflow and flip to negative. All right, well, you should get on that, Mark.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Mark, I'm glad you read that.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think this. I don't think we're who you need to be telling about this right now.

[Dusty Slay]

And Mark, things are gonna be so bad by the time we reach 2038 that I don't think. I think we're gonna beg for a computer glitch. Shut the AI down. Open the prisons. Let us out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, maybe

[Dusty Slay]

shut our microchips down. We want to be able to buy bread with cash again.

[Brian Bates]

I do think bread and breakfast. Yeah, I was thinking about cash. Our children, by the time they're adults, maybe even before that, it'll be one of those novelty things like, hey, there's a store in so and so still does cash. Like a throwback, like almost.

[Aaron Weber]

It kind of feels that way now.

[Brian Bates]

It almost does feel that way now. But you could pay with cash most places if you wanted. I just saw where the national airport, the parking. They're going cashless. And more and more places, of course, are doing that, which is Fine with me.

[Aaron Weber]

Every ballpark now is cashless. Pretty much, man.

[Brian Bates]

I went to the Rockies game, and I wanted to get some food, and you have to put your credit card $25 before you can even walk through to get. Get in line. I'm like, I gotta pay 25 to get in. They're like, no, we just go ahead and charge your card, and then if you don't spend 25, it'll refund you.

[Aaron Weber]

And then there's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

It is crazy. And then you just go up there

[Aaron Weber]

and just put incidental hold.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's like a hotel. That's wild, isn't it?

[Aaron Weber]

That is crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Keep your tab open. That way you can just buy.

[Brian Bates]

I guess. I think that's part of what they want.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet in your head you've, well, already spent 25.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, just go up there and get some more.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty. I've never seen that. Must be new. I've never seen that.

[Brian Bates]

Must be. The food was so bad.

[Dusty Slay]

Mm.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, at least the best.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys. You guys kind of, I think, still, like, reminisce on ballpark food.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I just don't think it's that way anymore. Like, you might find something good here and there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I remember what you're talking about. Even at my mom's softball games, you could go to the concession stand. Yeah. And get a pretty.

[Brian Bates]

Those are the best.

[Dusty Slay]

Get a pretty good burger and some aluminum foil.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But now it's like everything's. Everything's crap. Get some fries.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Pixie stick.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember the old ballpark. Please turn that foul bottle concession thing for a free Coke.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's the best.

[Brian Bates]

Man, this place. There was no woman working the counter. You just go up there, and they're all in her heat lamps. And I just got a container with a burger and fries and took it to my seat. And the burger was okay. The fries were terrible. They were just so hard.

[Dusty Slay]

It probably was $25.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it probably was. I even. But I bet. I Bet that was $25.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's so bad. I really hope that with Nashville, with the new stadium, that they can really work in some. Some local food.

[Aaron Weber]

Get a little meat and three cracker Barrel.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I think we've done a pretty good job at our airport. I think our airport is pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

Now we gotta. I bet it's gotta have slim and huskies pizza. That'd be unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever had slimming huskies pizza?

[Dusty Slay]

I never have.

[Aaron Weber]

So good. It's A Nashville place. It's really great. Great.

[Dusty Slay]

But we got the hot chicken.

[Aaron Weber]

Got hot chicken. We got some barbecue. Let's get some barbecue in there. Let's get. Let's get a meet. And three, put Arnold's in there. A cafeteria style.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In the new stadium.

[Aaron Weber]

In the new stadium. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I want Lazy Boy recliner seats.

[Brian Bates]

Probably will have.

[Aaron Weber]

They got to call me up. I got some ideas.

[Brian Bates]

We know the. Who is. It has the swimming pool. Is that Jacksonville that the.

[Aaron Weber]

The Diamondbacks have?

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I think the Jaguars have a pool area that you could just watch from the pool.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's less appealing to me than a meeting. 3. I get. I get how some people would like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right, well, this week, trying to think, is there anything else?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I think we're good.

[Brian Bates]

Last week, Connor Larson, old friend Connor Larson. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Go watch that. Connor's very funny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He had a Nateland showcase come out the night that he taped a half hour here at the lab. Not affiliated with Nateland, but Connor's a buddy of ours. He's done the show before. He. He opens for us on the road when we can get him. So come on out and go to YouTube and. Or whatever. Just watch it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right. So

[Aaron Weber]

I flopped on the call.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what? Connor started. Finally started to be acting on social media. Like, a lot of comics, they really. They really don't want to do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's the same hurdle you got to get over when you start selling merch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Where I think every instinct that makes you a good and working comic also makes it hard to do those things, because to take yourself that seriously.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And to, like, sell yourself and to sell yourself unironically like that, it's very embarrassing to go, I got a little shirt with my old saying on it.

[Dusty Slay]

It.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you buy it?

[Dusty Slay]

It's embarrassing unless you have cool merch like I've always had.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're immune to all.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, let me tell you, though, when

[Aaron Weber]

you know exactly what I'm talking.

[Dusty Slay]

I do know what you're talking about, but I've seen other people. But when you sell pesticides for a living for a long time, you. You're ready to make some money with God.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, I get it.

[Dusty Slay]

You get over some of those things a lot faster or. But, yeah, you're right, though, people. But that's why you don't do the shirt with the saying on it, because then you go, oh, yeah, I got to do this.

[Aaron Weber]

Drew farted.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I got to do this joke tonight so I can sell this shirt, and I know a lot of people that do it, and they sell a lot of that, but they got to do that joke to sell that shirt. You just want to do something unaffiliated, so the shirt's cool. It's like you go into, you know, a Wings at the beach, and you just buy the big Johnson T shirt or the. Or the big dogs or the no Fear T shirt. That's what you're doing.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I think I. I don't. I mean, I think I disagree a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

You had not laughed. No one would.

[Aaron Weber]

That's funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I'm talking about. Go ahead.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, if you're truly selling the same merch for year after year after year, I guess I could see what you're saying. You get sick of that joke. But it seems like if you're going to go back to the same markets every year or so, you'd also want to have some new merch. So I. I feel like, you know, you keep merch for a couple years that might be affiliated with a joke, and then you get you some new merch.

[Dusty Slay]

That's fine, too. But I. Even with my method, I still will. Will rotate and get some other stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You just had those hats so long that.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the hats are sick of them. No, I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Hats are glass.

[Dusty Slay]

No one's sick of that.

[Brian Bates]

I love those hats. Landon Bryan stole my hat, and I'm pretty upset about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That was funny, though. I felt like you though. He would have no way of knowing, but I felt like you gave it to him just to wear for a second. Yeah, he wore it for the rest of the time. Left with it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he would have. No way you ever had. You can't.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't know if somebody's giving you something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it's awkward to ask because then they would. You feel like they would go, well, sure, you can. Steve Byrne. I was talking to Steve Byrne about screenwriting, and he was like, there's two books you got to read. He goes, oh, I actually got a couple copies here, and hand them to me. And in my dumb head, I was like, oh, thanks, dude. And I just took them and never gave him back.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And I don't know if he was giving them to me in that moment. I think he was just showing them

[Brian Bates]

to me or maybe loading them to.

[Aaron Weber]

But he said, yeah, well, it's too late now. It's been years wow, that's 2022.

[Dusty Slay]

What was the book? Save the Cat.

[Aaron Weber]

Save the Cat. And then Stephen King on writing. Okay, those are the two.

[Brian Bates]

And how's your screenplay coming?

[Aaron Weber]

Not good. I haven't read the books.

[Brian Bates]

Well, sorry. Steve quit.

[Dusty Slay]

There's no new movies anyway. We're not doing new movies.

[Aaron Weber]

I told today I go, listen, we're about to stop all new movies anyway.

[Brian Bates]

See the breadwinner.

[Dusty Slay]

Everything needs to stop for about 10 years, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Just so you can catch up.

[Dusty Slay]

Just so.

[Aaron Weber]

But for what reason?

[Dusty Slay]

Just because we're out of ideas. Yeah. Dusty in 10 years, breadwinner is the last good idea. It's the last good idea.

[Aaron Weber]

It all stops with the bread. That's it. It's the last movie.

[Dusty Slay]

That's it.

[Aaron Weber]

And it just stays in theaters for the next 10 years.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Until new movies get made again.

[Dusty Slay]

But we could show all the old stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I just reshared the clip of. Of me predicting that Nashville would have a Super bowl by 2030.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then Dusty's on there like, well, by 2030, world won't even be around.

[Aaron Weber]

There's still time for that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, the world will be around is. He's consistent, but things will.

[Brian Bates]

You didn't say that, actually, but you said something very consistent. What you just said.

[Dusty Slay]

2030. Things will be bad. I think 2030 is really the beginning of when it starts to get bad.

[Aaron Weber]

When do you think it started? Like 2001. Would you say that that was kind of the time things started to.

[Brian Bates]

That is a great transition. I'm so glad you asked.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that.

[Brian Bates]

Well,

[Dusty Slay]

yeah, I think you're right, though. I do think you're right. There is one specific thing that started to really turn it. Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Diamondbacks winning the World Series.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we'll get to that.

[Brian Bates]

We'll get to that. All right, so we did. What's. What happened in 2000. We talked about right out of the gate where we all were for Y2K and what we experienced. So let's do that for 9, 11. I was. I'll go first. Yeah, I was. Well, I was 29 years old. I was working at the TV station still, and I was there at work when it happened. And then let's just share something that you kind of remember about the day that something happened to you.

[Aaron Weber]

I.

[Brian Bates]

So it was obviously a crazy news day for us. A lot of people say, I bet that was the craziest day I ever had. And it really wasn't because the national news just took over.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Interesting. They just go.

[Brian Bates]

And they were on round the clock for days.

[Aaron Weber]

They go, we don't want to hear from the Nashville affiliate right now.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly. Nobody wants to hear from the national field. We would do local cut ins, occasionally telling people, hey, it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Everything's all right here.

[Dusty Slay]

It's still our channel.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys in New York.

[Brian Bates]

All right, we would do updates from the airport saying it's shut down.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I remember the AT&T, but the. I think it's what's called then the Batman building. People were like. Like, let's get out of here. We don't know what's happening. But that day was crazy. But it was mainly just national news,

[Dusty Slay]

twin towers, and then the Batman building in Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Nobody knew. I mean, Nate has a joke about it. You have a joke. Everybody has a hacky joke about they didn't know what was going to happen.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a good joke.

[Brian Bates]

I'm joking. I'm joking.

[Aaron Weber]

I made a great joke.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you just made one, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm. Yeah. Off the cuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a good joke on my JFL set in 2021. About.

[Brian Bates]

But it is a good.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody thought that they were next. Right.

[Brian Bates]

Were you worried?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Montgomery. I remember a teacher telling me, Montgomery is number three on the hit list for America because we have an Air Force college there, Air Force Base. I was like, so you're telling me the hit list is the World Trade center, the Pentagon, and then the Hank Williams Museum. That's the. Yeah, it's a good job.

[Brian Bates]

That is a good job. Joke. That's a very good joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, man.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I was in Lowe's. We used to put. We used to what? We used to. Not during this time.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But we used to have. We used to go with our work bag.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And a lot of pesticide references here. And then we put our work bag in a bug in. Then we'd walk around and break down boxes and put stuff in the buggy. And the bug. The buggy was just kind of off on another aisle with the bag in there. And this lady goes, do you guys know whose bag this is? And we go, yeah, that's ours. And she goes, oh, you just never know these days. And I go, yeah, I'm thinking, yeah, the World Trade center and then the Lowe's in Goose Creek, South Carolina.

[Aaron Weber]

I used to have a old crusty wallet. You know, the kind you'd be embarrassed to take out in public because there's just all kinds of stuff, receipts and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Knickknacks, business Cards I've been using for toothpicks. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Guitar lessons.

[Aaron Weber]

Actual too. Toothpicks?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You pull a little tab off.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe a couple loose change in there.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Holy cow.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that's 20 around some one it might be.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

50 colors.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, 50.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't know there was that many colors.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean there's all kinds of stuff, dude. I mean what would you call this color? This is black. But it's also got a little pattern.

[Dusty Slay]

Gunmetal, something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Well if you remember, I mean there was a lot of bad things that happened afterwards. People, people were melling white powder.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember anthrax.

[Brian Bates]

After that it was a crazy time.

[Dusty Slay]

Tough time to mail someone some loose baby powders.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, I'm gonna mail you some tums. Hope they don't get crushed up in the mail. I. Well, the other thing is they didn't. You didn't know when 9, 11 people didn't know it was over officially. Right, sure. There's no one going. Okay. That's it. That's all we're doing. So for the. The longest time after that, you're like, there could be other stuff still coming. Right. So I was in fifth grade. I remember getting an announcement from Ms. McCormick, our school principal, saying that there'd been a bad plane crash in New York City.

[Brian Bates]

You were in fifth grade?

[Aaron Weber]

Fifth grade.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I wanna. Yeah, I wanna say fifth grade. I mean, I guess maybe fourth or fifth.

[Brian Bates]

Last week we were debating whether you were in second or third.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, maybe I was in. I was in school.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And we had a half day. We all got sent home because there's so many military families at our school that everything just. Yeah, we got to go home. And I remember that night, it was all on the news. My dad was watching it, my mom was watching. I was just like, are they ever going to talk about anything else? And my dad was like, not for a while. Yeah, this is. This is going to be a big one.

[Brian Bates]

I remember they canceled football for that weekend. I'm like, let's don't get hasty. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on, guys. He did the same thing during COVID right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's getting ridiculous. Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What about you, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

I was. I talked about this in my book. We're having a good time and.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we haven't read it yet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that should be the last book for 10 years.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it should be.

[Brian Bates]

Buy that book and wait. Wait.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you want to put a moratorium on books too?

[Dusty Slay]

It's too many books. We'll stop it now. We can just stop it now.

[Aaron Weber]

If you pre ordered one. Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, if you pre ordered, you'll still get. Get it. But the. So pre order. But the. I was 19 and maybe 18 and I had just. No, 19 and I had just, you know, failed to get into the army and. Or kind of got kicked out as a. And I was laying on my couch asleep and my sister called me and she goes.

[Aaron Weber]

Because it was 8am did you fall asleep on the couch the night before?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, and a Monday night. Yeah. I had nothing going on. I had tried to join the army. Did not make it.

[Brian Bates]

I always thought you tried to join after nine, 11.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, no, no. That would make me a hero. Yes, I tried to join before because we weren't at war and I wanted to get free College and perhaps some free travel.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And. And so after 9 11, you knew

[Aaron Weber]

you get some free travel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't want to do that.

[Dusty Slay]

But I, you know, I woke up, my sister called me, she goes, hey, they just hit the Twin Towers, you know, And I go, what? I didn't even know she was talking about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The World Trade Center. I got. She goes, turn on the tv. And I turned it on just about the time to see the second plane hit.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa. You saw it live.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And I go, whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's wild.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

And I still didn't really grasp it fully.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't either. My first instinct on that second one was some reason I thought that somebody was trying to fly close to see the first one and they messed up. And I'm still not comprehending what's going on.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, right.

[Brian Bates]

I'm a little slow on a lot uptick on a lot of these.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it was a lot to happen at once out of nowhere. Yeah. So, yeah. Don't feel bad for. For not knowing immediately what was going on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I was, you know, it was a wild time of my life, but all right to be pulling it together for. I had my own tragedies going on.

[Brian Bates]

So you moved on pretty quick.

[Aaron Weber]

Every day was 911 for Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But, you know, I will say, you know, the Alan Jackson song that followed, the Toby Keith song that follows, followed all would get me very emotional. I was a very patriotic kind of guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Which Toby Keith song?

[Dusty Slay]

We'll put a Boot.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I can't stand that song.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying I like it now, but during that time courtesy the Red, White and blue. Yeah, it was like. I mean, there is. I'm not saying that part of the song, but there is some parts of the song. My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye. I mean, it's pretty like, Sorry, Kathy, it's. Yeah. But he flew a flag out of me on until the day that he died. It's a great song.

[Aaron Weber]

It makes me cringe now and everybody's

[Dusty Slay]

singing, but as it gets to the end, you know, it's like, well, you kind of. I don't know which. It feels like you kind of learn a couple of different things. It's like, well, it's not. War's not as cool.

[Aaron Weber]

I definitely had moments where that song was awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

But then the Alan Jackson. Do you remember? And then there was what, Daryl Warley, World stop turn. Yeah. Those would make me very emotional. You know, I love the Country.

[Aaron Weber]

And how about the album Satellite from Pod that came out on 911.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I. I remember the album, but I didn't know it came out.

[Aaron Weber]

That came out on 911.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And the 11th song on the album, it's called Ghetto, is about global terrorism.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? I went and bought that album with my dad, Vod.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Not on 911. I think we waited a couple days.

[Dusty Slay]

That's kind of Christian rap, right? Is what they were.

[Aaron Weber]

It was new metal. It was new metal, but they were explicitly Christian.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but the, you know, there's a lot of 911 supposed predictions and lead ups and, you know, there's a lot of those.

[Brian Bates]

So either of you ever.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't know that one, but that's not shocking.

[Brian Bates]

Either of you ever see the World Trade Centers? Like, I'll first. I went to New York was 2002.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I never saw. I never saw person.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, me neither.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I saw the Pentagon. I did.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I've seen the Pentagon. Still there.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, but before it got. Before something happened.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Before a plane hit it. That then disintegrated.

[Dusty Slay]

Completely disintegrated. Every piece of it. Not in a trace of it. It's amazing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right, so 2001, a lot of people think, understandably, that 2000 was the start of the 21st century in the third millennium, but it's actually 2001.

[Aaron Weber]

2001 was the first year.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Okay, you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, having a swing, having graduated in 2000, there was that debate between the class of 2000 and the class of 2001. Who is the class of the new millennium? We don't start at zero, but we were the first class to. To flip over to the two. There you go.

[Brian Bates]

So a lot of big tech stuff happened in 2001.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, the dot com bubble.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm gonna. Well, yeah, I'm gonna have. I'm gonna need you to help me talk through some of this.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, I'll try. I was. I was eight.

[Brian Bates]

But yeah, I bet you'll know more than I do. You were nine going on 10.

[Aaron Weber]

Nine going on 10.

[Brian Bates]

Well, first of all, iTunes. And January 9, 2001, Steve Jobs announced iTunes.

[Aaron Weber]

Big fan.

[Brian Bates]

And then later that year, the ipod was introduced, and he famously said it could hold a thousand songs in your pocket.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Great marketing.

[Brian Bates]

Five gigabytes.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember my uncle had an ipod. Blew my mind. And then when he got the new one, he gave me and my brothers the first generation ipod, which it's been so long since then. Those are now vintage and collectible. And you can actually get a lot of money for those now.

[Brian Bates]

Now because they've. It's been discontinued.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you ever have ipod? I never had one.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what, your Zune guy. That's actually what I had. I was at the time I went out Microsoft Zune.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Had. When the latest ipod came out, Microsoft Zune also came out. And Best Buy had them both. Yeah. And the Microsoft Zune had a display on it where it could actually have the album covers. And it looked really cool. It was. I got a brown one. I had. I was driving a Buick Lesaber with some wood grain in there, so it matched your car. So I had a brown Zune. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Was that it right there on the left?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And it had an actual display of the album cover on it. And it was awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

And the original ipod didn't have that?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it was awesome. But it quickly, you know, was outdone by the ipod and seemed like a stupid decision later.

[Aaron Weber]

But the click wheel. I remember thinking the click wheel was so ingenious.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I gasped.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

When I saw it.

[Brian Bates]

Microsoft entered the gaming world with the Xbox accompanied by the smash hit game Halo. Yes. Do you guys play Halo?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Big time.

[Brian Bates]

Big time.

[Aaron Weber]

Big time. Halo 2 especially. When did Halo 2 come out?

[Brian Bates]

This is called Halo Combat evolved.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Halo 2 came out in 2004, so a few years later. But I remember Halo 2 was one of those games where you would buy the console just to play that game. That's how good the game was. It was on Xbox exclusively. My friend Hayden wired had Halo 2. We would go over. We would play that split screen 15 hours. I mean, through the night. It was the most fun game.

[Dusty Slay]

Just rejecting calls from girls left and right, just. And they were like, not tonight, boys.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm a level with you. Dusty wasn't even a concern. We didn't have to worry about that. We were playing the best video game ever did. We were playing, you know, swords and rockets on lockout. Halo 2. I was 12 going on 13.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. That's a good age for a video game. Like, I mean, like in 2000, 2002, I was, you know, 2001, I was 19. So I knew a lot of.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you could drive.

[Dusty Slay]

I knew a lot of grown men playing those games.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. We were children.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we were.

[Aaron Weber]

Who should be playing games about killing each other.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So it says. It was. It was built like a personal computer featuring the first ever Built in hard drive and an ethernet port for broadband gaming right out of the box.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What does that mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you can play online.

[Brian Bates]

Play other people online all the way back 2001.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, man.

[Brian Bates]

I just learned about this box right here.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at this. You've seen these, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I did own one of them for a short time.

[Brian Bates]

Playing against Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, I never heard online games.

[Aaron Weber]

Look how bulky and terrible at first controller looks. Yeah, it looks terrible now. And now I have an Xbox. I have the newest Xbox now and it's much better controller now.

[Brian Bates]

Everything looks. Is going to look, obviously. Besides, maybe cars. Cars just change. The old cars still look cool, but most things look dumb.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We could stop making cars, too. No more new cars

[Aaron Weber]

about when cars break down, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we could fix the old ones, put our focus into maintenance.

[Aaron Weber]

So you just want kind of a global pause.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

For 10 years.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Who would enforce this?

[Dusty Slay]

It just enforces itself.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we just have to all agree to it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Unanimous decision. As a country.

[Brian Bates]

Now the world.

[Aaron Weber]

The world. Okay. Because China is going to keep going even if we sit 10 years out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think that if we sat 10 years out and just, you know, focused on maintaining what we have, building what we have, making what we have better, but not making new.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we would come out ahead. I think we would come out stronger and better because we now know how to maintain our stuff. We're all working together as a team instead of just focusing on what's next.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm into it. Let's get it going.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I was just going

[Brian Bates]

to say, we already see AI people. When it came out two years ago, people would make fun of how dumb it is, but you see less and less of that now. In two years from now, we'll probably be doing that. And I see videos of all these robots and they're falling down and they do stuff and they obviously don't look very realistic. But, you know, years from now, we're going to look back at these and be like, look at that thing. Yeah, because they're going to look like us.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Scary stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. GameCube. The GameCube and Game Boy advance by Nintendo came out.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, can I just say, though, on the AI thing, it is so wild, right? I type in some lyrics to a song. Let's say the song's three minutes long. I put in some prompts how I want the song to go, and then I hit, you know, create. And it's able to create that song faster than you can even read the lyrics and then record the song. Even if you got it on one take, even if it came to you, you read the lyrics, you go, okay, I'm gonna record it. It's faster than that. It doesn't even make sense.

[Brian Bates]

It's crazy. Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

I wrote a song about paw paw trees and. That's how I'm utilizing the technology.

[Aaron Weber]

Hold on now. I think it's. It's more accurate to say you wrote a poem about paw paw trees.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

And then AI turned it into a song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we work together. I give them a co writing credit.

[Aaron Weber]

We work together.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's nice of you because, you know, I came up with the idea, the flow. I'll go, oh, this is what instruments I want you to use and this is how I want you to do it.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's not like you wrote a melody for it or anything.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no. That's where they're code.

[Brian Bates]

Lyrics by Dusty Slay Music by chat GPT that's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Would you vote for AI for President?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Because I think that's where we're headed, right? If they know everything.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even know if voting matters anymore.

[Aaron Weber]

More.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll be honest with you.

[Aaron Weber]

This is taking a darker.

[Brian Bates]

But Dusty, I appreciate your honesty. Thank you for finally opening up and sharing some deep thoughts.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I mentioned

[Brian Bates]

the GameCube. Did you do GameCube? Game Boy Advance?

[Aaron Weber]

My buddy Will had a GameCube.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a GameCube.

[Aaron Weber]

I played it a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Was never really a Nintendo guy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

But I respect.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a gamecube. I had the sim. I was working at Office Depot and I'd play the Sims. I did some third shifts. I'd come home in the morning, not go to sleep. Play the Sims for pretend to be

[Aaron Weber]

somebody else for a few hours.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, somebody broke into my trailer and they stole my Nintendo GameCube and.

[Aaron Weber]

And all your memory cards.

[Dusty Slay]

Some other stuff that I had. That would have been the type of people I was hanging out with at the time.

[Aaron Weber]

I get you. I hear you.

[Dusty Slay]

And very disappointed baseball cards.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that what you're talking about? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Windows xp.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I remember that.

[Brian Bates]

It was designed to unify Microsoft separate operating system line the windows 2000 and the windows me became public 2001 major overhaul including the vibrant green and blue start menu layout, the legendary Bliss default desktop background.

[Aaron Weber]

You tell me that. Dude. You remember this? You remember this?

[Dusty Slay]

100%.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, of course. Yeah. It's great.

[Aaron Weber]

It takes me back, man.

[Brian Bates]

The Luna visual style or what that is.

[Aaron Weber]

What's that?

[Brian Bates]

The Luna visual style.

[Aaron Weber]

I have no idea what that means. Luna, like the moon?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no. It's the code name for the iconic default visual style of Windows xp. So that's what you think of with the blue. The blue taskbar on the bottom, the green start button, and then the prairie or the meadow, whatever it is. Background. That's. I guess it's called Luna. I'd never heard of that.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I worked at Office Depot and this, this kind of famous backdrop here with the green meadow.

[Aaron Weber]

The.

[Dusty Slay]

The meadow and the sky. Yeah, we had a big display, like a. Like a, you know, like a poster at Office Depot. And then when they got rid of it, I took it home with me, hung it in my trailer. I had a.

[Aaron Weber]

You had.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That big.

[Brian Bates]

Got stolen.

[Dusty Slay]

Took up a whole wall.

[Aaron Weber]

Did it have a start button on it?

[Dusty Slay]

No, just this. Wow. Took up the whole wall.

[Brian Bates]

Did they steal that when they broke in?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, not. They didn't take all the valuables.

[Brian Bates]

All right, here's something that I think some people thought was going to change the way we get around, and it just didn't happen. The Segway.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Came out in 2001.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that the mall cop thing? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And those type aren't even, I think, being manufactured anymore.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen people, they have these. I don't know if it's Segway brand, but doesn't Segway make scooters now, too? Segway's still around.

[Brian Bates]

They are around. I just don't think they make the two wheel type.

[Aaron Weber]

I see people on them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I see, like, tours around Nashville and things like that.

[Aaron Weber]

I think still, some police officers use them.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know how the guy, the guy who invented those.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, he died. He. He. He rode one off a cliff.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that true?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It feels like you're lying, though.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it sounds like a punchline. It's not a punch. I mean, him hitting the ground. I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

Did he do that because he messed up or because he didn't believe in it?

[Aaron Weber]

He was trying to jump. He's trying to jump over. I don't know what happened, but he died. Wow. I'm sorry I brought it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I just wonder, did he commit suicide as well?

[Aaron Weber]

No, it was an act. Accident.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It was an accident.

[Brian Bates]

This says, one reason why they just didn't take off is they cost around $5,000, which. Yeah, very expensive. And they weighed a hundred pounds, so they weren't practical to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Move around

[Dusty Slay]

and no one ever looks cool on those things.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I think that's a part. It plays a part. You gotta look cool.

[Brian Bates]

I remember the guy it might have been. That guy was on Jay Leno and Russell Crowe was the guest and he got on one and rolled it around the studio. And I thought, well, this is. This is what everybody's gonna be riding soon.

[Dusty Slay]

Even Gladiator didn't look cool on that thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Nobody can look cool on it. And that is the problem. It's like, it's not that you need to look cool necessarily, but you can't look uncool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like if something you're doing like a scoot, even the scooters, nobody looks good on those things.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The thing that makes the scooter nice is it doesn't weigh a hundred pounds. And the way they have it set up, you can if you're. I've been in cities before where I'm walking and I go, I don't know if this is a good neighborhood. And then there's a scooter there. I scan it, get on it, get right out of there. And so I think the scooters are great in that kind of capacity.

[Aaron Weber]

It was the owner of Segway who died, not the inventor, by the way.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Either way, it still hurts the business.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Something that did start in 2001, that's still going strong. Wikipedia.

[Aaron Weber]

Golly.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty loves Wikipedia.

[Aaron Weber]

Is the best website of all time.

[Dusty Slay]

I love to go to Wikipedia and check something and Wikipedia is begging for money.

[Aaron Weber]

They're always asking, but how many times have you used it and not paid them a dime?

[Dusty Slay]

Every time.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, saying so, you know, you can ask. I'm not going to give you any money, but I don't mind them asking every now and then.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet they're getting money somewhere, though, from.

[Brian Bates]

From the government, I think so I'm sure somebody's.

[Aaron Weber]

Why would the government be paying Wikipedia?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, because it's, you know, it can be changed and you know, it's a lot of fraudulent information on there.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You believe everything on Wikipedia?

[Aaron Weber]

Not necessarily.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying, I don't.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I use it every week

[Dusty Slay]

for this research and if you don't believe it all. Can you believe any of it, really?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess. I guess not.

[Brian Bates]

Well, anyway, it started in 2001, I think a guy from Huntsville was one of the co. Creators.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, how about that? Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, let's. Let's talk about some music.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd Love it. No singing, though. Just talking about it.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't guarantee it.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, top. Here's the year end top 10 singles.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. You're not going to.

[Dusty Slay]

People want me to be positive.

[Aaron Weber]

You're not going to be able to sing any top 10 songs.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. You have to.

[Aaron Weber]

You have to get down to 60 and 70 to get one done.

[Dusty Slay]

2001, though, is a different me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's some Hot Dog by Limp Biscuit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know that Hanging by A Moment by Lifehouse.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What an album. 6 Cycle Carousel. That album by Lifehouse.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, that's a good one. I couldn't sing it unless somebody else started, but I. I did like that one. Meaning if it came on the radio, I bet I could sing along, but I wouldn't know it off the top of my head.

[Aaron Weber]

I know it, but I'm not gonna get it started. I'm not gonna get it started. I love that album, though. He's doing a couple.

[Brian Bates]

He's doing it for Cats. Kathy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Fallen by Alicia Keys.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He took a big breath for that. You got a belt.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's too good. She sings.

[Aaron Weber]

She's such a good.

[Dusty Slay]

That's like really her first song. And I remember me and my buddy listening to that being blown away. Right? It's. She sings too good for me to even try that one.

[Aaron Weber]

She's unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All for you by Janet Jackson.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet I heard it, but, you know, I.

[Brian Bates]

It said it spent seven consecutive weeks at the top, making it the longest run of 2001. I played the video. It still didn't really stand out to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I was not keeping up with music. 2001. Here's the first one I.

[Aaron Weber]

What were you listening to at this time of your life? I think I was still to turn 30. What were you into? Christopher Cross.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I do like Christopher Cross, but, you know, I was really into 90s country and then. And I think country music was starting to not sound like destiny.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the age it's starting to get away from you.

[Brian Bates]

You don't agree with it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's amazing how much you all agree with me, but don't want to admit it. It is amazing that 30, right around,

[Aaron Weber]

that's the age where you're like, oh, the world's getting away from me. I don't really understand the next wave of stuff coming.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I was really into movies, I guess, TV shows, but music. I kind of stopped for whatever reason. I get that I still have. I just hang on to old stuff. But I know this one drops a Jupiter by train.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that was a huge song.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a big one.

[Dusty Slay]

Huge song. I'm not saying that's one of my favorites, but it was huge.

[Aaron Weber]

It was number three.

[Dusty Slay]

Meet Virginia, though. Their. Their other one that they smokes.

[Aaron Weber]

Pack a day.

[Dusty Slay]

That song's unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

I know both of those.

[Aaron Weber]

Those lyrics are. She smokes a pack a day. Wait, that's me. But anyway.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, that terrible. Yeah. I used to think he said way past me. No, wait, anyway, so he was like a half pack.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I emailed you the top selling albums. I think the number one was. Well, let's just look here. Watch it be blocked.

[Aaron Weber]

Lincoln Park Hybrid theory.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What an album.

[Brian Bates]

Best. You were into Lincoln Park?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Lincoln Park.

[Brian Bates]

You remember that album?

[Aaron Weber]

It had one step closer on that album. It probably had.

[Dusty Slay]

I would have to put the album on and listen to it. But yeah, I'm sure I know every song on there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

It doesn't even matter how hard I try. Keep that in mind. I design this, right? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

In the end is on that album.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Andy. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some sports. Baseball first.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's do a couple more songs.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

All right, songs.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

If you're gone by matchbox20.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. That's really.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

Matchbox20, second album.

[Aaron Weber]

What song is that?

[Dusty Slay]

That second I was working at.

[Brian Bates]

I do know it.

[Dusty Slay]

I was working at Papa John's when that came out. And me and this other lady were singing that maybe it's time to come home.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow, Great song. I haven't heard that in forever.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is that right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe to come home.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm real by Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Ja Rule had a real moment.

[Brian Bates]

Let me blow your mind, E. Featuring Gwen Stefani.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I for sure remember that one.

[Aaron Weber]

What was it called?

[Brian Bates]

Let me blow your mind.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what's funny there.

[Dusty Slay]

They were riding the motorcycles in that one.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me blow your mind.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. By Dido.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Oh, man, thank you. You know, I was walking through the grocery. I was walking through the grocery store the other day and that song was playing and I was singing a little bit and then these two dudes came out of the aisle and I kind of shut it down.

[Aaron Weber]

And they were singing it too.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they were both singing it and they were both. Both unapologetically singing it. And I was like such a good grow up.

[Brian Bates]

They invited you back to their place?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. But I said no.

[Aaron Weber]

They said, what room number you say?

[Dusty Slay]

That's it? I don't think so. I don't think so, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Again by Lenny Kravitz I don't know that one.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

An INDEPENDENT WOMEN Part 1 Destiny's Child.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, all right.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Throw your hands up at me.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Okay. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. That sounds right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Sports baseball. Barry Bond sets the home run single season home run record with 73 home runs.

[Aaron Weber]

73 home runs. The previous record was 70.

[Brian Bates]

Mark McGuire just what, three years earlier in 1998.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So. Yeah, three years earlier.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

But he's broken it since.

[Brian Bates]

Nope.

[Dusty Slay]

Because they quit letting them use steroids.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's too bad. Bad.

[Aaron Weber]

The pitching's gotten really good, too. It's not all steroids.

[Brian Bates]

Ichiro1, rookie of the year and Al MVP.

[Aaron Weber]

Crazy. Can you name another player who's won both?

[Brian Bates]

Paul Skins. He won Cy Young and Rookie of the Year, didn't he?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think he won mvp.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I can't either.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, what?

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron Judge? Maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know who won the World Series, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

The Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in the World Series with a little bloop hit. Oh. Bass the shortstop in game seven. In game seven, this was the World

[Brian Bates]

Series where George W. Bush threw out the first pitch. It was, you know, a little bit over a month after nine, 11

[Aaron Weber]

each year. By the way, there's only two people that have done this.

[Brian Bates]

That, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

MVP and rookie of the year. Fred Lynn from the 1975 Boston Red Sox. You don't remember Ichiro?

[Dusty Slay]

Fred L actually was one of my favorite players. I have a couple of his cards.

[Aaron Weber]

John Russ.

[Brian Bates]

Fred Lynn. Yeah, I. I do remember Fred Lynn. He played for the Angels.

[Dusty Slay]

No. Somebody did offer me a couple of those cards, but I turned it down.

[Aaron Weber]

I turned it down.

[Brian Bates]

Fred Lynn hit a grand slam in the All Star Game.

[Aaron Weber]

Did he really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yep, I remember that.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember George Bush throwing out the first pitch?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I do remember that being a big deal.

[Aaron Weber]

They have the ball at the Bush Library in Dallas. You can go see the ball that he threw out. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

The Lakers.

[Aaron Weber]

It's worth it just for that. I didn't even look at anything else. I go. I walked in, I go, where's the ball? Yeah. And they showed it to me and I looked at it and I went, there, okay, 40 bucks. I cried a Little bit, yeah. I'm so susceptible to propaganda. You can get me.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, I know.

[Brian Bates]

It's college. That's what does it.

[Aaron Weber]

Dude, you can walk into the George Bush Museum. However you think about him, there's like, just pictures of him riding horses and stuff. By the end of it, you're like, all right, that dude was awesome. And I don't even know what I actually think about it, but you know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

I bet he was chill. You know what I mean? He probably wasn't even behind a lot of this decision making. He was like, you know what? I don't even want to be here. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you don't think he was the mastermind?

[Dusty Slay]

He's like, my dad's rich. You know what I mean? I just want to hang out at the ranch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Terror.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, the Lakers won the NBA championship second year in a row.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Yeah. And then they won the next year, too. Right? So.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's for a different episode.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry.

[Brian Bates]

But they went on a. A crazy sweep of the playoffs. They were 11 and 0 going into. That's weird. How would you be 11 and 0? I guess maybe they first round was only best three out of five. But anyway, they were 11 and 0 going to the finals. They had not lost a playoff game. They played 76ers and they lost the first game. Allen Iverson did the famous step over. You remember that?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And.

[Brian Bates]

But then they. They won the rest. So they went 15 and one in the playoffs.

[Aaron Weber]

Shaq was on the team by this point. Yeah. Kobe, Shaq, Robert Ori.

[Brian Bates]

Ravens won the Super Bowl. Dale Earnhardt died at the Daytona 500.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember where you were for that?

[Dusty Slay]

No. I mean, by, you know, 2001 was. You know, things were starting to get wild for me. I mean, I wasn't. I wasn't present for a lot of things, so.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

See a trend here.

[Dusty Slay]

Things are taking a turn.

[Aaron Weber]

I woke up on the couch.

[Brian Bates]

As we go through future years, I can't wait to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's gonna be a lot. I don't remember.

[Aaron Weber]

What was your wildest year, do you think?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it just depends on what, you know, we're talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And a lot of ways, you know, 2001 was one of the wildest. But, you know, 2002, 2003, and then, you know, 2004 to.

[Brian Bates]

This is a great tease.

[Dusty Slay]

2004 to 2000, 2012,

[Brian Bates]

and then 2013.

[Dusty Slay]

2013, 2016 to 2020 12. It started to calm down.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

We got 11 more of these I can't wait.

[Brian Bates]

Tiger woods won the Masters to complete the Tiger Slam where he won.

[Aaron Weber]

Incredible.

[Brian Bates]

The four straight majors.

[Dusty Slay]

So in a lot of ways, 2001 was a big time year. A good year year. But then there was some bad stuff too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we did start with the bad on this episode.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Incredible year. Really.

[Brian Bates]

The top standup comedy tour was the Blue collar comedy Tour.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

What is it now?

[Brian Bates]

The Nate Bargazi Comedy Tour. Big dumb Eyes.

[Dusty Slay]

That. At the time, that blue collar comedy tour was pretty mind blowing though, Aaron, because it was on TV too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah,

[Aaron Weber]

sorry. I just drank a bunch of water and I felt I was about to spit it out. Sorry about that.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you had some drinks today.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I haven't been drinking. God forbid a country boy have a little fun out here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, we'll see what Kathy thinks.

[Brian Bates]

Gladiator 1. Best pitcher at the Oscars.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Outstanding drama series. Emmys went to the West Wing.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? This is the start of a long run. This is actually the second straight year

[Brian Bates]

they won in 2000 as well.

[Aaron Weber]

We want, I think the next two years after this too. Not to get ahead of ourselves.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

We. I did say we. That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Have you been drinking?

[Aaron Weber]

I have not quit making that joke.

[Brian Bates]

It was funny. It sounds defensive, doesn't it?

[Aaron Weber]

Now it's going to become a thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe there's something in there.

[Aaron Weber]

That pillow, that body pillow right there.

[Brian Bates]

Outstanding comedy series with Sex and the City. The top. That was unnecessary.

[Dusty Slay]

What if it were like a voodoo doll and he was like, I feel that way anyway.

[Brian Bates]

I think there's a lot of voodoo dolls out there. Every morning I get up top grossing movies. 2001. I think I sent you a link to that.

[Aaron Weber]

Top grossing movies.

[Brian Bates]

I think you're gonna like this.

[Aaron Weber]

2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone.

[Brian Bates]

Now what is the difference in that and the Philosopher's Stone?

[Aaron Weber]

Philosopher's Stone is what it was called in England when it. When the book came out in America. American publishers thought philosopher's stone is not going to resonate well with American audiences. Let's call it the Sorcerer.

[Dusty Slay]

America's more into witchcraft.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was just the Philosopher's Stone. It was just. And then there's really. I think the movies, it changed too. But in the book it's the Philosopher's Stone. Interesting is what it's actually called.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, it's a real kid run here, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Potter Monsters Inc.

[Dusty Slay]

Rush Hour two though.

[Aaron Weber]

Rush Hour two. Debatably a kids movie.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, Pearl Harbor.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, yeah, that's a good fun.

[Brian Bates]

Kids, how many of these have y' all seen?

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen all the way down to. Doctor Dolittle 2. I don't think I saw this thing.

[Dusty Slay]

The Furious. I was working at Western Social and I went to see the Fast and the Furious with a girl I had a crush on.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good movie.

[Aaron Weber]

How'd it go?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think it went good, but I, you know, I didn't know how to capitalize, but I.

[Brian Bates]

Cast Away.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You want to see fast and furious two?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Give me a couple years.

[Brian Bates]

Ocean's 11.

[Dusty Slay]

Ocean's 11, that's a good one. Cast Away. Traffic thing.

[Brian Bates]

I think I've seen one of the Harry Potters in the theater.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you read the books?

[Brian Bates]

No. I'm not against them. It just, it's.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it's.

[Brian Bates]

I was too old.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I totally get that. Yeah. Word of the Rings, Princess Diaries, old Han Hathway. I remember that.

[Brian Bates]

That's domestic. Abby sent me the top grossing worldwide and Lord of the Rings was number two.

[Dusty Slay]

That's kind of what was Lord of the Rings movies. Incredible.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I can't believe you like those.

[Dusty Slay]

They're incredible.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, because you're into sorcery.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I mean, you know, I watched them at a different time in my life. I wasn't thinking exactly the same way that I think now, but I think they're very well done. I think. I don't know. I love them.

[Brian Bates]

Oh. Album of the year at the Grammys was Two Against Nature. Good over Evil by Steely Dan.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what Harry Potter is, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Good over evil.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's what Star wars is, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You don't like Star Wars?

[Aaron Weber]

What do you think's a bigger ip? Star wars or Harry Potter? I looked this up this weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't despise IP stands for, but. But I. I just am not as into them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Dusty Slay]

Harry Potter just. I don't know. This doesn't feel right to me. I have watched a couple of them. The first one, I really liked the sec. By the time we got to the second one, I was kind of out. I don't think I like a. A lot of, you know, just watching a lot of kids.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, don't make me feel weird.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron still watches them.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I. I don't even think that. I didn't really mean it in a creepy way, but like, you know, in a Lord of the Rings. They're all adults and they're on an adventure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I don't like watching a lot of kids at school

[Brian Bates]

like Aaron. What are they doing now? It was recess.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, a lot of people have recess at Harry. I mean, a lot of people riding the broom or whatever.

[Brian Bates]

But Quidditch.

[Aaron Weber]

Quidditch, yeah. That's the sport that they play.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. So that wasn't during recess.

[Aaron Weber]

It was just no extracurricular activity.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not trying to hate on it.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

I. I'm just not as into it in the same way. I'm not that into Star Wars. I do like Lord of the Rings, though.

[Brian Bates]

Abby sent me some stuff. Forgot to mention about 9 11. Before 9 11, you could. That's a great way to end on something upbeat.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's bring it all the way back. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I should mention this. I didn't fly that often beforehand. Maybe once a year, I'd phone six times in my life. But anybody could go through right up to the gate. It seems so crazy now that you could just go through.

[Dusty Slay]

It seems crazy that we can't do that to me. I think we should just. Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Let them go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But there was a metal detector. It's not like you just walked in.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You did have to go through a metal detector.

[Aaron Weber]

You didn't have to scan a boarding pass.

[Dusty Slay]

No gun.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

No knives. That's all we need. Metal detector.

[Brian Bates]

But obviously you didn't have to take your shoes off and all that kind of stuff. It's just. It's such a different time.

[Aaron Weber]

There's an episode of Friends where Chandler is trying to escape from his annoying girlfriend.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

And he tells her he's going to Yemen.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he says the address is number one Yemen Road. Yemen.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And. And I actually noticed. I was young enough, I noticed that it's like she's just at the gate, about to leave with them. It's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a bunch of shows like that where they have that moment where they. They. You know, they're about to walk on the tarmac and. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Somebody yells and stops.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're like, it just never happened.

[Dusty Slay]

Or when they're even getting off the plane, people are waiting for them right outside the thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Can't do that anymore.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Now they have to shoot it. The movie. It's the TSA line. They have to yell. The office was like that right when. When Michael left, I guess so.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if he had been through security yet where he was walking through the airport and she chased after him.

[Dusty Slay]

Him.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't picture if he had been through security yet.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Or if he was walking up to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Tsa.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But yeah, I mean, I. I don't know. I think it's out of control and that. You know, and that. Yeah. But it does a 9 11.

[Brian Bates]

It's gotten better actually, because now at least you have things like TSA pre check or clear where you. If you choose to pay for it, you don't have to do some of those things. I mean, when it first. Have you seen the movie up in the Air?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

George Clooney is a professional.

[Dusty Slay]

I have seen that.

[Brian Bates]

He's a professional traveler and his whole thing is about how these people know what they're doing, but he has to take his shoes off.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, right. All that stuff before pre check.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That was early 2000s, so things have at least gotten better in that regard.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that was a great movie. You know, the guy from Eastbound and Down is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Movie. Yeah. Kenny powers.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Danny McBride.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Texting.

[Dusty Slay]

That guy.

[Brian Bates]

Texting was just starting to become a thing. That's kind of. I mean, if you look back at those old school phones where you had to go T9. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was called.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Michael Jordan came out of retirement for the second time. Play for the Wizards.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was a fun time. 2001. Besides a couple of. Besides a couple really bad things.

[Aaron Weber]

Got a couple hitching our giddy ups there at the end. But yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Would you consider 2001? You asked me last week. Week a good year for you?

[Aaron Weber]

It was a great year for me.

[Brian Bates]

Not so much for you. Sounds like not bad.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess so. It was a good year.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a wild year. I was working at Office Depot, tried to join the army, had some mishaps, didn't end up getting in. Got. Went back to work at Papa John's, moved into a trailer, had got my license suspended. I was on probation. But all in all, good year.

[Aaron Weber]

Just listed a series of tragedies.

[Dusty Slay]

My license was suspended for nine months. I was on probation for two years.

[Aaron Weber]

You were still driving though, right?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, I took it because I had a. A three month suspended jail sentence. So if I got caught driving, I could go to jail for three months.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, that'll do it.

[Brian Bates]

I. I went on a mission trip to Australia in 2001.

[Aaron Weber]

2001. Pre 911 or post pre July. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So then when, what, two months later when 911 happened. I remember the Clintons were in Australia and they couldn't get home because all the airlines were shut down.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

And he had Just left office like, you know, a few months.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry, I wouldn't. I wanted to make a joke that I'm not gonna make.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, thank you, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

He probably had a friend with a plane somewhere, right? Not naming any names.

[Brian Bates]

He was in Australia. And then I turned 30 in November, and I remember thinking, boy, 30, that's

[Aaron Weber]

kind of tough getting up there, man. I'm old.

[Brian Bates]

It does. I mean, your 20s, you feel young, like, 30. Of course you're like, oh, man, I should be doing better in my life. But like I said to you guys last time, every decade I've enjoyed more. When we get into a few years from now, I'll start figuring some stuff out.

[Aaron Weber]

So you excited about your 60s?

[Brian Bates]

Well, let me just. Let me enjoy my 50s.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That was the point of what, you're.

[Dusty Slay]

60s will be the year, though. Yeah, that'll be the decade.

[Brian Bates]

Then it finally comes together for me,

[Dusty Slay]

because every year, every decade, it's better. Every decade. He said it's better.

[Aaron Weber]

He's doing great now.

[Dusty Slay]

He is doing great.

[Brian Bates]

I know. I thought he was joking. Like, finally you get your 60s. You'll find that's why I thought you

[Aaron Weber]

said, 60s will be the year. You figure it out.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you were saying that jokingly, like, it's got a fan.

[Dusty Slay]

I am. Yeah. I am joking.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, you won't have it together by then. Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Come on. My 70s, that's when it happened.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I mean, the world's gonna be such a mess by then, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it. Yeah. I mean, it'll. It's gonna be a wild time.

[Aaron Weber]

There's gonna be a bomb.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. New movies start to come out.

[Aaron Weber]

A bomb hits the ground. There's a flash, and the mushroom cloud starts creeping towards you. And the last thing you hear is an AI song created by Double. About a tree, about ballplop.

[Brian Bates]

About a raccoon.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it all goes dark. Oh, my goodness.

[Brian Bates]

Just like Revelation said.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, we better wrap it up.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, well, that's it. Thank you, Brian. It was a good job.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

It's good to see you. Thanks for doing it. That's the podcast. I. I got a pretty light next couple months coming out. I do got a new thing I want to plug. June 20, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the Sanger Theater.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm performing there in Hattiesburg. June 20, July, I'm in Royal Oak, Michigan, and then things pick up. From there, go to aaronwebercomedy.com. all my dates are on there. Come on out and see me. It's gonna be a fun rest of the year, Brian. Where can the people find you?

[Brian Bates]

June 11th, I'm in Topeka, Kansas at the Beacon. June 20th. What?

[Aaron Weber]

I'll tell you why later. I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, we need to do a Patreon just to tell people all the stuff that we're going to tell later. June 12th and 13th. I mentioned this last week, but very excited about this. The Grove in Lowell, Arkansas. Heard you guys talk about Bill for

[Aaron Weber]

years and you've never been.

[Brian Bates]

I've never been.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, dude, it'll be great.

[Brian Bates]

I've never been.

[Aaron Weber]

June 12th, you're staying at the condo.

[Brian Bates]

Nope, I'm not.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry I brought it up.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, well, I'm not done. I keep getting interrupted. June 12th and 13th, the Grove. Well, June 20th, I'm at the Palace Theater in Gallatin, Tennessee. And June 27th, I'm at the Packard Playhouse in Columbia, Tennessee.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, all right. I'm going to hit you just the weekends of June. The first weekend it, I'll be at Irvine, California at the Improv. The second week, I'll be at West Palm beach for the Alan Jackson it's five o' Clock Somewhere event. You heard that song? I have heard it. The next weekend I'm in Austin, Texas at the Mothership.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom.

[Dusty Slay]

The next weekend I'm in Lake Charles, Louisiana at the Golden Nugget Casino. So that's right. That's June for me.

[Brian Bates]

So the busy June.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's gonna be hot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the. This is our. This is our year.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, boys?

[Dusty Slay]

Yep. 2026.

[Aaron Weber]

This is where it all starts to come together.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And we take over the world.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thanks for leading this episode.

[Aaron Weber]

Absolutely. It's been an honor. It's been a privilege. It's been great hanging out.

[Brian Bates]

Go see the breadwinner this week.

[Aaron Weber]

Shout out to the crew for keeping us on our toes for the last two hours and be safe out there. And good morning, good evening. Have a pleasant evening. This message comes from Capital One Commercial Bank. Your business requires commercial banking solutions that prioritize your long term success with Capital One. Get a full suite of financial products and services tailored to meet your needs today and goals for tomorrow. Learn [e-mail] Commercial Member FDIC and Doug,

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

What is this, your first date?

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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