18: #18 | The Truth About Aliens

Summary

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Public Figures Podcast - Episode 18: "The Truth About Aliens"

Date: June 3, 2026
Hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Public Figures podcast takes a deep dive into UFOs, aliens, and the recent wave of US government disclosures about unidentified aerial phenomena. With a mix of personal skepticism, humor, and genuine fascination, the hosts explore theories, pop culture depictions, government releases, and the broader implications of extraterrestrial contact—all refracted through their trademark banter and camaraderie. The episode also features discussions about childhood fears of aliens, conspiracy theories, famous UFO movies, and the type of person we might send as Earth's ambassador in the event of first contact.

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Main Discussion Themes

1. Recent Government Releases About UFOs

• Key Point: The US government has been releasing batches of UFO-related documents and videos (last batches: May 8 & May 22, 2026). Another batch is expected soon.

  • [50:01] Brian: “Now, the government has started releasing batches of videos and documents about UFOs...if they're doing every two weeks, that means this Friday they'll release their third batch.”
  • Documents are noted to be heavily redacted, possibly as a way to gauge public reaction to disclosure.

• Speculation:

  • [50:53] Dusty: “I think it's pretty well determined that we're not going to be really outraged about anything ever… no matter what they release, we ain't going to flip out about [it].”

2. Public Reaction & Cultural Attitudes toward Aliens

• General Indifference: The hosts muse on how little the public seems to react to alien news, even after historic government admissions.
  • [51:38] Aaron: “2020, that's when they said we had aliens and we just went, 'Okay, that's cool.' ”

3. Belief in Aliens—Serious and Humorous Takes

• Personal Stances:
  • Dusty playfully maintains his view that “aliens are demons,” but commits to “being cool” for the episode’s sake.
    • [54:05] Brian: “Dusty, we know your stance: Aliens are demons.”
    • Dusty: “But I told you that I was gonna… you know, I'm going to play along, but we know that aliens are demons. But for the sake of this, you're gonna be cool.”
  • Aaron: “Sure, yeah. [There’s] almost no question. Once you kind of wrap your head around how big the universe is… There's something else out there for sure.” [59:20]
  • Brian is fascinated but skeptical of official stories, wondering if sightings could be “so many things.”

4. Alien Types in Lore and Abduction Narratives

• Most Common Reported Alien Types:

  • The Mantis
  • Reptilians (alleged shapeshifters)
  • Nordics (tall, human-like aliens)
  • The Grays (classic “big eyes” look)
  • [60:01] Brian: “Supposedly there’s four types that we’ve come in contact with… and it even shows a picture.”

• Dusty’s Insights: The mantis is what people see “when they do ayahuasca,” reptilians “live amongst us,” and Nordics resemble legends of red-haired giants.

  • [60:37] Dusty: “The mantis is what people see when they do ayahuasca… Reptilians, a lot of people think [they] live amongst us. They are shapeshifters…”

5. Conspiracy Theories & Disappearing Scientists

• Scientists ‘Vanishing’ after UFO Connections:

  • [63:33] Brian: “There’s this conspiracy theory that scientists are disappearing out there because of their connections to maybe UFOs...”
  • Dusty jokes that anytime someone surfaces “some truth,” they mysteriously die or disappear (with mock references to anti-gravity research deaths and natural causes).

• Missing Persons in National Parks:

  • The hosts riff on speculation about national parks as possible sites for hidden alien/government activity, but also acknowledge the immense, wild acreage involved.

6. Pop Culture: UFOs and Alien Movies

• Favorite UFO/Alien Movies:

  • “Signs” – Aaron’s favorite depiction: “That scene where it walks by… terrified for years.” [69:20]
  • “Guardians of the Galaxy” – Dusty's left-field fave.
  • “Contact,” “Arrival,” “Independence Day”—all discussed with some debate about their merits or realism.
  • “Fire in the Sky” and “K-PAX” discussed as foundational abduction and ambiguous alien stories.
  • “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Mars Attacks,” “Men in Black,” “E.T.,” and “Unsolved Mysteries” also get nods.
  • [99:42] Dusty: “Unsolved Mysteries… that’s what really got me afraid of aliens… I used to be really afraid that they were going to come and take me in the night.”

• Notable Quotes:

  • [70:47] Dusty: “Well, you know, [Arrival], bored with that one for sure.”

7. If Aliens Landed: Who Should Represent Earth?

• Earth's Ambassador Options:

  • [83:18] Aaron: “Aliens invade. We need an ambassador… who do we send out there?”
  • Dusty: “I think you send a preacher.”
  • Aaron: “Some faceless [well-intentioned] scientist guy.”
  • Dusty (joking): “Send Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. Give Will Smith a real redemption opportunity. Send them out.” [86:55]

• Potential First Questions for Aliens:

  • Brian: “What do you guys know that we don’t know?” [91:00]
  • Dusty: “What are you doing here?” [84:15]

• What if they’re hostile?

  • Aaron: “If they get here, they’re probably going to kill us all.” [90:14]
  • Dusty: “I think you gotta pray—That’s what we’re always missing in these end of the world movies. Everybody’s panicking… nobody pray.”

8. Why Haven’t We Seen Aliens? – The Fermi Paradox

• Discussed as the mystery of the 'great silence' despite so many stars and Earthlike planets.
  • Brian: “If there are billions and billions of planets… why haven’t we found anything out there?” [104:23]
  • Explanations debated: they’re hiding, distances are too vast, anyone advanced enough wipes themselves out, or maybe we’re being deliberately avoided.

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Notable/Funny Quotes & Moments

• [22:08] Aaron (on King James Bible): “The best version of Jesus… happened 2,000 years ago. The best version, like how I want to read it is how an English king would say it thousand years later.”
• [56:09] Brian: “They call it Disclosure Day. And ironically, Steven Spielberg has a movie coming out next weekend called Disclosure Day.”
• [61:53] Brian (re: crashed UFOs): “If they’re that advanced, do they not have brakes? …Supposedly they’re crashing everywhere and everybody has access to [them].”
• [85:22] Dusty (on who to talk with): “Well, I’d go the Nordic guy, ‘cause you know, he looks pretty normal… the Gray, too scary. Reptilian—not on purpose. The mantis—I’m afraid of a praying mantis when it’s small.”
• [97:24] Dusty: “And it’s a yodeling country song that sets everyone free. We’re right here in Nashville, so I think we’ll be safe here.”

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Pop Culture & Trivia Digressions

• Running Bits: Quick guessing numbers (and guessing wrong for comedic effect), references to IMDb pages, and ongoing jokes about each other's career milestones.
• Movie Day-Length: Digression on how unlikely movie timelines (e.g., "Training Day," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") would be possible in real life.
• Worst Sounds: A long tangent about least favorite sounds (suggestions include leaf blowers, metal erasers, and water bottles rubbing).
• Book Recommendations: Dusty, ever the Bible devotee, jokes: “If you don’t own a Bible and it’s between my book and the Bible, go and buy a Bible.”

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Important Timestamps

• [50:01] - Start of the main UFO/alien topic
• [54:05–60:00] - Discussion of official government-released UFO videos and the most common alien types
• [63:33] - Conspiracy theories: disappearing scientists
• [69:15] - Favorite alien movies
• [83:18–86:00] - Who should we send to meet the aliens?
• [90:14] - What if aliens are hostile? (ethics of “us vs. ants” analogy)
• [104:23] - The Fermi Paradox: why we haven't heard from aliens

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Tone and Style

• Conversational, witty, irreverent, and sometimes self-deprecating.
• The hosts blend factual curiosity with southern, blue-collar humor.
• Dusty often riffs off tangents about religion, conspiracies, and his skepticism of mainstream narratives, while Aaron approaches topics with curiosity and mild skepticism, and Brian threads together the conversation and steers debate.

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Takeaways for New Listeners

• This episode is more about the why and how of alien contact, weaving together government news, folklore, movies, and personal philosophy.
• The group retains an open mind while keeping the topic accessible with well-timed jokes and references.
• While not reaching any definitive answers, they reinforce just how complex, mysterious, and culturally loaded the subject of aliens and UFOs still is—even when we have never been closer to official acknowledgment.

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Next Steps

• Stay tuned for further discussion: future episodes may dive into specific “cases” (e.g., Roswell, abductions).
• Check out the government’s latest UFO video batch, set to release the Friday after this episode.

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“We learned a lot. I can’t wait, once we stop rolling, to hear what Dusty has to say.” – Brian Bates [107:28]

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Transcript

[Brian Bates]

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. 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. Quints.com Nate. Welcome to the public figures podcast where everyone is someone, whether they know it or not.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, that's good.

[Aaron Weber]

That's cute.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Valerie wrote that.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

The way you said welcome though, it was like. Yeah, like. Like one of the Muppets. It was there a Muppet that does that?

[Brian Bates]

That's Fozzie, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Walka walka walka.

[Dusty Slay]

Something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

I never watched Muppets. I'm Christian, but keep going.

[Brian Bates]

Well, welcome in everyone.

[Dusty Slay]

Muppins, Muppets. Anti Christian.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Gonzo was. He had some beliefs that, you know, conflicted. But yeah, that's for another podcast. This. This title. This episode was Gonzo Christian.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. Yeah, let's get right into it.

[Brian Bates]

We're done. As always, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slayer.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Glad to see you guys. Another fun episode. We're all now movie stars.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, we are. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Did you. Did you remember you were in a movie, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I did.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I forgot my ultra pouches today.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, that's coming up later in the show.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's a. You know, I'm setting up a callback.

[Brian Bates]

I. I spent the weekend promoting the movie, driving, food, theater, theater. And standing outside to see if anyone recognized me. No one did, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Were you wearing your Trash man outfit?

[Brian Bates]

No, but I stood close to the trash can. I'm like trying to.

[Dusty Slay]

It's recycling day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you keep that shirt that you're wearing in the movie?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I don't think so. I don't think I kept any of those clothes.

[Aaron Weber]

But you kept your hair like that for a while?

[Dusty Slay]

I did, yeah. Through the airport. I walked through the airport.

[Aaron Weber]

You think about doing it like that?

[Dusty Slay]

Liked it. I actually was. Had a good time with it, you know, and I. We didn't plan it this way, but, you know, Willie Nelson owns a. A ranch where he rescues horses and he wears his hair like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, all right. I thought you were going for like a Pippy Long stockings type thing.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. Like now I, I never would go. Give me the Pippy Long stocking.

[Brian Bates]

Look.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what the lady said, the hairstylist. She said, I'm going to put your hair in these braids and then we're going to like put some product in there and then take it out and your hair will be real wavy. But then we put it in and we liked it.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a little bit like that.

[Brian Bates]

Look at that picture of Dusty from the breadwinner.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's about like that. That's a bad picture of her.

[Aaron Weber]

It sure is.

[Dusty Slay]

Look at the other one right next to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the other one. She's smiling.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, let's see. Image of Dusty. Do we have.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I don't know if that's on there. Dusty Sleigh Breadwinner. Let's see if it comes up. Not yet. It'll get there. Movie just came out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Give us a little time.

[Brian Bates]

But Working Man's now out on YouTube, so.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

That is true. It did very well. Thank you guys for watching that.

[Brian Bates]

Like 250,000 views already.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. As. As of recording this. That's great for. Especially for. It's already been out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

For two years. So. Thank you, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think we should just stop. All new specials and just re. Show. That's classics.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's stop at all. I agree. Let's stop.

[Aaron Weber]

But if it's already been recorded and hasn't been released yet, you can still release it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, like exactly. You know, we can travel around and, you know, you can do new material if you want, but no more recording it. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Nature cordon special this weekend. But

[Dusty Slay]

after this weekend, the deadlines are loose. Okay, but let's. In general, let's stop all production.

[Aaron Weber]

We're just trying to get the mindset out there, stop creating things and just sit back and relax.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No more movies unless someone wants me to be in it because now I'm a movie star.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

So how's your IMDb looking?

[Brian Bates]

Looks great. Looks better than yours.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet it does. I know mine looks bad, but I want mine to always look bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice. Right there. Are you Brian Bates the 12th? What is that on there?

[Brian Bates]

Wow, who knows?

[Aaron Weber]

Why does it say Brian Bates the 12th?

[Dusty Slay]

I like that though. That's how you should be. That's how you should. That should be your new comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you like a feudal lord?

[Brian Bates]

I'm the 12th broadbaits to have IMDb.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's see your credit. Some of your credits sprung.

[Brian Bates]

Absolutely.

[Aaron Weber]

It's gonna look a lot like mine, I'll tell you that. The same too.

[Dusty Slay]

What's some. Oh, that's a podcast. Somewhat damaged.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I was myself in that dry bar. Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you? And then the trivia secret talent is nose whistling.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know who put that in, but kudos to you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't know either. Probably Katie because she's trying to divert attention from her giggling. So, yeah, she wants to take me down. Probably.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet that's it.

[Brian Bates]

So I was home this weekend, like I said, going around trying to get people to recognize me as a star of the movie. Where were you, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

You could have been working though, right?

[Brian Bates]

I could have actually. I went to two four year old birthday parties.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Not invited to either.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I didn't know him. Eleanor stayed home, he saw the balloons. I'm like, hey, what's happening here? Just showed up.

[Dusty Slay]

You take your daughter, that's how you get free cake.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And they're like, what, she didn't know anybody? No, she's just. She's just being shy. One yesterday was at the zoo.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I haven't been to the zoo yet.

[Brian Bates]

You've never been? Nashville Zoo?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I've never been in the Nashville Zoo. How does it compare to other zoos? Is it supposed to be a good one?

[Brian Bates]

I think so. I mean, I haven't been to a ton of zoos. It's better than the one in Arkansas.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all I'm really wanted to know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I mean, I don't think it's one of the top zoos in America, but I think it's pretty good. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you been?

[Dusty Slay]

Never been. My. My wife and kids go, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, they have like a pass.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I've just been. We've contemplated the pass, but they've been a few times.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're not. You're not about it?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they usually go when I'm on the road.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But yeah, but yeah, I'm not. I'm not into it, though.

[Aaron Weber]

What about it?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I like a. I like an aquarium.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm more of that. Because you're inside in the AC while you're walking around looking.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it has nothing to do with the animals.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. I mean, yeah, it's all.

[Brian Bates]

Can I figure you out? You're always like, just get out. Let's get some heat.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I mean, it's. But yeah, I like it, but it. Not in.

[Aaron Weber]

It's going more for the wet than the he.

[Dusty Slay]

A city situation. You know what I mean? Where it's all. Everybody's. There's a bunch of people running around and all.

[Brian Bates]

It was very hot.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, I. I do feel sorry for the animals.

[Aaron Weber]

But you didn't do it.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't do it. And you know what? Their habitat's probably being ruined as we speak, so where else are they going to go?

[Brian Bates]

You could just open a gate, let them out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And then they just shoot them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, didn't we have animals get out recently in the Nashville Zoo? Did something happen?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. That was just wishful thinking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't, I don't. Not that I know of.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know who knows what's real anymore either. You see an article and you go, oh, no. And then you go, oh, that's AI. And I go, fooled again.

[Aaron Weber]

You almost have to assume everything is AI and work and work backwards to determine it's not.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

At this point, but if it was a reputable news source, you went for that way. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

There are none. The Nashville scene, well, they get some things right. They're all right.

[Aaron Weber]

Once in a broken clock is right twice a day. That's what they say. I was on the road with Nate this week and I hadn't been out on the road with him for a while. We hit some big time markets.

[Brian Bates]

Knoxville, finally.

[Aaron Weber]

Knoxville, Birmingham, Savannah, Georgia. And then Greensboro, North Carolina. And when I say big markets, I mean those Are big markets for me because all those places have clubs except for Knoxville.

[Dusty Slay]

So Savannah, though, doesn't have a club.

[Aaron Weber]

Savannah has a venue that I got a show at.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Place called the Victory North. I've never been. I know nothing about it, but they booked me, so I'm gonna come back there in November.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that I used to work a Home Depot in Savannah on Victory Drive.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. That's prob.

[Brian Bates]

Probably it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And Savannah got burned down by the north when they had a victory.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. Brian's doing a show at Defeat South.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I just think that's a. Odd question.

[Aaron Weber]

It is, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Victory North.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a very cool.

[Dusty Slay]

They could have had their own victories though, since that time, you know, Savannah Bananas.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the shows were great. Obviously. They're huge. I don't know what's official and what's not yet, but I know that over the weekend, Nate on the tour that he's on the big dumb ice Tour, they passed 2 million ticket sales.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that a lot for this tour? It's the most for a comedy tour in the history of earth.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the biggest comedy tour of all time. So pretty crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

So it doesn't really matter if the movie does. Well.

[Brian Bates]

That's incredible.

[Aaron Weber]

The movies is icing on the top, but pretty cool. That's amazing. It's the biggest tour ever. He got a little. They presented him with a little thing and 2 million and then somebody at the venue and then his staff and everybody. Because it's. I mean, it's the biggest tour of all time. More than the blue collar comedy? More. I mean, I think. I think it was Jeff Dunham that he passed and Jeff Dunham was over, over like a three year span. And this is under two years.

[Brian Bates]

I was told his tour is now the. I want to say the 20th most grossing tour of anything.

[Aaron Weber]

It's up there in terms of all tours.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but by that, by that, what you're saying about Jeff, like, so you could technically your entire comedy career be one tour.

[Aaron Weber]

You could.

[Dusty Slay]

And then see, I mean, still probably wouldn't make it. Most people are not going to make it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it was very fun. We were doing the math. And I always think about it when I. When ticket sales are talked about, I always think about the metric in my head is a sold out Zanies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's like the one thing I can think in my head where I know exactly what it looks like and feels like. So 2 million tickets. You want to take a guess on how many sold out Zanies, that is. Just give me a quick 300.

[Dusty Slay]

It's 100,000.

[Aaron Weber]

It's.

[Dusty Slay]

You said a quick guess. You didn't even give me time to think.

[Brian Bates]

But 15,000.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think a sold out Z is 20 people?

[Dusty Slay]

It's. You said a quick gas. I mean, I didn't know I was gonna get insulted by my gas. Sorry, I went too high.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't want to guess. I'm scared.

[Dusty Slay]

Take a quick. Oh, what are you, some kind of idiot? Take a quick guess.

[Aaron Weber]

A hundred thousand.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, you said for 2 million. 2 million, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's 120 people?

[Aaron Weber]

So Zany's is like 290, right? 290 people is sold out. 6900 shows. So that's what 2 million's tickets is, idiot. So if you were to do.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a lot less than I was.

[Aaron Weber]

If you were to do a sold

[Dusty Slay]

out show at Zany's, kind of seems attainable now.

[Aaron Weber]

If you were to do a sold out show at Zany's every night, it would take 19 years to sell 2 million tickets.

[Brian Bates]

Is that counting holidays?

[Aaron Weber]

It's counting. It's 365 days a year.

[Dusty Slay]

But if you did three shows a night, you could really knock it down.

[Aaron Weber]

You could knock it down to six and a half years.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or whatever. Is still.

[Dusty Slay]

That's doable.

[Aaron Weber]

Still insane.

[Brian Bates]

Doesn't make you feel proud. We gave him a start on this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

We were really the launching pad that brought him to the next level. But it was a lot of fun. We went and saw the movie. We at Birmingham, like Nate popped in. It was crazy. Everybody was there to see the movie. It was fun to. He did a little surprise and everybody was there. They were very excited to see him. So it was just a fun weekend. Saw a lot of podcast people getting a lot of. Boy, I tell you not boy, not boy, I tell you, but not. Hey, bear. But what are they saying? They're trying to. We don't have a thing to yell.

[Brian Bates]

Common folk.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, stuff like that. So people are out there. Hey, something. I don't know if I've heard that, but yeah, they're out there saying stuff.

[Brian Bates]

So tell me to guess.

[Aaron Weber]

100,000.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, you said quick guess. If I'd have went too low, if I'd have said, I don't know, 6900, you would have been like, ah, geez, would you look this up before?

[Aaron Weber]

Was that your other option to guess? Yeah, the exact right answer.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was Shout out to Amber Autry, our friend Amber Autry. Eight sold out shows here at Zayn.

[Aaron Weber]

Eight sold out shows.

[Brian Bates]

You know how many labs it would require to do that?

[Dusty Slay]

Quick guess. No, not 24. Yeah, not quick enough though.

[Aaron Weber]

That's 24.

[Dusty Slay]

Slow guess, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that was quicker than you guessed. A hundred thousand.

[Dusty Slay]

Took time to figure it out. I didn't get an opportunity to figure it out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Dusty wins. Wins. Dusty wins. What about you, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

I was home, but this weekend I'll be back on the road in Irvine, California at the Irvine Improv. All right, So I want to get that.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a big club.

[Dusty Slay]

It is a big club and I'm excited. Friday and Saturday, I'll be there. It's going to be great.

[Aaron Weber]

How big?

[Brian Bates]

How big is it?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

How many zanies? I think it's like 1.5 zaniest.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So 450.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good club. Quick guess. Yeah, it's too slow. But 200,000. I've been off the road, you know, I took basically two months off. I did a few shows in between, but basically two months off. So now I'm back. So it's going to be great. It'll be probably pretty loose. And when, when my shows are loose, they're the most fun.

[Brian Bates]

That's when it gets wild.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So this will be fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It's funny because I know how comedy works. I know that your set is very tight and well constructed, but it, it definitely appears loose.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, well, so if you to go. We want to see it real loose.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you just gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

Who knows? Yeah, that's. But it's a club, so I don't, you know, it's tough to do.

[Brian Bates]

You can't set records. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

For time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A final way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Just get rid of your openers because

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna keep going. Go ahead and start seating the next show. I'll just keep going.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I want to do. One day, no openers, two hour show. I just come out, do two hours.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what Cosby was doing at the end.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I want to do that. And then none of the other stuff Cosby was doing.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a good rule.

[Brian Bates]

How about your own sitcom?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. It seems like a gateway. But

[Brian Bates]

you're doing commercials. He did commercials.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. I did it for, you know, for, for Cracker Sheets and Cracker Barrel. Yeah. Not for Jello.

[Brian Bates]

That's why he draws the line.

[Aaron Weber]

Jello just feels different. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That is the gateway.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Even like in movies, when they want to drug someone, they mix it in a little pudding. I've seen it done, like, I guess if they're in the hospital.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you ever do jello shots back in the day?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah, on my. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

On a TV series I used to be on called Sprung. I was a serial killer, and in one of the episodes, I gave the guy some tips on how to drug someone.

[Dusty Slay]

Inmate Larry.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And what did you say?

[Brian Bates]

You get some household items underneath your sink and you can make. Chloroform.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Chloroform.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. To make them pass out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And then what would you do?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'd kill him because I was a serial killer. But in his case, he just. I forgot the story.

[Aaron Weber]

He needed to. To some time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And I also want to mention some of our friends have done Nateland presents recently. Connor Larson was two weeks ago.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Ed Wy was.

[Dusty Slay]

Ed Wy was last week and this

[Brian Bates]

week, our friend Tara Brown.

[Dusty Slay]

Tara Brown, local here.

[Aaron Weber]

I hosted that one. Tara did very well.

[Brian Bates]

Tara is great. So glad when she moved to Nashville because she's just a funny comic and a great person.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I hate that we didn't mention Ed last week, but. But, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's on you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. So sorry, Ed. Trying to cut out a lot of this news that we're doing. Support for today's episode comes from Square. The system powering, like, half the places I go. If you've ever tapped to pay and thought, whoa, that was fast, it was probably Square. Whether you're selling lattes, cutting hair, or selling merch like we all do, Square helps you run your business without running yourself into the ground. We all use it to sell our merch after shows. That's how much we love it. Isn't that right, guys?

[Brian Bates]

That is right.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

When's the last time you've mingled with the fans? It's been years, but go ahead.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, well, do we want to get into these comments?

[Aaron Weber]

Let's do it.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and mailatelandpodcast.com and let me just say about these Apple podcast reviews, it's tough that I can't go on there and comment.

[Aaron Weber]

You want to respond to some of them?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, one person gave us one star. Most of them are nice. One of them gave us one star and said, they'll never listen again because you made fun of the King James version, the Bible.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's valid.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what did I make fun of?

[Brian Bates]

You were making fun of Dusty, and I want to say, hey, he wasn't. He was an inside joke.

[Dusty Slay]

I get.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, now thou shall hast not comment thou.

[Dusty Slay]

I get it. But also, that's not going to help Apple.

[Brian Bates]

We just lost some more.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I don't like Apple podcast reviews for that reason, because you can't respond, and so they're pretty annoying.

[Brian Bates]

But that.

[Dusty Slay]

That one, that adds up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It could have been Dusty. Eroded.

[Aaron Weber]

I always said the best version of Jesus, that happened 2,000 years ago. The best version, like how I want to read it is how an English king would say it thousand years later. I think that's probably the best way. Well, it's some formal, unreadable English.

[Dusty Slay]

There's some. There's some poetry to. Feels good to read. That's how I read.

[Aaron Weber]

You like to read a lot of other stuff like that? Thou hast.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't really read anything else.

[Aaron Weber]

Doth thy read?

[Dusty Slay]

Actually, every time I re. I'm reading another book, I go, I should be reading my Bible. That's what I say every time.

[Brian Bates]

When's the last time you read a book?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I read some of the Bible today. I didn't read the whole thing.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good cutaway. Why don't you read any books? Well, because I could be reading the Bible.

[Dusty Slay]

It's exactly. I mean, I'm not saying I read all the time. I'm not trying to act like I'm out here reading all the time. But whenever, like I go, all right, all right, all right, I'll read, I'm going to read. And then I go, well, if I'm going to read, I should read the Bible.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think you can get value from other things that aren't explicitly the Bible?

[Dusty Slay]

I do, but, you know, my reading time is so limited, you know, by my own self. I'm not saying that I can't work a little reading in, but like, we're

[Brian Bates]

having a good time on bookshelves November 10th.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, but they'll probably don't buy it.

[Aaron Weber]

Buy a Bible and read that instead. Yeah, you'd be like, that's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. If you don't own a Bible and it's between my book and the Bible, go and buy a Bible.

[Aaron Weber]

Does it like, hey, sales are not good. But Bible sales went up tremendously. All right, we did it. That was the whole point.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm glad I brought it up. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm joking around.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they've already cut off now gave us one star. First comment comes from JoJo. All right, this might be an all time episode. Bates with the MLK Jr. Snipe. Aaron with some hot tips.

[Aaron Weber]

That's an unfortunate.

[Brian Bates]

And Dusty being Dusty. All right, next comment.

[Dusty Slay]

Wait, what is that?

[Brian Bates]

That's when I was talking about. Yeah, the way that was written is not the best.

[Aaron Weber]

It's tough to call it a snipe.

[Brian Bates]

When I said Dusty wants to do away holiday starting with Martin Luther King Day. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. It's. It's just the worst way to word that.

[Dusty Slay]

It is.

[Brian Bates]

Take that, MLK Jr. Matt Lazari did not anticipate the episode in the year 2001 to be so good. But dang, it was hilarious. Can we say dang on here?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think so. But Matt, wait till you hear 2002.

[Brian Bates]

That's gonna be wild.

[Aaron Weber]

You won't even know we're cooking up for 2002. Yeah, it's gonna be insane.

[Brian Bates]

They say if you play 2002 backwards, it's the same.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Palindrome.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Just wanted to throw a little Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Satan's reading it when you do it backwards.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Amanda Morin.

[Dusty Slay]

You know that, though, when you. When the people say you play a record backwards.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It'll be okay. All right, well, you guys acted like you didn't.

[Brian Bates]

No, that's why I said it to.

[Aaron Weber]

If you play Sugar Sugar by the Archies backwards, it'll say, like, come to my doorstep, Satan or something.

[Brian Bates]

The Beatles, I think you play one backwards. It says that Paul was dead.

[Aaron Weber]

Led Zeppelin has a bunch too, that people say, but just don't listen to it backwards. Yeah, that's an easy way around it.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Listen to it for counterpoint.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I did quit listening to Led Zeppelin altogether. I used to love it, but I was like, I don't know. That's too much. I don't know if any of it is real, but there's some stuff I. I read about that I was like,

[Brian Bates]

you play it backwards. I should have been reading Stairway to Earth.

[Aaron Weber]

Should have been listening to the Bible on date.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Which is what you don't want. You don't want to come back down.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a stairway to Earth if you play it backwards.

[Brian Bates]

Amanda Morin. I will fight anyone who says Brian's old man, check in story is not the funniest thing they've ever heard. Thank you, Amanda. Great podcast, guys. Appreciate what you do.

[Dusty Slay]

It is a good story.

[Aaron Weber]

It is a very good story.

[Dusty Slay]

It is.

[Brian Bates]

I'm gonna try it on. Stay out. A lot of people said it's gonna make a good job. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's a great clip for your social media.

[Brian Bates]

Listen, I'm not saying I appreciate your honesty.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying it's not going to be a good joke, but you should clip that up, have that full story that you just share on your own social media. Or maybe the Nateland.

[Brian Bates]

It feels like a story that's very funny because you guys know me. You know what I'm telling you is the truth. But if I'm telling it to an audience that doesn't know me and they expect a little embellishment almost, they might be like, I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, tell it at the end and then they know you by then.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Especially an hour and a half because

[Brian Bates]

I've been opening with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They know me by then. Yeah. Especially if you do an hour and a half, Tippecanoe. Thank you, Amanda Tippecanoe. Dusty has a great point. All right, next question. Stop making movies for 10 years. It's no secret these movies are just regurgitated. Old stories. On the same point, stop building cars. And make rebuilding cars cool again. We have too many new cars and not enough recycling. Rebuilding cars. If you rebuild a car you really like, you can customize it to your preferences.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, it's never going to happen, though. I read that they just, like a couple of, like, big junkyards just caught on fire and burned down. So nobody's wanting us to be able to rebuild anything. So. But it would be nice if we just stop. Like, it's like you go on the Internet, you go on any streaming service and there's a million things. Like, I spent half the time that I had to watch something looking for something and what. And then I watched a Hulk Hogan documentary, which episode one was pretty good, I hate to admit.

[Brian Bates]

Could have been reading your Bible.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, but I was like, I do love Hulk Hogan, though. And, you know, so, yeah, I, I, Yeah, let's just. We got to shut it down. We gotta live simple.

[Brian Bates]

What was your favorite Hulk Hogan era? His last years?

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Yeah. You know, I grew up with Hulk Hogan. I grew up with the eat your, Eat your vitamin, say your prayers, Hulk Hogan. You know, I am a real American. I am a real American.

[Brian Bates]

Is that the only one, you know,

[Dusty Slay]

fight for what's right? I don't know the whole song, but, yeah, I mean, I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

I only know one quote from him, and I won't say it on the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

My favorite was the NWO era.

[Dusty Slay]

I liked NWO Hulk, too. I mean, but it's only good because, you know, according to this documentary, which I did not know, Hulk Hogan started as a bad guy. He was a heel when he started. And Rocky, his appearance in Rocky came before Hulk. The whole Hulk Hogan era. I had no idea.

[Brian Bates]

Thunder lips.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but, but, you know, he's known as the ultimate good guy. The ultimate good guy in wrestling.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then he makes the heel turn and then he crushes it. I don't know, it's. It was a great era. I mean, that was high school for me. And gosh, I was all about it.

[Aaron Weber]

All about it.

[Brian Bates]

As far as movies, I was reading this weekend, pretty fascinating. The top two movies this weekend, both horror movies, Both made by YouTube creators, both made on pretty low budgets.

[Aaron Weber]

What were they number one? Obsession.

[Brian Bates]

Obsession was number two. It's been out a few weeks.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

That was made for, I think, less than a million dollars.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. $700,000.

[Brian Bates]

And then a movie called Back Room and 20 year old guy created it.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Youngest director, I believe, ever to have a number one movie.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

It did 80 million or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And all these Gen Zers are going out to see it, which is. They've never been able to get these Gen Zers to the movies since they were. They were teenagers during the pandemic, they've never really been coming out, but now they're finally going.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they've just been on their phone.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Finally got their anxiety meds. Right. So they can come out, see a horror movie. See a horror movie.

[Brian Bates]

But I thought that was interesting. Yeah, I thought you guys would think so, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm not.

[Aaron Weber]

I do.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not into horror films at all. I'm not either, and I. I think it's bad. Look, if you like them, you like them, but I think a lot of people are scared all the time out here, and I think you got to stop watching horror movies.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I agree. You can go into it with the mindset that it's. It's no different than a roller coaster. Right. Do you think it's bad to be scared on a roller coaster?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, well, then here you go.

[Dusty Slay]

I used to not think so, but now I do kind of think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So, like, skydiving is bad, you think?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, maybe anything with a

[Aaron Weber]

thrill involved, you think is probably bad. Water skiing, jet skiing, comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, all of those things. A lot of those are sports.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Riding a roller coaster is not a sport, though.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Take the seat belt off, hang on by a handle, and now we got ourselves a sport.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, that was fascinating, but go see the Breadwinner in theaters everywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

That's why I liked it. That is why I liked it. My daughter wasn't scared. Nothing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, don't take your daughter to Obsession.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Take her to see Back room. Is that what I said?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or the Michael Jackson documentary.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Not documentary, but was it biopic?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I almost said biopic, but I know better now. And then the cars thing, I'm still in this comment. I do agree that so many cars are being made and where are all these old cars going?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

It just seems like they're smashing them. Who is? Like, you trade your car in and they just take it to, like, for the parts and strip them down, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't know where they go. Hopefully they just drive them off a

[Brian Bates]

cliff into some lake and they're burning the junkyards.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Who's burning the junkyard?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know who's doing it. The junkyards are burning.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And Fire is one of those things where we, we never think people are setting the fires. We go crazy. Just burned everything down. Burned all that land we wanted to buy.

[Brian Bates]

Nate Blair. Dusty's idea of a global 10 year pause on all technology and entertainment seems like it would require a rather large authoritarian government.

[Aaron Weber]

Excellent point, Nate.

[Dusty Slay]

Kind of like we have now, I guess, but keeping it going.

[Brian Bates]

Good point, Nate. Ryan. Joy. Apparently Dusty couldn't hold a job in 2001. Every memory he recalls is from a different part time job. How many places have you worked?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I worked quite a few places, but in 2001 I was, you know, 19. So, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

So none of these were careers?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, I was working at Western Sizzling.

[Aaron Weber]

You never thought I'm a Papa John's lifer when you're there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I worked at Papa John's and then went back to Western Sizzling and then joined the army, then didn't get in. Then I went to Office Depot.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I looked this up before the podcast. You know the average amount of jobs a person has in their entire lifetime?

[Brian Bates]

5.

[Aaron Weber]

You think the average person has had five jobs?

[Brian Bates]

200,000. I'm going to stop answering if you're going to make it sound dumb. It's a trap.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you have a guess, Dusty, or are you done playing these games?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm saying 10.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, 12 to 15.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

And they say the next generation, they're probably going to have closer to 18. Wow, there's going to be, it's going to be more common to have because

[Brian Bates]

AI is going to take all the jobs.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think it's more common to have, you know, like minimum wage jobs and just kind of hop around from job to job and I mean, I haven't had nearly 12 to 15, but I've had, if you total everything up, I've had like seven or eight, I think, in my life. Are you totaling yours up? I had seven just in 2001.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I, I worked at the same place twice, four different times. I worked at Western Sizzling twice. Yeah, I worked at Oil Office Depot twice. So that's two. Worked at Hyman's twice. Worked at Spectra side twice. And did you quit and come back

[Aaron Weber]

or did you go on sabbatical?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, quit and came back.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then there was one more, but I don't know. I had eight jobs I forgot about. I sold timeshares for a little short time and.

[Aaron Weber]

Comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

Comedian? Oh, yeah, I didn't even count that one.

[Brian Bates]

See, for me, comedian, podcaster, movie star, it's three. Uber driver.

[Dusty Slay]

What's Brian Bates? What's Brian Bates? Uber important TV special

[Brian Bates]

that is. I don't know why it's written like that, but that's one of my dry bar specials.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah, because you were a writer on that one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I was.

[Aaron Weber]

And the star.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I was supposed to. The director, but Isaac H. Not gonna work here anymore. Alex. Bedsec. B. Check. But Egypt. I do hate to rain on Aaron's parade, especially because he's full of knowledge, but I do believe the car trick is a farce. I also would love to hear the science he's found behind this.

[Dusty Slay]

See, now you're. Now this is. This is a territory where I get accused of this stuff all the time. You're like science. I'm just trying to give you a practical solution to the heat. And you want the science.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What is he. I don't know what he wants.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm pumping the heat out of the car.

[Brian Bates]

But you explain how that would work.

[Aaron Weber]

It's exactly what I was about to say. How does moving air push air out of the thing? I don't remember how I set it up on the last. Last podcast. Maybe I said maybe I oversold the scientific value of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Cite your sources.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't have any of that, but I recommend you try it. It's getting hotter out there this summer. I want you to try pumping out the heat.

[Dusty Slay]

Pumping out the heat. And if you have a sedan, let those back seats down.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, somebody made a good comment. You can roll down one window. If you have a sedan, just roll down, like, your back window and it'll work the same way. It just needs a place to exit.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't want your trunk to be too hot, though. You may have a old watermelon back there.

[Brian Bates]

So it's going out your hatch. It's not.

[Aaron Weber]

It's going out wherever there's an opportunity to go out.

[Brian Bates]

But what could it be? Pulling it out your driver's side, like, going that way.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian, just try this. Dude. Don't overthink it.

[Brian Bates]

See, I think Alex was onto something.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't overthink it.

[Dusty Slay]

I would love to hear your science he's found behind.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, actually, the Bernoulli Principle.

[Brian Bates]

Amy Calfie. As a singer myself, I've heard countless singers who are technically good that have zero heart or soul, and I don't want to listen to them. Dusty has so much soul.

[Dusty Slay]

Boom.

[Brian Bates]

Guys, like he said, he feels like he needs to sing and then sings his heart out. Yeah. Perfection is overrated. Music is healing and comes from the Heart sing on Dusty Slay.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

I bet Amy's not a very good singer.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, listen, she got solo that well,

[Brian Bates]

that was a joke. I thought you guys might laugh at that. I'm kidding. You're a great singer.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. I. I don't.

[Brian Bates]

The only thing Dusty doesn't agree about this is the perfection part.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I do agree, you know, I mean, I. I never would walk in here and go, guys, I'm an unbelievable singer. Yeah, you got to listen to me sing here. But that lady last week, Kathy or whatever, just acting like, struck a nerve. Like, the three of us, like you guys are just starting a barbershop quar over here, and I'm some kind of, you know, just hobo out here. It's like, take it easy, lady.

[Aaron Weber]

Hobo.

[Brian Bates]

Just because he looks like a hobo doesn't mean he is one.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

But I agree with you, Amy. You know, they say when you sing, you pray twice. You ever heard that experience?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

It was St. Francis. That's why we haven't heard you sing you pray twice.

[Brian Bates]

What does that mean? What's the science, by the way?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think there's science involved.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, maybe you're singing a hymn. A hymn?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm saying if you were given the choice to show me a prayer, I'll sing it. That's the equivalent. That's like praying twice. All right. You know, who knows?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Lori Lynn, I agree with Kathy. Aaron and Brian sing fine. Dusty singing, his fingernails on a chalkboard. Yeah, I'm with you, Lori and Kathy. I'm with you as well.

[Dusty Slay]

But see, that's what I'm talking about with the. These people, Lori and Kathy. It's like, I. I get it. If you don't think my singing's good, that's fine. But, you know, and Aaron, you know, we all know Aaron's got musical talent. Okay, but I see where this is

[Brian Bates]

going, but go ahead.

[Dusty Slay]

But the, the. This guy, he's been imitating. Who is this?

[Aaron Weber]

Randy Newman.

[Dusty Slay]

Randy Newman. And then Brian can't sing either.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, what are we doing here?

[Brian Bates]

Well, according to Lori and Kathy, I can.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but what, Lord does Lori and Kathy know, though?

[Brian Bates]

They know I sing fine.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he's saying they sing fine. That's what they said, they sing fine. Yeah, listen, Lori and Kathy, you know, they don't have the kind of soul that I have, and so they're only

[Aaron Weber]

praying once, unlike you.

[Brian Bates]

Let me ask you, an old Testament soul.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Let me ask you this. Nails on a chalkboard, do you think that's the worst sound, or do you think there's a sound worse than that?

[Dusty Slay]

I got a sound I hate worse.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, let's hear it.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been. I've been, you know, since I was a kid. I've always liked it.

[Aaron Weber]

Should have just started singing.

[Dusty Slay]

I've always liked to collect bugs, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So there a glass jar, metal lid, a little bit of sweat, sand along the rim, and then you close it. Oh, I can hear the worst.

[Aaron Weber]

I can hear it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's one of the worst.

[Aaron Weber]

What's yours, Brian? Least favorite sound?

[Brian Bates]

You guys talking? This should be my podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Biggest headphones, though, for.

[Brian Bates]

Guys. Have you heard nails on a chalkboard?

[Aaron Weber]

I have. It's not pleasant, I'll give you that. But I feel like, first of all, how often are you hearing nails on a chalkboard?

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm saying. I grew up with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Kathy and Laura grew up with what? Chalk? Every day.

[Aaron Weber]

But why would nails. Why were you growing up with nails on a chalkboard?

[Brian Bates]

Just because kids would like to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, just to recreate the sound.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they would do it for fun.

[Aaron Weber]

I had chalkboards growing up too, by the way. I'm not from the future.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's that?

[Dusty Slay]

I had a little bit of chalkboards when I was younger.

[Aaron Weber]

We went blackboards pretty quick.

[Brian Bates]

All right, now we can see.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. We had smart board in high school.

[Dusty Slay]

I never got to the smart board.

[Brian Bates]

He gets pressed just a little bit. He folds quickly. All this scientific knowledge.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's your worst sound, I would say.

[Brian Bates]

And it hurts my teeth even thinking about it. An eraser. Where? There is no eraser in the metal of a pencil eraser.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I can't hear that. What? I can't picture that. I can't picture that sound. You know. You know what he's talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no, I can see it. I can see the eraser breaking off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And it's just the metal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. What are you. What are you erasing on?

[Brian Bates]

Like, if you had a piece of paper and say. Say the eraser is just down to where it's even with the metal, and you're trying to erase something, but the metal is what's scraping on the paper.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's not a good. Okay, I know what you're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

About. Hurts my teeth.

[Aaron Weber]

I get it. You ever drive home with, like a. A. A big pack of hot dogs?

[Dusty Slay]

W. He just eating them out of the bag on the way home.

[Brian Bates]

Raw hot dogs.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on, man.

[Brian Bates]

Go ahead, Aaron.

[Aaron Weber]

Water bottles up against each other. I had a 32 pack of bottled water. The whole drive home. All the bottles are making.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh. Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That cheap. Yes, dude. Terrible. That and Styrofoam. Styrofoam rubbing up against Styrofoam. It's really unpleasant.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like anything moving in the car. Think like when I'm. When I'm driving. A bottle rolling around. I don't like any of that change rattling in the. In the middle.

[Aaron Weber]

Your car ever messy. Do you make a sharp turn, you feel the whole car slide to the side. It's the worst. But it's such a good feeling when your car's clean enough, you make a turn and nothing happens in the car. That's a good feel.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good feeling.

[Dusty Slay]

Another sound, though. I hate leaf blowers. Just wanted to bring that back around.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it the sound itself or is it because you know what. It's.

[Brian Bates]

What it is.

[Dusty Slay]

It is the sound.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

If it were quietly blowing those leaves,

[Aaron Weber]

you wouldn't care that much.

[Dusty Slay]

I wouldn't. It wouldn't bother.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, but is it. Is it. I'm still. Is it the sound or is it because you know what it is? It's a sound like just the sound itself.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just. It's drowned and out.

[Brian Bates]

Because you always argue it's unnecessary.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it is.

[Brian Bates]

And I feel like that's your problem.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's drowning out all the sounds of the birds chirping and. And just the pleasantness of the day.

[Brian Bates]

But it doesn't give you a. Like a hair raising on the back of your neck kind of feeling.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Aaron Weber]

I bet it does.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For him.

[Dusty Slay]

Dogs barking.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll say. A dentist drill. The sound of a drill from a dentist.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

When it hits the teeth. You know what I'm talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody. Can you hear that? I don't like it.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, wait. Thank you. Lori.

[Aaron Weber]

She's the one who brought it up.

[Brian Bates]

And Kathy. Stephen Gill. I was a senior when 911 happened and had to write a paper in my government class about how a 911 events made me feel.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds like a high level class. What kind of class is it a senior getting right how it made you feel.

[Brian Bates]

Didn't you take a friendship class in college?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that was a seminar. Yeah, don't worry about that. First of all, it wasn't a friendship class. It was a class how to make friends. No, it wasn't a how to Class, it wasn't like Home EC for friends. It was a seminar on the history of friendship from Aristotle to Facebook. So just want to clear that up.

[Brian Bates]

What makes it better?

[Aaron Weber]

I want to apologize, Stephen Gill. I didn't mean to insult your feelings. Class that you took as a senior in high school.

[Brian Bates]

I expressed how I was upset that activities were canceled, like football, and then went on about how I then understood the importance. I received a C. I received a C on a paper about how 911 made me feel harder.

[Dusty Slay]

Class.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds pretty difficult. Honestly. Yeah, that's really funny.

[Brian Bates]

That is funny. Sorry Aaron stepped on it. Stephen.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry, Stephen. I'm just joking around. I'm just joking around.

[Brian Bates]

Who's your friend? That from Opelika that listens to the podcast Skeeter.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Steven Bass.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Bass. Gill. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Gil is a different fish.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or a part of us.

[Brian Bates]

His cousin, Rob Kraft.

[Aaron Weber]

You're thinking of Doug Finn.

[Brian Bates]

Rob Kraft. Bread and Breakfast. Aaron and Bates. Next tour name.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's pretty good. I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Bread and Breakfast.

[Brian Bates]

SW Darby. One thing me and Dusty agree on. Bring back the Aaron Weber Lost album.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll make it happen.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying. It's a good album. I mean, these are. These are the jokes. Me and Aaron used to work the road with those.

[Brian Bates]

I heard a song on the radio coming here that you have a joke about. I think in your current act that I thought, man, that would be a very funny if you had that animated. I don't want to talk. I thought you made me didn't want me to talk about your jokes, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, just say what the bit's about.

[Brian Bates]

It's the Garth Brooks song.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I was just listening to words. Your joke's very funny. And I thought, boy, if that was animated with what you're saying, that would be very funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Should do it. Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

You got to get the old man story animated from the bed and breakfast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, I do. Maybe I will.

[Dusty Slay]

People do not understand the importance of sleep. Sometimes bad sleep can ruin your entire day. Then you spend days trying to get back on track if you have a hot mattress, and then you're just sweating, trying to cool off.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you looked at me.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on. But you want a blanket to sleep. It's the worst. That's why Helix has solved all those problems. Yeah. You don't want to be hot underneath, but cold on top. What do you got a fever? I have Been talking about how much I love my helix for over three, maybe even four years now. And they have over 20 mattress models, so you can find the perfect model for you. Upgrading your home this summer means upgrading your mattress. Helix has cooling upgrades so you can get the best rest even on hot nights. That sounds like a song. You know, Best rest on hot nights?

[Brian Bates]

It's an AI generator song.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, either way, they probably been doing AI songs for years. I bet I can tell a huge difference when I am out on the road. I am stuck on all these spring crappy mattresses. My back hurts and I'm hot. Then I get home to my Helix mattress and I can feel like myself again. Plus, Helix delivers your mattress right to your door with free shipping in the US that makes this a seamless delivery. Helix also offers an 120 night sleep trial and limited lifetime warranty. Rest easy with seamless returns and exchanges. The Happy with Helix guarantee offers a risk free customer first experience designed to ensure you're completely satisfied with your new Mattress. Go to sleep.comnate for their summer savings, that's 20% off sitewide from June 1st to June 11th, 2026. That's helix.comhelix sleep.comnate for their Summer Savings, 20% off sitewide from Jun 1st to Jun 11th, 2026. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you helix sleep.com Nate all right, this week.

[Brian Bates]

Is there anything else?

[Aaron Weber]

No, sorry. I don't know why

[Brian Bates]

you need to get.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm ready to go.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

We're doing this an hour. Jeez.

[Brian Bates]

This week?

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

We are talking about UFOs.

[Aaron Weber]

All right?

[Brian Bates]

Now, the government has started releasing batches of videos and documents about UFOs. And they did one on May 8th. They did a second one on May 22nd. So if they're doing every two weeks, that means this Friday they'll release their third batch.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Now, what is the rationale for releasing them in batches like that?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I don't know. There's a lot of them, but are

[Aaron Weber]

they heavily redacted or. There's a lot of stuff that's missing from these files. I'm just wondering. Maybe they need time to go through and review what's confidential and what's not.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe, but they also set their own timeline on when to release any of them, so. Yeah, it seems like they could have

[Aaron Weber]

just went through, waited until it was already.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't know the reason behind it.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they're Testing our reaction to it,

[Brian Bates]

maybe building up, seeing what they can tell us.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's pretty well determined that we're not going to be really outraged about anything ever.

[Brian Bates]

Outraged.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they've released a, you know, a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, and then. And then now they're dumping UFO stuff and judging our reaction, and we're like, oh, you see?

[Brian Bates]

Not necessarily angry, but just no matter what they release, we ain't going to flip out about.

[Aaron Weber]

By outrage, you mean we're not going to change the way we live.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For anything based on anything.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So we might as well just, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, let's give them UFO.

[Aaron Weber]

Just give them UFOs.

[Dusty Slay]

Give them some videos that they've been able to watch on YouTube for 10 years.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they got a joke about that. I think one of his specialists about how they said we had aliens and we just like, okay, that's cool. And this went on about our business.

[Aaron Weber]

That was in 2020.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. When the world was.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a lot going on.

[Brian Bates]

Going on then. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

By the way, and if you think the 2002 episode is good, wait till the 2020. It's going to be a while. Yeah, we'll do it.

[Brian Bates]

I thought. I haven't discussed this with anyone, but I thought maybe we'd go through 2019 and then stop there. 2020 is when the podcast started, so it seemed like a good place to.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll be shocked if we get to 2009, but. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

2019.

[Aaron Weber]

2009.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, 2009. Well, we got to talk about the financial crash. That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Gotta get there for a long time. My years are the same.

[Aaron Weber]

What does that mean?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great tease for future episodes. We're really selling these, aren't we?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but, I mean, they're exciting, but they're the. You know, I'm doing the same stuff for a long time.

[Aaron Weber]

When would you say things radically changed? What year?

[Dusty Slay]

2012.

[Aaron Weber]

2012. Okay, so we got some time.

[Dusty Slay]

We got some time.

[Aaron Weber]

But we're going through probably the darkest but most interesting time of your life would be those years.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we're starting that in 2002, but I talk about a lot of that in the book, so I don't want to give too much away.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, come on.

[Brian Bates]

All right, we'll do the. So our next episode will have to be after November 10th.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we could talk about, you know, and get into it. Just don't, you know, too much.

[Aaron Weber]

You just won't finish any stories. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to hear what happened.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We're having a good time and it

[Dusty Slay]

is a, you know, a family friendly podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Sure. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And the book's not.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not, you know, but it's a book. You don't read it out loud.

[Brian Bates]

It cusses a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't read it at bedtime to your children.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny. If the stories are all the same. He just puts a lot of four letter words for no reason.

[Dusty Slay]

That's my next hour. Yeah, go wild.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, UFO's third batch should come out this Friday. The first batch was some videos and some documents. The second one was 51 new videos and some others.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you looked at any of this stuff?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I looked at. I mean I. There's the website I think I sent you that you can watch them all. I have also just watched news stories about what are the most interesting ones because there are so many. So Dusty, we know your stance. Aliens are demons.

[Dusty Slay]

But I told you that I was gonna.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I just. You're gonna play along, but we know that aliens are demons. But for the sake of this, you're gonna be cool. I don't think I've seen this one.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that looks like ships coming in.

[Brian Bates]

It looks like ships and then something just flew by there at the bottom. If you're listening, we'll just tell you about it.

[Aaron Weber]

If you go to war.gov UFO, they've got both releases here and then all the files and you can look at everything on there.

[Brian Bates]

And then I sent you, I think an article of some of the best

[Aaron Weber]

ones from the most recent back from the Hollywood Reporter.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Where you get all your UFO government stories.

[Dusty Slay]

We were virtually speechless.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Somebody said that. So there. There's so much interest now in UFOs and with these files being released that some of these prediction markets now have odds that you can bet on when the government is going to officially announce that we.

[Aaron Weber]

We've made contact with or we've something

[Brian Bates]

that proves that there's life on, you know, in other places that have come here.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Did you place a bet?

[Brian Bates]

No, I think I sent you a link to one where you can go

[Aaron Weber]

on there and the prediction markets here, Poly market. Will the US confirm the aliens exist by. And then by December 31st of this year they. They have it at a 16% chance.

[Dusty Slay]

This way you can waste time.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty crazy, right?

[Aaron Weber]

16% chance. Is that probably the highest ever that it's been. Yeah, it's gotta be, right?

[Brian Bates]

And you know, I Think they call it. You okay, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, I got two wrapped up.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty was choking himself over there. They call it Disclosure Day. And ironically, Steven Spielberg has a movie coming out next weekend called Disclosure Day.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Aaron Weber]

You think they're in coups?

[Brian Bates]

You think they're going to announce it on that day to market?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So got to beat those obsession numbers.

[Brian Bates]

But I mean, Aaron, I know. Dusty, do you care about this at all? Do you get into.

[Aaron Weber]

Very interested in it for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys do think about them, though, as space aliens.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what to think about those videos. It could be so many things because

[Dusty Slay]

when they zip around real fast, it's like, obviously we don't have anything that can do that.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Well, let me ask you, do you believe those videos?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're being cool, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, I mean, you're playing along. I believe the video, that there's something in there.

[Brian Bates]

There's one that was released in the second batch where it's already moving fast and then all of a sudden it just zips off so fast you can just barely even see it go.

[Dusty Slay]

And what about growing up? Were you. Yeah. Were you into the set growing up?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I've always been interested in aliens.

[Dusty Slay]

And what about you?

[Aaron Weber]

UFOs very into space.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

And I think like every kid, for a certain stretch there, you thought you were going to be an astronaut, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I did. Was very into UFOs as a kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. A lot of people just assume, you being you, that you think you've been abducted by aliens and Bigfoot was on the ship, but you're not into any of that.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I mean, I think you probably could be abducted, but it would be, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It wouldn't be people from outer space.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I think they can get you.

[Brian Bates]

But yes, I was really into it. Any, like, unsolved mysteries about UFOs or any books, like, I was really into it and trying to figure out what

[Dusty Slay]

it was because, you know, they say Aleister Crowley, the father of Satanism, says he.

[Brian Bates]

Remember, you're gonna be cool, Dustin.

[Dusty Slay]

I am gonna be cool, but I'm just, you know, I'm just gonna.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They said he opened a portal. He. He claimed to have opened a portal to another dimension and then in walked a demon that he called Lamb. L. A. M. Okay. And his wife drew a picture of Lamb, and Lamb looks like the gray aliens that we.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay, so his wife saw it too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And when was that?

[Aaron Weber]

Why did he do that?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he's, you Know he wanted to make some contact.

[Aaron Weber]

What a mean thing to do.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. But I close the portal. I think there is something to that. Like that he knew how to open it but didn't know how to close it and didn't really know what he was getting himself into. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know when that happened? When it was supposed to happen?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Maybe the 60s.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. So not that long ago.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Huh. He was able. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just making a guess there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And we know I can be way off on my guesses.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. 200,000 years ago. So, Aaron, do you think there is life out there?

[Aaron Weber]

Sure. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Almost. No question. Once you kind of wrap your head around how big the universe is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The odd, the. The.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's something else out there for sure. I don't. I don't know if they've made contact with us. I don't know how to make sense of all this stuff the government's given us. But yeah, dude, there's other stuff out there for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Does it? Oh, go ahead.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you think they look like the tall gray aliens though? Because it feels like so many people are always talking about how that's what.

[Brian Bates]

I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I don't even think they're probably not even. They might not even have physical bodies. They might not be carbon based life forms. They might be something completely different that we can even wrap our heads around.

[Dusty Slay]

Why do you think people, so many people report seeing those kind?

[Brian Bates]

I sent you another link where they. Supposedly there's four types that we've come in contact with.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I like that.

[Brian Bates]

And it even shows a little.

[Dusty Slay]

Little picture.

[Brian Bates]

Picture of them if that'll.

[Aaron Weber]

That'll load here. This graphic right here. So these are the four most reported alien beings.

[Brian Bates]

And some guy in this article says like I forgot his title, but he says that we've either been in contact or have.

[Dusty Slay]

The mantis is what people see when they do ayahuasca.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

They always say they.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, so that explains that one.

[Aaron Weber]

And the mantis looks like a giant praying mantis.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Height 6 to 7ft, highly agile, excellent eyesight with telepathic abilities.

[Dusty Slay]

Reptilians. A lot of people think Reptilians live amongst us. They are shape shifters.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of people do, don't they?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And they. Yeah. So they could be.

[Brian Bates]

I'd say one in three people think that

[Dusty Slay]

they could be anywhere all the time. The Nordic. Yeah, I've heard that before too.

[Aaron Weber]

But Nordic just look like human people.

[Dusty Slay]

Just tall, though. Eight foot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Human like appearance, advanced intelligence, peaceful nature, highly advanced society.

[Dusty Slay]

But the giants like that, that like Native Americans would talk about seeing were redheaded giants. Six fingers, six toes. So I. Layers of teeth and then

[Brian Bates]

the grays are the ones we most often think about and see describe. I just feel like if they're coming from billions of miles away, which they would have to be most likely, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It just seems like they would be sending some type of a robot or some type of.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I mean, is some kind of consciousness that's been downloaded onto something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It can't be like a carbon based light life form.

[Brian Bates]

And why are so many of them, if they're that advanced, crashing once they get here? Do they not have brakes? They're like, oh, shoot, we didn't think this through because supposedly they're crashing everywhere and everybody has access to.

[Aaron Weber]

I forgot to fill up with gas or whatever's going on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Maybe there wasn't a fuel source.

[Brian Bates]

I just feel like if they're that advanced, they're not going to like kind of let us see them.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe they don't have gravity on their planet. So they get in here, gravity sucks them down. I'm being cool, guys. I'm being cool.

[Brian Bates]

He's sweating over there because he wants to let loose. But he's trying. He is really trying.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they don't have gravity on their planet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Wherever they're from. Maybe it's a hollow planet where they live inside of it.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe. Maybe It's a good point.

[Dusty Slay]

Some people think Earth is hollow.

[Aaron Weber]

Some people do think that.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever see the King Kong movie?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Where they kind of went inside of the Earth.

[Brian Bates]

Kind of like Middle Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's pretty wild.

[Aaron Weber]

What, King Kong was the one with Jack Black.

[Brian Bates]

No, this one of the more recent ones were King Kong and. And Godzilla.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know because he comes up like in Tokyo, remember? He goes underneath in like Antarctica, comes up in Tokyo, fights Godzilla and then they team up to fight the more advanced Godzilla.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's based on true story.

[Aaron Weber]

I believe.

[Dusty Slay]

I believe it loosely. Yeah, but it is.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Since Dusty's wanting to let loose over there.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm being cool guy.

[Aaron Weber]

He is. He's being.

[Brian Bates]

He's being very cool. But I'm going to try to. I need your expertise on this. So there's this conspiracy theory that scientists are disappearing out there because of their connections to maybe UFOs or anti gravity

[Dusty Slay]

or stuff like that.

[Brian Bates]

And I wanted to find out from you guessing what's really going on?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, scientists are always disappearing. Anytime they, you know, come out with some truth, they go, oh God, they died and.

[Aaron Weber]

And shot himself in the back of the head.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it happens a lot. So, you know, I don't know, but I'm guessing these guys just, you know, they died of natural causes and maybe due to some connection with UFOs, the UFOs maybe implanted something in them.

[Brian Bates]

So do you think the UFOs came and got them or do you think the government got them because they knew too much?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's if you're listening.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty raised his hands up.

[Dusty Slay]

That's tough to say. You know, who knows, right? But it is anytime. At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared. But they say recent years. How recent? You know, two years.

[Brian Bates]

I looked on Wikipedia because there's a link to it. It's been a few years that they're talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd like to know their research.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it shows on the list when they disappeared what their research was a lot of gravity related.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we got an anti gravity enthusiast, founder of AC gravity and antigravity scientist. Yeah, a planetary science.

[Dusty Slay]

See, that guy died of Alzheimer's. So that one's tough to say that,

[Brian Bates]

you know, that that's what they're telling you.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, what about all these disappeared?

[Dusty Slay]

Disappear? Yeah, I mean that's just went walking

[Brian Bates]

in the woods and disappears.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, they say in our national parks lots of people go missing.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And are never found. Yeah, that's crazy. But I mean it's thousands and thousands of acres. So I guess you could see how

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Well, that's it, guys.

[Dusty Slay]

I think maybe they're. You think maybe they're hiding something in the national parks, like.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I just think that's a easy place to kill somebody and get rid of a body.

[Dusty Slay]

But what if they were? What if, you know, they were hiding? What. What if, like, you ever see.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

What are these movies? One of these sci fi movies where they're. I think Michael Keaton is in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe Sharknado.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's now to. But where they. They, they. They invent like a gate or they can.

[Aaron Weber]

Portal movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Like, I was trying to think

[Brian Bates]

it was Michael Keaton. Stephen King.

[Dusty Slay]

Forget Michael Keaton.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's. They, they, you know, they. They have this portal where they can go to other.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And I don't know. You know, I'm just saying. So maybe that's a thing. A lot of people think CERN is that sort of thing. Yeah, you know,

[Brian Bates]

CERN is. I forget what that stood for. Do you know?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I have no idea what we're talking about. What is cern?

[Dusty Slay]

You don't know that sci fi movie, though. It's.

[Brian Bates]

I think you got me confused when you said Michael.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. I say, forget Michael Keaton.

[Brian Bates]

I'm trying. I just keep thinking about Mr. Mom. You're talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it called Portal or Doors?

[Dusty Slay]

It's not called Portal or Doors. It's like a gate.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a Sci Fi Network original movie.

[Brian Bates]

They say if you're going through a

[Dusty Slay]

portal, not bigger car door like this,

[Brian Bates]

and it'll suck you right now. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Sci fi movie. Gate. Don't do portal. Do gate.

[Aaron Weber]

Stargate.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. There we go. Come on, guys. And it's a pretty popular movie, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. I was working at the video store when that came out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And that, you know, they got that. Who's the. Who's the main guy in there?

[Aaron Weber]

The main guy in the movie. The movie or the TV show?

[Dusty Slay]

The movie.

[Aaron Weber]

It's Kurt Russell.

[Dusty Slay]

Kurt Russell. Easily confused with Michael Keaton.

[Aaron Weber]

About the same age. Yeah, I get it. Easy mistake to make.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, so you guys have never seen that one?

[Brian Bates]

I saw it, but it's 30 years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Came out in 1994, so I just

[Brian Bates]

don't remember that much about it, but, yeah. What's your favorite UFO alien movie?

[Aaron Weber]

Signs was a big one for me. It's a really, really great movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Really great.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's kind of how I think about aliens, is how they're depicted in that movie still. Because I saw it at the age where it just imprinted itself on the

[Brian Bates]

scene where it walks by.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Joaquin Phoenix is watching Mexican News.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's behind and then it walks out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Terrified. Years ago.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I liked it. I like. I like Guardians of the Galaxy.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, that is a great movie. It's just funny that that's your UFO alien movie.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't believe. I don't like superpowers and stuff like that.

[Brian Bates]

Makes me.

[Aaron Weber]

It makes me uncomfortable.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I see. When that movie came out, I feel like there was already all this M. Night Shyamalan hate. So.

[Dusty Slay]

Stargate's very good.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like he got kind of Lampoon, didn't it?

[Aaron Weber]

Not yet, I don't think. I don't think the tide had turned on him yet. I mean, I'm sure it got some hate, but, yeah, he hadn't become a punch the way that he is now.

[Dusty Slay]

Independence Day.

[Brian Bates]

It's the first one. I think that's where it's a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's where it's at.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a little before my time, so I kind of missed the. The wave of it. So it wasn't as informative as Signs was.

[Dusty Slay]

Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

At their best, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Welcome to Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's the best.

[Brian Bates]

I think my favorite one, which you've already said on this, on a previous podcast that you were bored with it, was Contact.

[Dusty Slay]

I was bored with that one. Is that Amy Adams?

[Brian Bates]

No, that's Arrival. That's another good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Bored with that one for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Rival's good, too, but maybe Contact.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe Contact Foster. Yeah, I think I was bored with that one, too.

[Brian Bates]

Have you seen Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

I think you'd like it because it's, you know, use your brain.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it about trying to communicate with. Yeah, I felt like an insult for some reason.

[Dusty Slay]

To me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. To Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's. She works for. I mean, she's. Yeah, she's a scientist. And they got all the satellites out there, like, seti, trying, and she finally hears a signal from outer space.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, I do remember that. I was like, oh, get on with it, get on with it.

[Brian Bates]

And they get it, and then they realize there's a video signal connected to it. And. And It's Hitler opening the 1940, whatever, Olympic Games. And they're like, oh, boy. And then they realized that was the first signal that was strong enough to leave our atmosphere, go out of space.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And it was them sending it back to us, just letting us know we received it.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty cool.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm into the premise of that. That sounds amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

It's. It's. Yeah. I mean, give it a watch and report back, let me know. It's just a. It's very slow moving and I think

[Brian Bates]

Carl Sagan maybe wrote it or it had some influence on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever showed a movie to somebody that you thought was good and

[Dusty Slay]

then

[Aaron Weber]

kind of bombs with whoever you're showing it to?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I talked for, you know, hours to my nephew about Rocky and he's 10 years younger than me. He's not that much younger than me.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, he's an adult and he's my age.

[Dusty Slay]

He. He fell asleep pretty early on.

[Aaron Weber]

What time of night did you start it?

[Dusty Slay]

Not that late.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it was night time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't two in the morning.

[Dusty Slay]

He fell asleep and it's like. It wasn't enough flashing for him, I guess. Yeah. You gotta, like, really be into it. But it's a very smart, emotional movie. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not just a fluff kind of. It's a real film. It's a real film.

[Dusty Slay]

It's got real heart to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. There's real characters.

[Dusty Slay]

He's like, oh, I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

It feels bad, doesn't it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it does. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Brian? Yeah, Plenty. I was trying to think of a good example of one that I recommend. I've had plenty where people have recommended to me and it just did not work for me.

[Dusty Slay]

What's a couple of examples?

[Brian Bates]

There's. And I think these were movies that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid, but I didn't see them until there was. I didn't see the Goonies until 2020 during the pandemic. And it just doesn't work for me as an adult.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you had to have seen it as a kid, I think. And now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then. I'm surprised you missed that one the first time around.

[Brian Bates]

There was a lot of movies I missed as a kid just because we didn't have ex. I mean, I was only the first see of my mom driving us to the theater.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it was like when it was out of the theaters, it's just gone. It's gone, right? Yeah. That's crazy. Think about it.

[Brian Bates]

Till Two years later, if they come. If it comes on tv.

[Aaron Weber]

We watched a bunch of movies this weekend, and we started talking about. We were watching Ben Stiller movies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We started talking about Heavyweights. And I was like, God, heavyweights is so great. And Nate hadn't seen it, and, like, Julian hadn't seen it. Nick. Nobody had seen this movie except me, Noah Stroop, who does photography and videography, and that might have been it. We were like, oh, this movie's so good, dude. We're gonna watch it. And we watch it. And.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I would never do that.

[Aaron Weber]

After, like, 30 minutes, I was like, gosh, movie's longer than I remembered it being. You know, and then the laughs start. Nobody's laughing anymore. And then finally I was like, I just want to turn it off. We didn't finish the movie.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that hurts.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it is very funny in some parts, but you're like, man, this is a kids movie. And then when I watch it now, I'm, like, watching it like I'm the kid I was when I first saw it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, and it just doesn't hold up. Just a little. It's a little embarrassing.

[Brian Bates]

You know, there's some 80s movies that, you know, I just watched Ferris Bueller's Day off, and I still love it, but there's some stuff in it that.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever hear the theory about that movie, that Ferris Bueller's Day off is like a. Like. Like Ferris Bueller is living a Groundhog Day type day, and that the reason everything went perfectly throughout the day is because he's lived this day so many times already.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I haven't heard that.

[Dusty Slay]

No, that's a. Yeah, that's got to be.

[Aaron Weber]

I just remember thinking, that's an incredibly long day. Yeah, he does every. He goes through a Cubs game. That's a whole day.

[Dusty Slay]

So in. In Groundhog Day, you know, hit me. They speculate that this was years that he lived this day that it went on apparently. I think it was a book or maybe the original manuscript got a little darker than. And so you think about Ferris Bueller. I mean, he just nail it it all day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So he also might just rule.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's just the man.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Because.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you think it is Groundhog's Day.

[Dusty Slay]

It's got to be, because what else did that guy do? What's his name?

[Aaron Weber]

Matthew Broderick.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, he killed a guy.

[Aaron Weber]

He did do that. And Benny's in the Producers, so.

[Brian Bates]

What, do you kill a guy in

[Dusty Slay]

in like another country.

[Aaron Weber]

Vehicular.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, like a real one?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, the actor.

[Brian Bates]

I can't tell when you guys are going for movies to real life.

[Aaron Weber]

We're jumping around here. I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty's like, it's like Groundhog Day. What else did that guy do? I'm like, are you talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so Laura Bush.

[Brian Bates]

It's brutal. Okay. This is a comedy podcast if anyone's listening for the first time. You know another movie that's really long. It's a great movie. But it, boy, really long day, when you think about it, is training day.

[Aaron Weber]

Training day is great. That's all one day, huh? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They start early in the morning.

[Aaron Weber]

And this is not training days.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly. I heard. I don't know if this is true or not. You're talking about movies starting off slowly. Any action movie you see now, you kind of know the formula. It's going to start off with a action scene to establish the characters before it gets into the main storyline. Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Brian Bates]

I heard that Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first movie to ever do that. The opening scene, he's, you know, in the cave. Get the thing. It's an incredible scene. Then it starts the story.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And it. But it gets your attention and gets you hooked in.

[Aaron Weber]

They created the formula.

[Dusty Slay]

And also you wanna. You kind of want to know what your. What your action hero can do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But at the same time, sometimes it's nice that. That build up of where you're like, I don't know what he's gonna Capable. Capable of. And then suddenly you see, that's what made 3:10 to Yuma. So good, because you're waiting on the Christian Bale character to be this secret hero.

[Brian Bates]

Christian Bell is a hero, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, in the movie I'm talking, you're waiting for him to be this secret hero and then he reveals to you that he's not. So it's a letdown in a way. But it's like.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I was feeling that you thought he was really going to be a sharpshooter that just hadn't. Yeah, no, I didn't think that at all.

[Dusty Slay]

I think everyone did except for you.

[Brian Bates]

Can I do a counter argument?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Brian Bates]

I think you're the only one who thought that in the history of the Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's do a poll. Yeah, let's get some comments, find out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you think that 310 to Brian. I. Because I think that was the whole crux. That was the whole moment. You. Because Christian Bale his character was able to survive where all these other men went down. And now it's just the two of them. And he's like, I'm getting you to that train. And he, you know, he's been injured. He's lost his leg. You know, he's been injured in war.

[Brian Bates]

Next time we see him at the airport, we're going to ask him.

[Dusty Slay]

But then he says, you know, I ain't no hero.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, right.

[Dusty Slay]

Revealing to whoever the other guy is.

[Brian Bates]

So you thought it was gonna be like a superhero movie where the end, he comes out.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, not a superhero, but like a Western where you. You realize, oh, this guy was.

[Brian Bates]

He's just holding back the whole time.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of Westerns are like that. I think you'd not seen enough Westerns and that's why you weren't feeling that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Brian, take a. Take a lap.

[Brian Bates]

Unforgiven is kind of like that. Yeah, but they set him up to kind of be like that. All right, well, we'll just have to agree that Dusty's dumb.

[Dusty Slay]

Well. Or we take a poll.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's take a poll.

[Brian Bates]

All right. What about this? This is about UFOs. The Movie League of Their Own.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Have you seen the League of Their Own?

[Dusty Slay]

Sure have.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no crying in baseball.

[Brian Bates]

The ending scene. Okay, pay attention. The play at the plate. Geena Davis, the ball comes out. Did she do that on purpose?

[Aaron Weber]

I think she did it on purpose. Now, is there a right answer to this?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so, because I've tried to look, okay, to me, that would defeat the whole purpose of her sister doing something heroic. If she did it for her. I think she was happy for her sister because her sister made the play and knocked the ball out.

[Dusty Slay]

I think she.

[Aaron Weber]

I think she let her. Let her score.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

She wasn't it. She wasn't interested.

[Dusty Slay]

I think she let her score, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. She didn't care about baseball as much as her sister.

[Dusty Slay]

And she wanted. And she knew that her sister.

[Aaron Weber]

So she wanted to go back to her husband.

[Dusty Slay]

Knew that her sister needed it. Yeah. And she knew she was leaving.

[Aaron Weber]

She didn't need it. She had her husband.

[Dusty Slay]

So what would. What, what point would it have been for her to hang onto the ball unless her sister just knocked it out? And her sister was clearly not as athletic as she was.

[Brian Bates]

I think she. I think Gina Davis was competitive, and it was the championship and she would have wanted to win and not let her sister win.

[Dusty Slay]

She already had her own life that she wanted. And if her sister doesn't knock the ball out. Her sister's probably out of the league, and Gina goes back to her husband. Now she's got to support her sister who doesn't have a job, and she goes, if you could just. Just let the ball go, I'd have a career right now. But instead, she's living in the guest room.

[Aaron Weber]

I think she thought about all this

[Dusty Slay]

while she's trying to start a family.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, we clear some stuff up.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, so let me list some other alien UFO movies.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, UFOs.

[Brian Bates]

Get your take on them. The movie Alien.

[Dusty Slay]

Never saw it.

[Aaron Weber]

I haven't seen it.

[Dusty Slay]

Too scary for me when I was a kid.

[Brian Bates]

And there's numerous, numerous sequels.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Prometheus franchise.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Dusty Slay]

I have seen Prometheus, which is weird to watch out of order like that, I guess, but it wasn't into it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Prometheus, that was weird, wasn't it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Arrival, which we've already talked about. Amy Adams, she's like a. Her job is like an audiologist or. She communicates. She knows how to communicate really well.

[Aaron Weber]

So let me ask you the question. We get asked all. It's always asked when this is talked about, but I'm curious your thoughts. Aliens invade. We need an ambassador for the human race. Who do we send out there?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we talked about that on previous

[Aaron Weber]

episodes of this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Not of this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'd like to hear your thoughts. Who do you send out? I mean, the real answer is some faceless science, some scientist that nobody knows. But that's a boring answer.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think that's the real answer.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, who would you send?

[Dusty Slay]

I think you send a preacher.

[Aaron Weber]

To do what?

[Dusty Slay]

To talk to them. They're great communicators and they could throw a little holy water on them and go ahead and end that situation right away.

[Brian Bates]

Can we come back to that? Make do I. Let's say we choose Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

As the spokesperson, I love that Dusty. What's the first question you ask?

[Dusty Slay]

What are you doing here?

[Aaron Weber]

Now? Let's say they can speak English.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, okay. And they say, we're here. We just want to get to know you. Just want to see what you got going on.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll say, well, cool. I'd like to talk to you about Jesus.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then if they say okay, then I go, all right, maybe you are from space.

[Brian Bates]

What if they said, we'd like to smoke a cigar with you?

[Dusty Slay]

I go, did you bring some from space? Because I'm all out. Okay, well, yeah, I wouldn't mind having a cigar with an. With an alien.

[Aaron Weber]

Just to chat about.

[Dusty Slay]

Just chat about some stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Which one of those four would you choose?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'd go the Nordic guy, because, you know, he looks pretty normal.

[Brian Bates]

What, you just hang out with a normal looking guy?

[Dusty Slay]

For sure. From space? Yeah. I would never hang out with the Reptilian. Not on purpose. They could be shape shifted into some other.

[Brian Bates]

It could be in this room right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. The gray, too scary. The big eyes, too scary. And then what if I'm afraid of a praying mantis when it's small? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What if they wore your merch? Would you be on board then?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you're telling me if they landed out of space and they were wearing A we're having a good time T shirt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, you would.

[Dusty Slay]

That would change.

[Aaron Weber]

They go, yeah, wet heat really took off on Zyblor.

[Brian Bates]

You're like, I love these guys.

[Aaron Weber]

You're the most famous person on our planet.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, flattery, it's hard to, you know, if you're getting flattered, it's hard to. I would just hope they wouldn't be doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Hard to stay mad at somebody. Yeah, they compliment you. A bunch of people.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you guys, they might know how to manipulate us.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys come on in, get some of our resources.

[Dusty Slay]

What about you? What would you say? I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, maybe you send. You send some kind of. Some kind of well intentioned scientist guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Not Bill Gates.

[Aaron Weber]

Not.

[Dusty Slay]

No Fauci.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we'll send Fauci out there.

[Dusty Slay]

These are the only scientists I know,

[Brian Bates]

Bill Gates and Fauci.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, the aliens are here. Dr. Fauci. Get out there and talk to him, please. No, you need somebody who knows. I think you need some kind of biologist, maybe somebody to talk to him.

[Brian Bates]

Very, very often in these movies, it's always the scientist who lives and they have to navigate. The pilot gets killed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because scientists can do so many different things. That just makes sense in the storyline that they survive.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what? I say we send Will Smith because he's already been in the movie. Send Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. Give Will Smith a real redemption opportunity. His career has gone a different direction these days. This is his. This would be his opportunity to go real life. Independence Day. Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, you send them out.

[Aaron Weber]

Just the cast of Independence. They just send them out. Bill Pullman.

[Dusty Slay]

Bill Pullman died.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you guys have experience.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I don't know. Maybe not.

[Aaron Weber]

Y' all have experience talking to aliens. Get out there and do it. For real. Yeah, Send Joaquin Phoenix out to get this cast of signs.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, get Mel Gibson out there.

[Aaron Weber]

If you've acted in an alien movie, we're sending you to talk to the real aliens.

[Dusty Slay]

Randy Quaid will search him down.

[Aaron Weber]

He's gonna be hard to find, I think.

[Brian Bates]

All right, but Aaron, if it was you they sent, what, what would you ask?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'd have to learn sign language. I have to. We have to develop a language between the two. That'd be the most complicated.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, you'd have to. I come in peace. Something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Like a third base coach.

[Aaron Weber]

He's trying to get you.

[Dusty Slay]

What if they could read your mind and talk to you telepathically?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they may be good. Which one of these ones, the Mantis style, has telepathic abilities?

[Dusty Slay]

I would say the Gray could do it.

[Aaron Weber]

They all look like he looks like he could. Here's the reality. If they are able to get to Earth, we know that the nearest planet is so far away that for them to have been able to get here, they're so far advanced, they're. They're operating at a level we can't even comprehend. So who knows? They're probably.

[Dusty Slay]

What if their planet is in total turmoil, right?

[Aaron Weber]

And they're coming and they need help.

[Dusty Slay]

Put every resource they ever had into the ship to get here.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, and then what? They want to stay here and set

[Dusty Slay]

up shop here or they want us to come help?

[Brian Bates]

What if they're. Let me ask you this.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not. I'm not leaving to go.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they get here and they go, well, we will find another place.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, y' all need more help than we.

[Dusty Slay]

Where do they land? And they think we do want their help. And where do they land where they say we don't want their help?

[Aaron Weber]

It's hard to answer that without being mean, but I think you know what we're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

But if they're so advanced, so much further ahead of us, and they came here and take over our planet, is that even unethical?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, if they want to take over our planet, yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because that's what we do to dumber creatures.

[Dusty Slay]

But we don't do it to other planets, though.

[Aaron Weber]

But we would.

[Dusty Slay]

We.

[Aaron Weber]

We've. We're taking over Mars soon.

[Brian Bates]

We relocate animals and.

[Dusty Slay]

But this is our planet, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but that was their.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the animals dominion over all the animals.

[Aaron Weber]

Animals. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay, well, that kind of shuts that argument down. But, like, ants, they have their. It's their home. And then we just, like, well, get out of the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We do whatever we want with them.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're saying if. If aliens came, we're so. And we'd be so much dumber than them, it'd be the equivalent of us, like, kicking over an ant hill somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Or something like that. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I hope that's not the case. But. But if they get here, they're probably going to kill us all.

[Dusty Slay]

What would you say to them?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I would. I would argue.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's say they were like, we need a guy who's been on Earth for a long time.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Who's been here the longest?

[Aaron Weber]

Where do you think that voice comes from?

[Brian Bates]

Who's a public figure.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We need a mic finger. And you go, what would you say? And as they say, provided they can speak English.

[Brian Bates]

Right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

They've had a long trek here. They've learned the language.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I would. I would ask, what do you guys know that we don't know?

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

First, your opening line.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. That's a pretty big opening.

[Aaron Weber]

Come off with a question.

[Dusty Slay]

You just come right at, what do you know that we don't know?

[Aaron Weber]

Like, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, hey, how you doing? We come in peace.

[Brian Bates]

Nothing you said, what's the question you ask?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I guess. I guess I would, you know, how you would go about it. But, yeah, first question.

[Brian Bates]

What if they came, say, we come in peace, and they do this, and then you do this, and then they're like, oh, this guy's one of us, and, you know, the secret handshake, and then they kill all of us except you.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. It's part of it, right? Yeah. I mean that, you know, stuff happens.

[Brian Bates]

I would say that for that question I asked earlier. The difference between us, obvious. There's a lot of difference between us and animals, but an ant or any other creature like that, they're going to be the same a thousand years from now as they are now. Whereas hopefully, Bessie would argue we get dumber, but we're going to be a thousand years more advanced.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, sure, right. 100%.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, our technology will be greatly improved, I would think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Unless there's some kind of.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, reset event. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Some type of event.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Or we'll.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll download our consciousness onto something else. You know, the transhumanism.

[Brian Bates]

The kind of leading congressman for getting this stuff revealed is from Tennessee.

[Aaron Weber]

Who's that?

[Brian Bates]

Tim Burchett.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He's the one that's been pushing for disclosure and releasing these files.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's get him on the pod.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he might. Come on. Yeah, let's get him on here. But. Yeah. Congressman from Knoxville.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Shout out to you.

[Dusty Slay]

I filmed Working Man.

[Brian Bates]

How do you think.

[Dusty Slay]

Just available on YouTube right now.

[Brian Bates]

How do you think the world. How do you think the world would react, though? The government comes out and says, there are aliens. We've been in contact, or we've retrieved an alien craft.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it would have to be much more explicit than what they're already telling us.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. I'm saying. They're saying definitively.

[Aaron Weber]

You're saying. The president comes on tv, they have to break in tv, We've met aliens, and then we have to. How would we react to that. I don't know. I think a lot of people off RIP wouldn't believe it. Well, sure they'd think this is.

[Brian Bates]

But do you think there'd be panic in the streets?

[Aaron Weber]

Y and Z? No, I don't think there'd be panic in the street.

[Brian Bates]

Like if they showed it to us,

[Aaron Weber]

if they showed a video, like a video of what? Like a little gray alien in the Oval Office, something.

[Brian Bates]

Or maybe, maybe like a retrieve craft that.

[Dusty Slay]

What about a ship? What if a ship was coming down over a city?

[Brian Bates]

I think that would be sherpatic.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that would be different for sure. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm saying the President comes out and says we have that. They show us some still photos. Of course some people are gonna believe it, but the ones who do believe it, are they gonna panic?

[Dusty Slay]

I think no one would believe it now because of AI.

[Aaron Weber]

Unless you see it with your own eyes out there in the world. Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What if they put it on the White House lawn during the UFC fight?

[Aaron Weber]

Do you ever watch?

[Dusty Slay]

He gets in there.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody could just get in and sit at it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you ever watch the movie Deep Impact where a meteor.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Hits the earth and there's a scene at the end, it hits the water and it creates a tidal wave that's like 4 or 500ft high.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

And the main character, the woman, her and her father, they stand on the shore and just let the wave kill them. I think that's what I would do.

[Brian Bates]

What about you, Dustin?

[Dusty Slay]

I like that too. I mean, what are you gonna do?

[Aaron Weber]

There's nothing to do if there's a. A giant spaceship that covers, you know, all of Manhattan.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you're doing his theory.

[Aaron Weber]

Am I supposed to take a pistol and just shoot it?

[Brian Bates]

What if they come in peace?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I don't think they're coming in peace, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you gotta. I mean, I hate to bring it back here every time, but I think you gotta pray.

[Aaron Weber]

This is what's always we're doing. I'm doing all that stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what we're always missing in these end of the world movies. Into the world movies. Everything's going wrong. Everybody's panicking, everybody's freaking out. Nobody pray. You know what I mean? That's what we're missing.

[Brian Bates]

I bet you'd be reading the King James version if they were coming down. No, I would not.

[Aaron Weber]

Even then I would want to understand it if I was really trying to read it there at the end.

[Brian Bates]

But Dusty could translate it for you.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll be right there with you.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think you'll be in your bunker. You shoot me and my family and get in the bunker and lock it up

[Brian Bates]

now. Aaron, have you heard that the, the Vatican has secret UFO information?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I don't know anything about that.

[Brian Bates]

Well, some people think.

[Aaron Weber]

What do they got?

[Brian Bates]

The Pope. This new Pope may be the one that releases.

[Aaron Weber]

He's taking on AI right now. I don't know if you saw that.

[Dusty Slay]

I was into that.

[Brian Bates]

There was a guy who testified before Congress in 2023, David Grush, and he says that the Vatican has a international cover up of, of alien secrets. Apparently one crashed in the 1930s in Italy and Mussolini retrieved it and the Pope, Pius XII informed the United States about it. Give them a little heads up.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that was nice of them.

[Brian Bates]

So the Vatican has all these secrets?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't know if. I don't. I don't know if I believe any of that. Yeah, I don't think. I don't think the Vatican's doing stuff like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Okay, this. Aaron just looked at his fake watch. We're almost done. Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me ask about a movie. What about Mars Attacks?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen Mars Attacks. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, That's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

You think that's what the aliens look like?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they're, they're, they're, they're green in that, but I think they look like the grays.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they're telling you they're coming

[Brian Bates]

based on a true story.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the celebrities. Maybe they are gray. Yeah. And then the celebrities are. There's so many celebrities in this movie. And, you know, and they're like Jim Brown trying to be buddies with all these guys and then they start wiping them out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's a yodeling country song that sets everyone free. And so we're right here in Nashville, so I think we're the.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll be safe.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll be safe here.

[Brian Bates]

I have not seen Mars Attacks.

[Dusty Slay]

You've not seen it? Oh, man, it's a great movie. I don't. Listen, I don't want to say it's a great movie. It is entertaining.

[Aaron Weber]

The Tim Burton movie, is it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

ET that was a really good one. I don't know how it holds up, but I liked it.

[Brian Bates]

I.

[Dusty Slay]

As a kid.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, have you seen E.T.

[Aaron Weber]

never saw it. And Drew Barrymore, Isn't she in that? She plays the alien or what? Who is she?

[Brian Bates]

She's the mom.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, what about this?

[Brian Bates]

She's the little Little sister.

[Dusty Slay]

What about this movie? I mean, nobody ever talks about this guy because he, you know, he got in trouble or whatever. But Kevin Spacy was in a movie called K Pax.

[Brian Bates]

I never saw it.

[Dusty Slay]

K Pax is really good.

[Brian Bates]

That's why no one talks about the movie. Because Kevin Spacey got in trouble.

[Aaron Weber]

Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. I mean, Kevin Spacey, no one talks about his movies anymore. But K? Pax was really good. And it was.

[Brian Bates]

He's an alien.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's the thing about the movie. You don't really know. And even in the end, you don't really know. I suspect that he was. But in the movie, you know, he's been checked into a mental institution. But he's going on and on. And I don't want to give it away, even though it's, you know, it's 24 years old. But in case people have never heard of it and want to go watch

[Aaron Weber]

it, the Kevin Spacey part was originally offered to Will Smith.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Will Smith turned it down. Wow. I turned it down.

[Dusty Slay]

A big mess on Will's part.

[Brian Bates]

Close Encounters, the Third Count. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but Steven Spielberg is so good at taking movies and coming from a different angle. That movie is really about how we react to aliens.

[Dusty Slay]

What is it?

[Brian Bates]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[Dusty Slay]

I never saw it.

[Brian Bates]

It's one of, I guess, his first movies from the 70s.

[Aaron Weber]

Supposed to be one of his best. Made a ton of money. Man. 307 million on a $19 million budget. Pretty good investment.

[Dusty Slay]

What about Unsolved Mysteries? You ever watch that as a kid? Because I used to watch that a lot, and that's what really got me afraid of aliens. I used to be really afraid that they were going to come and take me in the night.

[Aaron Weber]

They still might.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I got a plan now, but what's the plan? Well, it's the same plan. I've been telling you guys the whole episode.

[Brian Bates]

But you got a Bible by your bed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And what's the plan? I know you've been told us to lips.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, there's been people that. That study these alien. The people claim to have been abducted. They say there is, like, people crying out to Jesus during these abductions. Always report that the abduction immediately ends. Ah. And so that's what leads more to the evidence of what? You know, people talk about them being demons, but that would be my plan. But as a kid, I didn't know any of that. I was just Watching Unsolved Mysteries and I was just afraid. I was afraid of ghost and I was afraid of aliens all the time. All my life I was afraid of ghost and aliens. I was afraid. I kept the door closed because one time I saw a ghost in Unsolved Mysteries come into the open doorway and actually warn a family that their house was on fire and saved their lives. But it's still terrifying.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to have that go, but

[Dusty Slay]

I. I didn't want to say I

[Brian Bates]

burned something on the stove and can't turn it off. Just let you guys know.

[Dusty Slay]

So what he did and aliens, all that stuff. Terrified. Yeah, all the time. As a kid.

[Brian Bates]

Have you seen the movie Fire in the Sky?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I know the song.

[Brian Bates]

It's from early 90s. Based on a guy who claimed he was abducted. It's based on a true story. Guy was abducted for a few days and he was out. He was a logger and they were getting unlogging and they saw a bright light. He got out of the truck, it sucked him up. Spaceship. A few days later he shows back up, said he was abducted.

[Aaron Weber]

Was he a changed man or was it just right back to it?

[Brian Bates]

His name's Travis. He's still alive.

[Aaron Weber]

Travis Walton.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he was on Joe Rogan.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? He was an alleged. It's gotta be tough. This is your whole life now and then still says alleged on your Wikipedia. Guys, come on. I've made my whole life about this dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that is what's so crazy about the government just like kind of releasing stuff now is it's like. Like my entire life. If you talked about believing aliens or being like, oh, I got abducted, then you were some type of nut case. And now the government's like, well, maybe they are real guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, our bad on that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Fellas.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Let's say aliens come down, okay? To Zany's, right? They see a mural on the wall and they're like, these guys must be the most important people on this planet.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I would think. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That would be you, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think of that?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think they would go, well, this guy is on the back corner of the parking lot. So we'll start with the.

[Brian Bates]

Where's neighbor Gatsby?

[Dusty Slay]

We'll start with the front corner and then work our way back to this guy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay? Yeah, but if they land the back parking lot, you might be the first one they see.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you and Lavelle Crawford.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'll tell them. Well, I am in port. And I am putting public figure.

[Aaron Weber]

And you see my special on YouTube right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Watch this. You had a lot of time when you were flying here to watch that.

[Brian Bates]

I was listening to the We Having a Good Time.

[Aaron Weber]

We Having a Good Time.

[Brian Bates]

We're Having a Good Time podcast. And Dusty said that he saw a mural of Kobe Bryant and if aliens came down, they'd be like, wow, these guys must be the leaders.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I. I get that.

[Dusty Slay]

I just.

[Brian Bates]

Because he's on two different walls.

[Dusty Slay]

Because it wasn't him in. It was in la and it wasn't him like playing basketball. It was just a picture of, you know, painting of Kobe Bryant. That's what I thought.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

If aliens came here, they go, that guy must run the country.

[Aaron Weber]

I think they think the Statue of Liberty is the queen.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, absolutely.

[Brian Bates]

Men in Black, another classic. All right, now it's time for Dusty Slay's top 10 country songs about UFO. UFOs. Thanks for listening.

[Aaron Weber]

Are there any. Are there any.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know of any.

[Brian Bates]

Welcome to Earth, Third rock from the sun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but even that. It's not really about aliens. I don't know that there's any about aliens.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't think of a single one. There's a. You know, I'm quick guessing it here,

[Aaron Weber]

but I mean, it's either none or 200,000.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, have you heard of the Fermi Paradox?

[Aaron Weber]

No, what's that?

[Brian Bates]

It's basically saved by a scientist last named Fermi, that if there are billions and billions of planets out there that should have potential, why haven't we found anything out there? Why is it they're not?

[Dusty Slay]

There's Journey has a song called the Wheels in the Sky Keep on Turning. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is that about UFOs?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. All right, sorry to cut you off, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

Elton John has a song called Rocket Man.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah? Yeah. All right. We're building a list.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. What about David, Billy?

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, we're building a list.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the paradox? Is that. Yeah. Well, nothing's been country. The paradox is, why haven't we found him yet? Because they're too far away to get to.

[Brian Bates]

But. Well, we're not like. But if we're signaling signals out there or if they're advanced, why haven't they sent a signal?

[Aaron Weber]

Even the sick. I mean, maybe they have, but they're so far away.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, the arguments that are made based on that is they're either hiding because they don't want to be found because someone May come and wipe them out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Which is pretty good argument, I guess. Or by the time you get to the advanced technology abilities to send out messages or probes, whatever, you wipe yourself

[Aaron Weber]

out, you kill yourself.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, because of.

[Aaron Weber]

With like. Like. Like we almost have done multiple times.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The other option is we're still just too far away from each other for any of that to matter. You know, how far has our signal gotten our radio signal? How far is that into space right now?

[Brian Bates]

Cornodesti. Up half a mile and then it goes plink.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, not a half a mile, but not.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, not much further. Yeah, yeah, It bounces back on us.

[Aaron Weber]

That's funny. Like the end of Truman Show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, pretty much the outer darkness.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, I guess we can stop there. Since we were on a roll, we learned.

[Aaron Weber]

We learned a lot we didn't have. I forgot my ultra pouches today.

[Dusty Slay]

I know that you guys have already done an episode on a different podcast about UFOs. So this was, you know, part two.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we got more specific about. I think we've already. We did two episodes on the old up podcast and we got specific about cases like Roswell and different abductions and things like that. Okay, maybe I should have went that route.

[Dusty Slay]

Kept pretty. Pretty sick here. No, I like this. I thought this was a lot of fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay. All right, well, we're just testing the

[Aaron Weber]

waters to see what we can get away with with Dusty. You know what I mean? I think we're gonna. We're gonna get into the nitty gritty next week now that we know he's cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then we'll really. We weren't sure how this was gonna go.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, you did great.

[Aaron Weber]

I planned on a 45 minute podcast today, but we. We made it another hour.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Brian Bates]

And I can't wait, once we stop rolling to hear what Dusty has to say.

[Aaron Weber]

Cameras are up. We don't need. We know what's going on.

[Brian Bates]

June 11th, I'm at Topeka, Kansas, at the Beacon. June 12th, 13th, I'm in Lowell, Arkansas, at the Grove Comedy Club. All right, Fred, Adam Bush is doing those shows with me.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

June 20, Gallatin, Tennessee, at the Palace Theater. June 27 at the Packard Playhouse in Columbia, Tennessee. And just added, July 3rd here at the Lab at Zany's. Brian Bates and friends, come celebrate Independence Day Eve.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome.

[Brian Bates]

With me here.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great. June 20th, this is Aaron Weber speaking. I'm going to be in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the Sanger Theater.

[Dusty Slay]

Love that.

[Aaron Weber]

First time I Guess I've been to Hattiesburg once, but this is my first time at the Sanger Theater. First time in Mississippi in a long time. I got Lee Kimbrell from the Life of Dad podcast in the Nateland. He's coming with me. It's going to be a hot show. June 20th, come on out, See me in Hattiesburg.

[Brian Bates]

And Mary Ryan Brown.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

My.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm back. You know, been gone all of. And now I'm so. I'm. I'm back on the road. June. I'm just gonna hit you with the weekends. This week in Irvine, California, with Adam Bush. Next weekend, I'm in Palm beach at the Alan Jackson's it's five o' clock somewhere event. Then I'll be the next weekend, Austin, Texas, at the Mothership with Connor Larson. And then June 27th, I'll be at Lake Charles, Louisiana, with. With who? Do I have Tyler Elliott.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Will you get to meet Ali Jackson?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I hope so.

[Brian Bates]

Have you ever met him?

[Dusty Slay]

I never met him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it'll happen.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope so. I hope so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Also, until I'm told John Anderson is going to be there. I'd love to meet John Anderson.

[Aaron Weber]

Surprise. You haven't.

[Dusty Slay]

And.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Bill Anderson.

[Dusty Slay]

You've met him on Bill Anderson. I met him. And then Clint Black. Supposed to be there. Haven't met Clint Black before. And

[Aaron Weber]

the.

[Dusty Slay]

Ah, it's terrible. Well, forget it.

[Brian Bates]

But they're gonna be there, too.

[Dusty Slay]

The very popular. The very, very. The most popular female country singer right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Ella Langley.

[Dusty Slay]

Ella Langley. She'll be there. Who's. Is she from Alabama?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

They say she is.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you're gonna say Lany Wilson. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it's the two of them.

[Dusty Slay]

They're.

[Aaron Weber]

They're. Yeah, but I'm just saying, big women in country.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just saying, right at this present moment, famous.

[Brian Bates]

Famous name names.

[Aaron Weber]

That's not what I meant.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of horses out there.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of big girls out there in the country.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty Slay's top five Big women in comedy. Go ahead, Dusty. All right. Well, that is it. Another fun episode.

[Aaron Weber]

We did it.

[Brian Bates]

Of the Public Figures podcast. Go see the Breadwinner in theaters everywhere and go check out that UFO batch that should be coming out this Friday. And then we'll follow up.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

All right. We're having a good time.

[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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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

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