2: #2 | Love

Summary

Public Figures – Episode 2: Love

Podcast: Public Figures
Hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Date: February 11, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this Valentine's-themed episode, comedians Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay dig into the nature of love, nostalgia, and the things that have brought them joy over the years. They blend comic banter about romance and friendship with a creative walk through the decades—exploring the toys, TV shows, cars, and music that shaped their lives. There's plenty of playful ribbing, philosophical asides, and a countdown of country songs about loving stuff, making it a funny, rich, and reflective episode for new and long-time fans alike.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Upcoming Shows & Comedy Stories (01:28–04:33)

• Each comic shares where they'll be performing next (Arlington Draft House, Houston Improv, Traverse City/Saginaw MI).
• Dusty and Brian recall a surreal early-career show in Traverse City, MI, where they were lured to a restaurant with the promise of a free meal—only to be billed at the end.
  Quote:
  “On our way out of town, we show up, we get all this food… All right, here’s the bill; it’s like 50 bucks... I’d rather spend my money somewhere else.” - Brian Bates (04:08)

2. Cruise Fears & 'The Call of the Void' (05:37–07:31)

• The trio jokes about fake news headlines involving cruise ship mishaps.
• They discuss "the call of the void"—the bizarre urge to do something impulsive or dangerous, like jumping from a height or blurting out secrets. Quote:
  “They just imagine themselves jumping off and then they want to do it. It’s called the call of the void.” – Brian Bates (06:45)
• Notable Laugh: Aaron admits to wanting to grab a cop’s gun in line, “...I want to grab it so bad. I’m like, I could. I could do this…” (06:53)

3. On Viral Kindness Videos & Filming Strangers (12:26–15:20)

• The group debates the ethics of recording good deeds or pranks on strangers. Quote:
  “But it’s like you just manipulated this guy and it’s like, just give him the money... You act like you want to help him, but you’re only helping for your own viral content.” – Dusty Slay (13:49)
• Brian shares a story about a friend unwillingly featured in a "Walmart prank" video while having a rough day (14:34).

4. Pet Peeves: Public Spaces & Headphones (15:51–18:55)

• Everyone vents about people blocking moving walkways and escalators—especially when lost in headphones. Quote:
  “I think headphones are a net bad for society. We need you in the world. Come join us!” – Brian Bates (16:43–16:55)
• Dusty: “Noise cancelling headphones where you can’t hear anything—you are completely removed.” (17:47)

5. Audience Engagement & Comments Section (24:21–47:48)

• Reading and riffing on listener comments, including stories of Dusty singing in airports (27:49), misheard song lyrics, and “What do you do when you lose your voice as a comic?” (39:53).
  • Dusty endorses “throat coat” lozenges as a lifesaver for performers (41:27).
• Impersonations: The comedians do friendly (and intentionally bad) impressions of one another, poking fun at their on-stage personas (46:00–47:48). Memorable Moment:
  “Well, Dusty, I could do, like… ‘I listen to his podcast every week. Welcome to work…’” – Aaron’s take on Dusty
• Philosophical asides: Ship of Theseus, correlation vs. causation (28:55–51:08).

6. Main Topic: LOVE (56:30–68:18)

Types of Love: Greek & Modern (60:22–68:18)

• Aaron gives a rundown on the classic Greek definitions of love (agape, eros, philia, storge, etc.) and how they compare to modern psychology's categories (e.g., non-love, infatuation, empty love, consummate love).
  • Memorable Exchange:
    • “Agape is unconditional, selfless love for everyone and everything.” – Aaron Weber (61:08)
    • “Is it possible to have agape love as a human? Can you have agape love for other people?” – Brian Bates (62:03)
    • Dusty: “No chance.”

The Five Love Languages (68:18–72:28)

• Quick summary: acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, physical touch.
  • Self-aware joking about which love language suits each host.
  • “When I was younger, physical touch. Now I just want a nice word… and don’t touch me, actually.” – Aaron Weber (70:51)
  • Brian and Dusty riff on “kids walking on your back” as expressions of love.

7. A Decade-by-Decade Tour of the Things They Loved (72:45–111:01)

Format: Each host picks favorite TOY, TV SHOW, CAR, and MUSIC for each decade of their adulthood.

(Timestamps per segment: 73:25, 78:36, 83:13, 89:03, 92:03, 94:35, 95:36, 96:55, 103:46, etc.)

1990s

• Toys: Brian – bike with pegs; Dusty – G.I. Joes (deep dive! 75:23–78:14); Aaron – golf clubs
• TV: Aaron – Seinfeld; Brian – Hey Arnold!; Dusty – torn between Fresh Prince, Family Matters, and more
• Cars: Aaron – Ford Probe, Brian – Toyota Previa minivan; Dusty – 1989 Ford Bronco, then a Saturn
• Music: Aaron – George Strait; Brian – Boyz II Men (“Evolution” album); Dusty – early: Hank Jr., later: 90s alternative like Matchbox 20, Live, Creed

2000s

• Toys: Aaron – Titans season tickets; Brian – drum set; Dusty – horseshoes or a good cooler
• TV: Aaron – The Office; Brian – The West Wing; Dusty – none (barely watched TV, maybe started Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives)
• Music: Aaron – Coldplay; Brian – John Mayer, especially the live album; Dusty – Radiohead, Kings of Leon, The Killers

2010s

• Toys: Aaron – iPhone; Brian – laptop; Dusty – bicycle (quitting drinking, big lifestyle change)
• TV: Aaron & Brian – Breaking Bad; Dusty – Portlandia (prefers comedies)
• Cars: Aaron – Honda Accord; Brian – Toyota Tacoma (first car); Dusty – Volvo S60 (favorite car ever, 317k miles)
• Music: Aaron – Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey”; Brian – Tedeschi Trucks; Dusty – Chris Stapleton “Traveller,” Sturgill Simpson

2020s

• Toys: Aaron – telescope; Brian – outdoor fridge; Dusty – outdoor heater (for winter cigar smoking)
• TV: Aaron – Succession; Brian – Mindhunter; Dusty – AP Bio (season 1)
• Cars: Aaron – same Honda Accord (bought 2012, 200k+ miles); Brian – Chrysler minivan; Dusty – 2018 Toyota Tacoma
  • Discussion of sentimentality for old cars and houses (112:26)

Memorable Quote on Getting Older and Loving Stuff

“As men get older, they become more and more sentimental about that kind of stuff.” – Brian Bates (112:45)

8. Country Songs About Loving Stuff (113:23–115:12)

Dusty’s ranking of non-romantic 'love' songs:

• “I Love a Rainy Night” – Eddie Rabbitt
• “I Love” – Tom T. Hall
• “I Love This Bar” – Toby Keith
• “Stuff That Works” – Guy Clark (#1: “Stuff that holds, stuff that I'll never let you down...”)
• Plus: “I’m Gonna Miss Her” (Brad Paisley) for loving fishing more than a woman

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “We just got invited to somebody’s restaurant, show up, and get billed. I’m like, I’ll probably never come back.” – Brian Bates (04:08)
• “The call of the void—you ever just wanna… jump off something tall? That’s an actual thing.” – Brian Bates (06:45)
• “I want to hug from my wife. I think she’d like me to clean up the house.” – Dusty Slay (70:05)
• “Is it possible to have agape love as a human?... No chance.” – Brian & Dusty (62:03)
• “My Toyota Previa—the ugliest car in history.” – Dusty Slay (85:19)
• “I used to deliver pizza in that car... and they’d come meet me at the pizza place, and we’d drive around and deliver pizzas.” – Dusty Slay (87:53)

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Episode Highlights by Segment

00:30–05:01 – Show Banter & Standup Stories

05:37–08:08 – Cruise Fears, Family, and Paranoia

12:26–15:51 – Viral Video Ethics

16:43–18:55 – Headphone & Walkway Rants

24:21–47:48 – Listener Comments, Inside Jokes, Impressions

56:30–68:18 – What is Love? Philosophical and Practical Takes

72:45–111:01 – Decade-by-Decade: Toys, TV, Cars, Songs

113:23–115:12 – Dusty’s Country ‘Stuff Love’ Song Ranking

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Closing Thoughts

This episode captures the heart and humor of three longtime friends reflecting on love—in its many forms: philosophical, nostalgic, and just plain silly. Whether they’re rehashing awkward childhood moments, debating the ethics of public pranking, or reminiscing about their favorite toys and cars, the hosts keep the conversation warm, relatable, and effortlessly funny.

Memorable Wrap-up:
“All ends come to it at the window.” – Brian Bates (117:34
“Have a great Valentine’s." – Aaron Weber (117:45)

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For Listeners

• Submit a short video about something you loved in a particular decade—your story might be shared on a future episode!
• Catch the guys live; upcoming tour dates shared near the end (117:48).

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Public Figures Podcast – Episode 2: A warm, witty, deeply nostalgic ride through the loves and laughs that make a life.

Transcript

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Just flawless ice cream. However you love it. Treat, repeat. Pretty sweet.

[Aaron Weber]

Get your ninja creamy today. Public figure.

[Dusty Slay]

You are going to allow the public.

[Brian Bates]

Some people know who I am.

[Aaron Weber]

Public figures. Public figure. Public figures. Public figures. I think it's America.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the public figures of America. Yeah. When you're a public figure, this is what happens.

[Brian Bates]

Good evening. Welcome in. Grab a seat. Pull yourself up to the table. Belly up. Here we are. And we're doing it. And that's the way it's going to go. Welcome into the Public Figures podcast. I'm Aaron Weber alongside two very funny comedians, two good friends, two excellent people. Brian Bates.

[Aaron Weber]

Hello.

[Brian Bates]

And Dusty Slay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

As seen on Netflix. He's got two specials out. Brian's got multiple specials. He's headlining clubs all over the country. Dusty's doing theaters, I'm hanging out. We're doing it, baby. Three professional comedians, three public figures. And we've got a very exciting episode ahead of us right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Very good.

[Brian Bates]

I'm looking forward to getting into it. Brian, how are things been going?

[Aaron Weber]

Good. I'm going to be at Arlington Draft House in Arlington, Virginia, February 22nd.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

This has been a strong intro, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, thanks. Yeah, I actually felt good about it until just now.

[Dusty Slay]

It's been a strong intro.

[Brian Bates]

Arlington Drafthouse, great club. Have you been there before? Okay, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mentioned last week how I set the record for myself for most time.

[Brian Bates]

Rates at an hour and 20.

[Dusty Slay]

And you also, I think you said last time that you plan to beat that record this time around.

[Aaron Weber]

Not only beat it, I plan on beating Dusty's record.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, and that's about an hour and 31 minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

I do not plan on beating Dusty's record. No. I hope.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if anybody wants you to chase that right now.

[Aaron Weber]

No, they asked. They're asking for less, not more. But come see me. Arlington Drafthouse. You're not asking for February 22nd.

[Brian Bates]

We wanted a little less, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, what about 30 minutes? Too long.

[Dusty Slay]

They go, loved it, loved it. But yeah, about 15 minutes at the.

[Aaron Weber]

End I'll be like, well, I only did 45. And they're like, yeah, we should have featured. Now I keep Underselling myself. Sorry. It's a great show. It's a hot show.

[Brian Bates]

Go see Brian at the Arlington Draft House. A great club, a great comedian. I'm sure it'll be a great night of comedy, one that you'll remember for years to come. I myself, I'm going to be in Texas soon. I'm going to be in Houston. It's a Houston improv. And then all weekend, my first full weekend at the Addison Improv in Dallas, which I'm pretty excited about. So coming out and see me, Texas and Dallas.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna reach out to the Webers. They're friends of mine, and they saw me and Addison.

[Brian Bates]

You can get them to come to the show?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Aaron Weber]

Boston. And Jane.

[Brian Bates]

Diane.

[Dusty Slay]

Diane, sorry.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty good guess. Pretty good guess. Come on. See me in Texas. Dusty, where are you going to be.

[Dusty Slay]

February 20th and 21st? I'm going to be in Traverse City, Michigan, and Saginaw, Michigan. Whoa. There's a country song about Saginaw, Michigan. So I'm pretty excited to go.

[Brian Bates]

I've.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been to Traverse, Michigan. You have been to Traverse City? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That was bad. We did a bar there.

[Dusty Slay]

We did a bar. This time it'll be a theater.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. This time it'll be a little different.

[Dusty Slay]

But we did a bar, and it was just a show that. We got a video of it. It's. It's on. You know, I got a couple of travel videos out there. This is a. Maybe the first one I ever did. Me and you traveling around Upper Peninsula of Michigan. But we did a thing in Traverse City, and there was a handful of people in the audience, and then we. And then they. I remember that guy and another guy, I think, invited us to get lunch the next day. They invited us to his bar to get food, and then we paid for it.

[Brian Bates]

This is how he sold it to us. He goes, I was thinking about doing a comedy show at the restaurant I own. Would you guys be willing to come by the place, grab lunch and I'll talk to you about it? We're like, great. Get a free lunch. On our way out of town, we show up, we get all this food. He comes out and just like, yeah, we. We'd love to do a show here. All right, here's the bills, like 50 bucks. He just gives us the bill for it. We're like, all right, we'll probably never come back.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's like, I don't. You don't have to give me a free meal. But I wouldn't have come here otherwise I would have. I'd rather spend my money somewhere else and let me. I think it was good, though.

[Brian Bates]

It was.

[Aaron Weber]

It was fine.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If he'd have given you guys a free meal, do you think you would have been stuff. You're like, yeah, we should come do this.

[Dusty Slay]

Nah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that was the time. Would have done anything. Yeah. You know, I would have.

[Aaron Weber]

The way he did you guys a favor because it was going to be a terrible show. And once he tipped his hand that he's making you pay for lunch, you're like, there's no way I'm coming here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, probably. But it was. It's just fun to. I don't know if he purposefully misled us, but we were definitely like, ah, we're about to.

[Aaron Weber]

He's about to pick up.

[Brian Bates]

It's his restaurant. Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

The way they made it seem, it was like, I'm. You come on out to the restaurant and.

[Brian Bates]

And.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'll give you a meal and we'll talk about possible business venture.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But in the end, it's like, he's like, I need some business to my current business. Come on in.

[Brian Bates]

Buy some sandwiches, some chicken fingers.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like a pyramid scheme. You guys get two guys to go in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we're back from the cruise.

[Brian Bates]

We are back from the cruise.

[Aaron Weber]

There was an incident on the boat.

[Brian Bates]

There was. You probably heard about it in the news.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Brian went overboard.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty had to jump in and swim and get him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'm the only one that could.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Nate jumped in too, but Dusty got to me first.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So now we know, right? Who's the fastest.

[Brian Bates]

I'm terrified about falling off a cruise ship.

[Dusty Slay]

That's actually why we decided not to bring our kids. We were going to bring our whole family. I was going to bring my wife and kids. My wife got a little paranoid about maybe one of our kids falling off the side.

[Brian Bates]

Are you worried that your kids might hear the call of the void? You ever hear that?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I don't know that I've heard of it, but I feel like I have. Like, when sailors would be out for a long time and then the sirens. Sirens. Or the mermaids would come out.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's when. I don't know about it in a nautical context, but I've heard people say, like, they'll walk to the edge of a cliff or like the top of a tall building, and they feel an almost uncontrollable urge to jump off the top.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

They Just imagine themselves jumping off and then they want to do it. It's called the call of the void.

[Aaron Weber]

I've had that in, like, a line somewhere, and there's a cop in front of me and there's this gun. I want to grab it so bad. I'm like, I could. I could do this. Yeah. Then hold up the whole store. Tie him up.

[Brian Bates]

It. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I've had that. It's kind of the same thing before with people. If I knew something bad about them or something where I. In my mind, I'm like, don't say it. Don't say it. Oh, don't say it.

[Brian Bates]

Right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

You want to say it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't want to say it.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

But it makes you trick you in almost saying it. Yeah, yeah. And for the record, because every time we do these future episodes and we say something, people think it's real.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We're pre taping this. We have not left for the cruise yet.

[Dusty Slay]

I did not fall off.

[Aaron Weber]

I may. I may. It may happen. But I haven't done it yet.

[Brian Bates]

You're probably like, none of y' all got a tan, huh? We haven't been yet. We're looking forward to it. But we had to pre tape this because we're on the boat.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Well, we're on our. Well, we'll be back by the time this comes out.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, but.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, right, right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we change clothes to make people think we're doing a separate episode.

[Brian Bates]

Just trying to visually separate.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

The episodes from each other.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

But excited to be back from the cruise.

[Aaron Weber]

I do have some Nate Land news I want to show.

[Brian Bates]

I'd love to hear each and every one of them.

[Aaron Weber]

February 22nd, 23rd, and 24th at the lab at Zany's here in Nashville. N Land presents the showcase season four. Come and join us. Tickets are available for that February 22nd. I already said I won't be here, but never mind. I don't know why I'm going back to our schedule. But come to the show.

[Brian Bates]

I love it, by the way.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll be in Arlington, Virginia, February 22. But if you're in Nashville, come to the lab. Tickets available for that. And N Land presents Brad Upton. He's Brad's filming is our special March 29th at the Franklin theater. We've all done the Franklin theater. That is a beautiful.

[Brian Bates]

It is a beautiful.

[Aaron Weber]

Never done it.

[Brian Bates]

I'll be in Minneapolis that weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

But now I've always been loyal to Zaniest I've done a corporate.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on. I've done shows there opening for Nate.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

For what? Just like Nate headline there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. When he was. Yeah. It seems like a different time, but yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How big's the Franklin Theater? Like 400. 4 or 500.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't even know if it's that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So Nate could probably sell out two of those. 300.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, 300. It's not that big, but it's a beautiful theater. So tickets are on sale for that. And May 29, don't forget, the breadwinner is coming out. Yeah. So editors are needing a little bit more time to cut us out of our scenes. But now you're safe, Dusty. That's been said.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, they always say that, but there is anything really safe.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, on the cutting room floor, it could all be changed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. But we're excited about.

[Dusty Slay]

With CGI now. They could just photoshop my face right out of there.

[Aaron Weber]

With your hair. It would take a little bit more time.

[Brian Bates]

How funny that would be. If we showed up and they had re. They imposed Lachlan Pat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's what I was about to say in the scene.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We needed somebody with better hair.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, we did a little different thing with my hair.

[Brian Bates]

What'd you.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I don't want it to. I don't want to say, but okay. They actually that the hair stylist was like, I got an idea. We'll do this with your hair and then we'll do this. And. And then when we did the first thing, we were actually like, oh, this is pretty cool. Why don't we do that? And I go, great. And then Nate walked in to the thing and I go, do you mind if we do this? And he goes, great.

[Brian Bates]

Love it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you think about having your hair like that in everyday life or is.

[Dusty Slay]

It just a full time thing? I flew out later that day, left it in, and I left it in at the airport, and then I took it out before I got home.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's very interesting about your family on the crew. I just assume because Hannah is having a baby, that's why she didn't go.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's another thing. It's like she's, you know, pretty pregnant now, and so we're like, you know, there's a lot. And then we did take a trip to Mexico without the kids, and we don't really want to do that again. We. We missed the kids. And I felt weird about. Because I. I Leave all the time. Right. But I. But they're always with their mom.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, and then we were both gone. And I thought, they never really been without one of us.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or without both of us.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe it'll be good for them. Maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

But there's.

[Brian Bates]

To have one, you know, to learn to. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, spin this. But. Yeah, but we're. You know, she's going to stay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's not happening.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So. But. But Hannah had that fear a little bit that the kids would know might fall off. And, you know, for me, it's like, if my kid falls off, I gotta fall off. You know, I gotta jump right off after him.

[Brian Bates]

I tell you, one time my. My dad came, brought my little brother to a birthday party, came back in a suit, soaking wet. My little brother jumped in the deep end of a pool.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, God.

[Brian Bates]

Couldn't swim. My dad jumped in, full suit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Austin.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Your good friend, my dad.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

But you just gotta do it. If you gotta do it, don't even think about it.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta do.

[Brian Bates]

But that was before cell phones. Who knows what he would have done if he had a cell phone in his pocket. It can't ruin the phone, Right.

[Aaron Weber]

He'd be like, hey, film this before.

[Dusty Slay]

I go in viral dad of the year.

[Aaron Weber]

Before I jump. Now turn it vertical.

[Brian Bates]

Does it bother you when you see. Because I watch some of these videos and I'm a sucker for them. Where a guy will go, ma', am, you're amazing. Here's 500 grand you can get off the street. Have you seen these videos? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I like them. And then I go, should I like this? Because it's all like, why are you taping this? I go back and forth. How do you feel about it?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I'm like you. I think I like it from the standpoint of it's entertaining to me. Yeah. I watched one recently where it was like a. It's a Christian guy, and he went up to this preacher and he goes homeless. And then the preacher takes him to a restaurant. He goes, come on, I'll get you something to eat. He takes him, and then he prays for him. And then he. And then the guy goes. He goes. After that, he goes, actually, I want to tell you something. I'm not homeless. Here's $500. And it's just like. And the guy, the preacher, and then another guy pulls up out of nowhere in his car and goes, here's a thousand and it's like the preacher got emotional and it's like you like it from a standpoint, but it's like you just manipulated this guy.

[Aaron Weber]

How are they being filmed?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Like the preacher didn't see the guy.

[Brian Bates]

From outside camera crew, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. But it seemed like it was a more of a personal.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Camera on the guy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But it just like. It's like you just manipulated this guy and it's like, just give him the money. You act like you want to help him, but you're only helping for your own viral content.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, you said something one time about people shouldn't do this, and it's such an obvious thing that we shouldn't do that. I'm embarrassed that I was even doing it. Not a lot, but. But just don't film anybody in public if they don't know they're being filmed or don't ask to be filmed. And I'm not saying I would do that all the time, but if I was, I don't know, out in public somewhere and I saw something funny, I might do it and it's not right. Yeah. So now when I make videos on public, I mean, if there's somebody far in the background, I don't blur their face, but I don't try to find somebody and show their face doing something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I had a buddy of mine get filmed at a. A Walmart by one of these, like, Walmart prankster guys. And it really, like, it really was not nice what happened. He was.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it you?

[Brian Bates]

I don't try to think of how much of the story to tell because it's a guy, y' all both know. I'll tell you after.

[Aaron Weber]

But he was, I hate those pranksters.

[Brian Bates]

He was like a heart. He was going through, like, it was a terrible day for him. And then he gets to Walmart. It's one of those guy walks up with the. Starts asking questions and he's being filmed. And yeah, he just answered them awkwardly. And then the video got a ton of views. Just kind of making fun of. And he's like, I just kind of hate that. And that guy is, believe it or not, that guy's doing comedy now. The, the Walmart prankster. Yeah. And it's just. I, I don't like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you just gotta not talk to them at all. Any of the prankster. Any of the people.

[Brian Bates]

Somebody walk up and you don't even know you're being. Somebody will just walk up and like to make you look silly and like, all I did was come to this Walmart to try to, like, get groceries.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Now I'm being ridiculed online.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It goes back to what we're talking about last episode. The difference between, like, willfully entering into this versus I'm just trying to stay out of everyone's business. And now you're put on blast for.

[Aaron Weber]

Stuff I filmed yesterday at the airport. I didn't. I didn't post it. But everyone's back was to me. The moving walkway in Nashville airport. Everybody's standing on it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I hate that. I hate that.

[Aaron Weber]

And I was gonna post it like, oh, we're still learning how this works. But I didn't.

[Dusty Slay]

There's not a thing that bothers in the world more than that. I think it's not arrived people.

[Aaron Weber]

But in people's defense, on this end.

[Dusty Slay]

To the right. Stand to the right.

[Aaron Weber]

If one group of people. I guess you could just say move. But I don't think everybody on there was no. They know how to do it. But if one person up front or two people are blocked.

[Brian Bates]

Traps.

[Dusty Slay]

Everybody just got to go. Excuse me.

[Brian Bates]

Excuse me.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess everybody's being Sparta.

[Brian Bates]

Kick the person in the back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And knock them over.

[Dusty Slay]

And if they have headphones in and they don't hear you, you just kind of scooch by them.

[Brian Bates]

Well, this is my big theory. If I always see that, you know the subway takes guy online.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Ask people what their take is on. If I ever do that. I think headphones are a net bad for society.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Dusty Slay]

Because you can't hear.

[Brian Bates]

We need you in the world.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Come join us. We're living a life out here. There's a world going.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe I don't understand.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if it's necessarily a good thing.

[Dusty Slay]

He doesn't mean us wearing headphones.

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean, I'm not saying this should be illegal. I'm saying it should be. If you're in a public place where we're all relying on each other to be in the moment. Take the headphones off.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry. I missed where this is at. What are you talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

In public?

[Brian Bates]

This is just my take. If I were ever on a show and they go, what's your hot.

[Aaron Weber]

But not a. Not a. On a plane.

[Brian Bates]

No, A plane's different. I'm talking about. But at the airport, like, walking to your gate at the airport.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

These guys will have. I don't know if it's a good thing to just go. Let me retreat into my own little world real quick. And then they're in everybody's way.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe earbuds are okay, but noise canceling headphones where you can't hear anything.

[Brian Bates]

Earbuds, the same. It's the same thing. They got, you know, they're not listening to nothing. They got a song.

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody yelled for you, you'd hear them.

[Dusty Slay]

But if I, If I have my headphones in and they're not loud, you're not. I'm. I'm still in the world while enjoying my entertainment. But these big noise canceling headphones, you are completely removed and you're, you're walk.

[Brian Bates]

And then they don't even think I'm existing in a, you know, a living, breathing airport where there's things moving around and you know, they're just clogging up hallways and take the headphones off.

[Dusty Slay]

I think the moving sidewalk thing though, kill even the escal. Escalators. It's like, move to the right and let me pass you Let me pass you even going up, right? I don't want to go. I'm not trying to run up the stairs, but you know, I like to take a step here and there. Yeah. On the escalator moves along a little faster.

[Brian Bates]

Right?

[Dusty Slay]

We don't have. Just because you got to go. Well, I'm trying to catch flights for a flight. Just because it moves for clear, though.

[Brian Bates]

He doesn't even really need to rush.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys both get the airport five hours early.

[Dusty Slay]

But just because it moves doesn't mean it's a ride.

[Brian Bates]

I agree. I agree with that. I agree with you, Dustin.

[Dusty Slay]

Move along.

[Aaron Weber]

So you get on an elevator and what, jump dust.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, Brian sits down.

[Aaron Weber]

Try to get up there quicker.

[Brian Bates]

Sit down on the step.

[Dusty Slay]

If there was a ladder in there that you could climb and it would make it go a little faster, I would.

[Brian Bates]

With a suitcase.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Up a ladder.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's funny. Anyway, well, I got this weekend and I got on the plane and the lady in the middle, I was getting ready to put my earbuds in, and the lady in the middle is like, I can't.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

She asked now, are you from here? Or something like that? And then I'm like, yeah, I can't remember.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

No. I think she asked, is Houston your final stop? And I said, and I said, yes. And I'm putting my earbuds. And she turns the other guy, but he's already got his headphones on, so he doesn't answer. Or if he heard her, he could pretend like he did. I'm like, oh, crap, I'm Too late, you know, because now she's starting talking to me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm like, this is going to be tough. It's been a long time since someone started talking to me on a plane. But once we took off, she quieted down.

[Brian Bates]

She was good.

[Aaron Weber]

She was good. As soon as we landed, she started talking to me again.

[Brian Bates]

I think before taking off and after landing, that's all fair game. Talked it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like it because it feels.

[Brian Bates]

Like it's kind of over. Come on, Come on. You guys need to be in the world, dude. We need you.

[Dusty Slay]

We need you out here, not on a plane.

[Brian Bates]

We need you.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll talk to you.

[Brian Bates]

Christopher Cross playing headphones I wear four hours.

[Aaron Weber]

I do. I wear eye mask.

[Brian Bates]

And you wear an eye mask on a plate.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm surprised we didn't talk about it. The new boarding process at Southwest. Now, I've not boarded all about it, man.

[Dusty Slay]

I've not boarded a flight yet with Southwest, but I've been booking them. And I got to tell you, it's nice to push my own seat.

[Brian Bates]

And I have had entire rows to myself.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Every time I've flown with it. The new system, because I got a list preferred. I can get the. The priority.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Seating. Or the exit row.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That you have to pay more for. So the schlubs, they're not paying for that.

[Dusty Slay]

I got a list.

[Brian Bates]

They're walking up the back of the plane or the front. And I got all these roasts.

[Dusty Slay]

I want.

[Brian Bates]

I want it to be unbelievable so far.

[Dusty Slay]

I want it to be publicly known.

[Brian Bates]

People hate it.

[Dusty Slay]

But on the public figures podcast, I'd like it to be publicly known that I'm making a total switch from American Airlines to Southwest. I'm doing the switch.

[Brian Bates]

Welcome, man.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm doing the sweat. Southwest has tons of direct flights out of Nashville. And now that the seating change is.

[Brian Bates]

Different, now that you can pick your seat, I'm.

[Dusty Slay]

That was my only problem.

[Brian Bates]

You care about all the pre borders now, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That was my only problem with Southwest.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron, a few weeks ago, I don't think Dusty was here for this episode. I shared how I got my hotel room in Houston next to the airport, but I was next to the wrong airport.

[Brian Bates]

The wrong airport.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

30 miles away on the other side of Houston.

[Brian Bates]

Ah.

[Aaron Weber]

This weekend, it was almost a similar situation where I was again, closer to the other airport than where I was staying, but they don't have Southwest. So I chose to fly into Hobby direct flight. Southwest got to drive longer but it's direct. Or I could do a connecting to George Bush, another airline. To me, it's worth it. Just the direct flight total.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, totally.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Direct flights are where it's at. I'm all about it.

[Brian Bates]

Southwest got some good ones.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me tell you about Brunt workwear boots.

[Brian Bates]

They are great.

[Dusty Slay]

We all got a pair, and I love wearing mine. No break in, needed. Just threw them on and I was good to go. I got the Omen boot and Brian went with the Marin, and they helped.

[Aaron Weber]

Me out during the snowstorm. I got out there, moved some tree limbs.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

Cleaned off my wife's car. And thanks to Brunt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And that was it, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Then I went back inside, had cocoa.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you may not know this, but Brunt was founded by Eric Gerard. He grew up a blue collar. No, not a blue collar. He grew up blue collar. And he created Brunt after friends in the trades told him how other big brands were not listening to the working man like me.

[Brian Bates]

Working man.

[Dusty Slay]

Every Brunt product is named after real guys that Eric grew up with. Traditional boots made you choose between comfort and durability, but Brunt decided not to make. You have to choose. You can have both.

[Brian Bates]

And I do.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what? Some boots are very hard to break in.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

And it is a real pain to try to break them in, but not.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember when I was in Phoenix with you and I was hiking the Grand Canyon the next day and I had just bought hiking boots, so I wore them to the football game to break them in. I look like an idiot. I had hiking boots on at the football game and that didn't even work. And I'm sorry I brought this up. Middle of an advent.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Brunt was tired of the workwear brands out there cutting corners. You work too hard to be stuck in uncomfortable boots that don't hold up. So they built something better. Boots that are insanely comfortable and built for any job site. For a limited time, our listeners get $10 off at Brunt. When you use code Nate at checkout, just head to bruntworkware.com use the code NATE and you're good to go. And after you order, they'll ask you where you heard about Brunt. Do us a favor. Tell them it was from this show.

[Aaron Weber]

Want to get in these comments?

[Brian Bates]

Let's do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. For these comments, they come from Twitter, X Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and mail@nateland podcast.com which will be forwarding to.

[Brian Bates]

Our new email that has yet to be created.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or I guess it's the Nate. Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Anyway, sorry, Robert, I've been having trouble reading today. Robin Dietrich. You think? That's right. Love the podcast every week, but especially when Dusty and Aaron are on their game and Brian tries to keep them on task. And thank you for bringing the laughter and positive vibes every week on their game.

[Aaron Weber]

So he's like two episodes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm the teacher. I mean, when we're on our game, we're on our game. You know what I mean? So even when it was only a couple episodes, it's still very fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Thank you, Robin. And you know what, Robin? We like when you're on your game, too. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

I like to say, you know what I mean, when people don't know what I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If your name's Robin, you think you have to hear about Batman a lot. Like every day, your life, you think it gets brought up.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so anymore. I mean, we've not had a Robin character since Batman and Robin in the late 90s.

[Brian Bates]

Robin was in the Christopher Nolan Batman movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but never.

[Brian Bates]

It wasn't like a big character.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Never referenced.

[Brian Bates]

They kind of say his name's Robin at the end.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but.

[Brian Bates]

But it's not like a big.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know why they did that. Because those movies were over.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

Why would you even tease that?

[Aaron Weber]

They must have thought maybe he was going to do his own thing. I agree. I was. I just really watched that movie and.

[Dusty Slay]

I would think more Robin Hood.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Robin Hood.

[Aaron Weber]

It kind of depends on if it's a man or a woman, I guess. So if it's a woman, I don't think people are like, oh, like, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you're like a tiny guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And you're like in gymnastics and you.

[Brian Bates]

Say like, e. Gad and stuff a lot like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Are there any public figures now named Robin?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, Robin Ventura. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And Robin from Still pretty old, too.

[Brian Bates]

Howard Stern.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Robin Thicke.

[Brian Bates]

Robin Thicke. Alan Thick's son.

[Aaron Weber]

Robin Roberts. You guys know her sportscaster.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Robin Roberts.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think she's on Good Morning America.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, here we go. Keeping it going. Bart Scarborough. My daughter flew south. My daughter flew Southwest Airlines into Nashville and had a five hour layover. I told her to be on the lookout for one of you guys while she waited. She was trying to get some shut eye and was interrupted by someone singing. It was Dusty singing out loud for all the world to hear before she could say hello. He was out the doors and she was left to gawk. She missed her big chance to meet a real public figure.

[Brian Bates]

Now, does this sound like you. Do you sing out loud like that in public?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I love the fact you're not denying this at all.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I do. You know, depends on the day.

[Aaron Weber]

Sometimes he's got his noise canceling headphones in.

[Dusty Slay]

Sometimes I'm very happy and I just walk around singing.

[Brian Bates]

He's walking around. White Iverson.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I never heard that. Never heard that in my life. But, you know, I walk around singing a country song and can you give us an example? Well, I've sang on this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

It'll come naturally probably before this episode's over.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a night that the lights went out and Jordan, you know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

That's usually what happens.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I wonder when this was, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds like it could have been.

[Brian Bates]

Could have been any weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I was singing there was this a fair and young song. Four in the morning. It's four in the morning, you know, and I got really. I don't even know how it goes anymore, but I really got into singing that and I was singing that a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's probably what it was.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What was the song you were singing just now?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Post Malone. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Jordan. Fordyce.

[Brian Bates]

Fordyce.

[Dusty Slay]

Four dice.

[Brian Bates]

Roll four dice.

[Dusty Slay]

Has anyone told Aaron that his sports team changing all the players questions is similar to the ship of Thesis problem? The problem states, if you replace every piece of an old shipboard ship board by board until no piece is left, is it still the same ship? Also, if you were to take all those old boards and reassemble them, would that now be the true ship?

[Aaron Weber]

That's a great question.

[Brian Bates]

That's an interesting. Yeah. Somebody wrote in about that ship of Theseus. Somebody wrote about that before. And I think it kind of. It's my first time thinking about it like this. But it's not like. What I'm saying is if I see a US battleship in the ocean, right. I would go, that battleship represents the United States.

[Dusty Slay]

But what if the battleship had its own name? Battleship Aaron Weber.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, yeah, the USS Whatever, I don't care. But it represents. It's an extension of whatever country put it out there, Right. So I care less about the ship. And if the ship. But if you don't have. If it's just a rogue ship by itself, then who cares what. It's just kind of.

[Dusty Slay]

Also, I'm gonna. I'm gonna say if you were to take all those boards and reassemble them, would that now be the true ship? I would say yes. If you were able to keep all the boards and then reassemble them, that would be the true ship. But why are you replacing the boards just over time?

[Brian Bates]

Wear and tear.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but I'm saying, though, if they can still be reassembled, then why are you even replacing them? Because if they're all torn up, then you can't reassemble them.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah. Well, I think it's just a thought experience.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, I'm thinking about it. Because if you replace them board by board, it's like, it's like. Like a college football team, right?

[Aaron Weber]

You.

[Dusty Slay]

You take some guy leaves and a new guy comes and it's like it's always still the. The team.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, because the new guy comes on, but then in a few years, the new guy is the veteran and then there's a new guy. So at the same way, the new board that you're putting on, eventually that new board, that's going to be an old board that's been a part of this ship for a long time.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I like how the thought experiment. You guys want to check out on the think this moment we started thinking. You guys go, ah, it's just a thing.

[Brian Bates]

You're experimenting with different stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just a thing.

[Brian Bates]

It's fun, but it's different than the. Anyway, thank you, Jordan.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, thanks, Jordan. I really brought a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

If you followed a piece of paper. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's get to Lisa. Lisa B. Thomas. I bet she's got Lisa B. Thomas.

[Brian Bates]

Lisa, That's a name. You throw in a middle initial in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Lisa B. Thomas.

[Aaron Weber]

There was a Lisa.

[Brian Bates]

Women be shopping.

[Aaron Weber]

Go ahead, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

My favorite part of every episode is watching Aaron crack up and turn around in his chair. His laugh is more contagious than covet. Yeah, Only one of those is real. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I didn't know Dusty would be reading the comments when I put that one in.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Lisa. I appreciate that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, thank you. Lisa B. Thomas.

[Brian Bates]

Lisa B. Thomas. Yeah. I thought about being a AJ Weber instead of Aaron Weber.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like.

[Brian Bates]

You think A.J. weber's got a little.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds like an athlete.

[Brian Bates]

J.K. rowling. J, R, R Tolkien.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, so you're thinking like a writer.

[Brian Bates]

I. I like when authors do that.

[Dusty Slay]

What's your middle.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

There's something powerful about James I like.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Aaron. James Weber.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron James Weber on stage.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Sound like a shooter, don't I? It's all three names.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think it's just because there's a couple. Isn't there a couple of shooters with James in the name.

[Brian Bates]

Have you heard the. I wish I could credit the guy, but it was a joke that went super viral of a comic. He said when. When a shooter or an assassin, they call them all three names, it's because they're in really big trouble. When a pair goes, John Wilkes Booth, get over here.

[Dusty Slay]

That's so Aaron, James, Weber, or A.J.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you could change it and.

[Brian Bates]

People wouldn't even notice.

[Dusty Slay]

It's.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't think anybody cares.

[Dusty Slay]

Still early.

[Brian Bates]

Call yourself whatever you want.

[Dusty Slay]

Still early enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It hasn't caught on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

My name.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, the next one. Keeping it very simple with the name Cam. My wife is a lovely person, but has a real problem with getting any sayings or phrases right.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Instead of the normal nursery rhyme, she says, knickknack, paddy whack, buy yourself a dog. Wow. I'm just gonna stop right there for a second and just say, that's really bad.

[Brian Bates]

I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Knickknack paddy whack, buy yourself a dog.

[Aaron Weber]

Just because you hate dogs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Which I guess makes sense. Before you give a dog a bone, you should be sure it's your dog. Of course, she also says, billy pops corn, and I don't care. And like a moth to a fly. Not sure there's an explanation for those.

[Brian Bates]

I bet moths and flies hang out.

[Dusty Slay]

You think they turn around, Billy pops corn, and I don't care.

[Brian Bates]

Well.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

What is cracking corn?

[Dusty Slay]

Jimmy crack corn.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What does it mean to crack corn?

[Dusty Slay]

I think you're, like, making it turn it into, like a. Like, cornmeal. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you're cracking it.

[Brian Bates]

Crack corn refers to dried corn kernels that have been broken, ground, or fractured into smaller pieces. Primarily used as animal feed for poultry and livestock. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Or for grits.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I didn't know. Jimmy crack corn. The phrase implies breaking down corn to create food. Or metaphorically celebrating the death of an enslaver. It's an old folks folk song. Jimmy crack corn.

[Dusty Slay]

That seems like a stretch, but.

[Aaron Weber]

It's fake.

[Dusty Slay]

But I guess. Hey, I get. But why would you care, right? I mean, if he cracked corn. Hey, I don't care.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's two week notice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Go ahead and crack corn. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, he cracked corn.

[Brian Bates]

Good, good. Yeah. You got some poultry?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I wish it Was Billy Pops.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

All right, Chad Greenhaw. Sounds like that's missing an s. It is.

[Brian Bates]

The green shawl.

[Dusty Slay]

Greenhaw.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

The question is for Brian and Dusty at Dusty show in Huntsville back in August, there was a female audience member in the front row dressed in a Where's Waldo outfit, including the striped hat. I kept thinking the guys would call her out, but neither ever did. So my question is, at what point do you decide to interact with an audience member?

[Brian Bates]

Let me ask you guys that. Do you remember the person that they're talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

I do, but it's not my show, so I'm not gonna right now.

[Brian Bates]

Did it feel like that person wanted to be addressed?

[Aaron Weber]

She's on the front row.

[Brian Bates]

Was it obnoxious enough of an outfit where you're like, oh, that's not like, just how you dress. You're doing something.

[Aaron Weber]

No, she was sitting, like, if you're facing. She was sitting right over here.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And.

[Brian Bates]

And you think she wants a little.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know why she would dress like that.

[Brian Bates]

See, that would stop me from doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

I asked to have her kicked out, but no one could find her.

[Aaron Weber]

I swear she's in there.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. Yeah, I mean, I'm not into that. One time, a long time ago, I was one of my first Headlining gigs at CR packers in Indianapolis. There was a bachelorette party and I shouted them out at the very end of the show just to like. Because I felt like, ah, they probably wanted some attention. But, you know, I was nervous and I was like, just trying to do my show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So at the end I kind of go, hey, thanks for celebrating here. And then you could tell the girl, like, had this attitude like, oh, now you mention us, you know, and it was just like, okay, well, so I don't. I'm not into recognizing the audience member that's trying to get attention, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, totally.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't know this person's motivation.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't see them, though, first.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't really look at the audience. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, you have your back to the crowd. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

If I make eye contact with someone in the audience, it can mess me up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

For a second. I need some.

[Brian Bates]

Throwing one of these. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd put it in the. That's what I do. I'm putting it in the eye line. Yeah. That's what the wave's really all about. But now I don't. But he said. So my question is, at what point do you decide to interact with an audience?

[Brian Bates]

Now, Brian, you go out there guns blazing.

[Aaron Weber]

I dare someone to say something.

[Dusty Slay]

I only interact when they talk to me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And even then, you try to shut.

[Brian Bates]

It down pretty quick.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Stephanie.

[Aaron Weber]

Neal.

[Dusty Slay]

I got laryngitis last week when I had a rare string. Had a rare string of public speaking responsibilities that could not be easily rescheduled. Brutal as a. As professional comedians. Thank you, Stephanie, for recognizing that. As professional comedians, what do you do when your whole job is to talk and you lose your voice?

[Brian Bates]

She put public speaking in quotation marks. Is that a euphemism for something?

[Aaron Weber]

I think she probably just. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Let's just say I had a lot of public speaking speaking going on. You're like, what?

[Aaron Weber]

I think she's making fun of herself. Like talking in front of her team members or something. At work maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Or she making fun of public figures.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, this was before.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I think. I'm guessing she's just like. Compared to you guys. It's not really public speaking, but for me it is. I don't know. That's just my guess.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I like how you really put her below us, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he's trying to think. There's some underground dark web things asking questions.

[Brian Bates]

Right, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Seems to have answers. Well, that.

[Dusty Slay]

Now you know where I'm coming from all the Time trying to ask a question. They go, hey, it's just a thought.

[Aaron Weber]

Experiment.

[Dusty Slay]

But this is what I do. Throat coat lozenge is your best friend. That specifically the throat coat lozenge. Not any other lozenge. No other lozage. Does it, like, throat coat tea is very good. I like that. But I mean, the throat coat lozenge is. You can really only find it in, like, Whole Foods.

[Brian Bates]

Powerful.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the best. Doesn't do a lot for the cough, if you got a cough. But Fisherman's lozenge is the best for a cough. All right, just letting you guys know about that.

[Brian Bates]

I just man up and do it.

[Aaron Weber]

I smoke.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, I did a bunch of shows in. I did five shows in Spokane, Washington, where I had already canceled a weekend because I got sick. I flew there for the rescheduled dates on a Thursday, and I. I called my wife and I go, I think I'm getting sick.

[Aaron Weber]

And you got sick there?

[Brian Bates]

I got sick. And Spokane, too. There's something in the air. Yeah, it gets you.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I did my first show on Thursday, and I thought, if I could just get a good night's sleep, I'll be good. That night in my hotel, the fire alarm went off in a way that. There was a voice coming through the PA that said, there's a fire. Get out of the building. There's a fire. It was a robotic voice, but also I could hear people running down the hall. And I thought, I never leave during a fire alarm, but maybe I should. And then my.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, okay. Why don't you usually leave during a fire alarm?

[Dusty Slay]

I always assume it's just a malfunction. And I've never left. I never left the hotel during a fire alarm. But I get. And then my feature, Alec Parent, he starts knocking on the door. He goes. He goes, we gotta get out of here. And then I go, okay. And then we have to go down the stairs. We're on, like, the seventh floor. I can see through the glass doorway, people passing through there. And I go, oh, gosh. So I'm waiting on him to get his camera equipment. I go, we gotta get out of here.

[Aaron Weber]

Filmed this guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that would get. Get that, too.

[Dusty Slay]

And then we go down, like, seven flights of stairs. It puts. It basically dumps us out in the street. And then we walk around. I expect to walk around front. There'd be fire trucks and people everywhere, and there's nothing. And we walk in. They're not apologetic. They go, somebody pulled the fire alarm. You can go back up and Then, so Friday, I had two shows. I was very sick. Saturday, I thought about canceling the shows. Even more sick. It was so bad. But Throat coat tea. Throat coat tea and the lozenge, that's where it's at.

[Brian Bates]

I never heard that story. That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Josiah Stein. My wife and I rented a car from Enterprise so we could drive around Dallas to visit her grandma and various other family members. We got in the car and I thought it smelled weird. As I opened up the mirror flap, I came to find the source of the funky smell. A bag of marijuana. Needless to say, we reversed all the way back to the front and requested a new drug free vehicle. To which the employees were flabbergasted.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you're one of the few people that would. I think a lot of people would go, what am I, a platinum member? Yes, sir. They drive away.

[Aaron Weber]

Enjoy that visit with grandma.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm a big Enterprise guy. I like them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, me, me too.

[Brian Bates]

I've been doing. I do Enter. I'm platinum on Enterprise.

[Aaron Weber]

I need to just pick one and stick with it.

[Brian Bates]

And they're most major airports and most of them you can just walk. Right, right to the lot, to the car.

[Aaron Weber]

I did Avis this weekend and I checked in early. It didn't do me good because the line was still credibly long to get up there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Enterprise is where it's at.

[Brian Bates]

I'll refer you if you want.

[Aaron Weber]

Get some points that way.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I don't know. Probably.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Woo dang gwe guy. You guys know each other so well. I would love an episode where you all pretend to be another host. It'd be funny to see how Brian acts like Dusty. Well, Brian's done that on a Halloween episode.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

And he already stole my catchphrase.

[Aaron Weber]

I could do Dusty on We're having a Good Time podcast.

[Brian Bates]

If you want people to stop stealing your catchphrase, you can't stop catchphrasing every day saying, no, it's. Your phrases are, we're having a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

It's only the most common phrases that I will claim as my own. Hello. Yeah, hello. Hello's mine too.

[Brian Bates]

How we doing?

[Dusty Slay]

Any greeting, any personal greeting.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you all for coming.

[Dusty Slay]

That's.

[Aaron Weber]

That's Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty always tells him, thank you for coming.

[Brian Bates]

He's stealing. Dusty's thinking the crowd bit.

[Dusty Slay]

You know that I'd like to do that.

[Brian Bates]

Can you do an impression of me or Dusty? I think I'm hard to do an impression of. Versus Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Dusty, I could do like. I listen to his podcast every week. Welcome to work. I can't do the voice.

[Dusty Slay]

We're having a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Voice is admittedly a big part of it, but, yeah, it's a big part of an impression.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the other big part? The content. Okay, I'll do that part.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, let's hear it.

[Aaron Weber]

Welcome to We're Having a Good Time. All right, welcome. We're having a Good Time podcast. I'm your host, Dusty Slay. This weekend, I was in Syracuse, New Hot Shows. Worked with my good friend, Very funny. Oh, God, what's his name? It's.

[Brian Bates]

I hate that. I can't remember because he was very, very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

And I. We're good friends, and we went to eat barbecue. Of course, I don't. I don't eat pork because the Bible says don't eat pork. Look, everyone always emails me that Jesus said it was okay, but I don't care.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't say I don't care. I'd say he didn't say that. Let me get it right, though.

[Aaron Weber]

But then we go to the barbecue restaurant, and there's a dog in there. And look, I don't hate dogs. I wish they were all gone, but I don't hate them.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true. This is not bad. If you got them. If you could get the voice, this would be a special weekend.

[Brian Bates]

I was in Syracuse, New York.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like this was a very negative episode that I maybe ran in a little bit, but I think we had a good time, folks.

[Dusty Slay]

Jeez. Yeah, these are great impressions.

[Aaron Weber]

So I just got to get the voice down.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, I'll do Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Sorry, my cpap went out last night. I was breathing too good.

[Brian Bates]

All right, that was great. Let's stop there.

[Aaron Weber]

No, we got.

[Brian Bates]

Neither of you.

[Dusty Slay]

Do an Aaron. I went to the buffet today, and they ran out of plates.

[Brian Bates]

They ran out of plates, not food.

[Aaron Weber]

God, you nailed it. I feel like Aaron's in the room.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think y' all know what an impression is. Here's my impression to Aaron. Hey, I'm big fat guy. And I'm like.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I thought it was spot on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What are you, Frank Caliendo?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, thank you, Wu.

[Brian Bates]

That was really funny. You know what we did do, I may have talked about on the show before, but I did a show years ago. Third.

[Aaron Weber]

No, this is episode two. You haven't. Everything.

[Brian Bates]

Everything's fair game.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly. Start all over.

[Brian Bates]

Did a show at 3rd Coast Comedy Club here in Nashville years ago called Set Swap, where two comedians who were friends would do each other's sets. And that was so. It was so much fun to do. It was. Me and Brad Sativa. Did each other's sets.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Brad uses a lot of words I don't. Yeah, I'm not allowed to use.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it was fun. Anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron Croft. Has Aaron Weber ever explained to the group the difference between correlation and causation maybe worth the discussion? Probably not.

[Brian Bates]

No. Because there's a CRO. I would say a causal relationship between conversations like that and how bad the episode is. Does that make sense?

[Aaron Weber]

No. Okay, what's an example?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't know why he don't think we know what it means, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you know?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, correlation is X and Y happening at the same time.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Causation would be X happening because of Y.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

What's Y doing?

[Brian Bates]

It's a thought experiment.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It depends, but you can do. Okay. Like, the cost of TVs has gone down over time.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Because people are on their phones.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, let's.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that just killed whatever I was doing. You guys get it? You guys get it.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's one. So.

[Brian Bates]

I want to hear it.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty got laughs, really? Because of me.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I got the audience warmed up. Whereas Aaron bombs because he couldn't follow Dusty. I don't know. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think that's right.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought I had one and I didn't.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yo, I was in Chicago this weekend. There was a disproportionate amount of murders that night in the city.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay?

[Brian Bates]

That's a. That's a correlation between those two things.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

My being in Chicago didn't cause. Now, could it have. Maybe. Maybe I did that. Well, that people died.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, there was more murders than normal.

[Brian Bates]

I'm saying if there's any kind of statistical anomaly. Not the normal Aaron Croft. This is why we don't get.

[Aaron Weber]

If there were fewer murders, I would say I was the causation because people were at my show.

[Brian Bates]

Well, there you go. You could. You could argue there's a causal relationship between those two things.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or they would have. Might have had a heart attack on their own. Andrea Boyles. I've unintentionally incorporated Dusty's Nah, nah, nah into my daily vocabulary. I was recently asked by a cashier in a department store if I wanted to apply for a credit card, and I replied, nah. And she said, was that a yes or a no? I quickly replied that was a nah. Thank you, Dusty, for helping me add some extra snark to my day. Yeah, Andrea, listen, the cashier, she knew what you said, but she goes, was that a yes or a no? It's like, listen, lady, you're not my English teacher. I don't want to apply for the credit card.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you, Andrea. I'm glad you're doing that. Jordan Padnick. Padnick.

[Brian Bates]

This year. Well, here, the show Below Deck. You ever hear the show anybody?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

You guys listening?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm listening. I remember Nate making fun of you for.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, watching. This is a clip for the show. They're asking the chef. The chef is, I think French. And there he asked, somehow the steak was cooked. This is what we said.

[Aaron Weber]

Side.

[Dusty Slay]

We are four medium rare, four medium wear.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what do you say?

[Dusty Slay]

Medium rare or medium well?

[Brian Bates]

Medium rare. Medium well. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what is below deck? A show, like, about ships and crews.

[Brian Bates]

It's about the crew that works on chartered yachts.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, so it's not like what we're doing? The crews?

[Brian Bates]

No, this is like a private group of like 10 to 12 people will run out of you.

[Aaron Weber]

I got you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay, last comment. Jordan Payton. Nick, I'm a fan of Dusty, but I just want to know what his reaction is to First Corinthians 11:14. Oh, geez.

[Aaron Weber]

Go ahead, Dusty, tell us.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, this is Niv, first off.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, well, let's find the King James.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The King James version.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Doth. We'll read it for the listeners.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it says, doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him. Well, I've read this many times. Yeah, and I. And I'll say, you know, in Corinthians, they don't give away, they don't give commandments. So it doesn't mean that you can't have long hair. And what does long mean? Does it mean long down to your hips? Long down to where I have it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or maybe even your hair is a little too long. I mean, not.

[Brian Bates]

I'm good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, Brian's going to heaven right away.

[Dusty Slay]

So, you know, I think it's vague, but I also don't, I don't think it's a command.

[Brian Bates]

Why is this? Dude, this is Corinthians. So this is Paul, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why is he talking about this?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, there's been an explanation.

[Brian Bates]

Like an epidemic of long haired dudes.

[Dusty Slay]

There was an explanation. It's kind of weird though. But this guy. Who's this guy? Michael Heiser, and he has a podcast where he talked about this verse. And it's pretty weird, actually, what he talks about. And even though it's a Bible copy podcast, it would probably seem like not clean to do it on this podcast. But he got into what they actually believed about long hair and that somehow men would not be able to have children if they had hair that was long.

[Brian Bates]

But it's still unclear if that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, no, but.

[Aaron Weber]

But Lachlan's doing great.

[Dusty Slay]

But that. Yeah, I mean, I actually had a guy at the courthouse. I got out of my car at the courthouse in Opelika when I was 18. I had long hair, and a. A guy with his Bible came running up to me and showed me that verse. All that.

[Aaron Weber]

All that long, you're like, that's the new law, and I don't abide here.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I didn't know any of that.

[Brian Bates]

Like, that. Playfully or.

[Dusty Slay]

No, he was like, out there, you.

[Aaron Weber]

Know, a guy playfully runs up with his Bible.

[Brian Bates]

I thought he was like, new dusty. He's like.

[Dusty Slay]

He's an old man.

[Brian Bates]

And he was telling you, you need to cut your hair. Yeah, that's crazy. Out of all the injustices I know this is. Let's focus on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but look at all the injustices he focuses on. But he's like, I look good with his hair, so it ain't a commandment.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't, you know, I don't focus on injustices. I focus on, you know, the Old Testament laws.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

And then that long hair is not listed. The only. The only thing I found is that there's maybe mention if you want to be a priest, not having long hair.

[Brian Bates]

Interesting, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, do you want to be a priest?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, if I do, I'll cut my hair.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, that'd be great if you became a priest.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A Catholic priest.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, obviously.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The right kind.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, thank you, Jordan.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, thanks, Jordan. I appreciate that question.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that last name. Peter Niche.

[Dusty Slay]

Me too.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so this week, it is Valentine's week. I think this comes out maybe February 12th, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Happy Valentine's Day.

[Aaron Weber]

Same to you guys. It's one of our favorite holidays, St Valentine's Day.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, but this.

[Aaron Weber]

Comes out February 11th. I knew you didn't celebrate Valentine's. We did a Valentine's episode, just the three of us on Nateland one time.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Looked at the history. So, like, let's don't do that again.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think we all believe in love, right?

[Brian Bates]

I think we believe in love. Love is all you need.

[Dusty Slay]

Sure. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's what they say.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what Valentine's. You know, it's kind of the theme. So today we're talking about love. And we've got some things to unbox, I believe.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, get some things. Unlocks. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Tristan's getting the things. Oh, we got a few things.

[Aaron Weber]

Does it matter who opens? What you need is love.

[Dusty Slay]

You're gonna go with that one?

[Aaron Weber]

I get the big one. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

The tissue box right here.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

If you're listening, we've got cardboard boxes.

[Dusty Slay]

This is a. This is a thing we do on the show. We do an unboxing.

[Aaron Weber]

I love this so far.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

All right, I've got an action figure.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's Master Splinter.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Master Splinter from Teen Scissors? Nah, action figure him.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I've got some. Oh, wired headphones. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And I've got a Nintendo 64 shirt.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's awesome. What size is that?

[Aaron Weber]

Boom. Let's see here. This is xl.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

You can hold on to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Looks bigger than that, though, doesn't it?

[Brian Bates]

You think that until you put it on.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll just try and see. Give it a shot. We're a new podcast that could go viral.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. So this is supposed to be a theme.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So these are.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen. Teach play.

[Brian Bates]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm thinking.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Well, that's. That's better than what I was gonna say. But these are all things that at one time, another, we might have loved.

[Brian Bates]

Three different eras here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What do you got over there?

[Dusty Slay]

I still love wired headphones.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

What's the. Is that a usbc or is that a light lightning?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, it's a us.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's an ox.

[Dusty Slay]

Ox.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

And you must have been in Master Splinter because you knew who that was.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, so that was. I was into the Ninja Turtles. I wasn't really into.

[Aaron Weber]

That was before your time and after my time.

[Dusty Slay]

A humanoid rat and a. And a geek.

[Brian Bates]

He was a villain, right?

[Dusty Slay]

No, he's the. He's the trainer of the ninja.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, he's a good guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, why is he training turtles?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he's Master Splinter.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's a. What, a pigeon?

[Dusty Slay]

He's a rat.

[Brian Bates]

A rat.

[Aaron Weber]

So Nate's was really into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Dusty Slay]

So they're that era teenage mutant ninja.

[Aaron Weber]

2, and then Nintendo 64. That. Is that. What, 64? Yeah, yeah, that's about when I was in college. Tech mobile stuff. Like that.

[Dusty Slay]

So that tech mobile.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's not 64.

[Dusty Slay]

No. You probably think about regular. Oh, super Nintendo.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Super Nintendo 64 has had the really weird controller. Had GoldenEye and.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

64 came out in 96.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. It's a little after me then.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I had. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's maybe the greatest gaming console of all time. It's aged better than just about anything. People still play an N64. I have an N64.

[Dusty Slay]

I have one. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That I'll play occasionally. Take it on the road sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

And. Well, today we're going to talk about some things we love.

[Brian Bates]

The things we've loved along the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But before we get into that, I'm going to share a little bit of information about love itself.

[Brian Bates]

I'd like to hear. I don't know much about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you like this, Aaron. Ancient Greek philosophers.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Aristotle broke Aristotle love down into eight different types.

[Brian Bates]

Who did? Who?

[Aaron Weber]

It doesn't say. It just says Greek philosophers.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

The good ones. Okay. Do you know any of them?

[Brian Bates]

No, because I don't even know who you're talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm talking about the different types.

[Brian Bates]

Of love, but who.

[Dusty Slay]

There's love that's like.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm looking for the Greek word. Oh, the Greek agape. There you go. That's a.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a shirt you're wearing.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't even realize that. That's so true.

[Brian Bates]

That is crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

That is so true. So you and I have both done a fundraiser for this organization at the Franklin Theater. At the Franklin Theater. Agape. It's a Christian organization. There's a lot of agapes that are Christian organizations, but this one's here in Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

And what kind of love is that?

[Aaron Weber]

It's for children that. For need adoption or foster care.

[Brian Bates]

That's for the organ. That's the organization.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

He said, oh. Although this is what kind of love is.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I'm sorry. Children that need adoption.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty specific.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry. Agape love is very popular among Christians. So let me tell you what it is, okay. It's unconditional, selfless love for everyone and everything.

[Brian Bates]

The highest form of. Of love.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what.

[Aaron Weber]

God's love for us. Nothing, you know.

[Brian Bates]

So is it possible to have agape love as a human? Can you have agape love for other people?

[Dusty Slay]

No chance.

[Aaron Weber]

You're supposed to strive to do that. Probably the closest, I would say, is for our children. Right. I hope so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But we're supposed to Have a gape. Love for each other.

[Brian Bates]

Or at least try to.

[Aaron Weber]

At least try to. All right, here's some others. Eros. That's sexual and passionate love.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Like you guys have for.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry. Philia. That's love between friends based on deep trust and mutual respect.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Philadelphia, the city of brother love. There you go. That's where it comes from.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the first part? Ophelia. Yeah, there's also a song, Ophelia by Marshall Tucker.

[Brian Bates]

Man, I feel is the band.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Storj or Storje? I don't know how S t O r G. I think it's store J love between family members.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Like you're all in storage.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Stowed away.

[Aaron Weber]

And agape. Way recovered. Ludus. That's playful love that involves flirting and casual relationship.

[Brian Bates]

Ludus.

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of like what you guys have for each other. Pragma. That's long lasting love grounded in commitment, duty and responsibility.

[Brian Bates]

That sounds good.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a marriage.

[Dusty Slay]

Like practical.

[Aaron Weber]

Pragmatic.

[Dusty Slay]

Pragmatic.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, Practical. That's a little close, but a little different. It's like when I tell my daughter, they both start with peas.

[Brian Bates]

That's half the battle right there, bud.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they both start with PA pra.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So they're basically the same word.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, but let's. I mean, if we're going to do the joke though.

[Aaron Weber]

And main. And mania. That's obsessive jealous love. Oh, so that's the only maniac.

[Brian Bates]

That's the only one that's bad so far.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I guess so. There's.

[Brian Bates]

Don't want to have that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And then now these are the Greek philosophers. Now modern psychologists have come up with their own.

[Brian Bates]

Of course they had types of love.

[Aaron Weber]

Did I lose a page?

[Brian Bates]

Philosophers are never good enough. Postmodern.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you got to update it because we have the Internet now. There's different kinds of love now. You can obsess over the Internet.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You can stalk people like all their posts.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, these are more practical. Number one, non love. Indifference toward another person. No passion, no emotional intimacy, no commitment. I think that's okay. Kind of obvious.

[Dusty Slay]

That's kind of like.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think I have non love for a lot of people.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it non love? Well, yeah, I mean that. Well, that's not a type of love. A non love is not phase on loves. Yeah. That's a type of love.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I agree. This is from I love non.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. So good.

[Aaron Weber]

Number two. Viking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This is most friendships, no passion. High Levels of emotional intimate to me. See? No commitment.

[Dusty Slay]

Also not love. You like them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. I. I still agree. In this type of love, you're more focused on the real close bond you share with someone else. All right, number three. Infatuation.

[Brian Bates]

Starting to get weird.

[Aaron Weber]

High levels of passion, no emotional intimacy, no commitment.

[Dusty Slay]

Infatuation is not love.

[Aaron Weber]

So far we're over three, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You get butterflies in your stomach and a flush of desire.

[Dusty Slay]

Not love.

[Aaron Weber]

Number four, empty love. People who stay together out of obligation, indifference, or simplicity. Couples who choose to stay together for their kids.

[Brian Bates]

That sounds like love for the kid.

[Dusty Slay]

Love for the kids, but.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, but not for each other.

[Dusty Slay]

Just a general lack of responsibility.

[Aaron Weber]

Still not really love for love. So, number five. Romantic love.

[Dusty Slay]

That could probably be covered under one of the other types of love. From the philosopher.

[Brian Bates]

Skip to the good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Number six. Companionate love. I was about to say compassionate, but companion.

[Brian Bates]

Companionate love.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe you've been friends for years and your best friends who rely on each other through thick and thin. So it's like friendship that's so close, it's weird.

[Brian Bates]

So Aristotle would call it eating salt together. So two friends have gone through some crazy experience.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Then that kind of elevates the friendship into something true.

[Dusty Slay]

Joining a fraternity, you have to go through an initiation. You go through the same.

[Brian Bates]

Potentially go through the pain.

[Dusty Slay]

You eat some salt together to get in.

[Brian Bates]

Eat some salt together. Yeah. Not literally, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's a thought experiment.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You want me to keep going?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Number seven, Fatuous love for fat people. This is when two heavy people fight each other and they use all the plates at the buffet. No. They say you feel a lot of sparks toward this person and you're committed, but all of a sudden you might start to realize there's no emotional connection.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I love you fatuously. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And number eight, consummate love.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

This is what you're supposed to try to achieve. High level of passion, high level of emotional intimacy. I can't say that word. High level of commitment. This is the gold standard of relationships.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This is why everything's a mess now, because they've all like. You're supposed to achieve that. It's like, come on, guys, we're trying out here.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's what the characters in the trying, right? What? There's the virtue is in the trying.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Not the. It's a deliberately unattainable standard of perfection. But you're defined by your pursuit of that perfection, not whether you achieve it.

[Aaron Weber]

Or not have bars. Have either of you. Have either of you ready? The Five Love Languages.

[Brian Bates]

I know about it from every comedian on Earth, but I've never actually read it.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't. I knew you hadn't really. I was just trying to be nice, include you, but appreciate it. Yeah. Nate told the story on this podcast about how when they got married, his parents gave them that book.

[Dusty Slay]

Parents?

[Aaron Weber]

Would I say it wrong?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he said parents.

[Aaron Weber]

Parents.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty advanced bird.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Bought him a book.

[Aaron Weber]

His parents gave him. Gave them that book. And they kept asking, have y' all read it? Have y' all read it? And they were like, oh, yeah, we're.

[Brian Bates]

Getting around to it.

[Aaron Weber]

They finally were like, look, there's a hundred dollar bill we put in there for you guys. So if you're never going to read it, you need to know. That's it.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's hilarious.

[Brian Bates]

Was there actually in there? Because that's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think so. I think so.

[Brian Bates]

It should be a good lie to tell people.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, let me give you the five.

[Brian Bates]

Look through every page. Couldn't find it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll give you the five love languages, and you tell me if you know which one you think you are.

[Brian Bates]

Well, what is it? Does it mean how you like to express love to people or how you like to receive love from people?

[Aaron Weber]

That's. I've always got confused on that because you'll do a test slay with your partner, you'll each be one of these two, and I guess it's supposed just to help you know what they like.

[Dusty Slay]

And I guess I posted a video to my wife that I saw the other day, and it was a guy hugging his wife, and she looked real annoyed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it said, when his love language is affection and your love language is acts of service, and there's work to be done at home. I think I saw that and I. I said that to her because I think that's us.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to hug. I want a hug from my wife. And I think she'd like me to clean up the house.

[Brian Bates]

So that means her love language is acts of service.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Because she wants you to express your love of. By doing things.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I. I had it.

[Dusty Slay]

And all I want is a hug.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. The five love languages are acts of service.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Receiving gifts, quality time.

[Brian Bates]

Definitely not that.

[Aaron Weber]

Just. What? Quality time.

[Brian Bates]

Just kidding, everybody.

[Aaron Weber]

Words of affirmation.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And physical touch.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So which one do you think you would be?

[Brian Bates]

Words of affirmation.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, physical touch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

When I was younger, physical touch. Now I just want a nice word. I just want somebody to tell me good time and don't touch me, actually. So, yeah. So couples do this. It's supposed to help them in their relationship.

[Brian Bates]

What are you supposed to do with that?

[Aaron Weber]

At the least, understand what motivates your partner. And, you know, if you're trying to do something for them and they're not receiving it the way that you think they should, it's probably because that doesn't even mean much for them. Like acts of service, mowing the. The yard or something may not mean much for your spouse, and then you get frustrated.

[Brian Bates]

But shouldn't the goal been be. Oh, we need to recalibrate things in that person's mind because it is a bigger deal.

[Dusty Slay]

The mo.

[Brian Bates]

It is a bigger deal to mow the lawn than to scratch your back.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I love to have my back.

[Brian Bates]

Well, me too.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm saying, I even try to get my kids to do it now. I got.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm like, you know what I.

[Brian Bates]

Can'T wait for when Olive is big enough to walk on my back. You like people walking on your back?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, God, it feels so good. Lucy won't do it. Makes me furious.

[Aaron Weber]

But you walk on hers.

[Brian Bates]

That's very funny, Brian. I could use a word of affirmation from you, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

You look very good. Oh, man, the shirt you're wearing. That gold emblem match with your gold hat, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Your eyes. I thought it was Brad Pitt over here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's too much, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Hubba hubba.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, well, thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Quality touch.

[Aaron Weber]

A physical, physical touch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Got touch the skin, though.

[Brian Bates]

Good on that.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. We all love our family. I think that goes outside, so we don't have to get into that, but let's get into some stuff. Non people, non personal.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get into what life is really about. Material things.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Stuff we have loved over the years. So I thought it'd be fun. We're all 10 years apart, so if we take a decade and pick some things, I think we're gonna have some very different answers.

[Brian Bates]

I love this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So let's do the 90s, 2000s, 2000s, and then 2000s.

[Brian Bates]

Perfect. Perfect.

[Aaron Weber]

And I picked four things to talk about. Is there one you guys want to get into first? Does it matter?

[Dusty Slay]

I think we should just start in order.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, let's do it in a row.

[Dusty Slay]

Like in 90s, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I know that, but I'm talking about the topics. All right. We'll start with toys.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So obviously, it's going to be very different for you and I. I'll. I'll start, and we can just. I don't know how we want to do this. Some of mine are lame on here, but for toys. 1990s for me, I chose golf clubs. I never played golf growing up, never took golf lessons. But in the 90s, in college, my buddy liked to go these cheap courses and play, and I bought some really cheap golf clubs, and we would go.

[Dusty Slay]

They were toys.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm. I'm in my 20s, so this is the closest thing.

[Brian Bates]

Tools for me. Okay. But yeah, for Brian, like, toys. I get work done on the green.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not gonna have any real toys in my 20s. That's the closest thing I can come up with.

[Dusty Slay]

I was just trying to get caught because you're saying we go to these cheap golf courses.

[Brian Bates]

I was 25. I got a Slinky, and I was thinking, changed my life.

[Dusty Slay]

Some plastic golf clubs.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So that's what I'm choosing, golf clubs. I've started playing golf. I've never been good at golf, but. But I was having fun in college. Those were the closest things I have is to a toy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, That's a real good one. Mine would probably be a bike in the 90s. Had a good bike with pegs. You ever have a bike with pegs on?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, when I got the pegs put in.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, 90s were my heyday for toys. I mean, I was 8 years old in 1990. I mean, I had GI Joes. I had he man masters of the Universe toys. I had Ninja Turtle toys. That's how I know about Master Splinter. Me and my stepbrother, we had a. We had the whole sewer thing going. We had all, you know, you had where they were. They had the city on the top, then the sewer underneath. I had.

[Brian Bates]

Gosh, those action figures.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I was all I had. I had race cars. I had a remote control car. Remote control car with a cord, but still. Remote control car. Oh, man. My dad had four wheelers. We had bikes.

[Aaron Weber]

So you're just listening to a bunch of stuff that you had that you loved as a kid, which is fine.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. So.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the 90s was my heyday for toys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We're saying we're picking one. One thing.

[Dusty Slay]

G.I. joe.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And did you think that that translated into you eventually joining the army, maybe?

[Dusty Slay]

The.

[Brian Bates]

Was he an army guy? GI Joe or was he just kind of. It was a league military.

[Dusty Slay]

It was lots of GI Joe Joe's.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it was one dude named Joe.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no. There's so many.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it was one guy named Joe.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's a whole world of.

[Brian Bates]

So it was GI Joes.

[Dusty Slay]

GI Joe.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it was a guy who was a GI and his name was Joe.

[Aaron Weber]

I did, too.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy. Who's. Okay, so they don't have names.

[Dusty Slay]

Look up the. Yeah, they all have names, but you got to look up action figures from the 90s. I mean, but. Yeah, it's like. But it stands for something, I think. But it's.

[Brian Bates]

Well, GI stands for General Infantryman.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. But it's. Yeah. I mean, there was so many. I don't. You know, I was just playing with the toys. But my. Then in the trailer park, he didn't have the whole backstory in the trailer park. The whole front yard was all sand.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So we. And then Desert Storm was going on at some point in my life as a child. So we had Desert Storm kind of trucks and tanks, and so. And then the yard was sand, so we were building bunkers and roads, and we had GI Joes all over. The place was unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

I think Desert storm was like, 91.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, it was, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So that was your heyday.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, I. I. Sergeant had a. Sergeant Slaughter. GI Joe.

[Brian Bates]

You were right, Dusty. GI Joe was not originally one guy, but a brand name for four different action figures representing the RV, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Launched in 1960.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, but there was. So my dad, you know, I. My dad would pick me up every other Sunday because I live with my mom, and he would take me to lunch, and then we would go to Walmart, and he would usually buy me a GI Joe. I had so many GI Joes.

[Aaron Weber]

So how would they make them different than if it was?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. I'm. I'm. I'm pretty blown away that you guys don't know about GI Joes.

[Brian Bates]

But when I think GI Joe, I know. I know it's wrong, but I grew up. Up with. I had a little plastic green army guys.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I. Yeah, no, GI Joe's had.

[Brian Bates]

Is this them right here?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they had, you know, they had wrists that moved, they had elbows, they had shoulders. They had. They were not like this. That. That's some form of GI Joe. But you want to look up the 90s plastic GI Joes. They were about this Tall, but they were real slender guys and. Yeah, like this one?

[Brian Bates]

Like this right here?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, more like that. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And. Oh, man, they had guns and grenades and it's unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

Look at that vintage GI Joe collection right there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's what you had?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's awesome. GI Joe's were the best. But I also loved he Man. Masters of the Universe by the power of Grayskull.

[Aaron Weber]

Should we stick with the 90s or go to a different topic?

[Brian Bates]

I say stick with the 90s.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So keep it fresh.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so the 90s TV shows.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For me, Seinfeld. Now, I will say this. I didn't, like, start watching Seinfeld episode one. I was kind of late to the game when I was in college. I remember my roommate watched Seinfeld some, and I didn't really get into it or care for it. But then, mid to late 90s.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I started to really get into it, and then obviously by the time it finished. But I mean, I've watched it's like a lot of shows, the shows in syndication. I've gotten much more into it than even when it aired.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but you. But you picked it up while it was. Yeah, tv. I probably watched the finale live.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I went to a friend's house and we all watched it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

He had, like, a Seinfeld watch party.

[Dusty Slay]

I was in middle school when Seinfeld was coming out. I remember watching it. We loved it back then.

[Brian Bates]

Then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but you're probably.

[Brian Bates]

I wasn't allowed to watch it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

For a while.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So I was in college and then working when that came out.

[Dusty Slay]

What about Family Matters, Fresh Prince of Bel Air? When were those out?

[Brian Bates]

Early 90s, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that whole TGI Friday. I mean, those shows. And then TGI Friday also had Step by Step. Step by Step. Fresh Star. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody. You know, you and Nate, Same similar age and similar interest. Those shows. I was already a little too old for, like, Full House and. Oh, yeah, Family Matters.

[Dusty Slay]

Family Matters.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I was, like I said, in college and working. I don't care about Urkel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So, like, by the time, like, Boy Meets World comes around, you're. You're like, I'm not watching this.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. Yeah. I don't even really hardly know what that is.

[Brian Bates]

You don't know Topanga. You don't know Topangas. There's. I'm trying to think of 90. For me, the one show in the 90s cartoon. I was. I was young in the 90s. But. But hey, Arnold was, I think, the best cartoon of that era for me.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's a big show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Didn't actually last that long.

[Aaron Weber]

Where did it.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a cartoon.

[Brian Bates]

Nickelodeon cartoon came out in 96. Doug it's about. Doug was a different show.

[Dusty Slay]

What about hey Dude?

[Brian Bates]

Never heard of that. But hey, Arnold is about all these. What is hey dude, the shoes.

[Dusty Slay]

Now? Hey dude was a TV show, I think came on Nickelodeon about a dude ranch.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, never heard of that. Hey, Arnold was about street kids and it's like the main character has a football shaped head.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they call him Football Head.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I remember the show.

[Brian Bates]

And it's just about him and his friends and there's zero parental supervision. This whole show. And it's just these kids running around the city and it was just, it was the best. I love.

[Aaron Weber]

So you were born late 91?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, late 91.

[Aaron Weber]

So this is. I mean, you're young.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean by the time I was watching, I was 7 or 8 or 9. So at the end of the.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's clean enough that your parents let you watch it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was Nickelodeon. It's for kids.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So. Yeah. Not an adult cartoon or anything.

[Aaron Weber]

What about you, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I mean, TV show, the 90s.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, if I, I mean, it's so hard because like I say, the 90s, that was my era.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I mean, what in the 90s was bad? I mean, that I didn't. I mean, Fresh Prince was such a great show.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you remember the good stuff. Yeah, I'm sure there's a ton of trash.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They got canceled real fast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I, you know, there was some, like I used to. I watched a lot of tv.

[Brian Bates]

Billing ball show. You got into that.

[Dusty Slay]

I did get into Bill Engville, but I never watched the Bill Engville show.

[Aaron Weber]

Friends had a spin off Joey.

[Dusty Slay]

But Friends was out in the 90s, right.

[Brian Bates]

We're still right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. In the 90s was friends.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So you're saying it was all great.

[Brian Bates]

I'm saying you got to pick one. The point of this.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, but Joey, Blossom, I remember that. You remember Blossom?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I think that was. Might been the 80s.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Blossom. Oh, was it? I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

You may be right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I got to pick one show from the 90s.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's what we're doing. I mean, picking one thing from each.

[Dusty Slay]

Of these categories, that's too hard. I gotta pass.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like Kevin on the Office when he's doing the cpr. They pass. No, he says call it. All right. A car from the 90s, which should be interesting. R3. Yeah. So I. When I got my job at News Channel 5 in 1995, I bought, I guess the two cars I had previously my parents had bought for me. But I bought a. A Ford Probe and I think it was like 2 years old. So it was very new to me. And it had tinted windows and what.

[Brian Bates]

Year do you remember?

[Aaron Weber]

It was a 93 Ford Probe and I bought it 95 and. Yeah. Except it was black.

[Dusty Slay]

And it was a sweet car back then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did the headlights pop up like that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

On it? Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean it looks cool.

[Dusty Slay]

That's pretty sweet.

[Aaron Weber]

I was a cool guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It doesn't sound like it's going to be a nice looking car with a name like probe once.

[Dusty Slay]

Once it starts to get raggedy and only got probed and only one headlight comes up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think that happened.

[Dusty Slay]

Give you a little wink.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. I think. I think that ended up happening.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But yeah, that was like my first car that I bought myself and made payments on myself.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that's a big moment.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What car were you driving in the 90s?

[Brian Bates]

I was not driving yet, but our family car, we had a 19, 1991 Toyota Previa minivan.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was a white one. All the hubcaps fell off. It's so funny. All a lot of the pictures of this same model car, the hubcaps are missing.

[Dusty Slay]

That's truly the worst looking van in all of history.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that was. I mean, that was the Weber family minivan right there. Dude, that was a nice car. When it came out. It had a sliding door, but only on one side of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I remember those.

[Brian Bates]

And our minivan. We were at the ballpark. My brother was playing and that sliding door slid right off the car. Wow. And we had to drive back to the house. My brother on top of the car holding it. Wow. And we. We brought it back to the house. But that was our car. I mean, that was. We took all our road trips in that car. You know, my dad and brother in the front and then my mom and sister in the. In the middle and. Yeah, that's the way we did put six people in that car apartment.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

We missed it. It was. We donated it to like, I don't know something. Cars for kids, something like that. And we used to see it around town. Every now and then we'd see it.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't you wish you could have it, man?

[Brian Bates]

I would. I would like it back. It. It looks like a novelty car now. It doesn't even look like a real vehicle.

[Aaron Weber]

I was just watching.

[Brian Bates]

That's the ugliest car you've ever.

[Dusty Slay]

It is the ugliest car in the history of. Of vans.

[Brian Bates]

It's not. It's not that. That good look. And we. We had a little thing on top too. We put extra stuff in.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty was just on Millionaires and Cars getting coffee and. Isn't that what it's called?

[Dusty Slay]

That is what it's called.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're a millionaire, you can come on too, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I didn't know that there was any kind of criteria.

[Aaron Weber]

But anyways, titled.

[Dusty Slay]

I just agreed to do the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, but you were talking about on there, I think a car that you wish you still had.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, there's several that I wish I still had. But the car I drove in the 90s that I liked the most and wish I still had was a 1989 Ford Bronco full size. It's. I mean, that's what I had.

[Brian Bates]

What color was it?

[Dusty Slay]

It was a white.

[Aaron Weber]

That's OJ.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but it was.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

It was 1989.

[Brian Bates]

Dude. That's such a cool looking.

[Dusty Slay]

It was the best.

[Brian Bates]

I love that.

[Dusty Slay]

But my carplay in it. My. Yeah, my dad gave it to me and it broke down a lot. So one day my dad traded it in and then the car that I had in the 90s for the rest of the 90s was a 1999 Saturn. Saturn SL1 or 2. I don't even know if there was a 1 or a 2 back then. Is that blue? One of the blue ones? Probably the top left.

[Brian Bates]

So a real downgrade from the Ford.

[Aaron Weber]

You graduate in 2000?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So, okay, so this is your high school.

[Dusty Slay]

So I drove it senior year.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And gosh, like the second one. Second one from the left up there. Yeah, that one. That looks almost identical. And except mine had gray bumpers which are called 5 mile per hour bumpers. So you could hit anybody going 5 miles per hour and it wouldn't hurt their car.

[Brian Bates]

Wow, that was smart.

[Dusty Slay]

It was. It saved me a lot. But that car ended up being really great for me. I would end up wrecking it in a ditch. I flipped it and. But it was great for me. But a car I wish I had back was a 2000 car. We can get into that in the next decade.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. You know, little Saturn trivia. I don't think Saturn's exist anymore. They started In Spring Hill, Tennessee. Yeah, Spring Hill was nothing. And then the Saturn plant came there and blew up in the good.

[Brian Bates]

For sure.

[Dusty Slay]

It was really a great car for me. It was good on gas. It was. We used to call it incognito because it looked like the kind of car that, you know, you wouldn't get pulled over in. It looked like nothing bad was going.

[Brian Bates]

On in there and nothing good, but nothing bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Would you drive your friends around all the time?

[Dusty Slay]

I used to deliver pizza in that car, and they'd come meet me at the pizza place, and we'd drive around and deliver pizzas.

[Brian Bates]

You put a thing on top of the car.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, that's great.

[Aaron Weber]

A local pizza place.

[Dusty Slay]

Papa John's.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Papa John's. Yeah. That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Local joint.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

A place called Domino's.

[Aaron Weber]

And then music we loved in the 90s. I guess this could be a singer or a song or album. Whatever we choose, I chose. The 90s was when. Early 90s is when country music kind of blew up. And obviously Garth Brooks was the biggest. But there were so many big acts, and George Strait was already big in the 80s, so it's not like he was new. But at that time, when I was in college, it's crazy saying this now. Nashville did not have any big venues for big acts. This is before Bridgestone arena was built. So if there was a big act coming, they would come to Murfreesboro, to MTSU's Murphy Center. So I saw Garth Brooks there, but I saw George Strait numerous times at MTSU's Murphy Center. And I still love George Straight, but in the 90s, you know, I love.

[Brian Bates]

George Strait, so that's a great one.

[Aaron Weber]

That was mine.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Mine's a little different.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Boys to Men.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that a big, small child?

[Brian Bates]

Boys to Men. I remember I saw Boys to Men either at the super bowl or some NFL game.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you would say, like, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

[Brian Bates]

No, that's when I was 6 or 7.

[Dusty Slay]

What was a song? A big song. I remember Boys to Men, but.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the End of the Road was the biggest.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Was the big hit.

[Aaron Weber]

But I'll make love to you.

[Brian Bates]

I'll make. Yeah, I was more into the. The love stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a love episode.

[Brian Bates]

But I remember my dad. We went to the mall. My dad bought me.

[Aaron Weber]

So your dad took you to Boys to make.

[Brian Bates]

No, I never saw them live, but I bought this album, Evolution, right here by Boys to Men. They had a song called A Song for Mama on it. That's like the greatest.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Song, you know, from a son to a mom.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I love that album that came out in 97, so I was 6 when we got it.

[Aaron Weber]

This was a new addition. Right as they. They're Boys to Men because they used to be a boy band and then they became Men.

[Brian Bates]

I have no idea. Is that. Are you making a joke or something?

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no. I believe New Edition changed their name. They were like a boy band. And then I feel like they got older and they changed their name to Boys to Men.

[Brian Bates]

I've never heard that.

[Dusty Slay]

I've never heard that either.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it might be true. I have no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

Surely it's on there.

[Brian Bates]

They found inspiration in new additions, harmonies and routines. Oh, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll look this up.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

There might be some.

[Dusty Slay]

They eventually renamed the group Boys to Men.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

After.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

It's nice to have an old guy on this.

[Dusty Slay]

Old head.

[Aaron Weber]

I do remember when that happened. I was. I was getting mixed up a little bit with Bell Biv DeVoe, because I think some of them are in there too. All right, Dusty music from the 90s.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I would say early 90s, I mean, I was all country. All country. Probably Hank Jr. Was my favorite.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Which one you loved?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Hank Jr. And. And then as I got, you know, later 90s, as I got my own car in 98, I started to drive around a bit, listen to the radio.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Started to branch out a little bit, found some 90s alternative rock. I would say probably by the end of the 90s, I. Matchbox 20 was. Oh, I was a big fan of the Matchbox 20s. Yourself or someone like you. I wouldn't go right to. They were my favorite band. I also liked Live.

[Brian Bates]

Lightning.

[Dusty Slay]

Lightning Crack. That album. Unbelievable. Wildest Creed song was really popping off at the end of the 90s. The end.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

My own prison and all.

[Dusty Slay]

My own prison. And then. And then that. You know, I think I was a senior when the. The album came out. The.

[Brian Bates]

Well, 99 is when I started my Creed fan website. When I was a. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Kid.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's true.

[Brian Bates]

I ran for year or two.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, now we're in the 2000s.

[Brian Bates]

2000S.

[Aaron Weber]

A toy. I mean, it's getting harder and harder for me, so it's a little bit of a stretch.

[Brian Bates]

You're like a hot water heater. I knew it. For my. Like, what's a toy at this age?

[Aaron Weber]

I chose Titan Season tickets.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Technically, it was 1999 was their first year. But, you know, I had season tickets all through the 2000s and loved it. They were actually good a lot of those years. And I had two tickets, so I would take friends to games, and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[Brian Bates]

It is awesome to have season tickets.

[Aaron Weber]

It really is. And then I just couldn't believe that. That Nashville had a professional sports team and guys that I just watched on TV are actually playing here. They're right there live. And it was. I mean, my seats were so high, but still I loved it. I loved it. So that. That's mine, I would say.

[Brian Bates]

I got a drum set at the early 2000s. Spatula now full on. Full on. Tama. Five piece drum set. The ride symbol and the crash symbol.

[Aaron Weber]

So this is ages. Like.

[Brian Bates]

Like, I think I was like nine, like, early.

[Aaron Weber]

This is right.

[Brian Bates]

2000.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And I had a drum, and I played drums seriously for. For a long time. So that drum set was huge.

[Aaron Weber]

So you're still a good drummer.

[Brian Bates]

I haven't played in forever, but I think I could be all right. I was never, like, exceptionally good or anything, but I. I played in, like, our church group and stuff as a young kid. I would play occasionally. Had Catholics have drummers, usually one mass a weekend. They try to. They try to modernize it for people like y'.

[Dusty Slay]

All.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then.

[Aaron Weber]

Not me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You don't like any instruments, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then I play with, like, groups through middle school and high school and. Anyway, drum set for me. But you does.

[Dusty Slay]

I would say horseshoes. Early 2000s, I moved to Folly Beach, South Carolina. Go hang out on the beach a lot, I'd say. It'd be tough to say whether a horseshoe. A set of horseshoes or a cooler was my favorite toy. But a good cooler can change your life. But a whole. But horseshoes is a toy. Yeah. And we would go down to the beach and we'll play horseshoes a lot in the sand. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

Used to do that all the time. It's before Cornhole took over the world. Horseshoes was the game.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. TV shows in the 2000s. This was tough for me because I love Sopranos. There's a lot of good shows, but I chose the Office.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It actually ran over the next decade, but by then the show wasn't as good. So I think it started in 2005.

[Brian Bates]

So that long ago. The West Wing for me. Go check it out. West Wing, best show of all time. Early 2000s.

[Dusty Slay]

I blacked out most of the early 2000s. I don't even know that I Weather channels, watched an. A TV show at all the whole decade. I don't know that I ever got into a TV show in the decade of the 2010s.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Like Guy Fieri or something. You're watching anything? I might have watched it or what? Who's the guy? You like the guy?

[Dusty Slay]

Restaurant. Impossible. Yeah, but I didn't get into that until after. Yeah, I would say maybe. Yeah, Diners, Dives and drive Ins or whatever. We watched a little bit of that because he came to Charleston. But yeah, I don't think I watched a TV show at all. Really.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's me for music. I stopped after the night. I really almost stopped music. But I chose. I wouldn't say I really love them, but I had to pick something, so I chose Coldplay.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I like the Scientist.

[Dusty Slay]

And that's a good album. The first album was a good album.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what I.

[Brian Bates]

Decade for them. That's got to be John Mayer for me, that whole 10 years. Room for Squares comes out early, early aughts. And then he just goes on a tear for the next 10 years. Culminates in the greatest live album of all time, live at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. And that was the decade of John Mayer for me.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I got into Radiohead in the 2000s. And also I like the first two albums of Kings of Leon and the first two albums by the Killers. I would say those. Those really rounded out the 2000s for me. But I was. I got. Had a real radio head because I'd never listened to Radiohead. So I got caught up on all of them in the 2000s. And.

[Brian Bates]

And it's the next decade where your life changes a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, When I start to get it together. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. All right, now we're in the 2010s. So for a toy, I chose the iPhone. It would still be my toy now, but I got my first iPhone around that time. And, I mean, I'm addicted to my phone. I love it. I love it more than my family, but. But I shouldn't. Yeah, so that's me.

[Brian Bates]

It's a laptop for me. I remember I got my first laptop in 2010. I graduated high school, and I'm a big computer guy. Not as much as I used to be. I used to do a lot on there, but, yeah, that's it. That's the best.

[Dusty Slay]

Even though, truthfully, My toy is probably my iPhone 2. But in 2012, I quit drinking. And so for the next.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you meant like an iPhone 2.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no.

[Brian Bates]

Like, haven't upgraded yet.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, that's what I currently have.

[Brian Bates]

IPhone2 is incredible, but I rode a.

[Dusty Slay]

Bike for two years from 2012 to 2014, and it completely changed my life. So I'm going to say a bike.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

TV show for me. Again, this is tough because there's so many good ones, but I chose Breaking Bad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Breaking Bad's mine as well.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I'm gonna show of the decade.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna go Portlandia.

[Aaron Weber]

Never watched it, but I hear it's great.

[Dusty Slay]

That was my favorite show. I mean, I watched Breaking Bad. Obviously, it's a better show, but Portlandia is so funny now.

[Aaron Weber]

Better Call Saul is considered one of the great. The best spin offs of any.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, has to be better than Breaking Bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of like us with Nateland.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We're the better Call Saul.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. A car from the 2000.

[Brian Bates]

Did I skip you skip car for the last one? That's all right.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

That's okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, for me, 2000, 2010s, it's Honda Accord. Two different Honda Accords. But sorry, you want to do your cars?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, Sir.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Early 2000s would be a Dodge Avenger for me because I. I put.

[Brian Bates]

I.

[Dusty Slay]

That was my first car that I actually bought on my own, and I wore that car out by flipping it in. I don't. I didn't flip it. I flipped the Saturn. The Dodge Avenger I threw up in and I wrecked several times.

[Aaron Weber]

What was your first car that was yours?

[Brian Bates]

I had a 2004 Toyota Tacoma, regular cab. That truck right there. I bought it from my grandpa for a dollar, and he used to carry his dog around in it, and it smelled like his dog for maybe two or three years before I finally got the smell out of there. You know, I had to mask it with dip, spit, and cigarettes. Yeah, Everything else he put in there. But, yeah, I got in a bad wreck in that car driving back from Gregory Gregory's Comedy Club in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Driving back, gotten a wreck back, smash up the front of the car, Couldn't afford to fix it. Drove around for years with a smashed up front of that truck. Ended up selling it to a waiter at Zany's here for 400 bucks.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Selling the car. So it's still out there somewhere. But I. I like to think my grandpa protected me in that truck.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, because it got. It got pretty smashed up and they were like. They go, it looks terrible, but it's fine. I go, well, then that's all in need.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

2010'S car for me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

2005 Volvo S60. We drove around with me a lot in that car. That's my favorite car that I ever owned. I drove all over the country in 2004. 2005, I believe. Yeah, yeah. That white one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Gosh.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That was my favorite car in the world. I drove that car all over the country. I traded it in with 317,000 miles.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Love that car. It was fast. I remember driving Aaron around and upper Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Not a soul around. Just flying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. 95.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Two lane roads. God, it was amazing. Just flying. Scared to my life.

[Dusty Slay]

That was the best.

[Aaron Weber]

And then so now we're in the 2000 and twenties.

[Brian Bates]

The 2000 and twenties. The current decade.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. This gets harder and harder.

[Brian Bates]

That's more than halfway over. We're closer to 2030 than we are of 2020.

[Aaron Weber]

That is crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

That's when it all goes down.

[Brian Bates]

That 2030.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was 2012. Remember 2030. You think 2030, it's every year.

[Dusty Slay]

No, 2030. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Is when I'll be dead by then. Okay. For me, I mean, I'm like, what can I think of? I got a telescope. So I. I haven't had a much chance since I've had a kid, but I used to love to go out there and look at the stars. Look at the moon.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And observe, you know, don't even know what I was looking at, but it was fun to see stuff up close. Remember that? There was one Christmas a few years ago where the planets aligned and they called it the. Like the. The Christmas star or whatever. And I brought it to Nate's house after the podcast and we got out in this cul de sac.

[Brian Bates]

And did you get a good view?

[Aaron Weber]

It was okay. I think Nate was a little disappointed. I think he thought I was gonna have like a dire observatory telescope, one I bought for 80 bucks at Walmart. But it was fun. So that's mine.

[Brian Bates]

Mine is probably. It's gonna. The fattest thing ever. Got a outdoor fridge. Oh, not an outdoor, but a garage fridge.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just for drinks.

[Aaron Weber]

Where's Nate when you need it?

[Brian Bates]

That's the dream.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The dream is to a separate fridge with all the stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

The fun stuff you keep in the garage.

[Brian Bates]

Keep it in the garage. Yeah, yeah, I got it out there. It's not a great one. It's a small one from Costco, but it's. That's a milestone in my life.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

A separate fridge.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I gotta work on a separate freezer out there. That's probably. That's gonna be next.

[Dusty Slay]

But anyway, I'm gonna try to piggyback off that.

[Brian Bates]

Please do.

[Dusty Slay]

Because the reality is the real toy that I got in the 2000 and 20s is my children's toys. Because I had my first child in 2021, my daughter. But I got an outdoor heater so that I could sit outside and smoke cigars in the winter time.

[Brian Bates]

Big time. So one of those ones that.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not like that. It's like this, but it. I mean, it pumps it out and it is.

[Brian Bates]

Sit right in front of it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like. I'm like. Too hot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's funny, the stuff that makes you excited.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's the best.

[Brian Bates]

Getting my dryer fixed tomorrow morning. I'm so pumped.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm so excited.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I love that.

[Brian Bates]

It's been running continuously.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

You turn it off and it still runs. You have to unplug it. Then as soon as you plug it in, it starts going again.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Fairly common error with the sounds.

[Dusty Slay]

Fine.

[Brian Bates]

You can't control any of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You just gotta. You gotta get yourself one of those surge protectors with a little switch on it.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, honestly.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That might be the way to do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm gonna have a guy look at it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's probably the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Our TV shows that we love of the 2000s. I almost said Game of Thrones because I was into Game of Thrones. Time flies. That was over. I think that maybe ended in 2020.

[Brian Bates]

Or maybe that's when I was in college.

[Aaron Weber]

2019. Yeah. So I chose Succession.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Short lived, but I thought it was really good. Hbo.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Three seasons.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But I really enjoyed it.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great show. I'm gonna say a show that also died soon. Mindhunter on Netflix.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know it.

[Brian Bates]

David Fincher. It's about the. The two guys. They're kind of fictionalized in a way, but it's about the. The group of people at the FBI that first started investigating serial killers. And it's just like interviews with serial killers.

[Aaron Weber]

They're still on.

[Brian Bates]

Tristan Meinhardt. It's unbelievable. Two seasons and then they stopped doing it. And every now and then I see an article. We're coming back for season three, but it's not gonna happen. But that was my Favorite. What about you?

[Dusty Slay]

I should have said Always Sunny for the last decade, but I didn't. And I'm. Stick with Portlandia. Yeah, but you can't go back for the 2000s. I'm gonna. I've not watched many shows at all. I watched a lot of old shows. But I'm gonna say the show that I watched that I liked. AP Bio, season only, Season one.

[Brian Bates]

I'm really surprised you like that show.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that show.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Season one is unbelievable. So funny.

[Aaron Weber]

It's so funny. I've never even heard of this show.

[Dusty Slay]

I just happen to stumble on it. I like the actor. Season one is so funny to me.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I skipped again one of the categories, the 2010s for music. I was. This is where I'm really getting desperate. I couldn't even think of anything, but I really. I'm supposed to stuff something I love. But I really liked Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton. That song.

[Brian Bates]

Just that one song on loop. The whole decade, I couldn't think of anything.

[Aaron Weber]

I really stopped.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what? That whole album is good. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say this Traveler. I bought that at. What is this music shop over here? Fairly popular record shop right near Zanes. Grimy's. I went into Grimy's one day, probably to pick up my CDs, making that fudge that they let me put on their shelves that they never sold any of. And they asked me to come pick them up, and I bought.

[Brian Bates]

Did you sign them?

[Dusty Slay]

No. No, I didn't sign it. Yeah, but the Traveler, I bought it in there. I never heard of Chris Stapleton. Had no idea who he was. I listened to that album for a week, and I was like, this is the best.

[Brian Bates]

Did you just like the COVID I.

[Dusty Slay]

Think it was displayed or something. And they were. But I had never heard of this guy. And I listened to it, and I was like, this is unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

If I've ever taken a chance on.

[Dusty Slay]

A. I used to do it all the time, really. But then. So I'm like, I'm. I wanted to make a Facebook post about how good it was. And then the next week, like, a week later, he does whatever award show with Justin Timberlake where he plays Tennessee Whiskey.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And everybody knows now.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how I learned of it.

[Dusty Slay]

And I was like, I wish I'd have made the post. I want everybody to know that I was on this first.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but now y' all are friends.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's like the definition of a hipster.

[Dusty Slay]

But I like that One I also. Sturgill Simpson met her Meta Modern Sounds of country music came out in that. Very good, Very good.

[Brian Bates]

That was a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you have one 2010s?

[Brian Bates]

2010S is probably. I got into jam stuff a lot. Probably Tedeschi trucks that probably dominated that.

[Aaron Weber]

That.

[Brian Bates]

That era for me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

White and Morgan. Whitey Morgan. Very good country, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry. I kind of messed this up by getting out of jumping. So now we're back to the 2020s cars. So in 2010, I. The 2010s, I bought a. In 2012, I bought a brand new Honda Accord. It's the first time and probably the only time in my life I'll big time buy one. We always bought slightly used. And I'm like, I'll do it this one time. I'll buy a brand new car. And I'm still driving that car today. The. The one I have out there now. It hit 200, 000 miles a few months ago.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And I posted a video of all the well known comedians that have rode in my car with me.

[Brian Bates]

That's.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you know, Dusty wasn't on there because he never did. But then a couple weeks ago, Nateland finale, we're both parked outside, he. And couldn't find anywhere to park, and he's like, let me just jump in your car and we'll pull over here. So we drove about 50ft.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that counts.

[Brian Bates]

That counts.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's a road trip.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a road trip. So now I can say I can add Dusty to the list of people in my car.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not the car. We drove to Huntsville that time.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't you drive now?

[Dusty Slay]

I think. Well, maybe I did.

[Aaron Weber]

You may be right.

[Brian Bates]

Y' all both drunk now.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what? You may be right. I don't know, because we've done two Huntsville shows. Are you talking about that corporate.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think you're right.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I did drive, so never mind. That's true.

[Brian Bates]

I forgot about that was when y' all performed for janitors at lunch.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The other time we.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Brian performed for the. For everybody. And then they started to leave during.

[Aaron Weber]

My set, and he would not let up. Finally, the people.

[Brian Bates]

He'll do his time, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, finally.

[Aaron Weber]

People that booked. You said, hey, you can stop.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The other time we drove to Huntsville together is when I had shingles.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

On my face. And I had to wear a hat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So we've had.

[Dusty Slay]

I drove that time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had me sit in the back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Trunk in the back of the truck. The bed of the truck.

[Dusty Slay]

I put. Oh, and put a trash bag on.

[Aaron Weber]

So. So anyway, my. My car is the same for two decades that I choose because it's the only one I've had. So what's a car for you?

[Brian Bates]

I had that 2010 Chrysler Town and country minivan, and I beat that thing into the ground, and it gave me nothing. It fought back the whole time. Nothing but problems. Dude, it would.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I remember that guy.

[Brian Bates]

It used to turn off in the middle of driving, and the steering. I mean, it gave. Gave me nothing but problems. I love the look of it, though. And it had stow and go seats. I remember I bought it. I go. It's got stow and go seats. Worst case scenario, I can always sleep in the back of this minivan. A, never clean enough to do that. B, thankfully, never had to. But I love that minivan. And it. I put 250,000 miles on it or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the one that ran out of gas?

[Brian Bates]

Did you joke about did run out of gas? Yeah. I mean, I got a lot of material from this minivan.

[Dusty Slay]

You let me smoke a cigar in there. In. In Colom, Columbus, Ohio.

[Brian Bates]

Do whatever you wanted.

[Dusty Slay]

It was so cold, and we sat out there and you let me smoke.

[Brian Bates]

A cigar and of course you can do.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I was like, are you sure?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's the one you had when podcast first started, Nateland started. You was drive that to Nate's house?

[Brian Bates]

I think so, yeah. I think. Yeah. I still had that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I loved it as much as it was a nightmare. And I'll never buy a Chrysler ever again. Chrysler's like, hey, your headlights out. What we got to do is we got to take all four tires off. Off and take apart the car, and then we could put a new light bulb in. I mean, they're built. They're dealership traps. They're awful. But, God, I loved it. I loved every second of it.

[Aaron Weber]

And then music of the 20.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, go ahead.

[Dusty Slay]

Why? I want to just. Well, my car. I mean, not that it's gonna.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry. Did I skip you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you did. My apologies, but I have a 2018 Toyota Tacoma that I still drive.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I love that. Love that truck bug.

[Aaron Weber]

It's very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

How long have you had it?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Maybe the whole decade so far.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe six years.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe five. Maybe five.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

I got it. Yeah, I might have got it. 20, 21, I bet.

[Brian Bates]

After Covet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's how Old. My car is. This had nothing to do with it. It was just a pure coincidence. I bought my car on election day, the year Obama and Romney were against each other.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That seemed like such a long time ago.

[Brian Bates]

It feels like a whole.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I was riding a bike back then.

[Brian Bates]

It was like a whole different country. Obama and Romney.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. 2012.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I bought it.

[Dusty Slay]

That's when I quit drinking. I was riding a bike around, and.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm still driving it.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I hope to get to 300,000 miles, but we'll see.

[Brian Bates]

It's. So you remember the things that were scandalous during that election. It's binders full of women. You remember all that?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I forgot about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was crazy. Crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a. That's amazing because in that time, I bought a car in 2014 with a hundred thousand miles and I put 217,000 on it by 2018.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, you're.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, talk about an easier to drive tour.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever given up?

[Brian Bates]

I have no other option.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever feel a connection with a car and you hate to give it up because you feel like y' all been through so much?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I felt that way with that one one even though. Even though it hated me.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I. I keep cars so long that I feel, like, sad when.

[Brian Bates]

I still think about the Volvo. As men get older, they become sentimental about. They more and more sentimental about that kind of stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Russer do.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, if you ever move from your current house, do you think you. You would get sentimental about leaving that house?

[Aaron Weber]

Absolutely. Absolutely. Because we may do that. And I think about how often my daughter runs up and down that hallway if. If, you know. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I can tell you as somebody who just moved houses and my kids had been in the house the whole time, you know, that was the house they'd been in their whole lives. I don't miss it at all. So I thought I would. I thought I would be very sentimental about it, but I don't. I did come up. You. We talked about a top five country songs about loving things.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Did y' all want to do music.

[Brian Bates]

Time wise?

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I only have four normally. I have a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

I have two I could throw away because we.

[Dusty Slay]

We talked about not making it about love because there's so many. Also.

[Aaron Weber]

Everything's about love, about romantic love.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. So I thought about other things we could do.

[Brian Bates]

Agape love, though.

[Dusty Slay]

These are some songs about love. So I'm gonna go number four. I love a rainy night. Oh, that's A Good bye. Yeah, by Eddie Rabbit.

[Aaron Weber]

It.

[Dusty Slay]

There's a song called I Love by Tom T. Hall. I love little baby ducks, old pickup trucks.

[Aaron Weber]

Great song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a great Frogs. And then there's another one called I Love this Bar by Toby Keith. I love this bar. Yep. And then my number one, he doesn't actually say he loves things, but it just. It kind of piggybacks off we and I, which I never say piggybacking. I've said it a couple times here. Off being sentimental about things. But it's a guy named Guy Clark, and the song is Stuff that Works.

[Brian Bates]

Stuff that works.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Stuff that holds.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you really do know it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You were joking.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, no, no. It's a great song and stuff that.

[Brian Bates]

I'll never let you down.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah. And it's. It's just like he talks about things that he loves in his life that he.

[Brian Bates]

He.

[Dusty Slay]

That he. That just. It works. And he loves it because it works.

[Aaron Weber]

What about. So one of them was I love this bar. The other one I thought of kind of fits is I'm Gonna Miss her by Brad Paisley.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because that's about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Because he loves fishing plus fishing more than his wife. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's five.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I still think Stuff that Works is number one.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Just. If we're ranking them.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I'm not gonna argue with that. I don't know the song.

[Dusty Slay]

I would put Brad Paisley song at number five. Five.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm fine with that because I. What were the other three? I know them all.

[Dusty Slay]

Eddie Rabbit. I love a rainy night song.

[Aaron Weber]

Comte Hall. Love. And. And I love this bar.

[Dusty Slay]

I love this bar. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I like my truck. I like my girlfriend. You know this song? I like to take her out to dinner. I like a movie now and then, but I love this bar.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I love the way he pauses before.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, you don't really sing melodically, so it's tough sometimes.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you don't get it.

[Aaron Weber]

Bart Scarborough's daughter gets it.

[Dusty Slay]

You're just a drummer. What do you know? You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

They say, what's the difference between a drummer and a. It's all these drummer jokes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How do you know if a drummer's at your door?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Knocking gets faster and faster.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's fun.

[Brian Bates]

And then what's the difference between a drummer and a large pizza?

[Dusty Slay]

Takes longer to break down your drum kit than it does to eat the whole Pizza.

[Brian Bates]

It's not really an answer to the question as a pizza can feed a family of four.

[Aaron Weber]

We didn't get to show the video this week because we reported we recorded two back to back from last week. Week. Are we always asking for another one?

[Brian Bates]

What video? Let's ask for another one.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe something that you love, something that you loved in a particular decade of your life. Yeah. Keep it short. Shorter the better. I know it's sometimes hard to go into detail, but if it's too long, we're not gonna be able to use it. So give us a story and. And we may show it on the.

[Dusty Slay]

Podcast and then you, too can be a public figure.

[Brian Bates]

Is that our motto?

[Dusty Slay]

I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. If we show you you're now a.

[Brian Bates]

Public figure, or anyone even, you can.

[Dusty Slay]

Be a public figure. Yeah, something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, you can wrap it up.

[Dusty Slay]

This is Public Figures brought to you by.

[Brian Bates]

Is that pretty good? It's a good impression in my head. You know who I'm doing?

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Well, it's Sports center guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This is Sports Center.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Brought to you by Men's Warehouse. You're gonna like the way you look.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, thank you for joining the Public Figures podcast. It's. This is it. We've reached the end. And you know what they say, all ends come to it at the window.

[Aaron Weber]

Have a great Valentine's.

[Brian Bates]

Excited be your Dusty Slay. Say, where are you gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

We're having a good time.

[Brian Bates]

I'd like to. I'd like to tell you where I'm at. I'm in Texas. Houston at the Houston Improv, Dallas at the Addison Improv. And then in a couple weeks, weeks. Heading up to Canada in Edmonton, Alberta, at the Comic Strip. Brian, where can the people find you?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm in Arlington, Virginia, at the Arlington Drafthouse February 22nd.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Valentine's Day, Sioux City, Iowa.

[Brian Bates]

Love it.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Love it. And that's all she wrote. And tune in next week.

[Dusty Slay]

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