22: #22 | Louisiana

Summary

Public Figures Podcast – Episode 22: Louisiana

Date: July 1, 2026
Hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Location: Nateland Studios, Nashville, TN

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Overview

In this engaging, joke-filled episode, the three Nashville-based stand-up comics spotlight the state of Louisiana. Drawing from their personal stand-up travel stories, regional observations, and the state's colorful reputation, they delve into Louisiana’s culture, history, cuisine, pop culture, and more. The show’s hallmark is genuine banter and fun, making state trivia and commentary both informative and entertaining.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Recent Travels and Stand-up in Louisiana

• Dusty Slay just performed at Lake Charles’ Golden Nugget Casino and shares first impressions of Lake Charles and the exuberant casino scene.

  “I had never heard of Lake Charles before…been to a bunch of places in Louisiana but I had never heard of Lake Charles. It's great.” (06:04)

• Only experienced the Golden Nugget Casino: Restaurants, shopping, waterfront view, lively crowd, and vibrant atmosphere (06:18-06:36).

• Discussed the striking view from the hotel—at night, refineries look like a distant city; in daylight, it’s “all like oil refineries” (59:33–60:13).

• Show inside scoop: Dusty’s set ran 1 hour and 20 minutes before he “got the light” so people could return to the casino (08:06-08:18).

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2. Live Comedy & Regional Humor

• Memories of Louisiana comedy clubs and gigs across the state. Talk about “bucket spots” for up-and-coming comics (18:03-18:39).
• Tales of opening acts and the unusual energy in casinos or clubs:

  “He got the audience so mad at him...by the time I got on stage, they were, like, excited.” (77:07)

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3. Distinct Louisiana Culture

• Immediate Associations:
  • Swampland, Cajun culture, alligators, Mardi Gras, Bourbon St., and jazz.
  • The distinction between Cajun and Creole languages/accents—Creole is more New Orleans, Cajun more rural (68:17, 68:54).
  • Pop culture: Swamp People, Mardi Gras traditions, and the king cake baby (96:12–104:36).
• Notable Quotes:

  “If you slow down the French accent, you get the Cajun accent.” (69:09)

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4. Louisiana’s Geography & History (57:39–59:02)

• Name origins from King Louis XIV.
• Acquired from France via the Louisiana Purchase (1803)—“One of the best deals of all time. How much was it?” — “15 million… 3 cents an acre.” (58:20–58:31)
• Known as the “Pelican State”.

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5. The Mighty Mississippi & Travel

• Mississippi River’s role in connecting the country; questions about river travel and riverboats (65:14–67:21).
• The river meets the Gulf of Mexico creating the bayou; distinct ecological and cultural marker.

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6. Food, Drink, and Unclean Choices

• Louisiana cuisine: gumbo, jambalaya, Po’boys, beignets, and the prevalence of pork and shellfish.

• Dusty shares dietary restrictions:

  “Now the TV will not let me go to sleep. I used to be able to sleep with a TV on...” (27:20) “As a person that no longer eats pork and shellfish, there's almost nothing.” (93:46)

• King Cake Baby Legend:
  The hidden plastic baby tradition and its roots in Mardi Gras — symbolizes luck and prosperity and means the finder must buy the next year’s cake/host the party (103:47–105:14).

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7. Sports Culture

• Famous universities: LSU, Tulane, Louisiana Tech, Grambling State, etc. (71:39–73:19).
• Louisiana is unique in having “parishes” instead of counties (96:49–97:02).
• Strong football tradition (notably the 2019 LSU championship team) and mention of NBA/NFL teams (the Saints, Pelicans).
• Coach Ed Orgeron: beloved, then scandalized head coach (80:09–82:02).
• Superdome: Hosted the Super Bowl a record 11 times (74:08–74:25).

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8. Famous Louisiana Figures

• Duck Dynasty (Robertson family), Terry Bradshaw, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis Armstrong, Reese Witherspoon, The Ovon, Mark Normand, Sean Patton (79:56–85:42).
• Jazz legacy: Louis Armstrong; discussion devolves into attempts at impressions and singing “What a Wonderful World” (86:04–86:47).

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9. Environmental Concerns & Quirks

• Above-ground graves due to high water tables and risk of flooding (97:13–98:33).
• Disappearing coastline: “A football field of wetlands disappears every 90 minutes due to erosion and rising sea levels” (100:14).
• Conspiracies around land grabs post-oil spills (98:56–99:21).

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10. Best Louisiana Country Songs (Dusty’s Top 5)

• Dusty’s “Top 5 Country Songs about Louisiana” with tuneful impromptu renditions and lively explanations (106:30–111:13):
  1. Jerry Reed – “Amos Moses”
  2. Rodney Crowell – “Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight”
  3. Hank Williams – “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”
  4. Mel McDaniel – “Louisiana Saturday Night”
  5. Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man”
     (Honorable mention: Wayne Toups – “Oh, Louisiana”)

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11. Recurring Themes and Banter

• Deep dives into the emotional effects of movies/music:

  “Should we be calling up these emotions just anytime…? Maybe we shouldn’t be doing that.” – Dusty (42:27–43:13)

• Running jokes:

  • “Have you seen Bubba Koo’s in Mount Juliet?”
  • “We don’t do none of that—we’re just going to go have a couple of ham sandwiches and take it back to the house” – Dusty on Coach Orgeron’s press conference (80:10).

• Ongoing banter about TV, food, and traveling comics’ life.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Cajun Swamps: “You shoot somebody, throw them off to the alligators.” (70:10)
• On New Orleans: “It scares me, but I love Louisiana.” (64:13)
• On refineries: “In the daytime… it’s all like oil refineries” (60:12)
• On comedy: “I was funny, but he did so bad… by the time I got on stage, they were, like, excited.” (77:07)
• On above ground graves: “Because it’s real soft and…” (97:13)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 06:03 – Dusty's first impressions of Lake Charles & Golden Nugget Casino
• 08:06 – Comedy show length & crowd at the casino
• 18:03–18:39 – Comedy bucket spots & Nashville scene
• 57:39–59:02 – Origins of Louisiana, the Purchase, and state name
• 59:33–60:21 – Night vs. day views: refineries and local geography
• 68:54–69:29 – Cajun vs. Creole definitions & dialect differences
• 74:08–74:25 – New Orleans’ NFL & NBA teams, Super Bowl stats
• 80:09–82:02 – LSU’s Coach Orgeron, Joe Burrow, and the 2019 championship team
• 93:46–94:04 – Louisiana food limitations for Dusty
• 100:14 – Louisiana coast disappearing, wetlands issue
• 106:30–111:13 – Dusty’s Top 5 Louisiana Country Songs

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Learn, Laugh, Listen: Episode Takeaways

• Louisiana is a state of contrast: natural beauty, cultural riches, and environmental struggles.
• Comedy and sports thrive alongside tradition—music, food, and language are distinct elements.
• The hosts’ anecdotes provide a window into life on the road and the everyday quirks of southern living.
• Environmental change—loss of wetlands and the fate of New Orleans—concerns not just locals, but everyone who enjoys the state’s unique flavor.

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Summary Table: Notable Louisiana Features

| Topic | Details/Quotes | Timestamp | |--------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------| | Comedy in Louisiana | “The crowd was hot. Did 1hr 20min set before they gave me the light.” | 08:06 | | Culture | “Swampland, Cajun country… Mardi Gras, jazz, alligators.” | 64:19–64:22 | | Cajun/Creole | “Creole is more New Orleans, Cajun is more rural.” | 68:54 | | Louisiana Purchase | “827,000 square miles for $15 million…3 cents an acre!” | 58:20-58:31 | | River Life | “How do you go up the Mississippi? Huck Finn only went south.” | 66:27-67:21 | | Above-ground Graves | “Because it’s real soft and...graves would wash up.” | 97:13–98:33 | | Coach Orgeron | “We don’t do none of that...gonna have some ham sandwiches and take it back to the house.” | 80:18 | | Song: Amos Moses | [Dusty’s top LA song choice, full recitation and explanation] | 111:08 | | Disappearing wetlands| “A football field of wetlands disappears every 90–100 minutes.” | 100:14 |

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Final Thoughts

The episode is a lively dialogue about Louisiana’s past, quirks, and enduring impact. Stories, nostalgia, trivia, music, and practical humor about life “on the road” combine for a fast-paced (and frequently hilarious) “state deep dive.” By the end, listeners will have laughed, learned, and come away with new appreciation for the Pelican State.

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Listen for: Dusty’s Top 5 song list and stories from the Golden Nugget, and don’t miss the late-episode riffing on funeral and grave rituals—you’ll understand why comedians see the world a little differently!

Transcript

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

Refreshers contain caffeine.

[Brian Bates]

Foreign.

[Aaron Weber]

Good morning, everybody. Good afternoon, good evening. Whenever you're listening, we are glad you are welcome into the public Figures podcast, recorded live Nateland Studios right here in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, at Zany's Comedy Show Place, one of the most historic comedy clubs in the country. We're happy you're here. We've got an exciting episode coming coming up. I am Aaron Weber, one of your co hosts, alongside my buddies Brian Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And Dusty Slay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

We're 3 Music City based stand up comedians. Talking, learning, listening, growing every weekend as we explore a random topic for your amusement.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty's got a Zany shirt on.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

That's a. That's a classic.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if it's a classic. It's a fairly new shirt.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a new shirt designed to look like a classic.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I went to a restaurant in la. Lady goes, is that a restaurant? Talking about my shirt? I go, no, it's a comedy club. And she seemed very confused by the whole thing. She wasn't, you know, an older Mexican lady. She seemed very confused. And I go, you know, they might, you know, they have food too, Right.

[Aaron Weber]

But if you're just listening, on the T shirt is a popcorn. Be weird to be a restaurant and you have popcorn as the item on your T shirt.

[Dusty Slay]

She said, is it a restaurant? And I go, what's comedy club? And then just nobody working at the place. Out was at seemed to, you know, seem to get the concept of the comedy club. They seemed disappointed that I had said that to them. So I go, well, you know, they serve food too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it never seemed to get better for them. It's a great place. It's a burrito place called Bubba Coos. You ever been to Bubba in Mount Juliet?

[Aaron Weber]

Never heard of Bubba.

[Dusty Slay]

It's in Mount Juliet.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Where you live.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's good. It's a good burrito.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't eat at every restaurant in Mount Julia. I'm getting close. I've only lived there a couple years.

[Dusty Slay]

Man, that's a good one. It's across the interstate, bub.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we Got a taco truck place that we. We've been eating that now it's right outside of gas stations. Unbelievable. Yeah, it's a bit of a drive out there, but it's nice. And they're a little mean to you, and I kind of like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Like, they're always there.

[Aaron Weber]

They're always just parked there. Right outside the gas station.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. How much of a drive?

[Aaron Weber]

12 minutes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but it's worth it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's worth it. Yeah. Check that out. And then I'll go to Bubba Koo's.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, well, you know, I got a. You know, I got a food truck and a gas station closer to me. I could probably get there and. Five minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

No, they're not. Like my guys are doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know my guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man. Don't disrespect my guys. They're good.

[Brian Bates]

I bet you are on the same

[Aaron Weber]

place

[Dusty Slay]

outside of the shooters parking lot. The. The bar Shooters.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, I know. I know that bar.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. This is not that. This is next to a liquor store and a gas.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, this is.

[Brian Bates]

They both sound classy.

[Dusty Slay]

Pretty close to as sketchy as you can get.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, this one's all right.

[Dusty Slay]

I was out there getting gas because that's where I can get non ethanol gas from my lawnmower. And this girl was like, yeah, get that gas. And I was like, you said that with some girl in the parking lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Like she was there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, she was like, you know, I don't know. I guess I think if people Think if people see you putting gas in your. In. In containers, they think you're like, prepping gas. Not that I'm not doing that too. Yeah, but I'm getting gas for my lawnmower.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, but they're also more likely to assume that you're prepping when. If that. If Brian were to be seen filling up gas.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess so. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. No offense. I'm just saying.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I mean, yeah, I get it. Because Brian. I guess Brian would, you know, ask for help or whatever. Can't get the cap off.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably would ask the lady, can you put this in my car for me?

[Brian Bates]

It's heavier than I thought.

[Aaron Weber]

Get that gas. Yeah, gotta get that gas. There's a gas station next to my old house, dude, I went in there so often and the guy was so rude to everybody that I stopped going there. Yeah, I don't need. My day's ruined every time I'm in here. The guy never smiled once.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I try to be empathetic and think it's probably not a great job. He clearly works a lot of hours. He's always in there and people are probably rude to him, but golly, smile a little bit. Give me something, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I would say, how's your day going? He would go, oh, yeah, wow. So I go, not good, huh? Yeah, you go, I'm here. Don't you hate when you do that? How's your day going? It's going.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Give me something. Say it's. Say it's good. Lie to me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Have you seen these videos of also

[Dusty Slay]

change up your life? You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, go ahead. Look.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

You know, like the, the camera behind the counter, like, they'll show like rude customers and this one guy in particular who will return the favor. You know what I'm talking about? Like, somebody will come in with a wad up dollar, give me change, and he'll take the change and he'll wad all them up and get.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And whatever they do, he kind of puts it back on.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I like that. I swear, if they're nice, he's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like that, too.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not a very good video. Everyone's just nice. It's not good content.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, what have you been up to this weekend, Dusty? Where were you?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you know where I was at? I was in Louisiana, Lake Charles.

[Aaron Weber]

At the Golden Nugget.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. And it was great. You know what? I had never heard of Lake Charles before. I didn't want to say that last week, you know, because I was going there. But I've been to a bunch of places in Louisiana but I had never heard of Lake Charles. It's great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm going to say this, though. I didn't experience anything but the Golden Nugget Casino, but the Gold Nugget Casino. Very nice. Right by the water. A lot of restaurants and shopping and a pool and people hanging and it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

So Lake Charles is the southwestern part of Louisiana. So it's down there. Just a little Louisiana, Louisiana.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. A little bit past Lafayette, I believe.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. And people are nice down there.

[Dusty Slay]

It was great. I love Louisiana. I love people in Louisiana. I've been to a lot of spots. You know, I'm always looking for a cigar spot after. And I've been to some fairly shady spots in Louisiana having cigars and it's always great. Always great. We're gonna get in that today and I love it. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the topic? Shady cigar places.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I Love it, though. I had a great time.

[Brian Bates]

Well, great.

[Aaron Weber]

What about you, Brian?

[Dusty Slay]

Where were you at Hot show?

[Brian Bates]

I.

[Aaron Weber]

The show was hot.

[Dusty Slay]

Hot, okay. Really hot show.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, be honest with me. If the show was not hot, would you come back and say that it was?

[Dusty Slay]

If you asked me, I believe that

[Aaron Weber]

it was, but I'm just wondering how.

[Dusty Slay]

Honest. If you asked me how the show was, I might say it was a hot show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I wouldn't offer it up voluntarily.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And it was, though. I mean, you know, I had a couple of comics. Locals, or do you bring Garrett Nelson.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Out of Louisiana? Ruston, Louisiana. Cool. And then Tyler Elliott from Tyler, Texas.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

And very funny. They're both very funny. And Garrett, we talked, is 22. I'm 44. That means I was his age when he was born. When he was born.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

22.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But very funny. And the show was great. I did an hour 20, and then they gave me the light because they were like, all right, this is a casino. People need to get back out there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. How much time would he have done if they hadn't given.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I might have done an hour and a half. I had a. My closing bits, like seven to 10 minutes, so I just skipped it and just ended the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Just ended it.

[Dusty Slay]

I kind of been doing that lately because my closing bed is these long airport jokes that are very funny. People like them. But I've been doing them for a long time, so I'm pretty sick of them. Next special, I got to put them on there. So I'll never do them until.

[Aaron Weber]

You can never do them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's your PR at this point?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what that means.

[Aaron Weber]

Personal record.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I don't know. Hour 32, something like that. I think

[Aaron Weber]

that's the PR for the total length of my show, including openers. That's wild, man. Golly. Good for you. Be that comfortable. It's. I'm envious of it.

[Brian Bates]

Friday night, I did a show here in Nashville at Cornerstone Church for the. Wearing their shirt. The Conference of Christians Working in Sports Conference.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It was at. Yeah. Cornerstone Church here in Madison and had a great time. Everybody was super nice.

[Dusty Slay]

What does that mean? They're just. This is. They're in any kind of sports, but they're Christians out there doing it. And then they come together to meet up.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I kind of. My first joke was kind of making fun of their title. It's very on the hit. Like, there's no. It's usually something called Ignite or you know, rise up and it's like Christians working in sports. Okay, I think I know what this is about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Through a hot tub time machine.

[Brian Bates]

But it's like executives. It's like athletic directors, colleges, executives, you know, in NFL or NBA.

[Aaron Weber]

Water boys, stuff like.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I was going to say. Like if you're a Christian water boy, can you still get in? I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

They got their own conference.

[Dusty Slay]

Holy water,

[Aaron Weber]

Christian water boys. Do you ever have Gatorade growing up in sports? Or was it all water?

[Dusty Slay]

I had Gatorade.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean like officially, like sanctioned by the team. Like did they ever have like a jug of Gatorade or was it all water?

[Brian Bates]

Like sponsored?

[Aaron Weber]

Not sponsored, but you know, like I

[Dusty Slay]

don't think I was ever on a team that had any kind of sanction.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I was either. I think it's whoever's parent.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I'm using the wrong words. Yeah, I mean like you a water break and then you go over there and there's Gatorade instead of water.

[Brian Bates]

Did your school have like nutritionists and a trainer and stuff?

[Aaron Weber]

We had not in Alabama. When I moved to Tennessee in the middle of high school here in Hendersonville, Tennessee, there was a full time trainer

[Brian Bates]

on staff when we were school, they. We didn't know water was needed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Back when you were growing up though, food was probably still good for you in this country.

[Brian Bates]

Still got thirsty though.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Bates, he fainted. I guess he's Sad now. It's 110 degrees.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

You gotta step it up. I mean, I had the football coaches growing up that were just the suck it up coaches, you know, suck it up. Tape, tape and aspirin to it, that kind of stuff. They would mock you for being legitimately injured, that kind of thing. And I loved it. Turned me into the man I am today. That's why I'm still excelling in athletics.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They were asking how hot was your urine?

[Aaron Weber]

They weren't asking 7 and 8 year olds that, thankfully.

[Brian Bates]

Where was that at?

[Aaron Weber]

That was at Western Kentucky. We did an offensive lineman camp when I was in high school. And that's when you re. You know the moment where you realize you're like, oh, I'm not cut out for this. This is the last level I'm doing this at.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because if that's what it takes to, to do this at a serious. I don't have that in me.

[Dusty Slay]

The one year I played football in 8th grade for the school, our coach did give us like A little pee talk where he was like. He was like, if you go home tonight and your peas real yellow, you know, you need to drink some water.

[Aaron Weber]

Totally.

[Dusty Slay]

He gave us a real. A real pee talk. He's really educating us on the color of our pee.

[Aaron Weber]

And you probably still analyze the color to this day.

[Dusty Slay]

I do, I do, yeah. I go, either I just ate a multivitamin or I've not been drinking enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Sometimes I forget about water. Sometimes until, you know, use the bathroom. And you're like, go, yeah. What is that coming out like coffee?

[Brian Bates]

That was Friday night and then Saturday night. Had a great time. By the way, wore their shirt. Everybody asked, why are you wearing a sweatshirt?

[Aaron Weber]

It's good merch.

[Brian Bates]

I want to represent them.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's, you know, it's white, so it doesn't like attract the sun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, you know, like what Aaron's wearing would bring the sun into him.

[Aaron Weber]

This is cool. This is hot weather gear, though. This is cooling.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Carhartt's doing it, man. They got technology. Yeah, but that's just. Yeah, it doesn't. What's the science behind black and white? Black absorbs all the colors.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Which is why it absorbs black under your eyes.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's supposed to reflect it away from your eyes. Yeah. And it looks cool. Yeah, it looks cool.

[Aaron Weber]

When you played that one year football, do you have. Do you have eye paint, war paint on your face?

[Dusty Slay]

I never really even went in to the. So there's really no need in all that.

[Aaron Weber]

It's so funny to put all that stuff on. You look like William Wallace out there. You never get in the game. I still remember to this day, my sophomore year, my buddy showed up to the first game and just showed up. He had an Under Armour visor on, he had all the wristbands. He showed up with all the gear and he put it all on. And the coach just sees him and goes, take that off right now. Oh, so embarrassing.

[Brian Bates]

We had a. My senior year of high school, our drama class, he wanted to do a talent show. Our teacher and everybody come in with whatever you need, props, dress attire, whatever to do a certain talent. And I had no talent. And.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, come on, bro.

[Brian Bates]

Well, let me just say senior high school. I hadn't fleshed out, so I'm like, what could I do? And I was on the baseball team even though I never got in the game. So I wore my baseball uniform and I put the eye black underneath me. We're supposed to come in and talk about it, you know, but I just remember being so embarrassed because the best player on the team was in my class who went on to play in college. And he, he didn't do that. He had some other talent that he could talk about. And I'm standing there in front of the guy who's a star and I never get in the game talking about baseball. I got eye black underneath me, glass glove on. Yeah, I think I had two.

[Dusty Slay]

Your back pocket, your talent was that confidence. I don't play, but I can tell you about it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. But Chris here, he plays all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

So remember that. So anyway, Saturday night I was in Columbia, Tennessee at the Packard Playhouse. Did a show there with my buddy Paul Aldrich, and great folks came out and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, okay. You know, getting older is not all fun. Mostly fun, but not all fun. Aaron made me clarify that when you're young, you'll sleep on a couch, a floor, a pile of jackets in the back seat of a car. Doesn't matter now. I sleep wrong one night, my body lets me know about it. That is true, though. That's why I love my Helix mattress. We've had ours for a few years now. The one we went with is a Helix midnight luxe. They have over 20 mattress models, so you could find the best one for you. Before Helix, I would wake up in the morning and my back hurt. I'd toss and turn and I'd wake up more tired than when I went to bed. Can you believe that? The mattress ships right to your door for free. Comes with a 120 night sleep trial, a limited lifetime warranty, and they're happy with Helix guarantee, so if it's not the right fit, they'll work with you on returns or exchanges. There's a reason Helix is the most awarded mattress brand and has been recognized by places like Forbes and Wired. If you're looking to sleep better and wake up feeling like a person again, check out Helix. Well, all right. Go to helixsleep.com nate for their 4th of July sale. 20% off site wide, 25 off luxe mattresses, and 30 off elite mattresses from now until July 6th. That's 20 off site wide, 25 off Luxe mattresses, 30% off elite mattresses happening right now until July 6th. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we. They know we sent you. Helixsleep.com Nate Great weekend. All right.

[Brian Bates]

And then yesterday I went over to watch the Nateland half hour tapings at New York Theater.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that what you got right there in front of you?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I guess so. Alex Vluto, Mike Goodwin, John Heffron.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

This is like, an official ticket.

[Brian Bates]

What a Cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's like a golden ticket to the chocolate factory.

[Brian Bates]

I

[Aaron Weber]

got a golden ticket.

[Brian Bates]

It's pretty nice. I was just downtown. Man, it is hot. I just want to walk in here and cool off. And it's like, oh, there's a comedy show going on. Stick around. No, it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Alex Faluto, our buddy. So funny. Mike Goodwin's our friend. So funny. John Heffron. I mean, is. I mean, like, kind of a legend. Yeah. Like, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

One last comic standing back in the day.

[Dusty Slay]

So we did a new.

[Aaron Weber]

Great.

[Dusty Slay]

We did a new show here at Zany's on Wednesday, and I had Alex come out, and I feel like I put Alex in the worst possible spot. I didn't realize that it was that bad. We did bucket spots.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the last bucket spot there was like. I don't know. Half the audience was comics. Like 50 comics. Yeah. And the last. Once the last bucket spot was pulled, you know, all the comics left, and then we were like, next up, Alex Belluto. I had no idea, but he did great.

[Aaron Weber]

How'd the show go, though? Was it good?

[Dusty Slay]

It was really fun. We're gonna do it more often. We're gonna do more bucket spots. We had about nine bucket spots. We're gonna try to ramp it up to 12, make a couple of changes, but I think it was awesome. Yeah, I think it was really great.

[Aaron Weber]

Good. And that's right here in the lab, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Good deal.

[Brian Bates]

Speaking of the lab, I've got a show here Friday night. Friday night. Brian Bates and friends here, July 3rd at the labs.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't make it.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, I'm sorry to hear that. Thanks for letting me know.

[Aaron Weber]

I wish I was there, but I won't be.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. You're in New York City at a wedding, right?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm going to msg. No, man. Maybe. I'm still waiting on the last second invite. Do you think if I get the last second invite, do you think I should go and abandon my wife's family for July 4th?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, I think she would definitely be going with you.

[Aaron Weber]

I think. Well, what if I went without Lucy?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think she would, like. No. You know what we're talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Supposedly, Taylor Swift's getting Taylor Swift's wedding, apparently.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

This weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

This week. Very secretive.

[Dusty Slay]

In that case, don't abandon your family. I thought it was a show.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't abandon your wife's family.

[Brian Bates]

I was watching Sunday Night Baseball last night on NBC. Yankees, Red Sox, and our. Our buddy, or at least some of our buddy, Sonny Gray, Friend of the podcast. Yeah, it was on the Nateland podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Sonny Gray.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I was very close to my own son's name. Sonny Gray.

[Brian Bates]

I know he was pitching for the Red Sox. He's having a great season. I think he's 9 and 1 this year on a bad team and he had a no hitter going until the 8th inning. I was getting more and more exc. He kept going because when he was on our podcast, we talked about if he ever threw a no hitter. Nay said, you got to enter press conference, say hello, folks. And you know, of course he wasn't going to do that, but it would just be so cool. We talked about a lot about how he'd never thrown a no hitter on this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

He's gotten close a bunch, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, he got close last night. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's playing unbelievable. It's that weird thing. And Dusty, I don't know if you know this, but when like the. The pitcher is about to have a no hitter or a perfect game or something, there's a superstition that the second you address it officially, then you jinx the picture.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

So they're playing that dance of like trying to talk about it without talking about it. But they also want people to tune in and watch.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So they'll be like, check out the box score and look at the hit column and see if you notice anything like that. But the second you do that, you just. You jinx them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a difficult thing.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't think he would have said, hello, folks.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it was five years ago now, wasn't it? There's not a chance he's on. He's been on two different teams since then.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, maybe if he, you know, didn't forget about you guys, then he might have been a no hitter game. But he forgot about you guys. He forgot where he came from. And.

[Brian Bates]

And then the Red Sox blew the game. Like they end up losing the game.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Red Sox are not very good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, exciting stuff, exciting stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, somebody sent me something today about a basketball player caught in some kind of scandal gambling rigging the game.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian said it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I do that just for you, just to kind of.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, at this conference, I said, they said that's the hardest things. Christian is rigging those games and feeling good about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But they tipped me off to some games coming up, so, you know, make some money.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever have somebody tell you a story that you know you told them?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And they act like they're telling you for the first time. Do you let them finish a story or do you go, I told you this?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I guess it depends on how good they're telling it, you know, like, maybe I could pick up some tips on how to tell it better next time.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we're going to start off with some comments here. The comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and our email, if you're old school, is [e-mail] first comment comes from Jacqueral. Seven one five. That's j.c. j.c. Harrell, seven one.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know why that's so funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Do it, Shakaro. Between the Nateland podcast and this one, there are two episodes I have always told people they must listen to. One is Breakfast Trying to say porn. And the other is episode 99, peanut butter salesman with Greg Warren. This episode is now making the list after the laugh I got from the Norah Jones don't know why discussion.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, how about that?

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Mount Rush.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you. I love that because I was finally on one. I was losing it. Yeah. I think I was on the poem.

[Aaron Weber]

You were.

[Brian Bates]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

I wasn't 99, though. That was right before. Right before this podcast really took off.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Amy Baumiller. Dusty Cracking up is the best. You guys are so much fun to watch. Happy to be a part of the common folk.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Thanks, Amy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, thank you, Amy. That's very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, these comments are so good for me. There must be some bad ones in here.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure there is, because Brian compiles them. Barb Cotton or Barb Katon. It's cotton with an A. Captain Barb Catton. It could be a Midwest.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Barb Cat. I worked down at the Tasty Free. I was. Oh, my gig.

[Dusty Slay]

What was that guy at the.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no. At the gig.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Every time Dusty would start a bit, we were in this small Wisconsin town. We were performing at the City hall in Minong, Wisconsin. And this old woman in the back, every time Dusty would start a bit, she would just go, wah. Oh yeah. I'd never heard a human make that noise before. I was flabbergasted.

[Brian Bates]

That's why.

[Aaron Weber]

Uhoh. Oh boy. Barb Catton. I was so impressed with how Aaron apologized to Brian after making Fun of his new station job. Aaron is such a nice guy. Hoping to see him in Royal Oak, Michigan, in July. Well, Barb, I feel bad about playing around with your name so much there at the beginning.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'd like to apologize to you in person. July 16th through the 18th in Royal Oak, Michigan, at the Comedy Castle. My first time at this club. Historic Club. I hear about it all the time. You've been great.

[Brian Bates]

Club. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

My first time there. Come on out and see me, Barb Catton, and we can talk.

[Brian Bates]

Let me get this straight.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron insults me, then does a fake apology.

[Aaron Weber]

Fake.

[Brian Bates]

And he somehow comes off as a nice guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, I know. That's what charisma can do for you. You can get away. You can get away with things. Right? Thank you, Bob. Jana. Cole. Jana, Cole. I've got a friend that Whittles literally made me spit my drink out.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, I know. Me, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Me too. That was Tristan. Did you tell your friend that Whittles? You tell him? You talked about him on the phone? No, he doesn't have a phone.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I wrote to him, but

[Dusty Slay]

hadn't heard back yet.

[Aaron Weber]

He sent a pigeon over to his house. Grandma Core is the name of the lifestyle where people have grandma hobbies or decorate their homes to make it feel cozy, like grandma's house. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm getting into that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what? I'm buying?

[Aaron Weber]

Not even Grandpa Core.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm. Well, I don't have a name for it, but I'm buying old TVs again.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'm. I'm into it.

[Aaron Weber]

The old deep ones?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like cubes?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm into it.

[Brian Bates]

What are you gonna do with them?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I'm using them.

[Brian Bates]

They still work.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you using them for?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just watching tv. I'm going back to it. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Dusty Slay]

I hooked up Morocco to one of the old ones, and it worked.

[Brian Bates]

I just.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I feel like they're better and I'm.

[Aaron Weber]

In what way? By what metric?

[Dusty Slay]

I just think they're better. They're not listening to us.

[Aaron Weber]

They take up more space.

[Dusty Slay]

They're doing.

[Aaron Weber]

They use more electricity.

[Dusty Slay]

New TVs are doing something to us, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Like what?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. They're. They're ruining our eyes. And you don't think it's what we're

[Aaron Weber]

watching versus how, like, with the device we're watching them on?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I think a little bit of both. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But I'm saying you could watch whatever you're gonna watch on your old tv? Just watch it on a better one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but what if I watch what I want to watch on an old TV then? I'm not you. It's the best of both worlds. This is what I think. I used to be able to sleep and maybe this is an age thing and I don't know, but I used to be able to sleep with a TV on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I would sleep the whole night with a TV on, wake up, watch weird stuff in the middle of the night, go. You know, I used to keep, like Comedy Central or Cartoon Network on and wake up in the middle of the night and be some weird cartoon on that I'd watch.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Now the TV will not let me go to sleep.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Do you think that has more to do with the TV or the fact that you're in your 40s now?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it has more to do with the tv.

[Brian Bates]

You don't think you could watch the same shows that you were watching back then?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

What were you watching back then late at night?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Adult Swim. The Cartoon Network. Sure, you remember that. And they'd have a lot of stuff like squid billies and 12 ounce mouse and the thing with the cup walking around. Yeah. What was that? Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Yeah. I love all those shows. Those are great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, let me know how it works out, man.

[Dusty Slay]

I will. I'll be talking about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Kayla Byram. Kayla Byram. Just some history for young Aaron. He said John Travolta doesn't sing, but John Travolta actually put out a full album now. It bombed, naturally, but he did sing a full album. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, the Grease soundtrack is mostly him saying, that's fair.

[Aaron Weber]

But I don't think it's crazy if I think of John Travolta and I don't think of musician right away.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He is known as an actor and a dancer and. Well, no, it's an actor and a dancer, though. But I don't think he's known as a dancer. I think he's not in the Jabba Wall. He's an actor.

[Dusty Slay]

Saturday Night Fever.

[Aaron Weber]

He danced in a film.

[Dusty Slay]

Greece Staying Alive.

[Brian Bates]

Pulp Fiction.

[Dusty Slay]

Pulp Fiction.

[Aaron Weber]

He danced in Pulp Fiction?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Did you remember when they go to that 50s diner?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

But if they want, they won the competition.

[Aaron Weber]

If you play a dancer in a movie. I don't think that that guy's a dancer.

[Dusty Slay]

He actually said in an interview that.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's assume I haven't heard every Travolta interview.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he said that learning, you know, starting as a dancer actually started as a dance, actually helped him later in action movies to be able to perform the kind of things that he needed to do. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Golly, silly me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know any of this.

[Brian Bates]

Could you look up John Travolta's album? I'm just curious. Yeah, I bet it looks good.

[Dusty Slay]

Staying Alive, by the way, one of the worst movies of all time. Just for the.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean? Wasn't it a huge hit?

[Dusty Slay]

Saturday Night Fever was good.

[Aaron Weber]

Outside of acting, Toralta has released nine albums.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Including four singles that have charted on the Billboards top one hundreds or the top forty. The albums have typically accompanied films he starred in, such as Greece. He's also a private pilot. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy's incredible.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a bit of a Renaissance man. Apologies.

[Dusty Slay]

John Travolta is incredible.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Sorry, John.

[Brian Bates]

I just wanted to see the album covered, see what it looked like.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I can't.

[Dusty Slay]

Is there a movie. Is there a John Travolta movie you hate?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Battleship Earth, Battlefield Earth or something like that?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I never saw it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there was a movie called Gotti that was, like, I think, historically bad. This is the album right here.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

1976.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

You could watch that on your old tv.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, and I may.

[Brian Bates]

Let me look at Battlefield, or. I think that was John Travolta.

[Aaron Weber]

Battlefield Earth, the one with Will Smith's kid, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Is that the movie you're talking about? No, no. Is that. You know what movie I'm talking about? Maybe after Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, this.

[Brian Bates]

Battlefield Earth. This. Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Battlefield Earth. Travolta.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you don't have to put in trouble in 2000.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Okay, it looks. Gotta be honest, man. You hate to judge a movie by the poster, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. That's a tough one. That is a tough one. I gotta be honest with you. I want to watch it.

[Brian Bates]

I think it won a bunch of razzies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, too bad. 2000. American science fiction action film directed by Roger Christian, Based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh. Battlefield had to do it because he's a Scientologist. L. Ron Hubbard made him do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brian Bates]

It's another reason Desi likes.

[Aaron Weber]

Was Elrond Hubbard dead? Dead at that point. 2000. He died 1986. So he'd been dead for 15 years, but one. Well, he left his. His earthly body. 15 years.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. One of the Hubbards, boys. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The Hubbard boys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Next comment comes from. Well, isn't this fun? Sunflower Fortunato. Richie Rich was originally played by Macaulay Culkin, the kid from seventh Heaven. I just learned today, played him in the Christmas Richie Rich.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So that was the only one I'd seen. I didn't know Macaulay Culkin was Richie Rich.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's. That's the one I remember, but I. I couldn't remember that it was Macaulay Culkin.

[Aaron Weber]

But, yeah, Richie Rich's Christmas Wish. That's the one I see. And remember this kid from 7th heavy. You know what I'm talking.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know that show.

[Brian Bates]

I don't either.

[Aaron Weber]

Are y' all both too old for that show? David Gallagher, you remember 7th Heaven?

[Brian Bates]

I've heard.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember that.

[Brian Bates]

Like the WB or something.

[Aaron Weber]

It does it. WB. If it wasn't, it was culturally a WB show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was the same kind of original Richie Rich. It had the. The. The. His mom was also in the movie Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I mean, he looks like he's a way better Richie Rich.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, Macaulay Culkin was crushing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, there's some conspiracies out there that say Macaulay Culkin is Kid Rock.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I think that's gotta be true.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Have you seen. You ever see their picture side by side? No, I think there's a chance.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But now I'm gonna look into it.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, how could that not be?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, they do look alike. Look at Macaulay Culkin and a young Kid Rock.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, here's where I think this theory is going to run into some problems. Is that Kid Rock is around and he's old now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Culkin, too, though. Look at that one up there. But you tell me that Mako Hogan's not singing Bow with a ball right here. Yeah. Look at him. Same guys. They're at least related.

[Aaron Weber]

They're both lean in the same direction.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Related.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, related is a much different.

[Dusty Slay]

The way he screams. I mean, Mo had that scream, too, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Where does Kid Rock do that? Faces to the cheeks.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but he. You know, he screamed, though. My name is kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, and if you get left alone a couple of times when you're a kid, you probably will take on the mantra of kid, because you're trapped in that forever childhood.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm starting to believe it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Starting to believe it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Ashley. Whoa, Ashley. Sorry about that. Ashley. Ashley Ship. I think I was so worried about your last name that I messed up the first name. My apologies. Ashley. How does Brian even know Melissa Joan Hart is his neighbor if he's never seen her?

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good question.

[Aaron Weber]

That is a good question. And we're going to defer to Brian for the next couple of weeks.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't even think about addressing that last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Go ahead and explain yourself.

[Brian Bates]

Well, my neighbors have certainly told me she lives there and she did a thing for Today show that put on YouTube where she gives a tour of her house.

[Dusty Slay]

And you were in the window.

[Brian Bates]

The bushes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So we're sick of. You're listening. Aaron took his hat off. He almost did a spit take.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's a lot of neighborhood gossip about it.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know, I just found out lives on my street is Justin Baldino is his name. Is that right? Baldoni.

[Aaron Weber]

Justin Baldoni, the guy from all the controversy with Ryan Reynolds and all that.

[Brian Bates]

And I saw him last week.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

So you're on his side if I

[Brian Bates]

meet him and become good friends with him.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure, sure. I know nothing about that guy. That's pretty wild. What a nice neighborhood this must be.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you guys are very well, but

[Aaron Weber]

I just love the idea.

[Brian Bates]

We are.

[Aaron Weber]

I just love the idea of you sitting down with all the old women in the neighborhood, like gossiping about.

[Brian Bates]

About Melissa Jones.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Over some tea or something.

[Brian Bates]

Do some woodland.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you drinking tea?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Neither am I.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you drink tea all the time? I love tea.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you ever go like, let's have a tea?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I just, you know, I drink tea on the road.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you have a teapot?

[Dusty Slay]

I do. I take a tea kettle with me.

[Brian Bates]

He's taking it like it's a hotel room.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Heat it up. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And it goes off and everybody hears it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, no, it's just, it doesn't, it doesn't whistle.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought that was the whole point of a teacup.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you put on the stove, it whistles so that it doesn't boil.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you got one that just like.

[Dusty Slay]

It's electric. Ye.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

I envision you one of those where they have a little kitchenette. 6am you just hear a whistle throughout the hotel.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. I mean, when I get down to where I do one show a month, I'm going to be sitting around home drinking tea.

[Brian Bates]

Is that your goal? Because I've already made it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah,

[Brian Bates]

dude, I did that a long time ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Been there, done that, brother.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, eventually, you know, you want to go. You wanted to go do one big show and one or two. Yeah. I mean, it's got to be a big show.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It's got to be. Oh, big one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You know, it was a big tea drinker. Greg Warton.

[Aaron Weber]

I believe it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

What's he drink? Green tea? Black tea?

[Aaron Weber]

Earl Gray?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. But we were, you know, over at the Keurig, and I'm. Want some coffee? I was making some coffee, like, now. I don't do coffee. I do tea.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I like to do both.

[Aaron Weber]

Old man conversation.

[Brian Bates]

Well, sorry I brought it up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm the one who brought it up. That's what's funny.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, sorry, Ashley. Sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Ashley. Krista Wilson. Krista. How often do you think she gets called Kristen? I bet it's every day. I bet it's. I bet it's almost every time she says her name.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They think she says Kristen.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then there's Kirsta.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Isn't that a name?

[Dusty Slay]

Kirsten probably gets called Christie a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Kirsten, Kristen, Krista, Christie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Keith Alberstadt has a very funny joke where he talks about going to Starbucks. He'll say the name, it was like, Keith. And then they'll just write. He's like, I bet he met. I can't remember the joke, but they'll just come up with whatever it is. Keef? Yeah, Keef.

[Aaron Weber]

Like Chief Keef?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Krista Wilson. My hometown's local bookstore had midnight release parties where people dressed up and waited in line to get the newest Harry Potter book. Some of my fondest childhood memories were getting my new book home and staying up to finally read what was happening in the wizarding world after the last book. Yeah. I wonder if there's been a book like that since then that has really. That kids were doing this for. I don't know. Is there like, another book series that has been this culturally impactful? Are kids even reading books anymore?

[Brian Bates]

The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and that all come.

[Aaron Weber]

The Dan Brown book, I mean, that was like a series. Right. But I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think kids were really getting into it like that.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that'd be weird.

[Brian Bates]

Kind of joking, but I don't. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Angels and Demons. I started reading a little bit of that back in the day, and that's. That's pretty intense.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it is intense book it, isn't it?

[Brian Bates]

Just for the angels part.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I would not. Yeah. I wouldn't even mess around with it now.

[Aaron Weber]

But back then, he didn't get to the end. Yeah. Jason McCall. The movie Dusty is talking about with Steve Carell is the Big Short. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I was asking, was he in Moneyball?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I think Moneyball. I feel like Moneyball and the Big Short maybe have similar covers.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they're based on books written by the same author.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's, that's.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet that's it.

[Brian Bates]

But the covers too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You thinking of the movie posters?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They're both Michael Lewis books. He's made some really good. I've not seen either side too.

[Dusty Slay]

Everybody talks about Moneyball that I should see it and I don't know why I haven't seen it, but I will get around to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Truly great movie. Brian and I talk about it all the time. I think it's the. I think it's the best baseball movie ever made.

[Brian Bates]

What's your favorite scene?

[Aaron Weber]

My favorite. I love all the scenes with Philip Seymour Hoffman as the manager. Those are great. And then obviously the walk off home run scene is perfectly done. I think that's probably my go to. What about you?

[Brian Bates]

I like it when Chris Pratt's character, who's based on a real Scott Hattieberg, down on his luck. It's Christmas, he's home, sitting there depressed. His wife's worried about him. And then they call and say, hey, we're outside. Can we come in, talk about you?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's such a great scene. You should watch this.

[Dusty Slay]

I will.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how I feel when you all talk about 310 to Yuma.

[Brian Bates]

Did you.

[Dusty Slay]

Also a great movie though, or My

[Brian Bates]

Big Fat Greek Wedding. Did. Did you really cry when you watched that or did you just say that?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe. I don't know. I mean, I can't think of specifically when I did, but it's an emotional.

[Brian Bates]

It was like two weeks ago. You're like, I just watched my Big Fat. I cried.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you about to make fun of me for crying?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you just watch it?

[Brian Bates]

No, I was just curious. I thought about that later. I'm like, what scene made you cry? I'm just curious.

[Dusty Slay]

He always cries at weddings.

[Brian Bates]

Do you.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. There's some nice sweet moments in that film. Dude, are you that calloused? You can't. You can't get emotional.

[Brian Bates]

I'm not. I actually, no, it made me happy because I. I get emotional. The scene I just told you about before Moneyball.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's a scene in the movie Hoosiers where Dennis Hoppers. I think that's his name. The actor plays the assistant coach when

[Dusty Slay]

he shows up real drunk.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's the town drunk. No one wants to have anything to do with him. And Gene Hackman not only asked him to be his assistant coach, he purposely gets thrown out of the game.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So he has to coach and then he. It's a great scene.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That stuff will get me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Rudy, there's like, seven different scenes where.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You cry. You ever cry? A movie?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

John Travolta movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, the Emotion movie.

[Aaron Weber]

You got emotional.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, I. You know, the. I don't know. I've not been watching a lot of movies like that, but, yeah, the Emotion.

[Aaron Weber]

Get a better tv, you'd be able to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. The emotional manipulation of these movies are it. They're really on it. I mean, there was one, but Hoosier

[Brian Bates]

is a movie from the 80s.

[Aaron Weber]

To call it emotional manipulation. It's just good writing sometimes, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I just. Sometimes I wonder. We have these things built into us where we feel these emotions.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Should we be. Should we be calling them up just at any time? We sat down to watch a film and now we're, like, crying. It's like, maybe we should. We shouldn't be doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think it's bad to have, like, country music does that all the time? Do you think that's bad? If it's, like, an emotional nostalgic song that makes you feel. You think that can be bad?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. And I'm just wondering if it. If it's bad to just be calling up these emotions like we have them for, like, when real things in our lives happen, do we need to just be dragging out our emotions at every fictional or historical thing that they put on film or in a song? Just a question.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it's a good question. I gotta update my list of things Dusty doesn't like feeling things.

[Brian Bates]

Positive emotions.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We go to a museum. Are you just ticked off the whole time? You're just like, that's making me feel angst. Get that out of here.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I just.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's what makes us human, man, is the ability to feel.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I agree, but I'm saying. Saying we feel them when something real is happening in life.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Should we be overworking them all the time by film and music?

[Aaron Weber]

And I don't think if a family member dies and I go, golly, I can't get emotional at this because I cried watching Hoosiers last week. But maybe you are a finite amount

[Dusty Slay]

of tears Maybe you're desensitized to, to, to death. Suddenly you're like, ah, well, I've been through this before, maybe many times. People I cared about for a short time. Rudy's best friend and died of mining accident. Yeah, that in that janitor who was like a five foot nothing, hundred nothing. And it's like I'm crying now again.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like Rudy, it is a great movie and it's not his fault, but it's been parodied so much and different things that I feel like you watch it now if you're not careful. But it can come off as a little corny.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, totally. I can see that.

[Brian Bates]

But I don't feel like it's his fault.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like it's because it's been parodied enough.

[Brian Bates]

Culture's fault.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's like what people do with like old stand up sometimes where it's been mocked and parodied so much that it seems hack.

[Dusty Slay]

My main complaint about Rudy and not even a complaint, but I think it is. I think if they were, if this were happening modern day, they would have him on some type of medication. Like where he's running up to the school at like night talking to the guard like I'm about to. I'm gonna play for Notre Dame. And I think they would go, this kid needs medication.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he had a learning disability. He was dyslexic. And in the movie he says it like he goes, my doctor thinks I have something called dyslexia. And I think it was long enough ago that it wasn't commonly known. I don't think it was treated or anything like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He had learning disabilities.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The whole time was he annoying? And all the people on the football team hated him for sure. Yeah, for sure. And also that same story. Rudy probably happens on every college football team every season. You know, where they let some kid get in the game. It happens all the time. But because it's Notre Dame, it means something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was me on our school, except I didn't even hustle.

[Dusty Slay]

They let you do that for talent show.

[Aaron Weber]

You were like Rudy, but had no hard heart.

[Brian Bates]

You're five foot nothing and you're lazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And instead of. And you've hung with the best, they go, you're not hanging with it. Might try running around on a soccer field, but you're not at the end.

[Aaron Weber]

You're going to walk out of here with a degree from Lebanon High School.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I got that letterman jacket.

[Aaron Weber]

I wore a sharp looking jacket. And the fact that you can still fit into it. It still blows my mind.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty. I don't care for horror movies. I don't. I feel like there's enough horror in the world where I don't need to go get scared. Stimulus. So I think that's kind of a little bit what you're implying.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm just saying we. We have these natural emotions.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And we have, like. You know, sometimes if I. If I take two flights somewhere, I might be able to watch two movies. I don't need to call up sadness and tears and two flights.

[Brian Bates]

What about laughter?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean. I mean, I think. I mean, laughter's different. Laughter is different. Laughter is different because it makes you happy. Right. But it's like.

[Brian Bates]

But these movies we just referenced because.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I was watching a movie one time in. In an airport, and I. I got there way early. I watched the whole movie in the airport before my plane took off.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I took my headphones off, and I'm like, oh, I'm at the airport. You know, I've been sucked into this thing. And now here I am. I'm in real life out here. I've been over here wiping tears away, trying to let. Not let people know that's what's going on over here. I don't know if that's good.

[Brian Bates]

What was the movie?

[Dusty Slay]

It was. What is that movie? It's the Western movie. I think it was. It was a director from Nashville. It was the guy. He's from. Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? The kind of like.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I forget what it's called now.

[Brian Bates]

It was a good movie.

[Dusty Slay]

George. Not George Clooney.

[Brian Bates]

I do know the movie.

[Dusty Slay]

You're talking the guy who's like, you ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Lauren Grossman. In 2003, I worked for my mom. I rode with her to a staff meeting where she proceeded to announce I'd no longer be working there since the busy season was over. When I asked why she didn't mention this on the drive, she said she wanted to keep work and home life separate. I was 15.

[Dusty Slay]

I read ahead. I got ahead of you.

[Brian Bates]

That's great.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so funny. Drove her to her own funeral.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that you get fired and then you drive home and don't even talk about it.

[Brian Bates]

Did she tell her that morning and then she had to sit around all day waiting for a ride home?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess so. That is funny.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Tell us about some of those.

[Brian Bates]

That sounds bad. You can create custom categories and tags to really track things down.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, had no idea you had those kind of spending I've set up here.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to know what kind of job that was.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron Robertson. I feel like these episodes on Years are really just a chance for Dusty to storyboard his biopic. I'd watch that, but I wonder who Dusty would want to play him in the movie. It's an interesting question. Let's assume this project doesn't get made for a few years and you're now too old to play younger Dusty in a movie. Who would you want to play?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know that I know anyone. Who would you think I Nick Thune. Nick Thune. Okay,

[Brian Bates]

I was gonna say either David Spay pulls up his Joe Dirt outfit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Jared leto.

[Aaron Weber]

Who's that? 22 year old.

[Dusty Slay]

I like how you guys are picking older people.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Who's someone young?

[Dusty Slay]

Lead singer of Corn the. You know, a lot of this though is in is in my book. We're having A good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And so I get a little more detailed in there on some. Sorry, I try to keep it a little vague on here, but I don't know. I have no idea. If I knew some actors, some young actors.

[Brian Bates]

What if it was right now, Chalamet,

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody like that, Timothy Chalamet. He could pull it off. He's good. Yeah, he did, but he's been in a bunch.

[Dusty Slay]

He did a really great Bob Dylan. What else has he done?

[Aaron Weber]

He was in.

[Brian Bates]

Just in the ping pong movie.

[Aaron Weber]

It's just in the ping pong movies.

[Brian Bates]

He was at the Knicks game.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. He's been in a movie where he's an alcoholic and he's Steve Carell's son. And then he's been. He was an Interstellar hit, that Bob Dylan movie.

[Dusty Slay]

I really went in. I watched it on a plane.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And I went, I. I'm sorry. And I went into watching it ready to hate it. And I loved it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I love it.

[Brian Bates]

Who was he in Interstellar?

[Aaron Weber]

He. He was McConaughey's son who became Casey Affleck in the videos. Interesting that he watched very small role, but. But he was. He was young.

[Dusty Slay]

Interstellar. Even though I don't believe in that stuff, it really shook me up. I really believe in worms. I like that movie so much.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a good film.

[Dusty Slay]

Film.

[Brian Bates]

Would you want them to make a movie about you?

[Dusty Slay]

No, probably not now because I feel

[Aaron Weber]

like we don't have an ending yet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I feel like everybody's. They're all bad at making movies and, like, they look good, but the story is.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, the story's your life. You can't blame this.

[Dusty Slay]

But they would. They would go, I know how I got. I've written a couple, worked on a couple of TV shows here and there. Yeah. Well, they never got to be TV shows, but where it's like, you got a good. You got an idea. And then they're like, what about this? Let's put a little of this in there and a little of that in there. And you go, well, now we're not even even. This is not even the story.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but your story is very inspirational. You were in a trailer park, drinking, going nowhere, and now you're a public figure.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Big celebrity. It will really play on your emotions.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's right. Probably get some tears out of people.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, make feel.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't want to manipulate them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. That's such a. You might be the only guy to think that. But I like it.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll find out.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure Dusty's always right. I'm sure we'll hear from some lunatics. Comments.

[Dusty Slay]

That's my favorite comment every week.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't ever disagree with Dusty. He's always right.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it G.P. moore? G. Moore?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

He's on a list somewhere.

[Dusty Slay]

He's from Arkansas. Great state of Arkansas.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you hook up with him, Noel? I mean, meet up with him? Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we're both married.

[Aaron Weber]

But if not Cynthia Carpenter. It's the final comment. I remember the space shuttle Columbia exploding as it was aiming to land in Florida. We were in East Texas at the time, visiting my mother in law. We heard the boom. I believe it was a Saturday. We drove past debris on our way back home to Houston. Wow. They heard them.

[Brian Bates]

They've got to Cynthia too.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the boom?

[Dusty Slay]

Probably hit the firmament

[Aaron Weber]

coming back in through it.

[Brian Bates]

They just went up, I guess just the explosion.

[Aaron Weber]

They exploded coming back though.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what they tell you, but.

[Aaron Weber]

So they went up there, they grabbed onto the firmament for a few days.

[Dusty Slay]

They got stuck.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of people commented. They were. Scott. Scott Bedgood, our friend. Comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He said he remembers that he was living there and wow. Heard it and saw debris and stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, in the West Wing there's a space shuttle Columbia. It doesn't explode, but it has problems. Toby's brothers on the shuttle. Do you remember this?

[Brian Bates]

They named it after the actual.

[Aaron Weber]

It's called Columbia in the show.

[Brian Bates]

Interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Space shuttle Columbia.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe they named it after the District of Columbia.

[Aaron Weber]

Potentially. Potentially. Columbus.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Christopher. All right, we're gonna move on to our topic. Thank you for listening.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it exploded over my portion of the show is over Texas and Louisiana. And today we're talking about Louisiana, where

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty just performed in Lake Charles at the Golden Nugget Casino.

[Dusty Slay]

Golden Nugget Casino, know.

[Brian Bates]

How was that show?

[Dusty Slay]

It was so good. It really was so good. Like I, you know, I've been doing all month, I've done clubs, so I've not really been able to stretch out and do a lot of time. You know, I've been doing an hour and so it felt good, you know. Felt good.

[Brian Bates]

Stretch.

[Aaron Weber]

I can only do an hour in the clubs. It's tough to not be able to stretch out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it felt good.

[Brian Bates]

I did hour 20 minutes on Nate show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm just getting comfortable on stage in eight minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

That's wild. All right.

[Brian Bates]

I looked this morning. This is. I believe I counted up our 32nd state to cover. Okay, so.

[Aaron Weber]

So we're getting there. Are we saving good ones or no?

[Brian Bates]

No. I mean, I usually, like.

[Aaron Weber]

Not that Louisiana's not a good one, clearly. I wonder, like, what the strategy is. I know sometimes it depends on who the guest was. All that kind of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

It's usually, like if there's a guest in town who's from there. Like, I saw Mike Goodwin yesterday in South Carolina. We haven't done South Carolina yet.

[Aaron Weber]

And Dusty can talk about that, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

So he'll be engaged, so let's save that one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then sometimes if we haven't done a state in a while, one of us is going to a state right now. It doesn't work this time. But Dusty just got back from Louisiana, so it's like, let's do this.

[Aaron Weber]

He went and investigated for a little bit, collected some data at the Golden Nugget. We're gonna talk about it at the Golden Nugget.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I don't know if this will be interesting, but I. I got. Maybe I'll try to send this to you. I got a video and airdrop it to me. It's what my. What it looked like at night. Out of my

[Aaron Weber]

hotel room.

[Dusty Slay]

Out of my hotel room. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to see it.

[Dusty Slay]

And then you do. And I'll show you outside of his hotel room.

[Aaron Weber]

Not the inside.

[Dusty Slay]

We're just going to try to airdrop. Airdrop it, too, however that works.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you go to share.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know why it's doing that.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'll talk. You guys pretend to listen while you're doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It was discovered by Hernando de Soto in 1541, and then France took possession in 1682. And it was named after the king of France, King Louis xiv.

[Aaron Weber]

Louis xiv.

[Brian Bates]

Did you know that?

[Aaron Weber]

I knew it was Louis. I didn't know which number.

[Brian Bates]

But you knew it was named after King Louis.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, same guy at St. Louis, right?

[Brian Bates]

I'm kidding, I guess. Not with the saint in front of it, Anyway. And then in 1803, it was bought by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

[Aaron Weber]

One of the best deals of all time. How much was it?

[Brian Bates]

We bought 827,000 square miles of territory for 15 million.

[Aaron Weber]

$15 million?

[Brian Bates]

I think it came to 3 cents an acre or something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

3 cents. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good deal.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a pretty good deal. I'm guessing land's a little more expensive now.

[Dusty Slay]

It's unbelievable. Now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

More than three cents.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We really have made two of the greatest purchases of all time. Louisiana and Alaskan purchase.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How do we get away with that?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I think when you have a strong military, you can go, what kind of deal can I get?

[Aaron Weber]

But I don't know if we did have a strong military in 1803. I think we live in a country for 20.

[Brian Bates]

We didn't know what we were getting. Yeah. We had surveyed it and like, oh, man, we need this. They could have been. It could have been all swampland, you know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. They didn't really know what it was, and they're. It's like untamed.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So they're like, sure. There's a lot of Native Americans there.

[Aaron Weber]

Good luck, y'.

[Dusty Slay]

All.

[Aaron Weber]

Good luck with it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Give me $15 million.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, so I'm sending you. I'm gonna send you two. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

We got the nighttime one first.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, the nighttime one first. Watch this. It's out of my balcony.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you want the audio for this?

[Dusty Slay]

Nah. Who knows what I'll be saying? Okay. So it's just. Yeah, just. I'm just kind of giving you, like, this is the water, right? Some boats out there. Nice view. And I was saying to the guy, I go, what's this city over there? I go, what's that city? And he. He was like, well, you know. So then the daytime one. Let's watch the daytime one next.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. It's a little. Real cliffhanger.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You see, it looks like some cities over there. Right?

[Brian Bates]

I think I know what it is.

[Dusty Slay]

And then here in the daytime, it's. It's like refineries.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

It's all like oil refineries.

[Aaron Weber]

They did look like skyscrapers.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Look like Shanghai over there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The amount of structures there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then these boats. By the way, these boats all have their own Bluetooth speakers going on, and they're all competing to see who can

[Aaron Weber]

be the loudest, who can play jelly roll the loudest.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. And it's pretty wild.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that was pretty good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that was. I thought that. I didn't think that would be that good.

[Brian Bates]

Me either.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

Because I said, what's that city? And he goes, oh, yeah, Wait till the morning. Everybody thinks they're. It's a city, but it's all refineries.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

That is crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

I asked him twice. I got. He goes, soil refineries. I go, yeah, but what's that city?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, I'm talking about the town over yonder.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's an oil. A refinery. My young man.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty. No, the capital of Louisiana.

[Aaron Weber]

You twirl it. You twirl it in your hands.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Baton Rouge. Yeah. All right. I've been to Baton Rouge a couple of times.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Did comedy there. A couple.

[Aaron Weber]

Silver Bar Casino.

[Brian Bates]

It's called the Pelican State because it's the state bird.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why they're the New Orleans pelicans.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I had no idea.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Are they native to Louisiana? They have pelicans there straight up.

[Dusty Slay]

So much like swamp and coastland and.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What do you think of Louisiana? What do you think of. I went for a state that's very close to Tennessee. I Think I went the first time in my life about 10 years ago. Me and Nate and our friend Ryan went to the Independence bowl the day after Christmas. Vanderbilt was playing in it, and we drove, stopped in Little Rock Christmas night.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then went the rest of the way the next day. I think that was my first time ever. That's in Shreveport.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then about three years ago, maybe I did comedy there for the first time again with Nate at the Smoothie King Center. It's a great way to start your comedy career there in New Orleans. It was my first time ever to New Orleans.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, I grew up in Alabama and never went to Louisiana growing up either. I've only been a couple times through comedy, too, so I know very little about it firsthand.

[Dusty Slay]

New Orleans scares me, but I like. I love Louisiana.

[Aaron Weber]

But if I say Louisiana, what do you picture?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, what do you think?

[Dusty Slay]

I pictures like, swampland and Cajun country.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, me too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I still think. I think Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Stuff.

[Brian Bates]

I think that too.

[Dusty Slay]

I always picture swampland, alligators.

[Aaron Weber]

Even though Alabama invented Mardi Gras.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Mobile.

[Aaron Weber]

Mobile, Alabama.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

And the New Orleans.

[Dusty Slay]

But even that Mobile is still that same kind of French influence.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Mississippi, South. Mississippi, Mississippi.

[Brian Bates]

It's all that, I think of them

[Dusty Slay]

all kind of the similar swampland, the bayou. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In New Orleans and Memphis I think of similarly, maybe because Memphis has the blues, New Orleans has jazz.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. And it's Beale street and Bourbon Street.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

High crime.

[Dusty Slay]

And they're also both on the Mississippi River.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Which is.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. NBA teams.

[Brian Bates]

NBA teams. Yep. We did them back to back night, actually, on that run. We did Memphis the next night.

[Aaron Weber]

You take the river boat down the Mississippi. How do you go? Can you go down? Which way does the Mississippi river flow?

[Dusty Slay]

It flows down.

[Aaron Weber]

It flows down out of New Orleans.

[Dusty Slay]

If you're like at the beach in Mississippi, that's where the Mississippi, you know, like at the Mississippi, that's where it comes out into the ocean.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And so it's like, you know, fresh water meeting. Yeah. It might be, like, blue, and then the black water from the Mississippi river comes rolling out. And so that's why I feel like you don't really hear about people hanging out on the. The beach in Mississippi. It's because the Mississippi, the. A river that flows through the entire country, connecting it all. Like, I think every river almost comes into the Mississippi. Like all, like seven rivers, I think, come into the Mississippi and then it flows down into the ocean. It's just this whole country is going in and being dumped out right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's where we got a video pulled up of the Mississippi river meeting being the Gulf of Mexico here. And it looks like two different. I mean, two completely different color. It's pretty. So how can you trap. This is such a dumb question, but I've never traveled by river. Okay. I'm not Huck Finn.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you go up? How do you travel north?

[Dusty Slay]

Just some, like a motorized boat or, you know, like a.

[Aaron Weber]

But Huck Finn didn't try. He didn't have a motorized boat. You tell me. They can only travel south.

[Dusty Slay]

I think they only travel south. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You have to paddle against the current.

[Dusty Slay]

Steam engine engine. Like they might got on one of the. And then they had whatever that. Whatever that kind of ship is that, you know, I don't know, the paddle

[Brian Bates]

boat, like the General Jackson.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think you could go up that way.

[Brian Bates]

Like a riverboat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And I guess if the.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that right there.

[Dusty Slay]

Doesn't that look the water still, then I think you could probably paddle up.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think it's a pretty fast current, isn't it, for that big of a river?

[Dusty Slay]

You told me Little Hawk Huck Finn went up.

[Aaron Weber]

I think so.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I don't know. I don't think it ever says what direction. I think he was just trying to get out of town.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think he cared where he went.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe he just let the river take him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he would go Minneapolis, I think is where. Where it starts. And then you would go through, like, Cape Gerardo, St. Louis, Memphis, Shreveport, maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, dude, it goes all the way up to the.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, all the way up to huge river.

[Aaron Weber]

Duluth almost.

[Brian Bates]

And I think even further. I mean, Canada.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, we stopped. We stopped looking at it.

[Brian Bates]

Stop caring.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we stopped caring.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I think the Missouri river is the longest river in the country, and it connects to the Mississippi.

[Aaron Weber]

I learned that on this podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty wild. Pretty wild.

[Brian Bates]

They have so many cultures in Louisiana. There's not an official state language. Some people speak Cajun. It's French Creole.

[Aaron Weber]

Creole. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Can you. Do you know the difference? No, I don't either.

[Dusty Slay]

But I think Creole's a little Jamaican sounding. Right. And then Cajun is almost like a little New York sounding.

[Aaron Weber]

A Creole language is a full fledged language that develops from the mixing of two or more distinct languages. So Creole might be a mix of French and English or French and Spanish or whatever.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Based on some research that Adrian gave me, Creole is more New Orleans, and Cajun is more rural Louisiana.

[Aaron Weber]

Like swamp people. That's.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, like a. Like, you talk to, like a Cajun. It almost has a little New York kind of accent to it.

[Aaron Weber]

H. Like, demonstrate.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. And. But like, you know, you ever.

[Brian Bates]

There was coaching the water boy.

[Dusty Slay]

There was that video that went around. It was Tik Tok video, but it was saying, like, if you slow down the British accent, you get the Southern accent. If you slow down the French accent, you get the Cajun accent. Accent. If you slow. And then it was a few different things, but I thought it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

That's interesting. Yeah. I think of. You ever watch Swamp People? Remember that show?

[Dusty Slay]

I know it.

[Aaron Weber]

Kill alligators and stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And the guy always go, do them, do them, do them instead of shoot them. That's what he would say. So that's my only cage.

[Dusty Slay]

He might have a speech impediment.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, That's probably my bad. My bad. Louisiana.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'll help you out here.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It also has the highest homicide rate in the US since at least the 1990s.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

According to AI, of course. I just want people to know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know that for spot.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, the swampland, though. I mean, you know, it's this. You know, you could, you know, shoot somebody, throw them off to the alligators.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Was it the movie. U.S. marshals. The. Was it that Tommy Lee Jones. Yeah. When he's chasing Wesley Snipes.

[Aaron Weber]

100.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there's a lot of them, like, movie. I think it's called Just cause, and that's

[Aaron Weber]

okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Laurence Fishburne and Sean Connery.

[Aaron Weber]

He does the Lawrence Fishburne impression.

[Dusty Slay]

That one's really good. And I think that's all. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. 1995 crime thriller.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's really good.

[Aaron Weber]

I just.

[Brian Bates]

Louisiana.

[Dusty Slay]

I just watched it not too long ago. I think so.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's that kind of swamp vibe.

[Aaron Weber]

Takes place in Florida.

[Brian Bates]

Louise.

[Dusty Slay]

Still a swamp vibe, guys. I mean, come on.

[Aaron Weber]

It all blurs.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, once you get down, you know, you get.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, it's all. There's water. Okay. What more do you want from.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great movie, though, I reckon. Recommend it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

There was one I watched, too, with Vince Vaughn, and that's for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Dodgeball.

[Dusty Slay]

It's. He's a little. It's like a more serious kind of recent Vince fall movie, and that's for sure in Louisiana.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Really good I don't know the name of it, but you can look it

[Brian Bates]

up on your own time.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll wait till the podcast is over to look it up.

[Brian Bates]

Can you name some universities in Louisiana?

[Aaron Weber]

Louisiana State University, lsu and then Louisiana Monroe.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Louisiana Lafayette.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the one?

[Aaron Weber]

Northern Louisiana.

[Dusty Slay]

Two Lane.

[Brian Bates]

Two Lane. Good.

[Aaron Weber]

Two Lane is in New Orleans. You got Loyola, Is that right? There's a Loyola New Orleans.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there not?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, maybe I.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't have a list?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I've got some. I don't have that one.

[Aaron Weber]

You're the one asking the question. I don't have every Loyola University in New Orleans.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, you guys are.

[Dusty Slay]

Not me. Don't put me in that. I just named Two Lane. Aaron's coming at you hard.

[Brian Bates]

Are you done?

[Aaron Weber]

Hold on, let me think of one.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet there's a. I bet there's just a Louisiana University.

[Aaron Weber]

Golden Nugget College. What is it?

[Brian Bates]

You know where Terry Bradshaw played football?

[Aaron Weber]

He played at where? Where the Duck Dynasty guy played.

[Brian Bates]

Played. Well, see, I didn't know that.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Who was it?

[Brian Bates]

Louisiana Tech.

[Aaron Weber]

Louisiana Tech. His back. Or he was. The Duck Dynasty guy was the starter

[Brian Bates]

and Terry was the back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

I did not know that.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I gotta know the main Duck Dynasty guy.

[Dusty Slay]

I gotta know this. The people also ask, is Loyola New Orleans a prestigious school? I'd like gotta know the answer.

[Aaron Weber]

While not considered highly prestigious on a national scale. Okay, okay, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I just. Just because they asked that question, I was like, I really would like to know.

[Aaron Weber]

It boasts excellent regional recognition.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, let's go.

[Aaron Weber]

Look. People around here think it's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And I think it's a good school. Southern University in Baton Rouge. Grambling State and Grambling.

[Aaron Weber]

Grambling State.

[Brian Bates]

You know, that was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, sure.

[Brian Bates]

They both play in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

[Aaron Weber]

Swack.

[Brian Bates]

And they have the Bayou Classic every Thanksgiving weekend, which is televised. That's awesome. It's. Louisiana is the least populous state with more than one major professional sports team.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting.

[Brian Bates]

It's the 25th most popular, so it's right in the middle. Yeah, but it has NBA and NFL.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

They don't have a hockey team? No. Okay. No.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you were joking, but.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I kind of thought they did, but I was just looking, but I guess it's the basketball arena. When you go to New Orleans, there is like, an arena, but I guess that's.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, they probably have a modern. Probably have a minor league. Yeah, they used to have a minor league baseball team. The New Orleans Zephyrs.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I remember that. They play the same great logo.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. New Orleans has hosted the super bowl a record 11 times.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I would have never guessed that the most Super Bowls were in New Orleans.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Me either. I would assume LA or New York, somewhere like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Maybe not New York, just because they don't. They've never had a Dome Stadium.

[Aaron Weber]

Atlanta, I thought, would have a bunch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Phoenix, I would have probably said la. It's one of those Southern California places. They've had those to the BCS National Championship, the NBA All Star Game and Sugar Bowl. Sugar Bowl.

[Aaron Weber]

Sugar Bowl's always there.

[Brian Bates]

The top four states for NFL players per capita. All Southern states. Alabama's fourth.

[Aaron Weber]

Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.

[Brian Bates]

Florida's not on here, but maybe it's because there's so much population.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. There's so many people in Florida.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's so much bigger than all those other states.

[Brian Bates]

The Saints have won a Super Bowl.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Drew Brees over the Colts. 2010 Pelicans were relocated. They were the Charlotte Hornets.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Right.

[Brian Bates]

Then they became the New Orleans Hornets, and then they changed their name to the Pelicans.

[Aaron Weber]

Zion Williamson.

[Brian Bates]

Yep, he's there.

[Aaron Weber]

They say the food in New Orleans was too good.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, is that why he's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Little sick.

[Aaron Weber]

They used to always say that. They would say every chef in New Orleans knew his name.

[Brian Bates]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

Because he would just. He would just eat all the food there. It's too good.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Just gained a bunch of weight.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you do shows in New Orleans? There's no club. Club. I've done a couple of things.

[Aaron Weber]

Did an open mic there.

[Dusty Slay]

The Howling Wolf. I did that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I did the Joy Theater.

[Aaron Weber]

The Joy Theater.

[Dusty Slay]

After my show at the Joy Theater in New Orleans, I was sitting outside, having some cigars, off to the side. Shooting happened in front of the Joy Theater. People took off running, and I was pretty entertained by it. I've told that story a lot of times, and we'll continue to tell it for likely the rest of my life. Unless something more exciting happens than that.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, imagine what was happening outside the Sadness Theater.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Have you performed in Louisiana?

[Aaron Weber]

In Louisiana? Yeah. I've done some stuff in Shreveport. I've done.

[Dusty Slay]

What you do in Shreveport.

[Aaron Weber]

I did the Convention center at Shreveport.

[Dusty Slay]

I did Bossier City.

[Aaron Weber]

Bossier.

[Dusty Slay]

They used to. A Margaritaville casino. Used to have the Bonkers in there.

[Brian Bates]

There.

[Dusty Slay]

I did that in about 2015.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Bonkers.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm guessing it was bad.

[Dusty Slay]

It was actually really good for me. Took an Opener. Not you, but I've done some bonkers. He. This is why I think it went so well for me. One, I, you know, I was funny, but he did so bad, and he got. He was a good comic. I'm not going to say his name because I'm saying how bad he did. He's a good comic.

[Aaron Weber]

I know who it is.

[Dusty Slay]

But he did so bad, and he got the audience so mad at him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Now I definitely know that by the time I got on stage, they were, like, excited.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really? That's an interesting strategy if you want to be an in demand opener.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It be so horrifically off putting that they go, thank God somebody else is on stage.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I can try that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What year Was that?

[Dusty Slay]

Probably, 2015. Okay. I was doing a lot of bonkers gigs, and this guy did a few of them with me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he's a good comic, too.

[Dusty Slay]

He is a good cop. Very funny. But he just. Actually, I don't even want to say the thing that it's. It's some. It's a term that they would use for Louisiana people. Charlie Daniels uses it in his song Trudy, and he was just. So. He kept saying it. It's. It's. But. But he kept saying it because he just thought it was a Louisiana thing. But they were getting so mad at him.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm looking.

[Dusty Slay]

Says it took half the cops in Dallas County.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just to put one. What does that say?

[Aaron Weber]

That one says coolest boy in.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that is not what he. That is not what he says. I like that they cleaned it up, though. But. But anyway, so I did that. Performed in. Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Very different. Yeah, Very different.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The classic miscommunication.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And he kept saying it, and people were getting so mad at him,

[Brian Bates]

but

[Dusty Slay]

he was also a tough guy, so I'm sure he wanted a fight. But the. I've done Lafayette.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

A few times. Lafayette.

[Aaron Weber]

They got a great comedy club.

[Dusty Slay]

They have a great comedy club. I don't know. Actually, the JP Was just at my show at the Golden Nugget Casino in St. Charles, Louisiana. And you tell him about me. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or tell.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I didn't but him about. Yeah, but what is the club? It's. It's numbers. We look it up, though. Just so I don't have.

[Aaron Weber]

Which city is it?

[Dusty Slay]

Lafayette.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think it's called Lafayette Comedy Club. Lafayette Comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

This is club. We're talking Club 337. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Great club. Really good, then. I've done baton Rouge A few times. You've done Louisiana. Oh, you did with Nate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I did the smoothie king. I only do Rena's there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm sure your bunkers gig was great. I roll in, I roll out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Who's some famous. Who's someone famous that you associate with?

[Aaron Weber]

Louisiana Duck dynasty.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, I forgot about those guys.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good one. Phil Robertson, whatever his name is. Louisiana. Terry Bradshaw.

[Dusty Slay]

I always think about the coach from. For LSU for just a short time.

[Aaron Weber]

Orgeron.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I love that guy.

[Brian Bates]

Ed Orgeron.

[Dusty Slay]

Ed Orgeron took t. He took a turn, but when he first won the national championship.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he was the best.

[Dusty Slay]

They were like, what are you going to do to celebrate? You know, you going to have go to the bar or whatever? And he goes, nah, we don't do none of that. We're just going to go have a couple of ham sandwiches and take it back to the house.

[Aaron Weber]

Take it easy on that cigar boy.

[Dusty Slay]

And it just. He seemed like such a nice man.

[Aaron Weber]

He's great.

[Dusty Slay]

And then, like, you know, they started giving him that money and then he left his wife and he had, you know, he got.

[Aaron Weber]

He got caught up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he got caught up.

[Brian Bates]

We all aspire to.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm still not saying he's a bad guy, but he got caught up.

[Aaron Weber]

He got caught up.

[Brian Bates]

Isn't he back?

[Aaron Weber]

He's doing. He's always around, man. I thought lives.

[Brian Bates]

I thought Lane Kiffin hired him back. Is that all right?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, maybe. I don't know. That wouldn't surprise me.

[Dusty Slay]

Pretty sure he's probably a defensive guy. He got a little overwhelmed as head coach.

[Brian Bates]

I wanted to mention that team that he coached 150 won the national championship. The quarterback, Joe Burrow.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Who won the Heisman. Number one pick. One of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. The two receivers to probably two best receivers in the NFL right now. Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson. That team was.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of people think that's the best team ever. Yeah, it's the best college football team ever.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's why Ed Orgeron looks so good, because especially if he's a defensive guy. Right? Then he's got that handled. And then Joe Burrow and these other guys have got that. They got the offense handled.

[Aaron Weber]

You think he looks so good.

[Dusty Slay]

He. No, he meant as a coach.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just make sure we're talking about this.

[Dusty Slay]

But he just, like, I. I loved this guy because I felt like he had the Cajun vibe. And then he also seemed like a Good guy. We just going to have some ham sandwiches and go back to the house.

[Aaron Weber]

Take it easy on that cigar boy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And. But, you know, he got, you know, several million dollars and he was like, you know what? Life's pretty good down there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. See if I can ruin it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There was. I want to ment LSU basketball team for my. I don't know if I said high school, maybe going to college. There was one team that was so good, at least on paper. You're like, how did they ever lose? So Chris Jackson was this phenom player. He averaged 30 points a game his freshman year.

[Aaron Weber]

Crazy.

[Brian Bates]

And was SEC player of the year his sophomore year. Another incredible year. They had two freshman's. Freshman on the team, Shaq and another guy named Stanley Roberts, who's 7 foot and was supposed to be maybe better than Shaq. So they had these two giant guys in, this incredible guard. And I think they got beat, like, second round of the NCAA tournament.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And you would think, who would ever beat this team?

[Aaron Weber]

But who was winning those years?

[Brian Bates]

Unlv maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They look good. They look good for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Anyway, I used to. I used to love the app. Alabama, LSU rivalry.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was the best in. In 2011.

[Brian Bates]

Honey badger.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a. I had a. It was the first time Alabama and LSU met that year, you know, and I had a comedy competition that I had entered and they. I made it to the next round. And they had nights Friday and Saturday, and they had. And I asked them. I go, hey, these are my friends. I go, hey, hey. I go, I'm going to be completely honest with you. Alabama and LSU are playing on Saturday night. And I realized that you're going to put me on either Friday or Saturday. And I go, I'd really love it if you just put me on Friday instead of on Saturday. And the. And my friends go, oh, sorry, we can only do Saturday. And I go, okay, well, I'm going to drop out of the competition.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I wanted to watch the game. And I was like, I'm not going to win the competition. Who cares? Yeah. And then they, they. So I dropped out. And then they go later. They go, oh, somebody dropped out on Friday. Do you want to get back in?

[Aaron Weber]

And you.

[Dusty Slay]

And I got back in. And then I won the whole time.

[Aaron Weber]

And he got to watch the game,

[Dusty Slay]

and the game was terrible. It's one of the most boring games.

[Aaron Weber]

Nine to six. Right. But then they played again in the national championship.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And Alabama blew him out like 21 to nothing. Or Something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Roll Tide.

[Brian Bates]

Remember Leonard Fournette? I do remember that guy looked like he was going to be the greatest running back of all time.

[Aaron Weber]

He had a decent NFL career, but not like he looked in college. He looked like a freak in college. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I think he may be done now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But in college he was incredible. Pete Maravich. Pistol Pete, back in my day.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's way before.

[Brian Bates]

Here's some famous people from Louisiana.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

The Ovon.

[Aaron Weber]

The Ovon, I think, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He's got a little bit of that Cajun.

[Dusty Slay]

For sure.

[Brian Bates]

He does dialect.

[Dusty Slay]

He had a lot of it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You guys may not even know this guy, but I think I'm Louisiana. James Carville.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

You know James Carville. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The raging Cajun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Raging Cajun. He was in. Was it old school? Yeah, he debated.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They call him the Raging Cajun.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Brian Bates]

I think so. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was thinking of John Morgan, the comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they call him that, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, you gotta have a raging Cajun for every genre you got. Politics, comedy. John Morgan is a great, great one. I don't know that you consider John Morgan famous, but in the comedy world, I think John Morgan's pretty famous. Like, because if you ever seen him, he. He kills and it's pretty unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's right. That was. That was the show. First ever show he went to on a date.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I started. Bring it up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't like that. Mark Norman.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Sean Patton. You guys know Sean.

[Aaron Weber]

I do know Sean. Very funny. Some good comics from down there.

[Brian Bates]

Ellen DeGeneres.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there you go. Go.

[Brian Bates]

Louie Armstrong.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, Lou.

[Dusty Slay]

Louis Armstrong. The jazz guy, though. Okay. Because you're just doing kind. And then I go, who's the. You're right. You're right.

[Brian Bates]

I threw a turbo there.

[Aaron Weber]

My bad.

[Dusty Slay]

I love Lou. Like, Louis Armstrong has the. He has one album that I think it's like the Basin Street Blues or whatever, something like that. I love that album. It's really good.

[Brian Bates]

Have you ever gotten into jazz?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I love jazz.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you do a Louis Armstrong impression? What a Wonderful World. Can you sing it?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I bet you could. Close to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I've seen Fields of Green.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta get raspier. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Hang on. Trying to think of the words.

[Dusty Slay]

What a wonderful world.

[Brian Bates]

But I think to myself.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, what a wonderful world. Yeah. We could do it together there. I'll do it with you.

[Brian Bates]

And I think to myself.

[Aaron Weber]

Start digging.

[Brian Bates]

What a wonderful.

[Dusty Slay]

See, that's not the Louis Armstrong that I really like. I. I mean, that's a very.

[Brian Bates]

Told me that before.

[Aaron Weber]

I did your song, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wait till I'm done. Think of. Yeah, no, he likes the. The song, just not my version. All right. I think of the Mannings more. Mississippi.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I do, too. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But Archie went to the Saints and they lived there. I mean, Peyton and Eli grew up in New Orleans. New Orleans.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Reese Witherspoon was born in Louisiana.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody we claim here started somewhere else.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. Because I still think of. I honestly think of Peyton as a Tennessee guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You know, Oprah was born in Mississippi. Elvis was born in Mississippi. Dolly, I guess, has been in Tennessee the whole time.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so that's one we got.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Dolly's are. Tim McGraw was born in Louisiana. Jerry Lee Lewis.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, those are all big names. You ever watch those Mike Judge tales from the tour bus? Those are great. He's got some. I don't know if it's a whole Jerry Lee Lewis episode. I don't remember, but he talks a lot about Jerry Lee Lewis. Wild story.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Let's talk about some fun movies that were shot in Louisiana or set in Louisiana. Dead Man Walking.

[Aaron Weber]

Dead Man Walking. Never heard of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Who's in that? I've heard it. Who's in it, though?

[Brian Bates]

Sean Penn. And you don't know that movie?

[Aaron Weber]

No. You think about I Am Sam.

[Brian Bates]

No. It was up for Oscars. And why am I drawing a blank on her name? Susan Saran.

[Aaron Weber]

Susan.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm gonna go watch that. I don't think I've ever seen that, but that looks good to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Just based on the poster.

[Dusty Slay]

That's the kind of movie that I'm into.

[Aaron Weber]

Just based on the poster.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know what kind of movie it is?

[Dusty Slay]

It seems drama.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay. But just. You're just based on the poster. You're like, I'm watching that tonight.

[Dusty Slay]

Not tonight, but soon.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Directed by Tim Robbins.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Her partner.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Tim Robbins is great.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I thought. Yeah. You guys didn't even get the joke. I said some fun movie. I mean, it's very dark, very depressing.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

That's not.

[Dusty Slay]

That's fun to me.

[Aaron Weber]

But Roger Deakins is the cinematographer who was the cinematographer on the Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins. Bit of a reunion.

[Brian Bates]

She may have won an Oscar for that role.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So, you know, that's going to be good.

[Brian Bates]

12 Years a Slave. All right, Another fun one. The Water Boy.

[Aaron Weber]

Water Boy is fun.

[Dusty Slay]

One of my favorites.

[Brian Bates]

Kathy Bates said she loosely based that character on Dusty. Yeah, the devil.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, this is more manipulation that, you know, you have a character like Kathy Bates in that movie and then when somebody says these very obvious satanic things are from the devil, right. They go, oh, you're like Kathy Bates and water boy. And it's like, well, you know, she's right on some things for sure.

[Brian Bates]

That is true. Some restaurants from Louisiana.

[Aaron Weber]

Popeyes.

[Brian Bates]

Popeyes.

[Dusty Slay]

Love that chicken for Popeyes.

[Aaron Weber]

Love that chicken from Popeyes.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, they said that was a based off. I heard that was written by. I don't know if it was written by, but based off a Dr. John song. Remember that? No.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Dr. John.

[Aaron Weber]

Dr. John. Legendary new Orleans.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you say New Orleans or you say New Orleans?

[Dusty Slay]

I say New Orleans.

[Aaron Weber]

So do I. Yeah. I don't like when people do the new all.

[Brian Bates]

What about New Orleans?

[Aaron Weber]

New Orleans. I don't know. I mean, what's the right one? Is there a right one? I say New Orleans.

[Dusty Slay]

New Orleans. I don't think there's a right.

[Aaron Weber]

Legendary New Orleans musician Dr. John created and sang the iconic Love that chicken from Popeyes Jinx angle in the 1980s.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. The original one. He's not doing the current one.

[Aaron Weber]

His distinct gravelly growl and piano playing are still heavily tied to the fast foods chains musical legacy.

[Brian Bates]

Right here.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to hear what this sounds like here.

[Brian Bates]

That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Love that. Cooking it at Popeyes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I have never heard that version. I only know the modern one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That chicken from Popeyes. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was originally called Chicken on the Run. That was the original name of it.

[Aaron Weber]

The restaurant.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Chicken on the Run.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I like Popeyes better.

[Brian Bates]

I think raising canes.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think Popeye. Do you think that they were. Because Popeyes, the cartoon character, just ate spinach.

[Brian Bates]

He didn't just eat spinach, but that's what gave him a strength.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, did they sell spinach at Popeyes?

[Dusty Slay]

I bet they did.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't. Did they do it anymore?

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe like, maybe not. Spinach, turnip greens, something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Popeyes does not serve spinach. The fried chicken chain is famous for traditional southern sides like red beans and rice, coleslaw, mashed potatoes and Cajun fries.

[Dusty Slay]

Guys.

[Aaron Weber]

So not affiliated with the sailor at all.

[Dusty Slay]

I just had some Popeyes the other day.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it good?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I don't know if we talked about it because we talked about it one Time on the podcast and I said how much? I didn't like it. So then I went back and I got some.

[Aaron Weber]

And you liked it better the second.

[Dusty Slay]

I liked it better, but I'm still. Raising canes is great.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You like raising canes there?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like. It's fine.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I feel like it's really expanding a lot. Lot.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When one. First one came to Nashville, like, few years ago, and now there's. I feel like they're popping up everywhere.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They got one downtown. Right.

[Brian Bates]

I thought. I don't know. Do they? I don't know. I thought it was a relatively new establishment. It started in 1996, so it's been around for 30 years, but I feel like just the last few years it's taken off.

[Dusty Slay]

1996, though, seems right around the corner. Yeah, it really does, though. You think? Oh, man, 30 years.

[Brian Bates]

Know.

[Dusty Slay]

It's wild.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Smoothie King.

[Aaron Weber]

Smoothie King. That's why the Smoothie King Center.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Not a fan, really. Never been a fan.

[Aaron Weber]

What don't you like about it?

[Dusty Slay]

It's all powders.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, if you're going to get a smoothie, go somewhere that's going to blend up some fruit.

[Aaron Weber]

It's hard to find a smoothie, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, right. Depends on where you're at. If you're in a good city like Nashville, you can get a smoothie, no problem. Right down this and Donaldson. There's that place that I listed as one of the top coffee places in the city. What is it? Sun. Sunshine Bakery.

[Aaron Weber]

Sunflower.

[Dusty Slay]

Sunflower Bake House.

[Aaron Weber]

They do smoothies.

[Dusty Slay]

Do smoothies.

[Brian Bates]

Great.

[Aaron Weber]

Smoothies make a top five list.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then we'll get back. I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

Another Broken Egg Cafe.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah, I know that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I see it a lot when I'm on the road.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We got a few of them here.

[Brian Bates]

I do. Do we?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Hermitage has one for sure.

[Brian Bates]

I. I do think of Louisiana as its own cuisine. Its own.

[Aaron Weber]

It's got its own thing, got a lot of different. I love Cajun food as a person. Gumbo. I mean, my family is from Mobile, so, I mean, yeah, it was gumbo Jumbalaya, all that growing up. It's one of my favorite food.

[Dusty Slay]

It's great. But as a person that no longer eats pork and shellfish, there's almost nothing.

[Brian Bates]

What about a Po Boy sandwich? Sandwich.

[Aaron Weber]

I like a Po Boy.

[Dusty Slay]

Me, too.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Bananas Fossil.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't eat. You don't.

[Brian Bates]

Do you eat shrimp?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Shrimp is. You don't Eat shrimp.

[Dusty Slay]

It's an unclean food. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Huh. So, yeah, I'm trying to think of what you could eat. I guess just garlic bread steak.

[Dusty Slay]

The last time I was. The last time I was in Baton Rouge, I walked by an oyster place, and I. I was like. I was so into it that I was like. I even stopped to do a little extra research to see is oysters. And oysters is an obvious unclean thing. But I looked it up, and it was. So I just went and had a steak.

[Aaron Weber]

So cow's clean.

[Dusty Slay]

Cow's clean.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Cow has four stomachs and only eats grass. Unless you're feeding it other stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So then it filters it all through and.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Oyster is just a glob of Delicious glob of something that just soaks up gdf.

[Aaron Weber]

Salmon is a. Salmon. It's a clean.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Catfish isn't.

[Dusty Slay]

Catfish isn't.

[Aaron Weber]

Shrimp's not.

[Dusty Slay]

Shrimp's not.

[Aaron Weber]

Scallops. Pigs aren't.

[Dusty Slay]

Pigs are not.

[Aaron Weber]

So. Yeah, man, you're out of. That stinks, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, ch. Chicken. Chicken is debatable. Honestly, a lot of people debate it, but I eat chicken all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Where are these debates happening?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, it's just kind of based on what animals are eating.

[Aaron Weber]

I just like to picture, like, a. Like a. I don't know, some symposium with guys in togas arguing about whether

[Dusty Slay]

a chicken like to get to the bottom of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I believe you.

[Brian Bates]

What about Bananas Foster?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't. I don't have ever had Bananas Foster. Bread pudding. Is bread pudding a new. A New Orleans thing?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Cajun might be. I don't even think I can kind of get a Cajun accent.

[Brian Bates]

We'll try.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I'm trying, right? No, that's terrible.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't even kind of get there.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds like Randy Newman.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, maybe spend some time, you know, working on it and then come back to us.

[Aaron Weber]

I just want to hear a woman speak. I don't think I'm gonna get there.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

That's French, but that's Cajun French right there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you want Cajun English?

[Aaron Weber]

Cajun English accent. That's. That's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you. Yeah, sometimes they will.

[Brian Bates]

If you catch them, go fool with them.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I'll work on it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Adrian sent me a list of questions.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's. Let's.

[Brian Bates]

I don't have the answers to these.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's ask them.

[Dusty Slay]

I like how you really let us know what Adrian took.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

These are dumb.

[Aaron Weber]

I want.

[Brian Bates]

I Want Adrian?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You can usually see. Why does. Louis, this sounds like jokes. Why does Louisiana have parishes instead of counties?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

It's because it's French, right? That's a French thing, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you send the answer or am I supposed to.

[Aaron Weber]

I forgot the answers.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Louisiana uses parishes instead of counties because of its historical foundation under French and Spanish rule, where the Roman Catholic Church and local government were deeply intertwined.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go, right there. I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, this is a good one. I know the answer. But why are graves above ground? Not all graves, but a lot of graves.

[Dusty Slay]

Because it's real soft and.

[Aaron Weber]

Hold on, what's the question? Why are the graves above ground?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They're not in New Orleans. In New Orleans, the graves are above

[Brian Bates]

ground, and so I don't know if

[Aaron Weber]

everywhere but like in a mausoleum type thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They don't bury him in trees.

[Brian Bates]

Well, no, there's.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean, buried above ground?

[Brian Bates]

So you think it's either underground or in trees? That's the only two options.

[Aaron Weber]

What is another option?

[Dusty Slay]

Like.

[Brian Bates]

Like us right now.

[Dusty Slay]

We're not in a tree, and I'm not underground.

[Brian Bates]

You said, why are graves like a mausoleum?

[Dusty Slay]

They don't bury it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I said. And then nobody said it.

[Dusty Slay]

They just sit them on top.

[Aaron Weber]

On top of what?

[Dusty Slay]

They don't even use a casket. They just take the body out there and you stand around and then you go, all right, you.

[Aaron Weber]

Y' all are all laughing, but, like, what? What do you mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't know how to.

[Brian Bates]

This guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, they. We don't. You don't. They don't bury them.

[Brian Bates]

They put them in some type of above ground mausoleum, I guess. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I thought we all said yes when you said that.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think anybody said anything. And I'm just.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what that is, but

[Aaron Weber]

that's where you walk in and they. It's almost like, why.

[Dusty Slay]

Why don't they do it?

[Brian Bates]

Or because of the low level and the flooding.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The whole state is washing away, so

[Dusty Slay]

the graves would wash up.

[Brian Bates]

I sent you a news link. They just did a study that said, new Orleans, you better start relocating now, because it's going to be underwater, I think, by 2070 or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, 2070. So you got some time.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, rising seas will swallow New Orleans.

[Dusty Slay]

That sounds like something somebody says that wants to buy your land that's going to be gone in 40 years.

[Brian Bates]

I did see a conspiracy theory. I think you'd be all about bestie. The. What was the big oil spill was Exxon. Bp. Yeah, sorry, bp, that all that out happened in the Gulf. There's a conspiracy theory that certain powerful people caused that because they wanted to ruin the economy and get everybody out of there so they could snatch up

[Aaron Weber]

the land, come in and buy the land.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Interesting. I mean, that's probably true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They don't care about nothing.

[Brian Bates]

But I mean, does that concern you that New Orleans is going to be

[Aaron Weber]

coastal Louisiana faces sea level rise of about 10 to 23ft. It's pretty big range.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

According to this analysis that was published,

[Dusty Slay]

Florida was supposed to be underwater by now.

[Aaron Weber]

According to some people around 70. They've already lost 2,000 square miles of wetlands since the 1930s. Around 75% of its remaining wetlands. Wetlands or wetlands, Naatland, Nateland are set to be lost. And its shoreline could retreat inland by up to 62 miles.

[Dusty Slay]

Could, could, could, could, could, could, could, coulda, woulda, shoulda.

[Brian Bates]

Roughly, a football field of Wetlands disappear every 90 to 100 minutes due to erosion and rising sea levels. So it'll be gone before that's according to AD.

[Aaron Weber]

Every 90 minutes a football field goes away.

[Dusty Slay]

But like, probably like spread out in a way that it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. You're taking this much. Yeah, yeah. Just football fields disappear. And where's it going? Just underwater.

[Aaron Weber]

Just underwater.

[Dusty Slay]

Just seems like it's getting wetter to me.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's hard to build stuff a

[Dusty Slay]

little less land, a little more wet. That.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. So are they doing anything about this

[Brian Bates]

or are they just kind of people to relocate?

[Aaron Weber]

Who's telling. I mean, Louisiana's not telling them.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what I. I saw this video one time. They're talking about how everything that you build, concrete roads, all these things, glass, it all needs sand to build. And you can't use desert sand because the way it blows around in the desert, it. It makes the sand like circular particles and you need more square particles to be able to build. So you need ocean sand. So they pump this water out of the ocean all the time to build things on land. So it's. And then the oceans need to like replenish themselves. So it's like our coastlines are almost like caving in on us because we keep taking sand from the ocean to build things.

[Brian Bates]

Interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting. Yeah. It's not good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What was. I mean, hurricane.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably true.

[Brian Bates]

Hurricane. Do you guys remember hurricane Katrina?

[Aaron Weber]

I sure do. Yeah. We got a lot in Montgomery. We got a lot of transplants from It.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or. Yeah. Evacuees, I guess they're called.

[Brian Bates]

I just thought about. Curb your enthusiasm. JB Smooth's character. That's why they moved there.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a Hurricane Katrina relo.

[Brian Bates]

Key when.

[Aaron Weber]

Relocatee.

[Brian Bates]

When I started.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Relocate somebody who relocated.

[Dusty Slay]

Refugee.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's the.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't have to live like a refugee. No, baby, you don't.

[Brian Bates]

When I started in TV news, the TV news, market size. Nashville was behind New Orleans. This is before, obviously, the boom of Nashville.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then after Katrina, New Orleans was behind Nashville because so many people relocated.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Since then, they've lost 25% of the population according to this.

[Brian Bates]

I think they're starting to. Starting to come back now. And, you know, obviously, it was. What was that movie? I mean, not a movie. The show. HBO show that was set in New Orleans after Katrina. Do you remember that?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

Well, True Detective was set in Louisiana, but there was a. There's HBO shows. The guy that was also on the Wire.

[Aaron Weber]

Trembay or something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The guy that made the Wire. It's his first show, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was. It was good, but, like the Superdome, which seemed like it's been old my entire life, but now it looks pretty good because they did so many renovations to it after the fact, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's hanging in there. Some more questions from Adrian. Why is the plastic baby hidden in cakes?

[Aaron Weber]

The king cake? Yeah, baby in the king cake.

[Brian Bates]

Is it to bring you good luck?

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's. Well, we used to eat king cakes growing up because my family's from.

[Brian Bates]

Not necessarily

[Dusty Slay]

the way you said it, too. To bring you good luck.

[Brian Bates]

Nah.

[Dusty Slay]

We used to eat kit cake growing up. And listen, let me tell you, we did not have a lot of luck.

[Aaron Weber]

It wasn't for good luck. Well, it's to symbolize in some way. I don't know the exact story. It's a symbol. It's the baby. It's Jesus. Oh, the baby.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Something to do with Jesus, and you hide one in the cake, and then whoever gets it in their piece of cake, they have to make the cake next year or something.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Something like that.

[Brian Bates]

So you don't want to get it,

[Aaron Weber]

but it's a Mardi Gras. It's a Mardi Gras thing.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't. Well, you do want to get it. It's kind of fun to get.

[Dusty Slay]

You got to think sometimes somebody gets it and they're Supposed to make the cake and somebody goes, nah, I'll still make the cake.

[Aaron Weber]

Give it to somebody else.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

King Cake. It's a Mardi Gras thing, so we wouldn't understand. Well, no, no. It's traditionally served from epiphany. Epiphany. Until carnival. I don't know what that means.

[Brian Bates]

Carnival, That's Fat Tuesday. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Until Fat Tuesday. Traditionally, a small plastic baby symbolizing Jesus is hidden in the King Cake. The baby symbolizes luck and prosperity to whoever finds it. All right. I've never. I never talked about luck. We didn't talk. We were in a luck family.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

We were a hard working grit kind of family.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so the King Cake baby used to be the mascot for the Pelicans.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Why wouldn't they have a pelican as their.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Because it's kind of fun to have a little plastic baby instead. The person is also responsible for purchasing next year's cake or hosting the next market Mardi Gras party. How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

Doesn't sound like luck to me.

[Aaron Weber]

It says it's a huge choking liability. I remember we were always worried about it as you give it to young kids.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They choke on baby Jesus.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Be not good.

[Brian Bates]

So is that kind of what it looked like?

[Aaron Weber]

It looked a little bit like that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Why don't you like about it?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I mean, you know, I don't like the idea that we're putting baby Jesus in a cake and then we're all like, oh, hope you don't choke all on it. I don't like it.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't like symbolism? You don't like symbols, do you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or metaphors or anything like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or feelings.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You just want a room with just white paint.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you just kind of look at it and feel nothing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Say we're having a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Make that your whole moniker.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's the whole point. I have to tell people because otherwise they don't know I'm having fun.

[Brian Bates]

So it's kind of interesting. The. The Zephyrs. Do you know Zephyr is.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

It's a light breeze.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then they relocated. Wichita became the Wichita Wind Surge.

[Aaron Weber]

The Wind Surge.

[Brian Bates]

Things picked up there.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. It became more of a tornado thing out there, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I do have a top five.

[Brian Bates]

I was about to say it's time for Dusty Slay's Top five Country songs about Louisiana.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, you asked me about this and I thought, well, maybe I'll be able to pull something together. But it actually was quite easy to, to make. And I know that I might be missing some. There's a couple of Charlie Daniels references. I just talked about, Trudy, but I think they're in Texas. And I think he, you know, so. I think so. None of that is. But I, I, I came, I'm not going to name them all, but I came up with about 20 songs.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, well, let's do five.

[Brian Bates]

And 15 honorable mentions.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's do a top five.

[Dusty Slay]

So, but I'm just saying, I got a playlist, and by the time time it comes out, I'll have you know Dusty Sleigh's top five country songs about Louisiana. And then you can go and listen to all these songs.

[Brian Bates]

I've got a few I want to mention to you. If you don't mention them yourself.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Because there, you know, there's even a Randy Newman one. And I don't know if it's necessarily country, but Louisiana, 1927. Also an Aaron Neville version, which I do think is better.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, so we'll go. We're going to start with number five. Number five. I'm not, not as big of a fan of this song, but people love it and I feel like it's very popular, so it has to go. Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not, it's not a bad song. It's a good song, but I'm not a huge fan of it. But the other four, that song came out.

[Aaron Weber]

It's 1973. That song was released.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good song.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's it about?

[Dusty Slay]

And, yeah, but these next four, I love these so much. The next one, number four, Dusty Slay's top five country songs about Louisiana. Number four, Mel McDaniel, Louisiana, Saturday night. Well, you get down to fiddling. You get down to bow. You kick off your shoes and you throw them on the floor. Dance in the kitchen to the morning light. Louisiana, Saturday night. It's so good.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, nice. They play it at LSU football games.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's so good.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Number three, Hank Williams. Jambalaya on the Bayou and Jumbo Line. A crawfish pine, a file gumbo. Cause tonight I'm gonna see my machaz on me. You don't know this one?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think.

[Dusty Slay]

Hank Williams, Jr. Hank Williams Senior.

[Brian Bates]

Senior. I don't know this one.

[Aaron Weber]

It is Hank Williams most Recorded song.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I think I do know. I just didn't know you're recording version.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on. That's spot on. Okay, Even. Even. What's her name? Kathy. Even Kathy was like, okay, I'll get down with this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She changed her mind.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. All right, number two, this is. This is not number one on this list, but this may be one of my favorite country songs of all time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, like number two.

[Dusty Slay]

It's number two on this list, but it's one of my favorite songs.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It just. Number one has to be there. But number two, Rodney Crowell leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight. Now, the Oak Ridge Boys have a cover of this, but the Rodney Crowell version is the best. This is such a good song. Leaving. It's about a girl in Louisiana who meets a traveling salesman, and she's gonna. She's trying to leave with him. And, you know, I mean, it was

[Aaron Weber]

number one on the charts for a while. Originally covered by. By Emmy Lou Harris.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, she's good, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But the. The Rodney Crow version is my favorite.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

And then Boys Day, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Here, let's do an honorable mention. This guy I'd never heard of, but I found him while looking these up, and I like this song. You know, there's a few guy Clark has one called Baton Rouge. Little Feet has one called Lafette Railroad, Lafayette, uh, Willie Nelson, City of New Orleans. But this one, Wayne Tupes. Oh, Louisiana. And I may be saying it wrong, that's the honorable mention. Oh, Louisiana. Wayne. T O U P S. Yeah, Rain tubes.

[Aaron Weber]

Louisiana. Oh, Louisiana.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

I got to tell you, the picture, since we're judging things by the picture. Yeah, that's a tough one.

[Brian Bates]

It's more like a common comic.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that does look like a road comics.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy has some real Cajun, though. All right, here we go.

[Brian Bates]

Some company zone gigs.

[Dusty Slay]

Number one.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought that was number one.

[Dusty Slay]

No, that was honorable mention.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Number one song about Louisiana. Jerry Reed, Amos Moses. That's one of the best of all time. Now, Amos, Mojo was a Cajun. He lived by himself in a strange swamp. He hunted alligator for a living. He just knock him in the head with a stump.

[Aaron Weber]

Toot him.

[Dusty Slay]

Toot him. Yeah. The Louisiana law gonna get you, Amos. It's a great song.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great list. Can I ask you about a few others?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Colin. Baton Rouge by Garth Brooks.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a great one. And if g. This is my rule. Garth Brooks won't allow his Music on Spotify or itunes, so I can't put it in my playlist. So he doesn't get to be on my list. But it would have been in top five because it's a great song.

[Aaron Weber]

Take that, Garth.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't know what is Guards, if you're listening.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Mr. Brooks.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what is it? I don't know what his reasoning is, but he doesn't get on my list.

[Brian Bates]

What about Crescent City by Emmylou Harris?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you know what? Not on the list. I didn't even know about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Is New Orleans called the Crescent City.

[Brian Bates]

It's one of its many names. New Orleans, NOLA.

[Aaron Weber]

NOLA. And NOLA's good.

[Dusty Slay]

What else you got?

[Aaron Weber]

Something about moon Pies in there. Is that a New Orleans thing?

[Brian Bates]

No, I think that's a Nashville thing, right?

[Aaron Weber]

A goo goo cluster.

[Brian Bates]

Goo goo. Okay. Moon Plat. Moon Pies or Chattanooga.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe South Carolina.

[Brian Bates]

The Big Easy.

[Aaron Weber]

Moon Pies are Chattanooga. Wow. My bad.

[Brian Bates]

It's also New Orleans. I call the Biggie. I got a couple more. Dusty Louisiana Rain by Tom Petty.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I don't know that one. Well, I'm about to look that up right now though.

[Brian Bates]

And down at the Twist and Shout by Mary Chap and Car Carpenter. Oh, Saturday night and the moon is out.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna head on over to the twist stand shop, find a two step pod and around occasion be when it picks you up, I'm gonna find that bead out in the middle of the big dance floor.

[Brian Bates]

If you're listening, Aaron is twirling his headset.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you know what? Maybe Alabama. If you're going to play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. That lead guitar is hot, but not for Louisiana, man.

[Brian Bates]

Man, okay, It's a loose, loose one there. All right. Aaron has now put his hat over his head.

[Aaron Weber]

It's time.

[Dusty Slay]

Here's another. This is debatable if it's country. I'm gonna give you one more. I'm gonna give you one more and then that's it. Okay. Born on the Bayou by CCR Credence Clearwater.

[Aaron Weber]

That is a great song. That is a great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Down on the bayou, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Born on the bio.

[Aaron Weber]

Born. He's born and he's down there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he's down there. You got to be down there.

[Aaron Weber]

He's down there for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Born there, you got to be down there.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that was Louisiana. I think we covered everything.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we got down to the.

[Brian Bates]

The nitty gritty more than we should at some places.

[Aaron Weber]

More than we should have in some places. But that's kind of what we do. We've listened, we loved, we laughed, and we've learned.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you guys know Amos Moses either? You guys know Amos Moses? Never heard of it. You never heard of it?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe if I heard it, I would know it.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll play it after the podcast. But we can't get, we can't get it taken down for copyright.

[Dusty Slay]

It's such an incredible, incredible song. Yeah, that five top five lists. I just told you.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure it is good. Share the Spotify link so we can check it out. Everybody can get in there. Yeah, well, that's public figures. That's what we do. Thank you guys for tuning in. I I this is Aaron Weber speaking. I got some dates coming up. You can come see me in Royal Oak, Michigan at the Comedy Castle in July. August, I'm coming back to Phoenix, Arizona at the Desert Ridge Improv. Then I got a big tour, kind of that kicks off. I'll be all over the place. So, Aaron WeberComedy.com you can check out all my dates. I'd love to see you out there on the road, Brian. Where can people find you?

[Brian Bates]

This Friday, I'm here at the Lab at Zany's for Brian Bates and friends. Come start your July 4th weekend here with me. Saturday, Saturday, I'm throwing out the first pitch at the Nashville Sounds game.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Then July 9th, I'm in Chattanooga at the Comedy Catch. July 17th, 18th, I'm in Lex, Kentucky, at Comedy Off Broadway. July 31st, August 1st, I'm at the Funny Farm Comedy Club in Goan, Indiana. And August 2nd, I'm at Helium in Indianapolis.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I got a couple of things. On July 7th, I'm going to be here at Zany's. That's going to be great. I'm trying to. And then on, on July 8th at the lab, we have our, our other show, our new show called Let Loose with the open mic, where we're going to have more bucket spots and we also have booked comics on it. So it's a very good show. So check that out. And then just a couple of my road dates. Charlestown, West Virginia, on July 11th and in Atlantic City in New Jersey on July 18th.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

So, yeah. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Good deal. That's it, everybody. Have a happy Independence Day. Have a great weekend, and we love you, you, we miss you and be safe out there.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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