230: #230 Rock Music featuring Dustin Chafin

Summary

Summary of "The Nateland Podcast" Episode #230: Rock Music featuring Dustin Chaffin

Introduction and Welcome The episode kicks off with Dusty Slay enthusiastically welcoming listeners back to "The Nateland Podcast," celebrating his return after a brief hiatus. The hosts—Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay—engage in playful banter about Dusty's absence and the excitement surrounding his comeback.

Notable Quote:

• Dusty Slay [00:42]: "Hey, Bear. That's the first time I said folks in a while."

Guest Introduction: Dustin Chaffin Dustin Chaffin joins the podcast, bringing his unique humor and perspective. The hosts delve into Dustin's background, highlighting his roots in Kilgore, Texas, his missionary work in Chile, and his experiences in stand-up comedy. They discuss Dustin's real name, playful remarks about his last name, and his absence from previous episodes, which sparked curiosity among fans.

Notable Quotes:

• Dustin Chaffin [02:12]: "People used to call me that. I would chafe a lot."
• Dustin Chaffin [05:04]: "I'm kidding."

Comedy Experiences and Relationships The conversation shifts to the dynamics of their comedic journeys. Dustin shares his tumultuous early years in comedy, including missed opportunities and on-stage mishaps. The hosts reflect on their relationships within the comedy scene, emphasizing the importance of camaraderie and mutual support.

Notable Quotes:

• Dustin Chaffin [16:24]: "I feel like that's what my first 10 years of comedy has been. Just drunk, just burning bridges."
• Nate Bargatze [14:36]: "The world keeps spinning."

Upcoming Shows and Tours Hosts and guests discuss their upcoming performances and tours. Dusty proudly announces his role as the grand marshal of the Opelika, Alabama Christmas parade, receiving a key to the city—a significant honor that adds a personal touch to the episode. They also share details about their scheduled shows across various cities, encouraging listeners to attend.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay [21:58]: "I received a key to the city of Opelika."
• Nate Bargatze [22:07]: "I am in Fort Worth, Texas, at Hyenas Comedy Club."

Music and Comedy Fusion Given the episode's focus on rock music, the hosts delve into discussions about their favorite bands, guitarists, and the intersection of music with comedy. They reminisce about classic rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers, sharing personal anecdotes and reflections on how music has influenced their comedic styles.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay [70:14]: "I was on the road forever, and it's like, you really dig in. It's really great stuff."
• Nate Bargatze [88:50]: "We did this podcast and you know my name."

Listener Engagement and Comments The podcast takes a moment to interact with listeners by reading comments from various platforms. The hosts respond humorously and thoughtfully, strengthening their connection with the audience. This segment showcases the community aspect of the podcast, where fans feel heard and valued.

Notable Quotes:

• Dustin Chaffin [27:16]: "Ms. B. Karaoke B. Dustin is my absolute favorite guest on the show. All caps."
• Aaron Weber [39:16]: "If you do, you can't do y'all reference the sandlot quite often."

Conspiracy Theories and Lighthearted Banter The hosts engage in light-hearted discussions about popular conspiracy theories in the music world, blending humor with skepticism. They joke about bands like Led Zeppelin and artists like Andrew WK, playfully questioning the authenticity and antics within the rock music scene.

Notable Quotes:

• Nate Bargatze [108:13]: "Rock music, it's not going to be as good as what we just had."
• Dusty Slay [116:00]: "Well, I know people do love him."

Closing Remarks and Final Announcements As the episode nears its end, the hosts wrap up by sharing final thoughts, upcoming event details, and expressing gratitude towards their audience. They reiterate the importance of staying connected through live shows and future podcast episodes, leaving listeners anticipating what's next.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay [124:34]: "Thank you, Mayor Fuller, and the city of Opelika."
• Dustin Chaffin [124:05]: "I got nothing. Friday. Let's see. December 13, 14. I'll be with Nate Bargatzi."

Conclusion Episode #230 of "The Nateland Podcast" offers a blend of humor, personal stories, and engaging discussions centered around rock music and comedy. With the vibrant participation of Dustin Chaffin and the dynamic interactions among the hosts, the episode provides an entertaining and insightful listen for both regular fans and newcomers alike.

Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Hello, folks. Hey, Bear. That's the first time I said folks in a while.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't come out right.

[Dusty Slay]

It didn't come out right. I didn't know that I could do it. I'm back. Dusty Slay's back.

[Aaron Weber]

Welcome. It's been a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man, I'm pumped to be back. People thought I had died. They thought I was never coming back. Some people were excited about it. I was scrolling through comments. Some people were very sad that I was gone. And then I read other comments like, oh, Dusty's not on this one. I can't click fast enough. And I find. I find that to be a little ridiculous. It's like, what's the big deal? You know what I mean? I get it when you miss me, but if I'm not here and you're excited about it, what's that all about?

[Aaron Weber]

A good episode though, was it? It's all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

You told and you've told people you'll be back as soon as Nate's not here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, and that's what I always say. Everybody knows. That's the deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

As long as you aren't in the same room together.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. One of you court ordered by Nate. Okay, well, listen, that was a joke, by the way. Yeah, it is a joke. I'm here with.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron Weber, all my.

[Dusty Slay]

Favorite co host and Dustin.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Go ahead.

[Aaron Weber]

Dustin Chaffin.

[Dusty Slay]

Dustin Chaffin.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Welcome back.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's not make it weird, guys. I mean, I was looking for it, to be honest. Now I did know. I didn't know, but this chaffing was not.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's a weird one. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let me tell you something.

[Dusty Slay]

People used to call me that. I would chafe a lot.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And now we're going down the last name jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. I did, I did used to get that a lot when I waited tables. I looked like I had been riding a horse after a double shift.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Save a horse.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

When I was doing research for this.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian Bates.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, hey.

[Aaron Weber]

Good to see You, Brian.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey. I'm always here.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know you were here.

[Nate Bargatze]

When I was doing research for this week's podcast, which we're talking about music today. I'm looking at Dustin's bio to see what talk about. It's basically dusty or everything dusty will do in one day.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Born in a double wide trailer.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes. Kilgore, Texas. Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems rich to me.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It was double double wide.

[Nate Bargatze]

You were a missionary in Chile.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Chile. Santiago. Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. But you'll probably escape to South America sometime.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

At some point.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds like he had a good family. Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Not really.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm the only one that hasn't been arrested.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Leave it there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Stand up comedy and a huge music lover. I mean.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You guys got a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

I like the cow hat.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Big fan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, and grandson of Cha. Indian.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes. And they got the Indian blood.

[Nate Bargatze]

Got some Indian blood, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so, but I. My area that I'm from is where a lot of the Creek Indians were. It's the last. Last kind of place of the Creek Indians.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay. Trs. I think they were part of that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think they were.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Chuck do Chickasaw.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Cherokee.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, so fun stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Good to have you, Dustin. I'm excited.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I like an awkward start.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Have y'all not done an episode together on this podcast before?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

First time.

[Dustin Chaffin]

First time you've met or had we met at Bridgestone.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And then I think maybe one other place. That's about it. We don't spend a lot of time together.

[Dusty Slay]

Do take off when there's guest. Not because I don't like the guest, but we have. It's a lot of people on this podcast.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I feel like there's a guest. It's like you don't need me.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. I mean, it's still fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

How many people? Ideally just one on a podcast. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I would think two. I think two is the ideal number.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

On a podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But one person do all the talking. But you need one person there as kind of an audience.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

So no guests. Just two.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like something by. Just about stuff off of.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, you don't want to just sit in a room and talk to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yourself, but so a producer, somebody running the mic.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just to be in the room.

[Dusty Slay]

Even some, like, talk radio shows you listen to and it'll be. They'll talk to someone, but that person never says anything.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

They're barely mic'd up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we do. This is a Show with four people at a desk, just so.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry it's not perfect, but we're gonna make do with what we got today.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we're gonna do the. Dude, you know we're doing it. Yeah, we are gonna do the. Do. We're gonna. Cold or warm? We're doing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, welcome back. And welcome back to you.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Welcome back to you.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is your third time, I think.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Third or fourth. Yeah. Might be the fourth time. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of people don't know this, but my real name is Dustin.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So a couple of Dustin's on the.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Podcast, and I will fist fight you if you call me Dusty, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you don't really. You don't like Dusty?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah. It's a rough one. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Teachers. I was like, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

You never went through a phase where.

[Dusty Slay]

It was the opposite. It's good for you. Teachers were like, dustin. And every day. Every. Every.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

First day of school, I would have to correct them and go, it's dusty. And then, you know, they were always cool with it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. How about dust? I like dust. Dust is pretty solid.

[Dusty Slay]

Dust, man.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Dust, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't mind any of that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Dusted.

[Aaron Weber]

Dust bin.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusted. I feel like dusted is like, almost like a fart thing.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Dusted.

[Aaron Weber]

This whole crop dusted.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, there you go.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there you go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Crop.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

This is good stuff.

[Dustin Chaffin]

This is good stuff, Dustin episode.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can already clip out this.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the kind of stuff you could only have with four people on the pod. If it was just you, Dustin, you would never have got the crop D.

[Dustin Chaffin]

We have to have another Dustin for that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe I do a podcast on my own with a producer named Dustin.

[Dustin Chaffin]

There you go. I got you. Let's do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We were thinking Dustin Nickerson. Sorry.

[Dustin Chaffin]

There's that.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll call it Crop Dustin.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I think I got a Got news here to read.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A lot going on with Nate Land.

[Dusty Slay]

News and upcoming events. Sometimes I say when Nate's not here, it's like we're doing a Nate tribute podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

It is like he died.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's like, lot of stuff on the wall, and then we're like, hey, here's stuff Nate's doing.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Everyone go around. Tell your favorite Nate memory.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, here's. It's broken down into three categories here. The first category is Nate. All right, this is the Nate News tickets on sale for Big Dumb Eyes World tour@nate bargazi.com.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

CBS Christmas Special airs December 19th. And if you're looking for a backseat driver, check me out as the new voice of ways.

[Aaron Weber]

Check Nate out.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Oh, yeah. Check Nate out.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, Ron Burgundy, you're gonna read whatever's on that.

[Dusty Slay]

I was like, I had no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll edit on the fly. Don't worry about me.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess the next category is Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. This should be. You should be really good with this.

[Dusty Slay]

My next one hour special is being filmed on February 28th.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you added my to that, too.

[Dusty Slay]

I did, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was really well done.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's one that applies to me. I can. I know how to manipulate it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. February 28th.

[Dusty Slay]

My 21 hour special is going to be filmed in February 28th at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And you can still get [e-mail] not very many left to the early show. It will fill up, though. I'm not going to tell you it's going to fill up fast, but it will fill up.

[Aaron Weber]

We got time, but get those tickets.

[Dusty Slay]

My promotional team has a way of bullying people in the door. Last minute.

[Aaron Weber]

Promotional team.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

They'll get people.

[Aaron Weber]

Promotional team.

[Dusty Slay]

They'll get people in there. Yeah, they'll get them in.

[Aaron Weber]

Promotional team.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, I'm a public figure. And the last category is Nateland. That applies to all of us.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And Nate Land will be recording Mike Vachione's Our special in Nashville on December 28th.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Tickets available for both shows.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

No indication of how many, but there are some available.

[Aaron Weber]

But get them. It's a small room. They're going to fill up.

[Dusty Slay]

And Mike Vecchione's very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

He's the best.

[Dusty Slay]

Last thing. Some great podcasts catch the consumers every Tuesday. And don't make me come back there every Thursday. So you can catch podcast Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, all Nateland affiliated, so you never have to sit around and listen to your own thoughts. You can always have somebody speaking into your ears.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is beautiful, Dusty. That is beautiful.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean, though? That is what podcasts are, though.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever like being like, oh, pretty sick of thinking these thoughts?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Right?

[Dusty Slay]

What are these other people thinking?

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

All the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And then to have a podcast, it's like you're just talking to yourself, but then, you know, you have an audience.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, I know. Say, hey, you guys want to listen to the things that I say? Yeah. There's a couple of people that don't.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That are pretty, pretty public about not wanting to hear what I have to say.

[Aaron Weber]

Who's that?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Random YouTubers.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they're not that public because I go, you know, I try to go onto their feeds and see what they're up to creatively. Never anything. They don't even share. They don't, they don't even share a photo of themselves. They don't even. There's some weird name and they don't do anything creatively. They just come on and go, you're not doing that. Right, right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm sure they got, they're happy with how their life's going.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't do a lot. I. I Had some corporate Christmas parties that I performed at. I just didn't show up.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

But nothing public.

[Dusty Slay]

What would they talk to us about? Them. What was the experience like?

[Nate Bargatze]

104 was for a pest control company.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that went pretty well. I mean, it was mostly guys, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you do my spectracide joke?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

You should have did it just pesticide company.

[Aaron Weber]

It was mostly dudes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mostly dudes. And that's tougher.

[Aaron Weber]

And that doesn't happen that often. It's usually women that bring men to things.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But at a pest control company, it's usually only dudes that work.

[Aaron Weber]

They'd have their wives there or something. There'd be like. There might be women there.

[Nate Bargatze]

There were women there, but it was majority men.

[Dusty Slay]

And so it's a male dominated industry.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And one of those industries that women really aren't trying to get into.

[Nate Bargatze]

And.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Then the other one was poisoning animals. You think they'd be into that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We had pest control come to our house today, and it was a lady.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Really? Y.

[Dusty Slay]

What was her name?

[Nate Bargatze]

Margaret.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was that rude of me not to ask her name?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Did she do a good job?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I took my dog for a walk while she was in there.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, what's to tell if they ever do a good job? Only by. Do insects show up later.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you can only.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You only know if.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If it didn't work.

[Dusty Slay]

And they go, well, some insects are going to show up.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They go, we need to. You need to pay me to do this more often. Yeah, that's what it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Nate Bargatze]

So last week, Nate invited me to go with him to Talk of the Town, which is the local talk show here in Nashville at the station I used to work at for many years. So we went to talk to the town Nate was on, and I hung out. And then afterwards he's like, you want to go out to eat? And I was like, sure. So we go to this restaurant and of course, valet parking. And he's like, I don't have any cash on me. You got any cash? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I can do that. And then we get in there, he's like, I forgot to bring my wallet. So I had to pay for the entire experience. So, you know, I'm not going to let Nate forget it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did he bring you on the air with him or did, you know, did.

[Dusty Slay]

Anybody recognize you at the station?

[Nate Bargatze]

No. No, they did.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just go up to people. Remember me?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I do not you worked there for how long?

[Nate Bargatze]

Almost 20 years.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I've been gone 10 years this month.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

December 17th was my last day there.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

2014.

[Dusty Slay]

That is how it is, though. We always think that when we leave, people are really going to miss us. It's going to be a big impact.

[Aaron Weber]

The world keeps spinning.

[Dusty Slay]

It does. When I used to wait tables, I would think when I leave this place, they're going to miss me, but they're really like, hey, can I get his shifts?

[Aaron Weber]

Did you leave on bad terms, Brian?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

No. I can't imagine you've ever left the job on bad terms.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I haven't had that many jobs because I was there for almost 20 years. But I didn't put in a two week notice like Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

You probably did a two month notice.

[Nate Bargatze]

I did. Well, I told them on my birthday, November 3rd, and I left on December 17th.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

So a month and a half notice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I gave him plenty of, you've.

[Aaron Weber]

Been there 20 years, you need to give them more than two weeks.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's almost better for you to give a longer notice because you know that you're quitting. And what I always like about it is any of the drama, any of the work drama no longer matters to you because you're out of there at any time. You're like, I could leave now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember I thought they would just leave me alone for that last month and a half. But everybody else still has to work, so they were still on me about stuff like, hey, what about this? What about this? And I'm like, you know I'm quitting, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not about them wanting you to keep working. It's about you knowing that it don't matter.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I wanted to go out as a good employee, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, sure.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Did you take anything? Swag or anything now?

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe some pins or something?

[Aaron Weber]

Did you think, maybe I'll come back to this, so I better not burn this bridge?

[Nate Bargatze]

You never know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you never know. Dustin, have you ever left a job in a blaze of glory? Like kicked open the door and screamed at everybody and let them know what you really think and then get out of there?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I feel like that's what my first 10 years of comedy has been. Just drunk, just burning bridges. Yeah. Just yelling at, you know, people I shouldn't be yelling at. Just getting kicked out and banned at clubs. It was a pretty rough 10 years.

[Dusty Slay]

What was your weekend like?

[Dustin Chaffin]

This weekend?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, it's been fun. My girl is a comedian. My girlfriend of 18 years. Leah Bonama, very funny. And, yeah, she's great. And we've been driving from LA to Maine, and along the way we've been doing like, you know, we did mic drop comedy and plano and just some places in Arizona. And it's like. So our first time touring together and.

[Dusty Slay]

We did one tour in 18 years.

[Dustin Chaffin]

In 18 years. Because we, you know, it's like, I don't know if you ever dated a comic.

[Dusty Slay]

This is going pretty well. Let's try to go on tour together.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, we're not like, comic couple heavy. You know, we said we have our own thing going, so I never wanted to be like, she's my girlfriend. I'm the. Yeah, it's like some people do it well, like, you know, Bonnie and Rich Voss and like, people. But we're just not that. But yeah, it's.

[Aaron Weber]

It's.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's been great. And the first time we toured once, Nate and Leah, they both opened for me in Iraq. That was the only time we ever worked together.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

When the three of us were in Djibouti, Africa, in Iraq for a military tour.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Dustin Chaffin]

So, yeah, so that's. But being in a car with two dogs and the girlfriend is kind of like a war zone. So it's very similar to that. But it's. It's been cool, man. Just like, just seeing the country, driving the car, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

The capital of Djibouti is now Djibouti, is it? Yeah, that's the capital, Dusty. I mean, you. Your wife did stand up and y'all did not. Y'all tried to tour together for.

[Dusty Slay]

We worked the road quite a bit together.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Did you?

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, of course we fought, but, you know, we fight, you know, even when they're not touring together.

[Nate Bargatze]

She posted a video today talking about your weekend. Two rams button heads together.

[Dusty Slay]

You do it every day, you guys.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Does she still do comedy or.

[Dusty Slay]

No, she does. She has an Instagram that's going pretty well too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah. Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

She does a little kind of annoyingly well. Yeah, yeah. She makes great stuff, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Very cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it is kind of annoying that, you know, like, I've, you know, I've done all these things with comedy and then she'll make a video and they're funny, but, you know, she's got a couple that have gotten multi. Millions of views where I'm like, well, come on. I mean, you know what I mean?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, yeah. But I mean, it's not for the week, like two comics dating each other. Because my whole thing is it's like, it's. There's nobody in charge with us. Like, there's. You know, it's just. It's like a comedy condo. It just feels like, you know, and we end every argument with, hey, I'm going to use that, you know?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, sure.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Like, your life is. You know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Every joke she does is, like, about me.

[Dusty Slay]

My thing is like. Like, say I'm on the road with Aaron and say, Aaron doesn't do well on a show. That's not my problem. Right. I don't. You know.

[Aaron Weber]

But if my wife kind of like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But if my wife doesn't do well, it is my problem. Yeah. I go, like, let's say Aaron didn't do well on a set. And then I go on next.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can imagine that.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I do well.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Seen it once. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I go back to my hotel, I call my wife. I go, yeah, the show was really tanking. And then I turned it around, baby. But if it's my wife, there's no one for me to tell.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's no one for me to tell that I turned the show.

[Aaron Weber]

You go, oh, they were weird, knowing you.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know how they got straightened up for me, but you warmed them up.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, that's the thing, too, is, like, we always say we can't bomb on the same night. Like, we have to. You. You know, we have to spread it around a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, as comics, we always say we just want to bring laughter and joy to people, but then if we have a bad set, we don't want anyone on that show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, that is the worst.

[Nate Bargatze]

We want to blame it on the crowd.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That crowd doesn't deserve joy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

If you don't laugh at my jokes, you don't deserve happiness.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You're just not smart.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You walk off, you're like, oh, this crowd's terrible. And then everybody else does great.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, boy.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That is the worst.

[Aaron Weber]

Where was I? Oh, I had a. I was in Dallas at a corporate gig, did a Christmas party. I had a. The show. Everybody there was nice. It was a great company. It went. It went fine. I did have a moment, you know, like your set, where you're like, I'm kind of, like, flailing for, like, 30. Like, not 30 seconds, but you're just like, I don't know what to do next. Like, you can see it in people's eyes. This could be turned bad quick. And I grabbed the mic stand, and I shattered the mic stand like the top of it. That holds the mic. I, like, reached for it to, like, as, like, a crutch.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I just shattered it, dude. And it was so quiet in the room at the time that the plastic hitting the ground. Everybody heard it. It was just such a.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, what do you say?

[Aaron Weber]

What is happening?

[Nate Bargatze]

Shrapnel hits people.

[Aaron Weber]

I just talked about that, and that kind of got everybody back, but it was just such an awkward moment.

[Dusty Slay]

You're like, I'm strong, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

I never.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been working out. I had no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

That's your new closer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Destroying.

[Aaron Weber]

Just breaking the mic stand.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Just.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You're like an 80s rock band. You're smashing the mic stand.

[Aaron Weber]

Just apologize to the venue. You know, I'm sorry I'm up here breaking the mic stand at this place, but it was good. Connor Larson, our buddy from Nashville, came with me. It was fun to just pop in, do a show. Come on back.

[Dusty Slay]

We're about to go to Vegas, me.

[Aaron Weber]

And you and car. Oh, that'll be fun. That's great. What about you, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Actually, maybe the day this podcast comes out, I'll be in Vegas. Well, this is what I. This weekend, I was. I went to my hometown. I was off work, but I went to my hometown, Opelika. Opelika, Alabama, to be the grand marshal of the Christmas parade. All right. Snow Pelika. Yeah. There I am. Grand Marshall Dusty Slay. That's me. And my wife and my daughter both wearing tiaras. They got really into it. They're ready to seize power. And then.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I met the mayor. Yep. Mayor Fuller of 20 years. And I received a key to the city of Opelika.

[Aaron Weber]

That's incredible.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

Key to the city. Look at that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That is legit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. It is a great honor to have grown up in this town.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. To have terrorized it for much of your youth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, in my youth, I was a very nice kid. And then when I turned 16, I got a little wild and so for. But, yeah, I mean, I've been pretty wild in Opelika, but I've always liked Opelika.

[Aaron Weber]

And you've never disparaged.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You've always said good things, never talked.

[Aaron Weber]

Down on where you're from, and it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Very nice to get some recognition out of my hometown to have them. The mayor, Phil, he didn't say who the other one was. He's been mayor 20 years. He said he's only given out two of these keys.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

He didn't say who the other one was, but it was a big deal. It's very. He gave me a hat, but it was a real floppy hat. I don't wear. I don't wear floppy hats. So I put it over my other hat just to give it some shape. Yeah. And those fluffy hats.

[Nate Bargatze]

What can you do with that key?

[Dusty Slay]

I assume I can, you know, do whatever I want. I'll ride around with it in the car. Next time I get pulled over in Opelika, I'll pull it out and I'll go, better luck next time, maybe it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Opens every business in Opal.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe so.

[Aaron Weber]

Very vending machine.

[Nate Bargatze]

A lot of people say Dusty doesn't like Christmas. I say, no, he does like it if it's about him.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but this.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll go to a Christmas parade.

[Dusty Slay]

If it's about me, this is what I'll say. It's. I am not. I'm not into Christmas, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not gonna. You know, they wanted to honor me, and they wanted to do nice things for me, and I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna, you know. You know, refuse that. Sure. I appreciate it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course. And also, we had the largest tree in Alabama. Opalag has the largest tree in Alabama. And then Mayor Fuller lit the. Lit the tree, and everybody cheered.

[Aaron Weber]

Then Alabama fan poisoned it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Largest tree in Alabama.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, how did. Where did it come from?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this it right here in the back?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, that's it. That's it. Well, this guy in this picture right here, this is.

[Nate Bargatze]

I need that for my Charlie Brown.

[Dusty Slay]

Stephen Bass.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. Fan of the podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he hung. We hung out for a while. And that's my wife and Stephen Bass. We hung out for a while. Very nice guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he emailed us.

[Dusty Slay]

That plays pickleball with Kid Rock. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Who doesn't?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but that's the. That's a church in the background. Opalac is very nice. We got a very nice city. And it was a big parade. As a nighttime parade. Over 15,000 people, I think, were in it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I guess what I'm asking is.

[Dusty Slay]

And there's a nice reel of it on my Instagram if you want to go check it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'll pull that up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Does Opel ECA always have the largest Christmas tree? Is that a thing or is it just this year?

[Dusty Slay]

I think this year.

[Aaron Weber]

And I guess Birmingham couldn't afford a tree this year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I guess I'm wondering, like, how do they know that or where did. They must have some record to show.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it was only three feet shorter than the one in New York City.

[Aaron Weber]

We want to watch this real quick.

[Dusty Slay]

No, you don't have to watch it, but as long as people know Dusty slay here. We're in Opal. Like Alabama at the Snow Pelika parade. It's about to get started. I'm the Brand Marshall. We're having a good time. It's a quick reel. National Lampoon Roadmaster here. I'm Chevy Chase. This is my wife, Beverly D'Angelo. I set my daughter on top of the car, which is probably very.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where's your son?

[Dusty Slay]

We didn't want to take him.

[Aaron Weber]

He's back in Nashville.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Now it was cold. Like, Nashville is. A lot gets a good bit colder than Opelika. And, man, it is pretty funny how everybody was acting like it was real cold. Like, my family, they were all like, oh, God. I mean, I was like, it's kind of cold out here, but it's really not that cold. You just gotta layer up. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm bummed. I turned the audio off in this video because the mayor said we're having a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's awesome, man. What a cool. What a cool thing. Yeah, that's really cool for an Alabama boy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, big time. I apologize to them for making a joke about Western sizzling and getting it bulldozed to the ground.

[Nate Bargatze]

Congratulations, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'll be honest with you, I don't think people cared. Western Zuzlin have been around for, like, 30 or 40 years, and I think by. By its end, people were like, it's kind of getting gross here now.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

It had a real heyday, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Real hotspot for a while. Sign's still there. I'm trying to get it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you got to get it.

[Dusty Slay]

I want that sign.

[Aaron Weber]

Go flex that key to the city.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, well, should we get into these comments?

[Dusty Slay]

Let's get into the comments. Here we go. Ms. B. Karaoke B. Oh. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple, podcast reviews, and [e-mail].

[Aaron Weber]

That'S it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's correct.

[Dusty Slay]

Ms. B. Karaoke b. Dustin is my absolute favorite guest on the show. All caps.

[Nate Bargatze]

All caps. She's that excited. Do you know Ms. B. Karaoke B?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't. And she's a good time. Karaoke. You know, that's what you want. Those are. Those are the fans.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like that. All caps. I mean, yeah. I mean, that's huge. She's Ms. B, but she's also karaoke.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, right.

[Dusty Slay]

Karaoke. Be in the street.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You just need one fan in. This is it right here.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Okay. William. Galliano. You think that's it? Galliano. I have a feeling once Dusty makes enough money or gets tired of comedy, he will disappear from the face of the earth.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. That is 100% accurate. And we. We won't even. There won't even be a goodbye. It'll be like. It'll be like Good Will Hunting when Ben Affleck shows up to Matt Damon's door. It's going to be me and Brian walking into the podcast, and Dusty's just gone.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I give it three weeks.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

He'll climb out of that bunker. I'll be like, I got to talk to people.

[Dusty Slay]

I got to record another special after the special. I don't even know what jokes there will be. Yeah. What jokes are even left.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Thank you, William. I appreciate that. I do appreciate it. I just feel like he knows me. All right, Kevin Hayes. I want to be mayor, though. I think I'll be mayor of Opal. That's what I was going to say.

[Nate Bargatze]

McMinnville.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I thought I might start in McMinnville, and that way, if I kind of mess up, I'll learn some things and then take it to Opelika.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that that little snippet right there is going to hurt your chances. I want to be your mayor just to get all the kinks out, and then I'll be the mayor of a real.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but I think I could do it, though. I mean, what is to be, you know, I mean, I think mayor. Mayor, to me, seems just like a fun gig.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Did you sell that to this guy who's done it for 20 years?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, fun gig.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just give us some keys to people.

[Dusty Slay]

You're not doing it for 20 years if it's, like, really grinding you down. That's what I think. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The guy's only 45 years old.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, Kevin. Hazel, man, Brian won't let y'all talk about anything even remotely risque, even if it's clean. Kind of kills the humor sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

The only part I disagree with is his thing at the end where he says, sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

As we all know, Brian dictates the culture and the content of this podcast. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Dusty, say something you'd like to say. I'll let it slide just this one time.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's gotta come out on the fly.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's gotta be organic, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He'll give you one pass today.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

All right, well, you guys cut me off. I was about. About to talk about being drunk as a comic, and then you're like, okay, next.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, did we?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no, we've talked about drunk all the time.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think this episode's on alcohol. Is that the moment?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Is it really? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. That's why we're having you as a guest.

[Dustin Chaffin]

This is my first day clean. I love it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, congratulations on this episode. Say whatever you want.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm kidding.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just for Kevin. Ha.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Logan Light. I like that name.

[Aaron Weber]

Hello.

[Dusty Slay]

You cannot convince.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

You cannot convince me otherwise. For most of the show, Aaron is just checking his email and nodding every now and then.

[Nate Bargatze]

Amen, brother.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's cool, man. Next comment. I'm just kidding. I mean, I've definitely done that before for Logan Light.

[Dusty Slay]

She's really coming in pretty heavy.

[Aaron Weber]

Shark.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You think Logan's a woman?

[Dusty Slay]

I thought so.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I think that's a guy's name, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I thought you think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A woman would have a roadhouse.

[Dusty Slay]

A roadhouse.

[Aaron Weber]

Logan's Road.

[Nate Bargatze]

Freaking Wolverine.

[Dusty Slay]

I was. Well, I know a girl named Logan.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Do I?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe it's like Taylor, I don't know if you do or not.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you do.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, Logan, I don't know if that's her name.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You don't even know Dustin's last name, so.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. It's all right, though.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry about that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's okay, buddy. I'm just gonna call you Dustin.

[Aaron Weber]

It happens. Bryn, you ever had to bring up somebody on stage, you forgot their name a whole time? Yeah. What's your go to?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Is there like a clubs and colleges, they give like 40 credits. Yeah. And you're just hoping that's why he.

[Dusty Slay]

Doesn'T go on the road with his girlfriend.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. That won't work. Yeah. That is the worst I ever had somebody forget your name.

[Nate Bargatze]

I did it here.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, you did it here on.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Nightland Live hosting a few weeks ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What'd you do?

[Nate Bargatze]

I decided to be honest. I mean, it was the first comic up. I went out and did a set and then first comic up with somebody I'd never met before, man.

[Aaron Weber]

This next comedian, one of my dear.

[Nate Bargatze]

Friends, her first thing finally came to me and then I think maybe her friend in the audience yelled at her last name. I was like, that's it.

[Aaron Weber]

There it is. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Up.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I always write it on my hand just in case. Oh, there you go.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you make a joke out of it, too. I love this guy so much, you know?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, that's. As long as you get it, it's fine. You should always write it if you're hosting.

[Dusty Slay]

Have you ever had your name forgotten being brought up? Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's just like. Because I did a lot of, you know, kind of uptown rooms in New York, and they'd be like, this next guy, he's wearing a cowboy hat, broke back guy give it. You know, they just say some ridiculous insult because they can't remember your name or even.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they gotta put it on you.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. And then you're just, like, up there following some horrible thing. They just, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I just had it a couple weekends ago. St. Louis. I. I've done St. Louis a bunch of times since I started stand up. I've done the small room at the Helium a couple times. I'm back now. I'm doing the big room. Two shows, they're both basically sold out. So I'm thinking, oh, my. This is like, different, Right? So I get in the green room. The first thing I hear is the sound guy go, all right, who's ready to see Adam Weber? That just happens. No matter. I was like, okay, I could not have. I mean, I basically sold out two shows and I'm Adam Weber.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it just. It just happens.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's like, you think, you know, when you go through clubs for a while and you think, you know, when I finally start selling these shows, then.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll get some respect.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna do whatever I want. And then it just feels just exactly the same.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Which is kind of good. It's good to stay humbled like that, you know?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Anyway, it's kind of doing this podcast and you know my name.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I remember. Yeah, exactly.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I mean, I'm sure Ms. Karaoke B is not happy. Yeah, no, she's not.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ms. B. Karaoke B. Ms. B. So you got her name wrong.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, I got the karaoke part right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how you handle it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Just gotta get half of it right.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, I used to. I opened for Arie Spears a few times, and he would always, like, smoke, like, half a cigarette in the green room right before he went up. And I always thought, you know, when I'm selling out shows, I'm gonna smoke in the green room too. And I just never do.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Right. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I don't feel like. I still feel like I don't know. I see comics smoking cigars in the Green Room before the show, and I think they've sold it out. If I start selling it out, I can do whatever I want to do, but I still don't feel like I have that authority. Good. Now a couple of clubs have allowed me to do it. The. The Mothership. They let me smoke cigars in the Green Room. Comedy Works Denver. Not downtown. The Denver Comedy Works South. Let me smoke in the Green Room. Chicago Zanes Let me smoke in the Green Room.

[Aaron Weber]

These are all great clubs you're mentioning.

[Dusty Slay]

And they. Yeah. And so it's real cold in Chicago. In Denver, too. And they worked it out for me that I couldn't.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

And then outside of the Comedy Works in Denver, it is. Or outside of Austin, the Mothership, it is Mad Max in those streets. Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I remember the first time I've been doing comedy forever. In New York. You could smoke on stage, and that was crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Aaron Weber]

You still technically can here, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you can smoke on stage if it's. Yeah. And I saw Chappelle at the Rhyme, and he did smoke a bunch on stage, but I think you can because it's part of a performance.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you can. You can technically do it at a comedy club.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Really? They would have to clear it, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

I think if it's part of a performance, you can get away with it because the plays. No. Nobody would be pumped about it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You got to be a pretty big name to be like, packing. Packing cigarette.

[Aaron Weber]

Six minute spot on a showcase.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm gonna try tonight on the show. Tonight. I'm gonna see what happens.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Tell me. Yeah. Are you friends with Chappelle Friendly? Yeah. You know, back in the day. I mean, now he's been your show a lot, right? Not my show. I used to run the Boston Comedy.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I mean.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Well, it's not my show. It was a club. But. Yeah, it was like a.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you booked it, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, I did for a little while. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I like how crazy how he worded.

[Dusty Slay]

I like how Brian keeps pushing it on you. No, no, this is your thing. Okay. This is how we got you on the podcast. Sold it. This. I mean, it's your best friends with Dave Chappelle.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes. That's. I mean, Nate's a whole nother thing, but Chappelle, not so much, you know? But yeah. I mean, I was there right before you went to Africa and all that stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mm.

[Dustin Chaffin]

We Hung out. You're the one who talked about it. I go, you got to get out of here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Go to Djibouti.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been to Djibouti. Go to Djibouti.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Go to Djibouti. Djibouti.

[Dusty Slay]

Djibouti.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. All right, Here we go. Bryn3669. I'm terrified to ever have a conversation with a professional comedian, because if I've learned anything from watching slash listening to tons of different comedy podcasts, it's that a comedian can find the insult in any compliment.

[Nate Bargatze]

What does that mean?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Absolutely.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron Weber]

Get over yourself, Brennan.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Geez.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think it's like, after shows, I think people say stuff like when my one that I hate is tough crowds, you know, even when you got up there and just turned the show around.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And pulled it out of them. And then they. You know, that's the first thing they say to you. You didn't see all that work. I did.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You know, it's like that bothers me. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. They didn't seem that into it. I'm like, yeah, I had a great show.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, I loved it.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's what we were talking about, people. Yeah. You know, it's pretty funny or something like that. The little things that just.

[Dustin Chaffin]

They belittle it just enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Objectively, we know are meant as compliments, but it's also fun to complain about stuff. Stuff.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But also learn to compliment better.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Just fist pound. Great job. Whatever. Really funny. I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

New stuff every time. That show was really good.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's easy.

[Dusty Slay]

That's all we're looking for.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's all you want.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian, I think brand 3669 is right on. Or at least with me. I mean, I can always find something, But I just did.

[Aaron Weber]

Because you're looking for it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. You're pretty hard.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm insecure, so I'm expecting it. And. But I just did a show. I did an hour somewhere, and the lady came up to me afterwards. She said, I remember once you got up there, I saw you open for Nate Bargatsi. And so. And so, like, one of the arena shows, and she said, I really felt like you were. You were funnier this time. And that really annoyed me. I was doing eight minutes in an arena. I'm doing an hour on this show. Yeah. A little bit different circumstances, but the whole. I didn't take his comp. I just took it as did I bomb.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Those shows are impossible sometimes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you should have said, you know what? I didn't see you at the arena show, and I like that better.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You're probably first, too. People walking in. You know what I mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's not easy for those shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

What does that mean? Just assume I'm first.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, because it's tough. People are just trying to walk in. You don't think he comes right before Nate? You don't think there's any comics before Brian?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, I don't know. I'm always right before Nate. You've got worked out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why before Nate? Why couldn't I go after?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I gave the kids stage time. I'm like Blindside. I'm Sandra Bullock, so I get the good spot.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate brings Brian out and they do bumping mics.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That be amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, John Bungard.

[Aaron Weber]

Bungard. Bungard.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's better than Bungard.

[Aaron Weber]

It might be Bungard, but Bungard sounds family.

[Dusty Slay]

Bungard.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Come on. Bungard.

[Dusty Slay]

Y'all. Y'all reference the sand lot a lot. That's a lot to say.

[Aaron Weber]

Sand lot a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

Y'all reference the saying lot a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

But if you do, you can't do y'all reference the sandlot quite often. Yeah, you gotta do a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, he actually put. Y'all referenced the sandlot movie a lot. And I took out the word movie. Like, that's obvious.

[Aaron Weber]

God. Well, that's your fault.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I guess it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess it is.

[Aaron Weber]

Was that a necessary edit? I thought it for time. You gotta take two syllables away. That actually changed the whole shape.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry, John Bungard.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're. You're right, Aaron. But at the time I'm putting y'all. Nate's reading this, so I'm like, I gotta cut this down as much as possible.

[Aaron Weber]

Y'all reference took out movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Movie. I'm gonna go ahead and add it back in for John. All right, Y'all reference the sandlot movie a lot.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Boom.

[Dusty Slay]

I love. I love it as well. A little surprise. No one has pointed out that you could easily be grown ups of these characters. Nate is Benny. Okay. Brian Smalls, Aaron Hambino, and Dusty is Squint. Love the pod. Well, maybe John. Maybe. Well, I'll take back the apology. And I only accept because Squints gets kind of the hot girl in the end, so. I will. I will.

[Aaron Weber]

He does. He marries her. And they have a ton of kids together. Wendy Peppercorn.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think I saw Sandlot.

[Dusty Slay]

You never saw it, huh?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm over Bad News Bears.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. This is.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's like, after that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think early 90s.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was early 90s. And you and I are about the same age.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd seen bits and pieces, but I was on a plane recently and thought, I've never watched this all the way through.

[Aaron Weber]

So I watched a fun movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Bad News Bears is great, too.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, the first one. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would agree with this, except Nate being Benny.

[Aaron Weber]

No, Benny the Jet Rodriguez.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's just always like. That's. That's why we're not gonna. We're not gonna make that reference. Because you're gonna go, oh, you mean the guy who became a professional.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the hero.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, he is competitive.

[Nate Bargatze]

The guy who always sported smalls and said, hey, here. Yeah, here's a glove.

[Dusty Slay]

And then Aaron's hambino. Why?

[Aaron Weber]

I think we know why.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that was right on.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm the only comedic relief of the shit now because he's the fat kid, but he's just. He steals that movie and he's still.

[Dusty Slay]

Making content now, like a girl. He's actually funny on the Internet.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I know who that is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he's been at a bunch of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Caleb party.

[Aaron Weber]

My dad used to say, be like Benny. He'd say that to me and my brother. Be like Benny.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He was a cool kid.

[Dusty Slay]

And you didn't listen.

[Aaron Weber]

Not in how he lifted up everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Because he.

[Nate Bargatze]

You didn't listen because there's a kid.

[Aaron Weber]

That'S kind of the outcast, right. And he's the nerd. And the other kids aren't accepting. And Benny, the leader of the group, goes, no, y'all accept him and brings him in. And I think that there's a lot to take out of that.

[Dusty Slay]

And another thing that makes me, like, squints is that he pretends to drown. Drown. I never would drown in real life. I would have to pretend because I'm such a good swimmer. Everybody knows that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Never had a current situation, like something that just.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I can handle current fears, man.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Even at a young age. Great swimmer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Really? Yeah, I almost drowned once. A lake or something. Yeah. Just. I forget what happened. Just they pulled me out pretty rough. Yeah. So.

[Nate Bargatze]

Drinking days.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, I was nine. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Got some of that whiskey.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, it is. We all been there. All been there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Caleb Party.

[Aaron Weber]

That's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

That is nice. It's like party, but you're like, party.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Little fancy.

[Aaron Weber]

Could be parte.

[Dusty Slay]

Party.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I like a little party.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Brian. Could have edited the name. Who knows?

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. It actually was Caleb Parte movie and then he took that out.

[Dusty Slay]

I felt, I felt like in the 90s or 2000s, it was a lot of big time comedians in big venues commanding the attention. But now it seems you can find a lot of smaller slash up and coming comedians in small venues through short videos. Do you think comedy has become bigger over the past 10 years or do you think it's just being circulated on social media more and thus seeming more popular to a casual fan?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm curious your thoughts on that, Dustin.

[Dusty Slay]

No, you got it to the end. You got to throw the end in there.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Throw the in. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dave Chappelle's best friend.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes, my best buddy. Let me call Dave.

[Aaron Weber]

Davey.

[Dusty Slay]

You started Facebook, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I did MySpace. We were the MySpace generation.

[Dusty Slay]

Tom.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, Tom. Tom was good. But I remember that, remember when like Dane Cook was just like the first person to really like explode with the Internet. So watching that changed everything. I think that was, that's when. Cause it used to be just a handful of guys far as like, you know, guys that could sell out. Yeah, it was just like the Chappelle's and the Chris Rocks and the Chappelle, my buddy, you know, and then it just, you know, then it became more about guys like, you know, Dane Cook that could just, you know, market it in a college. You know, he was hitting all those colleges and then he was the first one that really emphasized the meet and greet and that was a big deal. Like I remember when he was talking about meet and greets, he's like, you gotta talk to them after, you gotta get their emails, you gotta, you know, so I feel like comedy changed just from that. But. But yeah, I think it's as big as it was, I think, you know, I still think there's only like 12 guys that are like really selling out crazy venues. Yeah, but I think it's, I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

Know, I think it's bigger. I think it's bigger now, but I think it's because more people can see it because of the Internet. I don't know, but I just think there's, you know, it's like Caleb said, there's no Carl.

[Dustin Chaffin]

No, you know, there's no like, like.

[Dusty Slay]

Just like here's an example though. Like I was in Grand Rapids, right? And Nate, I was at the comedy club Dr. Grands. I sold out all of my shows. But then across the street on a Saturday night, Nate also sold out an arena at the same time. So he, it wasn't like he sold out the arena. And then there were no people left to buy tickets to my show.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I got you.

[Dusty Slay]

My show was still sold out, so it's like. It just shows that, you know, there's a lot. I've been. I've been to multiple cities where that's the case. There'll be a bigger comic than me selling out yet. I'm still selling out my shows, even at theaters.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, but. But in the 90s, though, I mean, there was, you know, the early. The late 80s and the 90s, there was lines around the corner on a Monday.

[Aaron Weber]

But how many arena acts were there in the 90s of comedians?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, it was Kinison. It was Dice.

[Aaron Weber]

Kinnison was an arena.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Towards the end, he was absolutely. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Casinos and Dice. That's two.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Steve Martin was the ultimate of all time. Like, he had. He sold out the Astrodome. And he had a funny joke, too. He's like, how many people have cats? He's like, okay, seven.

[Dusty Slay]

So if Steve Martin were in an arena in the town, though, you think Bobcat Goldthwait still selling out the club down the street?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think so. If Police Academy 4 had just come out, absolutely.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe that's a bad. That's a bad.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But you have a good. You have a good presence, and so you're gonna sell. So. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's just seven flow. I don't think. But I don't know if there's like. Like the biggest comic, like a Carlin and Pryor and all that stuff. I feel like some of that's missing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because the biggest comic now is Nate. You're basically saying he doesn't really say anything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you bet. Wow, that is crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're basically saying your friend Nate is.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm not saying any of that.

[Aaron Weber]

Smart enough to impact the culture in a meaningful way, which we agree with.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You try to get all my dates eliminated.

[Aaron Weber]

Crazy dude.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You know, Call Chappelle. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

But I do agree that to. To that it. It's so watered down with social media that everybody has an opportunity to have a voice that. Yeah. I mean, you don't have the cultural icons like you. Like. Like, you know, like you used to have. Because an HBO special was a huge deal that not everybody was getting. And now there's.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, Nate is like, you know, he's the biggest of the family comic, where it's just like, that's always talking to people. I said, you look out in that audience, and there's like, the Nana and the kids and like, nobody's doing that. And that's, you know, that's the beauty of what he's doing, where it's like, you know, you're not taking your kids to Chappelle or Bill Burr or anything like that. So I think that is the phenomenon of him.

[Dusty Slay]

And if you're a fun parent, you are.

[Nate Bargatze]

I bet Kevin Hazel is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Were you taking anywhere as a young, Like, a concert or anything as a child?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Well, I remember seeing Toby Keith at Opryland Hell. Were you, I don't know, nine or ten?

[Aaron Weber]

Mom was Toby Keith Fan club.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, she was.

[Dustin Chaffin]

My mom took me to Zeppelin when I was 7.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I went to stuff, you know, I went to a few things.

[Nate Bargatze]

We get it. Your mom's cooler.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, she was cool.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of NASCAR races and football games.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Games. Yeah. That's why you got keys of the city. Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly. All right, Joe. I think we all agree on what we just. Our debate.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I mean, there's not really. It's, you know, it's not a debate as much as it's just, you know, certain things change and certain things don't. But I think, you know, I said.

[Dusty Slay]

To you off the podcast, but I want to publicly compliment your jacket.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, you're sure?

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good. It's a good share.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Appreciate it. Yeah, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

And drink Mountain Dew.

[Aaron Weber]

And drink Mountain Dew. That's what playing golf. That's what hanging out's all about right there. However I play doesn't matter, because I get to drink a delicious Mountain Dew while I'm out on the course. The mountain is calling. You should answer. Grab your friends, grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold and do the Dew.

[Dusty Slay]

Joe Brock just surprised my wife with tickets to Dusty show when he comes to Salt Lake City in February. The only problem is she's pregnant and the baby is due the next day. I hear when you have a baby at Disneyland that they get a lifetime pass to the parks. If we have a baby at Dusty show, does he have a similar. Similar policy? Yeah. And the baby's due the next day, so no big deal. Just come on out and the baby will come the next day. But if you do have a baby at the show, I will give you some free tickets in the future.

[Dustin Chaffin]

How about Merch? Little Merch?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I want to keep it vague because, yeah, I don't want to make some big promise and then legally it gets pulled up right.

[Aaron Weber]

I will give you two tickets to the late show Male Chattanooga.

[Dusty Slay]

If the baby comes and we have, the ambulance comes and we have to deliver that baby in that show, this family, these two people and their baby, free tickets for life.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you going to help out if that happens?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm going to stay up on stage and do commentary. Carry. Push. Push.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Push.

[Dusty Slay]

Push. Breathe. Push.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get some sheets.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna do that now.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that true that if you have a baby at Disneyland, they don't give. They give you a lifetime pass?

[Dusty Slay]

It can't be true.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I don't think that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's happened.

[Aaron Weber]

That's like when they say if your roommate dies in college, you get straight A's. It's like a. Have you ever heard that?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

You never heard that?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I've heard that. I have heard that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I forgot about that.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like, I don't think that that's true, but it's a good way to.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Get some schools like Ivy League.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what happened to him. I know. I'm pretty sad about it.

[Aaron Weber]

I know my GPA turned around. I saw this over the weekend. Did you know Disneyland LA is in it Land? That's the one in Los Angeles. Disney World. That has orl. That's Orlando.

[Dusty Slay]

Did I know that? I did not know that. I like that, but I did not know that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I love it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Never thought about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I never thought about it either, but it's pretty crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

It is pretty.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll never mix it up again in my head because I talk about Disney.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot, you know, I never mix it Up. Because this is how I remembered it. Because being from the South, I always felt like it was a bigger deal that Disney World was in the south and Disneyland was in California, which is so funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Orlando. Barely the south, but yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's totally the south, but I get Orlando. You guys keep wanting Orlando.

[Nate Bargatze]

He was even here for that debate.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys keep wanting to not.

[Nate Bargatze]

Miami's the South.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys keep wanting to make things not the south just because it's not redneck.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Florida's pretty.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't mean to upset you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Orlando's pretty redneck because you said Canada is the South. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Well. Well, yeah. I mean, I guess Calgary is. Yeah. I feel like once you get so far north, you're back to the south again.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because it goes over the world.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So just geographically, you don't think Orlando. You don't. You don't think it's, like, Southern?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

But you do.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I do. I think Florida has that sensibility for sure. And what is the top half of Florida?

[Nate Bargatze]

Orlando's close. The top half of Florida, I consider the South. Orlando.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the bottom half?

[Nate Bargatze]

New York.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Orlando has a Nashville vibe in the sense of tourist and all that. That's. That's Miami.

[Dusty Slay]

Little Havana. I mean, it's a real. You know, we're doing cigars and sandwiches and a lot of food and music.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Just like Oxford, Mississippi.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Dancing with your shoes off. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. I love it. Aaron. Okay. I was reading it like it was to you.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy's name.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy's name is Aaron.

[Dusty Slay]

You're telling me Dustin isn't Coach Beard from Ted Lasso?

[Aaron Weber]

There it is.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Funniest guy. I don't. That's. That guy's a comic. Right, Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I've never seen the show.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Never seen.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's. That's right up your alley.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I would think. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't watch any shows.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, you don't? Not once. You've never binged a show, like, four episodes?

[Dusty Slay]

A Cobra Kai. I've been.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's your thing. That's your thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it was the nostalgia of it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I love.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, that Coach beard. Oh. I was thinking it was the other guy. Okay. The younger, better looking guy. But it was that guy, the funny one.

[Dusty Slay]

When people tell you you look like someone, it's never. Never the person you want, never the guy you want.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You can do all the exercises you want, but you're still the hambino.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, he's all right. He's Funny, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian.

[Nate Bargatze]

I skipped one.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh. Zach and Laura Nelson, couples YouTube account. People have said Dusty looks a lot like Hardy, and we could see it a little bit. However, we thought. The funniest thing is if you would imagine Dave Grohl dressed up as undercover boss. That nails Dusty perfectly.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dave Rollin Disguise.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I've. Yeah, I've heard. I've heard them both before. I definitely don't think I look like Hardy. I just think we have a similar aesthetic. My mustache is more like Dave Grohl's. We do have more of a similar facial hair, you know, but. You know, that's. But yeah, I'm not. I'm not a fan of either of them, to be honest with you. I'm just good. I mean, their looks are fine, but. I mean, I don't like.

[Nate Bargatze]

They look good, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Dave girl's got a couple of songs I like, but overall. Not a fan.

[Dustin Chaffin]

No. I'm not intuitive either.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian. Ken Canalia. What do you think it is?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Kenley.

[Dusty Slay]

Kenley.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Kenley. Kenley.

[Dusty Slay]

Kennely.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Kenley.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian Kennelly. You gotta say it fast.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, real fast.

[Dusty Slay]

Dustin looks like a police sketch artist tried to draw Nate based on poor eyewitness description.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Man, you guys give these. These fans a lot of air time, man. I know. It is a lot, lot. Some people say that. I guess we could be related, you know, Sometimes I think two good looking guys. Well, I mean, you don't have. There's definitely that.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't have big dumb eyes, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's all you got to do. Yeah. I think we're just like the pain of New York probably made us look alike.

[Aaron Weber]

You've been through some cold winters together.

[Nate Bargatze]

They say couples start looking alike.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

New York.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. You just live in New York for so long, you just got it. You just have that same tortured look.

[Dusty Slay]

John Traley. Tray. No, I added an L in there. John Trehey.

[Aaron Weber]

Where'd the l come from?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

There might be an L around it, but there's not. I think there's an L on this page.

[Dusty Slay]

Not even close by it. I don't think there's been a good country song since the 1970s. Even George Jones said they're gonna have to call that something else. Well, this guy must be very old because I'm gonna. I'm gonna disagree real hard.

[Nate Bargatze]

You would say the 90s, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian's. Oh, yeah. Dusty says at least 85.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, there's still good country songs. I Just think, popular country music is not really country.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I mean, even the urban cowboy soundtrack is great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it is great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's such good stuff on there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that's our segue in today's topic is music. Mostly. Mostly rock music, but we'll talk about some country.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dustin, you had a podcast, Dustin's Vinyls.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I listened to it. It's great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You were the one. You were the one. And Ms. B. Karaoke. Can't get anybody to listen to that thing you told me today. You're like. I was like, wow, thanks.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Where were you? I needed you about two years ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I apologize. But better late than never.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

How many vinyl records do you own?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't know how many, but I have a wall, I guess, of vinyl.

[Dusty Slay]

How often do you rearrange them?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Not that all I do. I don't do alphabetize because there's no way I could do that. I just do sections like rock, jazz, country, that kind of thing. And just. And I like just not knowing what's in there because I forget what you. What I buy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

So I love just going, all right, let me get some jazz. And. Oh, I forgot about this in Indiana when I did that gig or whatever. But I was telling him, I. That's what I love about collecting vinyl is, like, when you. When you're on the road, because it's like, that's a. You can always kind of count on a record store. Most towns have them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Especially if they have a college or something. And so that's a fun thing to kind of like just go in and meet those guys at the.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

At the record store and that kind of thing.

[Dusty Slay]

My two favorite cities that I've been to with record, I had Omaha, Nebraska, had a really great section of town with a couple of really big record stores. Super fun. And Springfield, Missouri, has a couple of cool record stores.

[Dustin Chaffin]

All right. Yeah, Springfield's pretty cool, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't do it a lot, but I bought quite a bit of vinyl. I like the way a vinyl feels.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

The thing. I like the way it looks, the.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Insert, smells, the insert, the lyrics.

[Dusty Slay]

But when it comes to playing it, I honestly would rather. I mean, I'm like, I'm changing it every. Flipping it every 30 minutes. I'd rather go just put a playlist. Strong.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't know. I kind of like that. I like just. You get. You. You get. Because you got to stand. I mean, my eye watches always tell me to stand up, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's true.

[Dustin Chaffin]

So I Like, I like the flipping it over. It's that nostalgia, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And hearing the crackle. Yeah, I love that old record. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I heard you say that Record stores usually know what they have.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

But antique stores, sometimes you'll go in there and they don't realize what they got. And you'll find some great deals.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's changed a little bit because vinyl is more popular. But, yeah, if you find those antique places on the side of the road, sometimes they'll just have a crate in the corner and you'll just get some. I've got some good Beetles and things like that. They had no idea that was even in there or how much these things are worth.

[Aaron Weber]

So.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, if you're looking for that kind of stuff, I think the antique places are like a Goodwill, sometimes like a Salvation Army. That's where you're going to get the good stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, let me ask you, you've lived in New York, Louisiana.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chile?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Country music, what's the. People respect it? Do they like it?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't care. I like it. I'm more. I do love 70s, you know, country music. I think that's probably outlaw country. I think outlaw country, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Waylon, you know, that kind of stuff. I feel like that's probably the peak, but I think there's some good. I like Dwight Yoakum a lot. I think there's a lot of stuff to happen after that. That's still good. But I don't know if there's a question about country music.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I just mean, does the la. Do people out there like country music? I think I know the answer.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think so. I saw Charlie Crockett out there. The. The Greek. I don't know if you know Charlie Crockett.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, a lot of people in la. Yeah. California has a lot of good country. A lot of California country.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, Bakersfield.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's very Southern. Be honest. Yeah, it feels Southern. Bakersfield.

[Dusty Slay]

Merle Haggard was out of California.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Owens. Yeah. Bakersfield.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Jesse Daniel. All California country.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's Jesse Daniel sing?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he has a really good song called Working Hard both Day and Night.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where can I hear that?

[Dusty Slay]

Featured on the special Working man by Dusty Slime on Netflix.

[Nate Bargatze]

So did you have a favorite band growing up?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Favorite band. What point in my life. High school. The high school was actually the Cult. I don't know if you guys know that band, but that was. Yeah, it's like a Native American kind of rock vibe. English band. It was just like. Yeah, I. You know, then mom introduced Me to Zeppelin was pretty cool. So I think, you know, my parents had good, you know, record collection, so it was like. It was either like Cheech and Chong or it was just like, you know, Blood, Sweat and Tears and Doobie Brothers and, like, all that kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Blood, Sweat and Tears got some great stuff.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, it's good.

[Aaron Weber]

You do kind of listen to just what your parents listened to, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Kind of. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's just kind of passed down there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's like you're influenced by or like brothers or usually. I had a big brother that was.

[Aaron Weber]

Into good music and stuff when I grew up. It was the era of my brother was starting to limewire. He was, like, getting his own music. Right. So it was kind of, like, rebellious. The music that we would listen to, we'd listen to it with headphones on.

[Dusty Slay]

What was your rebellious music?

[Aaron Weber]

Limp Bizkit, that kind of stuff.

[Dustin Chaffin]

He's still out there, man. Still doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, they're crushing it. Yeah, Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, yeah. I mean, late 90s. I love me some Limp Bizkit, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Gosh.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But I think you need an influence.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to hang out with Fred Durst a little bit.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Because if you don't have an influence, it's like, sometimes I think you make bad choices. Because I remember, like, I was, when I was on my own, thinking about music. It was like Twisted Sister or something. Just because the videos were all. So that was. I mean, my wall was covered in Twisted Sister, so that was like. Just because nobody was saying, that's not great music.

[Dusty Slay]

How old are his age?

[Nate Bargatze]

We're about the same age.

[Dustin Chaffin]

The same age?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

75. 83.

[Dustin Chaffin]

83 this winter.

[Dusty Slay]

Rough sh.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nobody knows your last name they call out your age It's a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Making was fun when we were kids.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That band should have been a great band. Like, they're first.

[Dusty Slay]

You can't stop rock and roll well, that's.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Stay Hungry. That's a great song. But it' like. You Can't Stop Rock and Roll, which is their first album. But they were kind of closer to Metalhead. What about.

[Dusty Slay]

What about that? There was one with a Sam Kinison video. Sam Kenison was in the video. There was one up and Tell the rest of the class. Wild Thing I want a rock.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think that was canon. That was just them. That was Twist's sister.

[Dusty Slay]

Was it?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Kinison did well, he did. The video was Wild Thing. I think that was tone w. No, it was just like. You make my heart scream. Wild Thing. It was like a 50s cover. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. From Major League.

[Aaron Weber]

What were they not taking?

[Dusty Slay]

Groovy.

[Dustin Chaffin]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

We're not gonna take it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

We're not gonna take it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Take what, Society?

[Dustin Chaffin]

We're not gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, the whole.

[Dustin Chaffin]

The video's dad is like a military dad, and he's like, on him because he wants to be a rock star. And he. I'm going to do what I want to do. Like, I think that's the vibe to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that makes sense. I didn't know it was about something in particular.

[Dusty Slay]

Now it's about, like, GMOs. That's the new rebellion now. I don't want any poison in my face. We're not gonna take it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Food dye.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Seed oils.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Fine sugar.

[Nate Bargatze]

So. So dusty. Southern rock was maybe kind of. The highlights was passed before you even got into it. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Allman Brothers.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you like them?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you like Southern?

[Dusty Slay]

I was.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Actually, People hate this about me, but I do like the Allman Brothers, but they. I'm not as big a fan of them.

[Dustin Chaffin]

All my brothers are amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

They are very good, but it's just not. It's just not as much my style as, say, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[Aaron Weber]

People hate for that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Almond Brothers. A little more of a jam band.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, they're the Southern Beatles. We've always said, like, they're the most talented of all.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I love some Dwayne Almond. Duane Allman's got a lot of stuff that I really love. He had. He did Derek and the Dominoes with Eric Clapton, which. I love that album. Big fan of that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. I got to meet Derek Trucks. That was a pretty big deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Like, he was. Because he was like, six, I think his. His uncle was the drummer for All My Brothers. And then I saw him, and he was like, 16 and at the Beacon, and he filled in as the guitars for the Alma Brothers. It was. I saw him. I talked to him. It was great to talk to him about that. It was phenomenal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's videos of him, I think 11 or 12 or something playing.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Playing with.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Crazy how good he is. Unbelievable kid. Yeah. So nuts.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. There's a Dwayne Allman album that I have. I guess it's just. Maybe it's just a Greatest hits, but he has a.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Do you have the Greg Almond and Cher album? That's a great.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I don't have that, but he has not. Yes.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You should pull it up, though. It's pretty good.

[Dusty Slay]

I hate Jude cover with, I think Wilson Pickett, maybe a singing. It's really good.

[Aaron Weber]

And this is a wild album cover.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

Greg Almond. It's called Almond and Woman.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I have this album.

[Aaron Weber]

I own this the hard way.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Fantastically bad.

[Aaron Weber]

They're kind of pretzeled around each other in this.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, they dated.

[Aaron Weber]

Confusing. I imagine they dated for a little while.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're Sonny and all this.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

They probably divorced.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Definitely. Definitely divorced at that point. Because this is late. Like, she was with him.

[Dusty Slay]

You think these guys are hooking up here?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think so. Just a little bit. A little bit. But then they decide to do this album together. And just. Just because you're together doesn't mean you should, you know, do this. But. Right. It's pretty bad and great at the same time.

[Dusty Slay]

Not a good album.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's, you know, it's the. I always say a lot of the 80s stuff, you know, pretty kind of intoxicated, you know, there's a lot going on. Some of the choices made weren't the best choices. The movies, can you imagine?

[Aaron Weber]

They're looking through the photo. They've done a photo shoot.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And they're looking through and they go. I think that's the one.

[Dusty Slay]

This. This picture seems Photoshopped.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think they had that back then in.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, this must be a real photo.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think it's a real. I had a fan. There's a. There's a fan involved.

[Dusty Slay]

Cher is hot in this.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Beautiful. Like when she was young.

[Nate Bargatze]

Take one and see if it sticks. Guys, we're playing around now. We've got what we need. Let's just try this one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, let's do a silly one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm into Cher. I didn't realize I was into Cher.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah. Put some young Cher. Forget it, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. And that's. This is probably, like your age share right now. She's probably, you know. What are you under 40?

[Dusty Slay]

42.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay. She's probably like, 42 there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

So that's why you're attracted to.

[Dusty Slay]

But this. This is the Dwayne Allman. The anthology also has Aretha Franklin singing the Weight. Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Band?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Really great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Dwayne Allman. Love that guy.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Brothers are fun, but I'd like Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think that's, you know, there's something about it that's just, you know, kind of sticks out, out of all that stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, the first six albums, really great. Yeah. And people start dying. Yeah. And. But I. Because I only listened to greatest hits when I was growing up. Right.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I went back later and I. When I was working the road, I bought all those albums and I just was driving forever. I didn't have a. A plug in for anything on my car. I just had a CD player. I'm driving all over the country and it's like, you really dig in. It's like. It's really great stuff. Every song is great.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I've said this before on here, but they're one of the few bands that has, I think, two signature songs. Free Bird and Sweet Home Alabama. Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Pretty signature, sure.

[Dusty Slay]

So associate, but Simple Man.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm not saying that's only two good songs. I'm just saying those are. Everyone knows those songs.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, well, Free Bird is, you know, it's kind of like their Stairway to Heaven. I mean, it's just such a beautiful.

[Aaron Weber]

He's think about, like, what's the. If they came back and did one concert, it's like, what's the encore song? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Freebird, probably, but yeah. Yeah. But I think of the two of them.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. It's hard to follow. It's hard to. You know, you have jokes like that where you're like, you do. Your clothes are too early, and then you're like, oh, yeah, I still got nine minutes left.

[Dusty Slay]

Now you're pulling out an open mic.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Joke or some guy's sweater, whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm selling my merch again. Once again.

[Dustin Chaffin]

So I got this merch.

[Nate Bargatze]

For less money this time.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if that's ever been done. You go back and do another merch.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, I've seen guys do it for like nine minutes.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian's making up testimonies.

[Nate Bargatze]

Done it all. I have done it all.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But yeah, I think it's hard to follow Freebird. It's like, that's the one that I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Looked up the top. Southern rock. This is just some website ranking of all time. And Free Bird was one.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

There were Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd kind of dominated the top 10.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

There was a few. Marshall Tucker Band had some.

[Dusty Slay]

Can't you see?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bob Seeger had some.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Bob Seeger, man, that's Tucker. Oh, Silver Bullet Band.

[Dusty Slay]

Bob Seeger is so great. I wouldn't say Southern rock. I would just say rock. But yeah, well, he's Detroit, but Bob Seeger, Detroit, yeah. Unbelievable. He has an album called Beautiful Loser, which I don't think there's any of his greatest hits off that album, and I love it. The whole album?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, I think I have that one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Charlie Daniels kind of could be both, right? Country and Southern.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think so.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think once.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think he was even really considered that country for a while.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, well, he was guitarist and then he played with Bob Dylan. Yeah, I think he did some stuff with Bob Dylan and then just any. When he picked up the fiddle, forget it. That's when he blew up. But he was kind of like a. I guess, kind of Glen Campbell as well, studio musician or whatever he has.

[Dusty Slay]

Charlie Daniels has a great song called Reflections where he's like. He talking about Elvis and Janis Joplin and Ronnie Van Zant all dying and singing about it and. Dang, it's a good song.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, Charlie's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you ever see Elvis?

[Dustin Chaffin]

No, I'm not that old. I'm your. Not that old.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't think you did. But you're Elvis fan, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm Sun Records Elvis fan. You know, I'm not like, all right, mama. All that. That. Like maybe that first record. And then I feel like he's a guy that they just. They just put in the wrong direction records. They put in the wrong direction, man. I really feel he could have been just an amazing. You know, that they just kept it more rockabilly and just kind of true to. Kind of what his voice and not all that other stuff. Once you start making movies, forget it. I mean, I like the late Elvis. Some of that music's kind of fun.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never heard anyone actually like Elvis's music. People talk about. I think people like Elvis as the phenomenon that he is, but nobody's ever been in the car.

[Dusty Slay]

I like some Elvis music.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never heard go, let's put on some Elvis.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's true.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. I like Suspicious Minds.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I like it better when Dwight Yokum.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. For sure. For sure.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever been riding around? I gotta. Let me put on the Never pass me the Oxford.

[Dusty Slay]

But I have put Elvis on some playlists in the past. I do like Elvis ages, so I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just like his movies.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Probably the best ages. Probably the best Christmas album is Christmas.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you lonely tonight? You know that one?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you lonely? I don't know. I don't remember you.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I heard you burn in love. Hunk. A hunk of burning love. I love that one.

[Nate Bargatze]

I heard you say at concerts. We've talked about it on here recently. Concerts. You Went to see Creed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Making fun of Elvis.

[Aaron Weber]

Creed rules. I'm not making fun of Elvis. I'm just. I don't think people listen.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm getting.

[Nate Bargatze]

But we were talking about banter in between.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You said Elvis was the best at the banter.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, yeah. I mean, Frank Sinatra, really funny. I don't. You know, Sinatra has Live at the Sands and about probably 20 minutes, he just does a set and he's just ripping on the Casino. And he's ripping on, like, all the pack and everything. It's really funny. But Elvis was funny because he was just kind of banged up towards the end there. Yeah. So he would start an Elvis, like a Beatles song and then just forget the words and be like, I don't know these words. Sing it with me. You know? And he would just like. Like, you know. But yeah, he was funny in between songs. The late stuff is really good about Joe Cocker.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever listen to the. That first album, Joe Cocker, I love it. It's. And they had one with Leon Russell. It's a live album. Really great stuff. I remember Joe Cocker fans.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Jumbolushi did a great job.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think he did okay. Joe Cocker had. It seemed like he had the first record that came out, which was really great. And then they wanted him to immediately tour, and he didn't want to do it. And Leon Russell was like, I'll. I'll do everything. You just come and tour with me. And I think Joe Cocker just got on that tour, did a lot of drugs, just got run down. And I think he just kind of exited music for a while.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He died at age 70, so.

[Nate Bargatze]

See, I know pretty young. Up Where We Belong.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not young, but that first album, with a little help from my friends.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Me and Brian's age, that's young Feeling all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Is great.

[Aaron Weber]

Great song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, and that album, that whole. They had an album together, a live album. I love Leon Russell. I'm a big Leon Russell fan. His stuff is great.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

I tried to buy some of Aaron's data today online. Matter of fact, couldn't find it because he's been using delete me. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or you can just answer my phone calls.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you Eagles fan.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. I mean, you've seen that documentary that's fantastic on Netflix.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the two parter, right?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. You see the dynamic reunion. Yeah. Everybody was really talented in that band. But I. I think I get Eagles doubt. Like I'll do the greatest hits and then I can't do it for another couple of years. You know what I mean? Like, I can't listen to an Eagles song all the time, but there's some great album, you know. Great albums for sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

But we brought up this might have been before you joined the podcast Dusty Hotel California. And people wrote in like four different explanations what that song's about.

[Aaron Weber]

I always thought it was about hell. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's a conspiracy theory that on the COVID he's there with. There with the president of the satanic organization or whatever. But they say it's not true.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I mean, they were all kind of satanic back then.

[Aaron Weber]

They kind of were.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It was like Zeppelin had those weird, like, symbols and stuff. And then like, they were, I think. Who's the guy? Sammy Davis Jr. Or whatever. Yes, he was like a.

[Dusty Slay]

There's Eddie Murphy talked about Sammy Davis Jr. Yeah. Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It was this weird. Just a weird type. Drugs. Too many drugs, I think. Part of it. And then just, you know, people just kind of getting into weird stuff. A lot of mystical stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's just countercultural, too. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I think Hotel California is talking about True. By Hilton.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Love those, by the way. Great breakfast. Great free breakfast.

[Nate Bargatze]

You guys are all big music fans. I'm really not. Who is. Do you consider the greatest guitarist or some of the greatest guitarists of all time?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I mean, there's so many people. It's all the classic people that everybody says.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, here's who I always hear. Jimi Hendrix.

[Dusty Slay]

Every. Every list.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Let's do ones you don't hear. I'm going to go. Junior Brown.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Junior Brown. Junior Brown is Highway Patrol.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's a guy you're not going to hear in these conversations. Yeah, he's fantastic.

[Dusty Slay]

And he has a steel guitar.

[Dustin Chaffin]

He built his own guitar. It's like. It's part steel and part electric and it's pretty great. But he's. He's like a rockabilly guy. But really great stuff like surf rock, which I love. Surf rock. Dick Dale.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like. I don't know who's like, the greatest, right? It's like, you know it. When you hear people play that, you're like, wow, this is really great. And of course, every. I mean, it's like you can never have a list where Jimi Hendrix is not number one, Right? But he's like. Yeah, he's great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think Eddie. Eddie was the fastest.

[Dusty Slay]

Eddie Van Halen, I think he was the fastest. You know, Dwayne Allman's really great. Eric Clapton's great. I mean, those guys are.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Who's the guy from Queen? Brian May. Yeah. Guy's great. What about Stevie Ray Vaughan? Has to be in this conversation.

[Dusty Slay]

Absolutely.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

What about. I Can't Believe his name's Escaping from Guns N Roses.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Slash is great. Yeah. I just saw Guns N Roses probably about four months ago. And, you know, it's funny because, you know, Axel's. God bless him, you know, he's. He was doing everything he could. You know, he was really trying, man.

[Dusty Slay]

And he was.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You know, his voice just. Just. I mean, I saw him in the 80s and it was just like his voice was. It was cracking live because you just can't do that all the time you do that night. I mean, that's the thing about comics. Like, we don't. We're not screaming like that. So he. You know, he was pretty rough, but. And then they just kept bringing out Slash to make up for, you know, Axl not being able to sing that great. And so he just did, you know, probably the extra two hours of just Slash. He's just. He's playing, like, just all these blues stuff, and he was a amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, that's what they said about Free Bird, Right. That's why Free Bird started to become so long, because it was a way to give Ronnie Vanzant a break on the vocals. So they would do these longs, and they started getting longer and longer.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Free Jam Band is just. They're giving the singer a break.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Does Almond Brothers sing Rambling Man?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's a great song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's probably their most famous, I would say.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's like a comic song. Like you feel. Feel. You know, like a road comic song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Like you feel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Like, Chris Stapleton is really great. He has that song called Traveler, which never gets any. That's such a.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That album is fantastic.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. I like that song. As a. As a comic, I.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

I got that. I bought this album, right? I went into Grimy's. I bought this Chris Stapleton album. The guy was like, this guy's really good. I bought it vinyl and now just a cd.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just listening to it in the car. I'm a traveler listening to the whole thing. I loving it. Next week, he plays with Justin timberlake at the CMAs or whatever. Tennessee Whiskey. And suddenly this guy is like a gigantic sensation. And I felt like I want. I really wanted to make a post about how much I love this Chris Stapleton guy. And I just missed it by a week because everybody. And I'm not saying I was the only one, but I was on that for one week before it felt like the whole world.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't get. Why would it matter?

[Dusty Slay]

It wouldn't matter. But it's like, after the fact, it's like, well, yeah, of course you love this guy. We all love him. Well, you know, a week before, I felt like I would have been like.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, you like to be the guy that likes the band first.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

100. And if other people like it, Dusty will start to hate.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If other people like.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'm kind of like that. Well, Charlie Crockett. Charlie Crockett. I don't know if you guys know him. He's phenomenal.

[Dusty Slay]

Love, Charlie.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But I saw him on a Zoom show. When? During the Pandemic. And it was Willie Nelson's barbecue or Fourth of July or whatever, but they did it. It was all on Zoom. And then he just did, like, a little set on there. I was like, this guy's awesome. And I followed him. And then now he's huge.

[Dusty Slay]

He's so great. I wish that he would just cover every country song that I like.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I love his covers. I mean, his. His original stuff is great, too, but Clown is amazing. Charlie Crockett covering songs is my favorite thing in the world.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I have an album where he just. All covers.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there's two. There's, like, Blues Bonanza and then there's one other. Which.

[Dustin Chaffin]

A jukebox thing or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Those are so good.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. But Sergio Simpson I like too far as country. Newer country, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Culture wall.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. His cover of Promise is amazing. Oh, that's.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's the first thing I ever saw. And I didn't even know it was a cover, but I. I could not stop listening to that. So, like, Step Brothers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Weeks straight, you just became best friends.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, for weeks straight, I just listened to that Promise over and over again. It's so good.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And then when you hear the 80s version of the pop song, you just.

[Dusty Slay]

Want to hear his.

[Dustin Chaffin]

As soon as you hear it. So good.

[Dusty Slay]

It's so great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I feel like in the 80s and 90s, movie soundtracks were a big deal, and music videos would often have scenes from the movie and vice versa.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, CMT used to be the best. I mean, they had Ricky Skaggs, had a song called Country Boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that. That video was really great. And.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, it didn't hold up, though.

[Dusty Slay]

I watch it all the time. I love that video.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't think it holds up?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's so great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay, well, they had Running Scared with Billy Crystal and who's that other guy?

[Nate Bargatze]

Gregory Hines.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Gregory Hines. And it was like the McDonald. What's his name?

[Nate Bargatze]

The Michael McDonald.

[Dustin Chaffin]

McDonald. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And they're like, all in the video, but. Yeah, I think they used to do that more.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I mean, I used to watch.

[Dusty Slay]

Watch.

[Nate Bargatze]

We didn't have cable, so I had to watch Friday Night videos.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd record it and watch it, but I feel like yes. Have those videos. They would show scenes from a movie. Back to the Future was. Was.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, it was whole. Part of the whole thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it Was a big thing. I don't feel like that's the case. The Lion King was like one of the last ones that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, I don't think they're making blockbusters as much as they used to either. Yeah, you know, they're not making movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, you know, like. But some of the superhero movies, like Guardians of the Galaxy, those both had pretty. Pretty great soundtracks, 70s, 80s stuff.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But, yeah, I think he means more like in the videos with the, like, Top Gun.

[Nate Bargatze]

That soundtrack was a big part of the movie. Like, when you think of it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, the Lady Gaga song has parts of the movie in it, you know, and she's singing in and they're showing clips of the movie. She did one of the. I guess the love song in it. I don't know the last Top Gun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I'm talking about the original.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, the original. Oh, I thought you're talking about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah. Dangers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Danger Zone.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's the first time I saw a comic was Kenny Loggins. It was like, I guess the music guy or whatever. And then I saw it was. I think it was. I forget who it was. Somebody. The guy who writes Mario Joyner was like, the comic. And he was like. It was this, you know, Kenny Loggins fan, and so just the widest crowd you'll ever see. And I remember watching this guy and I was just like, oh, this is great. And I think I was the only one that really was getting it when I was a kid. But that was the first comic. I don't know if you guys. Do you remember your first comic, like, the first standup comic you saw?

[Aaron Weber]

First stand up comic I saw. Whoever opened for Brian Regan was the first show that I saw live here.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Steve Rogers.

[Aaron Weber]

Steve Rogers. I remember it was a guy. I remember he had a bit about, like a school bus, and then he sold the CD where it was him with a school bus. I would like to find out who that was.

[Nate Bargatze]

He was.

[Aaron Weber]

The first guy saw was South Bend, Indiana, the Morris performing Morris Theater.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

There. Brian Regan. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't see any live comedy as a kid. So it's like, it's possible that, you know, the first standup comedy I saw live was just other local comics.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, it's. Todd Barry was one of my earliest comedy shows. Neil Hamburger. I saw pretty early, actually, with Todd Berry again.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I had a hard time with Todd. I felt like I was doing Todd Berry in the beginning.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't know if you guys did that. When you first started, you kind of sounded like people and you had to, like, stop watching them.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Todd was one of those guys where I just felt like my brow would go down. Hey, start talking lower.

[Dusty Slay]

I love Todd Berry. I love Todd Berry.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Those aren't roach traps.

[Dusty Slay]

Those are speakers, baby. Yeah, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

So funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

When I was in college.

[Aaron Weber]

Saw Red Fox. Who'd you see?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Red Skeleton.

[Nate Bargatze]

No one knew he was. Because Sanford Son hadn't come on yet. No, it was a guy. It was here at Zany's who was Bob Euker's color commentator in the movie Major League. The guy who doesn't say anything.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

You guys seen the movie Major League?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, it's been a while, but, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

The guy in that movie, he was a standup comic, and he came to Zany's, and some of us went to see him and met him afterwards. He did a lot of impressions.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. It'd be fun if he just didn't say anything and then stand up.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's very Kaufman.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There used to be a guy. There was a guy for a while who would do open mics in Nashville, and he would wear a kilt, and he would just not say anything, really. He would just walk up there and just stand there for four minutes. Stand, let me tell you.

[Dusty Slay]

And he's not doing comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

He.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's the best opener, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Too much politics. He. I mean, how quickly we were over that. I mean, about 15 seconds, you're like, all right, this is not funny, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he did multiple mics. He would just ruin.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that was a guy that I would just tell. I would be like, you can't. You're not allowed to do.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think. Well, Joe Kelly did do that at his mic. He's like, we're not doing this. Yeah, yeah. You can't just filibuster. Did you guys not even filibuster? Just stop.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Did you guys ever try something stupid, like, just because you thought it was genius? I remember one time I did a. I bought a goldfish, and this is, like, early open mic, because you have no idea what you're doing because you're just trying, and you want to be different and edgy and weird and whatever. So I bought a goldfish and then I put it in a glass of water, and I was on stage, and so I'm holding the glass with the goldfish, but I never mentioned it. Like. And I.

[Dusty Slay]

And my.

[Dustin Chaffin]

What I was going to do, I was going to swallow it at the end. Like, I was like, I'm going to be that guy. And then. And Then I would, you know, every time I would. I would almost drink it and then go back into the jokes or whatever, and it was just. It was horrible. And then I, you know, and I remember seeing just, you know, the fish poop in there. I was like, I'm not. I'm not swallowing this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But in my head, I was going to swallow the goldfish. Is this like crazy Kaufman weird burning.

[Aaron Weber]

Through 40 goldfish a week?

[Dustin Chaffin]

But I did it once and I was like, I'm just gonna joke. I'm just gonna do jokes. No, I never sw. I just did it the one time.

[Dusty Slay]

And you're getting your own. Your Omegas.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's good for you. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

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Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

They usually do. Is there a concert that stands out to you guys being so good or so bad? Like the best.

[Aaron Weber]

Creed Bridgestone Arena.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Creed.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You love that Creed, man.

[Aaron Weber]

First concert I Saw was Guster at the Bama Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. Ray lamontaine Open. I had never heard of him.

[Dusty Slay]

I love Ray Lamont.

[Aaron Weber]

He was so great. One of the worst stage presence I've ever seen.

[Dusty Slay]

I've seen. I've heard.

[Aaron Weber]

Barely moved, never said hi.

[Dusty Slay]

Hardy really gets mad if anybody makes a sound while he's on stage.

[Aaron Weber]

The music was great.

[Dusty Slay]

It's really great.

[Aaron Weber]

And then, man, I've seen Guster multiple times. Oar, not oar. Who did that? See, yeah. Third Eye Blind. Seen a lot of Kiss. I saw Kiss at Bridgestone.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Unbelievable. Just the spectacle.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, great show.

[Aaron Weber]

And they had a lot of songs I didn't know were Kiss that I was just aware of. So Kiss was unreal.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a guy, this Tedeschi Trucks.

[Aaron Weber]

Was awesome with the Ryman I saw.

[Dusty Slay]

Anyway, yeah, this guy. This is a local band in Charleston and I got him to. I was trying to. There was no stage time in Charleston, so I was trying to get more stage time. So I got this guy to let me open for him. But he was opening for another band, right? So he wanted me. He. He goes. He go. He tells me before the show, he goes, all right. He goes, after my set, I want you to go up. He goes, I got you this gig, so I need you to do this for me. So he goes, all right. When I go out, when I come back in, I want you to go out and go, oh, that was really good, huh? Give it up for. I'm not going to say the name, but give it up for that band, huh? They were really good, huh? How about. I bet it. I bet we get him to do an encore, huh? And this. We're in a small room, there's 30 people in there, and I. He wanted me to go, encore, encore. And I don't think anyone did it. And then I turn around and he's coming back out, right? Like he's about to play. And then the guy over the. Over the loudspeaker goes, yeah, that's not how it works. We gotta. We gotta break all this stuff down and we gotta. We gotta move, you know, we gotta. I go, oh, okay. So then I'm like, I. They had let me do stand up in the middle. So I was like, all right, well, I'll just start doing jokes. Then the guy goes, yeah, that's not how it works either. We gotta. We gotta break all these mics down. We gotta. So, so embarrassing. But my other. That. The guy he was opening for was my friend too. So he was like, I'll just. Once they get it all situated, I'll let you do some time before my band goes up. And then I'm, like, so bad at comedy that after all of that, I finally get to go up and do my 10 minutes, and I just. Just bomb. And it's just embarrassing. It's like a whole production for just like. I just wanted a little stage time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

None of that back then. Yeah, it was all bad. But that is what I needed. I needed. I needed more embarrassing experiences to get tougher as a comedy.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think comedy and music is tough to pull off. Like, when it's, like, a band. I don't know if you've ever worked with other bands and stuff. It. I don't think it always works. I. You know, I did one time.

[Aaron Weber]

I.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It was like a Bamboozled was like a tour, kind of like a Van Warp tour kind of thing. It was in Jersey, and I was, you know, not at my best. I want to say, maybe you did some stuff in the parking lot. And so I get to the. We get to the gig, and it's a tent, and. And I'm sitting there, and then Robert Smigel is the comic with me.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You know, Triumph the camera. Yeah. Yeah. Who's like, a genius, has written all these amazing things. So it's me and him. I'm supposed to go up, and then it's going to be him. And there's, like, a band that's like a rancid, kind of, like, you know, crazy punk band on the stage. And so we're supposed to follow this band, and it's just like, they're just crushing with all these kids and stuff. And as soon as they get off, we're in this one tent. They go, all right, man. We got free pizza and stickers on our. In our booth, like, outside. And so the whole audience. I'm with this Emmy win dinner, the whole. Just leaves, and they all just go to this tent for free pizza. And we're just standing there, and we.

[Aaron Weber]

Can never beat free pizza.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, you can never. You can never beat free pizza.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I did. I did a comedy festival in Wilmington years ago, and they used to have Nut Street. Used to be underground. That was the comedy club. And then above, they had another show and, like, a laundromat. So the Laundromat show was packed, and we're all going. And then Nut Street's closed. But they're going to open at some point. So it's like, they go. They basically call me up on stage. And then. Or maybe they go, all right, Nut Street's open. And then everybody goes down to Nut Street. And then they introduce me to stage, and I'm like. It was like we went from a pack show to completely empty. And I'm like, all right, I. Yeah. Signed up for this festival. Cost me money.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is there any American has concerts that stand out as really bad? Like, oh, that was so disappointing.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, like seeing live shows.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw Bob Dylan. I wish I hadn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I hear that a lot about.

[Dusty Slay]

When did you see Bob Dylan?

[Aaron Weber]

Saw him at the Fontanelle here in Nashville. Yeah. I mean, 2015.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think Bob Dylan after the 70s maybe is not worth he play.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Since he went a electric, he.

[Dusty Slay]

Since he went non verbal.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I know. He played no hits. He played all new stuff. He barely looked up. You know, he's just looking down at his guitar. It was pretty bad.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's like. It's such a weird thing. Like, how do you write so many great hits and then you, like, never even accidentally write a good one for 40 years?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, there's a conspiracy theory that a high school kid wrote Blowing in the Wind and he stole it from him.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, wow. Okay. But even if Carlos men see of.

[Aaron Weber]

Folk music, even if you take away that one, he still had some other.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And nobody Rolling Stone takes that serious.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, I had tickets to go see him with Willie and at the Hollywood bowl. And I. And towards the end there, I just ended up selling the tickets. Like, I just thought it was gonna be one of those experiences. Yeah, I was like, I don't want to see.

[Aaron Weber]

It was like, I wish I hadn't seen it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think the most disappointed I ever was with concert was Dolly Parton. It was probably broke my heart to bring her down. Broke my heart. Broke my heart.

[Dusty Slay]

So I got feelings about.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, here's the deal with Dolly. I love Dolly. She's great, you know, whatever. Good. Good songwriter. Whatever. So I got tickets for my girlfriend for her birthday, and it was Dolly in New York City. And I was so excited. In the big picture of her and everything, she's like Dolly Parton. And then it's like a little. There's like a little tiny thing that says Niles Rogers is gonna be like the other act. And so we get there and everybody's crazy. Everybody's dressed up like Dolly. Like, everybody's going bananas for Dolly Parton. You know, it's a real small venue, and we get up there and she, you know, they introduce her and she's they just introduce her first, which is weird. And then she gets up there and she sings I always love you and then nine to five and then leave. And it was like, that's it. She did two songs. We. I paid like $300 for these tickets. Two songs. She's gone. And then Niles Rogers, who, you know, he wrote some David Bowie songs. He's a jam guy, and he's.

[Aaron Weber]

Who cares?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nobody was coming for Niles. And he did like an hour and a half, and she did two songs.

[Aaron Weber]

That's like. If you went to see Nate, Nate did iced coffee with milk and then bates went out 45 minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's exactly what it is. That's a great analogy.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Hey, Niles Rogers, he won a lot of Grammys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

But he was great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

He did like Duran.

[Nate Bargatze]

Apologize to Niles Rogers.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Billboard just put out top hundred country singers of all time, and Dolly Parton was number one. I have a problem with that. It's like, that's pretty annoying. Like, she is great. She's had a lot of hits. Morgan Wallen, too, he was like. He was way up. Like, it was like. And. Which I agree with. I. I'm not a. I'm not a fan of what he does.

[Nate Bargatze]

Post Malone.

[Dusty Slay]

I know people do love him. Post Malone was not on the list, thankfully. But it was like, you know, it's just like number one.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Even over Loretta Lynn. I would.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Give her top 20 may. I mean, she's influential. She's still around people like her. Dolly, she's done great things, but not.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Before Patsy, all that stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but this is all art. It's not just female.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So over Johnny Cash. Over everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I want to say Johnny Cash was. He was top 10, maybe number two. Willie Nelson, I think might have been number two. And he's done really great things. But, I mean, they were. I mean, I would say Merle Haggard should be Merle Haggard. Hank Williams, Even Hank Williams Jr. Was.

[Aaron Weber]

Like Ernest 50s Hardy. I like the third sort of Georgia long. Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Hank III. You ever seen him live?

[Dusty Slay]

Never seen him live.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, he's fantastic.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen him in the.

[Dustin Chaffin]

He has the grandfather.

[Aaron Weber]

I like Wild and Wonderful Whites documentary.

[Dusty Slay]

When he sings old country. It's really good. It's really good.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yodels and stuff. Like, he's fantastic.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, Build your all time great rock band. Drummer, guitarist, bassist, singer.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Build it. You go first.

[Aaron Weber]

You go first.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is gonna be tough.

[Aaron Weber]

I just want to hear you do it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll do it at their peak.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You pick them out from their prime and you put them in. It can be from different eras, different genres, different bands.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll say. Because I'm trying to think of people we haven't mentioned yet. Vince Neil.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You know Vince Neil?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Motley Crue.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's your singer?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nice. Yeah. Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I thought he was criticized. Well, a little. A little criticized. But if you. 80. What year, though? Not like now.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no. I said at their peak. Like.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, their peak. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Got.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Got you.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to think again, people. We haven't. Guitar or our drummer, the Def Leppard's drummer.

[Dustin Chaffin]

The one arm guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay. Cool, cool, cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

I forgot his name.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nobody knows. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's got one arm. He's playing the drums.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I know. I like it. I like. He's working extra hard, that guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Gene Simmons.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Wow. That's your bass player?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm letting you fill in what they play. Of course. It's my base player. So now I gotta get lead guitar. Guitar.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Right, the guitar. You got this.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to think of someone we haven't talked about yet.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, you talk about. It doesn't have to be that.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just don't want you guys to think I know what I'm talking about.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You can lift. You can lift one of our. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Slash.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay, that's not bad. I mean, that's a Tommy Lee.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's a. I mean, that's a glam band, for sure. Yeah. That's a hair metal.

[Aaron Weber]

That's me.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's me.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, you love the hair metal. You're the hair metal guy. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Were you at Laura's birthday party?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I was Velcro Pig. They were fantastic. Yeah, they were a good time.

[Nate Bargatze]

When I was in college, they were the big, big band. The college band.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And Bobby Bear Jr. I remember, would come. You know Bobby Bear Jr. Yeah, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know Bobby Bear. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

His son. Yeah, absolutely.

[Dustin Chaffin]

We covered him on the show. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, Bear.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Hey, Bear.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you know Bobby Bear?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. All right. Well, that went nowhere. All right, that's. That's a good question. That was my answer.

[Aaron Weber]

That was a good. I mean, that was solid. What about you?

[Dustin Chaffin]

That was so.

[Dusty Slay]

We should save.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't overthink it.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's save.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Google. Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Mine's gonna. You're all gonna hate mine.

[Dusty Slay]

Mine's not gonna be good either. I think that's why he should go last.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I'm putting Pino Palladino on.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Bam. Yeah, you are.

[Dusty Slay]

Who's that? Who's that?

[Aaron Weber]

Jazz. But he plays with John Mayer Trio.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay. Wow. Getting classy, honestly.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me do Corey Wong on the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Of course. Of course.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Corey Feldman. Over query Feldman.

[Aaron Weber]

Corey Feldman's the. Corey's stage side. Ready to go. Something goes wrong.

[Dusty Slay]

Who's Corey Wong?

[Aaron Weber]

Corey Wong.

[Dustin Chaffin]

No, no.

[Aaron Weber]

Corey Wong.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Come on.

[Aaron Weber]

He's like a funk guitarist. He plays with Volf Pack, but he does his own stuff. I like him a lot.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I didn't see this coming.

[Aaron Weber]

Then I'll do Nate Smith on the drums. And then singing. Who's that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Who's Nate Smith?

[Aaron Weber]

He's just a drummer.

[Nate Bargatze]

He didn't have play with the band.

[Aaron Weber]

Plays with a bunch of different bands. He's like a mercenary. He'll go in wherever you need them. And then singing yourself. Yeah, I mean, it would be fun to play with these guys. Sing. I'll do Robert Plant with those guys.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nice. Robert Plant. Good choice. That's not bad.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, let's go. Let's go. Levon Helm on the drums. Yeah, let's go. Because he can sing a little bit. Sure.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, see, I didn't think about that. Yeah, it's good to have a singer drive. Remember.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's go. On the piano, Elton John.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't know where.

[Dusty Slay]

Elton John.

[Dustin Chaffin]

What.

[Dusty Slay]

Leon Russell doing.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Who's on Heart.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's get that going. Let's go.

[Dustin Chaffin]

See band you got here.

[Dusty Slay]

Bass. Who's the guy from Primus? Let's go with that guy. Let's go with that guy. We know his name Tears up a bass.

[Dustin Chaffin]

We're so bad. We're like the one hard drummer. The guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay. What do we got left? We got guitar and we got a singer. So. Singer. Let's go. Let's go. Freddie Mercury.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Let's go.

[Dusty Slay]

Big pipe. So let's go.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Big pipe.

[Dusty Slay]

Freddie Mercury.

[Aaron Weber]

What kind of music does this band play?

[Dusty Slay]

They play country. It's all country. And then. Well, they've all got a little. Leave on L does a little country. Elton John has a country. A little bit of a country album. Country. Who was my bass player? The Primus guy. Yeah, he's a bit of a. He seems like a bit of a redneck guy.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, he's great. He's great bass player there.

[Aaron Weber]

They can figure it out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he's like a funk. So we need a. We need a lead guitar now.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. What do you got? What do you got?

[Dusty Slay]

Who's it Gonna be Brad Paisley, who tears it up. He would bring some comedy to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And a bit of, oh, I don't know, Nick Thune. Let's go. Yeah, that could be a good one. Johnny W.

[Dustin Chaffin]

For the win. Johnny W For the Roddy characters.

[Dusty Slay]

And then Johnny W. Plays guitar and. And Steve Martin on banjo. Wow.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I can just end it there. I got nothing. I can't follow that. That's super amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, you can. You can do a real one.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do a real one.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Wow. A real one.

[Dusty Slay]

No, that. Mine's real, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

You already talked about your great closer. And then you got nine minutes left.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's what's happening right now. I'm going to take. This is gonna be great. Yeah. I didn't know we were adding pianos and stuff. I think we're just doing the bass.

[Aaron Weber]

Put Corey Henry on piano.

[Dusty Slay]

Any instrument you want.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, yeah, I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Any instrument you want.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay. We got.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't even put a fiddle player.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay. We got Woody Allen on clarinet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there you go. All right, now we're talking.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Coming out.

[Dusty Slay]

Now we're talking.

[Dustin Chaffin]

We got Matthew McConaughey on bongos.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Yeah. Now we got a little drum. So it won't.

[Aaron Weber]

Woody Harrelson on the.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, all right, all right, all right. Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's as far as real drummer. I'm going to go Animal from the Muppets.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah, that's a good one.

[Dustin Chaffin]

If I was to do a realist.

[Aaron Weber]

John Bonham.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Neil Peart would be in there for me. I think he's the greatest drummer of all.

[Aaron Weber]

Rest in peace.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, he was great. Oh, they can't. Do they have to be alive?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Please.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Guitarist.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He just built Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I mean, I think that. I think they're the greatest rock band of all time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think they're better than the Beatles and everybody else. I love. I love Led Zeppelin. I will fight that all day. Yeah. Guitarist who's a guy. That's the problem. I'm gonna go Hendrix, I guess. Yeah. Just an early Hendrix.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You know, I want to keep it weird, though. I'm gonna go Mike Huckabee on.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a good one.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Dana Car. Dana Carvey on harmonica.

[Dusty Slay]

John Tesh on piano.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll do John Popper.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I'll do John Touch. John Touch was great.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll do John Popper.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Man, what am I missing?

[Dusty Slay]

Saxophone. Saxophone, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Bill Clinton.

[Dusty Slay]

Michael Bolton.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Michael Bolton. Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Kenny G. Michael Bolton.

[Dusty Slay]

Did Michael Bolton do something?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, he's saying they get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, people get those confused. But I think Michael Bolton just said.

[Aaron Weber]

Dave Cars, somebody like that.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I think Smooth Jack, Janice Joplin, I think, is the greatest voice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Now, I was actually. I wanted to switch out Freddie Mercury.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But I. I like Janice.

[Dusty Slay]

Janice is good.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Joe Bonzel.

[Dusty Slay]

That was Oak Ridge Boys.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, Oak Ridge Boys. Penny Youngman on the fiddle, bro.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Take my band, please.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. What about. It's Pretty. Yo Yo Ma on. On the cello.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. There's a Judy Tuda on the.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

What's that?

[Nate Bargatze]

John Detoy on the. Yo Yo Mom.

[Dustin Chaffin]

What's that called? Accordion.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Weird.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Weird Al on the recording, for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a joke I heard it was in D.C. years ago. I think his name was Andy Klein. Andy Klein's DC Comic. I feel bad if I got his name wrong, because the bit was so funny. He had a bit about whenever a musician dies, they always go, you know, he's up there jamming with Hendrix right now. You know, he's up there jamming with Hendrix. He's like, yeah. All that guy's doing is making that jam session worse. It's like you're in heaven and you're like, all right, we got Jimi Hendrix on guitar. We got Keith Moon on drums. We got Mozart on the piano. And then we got Kevin's uncle. I think about that joke all the time. I think that's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, very funny. Put Andy Klein on lead comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

Who's opening for this band? For your band.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, gosh.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Who's opening.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. For your band when that. You. When your band that you just created goes to play. Who's opening?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Hanson.

[Dusty Slay]

Hansen.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. For me. New Kids on the Block.

[Aaron Weber]

Hanson's great. Go listen to some of Hansen's new stuff. I'm serious.

[Dusty Slay]

That's something no one's ever said.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you're so wrong about that. You're so wrong about that.

[Dusty Slay]

No one I've ever been riding around with. So. Just like your Elvis comment. I never heard that.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Oh, no, no, no. I'm not saying. But go listen to them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hansen's still doing music.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, they're great.

[Dusty Slay]

Chris Hansen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Chris Hansen.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, can I share before we wrap it up, a few conspiracy theories?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, please.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rock music, it's not going to be as good as.

[Dusty Slay]

What is this?

[Nate Bargatze]

What we just had? Well, like I said, this should have been the Closer, because it's not going to be as good as what I have here. But I'll throw it a. You. You guys know what artist Andrew WK.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Party Hard.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I know a little bit about this conspiracy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or apparently the conspiracy theory is he doesn't exist. It's. It's actually Dave Grohl playing this guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I didn't know that they thought it was Dave Grohl. I thought that they. That there just was.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's like the Garth Brooks thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

A character created.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That just kind of like every other people are playing him. He's not always the same.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd say the fact that he looks nothing like him is probably. Well, you know how really throws a wrench.

[Dustin Chaffin]

He looks very.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he does.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like Dusty if he was on Undercover Boss.

[Dusty Slay]

But I just think it's one of those things where they're like, he could be played by different people at different times and, you know, and it's like.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That guy doesn't look real.

[Dusty Slay]

Is he ever really the same guy? Right. He only had the one song. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Party Hard was the big one. Yeah, that was a great song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was fun. I remember that.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. I got this one from Dustin's vinyls.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Billy Squire's song Rock Me Tonight. The video was so bad, it killed his career.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Absolutely. Have you ever seen that video?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's. It's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you guys know Billy Squire?

[Dusty Slay]

I know Billy Squire.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Play a little bit of the video. It's just. It's the last thing you want, you know, from your rock star is this video. It's like when you're doing weird camera angle. Weird camera ang. He's humping the ground. He's got like a halter top. Like, cut. You know what does he shoulder thing now he's taking his shirt off.

[Dusty Slay]

Billy Squire, you got the da da da, da, da, da da.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Look at the dance. Look at the dance. He's like, look at these dance moves.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, because Stroke Me is a great song.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's a great song. That's a hard rocking good song. Like, he had some good hits. And then this just like.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what ruined it. Adam Sandler pulls up too, in the Billy Madison movie when he's in high school.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's such a great guitar riff, but that's what we, you know. And then this came out. I think it's. What's this one called? Dance to Party Rock Me Tonight.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Tonight spelled wrong.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Love it. Yeah. I was watching this yacht rock documentary on HBO that just came out. Basically talked about all these guys who once MTV came out, they were like, you could be a musician and be not charismatic and like visually uninteresting Right.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Until.

[Aaron Weber]

Until mtv, all these yacht rock guys just died. This would make me think, like, what is this guy doing?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, that's the thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Imagine Christopher Cross doing this.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, you didn't know what people look like. That was the best part. Like, nobody knows what Boston looked like. Or, like, you know, half of these bands. Molly Hatchet. Nobody knew what any of those guys look like. That was the best part.

[Dusty Slay]

This reminds me of that. There's the David Bowie and Mick Jagger, when they take the sound out and put in the other sound effects.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, just the feet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. That's what that reminds me of.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But, yeah, I think. I think, you know, things like this can definitely ruin your band. One of the greatest bands ever. The. What's the song? Cult of Personality.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, that's good stuff. Look that up. Dancing in the Street.

[Dustin Chaffin]

What's that band?

[Nate Bargatze]

Living Color.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Living Color. Look at me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Pull that out.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Good job. Because I cover that. I think Cold Personality is probably one of the greatest rock songs of that era. And then they did Glamour Boys, and it's like a Barbie thing. And it just took everything out of their rock image. And I think that ruined them because they should have been a bigger band. They were all black rock band, which, you know, that's rare. And they were great. And that song Cult Personality is fantastic. But then this. That video came out. I don't know if you had the video, but it's like. It's Glamour Boys by It's. Yeah, it's just the worst. And it just ruined their whole image. They're walking around with, like, you know, kin mask on and stuff. Really bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my goodness.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, wait, let's see.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I mean, this is okay now, but I think it gets. It gets a little weird. It gets a little.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, there's jamming right now.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Paper Machine.

[Dustin Chaffin]

There it is. Yeah. They're doing that kind of stuff with those masks, like, that stuff. And they were like, what?

[Dusty Slay]

It seems very 80s to me.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, that's the problem. The 80s ruined a lot of people.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Including us.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I wish I'd started in the 80s.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, Dusty, you're a big Grateful Dead fan or a fan?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I've just become a fan of the Grateful Dead in the last few years. I don't know why I've been sleeping on them all this time, but I really.

[Aaron Weber]

Because a lot of people.

[Dusty Slay]

People liked them, maybe. I bet you're right. Yeah. But I like them. I'm into them. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. All right. Are there 50th anniversary farewell show in 2015. They're playing the. Their closing rendition of Viola Lee Blues. A rainbow appears over the stadium. And the conspiracy is they paid $50,000 to beam the fake rainbow into the sky at just the right moment. I saw the video on YouTube. It looks real to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or cloud seeding. You know, who knows what happened?

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. I thought that would be more interesting.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, I'm not a Grateful Dead guy. I don't know. Not really.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm into. I mean, it's like the album. This is what I say. Anybody wanting to get into the Grateful Dead, and you're not into them, this is what you do. I think you go on Spotify.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And you heard to be drug free.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Though, and be into that band, you.

[Dusty Slay]

Know, so I'm not advocating for that. You know what I mean? And You Cornell Cornell Live 5 8, 7 7. That album is.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's the one.

[Dusty Slay]

That's Hook Up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Phil. I'd always heard this. Phil Collins in the Air Tonight was about. He witnessed someone let a man drown. And then the always. The conspiracy theory was he was at a concert, put the spotlight on him and called there in front of the audience. Have you guys heard that?

[Dustin Chaffin]

And then he sang like, right to his face. And like, it's a whole thing. That's the thing. There was no Internet to disprove that. And we were all just running around thinking that step. Let's end the show right there. That's it. That's the closure. It's hard to follow that one.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll do a couple more. Kiss. I always heard growing up it stood for Nights in Satan Service.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, Texas. Yeah, we had to burn our Kiss albums, man. Like in the church.

[Dusty Slay]

Park those guys, though. It's hard to. It's hard to be like, no, no, no, that's not what it stands for, guys. Look at them. You know what I mean?

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's just for Jewish dudes from Queens. You know, they just. They weren't that attractive. And so they found a way to kind of.

[Dusty Slay]

No, they do look cool. But if you. If people think that and then you go, well, let's see them and we'll decide. And you go, no, no, I got.

[Dustin Chaffin]

See it and great show. They put on. I saw like a later show and it was great.

[Dusty Slay]

Acdc, they were saying, was Antichrist. Devil's Child. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So alternating current director.

[Dustin Chaffin]

What a band. That's one of my favorite concerts. AC DC at the Garden. The Black Eyes tour. They.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're coming here to Nissan Stadium.

[Dusty Slay]

And then you go, no way. That means antichrist. Devil child. What are some of the highway to Hell? Back in black. Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Have a drink on me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Super Tramp.

[Dusty Slay]

Super Tramp.

[Nate Bargatze]

Super dusty. You'll like this. Breakfast in America, Their album cover for Breakfast in America, which. I love that. The name of that. If you put in a mirror, it looks like they're predicting 911.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, you know this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That's the thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Why does it look like they're predicting.

[Dusty Slay]

Look at that. The twin.

[Nate Bargatze]

The U and the P. Yeah. If it was backwards, it would look like nine.

[Dusty Slay]

And then she's got the glass right over.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's supposed to be fire, I guess.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, that's. That's region.

[Nate Bargatze]

You think?

[Aaron Weber]

So what. But what's the implication of that? That the band Super Tramp was somehow involved in 9 11?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. I'm just saying. Well, what's the next. What's the. What follows that?

[Dusty Slay]

There was lots of predictive programming, they say, of 9 11. Like various throughout movies. There was very. For a long. But when was this.

[Dustin Chaffin]

This was like, what, 82.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Years and years.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But what's insane?

[Nate Bargatze]

Take some time.

[Aaron Weber]

To what end? End. Why would they put these clues out?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Like, who's putting the clues out? This. This album artist, the Satanist.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe they didn't even realize what they were doing.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, maybe it just.

[Dusty Slay]

There's like a Simpsons one where they're like the. The. I forget. Like, it's like. I don't know. The. The. He's holding up a newspaper and it has something like 911 on it. And Bart standing there with a bunch of money in his hand. And it's like. There's a lot of stuff like that. Who knows if it means anything, but people have spent a lot of time digging these things. I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know it doesn't.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, who knows?

[Nate Bargatze]

But whether the predicted 911.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the Simpsons, they say predict lots of things.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They're always saying because they've been on.

[Nate Bargatze]

For 30 something years.

[Dustin Chaffin]

They're on the pulse of the culture and stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're starting to say that about this podcast now. They're not because we're 230 episodes in. They'll say because I'm Aaron predicted in episode 46. That. Anyway. All right. Stephen King killed John Lennon.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I never heard that one.

[Nate Bargatze]

So Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, looks apparently a lot like Stephen Kim kind of debugging.

[Aaron Weber]

He said Stephen Curtis Chapman. Stephen. Curtis Chapman killed John Lennon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let me be back.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mark David Chapman looks like Stephen King, or especially back in 1980 when it happened or whatever. And I'm not sure why they hired Stephen King, but apparently his. His peace. His whole message of peace. Ronald Reagan and the likes did not like that because that goes against what they were doing. So they had him killed by Stephen King.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Stephen King, Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, there is another theory on that, too, that, you know, Paul McCartney was killed years ago in a car accident, and they wanted to keep the Beatles going, so they just replaced him with a. They had a. They had a Paul McCartney lookalike competition where they were looking for somebody that looks and sounds similar to Paul McCartney. They found this guy. And then. But since Paul McCartney and John Leno were best friends, that's when Paul McCartney started to fight with John Lennon. The two of them started to fight because this was not the real Paul McCartney, but he had to keep it. And they. They said John Lennon was about to expose the secrets.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And then on one of the albums, if you play it backwards, it says, paul's dead.

[Dusty Slay]

Paul's dead. And then a lot of the covers of some of the Beatles albums, they'll have stuff like alluding to Paul being dead, like Abbey Road, Paul McCartney's in all white, no shoes.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know.

[Aaron Weber]

Why would they allude to it?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they. They were, you know, just trying to put it out there that he's dead.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. And they had to keep making those Beatles records, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

They want you to know, but not really know. Just kind of tease you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Garth Brooks is a serial killer.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Is this the. Is this the guy that killed John Lennon, or is this Stephen King?

[Aaron Weber]

That's Stephen King.

[Dusty Slay]

He looks like he killed some.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, so in 2018, Garth Brooks.

[Aaron Weber]

Something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Made a tour announcement and on the video, and then Tom Segura made a joke that said, garbage. Looks like he's killed multiple people before. And it grew legs and it's taken off. And now there's this conspiracy theory that whatever town he's in touring, multiple people disappear.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I don't think he kills country music. Sorry. He's great. He's friends in low places.

[Dusty Slay]

Garth Brooks had a nice run, but, yeah, looking back, it's not the best.

[Nate Bargatze]

On the dance.

[Dustin Chaffin]

It's not the best.

[Dusty Slay]

There's some really great songs.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Low Places is one of the greatest.

[Dusty Slay]

And I love some of those. I love a lot of those songs. But, yeah, it's like. Yeah, it's not the. It's not the country that. That I. That I enjoy the most.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Looking back on the memory of all the dance we share.

[Dusty Slay]

For a moment.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And then I kind of mentioned it. But that thing he did where he's trying to be the. The grunge. Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chris Gaines.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Chris Gaines. I mean, that was like the first of, you know, this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, we talked about one on here. Wanted to get out of the limelight, so. So they did the whole Chris Gaines thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Killed his career.

[Nate Bargatze]

They did the whole Chris Gaines thing. And then when he came back, it was a different guy playing him. But since it'd been a little while, people didn't catch on as much.

[Aaron Weber]

We're talking about. Bates was always thought about doing this. Creating this alter ego, and then he just goes out and he's just the filthiest insult comment.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I want him to do.

[Dustin Chaffin]

That would be great.

[Dusty Slay]

I want. I don't need filthy baits, but I want edgy baits.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I want, who Bates really is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what you want.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do I wear a mustache?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think you need.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you should wear the long.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Shave your head.

[Dusty Slay]

Shave your head at Laura's 80s party. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Velcro pygmies. That was my dusty sleigh here.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what you should wear. And just come out and just do just. They do. They are doing a dirty show now at Zany's. I think a late night show. You should just come out in that character. Yep, I want to come out. I got a few dirty jokes I'd like to do, and they're just stuff I think about, you know? You know, and I'm like, well, I'll never do that joke, but I got some from over the years.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You got to get it out. It's like a cleansing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Well, I just think they're funny and I. I'd like to. I'd like to do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Well, my church is having open mic night, so I'll go practice it. And then.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Well, you guys kind of all started clean, right? Just pretty much just.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, somewhat. Probably a little cleaner now than how I started, but I never was very dirty.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was pretty edgy. And then I had to kind of like go down a cleaner road for.

[Nate Bargatze]

Which wasn't for your dry bar taping.

[Dustin Chaffin]

But just working with Nate, you know, just like that. I mean, it's like you just. You just kind of get rid of that stuff. Just kind of grow up a little bit. I Think is what it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. That was fun.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Thanks for coming, buddy.

[Aaron Weber]

Good to see you, buddy.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Thanks, buddy.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm glad we got Dusty and Dust in the same room together.

[Dusty Slay]

This has been a great, really great podcast.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm running it. You remember I'm running this one.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my bad. Yeah, we'll let you wrap this up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You guys to know.

[Aaron Weber]

Put a bow on this brother.

[Dusty Slay]

Really great podcast. But, you know, there are. Before we get out of here, there's a couple of things I'd like to know. I'd like to know where Brian is at this week.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, thank you for asking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're asking. This Friday, I am in Fort Worth, Texas, at Hyenas Comedy Club. Only a few tickets left, so if you wait till Friday night, you might be too late.

[Dusty Slay]

Get them now. Edgy Bates coming to Hyenas.

[Nate Bargatze]

Probably not this Friday, but I need a little time. But come to Hyenas this Friday, but get your tickets quick before they sell out. January 3rd and 4th, I'm in Lexington, Kentucky, at Comedy Off Broadway. Comedy Off Broadway. It's a great club.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, Chaffin, where can we find this?

[Nate Bargatze]

One more. One more.

[Dusty Slay]

I like how Brian always gives the full cow.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

No, we need it.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Give us your Google Calendar.

[Aaron Weber]

Give your Google Calendar. Netflix special.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hang on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm mentioning something coming up in three weeks. You're talking about February 28th.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm, you know, I'm filming a thing.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Pretty big deal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. I was just going. January 11th. I'm in Fort Myers.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just making fun of you a little bit.

[Nate Bargatze]

Two shows, you do your whole calendar. You pull up your website.

[Aaron Weber]

10 country songs about the cities I'll be in this month. That's all done. Dusty does. Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm trying to.

[Aaron Weber]

I gotta stick up for Brian.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm trying to expose people to good music out here.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dustin Chaffin]

I like it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Dustin Chaffin]

All right. Good stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

And all I want is for people to. I want people to be able to focus on Brian's upcoming show. I don't want it to get lost in the shuffle.

[Nate Bargatze]

People don't listen always week of, though, so you got to tell people a few weeks out where you're going to be.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Dustin Chaffin]

People are.

[Aaron Weber]

Sometimes people are behind. You got. You know.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a great point. I'm sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

It's all good.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it's not so good.

[Aaron Weber]

Just try to remember how it was when you were at our level.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, when I was at your level, I didn't. I didn't even have the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. But we do, so we're going to use it.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, Dustin, what you got?

[Dustin Chaffin]

I got nothing. Friday. Let's see. December 13, 14. I'll be with Nate Bergazzi. I think you guys heard of him. We will be at the Comedy Magic Club and Hermosa Beach.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, great.

[Dustin Chaffin]

And, yeah, I'm excited. That's gonna be fun. Vicky and Julian McCullough. And then I'll be headlining Des Moines Funny Bone, December 27th and 28th. Pretty excited to be out there, first time. So it's a lot of fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great club.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you upset with me about me saying that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, I am.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, we'll talk off air about it, but yeah, just Florida. Florence, Alabama, show got canceled. We'll talk about it off air, but it is no longer happening. I will not be in Florence this. This weekend. But what that has done is allowed me to kind of regroup and collect my thoughts for my 20, 25 dates. Okay, I'll tell you what. I'm hitting the ball, hitting the. Hitting the ground. I'm hitting it. Hitting the ground running. Detroit. I'm in Detroit. And then. Hold on, let me pull it up. Detroit House of Comedy. Never done stand up in Detroit before, so that's exciting. That's January 17th and 18th. Then I'm doing a Texas run. Down your ways, Dustin. San Antonio, Houston, Austin. I'm all over. So, Aaron Weber, comedy Dot com. Come check me out.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you live in Texas, Dustin?

[Dustin Chaffin]

No, we live in. I live in Hollywood.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah, if you're born and raised.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you had tickets to Aaron's December 13th show in Florence, Alabama, come to my show at Fort Worth same night. Your night's free now. Come on out.

[Dusty Slay]

It's only across a couple of states. It's not a big deal.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Get some tunes, hop in the Florence.

[Aaron Weber]

International Airport and fly to four.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. I'm going to do two.

[Aaron Weber]

Do as many as you want.

[Dustin Chaffin]

You do three.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just going to say this. This podcast is coming out on Wednesday. Tomorrow night on Thursday, I'm going to be in Las Vegas, part of the rodeo. I forget where I'm at, but Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, go to dustyslay.com you can find exactly where I'm at. The David Copperfield Theater, MGM Grand. Yeah, it's a big deal. It's going to be great. And then on Tuesday, since we won't have a podcast until the next Tuesday. 17th. Zany's boom. Have a show here. Dusty says. Grand old comedy show.

[Nate Bargatze]

I had one the same night and I canceled it.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you?

[Dustin Chaffin]

Yeah. Come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't want to compete against you.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nobody does.

[Dusty Slay]

I just. I don't think it's even competing. It's like we're like.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're right about that.

[Dusty Slay]

We're doing a Zany's takeover. A Nate Land takeover that night.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's only work like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think this has been a really great podcast. I like the way it was run. I feel good about it. I want to just close out by saying I did get the key to the city in Opal, Alabama. I want you guys to know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Incredible.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you, Mayor Fuller, and the city of Opalik.

[Aaron Weber]

Very cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty's coming for your job, and I.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Got a best Western key right here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. And. All right, thank you, guys. Thanks for joining me. It's been a great time, and we're having a good time.

[Dustin Chaffin]

Nate Land is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land Podcast.