24: #24 | What Happened in 2004?

Summary

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Public Figures – Episode 24: "What Happened in 2004?"

Podcast by Audioboom Studios
Hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Release Date: July 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Brian, Aaron, and Dusty reunite after a brief break to dive into the year 2004—a year packed with iconic pop culture, pivotal sports moments, emerging technology, and memorable movie releases. The trio blends personal anecdotes, cultural observations, and trademark comedy as they explore what made 2004 a stand-out year, all while reflecting on their own lives and careers at the time.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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Catching Up & Tour Updates (00:42–03:40)

• Hosts quickly exchange greetings and announce their upcoming comedy gigs in Lexington, Royal Oak, and Atlantic City.
• Brian jokes about his Atlantic City venue confusion and Dusty riffs on his persona for "the common folks."
• "Well, it's what they like to be called. People are proud to be called [common folk]." – Dusty Slay (00:47)

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Life Updates and Dog Track Anecdotes (03:41–04:37)

• Brian shares stories from his recent weekend performing at casinos and horse tracks, comparing the crowds at dog tracks versus horse tracks.
• Aaron reminisces about attending dog tracks and references "Good Will Hunting."
• Dusty: “I went on my senior trip to Florida. We went to the dog track.” (04:17)

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Recent Movie Reviews & the Brad Pitt 'Moneyball' Debate (04:43–11:16)

Moneyball

• Brian watched Moneyball for the first time and enjoyed it but felt Brad Pitt was miscast:
  • “My big problem with it...I don't really like Brad Pitt as the guy. ...Every time he's supposed to be all down and out, you're like, well, this is one of the best looking guys in the world.” – Brian (05:32)
  • The group debates whether Pitt’s looks were a distraction; Aaron defends the casting, Dusty suggests Dennis Quaid as an alternative.
• Jonah Hill’s character acclaimed as “the type of friend that everybody needs” (07:49).

Other Movies

• Brian also loved The Prestige.
• Dusty watched Uncle Buck for the first time, found it underwhelming, and particularly struggled with the “unlikable” teenage daughter, to which Brian and Aaron attribute nostalgia as a powerful influence.
  • “She’s terrible to her mom...and she hasn't...Her character has an arc though.” – Brian (12:00)
• Aaron jokes about watching Grease as an adult.

Memorable Quotes:

• Aaron: “So you’re saying Brad Pitt was so attractive, it took you out of the movie?” (06:47)
• Dusty: “John Candy was too ugly.” (11:36, tongue-in-cheek)

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Movie Nostalgia, Emotional Manipulation & Art (18:00–21:00 and 46:01–50:00)

• Discussion focuses on how nostalgia shapes opinions of classic films, and whether emotional manipulation in movies is fair:
  • Brian: “Movies now are so geared...to trigger emotions. ...It’s total manipulation that they’re doing to you.” (46:31)
• Aaron pokes at Brian: "You're so close to being Amish. You're like a year away.” (51:24)
• Brian cites St. Augustine on the emotional folly of tragedy in art (48:29).

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Comedy Specials & Podcast Comments (32:19–36:53)

• Dusty announces upcoming comedy events, book release, and his new special "Worried" launching July 24th.
• They laugh about social media comments accusing Dusty of being rude to Brian.
  • “Dusty is rude and disrespectful to Brian and it's getting hard to watch.” – Brittany Crace, fan comment (34:36)

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2004: Personal, Tech, and Pop Culture Snapshots

Where Were the Hosts in 2004? (64:32–66:00)

• Dusty had just moved to Charleston, starting improv and stand-up.
• Aaron was entering 7th grade, in his “awkward years,” and shares a childhood hovercraft science project story (66:50–69:30).

Technology Highlights (71:14–75:49)

• Major launches: Nintendo DS, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2, Gmail, Mozilla Firefox, iPod Mini
• Rapid expansion of online gaming; rise of the DVD player as home staple.

Top Comedies in Film (78:44–82:26)

• “2004 might have been the best movie year ever for comedies.” – Dusty
• Landmark comedies: Mean Girls, Anchorman, Shaun of the Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Dodgeball, White Chicks, Team America, Along Came Polly
• Rise of DVD sales as key to comedy film success.

Blockbuster Movies (82:39–83:14)

• Top-grossing: Shrek 2, Spiderman 2, Passion of the Christ
• Brian on The Grudge: “Probably the last horror movies I ever watched.” (83:14)

TV Shows That Began or Ended (90:43–96:08)

• Endings: Friends, Sex and the City, Frasier, Rugrats, Drew Carey Show
• Premieres: Lost, Entourage, Desperate Housewives, House, The Apprentice, Chappelle Show dominates cable (94:36).
• “Lost was a water cooler show.” – Aaron (92:30)

Sports Highlights & Controversies (105:39–108:47)

• Auburn, USC, Oklahoma undefeated football seasons; Auburn controversially snubbed for a title.
• “Auburn officially claims the 2004 National Championship.” – Aaron (106:31)
• Boston Red Sox end 86-year World Series drought.
• Notable sports deaths: Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando, Christopher Reeve, Ray Charles, Rodney Dangerfield.

Cultural Milestones & Oddities (97:02–101:39)

• Taylor Swift moves to Nashville at 14: “Is she the most famous woman in the world?” – Dusty (97:47)
• General Motors phases out Oldsmobile.
• Dec 26 tsunami devastates Southeast Asia (film: The Impossible).

Music Highlights (109:50–112:45)

• Top songs: Usher’s “Yeah!”, The Reason by Hoobastank, Kayne West “Jesus Walks,” Usher’s “Burn”, Ludacris’s “Move”
• Brian performs a snippet of Kenny Chesney's "When the Sun Goes Down"

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Story | |-----------|---------|-------------| | 05:32 | Brian | “Every time he's supposed to be all down and out, you're like, well, this is one of the best looking guys in the world.” (on Brad Pitt in Moneyball) | | 11:38 | Dusty | “The teenage daughter is one of the most unlikable characters.” (on Uncle Buck) | | 18:13 | Brian | “I just think you guys are saying nostalgia when it’s like, …It’s just… they’re good movies. Like this is good comedy. This is John Hughes.” | | 20:59 | Dusty | “If any place in America should have music piped into the bathrooms, it should be the Grand Old Opry. But it is the quietest bathroom in America in there.” | | 34:36 | Brian | “Dusty is rude and disrespectful to Brian and it's getting hard to watch.” (social media comment) | | 46:31 | Brian | “...movies now are so geared...to trigger emotions. ...It’s total manipulation that they’re doing to you.” | | 51:24 | Aaron | "You're so close to being Amish. You're like a year away.” | | 66:50 | Aaron | Shares about building a hovercraft: “My grandfather and I built this. That’s an old shop vac motor into a piece of wood with shower curtain on the bottom.” | | 71:22 | Dusty | “Nintendo DS handheld game console came out.” | | 78:44 | Dusty | “2004 might have been the best movie year ever for comedies.” | | 90:47 | Dusty | “Ended: Friends.” | | 92:30 | Aaron | “Lost was a water cooler show.” | | 94:36 | Dusty | “Top rated Comedy Central show, though. 2004 was the Chappelle Show.” | | 101:08 | Brian | “Christopher Reeve also died in 2004.” | | 106:31 | Aaron | “Auburn officially claims the 2004 National Championship.” | | 109:57 | Aaron | “Top songs. Okay, the first one is obvious. This is a big middle school dance song for me.” | | 111:31 | Brian | “My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.” |

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Fun, Unique, and Memorable Podcast Moments

• The running joke about Dusty being "rude" to Brian, with playful reading of fan complaints.
• Arguments over whether Brad Pitt is "too good looking" to believably play underdog roles.
• Brian’s lost weekend at dog and horse tracks leads to an ongoing motif about the shifting social hierarchies of gambling venues.
• Aaron’s seventh grade hovercraft photo story.
• Wild tangents—such as whether Dolly Parton or Taylor Swift is the world’s most famous woman—and deadpan, "meaningless" trivia quizzes.
• Discussion about the notorious 2004 Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," TiVo's peak, and rewinding history’s most infamous halftime moment. (87:37–89:30)
• Unfiltered, nostalgic references for pivotal gaming and tech: Halo 2, GTA, Gmail, iPod Mini.

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Important Timestamps for Key Segments

• Tour Announcements & Weekend Recaps: 00:42–03:40
• Dog Track vs. Horse Track: 03:41–04:37
• Movie Reviews (Moneyball, Prestige, Uncle Buck): 04:43–18:00
• Debate: Nostalgia & Emotional Manipulation: 18:00–21:00, 46:01–50:00
• Comments & Podcast Fan Mail: 32:19–36:53
• Personal Life in 2004: 64:32–69:30
• Tech/Gaming in 2004: 71:14–75:49
• Comedy in 2004: 78:44–82:26
• Top Movies/TV Shows: 82:39–96:08
• Music & Pop Culture: 109:50–112:45
• 2004 Super Bowl (Wardrobe Malfunction): 87:37–89:30
• Major Deaths, Historic Events: 100:48–103:43
• Sports Wrap, Red Sox Win, Auburn’s Snub: 105:39–108:47

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Final Remarks

The episode is a fast-paced, nostalgia-rich deep-dive into 2004, blending reflective banter with light-hearted debate about movies, music, and sports while threading in personal stories and offbeat observations. Whether reminiscing about middle school hovercrafts, arguing the merits of Uncle Buck, or playfully feuding over comedy’s golden age, the trio’s chemistry and comedic insight make this a lively oral time capsule of an unforgettable year.

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Next Episode Teaser:
Expect more discussion on pop culture touchstones, listener comments, and new comedy milestones as Dusty’s special drops and the team continues their tours.

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Transcript

[Brian Bates]

All new drinks are now at McDonald's with refreshers like the Strawberry Watermelon Refresher and the Mango Pineapple Refresher with Popping Boba. To crafted sodas like the Sprite Berry Blast with berry flavors and cold foam. Who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire six? All new drinks are here now at McDonald's.

[Aaron Weber]

Refreshers contain caffeine.

[Dusty Slay]

Hello, common folks.

[Aaron Weber]

Forgot you did that.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's what they like to be called. People are proud to be called.

[Brian Bates]

People do like it. They get upset when you're not doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. Welcome to the Public Figures podcast. I'm Brian Bates. As always, with me, Aaron Weber.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Hello.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty Slay.

[Brian Bates]

All right, I'm Brian Bates.

[Dusty Slay]

Like I said, I'm going to be at Comedy Off Broadway this weekend. This Friday, Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. Come check me out. Aaron, where are you going to be?

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron Weber here. I'm going to be in Royal Oak, Michigan, this weekend, the suburbs of Detroit, at Comedy Castle. The Comedy Castle. Great club. Never been there before. July 16th, 17th and 18th at the Comedy Castle in Royal Oak, Michigan.

[Brian Bates]

All right, meet me Saturday night in Atlantic City. All right. New Jersey.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. There's gonna be more to that just on the board, just in general.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know the name of it, but. But I, you know, Bruce Springsteen says, meet me tonight in Atlantic City. Oh, I'm at the Music Box.

[Aaron Weber]

The Music Box.

[Brian Bates]

Meet me Saturday in Atlantic City. Wind up or borgata? I don't know. There's a lot of names.

[Aaron Weber]

The Borgata. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, welcome, guys. We had last week off thanks to Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Got you guys a day off?

[Dusty Slay]

Got me a day off. I got to go to my daughter's swim lesson because it's always on Mondays. Never get to go. So thank you for that.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it still your swim lesson or have you tapped out on that?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I'm out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Can you do it, though? Nah, you gave it up.

[Aaron Weber]

If you fall out of a plane in the ocean, you think it'll be all right for a few minutes of a plane? I mean, really, what else are you learning how to swim for at this. At this stage in your life?

[Dusty Slay]

Just if my daughter, you know, wants to go somewhere.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, can you do that now?

[Dusty Slay]

In the deep? Nah, not really. But now she's. She does well enough. She can rescue me, so, you know, problem solved.

[Aaron Weber]

You can hang out in the shallow end for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I can wave at her, but. But, yeah, it's been a couple weeks. What you guys been up to?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. It feels like a long time since I've seen you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, since I was here, I think I was at the Golden Nugget Casino in St. Charles.

[Aaron Weber]

We talked about it a lot, actually.

[Brian Bates]

Did we? I was awful weekend. Spent some time in McMinnville.

[Aaron Weber]

Could have been working.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

And then I went to. This past weekend, I went to Charlestown, West Virginia, to the Hollywood Casino. It's great. Hot shell. Took Connor Larson with me. Went out and sat at the. We went out, set at the dog track after and had cigars. And it's raining, so it's pretty weak. Dog. Not dog track, horse track.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Dog tracks. In Shorter, Alabama, there is a dog track.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know about that? Greyhound track.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been to a dog track before. I think they're few and far between these days.

[Brian Bates]

What I was saying to Connor was, I go, as we were sitting there, I would. I would compare what the dog track looks like versus the horse track. And I would say to him, I'd say, you see those pretty attractive women over there? The dog track not there.

[Aaron Weber]

It's really the main difference.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I go, you see these wealthy looking guys over here? Not at the dog track.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

But the dog tracks, probably you're more kind of people, right?

[Brian Bates]

I thought it was.

[Aaron Weber]

You got recognized a bunch there.

[Brian Bates]

No, I. I went when I was 21. I went a long time ago now. A lot could have changed. It could be. It could be a hopping spot, but back then it was terrifying.

[Aaron Weber]

They went in goodwill hunting. Remember that?

[Dusty Slay]

They did, Yeah. I went on my senior trip to Florida. We went the dog track.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that where the infamous story happened or the worry? Yeah, Same trip.

[Dusty Slay]

Same trip.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, same trip. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Same trip. Yes, sir. Oh, I was gonna talk about what I've been up to.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Well, I was going to tell you that in addition to doing a show, I also watched a movie that was talk about.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you know, because we had talked about watching movies. So this weekend, did a little homework on my flight. I watched Moneyball.

[Dusty Slay]

Boom.

[Brian Bates]

I got a little delayed.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And it gave me enough time to watch the whole movie.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, can I ask you, do you want to talk about it now or do you want to. Okay. How much about that season, that team, did you know, before you watched the movie?

[Brian Bates]

Almost nothing.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

A friend had talked to me about it a long time ago. I. I think before it was even a movie. He talked about this guy. Maybe you read a book or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Billy Bean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And I liked the movie. I thought it was very good. You guys ranked it very high in your favorite sports movies of all time. It's not doing that for me.

[Aaron Weber]

I said it's my, I think the best baseball movie of all time.

[Brian Bates]

See, I like Kevin Costner. I think it's for the love of the game where he pitched the perfect game.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure, it's great.

[Brian Bates]

That's my favorite one. But this is my big problem with it. I, and I almost never say this about a Brad Pitt movie. I don't really like Brad Pitt as the guy. I almost like Brad Pitt in every movie that he does. But when throughout the movie we're seeing this guy who played baseball was like supposed to be this phenom and then had no success really in baseball. And now he's kind of like down and out. He's pitching, he's a GM for the worst team in the league. And he's like, he's divorced. All the while you're like, oh, this guy's Brad Pitt. This guy, you know, every time he's supposed to be all down and out, you're like, well, this is one of the best looking guys in the world.

[Aaron Weber]

And his ex wife is Robin. Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I just don't. I never feel sorry for him because I go, at any point you could just walk out of here and get some kind of better job. You're obsessed with baseball and that's your problem. You need to get it together. Probably get with some type of modeling agency, see if you can't make yourself a little money. But I had a hard time feeling sorry for him. I needed a bit of a more of a beat down looking guy in the movie. That was my biggest.

[Aaron Weber]

So you're saying Brad Pitt was so attractive it took you out of the movie? Yeah, it changed the way you think about the character. Just for reference, I have it pulled up. Here's the real Billy Bean. He's not a bad looking guy.

[Brian Bates]

He's not a bad looking guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Good looking, old.

[Brian Bates]

He's no Brad Pitt.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, no one is.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm saying. Get me a more Billy Bean looking guy. That's all I'm saying. I'm sure, I'm sure Billy Bean was honored by it, of course.

[Aaron Weber]

But we're gonna make a movie about you and Brad Pitt is playing.

[Brian Bates]

But you know what? I did learn how. And I'm not gonna, I'm just gonna, you know, spoiler alert. But it's like, I like that he didn't take the money. I like that at the end of the movie, I like that he didn't take the money. I think I. That was great. I love that, that he stayed and he.

[Aaron Weber]

And he stayed with the Oakland A's and never won anything. And now they're not even in Oakland anymore.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, but I. And that's. It's even better for me that he just was like, no, I. I like being here. And I gotta tell you, love Jonah Hill in the movie.

[Aaron Weber]

He's great in that movie.

[Brian Bates]

Jonah Hill is the. In that movie is the type of friend that everybody needs because he's like. They're having an argument in the thing and he's like, I don't want you to do this. I don't like what you're doing. And then later he goes, do you agree with him on this? He goes, 100%. I love that. I love that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You argue with your friend, but when you're faced with some adversity from somebody else, you back your friend up.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, there's friendship dynamics at play. But he also works for Brad Pitt.

[Brian Bates]

I just love it, though. He backed him up. Backed him up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it was kind of his whole idea, so he better back him up.

[Aaron Weber]

I think he's kind of a fictional character too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

He's not really a Jonah Hill in real life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But, yeah, I liked it. I do. I do think we could have used, you know, like, I don't want to say other actors or worse looking, but like a. Like a Dennis Quaid would have done a. Dennis Quaid's a good looking guy, but Dennis Quaid looks more like this guy. And Dennis Quaid plays a more beat down looking. When you ever see Brad Pitt in a movie where you go, gosh, I feel sorry for this guy.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. You're supposed. You're not supposed to feel so bad for him.

[Brian Bates]

I think. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Keep in mind that was 2002, so Billy Bean probably looked a lot better in 2000.

[Brian Bates]

I think you are supposed to feel sorry for him.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I think you're supposed to feel like this is a man who's driven.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And this is him as a young man. He's a good looking younger man.

[Brian Bates]

I would say, if anything, they made a worse casting choice for the. The actor that played the real Billy, you know, the young Billy Bing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it's like, I don't know, it just. It took it out. It ruined it for me.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if you can hear it.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no. I like the movie. I. I love the movie. I had a great time with it. But I. I do think we could have done a. A different.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's perfectly fair. It's raining real hard here at Zany's. I don't know if you can hear it in the microphones.

[Brian Bates]

There's only two movies. There's two movies that Brad Pitt's been in that I. I didn't. It didn't. It took me out and that's. That's this movie. And Troy, like. I didn't like him as a gladiator either. I was like. Or whatever he was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Troy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't like it.

[Aaron Weber]

He wasn't a guy named Troy in it, was he?

[Dusty Slay]

No, he was Achilles. Right.

[Brian Bates]

But he just was. It's just still like I'm seeing it. I'm going, troy Johnson. This is Brad Pitt. This is Brad Pitt.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I feel that way with Brad Pitt about every movie where I just think that that's Brad Pitt.

[Brian Bates]

See, I don't. I think he's such a good actor.

[Aaron Weber]

He's very good actor.

[Brian Bates]

That it. Most of the time it doesn't take me out. But those two.

[Dusty Slay]

I just watched her to play the movie F1.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys seen that with him and Christian, right? Not Christian Bale, the racing movie.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I'm thinking of Ford versus Ferrari.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I haven't seen F1, but it was out last year. He. It's about F1 racing. It got nominated for. He. Like, nowadays they make sports movies so much more realistic. Like they got him out there on the racetrack, you know, really racing. But his. If you guys haven't seen it, then I'm not going to keep.

[Aaron Weber]

But in Moneyball, that's really him in the conference room, sitting down, talking, you know, so he's doing his own stunts.

[Dusty Slay]

I was going to say I didn't love his character in F1 because he was the know, all wise, but yet not really a team player kind of guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, I'm glad you watched it and then thanks for checking it out.

[Brian Bates]

Just a real quick one just to let people know. I also watched the Prestige.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Loved it. I. No need to get into it, but I watched it. Loved it.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll get into it another time, but I want to hear your thoughts about it.

[Brian Bates]

Loved it.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Well. Well, I watched Uncle Buck.

[Brian Bates]

All right, tell us about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Didn't love it.

[Brian Bates]

What a weak tag.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'll tell you why. I mean, look, I don't want to say I hate it because Everybody loves Uncle Buck. I don't want all the hate.

[Aaron Weber]

John Candy was too handsome the whole movie. That was the problem.

[Dusty Slay]

He was too ugly. Now, I love John Candy, and I'm not saying the movie. I thought the movie was fine. I didn't love it. Some of it is just because when you watch a movie for the first time, set in 1989, it's just a different style of movie. But more specifically, have you seen Uncle Bug? Okay, so I'll talk to you.

[Brian Bates]

I've seen it a million times.

[Dusty Slay]

The teenage daughter is one of the most unlockable characters.

[Brian Bates]

Sure. But she's a. You know, she's an angsty teenager.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But you got to have some redeeming qualities. Like, I agree. Like, she. She's never. Until the very end, like.

[Brian Bates]

But we're talking. What's he there for a weekend? You know, he's not. Like, he spent the summer with.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I'm Team Brian on this one.

[Brian Bates]

But you're not seeing it, though.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm saying the entire movie. She's terrible to her mom at the beginning, that she's terrible to him, but she hasn't.

[Brian Bates]

Her character has an arc, though.

[Dusty Slay]

It. It's not really an arc, but let

[Aaron Weber]

me ask you this, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

And this comes around 10 minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

You think you'd be watching it a little differently if you watched it for the first time through 37 years later?

[Brian Bates]

It's possible.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it's. You know, there's a real. There's an. That character has an arc. They're unlikable the whole movie, but because, you know, she's going through some teen

[Aaron Weber]

angsty stuff, I think you're blinded by nostalgia. That's what I think.

[Dusty Slay]

And then at the end.

[Brian Bates]

So she's. You want to watch it and weigh in.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

She's got a boyfriend that clearly, this guy Bug. Bug doesn't have great intentions. And Uncle Buck warns her, but she's not going to listen. And of course, Uncle Buck was right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So Uncle Buck, he kidnaps the boyfriend.

[Brian Bates]

One of the greatest scenes of all

[Dusty Slay]

time, puts him in the trunk, tapes his mouth and his together. Uncle Buck should be in jail. He should be arrested.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think those girls would agree. Well, those girls he was trying to take advantage of, I don't think they would agree.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was a fine. I'm not gonna say I loved it. What I did find very interesting is it came out 1989, same year as Filled of Dreams and Kevin Costner's wife and daughter are both in Uncle Buck. Wow. Did you know that?

[Brian Bates]

No, I didn't know that.

[Dusty Slay]

Amy Madigan, who I just realized was the same lady who won the Oscar last year.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Who was Amy Madigan in it?

[Aaron Weber]

Uncle Buck's girlfriend, Janice Kablowski.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, she was.

[Aaron Weber]

That's Amy Madigan.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She played some of the worst pictures of her that you could get.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, she's older and she played a pretty terrifying character in the movie Weapons.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But she did Uncle Buck and Field of Dreams.

[Brian Bates]

I loved her.

[Dusty Slay]

She's married to Ed Harris in real life.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Although when I Google is Amy Madigan related to Kathleen Madigan?

[Aaron Weber]

It says.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, it says. It says that it's her sister in law and that Kathleen references her often her podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think it is either. I don't know how it could be.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like that would have come up at some point.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't listen to every episode of Kathleen's podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, but I feel just of talking to her.

[Brian Bates]

She's cool. She also drives a pretty sweet Bronco 2 in that. In that movie, which I wish.

[Dusty Slay]

She runs a tire store.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm sure I would have loved it as a kid, but we're not kids anymore.

[Aaron Weber]

We did away with childish things.

[Brian Bates]

It's so good, though. It's like the scene where he goes down and defends the kid at the school with that.

[Dusty Slay]

With the principal.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's such a great scene. Okay, here's a quarter. Have that rat and all that. Go downtown. Have a rat and all that thing off your face.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, she's got a wart.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, come on, Brian. That's disappointing.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it is disappointing. You would find that funny. A woman with something on her face and you want a rat to know it off. What kind of person are you?

[Brian Bates]

She was a mean lady. I think all the kids at that school would agree with my drink. Right?

[Dusty Slay]

It's got Macaulay Culkin. Yeah, just let me know since you hadn't seen it.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I saw it. I just had it pulled up.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I.

[Brian Bates]

Probably John Candy's best movie. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

And now he's dead.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I haven't seen them all, but I certainly like Planes, Trains and Automobiles better. But I saw that when it came out.

[Brian Bates]

That really puts a damper on the whole rest of the podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Brian's take on Uncle Bob.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, what about your take on Moneyball?

[Brian Bates]

I liked it. I liked it a lot. That was a really good movie it.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Oh, very good.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

I have. You know what? I've had a specific incident.

[Dusty Slay]

Well,

[Aaron Weber]

We'll table that for another time.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Dusty Slay]

I knew, I knew that would upset you, but I'm just being honest.

[Brian Bates]

And then Aaron did not watch Greece. Yeah, no, I think you should watch Greece and Uncle Buck now. Once you're back to flying. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys, it's 65 year old John. Hey, I'm a junior in high school.

[Brian Bates]

You guys don't get it.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys, I like Greece.

[Aaron Weber]

This movie's gonna stink, man.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Greece. Now if I watch it for the first time now, I don't know that I would, but I like it because it gets grandfathered in with nostalgia.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, I just think you guys are saying nostalgia when it's like. It's just. They're good movies like this is good comedy. This is John Hughes.

[Dusty Slay]

I love John Hughes movies. I'm just saying this wasn't my favorite of his.

[Aaron Weber]

But you accept that watching it later in life for the first time, you're going to have a different relationship.

[Brian Bates]

If Brian were younger, I would accept it.

[Aaron Weber]

But Brian were younger, I wouldn't know what to do. Yeah, we have to end the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

I only mean. I only mean if you were younger and like, you didn't, you hadn't watched a bunch of movies like this, you're saying, oh, I just. It's an older movie and I just couldn't get into it.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree. It should be right. My wheelhouse.

[Brian Bates]

It's a comedy, you know, it's not a serious. But it's, you know, it's got some serious. Got some heart to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I think it's wrong for a movie to have heart.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's wrong to emotionally manipulate you, that's for sure. A little heart is okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was gonna have. I'm sorry to keep dwelling on this.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's all right.

[Dusty Slay]

But I thought it was gonna happen. There was a scene early in when he's there, he's looking through the photo album and he sees that she, the sister in law, has folded his picture out of the wedding photo.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a very sad. You know, she doesn't accept him just

[Aaron Weber]

to make it fit in the frame.

[Brian Bates]

And now you see why the daughter has such problems with her mom. Her mom's coming in, folding people out of the family. That's why the daughter's having this problem. And then her being kind of the outcast of the family now bonds with another outcast of the family.

[Aaron Weber]

Two black sheep.

[Brian Bates]

And it brings the whole family together.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'm Team Dusty now. Sounds like a great movie.

[Brian Bates]

Uncle Buck coming over for the weekend redeemed himself and his. His whole family. And I like. I also like the line where he goes, yeah, stop smoking cigarettes. I'm on to cigars now.

[Dusty Slay]

That line alone is probably enough for you to love the movie.

[Brian Bates]

That's great.

[Dusty Slay]

I did the Gretel Opry and I've got a real beef with the opera.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I can't wait to hear it. You think they're ruining country music? Keep going.

[Dusty Slay]

Now. It's worse than that. Yeah, something didn't sit well with my stomach and I had to go to the bathroom.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's. That's not the wild part.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I mean, just to have bathroom problems at the opera.

[Dusty Slay]

I got there, you know. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you gone on stage yet?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Do you Want me to just let you tell the story?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

If any place in America should have music piped into the bathrooms, it should be the Grand Old Opry. But it is the quietest bathroom in America in there. And I go in there. There's three stalls. I pick the farthest one away because that's just naturally what you want to do.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And as soon as I'm in there, a performer on the Opry comes in. He's pulling on my door because. And he sees his lock instead of just going one over. So there's a buffer. He goes in, the one beside me, and I know who it was because I could see his boots.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa. Randy Travis.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not going to say who it was, but he was on, you know, on the show. But anyway, I'm like, dude, give me a little space or whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

Co piloted with somebody from the Oak Ridge Boys.

[Dusty Slay]

Somebody that was already been on.

[Brian Bates]

Did they blow it up or. It's tough to tell from what you'd been doing.

[Dusty Slay]

I kept flushing. It was a mixture at this point.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I kept hitting the flush button on the back of the thing just to try to, you know. Yes.

[Brian Bates]

This guy, this musician's telling the story right now. He goes, I know it was. I saw his shoe. And he kept flushing.

[Aaron Weber]

He needed 14 flushes. I could tell he had his Quincy shoes on underneath.

[Dusty Slay]

Quits.

[Brian Bates]

They should charge him with a water bill.

[Dusty Slay]

Now.

[Aaron Weber]

That is a good bathroom, though.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a very nice bathroom.

[Aaron Weber]

It looks like it. It would be perfect, but you're. You know, I've never thought about that, that they need to have music playing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's very quiet in there. Have the Opry show.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of times there's. You go to the Opry sometimes. There's a real energy backstage, and there's people warming up in their dressing rooms, and there's just music playing in the hallways. It must not have been one of those nights, huh? It was just quiet back there.

[Dusty Slay]

At least around those dressing rooms. I feel like that row that leads out to the opera, that's the one that always has people.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, they' jamming it, because that's like

[Brian Bates]

the A list, the main artery where you got to walk through.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They put the comics Back Room 6. The Haha Room back there with the frame pictures of Henry Cho and Gary Mule Deer and Mini Pearl and all those. Yeah, yeah. So you gotta either. I know. Yeah. That bathroom right there, that's tough, man. Why didn't you play any music on your phone or anything?

[Dusty Slay]

I was just trying to get out of there as quickly as possible.

[Brian Bates]

Was it the popcorn you think that did it to you?

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't have the popcorn because my tongue.

[Aaron Weber]

He's not gonna go to war again.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Can't be out there on the stage with popcorn kernel stuck to my tongue.

[Aaron Weber]

They say the Opry popcorn is famous. They talk about the popcorn back there. It's pretty. It's good popcorn.

[Brian Bates]

It is good. A lot of butter and very salty. And I think that makes, you know, everything tastes a little better.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you're probably right.

[Brian Bates]

It'll kill you.

[Dusty Slay]

But so then I, I threw out the first pitch at the National.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Now it was July 4th. On July 3rd, the game got rained out. So they emailed me that night and said, hey, we're going to do a double header tomorrow. Can you come for the first game so we could just give you a guaranteed time of when it'll happen? Yeah, So I said sure. So what basically what that meant was there was nobody there when I got the gates open at 3:30 and I threw out the first pitch at 4. But to make it worse. Look at that pitching. That's pretty.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean it does look good. It.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, Brad Pettit probably recruit you in Moneyball. That guy gets on base. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But what ended up happening was that he throws funny. So because the game was rained out the night before, the guy who was throwing out the first pitch was also on my. So where there's two people throwing out first pitches, that's a totally different dynamic because now you feel the pressure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

And on top of it, it's this big, tall, good looking guy. I don't know who it is, but he, Billy Bain, much better than I do. He's a former Vanderbilt quarterback that then went to USC and then signed with the Titans. So I'm like, oh my gosh, I gotta follow this guy. And he throws a strike. So the pressure's on.

[Aaron Weber]

How's your pitch, man?

[Dusty Slay]

It was good. It was good. I nailed Booster right in the stomach.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Knocked his hat off.

[Aaron Weber]

He didn't catch it.

[Dusty Slay]

He caught it in his feathers. Yeah, he got buried. His feathers. I had so much heat, he couldn't handle it.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that's such a cool picture right there, Brian. Yeah, that's an awesome picture right there. And if you crop it, you can't tell no one's there.

[Brian Bates]

If you were wearing baseball pants, you could think that.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, if we just make it like a try to do that like right there.

[Brian Bates]

Let's see what that looks like.

[Aaron Weber]

And if we zoom in enough like a baseball card.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

The no gloves will tell for sure.

[Brian Bates]

That's a 92 Don Russ right there.

[Aaron Weber]

He's so good, he doesn't even wear a glove out there.

[Dusty Slay]

They're not going to hit me, so why do I need one?

[Brian Bates]

Did the other guy have a glove?

[Aaron Weber]

Bring a glove for the first pitch? So funny.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if anyone's ever done Seinfeld did it. Did he? I think so, yeah. Seinfeld, I think took his glove out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, when you're a billionaire, you can take one out there.

[Dusty Slay]

But, yeah, he took his.

[Brian Bates]

Not you wear a leaf jacket out there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that was fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

And the guy who threw out the first pitch before me, I looked him up. He made some news a couple years ago because he's former Vanderbilt quarterback. On his podcast, he said he was at Jason Aldean's bar one night and a member of the mafia came up to him and offered him $300,000 to fix the game and told him that almost every college football game is fixed. Is rigged.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Well, yeah. I mean, obviously, I've been saying that since we started this podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Isn't that interesting? He said Alabama especially.

[Aaron Weber]

Dang, that's hard to hear. I'm gonna choose to ignore.

[Brian Bates]

I know that part's untrue, but Alabama's

[Aaron Weber]

on the up and up. They've never done anything.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I just. I don't mean that. That. That. That's not the case. But to say. Especially. I don't believe it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Especially the team that won the most over the last.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you gotta have a team to rig against sometimes, you know, if you don't have. If you don't have a good team, what do you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, what's the rig when you win every game.

[Brian Bates]

Right. Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess you're right. I guess you're right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So anyway, that was fun. Thank you to the sounds. I'm wearing and representing. This is Lebanon 12 and under girls Little League softball. They won the Tennessee State Championship. They're now representing the state of Tennessee in the Southeast Regional.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

The chance to go to the Little League World Series.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. And it's Little League.

[Dusty Slay]

It's Little League softball. And they play Virginia this Friday. Look, I got some shows coming, Virginia, but. Sorry, Virginia, you're going down to the girls from Lebanon, Tennessee.

[Brian Bates]

Well, congrats to them, but I do think that's what is ruining youth sports for people Is like, these poor parents, they've been out here spending all this money, making these kids, you know, go to all these. You know, I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

I hate it for them, but this is just regular. It's an all star team that just. This is how it's always worked.

[Brian Bates]

I'm pumped for them.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it was a travel team that suddenly became.

[Brian Bates]

I'm excited for them.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, but they are raising money for the.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly, exactly, exactly. Everybody's like, oh, man, I just want my daughter to go pro.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't disagree with your central point, but I don't think that's what this is. I don't think that's an example of what.

[Brian Bates]

I hope not.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I just want the girls to have fun and not have to worry about the stress of the World Series.

[Aaron Weber]

When I played, I played Dixie Youth Baseball. Montgomery, Alabama, East Montgomery. And the fundraiser they would do every year was you had to sell Camp Stew. That's how they raised money. Almost like a pyramid scheme where you bought a bunch of Camp Stew and then you had to sell it to people. The Camp Stew was so gross. They would cook it in these cauldrons. It's all these. You know, these Alabama dads would get together and they had this huge cauldron with like a.

[Brian Bates]

Or for a rowboat.

[Aaron Weber]

And they just throw anything in there. Shrimp, it didn't matter. It was just rice, whatever it was, and they'd stir it up, and then they put it in these Styrofoam cups. And it was so gross that our family was so embarrassed to sell it to people. We wouldn't sell it. We would just buy what we had to, and then it would just sit in the fridge for months. And just for months, I would have Camp Stew.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, gosh.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds terrible.

[Aaron Weber]

It was terrible. It was really bad.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I gotta think. You just throw it out, you know,

[Aaron Weber]

we ended up throwing out most of it for sure, but that was the big fundraiser.

[Brian Bates]

That's too bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Camp Stew.

[Dusty Slay]

We'd always sell World's Fight as chocolate.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys don't know that.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I know. I'm trying to picture you as like a kid walking up to people at gas stations selling chocolate.

[Dusty Slay]

Funny thing is, I. Well, I don't know what they sell it for now. Last time I saw, it was still a dollar. Yeah, it was that when I was selling in 1982. Can you imagine selling a candy bar for a dollar back then? Not an easy sell.

[Aaron Weber]

That was like a hundred dollars now, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So I didn't go to any gas station. It's not quite that old. But I remember going to Charlie Daniels Day. Charlie Daniels puts on a volunteer jam.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Every year and.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I've done that and.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course you have. I wasn't performing as 8 year old, but I did go sell candy that day at the. At the thing.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

You just stood out there and make some money.

[Dusty Slay]

My mom would say she would pick out the people for me. I should approach and she said, go. That looks like a nice go over there.

[Aaron Weber]

Just fat people.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I was going to say people that seem nice, that wouldn't.

[Aaron Weber]

People of size.

[Brian Bates]

You go, you sick. Eating that Third world chocolate.

[Dusty Slay]

Get some of this.

[Brian Bates]

World's finest.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, my mom would just put me by the funnel cakes and just say, these are all nice people out here.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, anyway, good luck to Lebanon, Tennessee.

[Brian Bates]

Good luck.

[Aaron Weber]

What's their nickname? Do they have a team name?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. My guess is this one is just Lebanon girls all stars 12 and under or Tennessee. I guess at this time you want

[Aaron Weber]

to have a name. You want to be like, I don't know, like the Hawks or something. Yeah, they're just a Lebanon girls softball team.

[Dusty Slay]

But I mean, remember when Nolensville and Goodlettsville Little League Boys, if they went to the World Series in the last.

[Aaron Weber]

I vaguely remember that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think they're just the. What?

[Brian Bates]

You know, how long ago was that

[Dusty Slay]

we won this, the national championship in 2012, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

How many of those kids. How many of those kids are in the pros now?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think they're quite old enough yet. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But I think there is one kid that made it to the majors.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good little farm system for it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty, add it to your list of things. Dusty isn't what you. Sports.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's. I want youth sports, but I don't like youth travel sports. And I think it's ruining it for. And taking advantage of parents.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree, but this isn't travel. This isn't travel sports.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they are raising money for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they're traveling to Warner Robbins, Georgia to play this. All right, should we get in these comments?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, I do go to the Lebanon Farmer's Market sometimes, so I guess I should be careful.

[Aaron Weber]

So you have a vested interest.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's not the Lebanon Farmer's Market.

[Brian Bates]

Well, to me it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Go to the Middle east, buddy. Oh, can I share some more exciting news with you guys?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

August 23rd, 24th, 25th, Nateland presents the Showcase Season 5, hosted by us.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

November 10th, Dusty's book, we're having a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Comes out. It's on pre order now.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Grab a copy, get it. But really, the most important news is next Friday, July 24th, Nateland presents Brian Bates.

[Brian Bates]

All right, all right.

[Aaron Weber]

Those coming out.

[Brian Bates]

That is some good news.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

July 24th, July 24th, my new special, Worried Worried.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it. I love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Comes out on the Neat Land YouTube channel.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that. I didn't know it was coming out,

[Brian Bates]

so I can't wait for the YouTube comments.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you think they'll be? Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

Well, like just a name. Worried. I feel like people are going to go worried about these views. I bet.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they'd be right. They would be spot on. I'm worried now just because you said that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, I know. You gotta always anticipate.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you watched it yet, bro?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

You feel good about it?

[Dusty Slay]

I do feel good about it. I do feel good.

[Aaron Weber]

Love that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome, man. Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

So I'm very excited about that. And we'll have more about that next week.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews and [e-mail] I want to say this. Yes. I've done two shows in the month. Zany's did a show and then last week it's Comedy Catching Chateau Negro, which I forgot to mention. Great show. Thank you for everyone.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Who came to.

[Brian Bates]

That was on the show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Vince Faber was on it. He said it was nice doing more than six minutes on a show, so. So thank you for everyone who came to the Comedy Catch. But I'm very proud of this. I. I'm not doing anything from the special at these shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. That's a big. It's a big step.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, it's not good, but the show's tough. Yeah, the show is tough.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I mean that's a huge milestone.

[Dusty Slay]

You got to start something.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, to get there before the special comes out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A couple of weeks ahead of time. That's great, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Can I.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably not.

[Aaron Weber]

You have anything supportive? I'd like to get into this.

[Brian Bates]

I'd like to start the comments by starting with a comment not on this sheet. I don't think.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think it's on here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

What's it about?

[Brian Bates]

But this one was sent to me by someone. It's a screenshot here. It says this is from Brittany Crace.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Says Dusty is rude and disrespectful to Brian and it's getting hard to watch.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thank you, Brittany.

[Brian Bates]

And then Carrie Lynn L Says, I agree. Wow. And too, I would also. But just to follow up with that, I'd like to. Let's see if I can find.

[Aaron Weber]

People are catching on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

I should have looked for this before, but maybe too late. But I was gonna. I was gonna read something that Brian said to me.

[Aaron Weber]

This might be what they're talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

You're gonna read through your personal correspondence.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, here it is. This is it here. This is a text I sent to Brian. I've got Moneyball and the proceeds prestige loaded up to watch this weekend. I'll be ready for the podcast. Brian says the sacrifices you make for this podcast are admirable.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I stand behind that, so.

[Brian Bates]

So take that, Brittany Crace. That's in private. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty's like, guys, I'm working hard for this podcast. I'm gonna watch two movies for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Two really good movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but you know, Aaron didn't do his part, so thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

He's got his feet on the table.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

I would have bet you couldn't get your foot on the table.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

Well, thank God I didn't. Or it had been an hour of us talking about movies most of the audience hasn't seen.

[Brian Bates]

I think the. I think the audience has seen all of these movies.

[Aaron Weber]

You think what percentage of the people listening right now have seen Uncle Buck and are conversing enough to enjoy conversation about it?

[Brian Bates]

You added the conversing, but I'm saying conversant watching it. 99%.

[Aaron Weber]

There's just no.

[Brian Bates]

Let's take a vote.

[Dusty Slay]

Just no way, 99. How are we gonna prove this?

[Brian Bates]

Comment. Comment if you've seen it. Comment if you haven't seen it.

[Aaron Weber]

We've already lost all the people who turned it off during it. We gotta ask this at the beginning.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think just because they haven't seen the movie, they're going, oh, these guys talking about a Uncle Buck.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Aaron turned us off.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm kidding around. I'm kidding around.

[Brian Bates]

I think they've all seen Go Greece. I think they've all seen Uncle Buck. Probably lower chance they've seen Moneyball in the Prestige.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree with you. I agree with you.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, But I'm sorry I'm so disrespectful to you, Brian. I didn't realize that it was getting like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thank you. Was it Brittany?

[Brian Bates]

Brittany Craise.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you, Britney. And who. Who agreed with her?

[Brian Bates]

Erica Lynn.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you, Erica.

[Aaron Weber]

You can cut the tension in here with a knife.

[Brian Bates]

I agree.

[Aaron Weber]

This is palpable, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Louisiana episode coming. I just read today where Meta is building a 50 billion dollar data center in Louisiana.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

On top of an orphanage.

[Dusty Slay]

50 billion. Look how crazy that is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Getting ready for some mass surveillance.

[Aaron Weber]

Getting ready for raccoon eating Burgers part two.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's what they tell you. They go, well, we need it so that you can make more AI videos. But really they're gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

William. This is from Louisiana.

[Brian Bates]

So.

[Dusty Slay]

William Feichter Feister. You think that's right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Fun fact. In middle school geography, I learned that Louisiana grows a little bit every year due to all the topsoil that erodes from the Midwest. It gets carried down the Mississippi River. I was able to find a historical map in my textbook and discovered a noticeable difference between that and a modern map. I felt like I had just cracked a national secret. That's interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

I never knew that.

[Brian Bates]

That is interesting. I also don't believe our maps though.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, next comment comes from. Shauna Weatherhead.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Love that name.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think She's a big fan of weather.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, weatherhead.

[Dusty Slay]

Shauna Weatherhead is a Minnesota native. She'd been to some weather. Then who went to it? Asca State Park. What do you think, Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Itasca.

[Dusty Slay]

Itasca State Park. Thank you. Every summer as a kid, I was yelling at y' all when y' all were. When you were talking about where the Mississippi river starts. The headwater for the Mississippi river is in Itasca State park in Minnesota, not Minneapolis.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know, you look dumb.

[Aaron Weber]

What a moron.

[Brian Bates]

I'm just basing it off the song Big river by Johnny cash. He says St. Paul, Minnesota, and that's right there with Weatherhead.

[Aaron Weber]

Shauna Weatherhead.

[Dusty Slay]

He doesn't trust maps anyway, so why does it matter?

[Aaron Weber]

But Johnny Cash, I was playing around with this. Thetruesize.com. this is a map where you can. You can take any country state and drag it around to see how big it is. Because you know that this is like the way we think about the world. This is a projection that accounts for big scene.

[Brian Bates]

Big scene from that in your show

[Aaron Weber]

in the West Wing. Absolutely. Look, if I take Alabama, the state of Alabama, see how small it is down here? But if I drag it up to Greenland, look how big it appears when it's that high up. Isn't that crazy?

[Brian Bates]

I love that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's wild, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Because of the map being flat.

[Aaron Weber]

Because of the. Yes, because the mat is flat. Because it's a non flat thing applied to a flat map.

[Dusty Slay]

Gotcha. Yeah, keep going. It just falls off the edge.

[Brian Bates]

Well, this is not the map.

[Dusty Slay]

See if you can go to Antarctica and it'll let you in.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

They won't just goes down.

[Brian Bates]

They let you on the tip a little bit, but they won't let you in there.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Robin. Robin Pudlak.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Robin Pudlak.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good name, right?

[Brian Bates]

Pudlock.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I get it, dusty. The old TVs would allow you to fall asleep because the screens weren't as big or bright. There's also the idea of having less channel options to choose from. That teaches us it's okay to turn off the TV if you show it. If your show's not on or try out something new sometimes it's definitely nostalgic.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, I'm able to hook up Roku to it. So it's like, you know, there's.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry, Robin.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Next comment comes from.

[Brian Bates]

So it's not nostalgia for me, it's.

[Dusty Slay]

What about the bigger and brighter you think that's accurate.

[Brian Bates]

I think the TVs now are bigger and brighter.

[Aaron Weber]

But you're saying there's also something different about the kind of light that's emitted from it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Blue light.

[Aaron Weber]

Blue. Blue light.

[Brian Bates]

Right, right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm old enough to remember when TVs would go off the air at the end of the.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I'm not. I. I've only heard about that. That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Can you. No, I mean, it would be very rare if I'd stay up that late. But, like, you know, they go off. They would do like the national anthem. There's a scene in the movie Boomerang where Eddie Murphy and Halle Berry, they fall asleep on the couch and wake up and that's what's playing the national Anthem. Because it's just to show how late.

[Aaron Weber]

Just be an American flag waving or something.

[Dusty Slay]

It'd be a Statue of Liberty, maybe. And then it would go to static.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. And just come back on in the morning. That's so crazy.

[Brian Bates]

I love that.

[Aaron Weber]

Now there's breaking news every hour through the night.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep. Wes Mays. I bet if Dusty started drinking again, he'd fall asleep more with the TV on.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's true. I mean, that's true. But, you know, that would be the

[Aaron Weber]

least of his problems. Yeah,

[Brian Bates]

but I. That is true. And there was a lot of time where that was going on. But also there was, you know, there was time when that wasn't happening. And I just feel like I could. I don't know, I like an older tv, I got a couple of them now, a couple older TVs, and it's. It's pretty awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

I think. That is awesome. I said, I've said this to you many times and I'm sure he comes off as an insult, but I swear I don't mean it to be. You remind me so much of Kramer.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because he was always doing like. He was always a step ahead, you know, he was always like onto something that nobody else knew about. Very often he was Kramer. End up being right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Kramer got it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Kramer got it on the show.

[Brian Bates]

On the show. He got it.

[Dusty Slay]

Your stand up reminds me of the stand up.

[Brian Bates]

The character. Kramer was great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he was great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

His first name, Cosmo.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. And you're great.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, man. Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

As mean as you are to me,

[Brian Bates]

I still think, well, that. See, that's what. That's what hurts it. See, now you've said that to me.

[Aaron Weber]

And now, you know, if I make

[Brian Bates]

a joke, this Jennifer Crace is ready to Britney Grace or somebody. She's ready to pounce.

[Aaron Weber]

The whole Chris family.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Ross Woods Jr. Oh, Roy's.

[Brian Bates]

Roy's brother.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Popeyes isn't named after the cartoon. It's named after Popeye Dole, the character from the French Connection.

[Aaron Weber]

This is crazy. I had no idea that this was the case. It was a character played by Gene, Gene hackman in the 1971 movie the French Connection. Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits founder Al Copeland said he named the fast food chain after Popeye dollar doyle.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great movie.

[Aaron Weber]

That is why.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Aaron Weber]

I had no idea. He used to really love that movie.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It won a Oscar, I think, and

[Dusty Slay]

was a. I, I, I hate to say this, I've never seen it, but isn't there a car chase? That's, like, incredible.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'll be honest. This was a movie that I was, like, real amped about, and I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would, but I, I'd watch it again.

[Aaron Weber]

But if I.

[Dusty Slay]

On old tv.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

If I opened up a barbecue restaurant, I wouldn't call it Billy Beans. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Might be a good side.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. Barbecue joint.

[Aaron Weber]

Get some Billy Beans.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Miriam Hogue. I usually love Dusty, but his take on storytelling and emotions is easily one of the worst takes I've ever heard.

[Aaron Weber]

Here we go. Now we're getting to it.

[Dusty Slay]

The art of storytelling makes us more human, not less, by teaching us how to relate to each other in ways that are neurologically similar to our own memories. Plus, Bible stories are historical stories. Should we not get emotional about those?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, she knew how to get you there.

[Brian Bates]

Well, historical stories are one thing if you're actually telling truth, but so many of these movies, they're all manipulated. They all know how to do the right things to trigger emotions. And it's not just about telling a story and relating to people. They're emotionally manipulating you. That's what they're doing now. Sure, I'm into storytelling. I'm into stories. And sure, stories cause emotion, but there is a lot of emotional manipulation going

[Aaron Weber]

on and so you liked poetry?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I do.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, isn't that kind of the whole point?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think is.

[Aaron Weber]

Then why aren't they writing prosecutors? It's like they're, they're trying to communicate emotion and, and all kinds.

[Brian Bates]

Sure. I mean, you might be like, this happened to me, and I want to tell you about it. And I want.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how you want things to be written.

[Brian Bates]

And I want you to know what I was feeling. But I just think that movies now are so geared. They like. They add in things that like unlikely scenarios just to make you feel different things. And, you know, it's total manipulation that they're doing to you. So I just want you guys to know, and Miriam Hogue, I want you to know that it's not my take on storytelling and emotions. It's my take on movies and how they're using our emotions to manipulate us.

[Dusty Slay]

And songs.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, songs, too.

[Aaron Weber]

All art.

[Dusty Slay]

All art except stand up, but not all art.

[Brian Bates]

I'm saying they've. They've found a way to take what's beautiful and then. And then they found a way to go, all right. Oh, we really like the storytelling here. How can we make more out of this? How can we get people to make decisions in their life based on these movies? We'll. We'll change the whole way they think about things through a movie. You ever talk to somebody who watched a documentary and then they go. And then they're quoting all of it as fact? Now it's the same thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You've never done that.

[Brian Bates]

I say. People say, you guys make fun of me because I go.

[Dusty Slay]

People say, what does St. Augustine say about it?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I. You know, I read that on my podcast, and I liked it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. He's quoting St. Augustine now.

[Brian Bates]

Well, someone sent it to me, and I enjoyed what they had to say. Let's see.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that. Bringing in Saint.

[Brian Bates]

Saint Augustine. It's in the. In it. Well, this says Saint Augustine. So this is what someone said to me in the Confessions. It says from book three. I was captivated by theatrical shows. They were full of representations of my own miseries and fueled my fire. Why is it that a person should wish to experience suffering by watching grievous and tragic events which he himself would not wish to endure? Nevertheless, he wants to suffer the pain given by being a spectator of those sufferings. And the pain itself is his pleasure. What is this but amazing folly? A member of the audience is not excited to offer help. God bless us with the range of emo. God blessed us with a range of emotion, but invited only to. I don't know what that last part is, but up until the amazing folly. I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great. I love you bringing in inciting Catholic historians. I think Catholic theologians.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's great.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, show you some Aquinas after this.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's a great take into it. It's like you're watching someone Else go through these awful, sad things and then you're feeling really sad when that sadness is not earned. You didn't go through the sadness. You're just like, gosh, that was so sad. You cry, turn the TV off, and then go on about your life.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't like sad movies either. But what got us first started about it was us crying. You said my Big Fat Greek Wedding. I said a scene from Hoosiers, which is a very lovely scene where he helps this guy out in a Christlike way.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Big Fat Greek Wedding is lovely, though. I want to make that very clear as a lovely.

[Dusty Slay]

But it's not sad.

[Aaron Weber]

No, but it's emotional, heartwarming and fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know, but I'm saying I don't. I don't like sad for sad sake either.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or horror.

[Brian Bates]

Hoosers is great.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty said it's bad. Let me try to paraphrase this. It's bad to reflect on or try to. It's bad to reflect on bad things, horrible things, and to elicit emotion from that.

[Brian Bates]

Is that. I just. Yeah. I just think why, like, we've been. God gave us these emotions to feel at all times, like when. When necessary. But we're like inflicting them in. In. In a time when it's not necessary. Otherwise we would not be bringing up these emotions. We don't need to practice them. You know, so it's like if I just going on about my life and. And then I go, oh, I'm gonna. I'm gonna watch a movie at lunch. And now all of a sudden I'm crying. My body has gone into this state of sadness right when it didn't need to.

[Aaron Weber]

You're so close to being Amish. You're like a year away.

[Brian Bates]

I'm just saying. Miriam Hogue. It's like. Try to at least understand what I'm saying, though. Miriam. Is that. That's my point. It's like historical stuff. If you. And even that maybe you don't need to be dragging up those emotions either. But at least you're reading about something that truly happened according to the author.

[Aaron Weber]

But it would be wrong to write about it poetically.

[Brian Bates]

To make it up.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And just to make somebody emotional.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Because that's what I mean. Movies. Every time there's like an Oscar nominated movie, it's like heavily emotional.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it's like you can, you can spot an. An Oscar. Try.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. For sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You driving that Oz? Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Songs episode comments Edwards, M.D. got a doctor with us.

[Aaron Weber]

Doctors or a Doctor in the house.

[Dusty Slay]

Just when I think you guys are at the pinnacle of entertainment and could not possibly get even funnier, you prove me wrong. This was absolutely one of the all time funniest episodes. Thank you for continuing to bring big laughs to us common folk.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. Well, finally a doctor to weigh in. And he's exactly right. This is one of the best podcasts of all time. He's exactly right.

[Dusty Slay]

Doctors know he's a surgeon.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that he won't tell us his first name, but he wants us to know he's a doctor.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he's a common folk. So. Mariah Elder. Hilarious episode. Your new theme song is Fire, but the Pawpaw Tree Song is a hit.

[Brian Bates]

I agree. I agree. The Paw patch, my son, he likes to listen to my AI songs. Yeah. And the Pawpaw Tree Song comes on. He runs around. He loves it. It's like he gets real punk with it. He's ready to break stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

I have a new joke where I break down the lyrics to the Pawpaw Tree Song. It's like five minutes, but it's.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, I'd love to hear it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it's starting to make sense why you love the AI stuff so much. Because you're against art creating emote, like invoking emotion. That's why the AI stuff is so appealing, because you feel nothing listening.

[Brian Bates]

Some soulless. Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the assign was great, Dusty. A lot of people wanted to be our theme song.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw a lot of comments about that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you guys should lean on me for creative takes more often.

[Dusty Slay]

Jeff Holtke. Holtke. Did Aaron refer to himself as Brad Pitt? Classic.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't. I never did. People have said that to me all the time.

[Brian Bates]

Brad Pitt.

[Aaron Weber]

Brad Pitt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or the less creative Brad Pitt ate Brad Pitt or something like that too.

[Brian Bates]

That's actually one of my least pit.

[Aaron Weber]

Which isn't even a good rhyme.

[Brian Bates]

That's one of my least favorite joke types. When people go, he looks like he ate Brad Pitt, it's like, because if you eat someone, you don't look like them. I imagine. I've never eaten a person, but it's a hot take.

[Aaron Weber]

But if I think if it's Brad Pitt ate X, it's like you look like a fatter version of Brad Pitt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But you don't. But you don't. Like, you don't look like him. Like, if you eat a lot of hamburgers, you don't really take the face of a cow.

[Aaron Weber]

Good thing, too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's a good.

[Aaron Weber]

That Would be tough.

[Brian Bates]

My buddy used to have a bit. He said he looked like Peyton Manning. He's like, peyton Manning got stung by bees. And it's like, did he look like that? I don't think so. I mean, this is a tall guy.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why. I know what you're thinking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy had X and Y. Had a baby.

[Brian Bates]

That's why when I did a lot of jokes about looking like people I said, people say I look like this. And these are comments that I got off YouTube. These are not me sitting around in a room going, that look like this.

[Dusty Slay]

Because it was you. You'd be like Brad Pitt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly. Susan, Brad, Peter. I'm glad that caught off for a second. I thought you guys were not able to recognize it at all. And I was gonna feel real dumb about that joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Honeyball.

[Dusty Slay]

Susan Matterpole.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty saying to dip grilled cheese in the tomato bath. Had me spit out my coffee. Hysterical.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Dusty's got.

[Dusty Slay]

He has some good ones.

[Aaron Weber]

Y' all sleep on Dusty. But this guy brings the funny old

[Brian Bates]

Miss Mater Pole here.

[Aaron Weber]

Mater Pole? These are fake names, dude. Mater Pole and Weatherhead.

[Brian Bates]

I hope she's a teacher.

[Aaron Weber]

Friends with pudlak.

[Brian Bates]

Ms. Mater Pole.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, this next one.

[Aaron Weber]

Can I use the restroom, Ms. Mater Pole?

[Brian Bates]

Adam, what do you use to prop up your tomato stocks? I got a Mater Pole.

[Aaron Weber]

What was the bathroom policy in your elementary school? Do you remember? Were you allowed to go whenever you wanted? Did you have to ask? What was it like?

[Brian Bates]

You definitely had to ask.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. And I think we say, may I use the restroom? You had to say that.

[Brian Bates]

We probably. You know, I was public school, so it's probably more like, hey, can I go to the restroom? Something like that.

[Dusty Slay]

I gotta go take a. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you have a hall pass?

[Brian Bates]

I gotta pee.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you ever have hall passes?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we had hall.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never had a hall pass.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I had A English teacher, Ms. Fakes, who was one of the finalists for Teacher.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what Dusty called all his teachers, Mr. Fraud.

[Dusty Slay]

So you know the challenger, Explosion, the teacher that went. She was a finalist to go Explosion on the Challenger.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And finalist to go on the explosion.

[Brian Bates]

Ms. Fakes would have been a shoe in for that, though, huh?

[Dusty Slay]

Because of the name?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

She keep her mouth shut?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Miss. Miss Fakes. And her hall pass was a little toy space shuttle. Oh, that's cool.

[Aaron Weber]

You just had to have that with you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What'd you do when you got to the bathroom? Just put it in your pocket?

[Dusty Slay]

It Was too big. It was like. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

What'd you do with it?

[Dusty Slay]

Just sit on the sink, I guess. I don't remember. You bring it back. Anyway, she.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember it was funny. I would remember teachers going like, no, you can't use the. The bathroom.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, I do remember.

[Aaron Weber]

Can I use the bathroom? No.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, all right.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess I'll just.

[Dusty Slay]

You're like, do you see what I just ate?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I never got told. No, it's probably an issue. Send them in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Adam Fafman.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of F's in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Pfaffman. I think the P is probably silent. Adam Fafman.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe the other two Fs are silent.

[Aaron Weber]

It's P, F, A, F, F, M A, N, N. The. The extra N at the end just like, come on, dude, what are we doing here?

[Brian Bates]

Lisa kept it simple with the first name. Man.

[Dusty Slay]

Every time I play Dusty Slay's Country Radio, the job site, everyone comments on what a great playlist it is.

[Brian Bates]

A great last name this guy has.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, that building is not getting built quickly.

[Dusty Slay]

The true playlist for the working man. However, I have to agree with Kathy on the singing every song I know well, I start to question if I know it when he starts singing. Well, that is true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you started well, Fafman, but he lost it at the end. I'm a heck of a singer and,

[Dusty Slay]

you know, Kathy chimed in.

[Aaron Weber]

She did.

[Dusty Slay]

She commented what she said. She said she was concerned about the songs episode, but she made it through.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, good.

[Dusty Slay]

Seemed like she was in good spirit. I was worried about Kathy because Dusty came after her pretty hard.

[Aaron Weber]

I woke up in a cold sweat thinking about Kathy the other night.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's kind of a movement started. Most people aren't recognize that the start of the movement and then it builds and then you become a hero. That's kind of what's happening with Kathy. More and more people are getting on board.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Kathy's become a real hero of this podcast. Like, people really reference her and this has got to be a big moment.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't.

[Brian Bates]

We got to have her on the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd love to have Kathy on, but I think in general is you don't ever want to ask the people what they want and then give it to them. You give them what they need and convince them that they need it. That's how we do it.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good playlist, though, Adam and I appreciate you playing that.

[Aaron Weber]

It sounds like the worst construction crew of all time.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it May be papa songs and.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's a good song right there, man. Hey, turn that up.

[Brian Bates]

This is called. Let's say it's called Dusty Sleighs. Dusty Slay's Country Radio.

[Dusty Slay]

Glad you had to look that up.

[Brian Bates]

3328 says.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that's legit. That's a legit playlist.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And it's not. No fluff in here. I picked all these out. I even.

[Aaron Weber]

No skips.

[Brian Bates]

I even. No, there's no need for skips. And I even made the order. You can shuffle if you want, but I. I made an order that's not, say, shuffle.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's the next step. Is there any. You can do shuffle or not?

[Brian Bates]

Shuffle. Shuffle.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, is there any kind of rhyme or reason to the order of these songs? I think that would be the next step to build some kind of narrative a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Because what I want is some recognizable country music songs. Yeah. And then also. But I don't want too many of those at the beginning because, oh, this

[Aaron Weber]

guy's just doing top 40.

[Brian Bates]

Right. So you mix it up a little bit and, you know, you give them a little. Little bit of something here and there, a little new and old, and then no, two in a row, you know, like the same artist.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They don't go back to back. If you get to the very end, sometimes it will be back to back, because I've just recently added those. But I gotta, you know, I gotta find a place to mix them in.

[Dusty Slay]

But so you put some thought into it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, it's a good.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good playlist.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

One of the best. Honestly.

[Dusty Slay]

Jonathan Fisher. Final comment. Aaron said that in 2003 he was in the fifth grade. Specifically, they played football in 2003 in the fifth grade. That means he's referring to the 0304 school year. Aaron would have been in the sixth grade for the 0304 school year. I know this because he graduated a year after me. I'm 16 days older than him.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Do I know this guy?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I know this because I lived next door to him for years. I don't know who. Jonathan Fisher.

[Brian Bates]

I gotta be honest with you. I appreciate you fact checking Aaron, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I did. I think people, A lot of people have rightfully pointed out I've been in the fifth grade for the last three years. But I finally sat down and figured out exactly where I am. So when we talk about this next year, I will know for sure where.

[Dusty Slay]

Where I am Well, I find it interesting because Your birthday is November 13th, right? Yes, mine's November 3rd. The cutoff when I was in school. And apparently it was for you, it's October 31st. If I was born four days earlier, I would been in the other class.

[Aaron Weber]

We would have gone to school together.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, same with him. He was born at the end of October and so he's probably one of the youngest people in his class. I was one of the oldest.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, me too.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Just speak from the heart, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, it's a. It is good. I like factor. I've had factor before. It is good. It's, you know, it comes in these little trays. You can put a lot of people like it in the microwave and that works for a lot of people. I'm not into that. With factor, you can't put it in the oven. Factor has meals built around your goals, whether that's weight loss, overall nutrition, more protein, or GLP1 support for strength and workout recovery. Check out factors Muscle Pro collection. What makes factor the best is that it's fresh, never frozen, and ready in about two minutes unless you put it in the oven. Then it does take a little longer. But it's worth the wait with over 100 rotating weekly meals, including globally inspired flavors like Mediterranean and Asian. So there's also always something new to look forward to. This is something I'd recommend if you're trying to stay consistent with healthier eating. I've eaten factor so many times and it's always spot on. Aaron used factor for years before they were a sponsor, but I recently had their smoky barbecue chicken breast. It was delicious. Head to FactorMeals.com Nate50OFF and use code Nate50OFF to get 50 off and free daily greens per box with new subscription only while supplies last until 9. 27, 2026. See website for more details.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? Well, thanks, Jonathan, but thank you, John.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I. I didn't get my notes.

[Brian Bates]

I appreciate that my notes are in

[Dusty Slay]

my backpack, but today we are talking about the year 2004.

[Aaron Weber]

What a year.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty is firmly in Charleston now.

[Brian Bates]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you doing improv yet?

[Brian Bates]

I think I took improv classes in 2003. At the end of 2003.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm. I'm rolling into 2004, gearing up, little improv. This is the year I'm gonna do a little stand up.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it. So this is. This is, in many ways, this is the beginning.

[Brian Bates]

It's the beginning. But I, you know, it's like if you live in New York City and you're like, I started comedy in. In. In two, you know, in 2004, and you're hustling it, you could do more

[Aaron Weber]

in a week than you did in months. Right?

[Brian Bates]

More than I did in a year.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because it was no stage time.

[Aaron Weber]

But I bet at the time, are you telling people like, yo, I'm doing comedy? Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was like, I'm already the best.

[Dusty Slay]

That happened quickly. I think Nate moved in New York in 2004.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's when things got started for him too. What are you doing in 2004? Working in the news.

[Dusty Slay]

Still working with news.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't remember anything eventful that happened.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you entry level position at this point or.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I've moved up to, like a management position.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been there for nine years.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're on salary at this point, I'm guessing.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Did people call you mister?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Mr. They were my friends.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but you weren't like, I, I've been promoted, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

To where they have to call me mister.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, sir.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no. So you were. What do we just figure out?

[Aaron Weber]

So 2004, I was leaving one grade, leaving sixth grade, going into the seventh grade.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

This is when adolescence starts to hit me hard.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, good.

[Aaron Weber]

This is when. This is when things get.

[Brian Bates]

What does that mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I think this is when these are your awkward years, man. Middle, sixth grade, middle school for me. No, seventh. I would say seventh, eighth grade, ninth grade. And then you start to figure out who you are after that. But there was a couple years there.

[Brian Bates]

That is true.

[Dusty Slay]

7th grade, 50 year run.

[Brian Bates]

Noticeably musty to myself. The first time in seventh grade.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to give you an idea of what I look like in seventh grade. Here, here. Here I am.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

This is me. Wow. This is with the hovercraft I built for the science fair.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

My grandfather and I built this. That's an old shop vac motor into a piece of wood with shower curtain on the bottom. I have cinder blocks on top of it to demonstrate how much weight the hoverboard can hold.

[Brian Bates]

And that's wouldn't need the Cinder blocks now.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I'm just putting on a show.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

This is science theater here.

[Brian Bates]

This is awesome. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that thing, it. It. It didn't have. You couldn't control it. You kind of had to manually move it around so that cord. You could yank that cord around and kind of drag it, and it would really get going.

[Dusty Slay]

How did it. I'm sorry, I missed. How did it hover?

[Aaron Weber]

So that's a piece of wood that's cut into a circle.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a shower curtain underneath it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I can see that.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess that shop vac motor pumps air into the shower curtain, and there are little holes in the shower curtain, so it creates this cushion of air below it. And my grandfather, who I've talked about was a physicist. He did a calculation on how much weight it could hold, and it was like thousands of pounds this thing could sustain. So those cinder blocks aren't really doing anything. I just thought it was a good visual demonstration. You can tell the haircut's pretty tough.

[Dusty Slay]

Tough.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. It's a tough time for me, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

It's pretty amazing, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I had knee surgery this year, so I think I'm. I'm rehabbing.

[Dusty Slay]

Can't tell that.

[Aaron Weber]

So I was. Look at me. Look at me. All agile up there on that. On that thing.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man, this is such a classic look, though. These. What is it? New balances? And the khaki shorts.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's the old. That's kind of shirt. Is that Catholic school uniform?

[Dusty Slay]

That's.

[Aaron Weber]

That's our school uniform.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And the T shirt under the. Under the collar, the undershirt.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. And then that's our school logo right there. MC Montgomery Catholic. That's. So that's me. I think I just got home from school, and my mom goes, I got the camera. Let's go outside and show the hovercraft.

[Dusty Slay]

That's really cool.

[Aaron Weber]

So there we are. So that's. That's when I talk about 2004. That's who's doing it. That guy with that haircut.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good visual.

[Aaron Weber]

Just. I don't remember ever asking for a bowl cup. Somebody sure gave it it to me, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's tough.

[Brian Bates]

That was a. It was a look, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't even think it was at the time.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was. I think I was struggling.

[Dusty Slay]

Got the Alabama bangs going on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Bama bangs, but not really.

[Brian Bates]

I always think of it having a little bit of a swoosh to it.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no swoosh Straight down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's a. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's cool.

[Brian Bates]

That's a cool pet.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's me.

[Brian Bates]

Well, what happened with the hoverboard? I mean, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

It caught on fire. One day after school, me and my cousin aj, we were. I think we pulled that cord a little too hard, and it caught on fire, and we had to put it out with the hose, and it was done after that. But we had. We got a good run.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you win?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't even think it was a competition, but I. I made it. I remember we brought it into the school and did it in the hallway, and everybody was riding it and stuff, you know, my dad was super cool, principal of the high school, so he took me in one Saturday to, like, the gym, to use it on the gym, like, gym floor. That thing, I think, was pretty awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, and then it just burned through the trash can.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd be making, like, paper airplanes coming in with a hovercraft.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, that. I mean, they had to know that your. Your grandfather did it and not you, so it would be tough to be like you. You want. But that's, well, pretty amazing. He.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, he did a lot of the engineering. He did a lot of the, like, cutting up the engine and stuff like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But I was standing next to him. I put on a welder's thing.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, that's. That's wild.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty cool.

[Dusty Slay]

There's no video of it.

[Aaron Weber]

No video of it that I know of. It might exist out there somewhere, but that's our backyard. That was the. That house behind us. That's the Gill straps. They were about 140 back then. I think. They died in that house. Yeah, we put up that fence.

[Brian Bates]

They died in the hoverboard fire.

[Dusty Slay]

Why'd y' all put up that fence? We lie.

[Aaron Weber]

We need a little bit of privacy. And I was glad that we did.

[Dusty Slay]

Gill straps. Calling the police on y' all time making some type of hoverboard out here. Those are some Montgomery trees back there. Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you remember? I'll start with some tech stuff. 2004, Nintendo DS handheld game console came out.

[Aaron Weber]

The D. It came out in 2004. According to this, the DS. I remember when it came out. I never had one. Oh, we had. We had original Game Boy.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I don't know if we ever got, like, a. A newer version of it, but the DS was huge when it came out. Still is.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, what about this? Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Gta.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you play that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, not at my house, but when I would go to other people's houses. Houses. It was almost there.

[Brian Bates]

I played it a bit. Yeah. I never owned it, but I would play if it was available. I'd drive a car around and I'd run over people and I would.

[Dusty Slay]

And now when you see people getting carjacked, you don't even care.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly. Desensitized to it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

You can see how that would happen, though. If you play Grand Theft Auto a lot and lived in a sketchy neighborhood, you would be like, well, yeah, I'm seeing this every day.

[Aaron Weber]

In that case, it's almost smart to play it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm less scared walking around.

[Brian Bates]

That's true. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Half Life 2.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, I was playing a lot of video games.

[Dusty Slay]

Halo 2.

[Aaron Weber]

Halo 2 was a real paradigm shift in my life. That game. Halo 2 was unbelievable. My buddy Hayden, Wired had an original Xbox. Was it 360 at this time? He had an Xbox with Halo 2.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And we used to play that for days, man. Unbelievable game. Yeah, we play it online a little bit. My older brother was very good. That game. It's hard to overstate how big that game was. People bought X. I think there's a typhoon coming over the club right now. That's pretty crazy. You tell me you wouldn't fix this if you had infinite money. You like the charm?

[Brian Bates]

I love it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel like every time we. It rains, we rush reference it and nobody can ever hear it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just keep bringing it up.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet they hear this a little bit. That's pretty loud.

[Dusty Slay]

Tristan's good.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Katie's good. She's.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go.

[Dusty Slay]

Now they're just messing with us. But Halo.

[Brian Bates]

Don't laugh, Katie.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Halo 2 was awesome. Yeah, it was awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

What about said Doom 3 was one of the most anticipated games of the year, but critically unsuccessful.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't remember Doom 3 about World of Warcraft. Yeah, I wasn't playing WoW yet. I didn't play for a few years, but. Yeah. What's that? That was called wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I didn't play until Waddle K came out.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty, you're 22. You still playing video games?

[Brian Bates]

No, I think. You know what? I think I ended up just whittling some of the time frames a little sketchy. But I think sometime in 2000, 2004, I moved to the Sergeant Jasper, which is a big building downtown, and I didn't have a ton of friends.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a big Building, though. That's what it made me think.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was like, video games.

[Aaron Weber]

Nah. Turned it down.

[Dusty Slay]

It was. I was at the Sergeant Jasper.

[Brian Bates]

Well, at the time, there weren't games at sj. A lot of big buildings in downtown Jacksonville. Yeah. It was called the Sergeant Jasper, though. I didn't get vague with it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And. But I bought an Xbox and I had two games and I played for a little while, and then I moved to. Later that year, I moved to Folly beach and gave that up for good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I used it as a DVD player for a while, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was a great DVD player.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I had the first Red Dead Redemption and a Red Dead Revolver. And then I had some game where you could, you know. I don't know. You could. You're like, I don't know. You killed a lot of people.

[Aaron Weber]

And there was a video game we rented from Blockbuster. I've been trying to track down what it was for years. It was a game. I'm not kidding. I just picked it randomly where you were a guy and you farted on people. That was how you attacked people.

[Brian Bates]

I wasn't playing.

[Aaron Weber]

You were just like a little. You were just like a character that you. Your attack was. You farted people.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

And we couldn't believe. We played it all weekend and we returned it. I've been trying to figure out what it was for years.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a weird thing to Google.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, video game where you fart them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not trying to find. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

If you know what the farting game is, let Aaron know.

[Brian Bates]

But it. Yeah. I mean, I was. I had a little short stint with the video games there as. But then I. I was. I out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If I did run across a house that had any kind of Grand Theft Auto, that's a game. That is pretty fun. But I don't. I don't like to do the missions. I just drive the car as fast

[Aaron Weber]

as I can and just open world. Just. Just go out there. Just terrorize the city for a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. You know, you say it was used as a DVD player. It. It was such a big thing that it could play DVDs. At the time. I was watching the West Wing. I was just watching it. There's an episode where a character is talking about he's getting $700 back on his taxes, and they go, what are you gonna do with your $700? And he goes, I'm gonna buy a new DVD player and I'm gonna have enough money left over to buy my favorite movie.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

700 bucks.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So I think they were like that expensive in their early days.

[Brian Bates]

That's insane.

[Aaron Weber]

So when the Xbox could also play DVDs, I think that was a lot of families first. DVD players. Player.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think that was my thinking behind it. I was like, I could play some games. I don't have any friends, but. And then I also can watch dvd.

[Aaron Weber]

You're not making friends through improv yet?

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm. I started making them. Okay. But it. It took me a minute because I moved to Charleston with a friend.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And I was working at Office Depot. There was no one for me to be friends with.

[Aaron Weber]

Where was your friend working?

[Brian Bates]

He was working at Musc. The Medical University of South Carolina. He had a good job and he was around lots of cool people.

[Aaron Weber]

He moved there very differently, but he.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you have a girlfri?

[Brian Bates]

He also moved his girlfriend out.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so. So they didn't want you to come.

[Brian Bates]

Our plan all along was for me and him to move.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then he slipped his girlfriend on us, who is now his wife and they have two kids. And he's still one of my best friends, but we had. We had a rocky beginning.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He still shouldn't have done it.

[Brian Bates]

He shouldn't have done it. No, he shouldn't have.

[Dusty Slay]

You should divorce her now.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm glad he did because had he just been my friend like he said he was going to do, and then I probably would have never taken improv classes. And that's how I found out about stand up comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I could have, you know, gone on to, you know, just live a normal life.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian. I would be sitting here alone.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Going. I ran to this guy at Lowe's today. Little weirdo. He's so drunk.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a good player.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I turned it down.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you think if it wasn't for stand up comedy, you would have visually moved back to Opelika?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, probably so. I mean, I don't know what I.

[Aaron Weber]

You would have moved back. Like William Wallace coming back.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You went out, you conquered the world, now you're coming back.

[Brian Bates]

I'm here to raise a family.

[Aaron Weber]

Family. I don't want to be involved in anything.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they kill your wife and then you have to lead a rebellion.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Now I would have been great. I read on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I sent you a list of the top grossing movies of the year.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

But I read online, I want to get your guys opinion that 2000, 2004 might have been the best movie year ever for comedies.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

So here's a list of some.

[Aaron Weber]

Monetarily or just comedic?

[Dusty Slay]

No, comedically, like. Okay, that have held up. We can look at this list or I'll just tell you.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to hear some of them.

[Dusty Slay]

Mean Girls.

[Aaron Weber]

Mean Girls holds up. Still a great movie classic at the time. Have you ever seen Mean Girls?

[Dusty Slay]

I have. Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. Yeah, I would say it's still a classic now. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They just did a Broadway musical, didn't they?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but, you know, it's not canon.

[Dusty Slay]

Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burger.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Same year.

[Brian Bates]

All right, now we're talking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You didn't like Mean Girls?

[Brian Bates]

No, I did like it, but I don't. I don't keep it in my classics.

[Aaron Weber]

I watch it once a week, probably once a year.

[Dusty Slay]

When I would see Anchorman, the first time I was working in TV news, I was a little disappointed because I thought it was going to be not so whatever it is, you know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Real behind the scenes. How I felt when I saw the movie Waiting.

[Dusty Slay]

I love Anchorman now, but the first time I saw it, I'm like, well, this isn't real TV news at all.

[Aaron Weber]

Part of you just jealous that you didn't have that kind of. You weren't in that kind of crew at the news station.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like, Christine Applegate does not work at ours. Yeah, that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you remember Chris Parnell's character? Yeah, my girlfriend said that would be me. Like just the. The second guy in command, just kind of so. Anchorman. Shaun of the Dead.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that was great. Love that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I love that. Napoleon Dynamite.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, one of my favorites. So great of all time.

[Dusty Slay]

Dodgeball.

[Brian Bates]

Dodgeballs.

[Aaron Weber]

This is a good year.

[Dusty Slay]

White chicks.

[Brian Bates]

White chicks.

[Aaron Weber]

Never saw white chicks.

[Dusty Slay]

Team America. World Police.

[Brian Bates]

Never saw.

[Aaron Weber]

Big movie.

[Brian Bates]

Big movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Along Came Polly.

[Aaron Weber]

It's another big one.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't see it.

[Aaron Weber]

This is in the middle of, like that Ben Stiller. He's on a tear.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Dodgeball and a longy. Polly and. And Vince Fallen, too. Yeah, right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the two. Are they like the kings of comedy?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The term shart. You don't know that term?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I know it.

[Dusty Slay]

Can we say that?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably not.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I'm saying it's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we can decide. Okay. To me. I'm just saying it later. If we cut it out anyway. It didn't originate from that movie, but it became in the design guys, the mainstream from that brought it to the mainstream. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting. Philip Seymour. Hoffman is so funny in that movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, yes.

[Aaron Weber]

He's underrated comedic actor. And do you remember who was Moneyball?

[Brian Bates]

You know, I feel like you guys talked about it and. And I liked him just fine in Moneyball, but honestly, I felt like. Like, what a waste of Philip Seymour Hoffman. He's so great that I'm like, I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, those are such nothing scenes, but he's so good in them that they. They are. Yeah, that's how good he is.

[Brian Bates]

Not much of an arc for him, but I did like that in the moment when he finally goes, put, put, put that guy into. Put that guy into pinch hit.

[Aaron Weber]

But just the little things where he's like, I don't care about righty versus lefty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's so great.

[Dusty Slay]

He is so great. So anyway, those are a list of some of the comedies that. I mean, that's a pretty classic list, for sure. And that list, I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

And is this the beginning of kind of the DVD boom? I'm guessing we're in the middle of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Because all these movies, they do well in the theaters, but then it's a DVD rush. I feel like every kid in America, you're getting a movie like this.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's why they say we don't get more comedies, because the. The comedies didn't necessarily have to do well in the box office. It helped, but they would all get, you know, the residual, the dvd, and now that never comes. So it's not worth it to take the risk on a comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't get it from streaming.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess so. But I think it.

[Brian Bates]

I think you get some payment. But not like. Not like the old.

[Dusty Slay]

That list I sent you, like, Friday Night lights was like 48th. Wow. I mean, that was a. A. That's a pretty strong year for movies in General.

[Aaron Weber]

The number one movie of 2004, Shrek 2 grossed $441 million.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

That came out in May, so that's half the year. Spider Man 2 made 373 million. Passion of the Christ made almost 400 million. That movie was. You saw that on Good Friday. My grandpa.

[Dusty Slay]

You seen that, Dusty? No, it's based on the book.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I never will say it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, the Village, we've talked about that recently. Fahrenheit 9, 11.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, the grudge. I went to see that with my friend.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched it on an Xbox.

[Brian Bates]

My friend Hayden's house, I went to see. This was back When I was, you know, I went. I saw the Grudge with my friend and then we movies. Hopped and watched. Saw. And that was probably the last horror movies I ever watched.

[Aaron Weber]

Those are two pretty intense ones.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Saw especially.

[Brian Bates]

We did them in the same night.

[Aaron Weber]

They did about 18 more saws after that.

[Brian Bates]

This was me and my friend when we were. You know, I think we were.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I was a different friend. Don't act like you don't have a history of this. Remember a couple of years ago, 2002? He and his buddy are.

[Brian Bates]

Well, no, that's. I'm still an opal, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You've grown out of this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Doing the naked thing.

[Aaron Weber]

You're fully clothed in Charleston.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Still sometimes. But not as much.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Not on movie night.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm sorry I interrupted your.

[Brian Bates]

But it was my friend that I moved there with and I think we had got into a fight. Moved out of apartment. Because we moved there together. And then we moved out of apartments and then I think his girlfriend moved home and then they had a fight. So then we became friends again.

[Dusty Slay]

That's good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then we moved to Folly beach together. I think we either. That might have been 2005. We'll save it for then. But we moved there later after the Sergeant Jasper. Big building downtown. The big building. I don't know, 15.

[Aaron Weber]

Rent was like 10 million.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I had to stay there for a decade.

[Aaron Weber]

I had to sign a lease for this decade.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I was so young, younger back then that I

[Aaron Weber]

turned it down.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm giving you guys a little quiz.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a four question quiz. Gets harder.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it. Are these multiple choice or open ended?

[Dusty Slay]

They're open ended, but we're going to go back and forth.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll start with you, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this a competition?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Between me and Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And they get harder each question.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, God, I can't wait.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty. 2004, there was a presidential election. Who won? Who was elected president?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, 2004. George W. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Beat whom?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay, that's part of the question.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron, who did he beat?

[Aaron Weber]

John Kerry.

[Dusty Slay]

Correct.

[Brian Bates]

Skull and bones.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty. Who was George Bush's vice president?

[Brian Bates]

Dick Cheney.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, the final question. Who was John Kerry's John Edwards? You guys nailed it.

[Aaron Weber]

Got all four.

[Dusty Slay]

Way to go.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the whole quiz?

[Dusty Slay]

I said it was a four question quiz.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I thought that was all parts

[Brian Bates]

of the first question. What secret society do they both belong to?

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

There's the tuck rule. Play was the week before, right?

[Dusty Slay]

No, this is something that happened during the Super Bowl.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, this is Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

[Dusty Slay]

The wardrobe malfunction.

[Aaron Weber]

The wardrobe malfunction.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Classic wardrobe malfunction. That's what I've always said.

[Dusty Slay]

I was just thinking, though, can you imagine my pants?

[Brian Bates]

The pants failed.

[Aaron Weber]

It wasn't the pants.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He's just saying if it was him. Well, I mean, for him and the whole clothes. But did you watch it with your buddy and y' all did your own. I'm sorry, I keep. Can you imagine, though, if you're out of venator, you had a game welding. Game welding.

[Brian Bates]

You're really making it seem like it was something people haven't watched other episodes. You're making it seem like it's something.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, brief summary. Dusty used to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just close off with another friend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but at a party with other people. People. It wasn't just the two of us hanging out.

[Aaron Weber]

They're not freaks. They're doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

Then the other people would leave.

[Brian Bates]

Well, no, they stayed. It was. This is the only place you had to go?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

This was the party.

[Aaron Weber]

There was nowhere else.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Can you imagine, though, if you're out of Ventilator, you had a gaming field goal, and then the next day. Did you see that kick?

[Aaron Weber]

It's all man.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you see halftime? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

It's hard to imagine that causing that much of an outrage now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Right. Because our society's crumbled so much that in some ways. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

So something.

[Brian Bates]

Nowadays we're like, I can't believe she was wearing that much clothes. You believe it? What is this, Mormon?

[Dusty Slay]

Here's an interesting tidbit about that. TiVo was a relatively new thing, and it was the most rewound thing in the history. TiVo by far.

[Aaron Weber]

Because the guys like you see. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Brian Bates]

Wait.

[Dusty Slay]

Did I just see what I thought I saw? Rewind it.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

They have the data on that or

[Dusty Slay]

are they just assuming it said company representative stated the audience measurement guys have never seen anything like it. The audience reaction charts look like a electrocardiogram. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I bet.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Nate has a joke about TiVo, but I was kind of the same way. I could not get my head around how you. You could pause live shows and rewind it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you have tivo at this point, do you think?

[Dusty Slay]

I think my first DVR came from the cable company that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That I was using. I don't think I ever had a TiVo.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I didn't either.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

You record stuff on VHS from the tv? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That way they don't have your data when you're rewinding.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't. I don't like the TiVo knows what I'm rewinding.

[Dusty Slay]

I did not remember this, but Janet Jackson, right after the super bowl, was supposed to perform at the Grammys a tribute to Luther Vandross. And because of the incident, they took her off.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

She turned it down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, sure. She was so bummed. So they still paid. She goes, are they still paying 15 million?

[Dusty Slay]

Some TV shows that ended and some TV shows that started in 2000 before ended friends.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow. That was big.

[Dusty Slay]

One of the most watch.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you watch Friends when it was

[Dusty Slay]

on some of the early seasons, I did, and then I stopped.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it was something I was like, allow. I don't know, allowed to watch or what. I never watched It. When it was on. I've since seen the whole thing.

[Dusty Slay]

I have, too.

[Brian Bates]

I liked it.

[Aaron Weber]

It was. It was. Wasn't like a big cultural moment when it ended. Like, everybody watched that finale, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it wasn't.

[Aaron Weber]

Not quite like the MASH finale, but

[Dusty Slay]

it said it wasn't as much as Seinfeld or some of the others.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think the last couple of seasons, people lost a bit of interest.

[Dusty Slay]

Like so many shows, it went way too long.

[Aaron Weber]

52.5 million viewers compared to. It was the fifth most watched television series finale in American history and the most watched TV episode of the 2000s decade.

[Brian Bates]

But if it had ended two years earlier, it might have been number one.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know.

[Aaron Weber]

Know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You'll never know. Where are they now?

[Dusty Slay]

Some other shows that ended in 2004. Sex in the City.

[Aaron Weber]

It ended.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course it came back.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course it did. It did movies and then it came back later. Frasier.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

The Practice.

[Aaron Weber]

The Practice.

[Dusty Slay]

I never watched Star Trek, Enterprise, the Drew Carey show.

[Brian Bates]

I love that show.

[Dusty Slay]

Rugrats.

[Brian Bates]

Rugrats.

[Aaron Weber]

Rugrats is big. I think I was a little. A little too old for Rugrats at this point. Point.

[Dusty Slay]

Some shows that premiered in 2004, lost.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that was a. I mean, right out of the gate. That was pretty much a huge.

[Aaron Weber]

And everybody. That was a water cooler.

[Dusty Slay]

Water cooler, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody did. She. She lost last night. What day. Do you remember the day of the week it would come out on?

[Brian Bates]

I watched the DVDs, but season one. Unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, it was a great show.

[Dusty Slay]

I did not watch it when it was on, so I can't remember.

[Aaron Weber]

You remember people talking about it?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I try to watch the. The finale.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, try to catch up at the very end. And obviously I can't appreciate it. And I don't think they thought it. The finale was that great.

[Aaron Weber]

If you, like, missed. Let's say you hear people talking about it at work and you're like, oh, I'd like to watch that. How would you catch back up back then? Would they air reruns?

[Brian Bates]

The DVR? Maybe you had recorded it but have

[Aaron Weber]

DVRs at this point. You know, like, how would I catch back up with loss?

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good question.

[Brian Bates]

You'd just be lost. It's all part of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Getting the full experience. We don't know what's going on either.

[Dusty Slay]

Some other shows that debuted, Entourage, Desperate Housewives, Veronica Mars, House, Maryland.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. It seems like 2004 was the beginning of the downfall.

[Aaron Weber]

Some great shows in that the Apprentice. You don't like any of this?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You like House? House was awesome.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know it.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, where Hugh Laurie plays the doctor and he's like, you know, he's troubled. It's a complicated figure and he's mean to everybody and he does, you know, something illegal every episode. But he's the best doctor in the world, so they let him do it.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I never saw it. I did.

[Aaron Weber]

I do remember hearing it's a nice. If you like procedural shows like that where you can just kind of jump in and watch an episode or each episode there's some new case that that's brought to him and he has to figure out what.

[Dusty Slay]

You like that. Well, you don't have to wait every episode for the next True. Yeah. Drake and Josh. Did you watch that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, of course.

[Dusty Slay]

You comment on it every week.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

What about this? Ned's Declassified School Survival Guy?

[Aaron Weber]

I never. I never really watched that.

[Dusty Slay]

But you know it. I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course I know it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What about this? Unfabulous.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I've never heard of it. What is unfabulous?

[Brian Bates]

That was another one of the Emma's on Nickelodeon.

[Aaron Weber]

Emma Roberts.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Yeah. Julia Roberts niece, I believe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. How about that?

[Aaron Weber]

I have no idea if that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Top rated Comedy Central show, though. 2004 was the Chappelle Show.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Those DVDs were big, too. I remember in college, yo, I got the Chappelle show on dvd if y' all want to hang out. We were like, what?

[Brian Bates]

I have two copies, just case one gets scratched.

[Aaron Weber]

Of which season?

[Brian Bates]

All of them.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

At the Golden Globes, 24 won best drama.

[Aaron Weber]

24.

[Dusty Slay]

And the best comedy was the Office, the BBC version.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

This is when I first learned about. I was. I remember watching the Golden Globes. I never heard of it. They showed a scene and it was so funny. Ricky Gervais was so funny. And I'm like, man, I want to watch this. And I went out and rented the whole. I think the whole thing is only two seasons in a special.

[Aaron Weber]

And it was great, right?

[Dusty Slay]

And it was so funny.

[Brian Bates]

So good.

[Dusty Slay]

I still think it's. I mean, I love, obviously, the American version, but the British version, it's tonally very different.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's better, too. And I. And I watched it after watching the American version, and I didn't think I would like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The first episode, I was like, I'm not gonna like this, but I do think it's better. It got me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I watched it first. So. The first American. Because the very first episode, the Americans, word for word, the same. I believe the pilot is. The pilot is. And obviously these new characters, I'm like, they don't. They're not like them. But then it wear. I mean, then it. You. I fell in love with the American version.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But the office American went way too long.

[Aaron Weber]

It went a few seasons.

[Dusty Slay]

We just wear out these shows.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

At the Country Music Awards, Kenny Chesney won Entertainer of the Year and his album when the Sun Goes Down. One album of the year.

[Brian Bates]

Love that song.

[Aaron Weber]

What's that song?

[Brian Bates]

When the Sun Go. It's with Uncle Cracker. We'll be grooving when the sun goes Feeling all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

The sun sing a fun, fun song over the water Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down this is for you, Kathy. When the sun goes down we'll be grooving yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Uncle Cracker's having a real moment at this point.

[Brian Bates]

Is he?

[Aaron Weber]

Right. Oh, in 2004, I don't know. Maybe now. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

But. So that was country music. What was going on? But a 14 year old girl from Pennsylvania, her dad relocates to Nashville so she can pursue country music. Her name was Taylor Swift.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. In 2004.

[Dusty Slay]

2004 she moved here and she. She signed with Sony ATV Tree Music Publishing at 14, the youngest person to do that. But then she did a showcase show at the Bluebird and Scott Borchetta was there and he had just started a new record label called Big Machine Records and she signed with Big Machine.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever eat bruschetta?

[Brian Bates]

I have Applebee's used to have a bruschetta burger and I was probably a burger. I was probably eating that in about 2004 in. In Charleston, I would go to Applebee sometimes to get a bruschetta burger. That is true.

[Aaron Weber]

It all connects.

[Brian Bates]

That is true.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you think that's some great insight. Do you think. Do you think Taylor Swift is the most famous woman in the world?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Over Dolly. Pardon?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

I just saw people were buying trash from her wedding.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

On ebay.

[Dusty Slay]

How much it costs? I'm asking, what did you buy?

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't buy any. I think they were selling it for 25 bucks a pop and they sold out bags of truck.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But does that. I guess it would like famous. Like, like. Yeah. That's insane.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But like well known, well known, name wise. I don't know I just look at.

[Aaron Weber]

So what's the metric that you would use? Ticket sales. If ticket sales aren't.

[Brian Bates]

Not tickets.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Just name recognition.

[Aaron Weber]

Name recognition.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

She's up there, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

But I. I would think.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, she's up there with anybody. Not just women, but I mean, she's got to be one of the top.

[Brian Bates]

Who else is there now? I kind of missed two women. Her.

[Aaron Weber]

But was. Was.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd say Oprah is up there.

[Aaron Weber]

Oprah was Dolly Parton, mainstream pop star in the way that Taylor Swift is.

[Brian Bates]

Well, she was an actress. She had few movies.

[Aaron Weber]

I know that for sure. But I'm wondering if she was.

[Dusty Slay]

No, never as big as what Taylor Swift is now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

She's just stood the test of time and more beloved now than ever. Yeah, right.

[Aaron Weber]

But even I think you can make the longevity argument with Taylor Swift now. I mean, it's been. It's been 15 years since.

[Brian Bates]

Did you cry during the wedding?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, dude. I wasn't at the wedding.

[Brian Bates]

Did you live stream it?

[Aaron Weber]

They did live stream it. They've been very protective of 15 years since.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess 2000?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, she's been 20 years that she's been successful.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Since. Since she's been at it. So at a certain point, you have to make a longevity argument for her too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, obviously not as long as Dolly Parton, but if, you know, if things don't slow down for another 10 years.

[Brian Bates]

Jennifer Lopez, Insane Jennifer Lopez. She got the whole Latino world.

[Dusty Slay]

She's very famous.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

I would say until a couple years ago, Queen Elizabeth.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, if just talking about rate name recognition.

[Brian Bates]

Right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

She's on, like, the money of, like, 30 countries.

[Aaron Weber]

She is on the money.

[Brian Bates]

On the money. Is that what they mean by that expression?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess so.

[Brian Bates]

When you're on the money, you're spot on.

[Aaron Weber]

On the money. The expression, the idiom on the money means being. Exactly right. Okay. It's typically. Yeah, I know what it means. Originated in the US during the late 19th century. It likely comes from horse race betting or gambling, where you putting your bet on the money meant backing the winning horse.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right, Back to horse racing.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how we started this. Look at everything comes from full circle, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Everything does some celebrity deaths.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, now that we're back where we started, let's talk about dying.

[Dusty Slay]

Ronald Reagan.

[Aaron Weber]

Ronald Reagan, 2004. And then Nancy hung on for. For a bit. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

A little bit longer. Yeah. Marlon Brando.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I never knew much about him.

[Dusty Slay]

He was an actor. He played Superman's dad. Do you know that?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he did.

[Aaron Weber]

What's his face's dad?

[Brian Bates]

Jor El.

[Aaron Weber]

Who was Superman at that time?

[Dusty Slay]

Christopher Reeves.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, he played Christopher Reeve's dad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Christopher Reeve also died in 2004.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

Who played his mom? Do you remember?

[Dusty Slay]

I can see her. I don't know if she was.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the guy's name again?

[Dusty Slay]

Marlon Brando.

[Aaron Weber]

No, the Super Christmas. Yeah. Who played his mom? Susanna York.

[Dusty Slay]

Classic Susanna.

[Brian Bates]

Right up there with Taylor Swift. And famous. And famous.

[Aaron Weber]

Savannah York. This woman right here. Yeah, it was an English actress.

[Brian Bates]

All right. She really nailed it.

[Aaron Weber]

She won't die for another seven years,

[Brian Bates]

but she really nailed the part.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Ray Charles.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow. When did the Ray movie come out?

[Dusty Slay]

Was that pretty soon after, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Was he involved? Did he ever meet Jamie Foxx?

[Dusty Slay]

I think they didn't meet, and I think he died while they were shooting it.

[Aaron Weber]

Dang.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Movies are stressful.

[Dusty Slay]

Ray Charles was awesome. Rick James.

[Aaron Weber]

We're losing a lot of icons.

[Dusty Slay]

Rodney Dangerfield.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, gosh.

[Dusty Slay]

He was a great. I don't think he gets the respect he deserves.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was good. Yeah. People will say that didn't get what it deserved. Yeah, people will say that in the

[Dusty Slay]

comments because I don't get the. No respect.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Some celebrity bursts. Millie. Bobby Brown.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay. So she's. Yeah. These are people that are 22. 22. 22 to 2021. 22.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Depending on when the birthday is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Coco Goth.

[Aaron Weber]

The tennis player.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep. Victor women, Yama.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

You know him?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know any of these people.

[Aaron Weber]

Victor, Women, Yama. They call him the alien dude. I'm gonna show you a picture of what this guy looks like.

[Dusty Slay]

Aliens look like.

[Brian Bates]

It's.

[Aaron Weber]

Look how tall he is, man.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Seven foot five and he's nimble, dude. He's like. He's so athletic and he's so good, but he's just. Look how tall he is.

[Brian Bates]

Gosh.

[Aaron Weber]

7 foot 5.

[Brian Bates]

Think about those socks he's wearing. Gosh. Imagine sewing those in a sweatshop somewhere. Gosh.

[Dusty Slay]

Like pants.

[Aaron Weber]

Those are ankle socks. Yeah. Yeah, I guess He's. Yeah, he's 22. Golly.

[Dusty Slay]

The iPod mini came out in 2004.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't remember the Mini as much. The shuffle would come out later. Right. Okay. Firefox, Mozilla.

[Dusty Slay]

Mozilla.

[Aaron Weber]

Firefox.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great Browser.

[Dusty Slay]

Gmail started 2004.

[Aaron Weber]

Gmail was big. I remember Gmail coming out and their whole thing. Gmail teaches the big moments in my life.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

With Gmail, their whole thing was hovercraft.

[Aaron Weber]

You remember email?

[Brian Bates]

You probably had hovercraftmail.com.

[Aaron Weber]

do you remember email? Before Gmail, it was like you had such. You had little space. You had to delete emails because you would run out of storage space on your email. That was a big thing. And then Gmail came out and they were like, you basically have. You have two gigabytes of storage. Which is not a lot now, but at the time it was like, insane. And then. You'll never have to delete emails again.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Revolutionary.

[Dusty Slay]

That is so 2004 now.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I reckon we all use Gmail in this room, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Hotmail.

[Aaron Weber]

Your hotmail.

[Dusty Slay]

What's Gmail?

[Aaron Weber]

Brianol.com.

[Dusty Slay]

no, I use Gmail.

[Brian Bates]

I remember making jokes about Gmail, though, because 50 Cent had the G unit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I would say G. You know, Gmail, like, it's like, you know, G unit is like the, you know, gangster. So it's like gangster mail. Gmail. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Early dust.

[Aaron Weber]

How long did you do that?

[Brian Bates]

This wasn't a joke. Oh, well, it was, but you were

[Aaron Weber]

doing this on stage.

[Brian Bates]

Just in life.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I go.

[Aaron Weber]

It's just for parties.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Where are the Simpsons?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. People got it back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

You guys don't even like Uncle Buck. I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, it was a good joke.

[Brian Bates]

Or two.

[Aaron Weber]

2004. It's a good joke. Now

[Dusty Slay]

I'll share a little sports. I don't want to bore you, but just some quick things.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

We did 45 minutes on Uncle Buck. We can talk sports for a few.

[Brian Bates]

We did talk Moneyball, though.

[Aaron Weber]

You did? Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

In 2000.

[Aaron Weber]

Appreciate you watching it.

[Dusty Slay]

Or. There were three college football teams that went undefeated. And USC, Oklahoma and Auburn.

[Aaron Weber]

And Auburn. And Auburn got snubbed.

[Dusty Slay]

USC blue. Oklahoma out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Which is crazy to think about because every. The joke everybody makes now is the SEC gets preferential treatment from everybody. That would just never happen now.

[Brian Bates]

I think Auburn now has that national championship.

[Aaron Weber]

They retroactive. Do they claim it because they had to vacate it?

[Brian Bates]

I think so. Because USC got knocked out. Because of what, Reggie Bush.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then they seemed like Oklahoma would still. I feel like they determined that Auburn would have beat Oklahoma.

[Aaron Weber]

They just said they would have beat him.

[Dusty Slay]

So we're going to give this to you.

[Aaron Weber]

Auburn officially claims the 2024 National Championship.

[Brian Bates]

You get it?

[Aaron Weber]

The 2004 National Championship. Undefeated 13 and no season.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? That was Jason. Was that a Cadillac? Ronnie Brown. It was Jason Campbell, the quarterback at that. At that time.

[Dusty Slay]

I think he was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They were good. Good teams. Big college, though.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even know what y' all are laughing.

[Aaron Weber]

Keep slipping into that.

[Brian Bates]

It's too good.

[Aaron Weber]

It's.

[Brian Bates]

The meme is the video has swept the Internet.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you're talking about the guys that turn it down.

[Brian Bates]

Turned it down. I love that people made fun. They try to make fun of you the first time. Like saying you were doing some accent because they were saying turned it down. It's like, that's what he says, turned it down. I turned it down.

[Aaron Weber]

Turn it down.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, come on off.

[Aaron Weber]

So big college.

[Dusty Slay]

Matt Leiner won the Heisman Trophy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The first player drafted the NFL draft was Eli Manning. Eli. To the Charger.

[Aaron Weber]

The Chargers.

[Dusty Slay]

And then he said, I'm not playing there.

[Aaron Weber]

Not going to play with the Chargers.

[Dusty Slay]

So they traded him to the Giants.

[Aaron Weber]

The Giant. Who did the Chargers end up with?

[Dusty Slay]

Philip Rivers.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That was a great.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

That's Philip Rivers, Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, all went pretty early in the first round and all had arguably good careers.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Hall of Fame.

[Dusty Slay]

Hall of Fame careers. The first player taking the Major League Baseball draft was Matt Bush. Things didn't work out for him. But the second player drafted was Justin Verlander. Wow. Who's still playing.

[Aaron Weber]

Who is just announced he's retiring and is in the All Star Game this weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or to future. Last night, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

The Boston Red Sox ended his 86 year losing streak winning the World Series.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. After Moneyball. After Moneyball happened.

[Brian Bates]

Happened two years after. Two years after using the same techniques that they used some of them. That's what it says in the movie.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what's so fun? I'm gonna blow your mind about that Moneyball movie. They all the Oakland A's also had the MVP that year and he's never mentioned in the movie.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And they had like some of the best pitching in the major league and they're never mentioned in them.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So you would leave that stuff. Was it Jermaine Dye? Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember Barry Zito.

[Brian Bates]

Some might say that's kind of an emotional. Emotional manipulation.

[Dusty Slay]

Some would say that,

[Aaron Weber]

yeah. Yeah. Oh, wait.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, of course.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Brian Bates]

Of course. Miriam Hogue wouldn't say that, but wasn't the mvp.

[Aaron Weber]

But he was Good. Very, very good.

[Brian Bates]

You know what? It's funny. I was working with Connor now. He later looked it up, and I'm glad he did, because I told him. Because I was telling him we. We're on the same flight, and I was telling him that I just watched Moneyball. And I go, it's really great. I go, I love that he didn't take the money. And he goes, yeah, only to leave a couple of years later and take the money. And I go, what? And we talked about that for 30 minutes. And then when we get in the car, he looks it up. He goes, oh, actually, I guess he didn't. And I go, well, I'm glad you looked that up, because I would not have looked it up. And I'd have gone in guns blazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Is he still with the A's?

[Brian Bates]

He's a part owner now. Minority owner.

[Dusty Slay]

He's white.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't find my list of top songs of 2004, but I think I sent you, Destiny, the top songs of 2004.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, you did.

[Brian Bates]

See if I can come up.

[Aaron Weber]

Pull it up here. Top songs. Okay, the first one is obvious. This is a big middle school dance song for me.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, to the window.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that was up there.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Sorry, I just saw a little John.

[Aaron Weber]

No, but it's. Yeah, sure. I mean, that song.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Who were you dancing with in middle school?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you're just kind of. It's just a.

[Dusty Slay]

You're out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Just an amorphous blob. Yeah, you're just. You just get.

[Brian Bates]

Just on that hoverboard out there ripping it up.

[Dusty Slay]

His dad let him in the gym early.

[Aaron Weber]

What's up, girl? You want let me take off one

[Brian Bates]

of these cinder blocks and we'll make some wait for you?

[Aaron Weber]

My school cafeteria. Oh, man.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

The reason by Hubastank was number six. God, what a great song.

[Brian Bates]

That was the way you move. Oh, yeah, that was a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Some good songs out here.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know Usher.

[Aaron Weber]

You know Usher.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I do know that song.

[Brian Bates]

You don't know. I like the way you move.

[Dusty Slay]

I do. I do know that song.

[Brian Bates]

I like that way.

[Aaron Weber]

I like them about Freak a leak by Petey Pablo. Were you bumping that at the news station?

[Brian Bates]

I did have before Some Petey Pablo took his shirt off. Twist it around your head Spinning like a helicopter. North Carolina. You guys know that one? Come on, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Brian Bates]

Don't leave me hanging.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm gonna hear you sing it. Dirt off your shoulder by Jay Z. Big one. All right. So I don't know any of these. Yeah. First cut is the Deepest by Cheryl Crowe.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I do know that.

[Aaron Weber]

You know that.

[Dusty Slay]

That's the first one. I. I really.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me scroll all the way down to the bait songs here.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Twister. He was just at the Hollywood Casino the night before Me milkshake.

[Aaron Weber]

You remember that song?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, I know that.

[Aaron Weber]

Jesus Walks by. Kanye West.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of these have. They've lived on over the last 22 years.

[Brian Bates]

Ludicrous has a song about telling people to get out of the way, you know, and who specifically? Yeah, he just. Anybody, really.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I saw a poster for him.

[Aaron Weber]

Move, friend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Get out the way, friend. Get out. Yeah, that's good. And there was a cardboard cut out of him at the Atlanta airport holding a sign saying, how was your travel experience? So I just think that's a nice character arc he's had.

[Dusty Slay]

Ludicrous.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He's in commercials.

[Aaron Weber]

What an evolution.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. To go for it. Get out of my way to. How. How was it? I mean, I've been to all the area codes, and what does he have

[Aaron Weber]

on all the area codes?

[Brian Bates]

He's got. He's got a lot going on.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know the song. So tell me, what. What does he have?

[Brian Bates]

He has women.

[Aaron Weber]

I've got women.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what he calls them.

[Aaron Weber]

Or gardening tools in different area code.

[Dusty Slay]

A shovel.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, I've got shovels.

[Dusty Slay]

General Motors phased out. The Oldsmobile. Oldsmobile rolled off. The smell.

[Aaron Weber]

So while all these fun things are happening in pop culture, there's some real dark stuff budding in the background.

[Dusty Slay]

There is?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A lot of Americans are about to be without a job pretty soon, huh? About four years away from the housing crisis, GM is cutting vehicles from its line.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

A giant, giant earthquake and tsunami hit the day after Christmas.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Where?

[Dusty Slay]

You remember this?

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, which one was it?

[Dusty Slay]

The one in Southeast Asia.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it was a real bad one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You got to give me some more context.

[Dusty Slay]

The one that is one of the worst natural disasters in history.

[Aaron Weber]

Obviously. Would never joke about that.

[Dusty Slay]

There was a movie. What? Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds bad. Whatever. It was a movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Was it. Wasn't there a movie about the tsunami? I want to say it was about the tsunami.

[Aaron Weber]

Johnny. Tsunami.

[Brian Bates]

Blue Lagoon.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Brian Bates]

The family that got separated, then they found their way back to each other.

[Dusty Slay]

What's it called?

[Aaron Weber]

Boy in the Striped pajamas.

[Brian Bates]

What are we talking about, Peter Pan?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Can you just see it?

[Aaron Weber]

Tsunami.

[Dusty Slay]

Matt Damon had a.

[Aaron Weber]

The impossible.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that it? Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How is that?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, look at little Tom Holland. A young Tom Holland.

[Dusty Slay]

Tom Holland.

[Brian Bates]

Also Harry Holland and Sam Holland and

[Aaron Weber]

Naomi Watts from the Ring.

[Dusty Slay]

And you and McGregor.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this the movie you're talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

I guess so. I thought maybe Matt Damon had one,

[Aaron Weber]

but I guess Maria, Henry and their three kids decide to spend Christmas in Thailand. Okay. However, their luxurious holiday turns into a nightmare when a tsunami swells up unannounced, thereby separating.

[Brian Bates]

Good movie.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, 81 on rotten tomatoes Is Naomi Watts.

[Brian Bates]

Not sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Jewel.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wait, she looks like Jewel.

[Aaron Weber]

She looks a little bit like Jewel.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But she's an actress. She kind of does her own thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. She looks like Jewel, though. Maybe she plays Jewel.

[Dusty Slay]

She was a mid for her.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Macaulay Culkin plays Kid Rock.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, maybe wants Is Jewel maybe. I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Let's cut that as a clip.

[Aaron Weber]

Top pick for Geraldine Chaplin here. And then it doesn't help that that the. The role name is old woman. That is tough if you're Geraldine Chaplin. Can we get another picture?

[Brian Bates]

Eyes. What is going on with all black Eyes?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I don't even think she had to audition.

[Brian Bates]

They made a part for. I wasn't even going to be an old woman in this.

[Aaron Weber]

That's too bad, man.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, we could wrap it up there.

[Aaron Weber]

We can wrap it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Something fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the Tsunami.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Old woman.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, all right. So this weekend I am at comedy off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday.

[Aaron Weber]

Great club.

[Dusty Slay]

Then it is great club. And I'm with Mark. Shellifu is with me.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep. And next weekend I am at the funny farm comedy club in Goshen, Indiana. Abe hours with me there.

[Aaron Weber]

You swing by South Bend. It's close. Maybe Goshen's close.

[Dusty Slay]

And then that's July 31 and August 1. And then August 2, I'm at helium in Indianapolis.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, Aaron Weber here. This weekend I'm going to be in Royal Oak, Michigan, at the comedy Castle. I've never been. I've heard great things about it. I'm excited to be there this weekend. July 16th, 17th and 18th at the Comedy Castle n land. Family friend Jay Flake will be with me. So coming out and see the black and mild tour in Royal Oak, Michigan the next month. Heading back to Phoenix, Arizona, August 28th through the 30th at Desert Ridge Improv. Coming out and see me.

[Brian Bates]

All right, I'm gonna hit you with a couple here Tonight I'm at the Opry.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Brian Bates]

This weekend I'm in Atlanta.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't go to the bathroom this.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. This weekend I'm in Atlantic City. July 22nd. Our Let Loose open mic that we've started going here at the lab at Zany's. It's been hot. People are loving it. Yeah, the last one that we had, it was really hot. People love it. We got a lot of bucket spots. If you want to do comedy, this is the time to do it and just come see a fun show. I'm also. Then I'm gonna be. I got my. Then we got another Let loose on the 5th. I mean, it's every other week now. I'm gonna be in Providence, Rhode Island. Uh, August. August 6th through the 8th. Zany's. I'll be here on August 11th. Then I'm doing some Air Force bases. I got two weekends of Air Force bases.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

It's going to be great. Rounded.

[Aaron Weber]

Any space force this time?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Rounding out with a casino in Hobbs, New Mexico, on August 29th. So just throwing a few out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on out and see us.

[Brian Bates]

We're all professional comedians doing a variety of things, from casinos to Air Force basis to comedy clubs. Comedy clubs to.

[Aaron Weber]

What are some of the spaghetti dinners?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, spaghetti dinners. You did a couple of those?

[Dusty Slay]

Sure.

[Brian Bates]

And we'll do anything.

[Aaron Weber]

I just realized I'm wearing a Dolly Parton. The truck stop, the new one, she just.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, did you go there?

[Aaron Weber]

I stopped there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How'd it go?

[Aaron Weber]

It's all right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You slot there or you drove an hour south to go.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a show in Alabama. I passed it and I went on

[Brian Bates]

the way back because she seems like she was really talking some smack about. It was.

[Aaron Weber]

It was, wasn't. It was. It wasn't a BUC EE's. Yeah, it was a. Like a nice Dolly.

[Brian Bates]

Can't do no.

[Aaron Weber]

With Dolly Parton merch.

[Brian Bates]

She can't do no brisket.

[Aaron Weber]

She can't do no brisket? Yeah, she can't do no brisket. You're only open nine to five. Is that good?

[Brian Bates]

Working nine to five. What a way to make a living.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you, guys. God bless.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm running the show. Thank you, guys. God bless. And dusty.

[Brian Bates]

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