254: #254 Commercials

Summary

Summary of The Nateland Podcast Episode 254: #254 Commercials

Introduction and Host Dynamics

The episode kicks off with Brian Bates welcoming listeners to "The Nateland Podcast," noting that Nate Bargatze is absent due to his movie filming commitments. Hosts Dusty Slay and Aaron Weber engage in playful banter about Nate’s absence and their status as professional comedians.

Personal Stories and Flight Experiences

The conversation transitions to personal anecdotes, including Dusty's recent turbulent flight experience. Dusty shares his ordeal when turbulence prevented flight attendants from moving, leading to heightened anxiety among passengers ([04:00]). He humorously recounts interactions with fellow passengers, including a particularly oblivious traveler engrossed in his phone ([05:01]).

Listener Comments and Interactions

The hosts dive into listener comments sourced from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and more. They share heartfelt and humorous feedback, including a notable comment praising their friendship:

• Brian Bates ([14:58]): "With all the playful ribbing and loads of genuine laughter, you all embody the true meaning of friendship."

Dusty attempts to read the comment sincerely, adding a layer of sarcasm that highlights their camaraderie and the lighthearted nature of their interactions.

Transition to Commercials

Aaron Weber steers the conversation toward the episode's main topic: commercials. He introduces the idea of discussing and performing impressions of famous commercials, setting the stage for an engaging segment on advertising ([40:52]).

Discussion on Favorite and Iconic Commercials

The hosts engage in an animated discussion about their favorite commercials and those that have left a lasting impact. Key highlights include:

• Geico Gecko: Aaron praises the longevity and popularity of the Geico Gecko, noting its cultural impact.

  • Aaron Weber ([55:18]): "The Geico Gecko started in 1999. He's been around for a while. 15 minutes could save you 15% on your car insurance. Everybody knows that."

• Allstate's Mayhem: Brian expresses his fondness for Allstate's Mayhem character, appreciating the blend of humor and relatability.

  • Brian Bates ([53:39]): "The Mayhem Allstate... That's the best. I love that character."

• Apple's 1984 Super Bowl Commercial: The hosts reminisce about Apple’s groundbreaking commercial that introduced the Macintosh, discussing its status as one of the best commercials ever despite the Macintosh's initial market performance.

• Classic Ads: They touch upon other iconic commercials like Coca-Cola's "Mean Joe Greene" and the "Where’s the Beef?" campaign, analyzing what made these ads memorable and effective.

Evolution and Impact of Commercials

The discussion moves to the evolution of commercials, highlighting the shift from longer formats (60 seconds) to shorter ones (15 seconds) to match diminishing viewer attention spans. They debate the effectiveness and artistic value of contemporary ads compared to classic ones.

• Brian Bates ([46:02]): "Most of my Life, it's been 30, but now 15 is more prevalent than even 30, because people's attention span just keeps getting shorter."

Memorable and Controversial Commercials

Hosts reflect on commercials that have sparked controversy or left a significant mark:

• Pepsi's Unity Commercial: They discuss the backlash Pepsi faced with its Kendall Jenner ad, where the intended message of unity was misinterpreted.

• Subliminal Messaging: Aaron brings up the infamous 1957 case of subliminal advertising with a Market Researcher’s controversial claims, leading to broader discussions on the ethics and effectiveness of subliminal messages in advertising.

  • Aaron Weber ([80:07]): "There's the famous case that I always heard about... He called it subliminal advertising."

Interactive Segment: Singing Jingles

A standout segment of the episode is an interactive jingle-singing session. The hosts perform and parody famous commercial jingles, showcasing their comedic talents and creativity:

• Life Alert: Dusty humorously reenacts the "I've fallen and I can't get up" jingle, adding his own comedic twist.

• Kit Kat: Brian sings the iconic "Give me a break," infusing it with humor and personality.

• Meow Mix: They perform the classic "Meow Mix" jingle, eliciting laughs and nostalgia.

Creating Their Own Commercials

The hosts brainstorm humorous ideas for their own commercials, poking fun at traditional advertising tropes and emphasizing their unique comedic voices:

• Brian's Ad Idea: "Come to my show. It's a relatively clean show. Bring your aunt; you won't be embarrassed that you brought her."

• Dusty's Ad Idea: A spoof where Dusty rejects a kid’s offer of Coke, humorously critiquing the overuse of promotional products.

Sponsorship and Show Promotions

While advertisements are interspersed throughout the episode, following the user's instructions, these segments are omitted from the summary to focus on content discussions.

Event Announcements and Show Dates

Towards the end, the hosts announce upcoming shows and events:

• Brian Bates shares his tour schedule in California and a fundraiser event at Zany's on October 22nd.

  • Brian Bates ([102:16]): "This weekend I'm going to be in California... June 24th... June 29th, I'm back at the Grand Ole Opry."

• Dusty Slay promotes his own comedy shows and expresses excitement about upcoming performances.

Closing Remarks

In their closing remarks, the hosts express gratitude to their listeners, emphasizing their passion for comedy and the joy they derive from their interactions. They reiterate their professional status as comedians and encourage listeners to attend their shows for a good time.

• Brian Bates ([106:13]): "We want to thank you for listening to this podcast and come see us at our shows, and we hope you have a wonderful day."

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Dusty Slay ([05:01]): "I watched this guy get off the plane and he's walking. Flow of traffic just stops in the middle of it... the last guy you wanted in the middle seat."

• Brian Bates ([14:58]): "With all the playful ribbing and loads of genuine laughter, you all embody the true meaning of friendship."

• Aaron Weber ([55:18]): "The Geico Gecko started in 1999. He's been around for a while. 15 minutes could save you 15% on your car insurance. Everybody knows that."

• Brian Bates ([53:39]): "The Mayhem Allstate... That's the best. I love that character."

• Aaron Weber ([80:07]): "There's the famous case that I always heard about... He called it subliminal advertising."

Conclusion

Episode #254 of "The Nateland Podcast" offers an entertaining blend of personal stories, listener interactions, and a deep dive into the world of commercials. Through humorous discussions, memorable quotes, and interactive segments, hosts Brian Bates, Dusty Slay, and Aaron Weber provide listeners with insightful and amusing perspectives on advertising's role in daily life. Whether reminiscing about classic ads or critiquing modern ones, the episode delivers both laughter and thoughtful commentary, making it a valuable listen for those interested in comedy and media.

Transcript

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Okay. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Nate Land podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Here we are.

[Brian Bates]

Hello, folks. And hey, bear.

[Dusty Slay]

There it is.

[Brian Bates]

I'm Dusty Slay and I'm here as always with my wonderful co host, Brian Bates.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

And Aaron Weber.

[Dusty Slay]

Where in the world is Nate Bargetzi?

[Brian Bates]

Nate. This is a Nateland podcast that Nate is part of. Oftentimes it is not a just a fan podcast devoted to Nate. We do do a podcast with Nate and he' you know, not here today. And that's okay because filming his movie. As someone in the comments once pointed out. I say this a lot, but we're all professional comedians.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

A guy said that in a comment. He said, if I had a dime for every time Dusty said we're professional comedians, he said, I'd have, you know, 80 cents. 80 cents. And I go, I commented, I go, send me your Venmo.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you hook him up?

[Brian Bates]

He never sent it.

[Aaron Weber]

So.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds like a cash app guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but we're here. Pumped about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Recording a little early. It's Memorial Day week.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Recording a little early. So who knows what's happens?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's true. This. So I won't be able to comment on whether Vermont was fun, because I. I'm sure it was. But, you know, I'm not gone yet, so. But, you know, is there. Should I jump into this news here?

[Dusty Slay]

You ever think, do you think if you died this weekend we would play this episode?

[Brian Bates]

I would hope so.

[Dusty Slay]

You want us to just play it if you die in Vermont? I hate to get morbid right off the top, but it's one of those days. Let's say you die horrible. Let's say you go to the world's tallest filing cabinet and falls on you?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, what do we do?

[Aaron Weber]

What if Champ comes out of the water eat you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So what do we do for this week? Just play this podcast, act like nothing happened? Or do you want us to do.

[Brian Bates]

Like play it and you say dusty's in heaven and stop eating pork?

[Dusty Slay]

That's your one message to the world.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we would record another one without Dust. We'd keep his ad reads for viewer.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course, we need the money.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But we would do it without him. But we would never even acknowledge he wasn't here.

[Brian Bates]

I would feel like you'd have to.

[Aaron Weber]

We would read Nate's date.

[Brian Bates]

You'd have to do a little something at the beginning. You would have to go, listen, we'd.

[Aaron Weber]

Say, Nate's shooting a movie.

[Brian Bates]

Guys, that was a good intro that I did, so I do want you to air it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I think we would say Dusty's obviously not here. We'll get to that in a minute. But first, Nate shooting the breadwinner. Right now his big dumb eyes tours in the city.

[Dusty Slay]

We got Dusty shooting the dead winner because he died this weekend and we're going to miss him.

[Aaron Weber]

And then we move on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Dusty's on his big demise tour.

[Brian Bates]

Demise.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because he's dead. Demise. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope you don't die, man.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I hope not to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't want to go to heaven.

[Brian Bates]

No, I do, but I have kids now, you know, so I got to stay and protect my kids.

[Dusty Slay]

Right? Well, I had.

[Brian Bates]

I had a before kids. I could gone at any time.

[Dusty Slay]

I had super turbulent flight last weekend. Oh, yeah, the flight where you start to, like, look around, and everybody's looking around. Like, at what point do you start to go, what's happening? Yeah, it was that bad. It was so bad. Everybody applauded when they landed. And I wasn't that upset about it because it was like, it did feel good to land.

[Aaron Weber]

What were the flight attendants doing?

[Dusty Slay]

They couldn't get up the whole flight. They never got the clear the clearance to get up.

[Aaron Weber]

So could you see them?

[Dusty Slay]

I couldn't see him from where I was sitting. I did look for them. They looked fine. They were playing it cool. But I talked to. I might have mentioned this on the podcast. I talked to a Southwest flight attendant, and she said about twice a year, they're legitimately scared on a flight, and they still try to play it cool because they know people are looking at them.

[Brian Bates]

Are you in an exit row on this?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, are you like, well, let me go ahead and get that pamphlet out.

[Dusty Slay]

Start stretching.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You start looking at the door. Can I do this? I said, yeah, but do I even know how this works?

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody's looking at you like, this is the guy that have to open it.

[Dusty Slay]

The dude. I had me and Lee Kimbrell sitting aisle window in the exit row, and you know, it's getting towards the end of the flight and you're like, I might have an empty seat here. And you start celebrating a little early. I always make that mistake. Dude walks on late. Big fat dude. He. Somebody sitting right here. I was like, golly, dude. Had to get up, let him sit down. It's like this guy had never been on a plane before. Kept putting the table down. Flight attendant had to be like, you gotta leave it up. Taking off, pulls it down. He's watching Gladiator 2 on his phone vertically. He's never rotates his phone. He's watching. He's watching it vertically like this the whole time. Of course not. No headphones. Had to be told. The guy did like a million things wrong. And then I watched this guy get off the plane and he's walking. Flow of traffic just stops in the middle of it. This guy lives in his own world. It was just the guy did. It was the last guy you wanted in the middle seat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you know, that's how it goes too. Because if you. If you're on Southwest and you're trying to protect that middle seat, you're gonna. All the good people are gonna pass you by.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

And then you're gonna get. You know, you're gonna get the bad guy that's got nowhere else to go.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. Smelled bad too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's one of those, man.

[Dusty Slay]

It was just watching the. But watching a movie vertically, I don't know why, that annoyed me more than anything.

[Aaron Weber]

You wanted to say something, buddy?

[Dusty Slay]

I go, hey, buddy, if you scroll down, you can unlock and then rotate your phone. Through the magic of technology. Yeah, it's gonna. You're gonna watch it.

[Brian Bates]

You're like, it's hard for me to watch on your phone when you that.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched a movie yesterday on the flight on my phone and I saw the guy next to me reading a book. And a couple times I could see his head kind of looked over like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, of course he's gonna. That's way more interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I watched 21 Jump street yesterday.

[Dusty Slay]

So funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Both of them. 23 Jump street is. Yeah, it's very funny.

[Brian Bates]

It was really great.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched a Complete unknown. The Bob Dylan movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. How was it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was great. It was very, you know, Bob Dylan seems like a jerk.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But very interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

Timothy Chalamet was good in that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

I like real old Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan hasn't done anything that I like in the last 40 years.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, this was about a four year span from 61 to 65.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I mean, that stuff is incredible.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Michael Jordan hasn't done a lot of good basketball in the last.

[Brian Bates]

No, but Bob still making out.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. He's still doing concerts. Brutal.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But everybody says that. I've never went to see Bob Dylan. But everybody said that's gone. Said he just does new stuff. He won't do the classics. That's the issue.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

That's part of the issue is he won't do the hits.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he has a Nobel Prize for.

[Aaron Weber]

Literature that he didn't attend.

[Dusty Slay]

Did he really?

[Aaron Weber]

He skipped it.

[Dusty Slay]

I kind of like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, I like. I mean, old Bob Dylan, though. I had the Essential Bob Dylan. And disc one of the Essential Bob Dylan is really great.

[Dusty Slay]

That's. Yeah, those are all his greatest hits.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's really great. Disc two's got some hits too.

[Dusty Slay]

I. Somebody Goes. What's your favorite album for somebody? Well, the greatest hits album. It's really awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's just non stop hits, but.

[Brian Bates]

He has Blood on the Tracks is a really good album altogether. So just in case you're looking for a full Bob Dylan album, that's.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty, you want to give some Nateland news?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He has a song, I will do it. He has a song called Idiot Wind on that song on the album Blood on the Tracks. And in the song I Only Want To Be with you, somebody's got it.

[Dusty Slay]

In for me and plenty of stories in the praise.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

How'd that sound?

[Aaron Weber]

That sounds just like it.

[Brian Bates]

He has a whole line out of that song, a whole chunk that is just directly in the I Only Want To Be with youh song by Hootie and the Blowfish.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So he stole it from them.

[Dusty Slay]

I only. Will it be with you?

[Brian Bates]

Well, he did a. He did a unique thing where he. I think he references Bob Dylan. So it's like. I think it's like I shot a man in Italy and something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Or just to watch him die.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Nate News the Breadwinner, Nate's first feature film, is filming this week. Big Dumb Eyes Tour coming to a city near you. Check out nateland.com and then in the Nateland world, we have Greg Warren's new special. Greg Warren, one of our favorite comics favorite guests. My favorite is new special the Champ. The Champ is out now, so go watch it. We love Greg. Nateland has a handful of great specials from Aaron Weber, yes sir, Nick Thune and Steven Rogers, plus the Nateland Podcast Network. Don't forget to catch the Consumers. Every Tuesday.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's see.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you know this one?

[Brian Bates]

Don't make me come back every Thursday.

[Dusty Slay]

It was written out. DMMCBT and I don't think. Yeah, okay.

[Brian Bates]

And the new website is live called nateland.com. so there's a new website just devoted to the Nateland. June 22nd, 23rd, 24th.

[Aaron Weber]

You skip something there. That arrow. Do you have an arrow pointing down from the.

[Dusty Slay]

You got. You got all kinds of info on there that we don't have. You want to. Just me. You want to chime in?

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Breaking news. Sorry, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

Breaking news.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's hear it. I apologize. I apologize.

[Brian Bates]

Anything?

[Aaron Weber]

Breaking news. So we've got the consumers got. Don't make me come back there. Of course. Nateland. And launched last week. Correct opinions with Trey Kennedy.

[Brian Bates]

All right. I like to think I helped with that because I did his podcast and we talked about this. Oh, I don't know if I did anything.

[Dusty Slay]

I got him on this podcast. Well, so maybe we both helped a little bit. A little double assist.

[Brian Bates]

I like Trey Kennedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Way to make it by yourself.

[Brian Bates]

Very nice guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Trey's great. Correct opinions every Wednesday on the Nateland Network.

[Dusty Slay]

Really? Same day as us.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Going head to head now.

[Brian Bates]

There's other days in the week. I wonder why they're doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

He's always been on Wednesdays.

[Dusty Slay]

There's only so many, though.

[Brian Bates]

But there's two more here that we don't have a day. Friday and Monday.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we maybe honors the Sabbath. Dusty, maybe you should try.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's Saturday.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's one of the days.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Not one that I named, but. June 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. We're back with season three of Nateland Presents, the showcase.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, sir.

[Brian Bates]

Tickets are on sale if you want to be part of this taping. Right here in the great city of Nashville, Tennessee. Also Nateland Merch Drop now [e-mail]. just click shop at the top. Check out the site for new drops, and if you're coming out to a show, come find us at the merch table.

[Dusty Slay]

Not you. Not you.

[Brian Bates]

I'm not gonna be there.

[Aaron Weber]

You're working Nate's Merchant.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy just sounds like a big fan.

[Dusty Slay]

Hard up for cash. Dude, he's gonna be selling T shirts at Night Shift.

[Brian Bates]

Our favorite comic. The comic. We've devoted this podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. We started a. I built. This is my house. I built a little shrine to Nate. Just a big fan of what he does. Yeah, I mean, be Cool to meet him.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so let's get on into the comments.

[Dusty Slay]

I say we jump right in.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get into it. Comments come from Twitter.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, let me ask you this. Where were y' all this weekend?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I was off.

[Aaron Weber]

I was off.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I was in Vermont. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And you thankfully survived.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's right. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Dusty Slay]

All right, how about that?

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Mo a fram. You think that's it.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy's written in before.

[Brian Bates]

I think if he had an e at the end, it Would be Mo.

[Dusty Slay]

A frame Mo A frame cabin.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. With all the playful ribbing and loads of genuine laughter. You all embody the true meaning of friendship. It's a big reason I've been listening to you all since day one. Really makes me appreciate the great times with good friends. Talking about nothing while enjoying the simple joy of being together. Thanks for being a bright light and a source of happiness.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you need to read it sarcastic. Yeah, I thought that was very well written.

[Dusty Slay]

You do something remotely sincere, you have a way of making it sound super sarcastic.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks for being a bright light.

[Dusty Slay]

Happiness ends in an ellipses happiness. It's like he had more to say.

[Brian Bates]

I appreciate Mo here, but I. What I was trying to do was read it with some like. You could put soft classical music behind that read and that would come off as very genuine.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, let's do it. Hold on. I'm gonna find it real quick.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna find some royalty free music.

[Brian Bates]

Royalty free?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I gotta find some royalty free music. I want to see how this sounds because I want to see how it sounded in here.

[Brian Bates]

I put my own podcast on YouTube and I have some royalty free and I got flagged. Now I got it. I got it fixed, but it got flying.

[Dusty Slay]

Copyright free. This public domain music right here. Okay, here you go.

[Brian Bates]

With all the playful ribbon and loads of genuine laughter, you all embody the true meaning of friendship. It's a big reason I've been listening to you all since day one. Really makes me appreciate the great times with good friends. Talking about nothing while enjoying the simple joy of being together. Thanks for being a bright light and source of happiness.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

That was good.

[Dusty Slay]

That was good.

[Brian Bates]

Music changes everything.

[Dusty Slay]

It sure does, man.

[Brian Bates]

Scott Knel. Every time I fly and I fly often, I get bad anxiety. Do any of you guys get anxiety when you travel? Even though you guys travel all the time, what do you do to control it? By the way, I love flying, so it's not the flying part that I get anxious about.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, what are you anxious about? I. I don't understand what. I feel like. He just negated everything he said.

[Brian Bates]

I can't talk about necessarily what causes my anxiousness sometimes when I'm getting on a plane. But this is what I tell myself. I go, you gotta get it together. I say, you're about to get on this plane.

[Aaron Weber]

You like to get anxious.

[Brian Bates]

There ain't gonna be no escape for you. But that's right. Get it together.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think, Scott, you're right. Aaron. I Think Scott's living a lie here. Yeah, he gets bad anxiety every time he flies, but he's like, it's not the flying. Well, it sounds like it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Every time I fly, I get bad anxiety. I love flying. So it's not the flying part that I am anxious about. Well, then what are you? I feel like you're missing something.

[Brian Bates]

You're trafficking something. I think he's nervous on his back.

[Dusty Slay]

You've got contraband on you, Scott. And I get it, but I. I.

[Brian Bates]

Do think that that method of just telling yourself, get it together.

[Dusty Slay]

I tell you something. I got my tags renewed. I made it 13 months, got my tags renewed on my car. Had to buy both years. You know, the year that I. Oh, didn't. I had to do both of them. And for the first time in over a year, I'm completely illegal. Wow. My license is renewed. My tags are up to date. I missed the rush.

[Brian Bates]

You get that real id?

[Dusty Slay]

I got the real id.

[Brian Bates]

I don't have real id. I've been traveling. My passport. Now, I tried to make an appointment, and the earliest appointment I could find is August 11th.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't got to do an appointment. Go to. Go to. Go to the Lebanon dmv. Go to outside of Nashville and just show up, put your name on the list. You go to your car, they text you when you're ready. It takes two seconds. Don't bother the appointment. You got to get outside of Davidson county somehow.

[Brian Bates]

I'm against the real id, but I'm also like, I'm not in for the fight because we already lost.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just giving into the man, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, we've already lost, like, people. I watch all these people that are refusing to take. Have the picture taken of them. And I used to, you know, I pre check, so I go through and I don't have to go through the weird X ray machine, which I do hate. And then you can refuse that. If you get randomly selected, you can refuse, but they really make it hard to refuse. So I just. I just have given in. I'm like, we already lost. I'm not. Who am I fighting this battle for? If I flew once a year, maybe, but I'm flying every weekend, sometimes multiple times a week.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

So you still do clear.

[Brian Bates]

I still have clear, but I. Most places, it's not worth it. I mean, Nashville, it's, You know, the only thing clear gets you is skipping around that long corral they make you walk through.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I grew there, and I was in line of the day. It was My turn to go up. And then they stop. Somebody stops me, like, hang on. And I thought, oh, it's somebody important. The pilot or something. Just a guy with Clear.

[Dusty Slay]

Some dork in a vest escorting this person.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's the thing, you know, you pay a little extra money, you get a little extra perk. It's. I'm not into it, though. I, I, I. I'll be honest with you. I'm not into it.

[Dusty Slay]

I was walking past him, guy goes, you want to sign up for clear? I go, no. He goes, mask? Why not? I go, I object to your whole business. And he was like, okay, yeah. He's like, I'm not trying to get into this guy.

[Aaron Weber]

He's like, do you know Dusty Slayer?

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Richard Phillips. I met Aaron briefly at the Atlanta airport.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

I listened to the podcast, but didn't realize how much weight he has lost. He looks downright skinny. As expected, one of the nicest guys. Huge fan.

[Dusty Slay]

How old is this comment?

[Brian Bates]

This came from a while.

[Aaron Weber]

This was from, wait, oh, 1994.

[Dusty Slay]

That was three.

[Brian Bates]

That's very nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Two weeks ago.

[Dusty Slay]

That's nice to say.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron is skinny. People say, oh, y' all being me with a fat joke. No, he's not fat.

[Dusty Slay]

No. Well, thank you. I'm technically morbidly obese would be the technical term, but that's very nice of you to say. Thank you, Richard. It's good to meet you.

[Brian Bates]

That is very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

People are very nice with the air. People come saying hi at the airport. It's nice.

[Brian Bates]

Braden Meadows. I got married last Saturday. Took my honeymoon. Honeymoon in Panama City Beach.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go. Getting it started, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. On our way to our condo, we passed the Fontainebleau. I had to explain to my wife why I started laughing. On our way back home, we listened to the new episode, and Dusty quickly became her favorite.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Oh. Thanks for the laughs. Well, Braden, sounds like you got a good woman.

[Aaron Weber]

Braden sounds like she makes some bad decisions.

[Brian Bates]

You and Dusty, you got yourself a good woman. And the Fontainebleau will always be a special place. Special place for me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's cool, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's where my dad met his wife.

[Dusty Slay]

Which one?

[Brian Bates]

This current one.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I've been making a lot of jokes about my dad recently, and I. I feel like I went out, you know, I went out to LA and I did that stand up on the spot. And I did a couple. I think I already talked about this, but I did a couple of jokes, and I'm like. And then they clipped those up, and.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm like, has your dad seen them yet?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, probably. My dad was.

[Dusty Slay]

Watches all. You haven't talked to him about it?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But, you know, it is what it is. I got more jokes about my dad that I'm doing, and I'm doing a show in Auburn, and I don't know what I'm gonna do because I got the same.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. I got the same problem, though. I got a show coming up. My mom's coming to you.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm like, I got some jokes that I think might embarrass her a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's some of my best jokes. So it's either her, me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then you just remind her. You go, remember that auction that we did?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was pretty embarrassed then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I still set with you Bob's Automotive looking forward to bifocal baits. When he does bring them, I want to see Nate put them on and roast baits for them. After the roasting, Nate will say they actually help his vision, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Bob's on a vote is very funny. Few weeks ago, we were talking about names for comments, and I said, you know, as long as it's a real person, I'm not going to do like Bob's Automotive. And you were like, oh, I'd love to hear from Bob's Automotive. And this person changed their handle.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the. This comment is confusing because everybody calls you a b something. So he's called you bifocal baits. But then he gets into it as if you really are bringing bifocal.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I said last. I guess it'll be two weeks ago. Now, the podcast, I'm getting glasses and you guys kind of glossed over it. But I just got a email, I mean, a text from my optometrist office saying their glasses are in come by.

[Dusty Slay]

What kind of frames are you looking for?

[Aaron Weber]

I've already picked them out.

[Dusty Slay]

What do they look like? How would you describe them for the listeners?

[Aaron Weber]

Thin.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know how to describe thin glasses. The frame of it is thin, isn't it? No, I think it's great because I'm.

[Aaron Weber]

Very insecure about it. So when you go thin glasses, that makes me think I messed up now.

[Dusty Slay]

I was just confused at what you meant.

[Aaron Weber]

The frames, like, they're not big, thick.

[Dusty Slay]

Are they red? What color do you feel like? Black, brown?

[Brian Bates]

Like, do you know the colors?

[Dusty Slay]

Are you color? Is this what the glasses are going to help? The colors?

[Aaron Weber]

I think they're like gray.

[Brian Bates]

Break out of color gray. Okay, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

What'd you say?

[Brian Bates]

Break out a color wheel.

[Dusty Slay]

That's exciting. You're gonna be wearing those on the pod?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe. Maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll see next week. Maybe have them.

[Brian Bates]

Glasses are kind of my thing though.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. I should have known you wouldn't want me to get them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm growing my hair out.

[Aaron Weber]

Only Dusty can wear glasses.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We're all just gonna become the same person. Singularity.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron thoom. For my 30th birthday, my girlfriend surprised me with tickets for us and my parents to Nate and Peoria. What an incredible birthday surprise that my favorite member of the band, Aaron Weber.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Was on the show as well.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

The next day my parents watched Signature Dish because they enjoyed Aaron's set so much. Thank you, Nateland, for making my dreaded birthday a lot better.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thank you, Aaron. Aaron's got to stick together. Why was this a dreaded birthday?

[Brian Bates]

Birthday 30th.

[Aaron Weber]

He's turning 30.

[Dusty Slay]

But it's 30. 30 is not a scary one.

[Brian Bates]

Just he liked his 20s and. No, my life got better. Exponentially better in my 30s.

[Dusty Slay]

Me too.

[Brian Bates]

Than my 20s.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think you're gonna like your 30s.

[Brian Bates]

And my 20s were a blast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, there's a difference. We've talked about it before. There's a difference between happiness and fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're happier now.

[Brian Bates]

Much happier. But I don't have a lot of fun.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying. That's the difference. You get your fun out of the way in the 20s and then 30 you find meaning.

[Aaron Weber]

I wonder if he likes you the best because he's close to your age. Because probably that. I just don't understand why you would be his favorite.

[Brian Bates]

It doesn't make sense.

[Dusty Slay]

The same name.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron Thumb.

[Brian Bates]

Is it Thumb? You think?

[Dusty Slay]

I said I think th too. But Thumb is fun. Aaron's thumb.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron Thumb. What if he has bad thumbs? Dottie Mack went to the comedy Catch in Chattanooga this weekend and the night started with a 50 year anniversary video featuring Aaron and Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

How about that?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I thought I. First of all, I think it's 40 year anniversary, but I thought I was in it. People have told me they've seen me in it, but maybe Dottie just skipped over me.

[Brian Bates]

Dottie, I think you probably went to see Steve Byrne and my friend Vince Fabra featured for Steve bur.

[Aaron Weber]

You're right. I think she added that part.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, and that was. It's very exciting. Steve. Steve is great. Vince is great. I don't know who the host was, but I'm sure they were great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe it was Eric. Lz.

[Dusty Slay]

Might be Eric Loans.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I hope it was Eric Lones. Eric's my friend.

[Dusty Slay]

Eric. I like Eric.

[Brian Bates]

Letty Wadford.

[Dusty Slay]

Hold on. Can I just. Yeah, get it going.

[Brian Bates]

Around 2006, my mom and I took a trip to Charleston. We went to a wonderful restaurant and had a delightful waiter who was so nice and kind to my mom and me. He brought boiled peanuts as an appetizer to the table. As a fan of boiled peanuts, I thought that was the best. I remember the food was good, but the service was amazing. I'd like to think that we were at Hymens and Dusty was our waiter.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Letty, I appreciate that because I don't know where you went.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, oh, were you there in 2006?

[Brian Bates]

I was there in 2006, and I was working at Hyman's.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And I was a good server.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you serve bowl of peanuts.

[Brian Bates]

Bull peanuts to every table.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And I. As far as I know, I think we're the only restaurant in Charleston that was doing that. I looked much different in 2006, and it's likely that I was hungover, but I was still very good at my job.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, lady, write us back and see if. Did he eat food off your plate or off your boyfriend's plate if. If you're attractive. Oh, she was with her mom. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So.

[Brian Bates]

So I probably ate off both.

[Dusty Slay]

After.

[Brian Bates]

They were done with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, one time I. We used to serve sesame seared tuna, and it had a lot of sesame seeds on it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And we in. In that tuna would often be overcooked because you want tuna very rare. But, you know, it would. It would come up, and then they would put it under the heat lamp, and if the food runner didn't get it fast enough, the lamp would actually continue to cook it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

So this guy ordered this tuna, and he said, this is way overcooked. So I go, I'll get you another one. Don't worry about it. And then I take his tuna that's not eaten and I take it to the back and I start eating it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I just tear it up. And then the new tuna arrives pretty quickly, and I go out and I just check. I go, how is it?

[Dusty Slay]

Look?

[Brian Bates]

He goes, looks great. I'm smiling, I'm happy. I go back, look in the mirror, and I have sesame Seeds all in my teeth. So. So we both got fed, and I told him I appreciated it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's funny.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Letty. That was a very nice email. And I bet I was your server, you know, now they have my name on the table. Yeah, that's really cool, Brian. Paris. Paris Patty. Brian Perry.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's pairs, two Rs. My bad.

[Brian Bates]

As professionals, Brian, do you have a higher bar when listening to other comedians, or can you appreciate it all? I'll let you guys take this because I hate it all.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we're probably much more. I don't say judgmental, but, yeah, I mean, we probably graded a little bit because we've heard so many sets. If someone has a hacky premise, the average person who goes to comedy club once a year is not going to know that, but we're going to know that.

[Brian Bates]

Right? There are certain jokes that people can do that work for almost any audience, but. And it crushes. But when we're watching it, we go, we've seen that joke a million times. But you can't. You almost can't blame them.

[Aaron Weber]

No, you can't.

[Brian Bates]

It's getting a laugh.

[Aaron Weber]

It's working. So the audience is happy. So that's really all that matters.

[Dusty Slay]

Stuff is hacked for a reason.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, it works. But I also think I go through phases where I'm. I'm. I'm way less snobby about it. It's like, respect the kill. It's one of my favorite sayings. If somebody's just crushing. You're like, look, artistically, you can pick this apart all day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But somebody's just murdering. You're like, all right, respect.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I. Here, here. Here's an exam. I worked with a comic magician named Eric Eaton. Right. Yeah. And I had interacted with Eric a little bit, but I had never seen a set. And we talked a little bit on online. I'm just. I'm. I always say to myself that I'm not. And I know Nate's dad does it, too, but I always say I'm not into this comedy magic stuff. But he let me do a guest spot on his show, and then I sat and I watched his whole show, which I don't think I've watched a comedian's whole set in years. And I loved it. It was so funny. And he was, you know, he's being fun with the crowd. He was, you know, spells. It was a little. No, no. It was all kind of just fun magic. Right. And he was roasting the crowd a little bit at times, but it was all nice. All in good fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I really liked it. So it just. I don't know, it just got to hit me the right way. There are comics I like that Aaron doesn't like, but it. It doesn't mean that they're not funny. It is. It is. Comedy is subjective.

[Dusty Slay]

Every now and then it's like you start to appreciate things that are just different, you know, I saw Ornie Adams in Austin. I watched like 30 minutes of his show. Yeah, it was so much fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's very.

[Dusty Slay]

Because he's just so different from any anybody else I'd ever seen. So. Yeah, once you. It's like anything you see a lot of stuff, you just. Yeah. You start to.

[Aaron Weber]

Who's some comics that you don't care.

[Dusty Slay]

For at this table or just in general.

[Aaron Weber]

Either. I was joking.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. And I was trying to think if I could come with the fun myself.

[Brian Bates]

Sometimes people get into politics or social commentary. I usually tune out pretty quick. I'm just not into it. I don't want to hear another take. I'm not into it. People can make a light joke and it'd be fun, but I don't want. If people are like. If they. I've seen comics go. They do some political joke and it bombs and they go, too real for you, huh? It's just like, nah, nah. Just not funny enough. Enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Cindy Tully. That's a. I have a cousin named Cindy Talley.

[Dusty Slay]

Could be her.

[Brian Bates]

Cindy Tully. Can I just say that it bothers me how Aaron can continuously pat his stack of papers on the tabletop multiple times, but the edges of the papers never go into order and line up together. How is that even possible? I don't know, Cindy. Because I can do it. And look at that crisp. You don't even know. This is multiple sheets of paper here. I don't know, Cindy. It bothers us all. Yeah, we talk about it and he's just always. He's like the John Stewart in here stacking his papers.

[Dusty Slay]

I think, Cindy, I think you might. I think you should just listen to this. You know what I mean? You tell a lot of people you go to YouTube. You're missing out on a lot. But I think you're. I think you should just listen on, you know, just audio.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you just mean listen to the box.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, just listen.

[Aaron Weber]

Listen to what you're saying.

[Dusty Slay]

Stop watching it.

[Brian Bates]

Because then she won't know that you never get them straight. She'll still hear you stacking them, but she'll Assume at that point that you're getting them. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I also disagree. I just got them straight just now. I can do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I have dexterity.

[Aaron Weber]

In your face, Cindy.

[Brian Bates]

Cindy. I gotta agree with you, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Why?

[Aaron Weber]

It's the first time he's ever got him straight.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think so. That's often what I think. He stacks it sometimes when he just has one piece of paper. The fancy farm girl. I like that. Who are these people out here dogging on Dusty? That's what I'm saying. I feel like every Wednesday I tell my husband, Dusty brought up that thing I was telling you about the other day. Thanks, Dusty, for representing the people with questions out here. Listen, fancy farm girl, I get what you're saying. I mean, Brian and Aaron, sometimes I don't even think they open their apps to see what's going on in the world, and I present them with a new idea and they just stuff it down. They just. I'm like. Like, I'm just trying to open up the world to everybody.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they just close it down for yourself and they shut it down.

[Aaron Weber]

It's our college education that they train us to shut.

[Brian Bates]

Well, yeah, they.

[Aaron Weber]

Alternative opinions down.

[Brian Bates]

They've indoctrinated you and. And you guys are clouded by it for life now. So.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree, man.

[Brian Bates]

I appreciate it. Thanks for telling your husband these things. And because I'm out here, I listen. I spend too much time on social media and I like to comment and I like to share. I'm. I'm a meme account half the time. I love to share little. You know, I see funny things. I put them in my story.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I'm like. It made me laugh and I wanted to make you laugh.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, sometimes you'll share something and it makes me laugh. And I think part of the reason I'm laughing is because it made you laugh. Yeah. I could just think about it. You shared one. This has been a while. But I thought it was so funny. It was just a montage of honking the horn. Right. When someone's about to do their golf swing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they just lay. And then they would get so mad.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you shared that. And I laughed and I played golf.

[Brian Bates]

But the thing I liked about that one is that I agree with the men being honked at where I'm like, I'm mad about it, too. I don't even golf, but I'm like, that's annoying to me. And I just love how mad those guys got.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I figured you were with the.

[Brian Bates]

Honkers no, no, I. The honk. I. I like. I like a little bit of both.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But, you know, I. The one that I shared that I find the most funny is there's a lady who was in, like, some local. What do you call it? Like a town hall kind of local town hall. And they were. They were like, we're here for 50th Street. She lit. She's like, I live on 60th Street. And he's like, okay, well, this is about 50th Street. She goes, I. I hate Facebook. I don't like social media. I can't find a job. Does that make any sense to you? And the guy's like, ma' am, this is about stuff here on 50th Street.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I just love it.

[Dusty Slay]

We're all struggling out here.

[Brian Bates]

That lady's like, I'm. I'm about to get hurt.

[Dusty Slay]

This is the video I. I've. I've been watching non stop. Watch this. These two ladies.

[Aaron Weber]

Man, Even among twins.

[Dusty Slay]

This is good stuff, dude. Wouldn't you like to see these two ladies at a. At a gas station?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't appreciate the snacks they have, but I like everything else going on.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, they're identical.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

What. I think they're twins.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I know they're twins, but I'm saying, even for twins, they are eating it.

[Brian Bates]

Right there in the store.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Why not? They grabbed the whole box.

[Brian Bates]

You see those Australian lady twins that are, like, completing each other's. They, like, witnessed a crime.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they're, like, plating each other and they're telling the story and they're, like, echoing each other.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

As they're telling it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like that.

[Brian Bates]

It's pretty wild.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, I guess it corroborates if they were telling totally different stories.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron Weber here. I gotta say, I am so excited to see Ben Rector, one of my favorite musicians, on the Richest man in the world tour coming up. He's playing the pinnacle here in Nashville. Great musician. You love his lyrics. It's not quite really what you listen to, but I think you'd like it.

[Brian Bates]

I like to get out, you know, I like to branch out.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, our last comment from the comment section portion of the podcast. Tim Cochran, nice breaking baits. Needs to start his own podcast where he just sings or nose whistles old commercial jingles, kids songs, and classic TV theme songs. He would, however, need some co host that actually recognize and appreciate the iconic tunes. Well, we found the oldest man in the comment section.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he didn't say that he would even understand them. He just might want me to do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For others. Well, thank you, Tim. I appreciate that. That's a good segue into our topic today. Commercials. I've been doing impressions, by the way, in your act. Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Can I hear one?

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I mean, you. We get it started right here.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And like, you know, I do impressions now. Everyone knows it. And I'll say throw out some and they'll throw out and I'll do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Can we do another round? Just like a real rapid fire, just quick round if you want.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm good at it.

[Dusty Slay]

Who do you got?

[Brian Bates]

Hank Williams Jr.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me think. The preacher man said it's the end of time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, very good.

[Aaron Weber]

Country boy can survive.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's very good.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

Do trump and then we'll trump.

[Aaron Weber]

China.

[Brian Bates]

Very good. You're a natural. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know how. You've not been doing these your whole life, Jada.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree. People kept asking me this week, going to do Nate.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. What you do, Nate, is tough. To do an impression of.

[Aaron Weber]

I go.

[Dusty Slay]

So. Yeah, something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Morgan Freeman.

[Aaron Weber]

I've spent a lot of nights in the Hole. No, not in the Hole. What does he say? What is it?

[Brian Bates]

He says, ah, that's a good one. I like.

[Aaron Weber]

I spent a lot of night.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not a bad quote to do. Let's just.

[Brian Bates]

Let's clip that up.

[Dusty Slay]

I've got a lot of bad lights in the whole. That's your Morgan Freeman.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought I nailed it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, and you did nail it.

[Aaron Weber]

What is it? He says it's not the Hole is.

[Brian Bates]

He's in multiple movies.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm talking about Shawshank.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember my first night in the Hole.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm talking about the night where Andy. He's waiting for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds like a long time ago.

[Brian Bates]

You guys are naturals.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I am at least a tall drink of water. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

And it do frame. I guess I just miss my friend. Some birds aren't meant to be.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I've said before that I've cast us all for Shawshay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're Andy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're Morgan Freeman. Red.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate's the warden.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm Brooks. All right. Today we're talking about commercials. Let me ask you guys this. When's the last time you've actually bought something you think based off a commercial?

[Brian Bates]

I buy fire the. I go to Cracker Barrel all the time now.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. When's the last time you were in a commercial?

[Aaron Weber]

I was gonna make the same. I was gonna say we were at Cracker Barrel debating this and.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's one of the great fun things in life. Meaning, you know, time of your life where you're free enough, you see a commercial about something and you go, I gotta go get it.

[Aaron Weber]

I just don't even know when the car.

[Dusty Slay]

And go and get it.

[Brian Bates]

It depends on what you mean by commercial. If you mean a YouTube or a Tik Tok ad, two or three times a week, I'll buy something off Tik Tok.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. In the Tik Tok shop.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't know. A compass, a water filtration system, a.

[Dusty Slay]

We're getting different ads, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

A.

[Brian Bates]

A bugout bag, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

What about your survival shovel? Remember that? Was that a Tik Tok ad?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think. Well, that might have been before for the Tick Tock shop, but I. It was an ad.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it got me.

[Aaron Weber]

So you buy survival? Survival.

[Brian Bates]

I all kind of. Sometimes stuff comes. I don't even know what it is. I got stuff in my car because I tick tock, I send to the post office box. So I'll go pick check my post. I was like, what is that? Just stays in my car. But at the time, it seemed like it was a. It was a must have.

[Dusty Slay]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, what about your.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's was. I mean, I think I remember this was years ago, but I remember seeing a Zaxby TV commercial when I was living with some buddies from high school, and I was like, that looks so good. I could go for that right now. My buddy's like, let's go. Got in the car, drove to Zaxby.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's the only thing.

[Dusty Slay]

That was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I also occasionally see a food commercial. I'm like, that looks so good. I'm hungry right now. And the next time I see. I don't go out, but next time I see that restaurant passing, I'm like, I'm just gonna go there. It never looks as good as it does.

[Brian Bates]

Commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever been full and you see a TV commercial and you're like, everything looks disgusting right now?

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

I haven't.

[Brian Bates]

Sometimes, though, on a commercial, the food looks bad and you're like, this is. This was your chance to showcase it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Most of the time it looks way better than it does in real life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So commercials.

[Dusty Slay]

Big Texas. I've never seen anybody go for a big Texas cinnamon roll.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, is that what that is?

[Dusty Slay]

That's a big Texas cinnamon roll.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The commercials have evolved a little bit over. Over time. Well, one, I think I sent you this. It used to be cigarettes could just advertise on TV. It hasn't been since 1971 that they finally realized cigarettes are bad for you, so they stopped doing ads.

[Dusty Slay]

But it's when they admitted that they were bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And I think we've showed this before because we did a advertising episode years ago, but I sent you some links. There was a cigarette commercial where the Flintstones, Fred and Barney were advertising cigarettes.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a very funny commercial. Their wives are out there in the yard working, doing yard work. And they're like, man, these women are really working hard. And they're like, yeah, let's go in the back so we don't have to see it. And then they go in the back and smoke cigarettes.

[Dusty Slay]

Commercial.

[Brian Bates]

So anyway, I watch Andy Griff. It is funny how cigarettes have. Have even just in the way people view them. Like, because I'll be watching an Andy Griffith episode, and he'll just be. He'll just go out on the porch and smoke a cigarette. And it's like, you think that this show is so wholesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That they would never do that.

[Aaron Weber]

Not now.

[Brian Bates]

But, you know, Andy's just lighting one up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It was different then.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like a character trait now. Like, a lot of Aaron Sorkin's characters, like the hero will smoke cigarettes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just to let you know, they're a little complicated. They have some demons.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think we're going to do a tobacco episode here pretty soon. I've already done some research, and we can talk about the. Some cool TV characters.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I was again, I was watching the complete unknown that that movie Bob Dylan's never had. Did not have a cigarette.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

In his hand. Which is probably true.

[Brian Bates]

Probably.

[Aaron Weber]

But I mean, it was just one right after the other. But TV ads used to be 60 seconds even. I don't remember that.

[Dusty Slay]

60 seconds. What are they now? 15 if you're lucky.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So. So then most of my Life, it's been 30, but now 15 is more prevalent than even 30, because people's attention span just keeps getting.

[Dusty Slay]

What were yours? 15 seconds.

[Brian Bates]

My dad talked to my dad the other day. He goes. He goes, oh, you got to do a longer one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Your dad's like me. He's used to these longer ones.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That is such. That's such a dad comment. Yeah. Do a longer one. But now let them know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Some super bowl commercials, you know, I think the night of they might be a minute, and then the next time you see them on tv, the next day, they're shortened down.

[Dusty Slay]

Condense it down.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot like Nate's, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, the doordash. The doordash one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. Yep. All right. Do y' all have a commercial as a kid or something that stood out to you? A favorite commercial?

[Dusty Slay]

There've been a lot of really good ones. Dude. I remember Goo. What?

[Aaron Weber]

That's what people say when they can't think of one.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean? I was about to.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

You're like, where do I get started?

[Aaron Weber]

So many.

[Dusty Slay]

Look, I was thinking of the answer.

[Brian Bates]

Which ones aren't good.

[Dusty Slay]

But I was going to lead into it so seamlessly, the people wouldn't have known.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But I was thinking about it as I said that.

[Aaron Weber]

Gotcha.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'm still doing it right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But probably my favorite out of all the very many favorites that I've had, and it's been such a journey just getting to watch all these commercials. I would say if you put A gun to my head. Let's say you put a gun to my head and said, Aaron, what's your favorite commercial of all time? I would say, listen, there's so many good.

[Brian Bates]

It's hard to narrow it down.

[Dusty Slay]

It is. Google Chrome had a commercial years ago and it was about a single father and his daughter and it was all about their communication together over Google chat. And it's, it's a tear jerker. You'll cry at the end of it. It's, it's a, it's just like a super cut of, you know, them talking to each other and, and she's going off to college and she's hitting them up and it's, it, it'll make you cry.

[Brian Bates]

And then you look at the logo and you're like, oh, that's 666.

[Dusty Slay]

Google.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the Google Chrome logo.

[Dusty Slay]

Hold on, because I don't remember that from the commercial. Saying, that's the 666. It looks like a circle divided into, you know, three. Three things.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I see it, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's such a reach.

[Brian Bates]

Is it?

[Dusty Slay]

Why would Google. Why would they put six?

[Brian Bates]

That's the question.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Why would they.

[Brian Bates]

That's the question.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it a reach, Aaron? I think it's pretty obvious.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. This demonic browser.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty, you have a favorite commercial?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so. I mean, I'm sure that short episode, I'm. No, I'm sure I've had some, but I just, it just doesn't stick out in my mind.

[Aaron Weber]

Cracker Barrel right now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, obviously Cracker Barrel is the best commercial on TV currently. You know, you know, I like Matthew McConaughey driving in a Lincoln Town Car. I mean, I think he's cool. You know, there's that one where they do the Paul Harvey if I Were the Devil. Or maybe they didn't do that one where they did the farmer one. The farmer one's very good.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

To me right now. And you say you don't watch commercials.

[Brian Bates]

Anything flows in or the other girl that does at&t. Lily.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I haven't seen, I haven't seen Lily lately.

[Dusty Slay]

Those are good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

She's a standup comedian.

[Brian Bates]

Is she?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I saw her here one night at Zany's.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah?

[Dusty Slay]

Were you on the show?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I was just here hanging out.

[Brian Bates]

You didn't tell me. Shoot me a text.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, this might have been before you even moved to Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

She was. Do you follow her online?

[Brian Bates]

No, I didn't know she was a stand up gift.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a lot of pages. Just dead.

[Brian Bates]

Big fan of AT&T.

[Aaron Weber]

AT&T, girl.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I have AT&T.

[Aaron Weber]

I would say right now.

[Dusty Slay]

There's your end right there.

[Brian Bates]

Commercial for AT&T.

[Dusty Slay]

How are you? I have AT.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I have AT D. Right. I have phone service and fiber.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know, she does. How many times have you done After Midnight?

[Brian Bates]

One time.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. She does. She does that. So maybe I'll be on the same episode.

[Dusty Slay]

That show just got taken off the air.

[Aaron Weber]

It did?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did it?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Dusty Slay]

It got renewed and then she stepped down.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

From doing the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I had no idea.

[Dusty Slay]

It's over. Until somebody else takes it over. Would you do that show?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'll take it over.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Tone of. It's gonna change a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Say way after midnight gonna be. That's. It's the only way the FCC will allow it. After 2am with Dusty Slay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, to me, the funniest ads going today, and I referenced them last. Last week's episode, is those progressive commercials where you can't make you not become more like your.

[Dusty Slay]

Those are very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

They're very funny. You. You said it makes you.

[Brian Bates]

No, I do think they're funny. I like them. But I. I do think it steers people away from just being polite and having conversation out in public.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think people's behavior are that dictated by progressive commercial.

[Aaron Weber]

And I think the guy who's the director.

[Brian Bates]

Art shapes the culture.

[Dusty Slay]

You think that's art? A progressive commercial?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You know what? Now that you've said that, though, I think my favorite commercial chain is the Mayhem, man.

[Dusty Slay]

The Mayhem Allstate.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The insurance industry.

[Aaron Weber]

I have a whole thing here dominating.

[Brian Bates]

I love the commercials. The Mayhem.

[Aaron Weber]

What is up with that?

[Dusty Slay]

Why is that? It's beer and insurance.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they have a ton of money because we're just giving them money for nothing. For nothing. I read a tweet somewhere. It was like, my favorite thing about having health insurance is that you pay a whole lot of money, and then you get hurt and go to the hospital and have to pay a whole lot more.

[Aaron Weber]

But you're right. The Geico Gecko.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. They all so easy. A caveman could do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Caveman.

[Brian Bates]

First time that aired, I was in a restaurant in Charleston watching, and the first one where he said, it's so easy. A caveman can do it. And then a caveman's holding the light, and he's like, come on, dude, I'm right here. That really made me laugh.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the Geico Caveman was a cultural phenomenon.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, that guy was everywhere. That was a TV show about him.

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. Very short lived.

[Dusty Slay]

It became a thing.

[Brian Bates]

Beef jerky with Sasquatch.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me, let me go through the insurance commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

Slow down.

[Brian Bates]

Messing with Sasquatch.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're just remembering commercials.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's your favorites. But now I've moved on.

[Brian Bates]

But as. As we start to. The mind's starting to open.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty's mines finally start to open.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty's in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's how they get you.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that Google Chrome logo got him going.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, anyway. Yes, the Caveman, the Geico gecko started in 1999. He's been around for a while. Yeah, 15 minutes could save you 15% more on your car insurance. Everybody knows that. I know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Flow from Progressive. She's appeared in more commercials than any actor.

[Dusty Slay]

And then her little sidekick that kind of looks like you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Good looking dude. Well, he is. He's in shape. Why can I not find how many commercials?

[Dusty Slay]

How would you. If you're trying to find that guy, how would you Google it? Oh, progressive.

[Brian Bates]

Dorky, progressive guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Progressive. I think progressive guy. Got him. I didn't need to. I didn't need to insult him, but there he is.

[Brian Bates]

Seat gig.

[Aaron Weber]

She. She's appeared over over 150 commercials as flow from Progressive.

[Brian Bates]

Flow's great.

[Aaron Weber]

I would never have guessed that many.

[Dusty Slay]

She's in Mad Men. She plays very small character in Mad Men.

[Aaron Weber]

I think she makes a lot of money now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't think she needs to do parts like that anymore.

[Aaron Weber]

Jake from State Farm. Yeah, I remember when Jake was white, that first commercial. Yeah, there was a few, I think, and there was one where it was a very bad commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

Khakis.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

That one is a good.

[Brian Bates]

So good.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I'm talking about the one where the wife thinks he's cheating.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's the one.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's so terrible.

[Brian Bates]

Such a.

[Dusty Slay]

What are you wearing, Jake from State Farm?

[Brian Bates]

Khakis, I thought.

[Dusty Slay]

What are you talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

You're coming. You would. Hackville.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you like? What were your favorite ads from Little Orphan Annie growing up?

[Aaron Weber]

Cigarettes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Winston Naturals.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. The Affleck duck.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my dad sold Aflac for 30 years.

[Dusty Slay]

Was it. Were they doing the duck back?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Not when he started, but while he would. And he would have the little stuffed ducks. Yeah. That he could give to people as. As gifts. And he used to go around telling people that he was the voice of the Aflac duck.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a great lie.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was Gilbert Godfrey.

[Aaron Weber]

It was Gilbert.

[Dusty Slay]

Was it really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But nobody. Most people didn't know, so my dad would just. And then Gilbert Godfrey made some kind of joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

About something in Japan.

[Aaron Weber]

The tsunami or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Some kind of joke. And apparently Japanese people are. Now, this is just what they said is. Are very concerned with cancer because of, you know, some obvious things that went down with nuclear bombs. So wait, what happened? So they did a lot. They do a lot of business with cancer policies with Aflac. So he made that tweet and Aflac dropped him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

How about that? We bomb a country, then we swoop in and sell them insurance.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And now it's Nick Saban and Deion Sanders.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Nick Saban is the worst actor of all time. But I love. I love Nick Saban.

[Dusty Slay]

He's in those Verbo commercials now. He's in a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

He's pretty good in those, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Just playing a jerk.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Playing himself. Well, now, writing is good.

[Brian Bates]

Now that he's not a coach, he's probably getting some acting classes.

[Aaron Weber]

The Mayhem man from Allstate.

[Brian Bates]

That's the best. I love that character.

[Aaron Weber]

Dean Winters is his name.

[Brian Bates]

Love that character.

[Aaron Weber]

And then there's the. The. Dennis Haspert is his name.

[Dusty Slay]

That's all State stand. That guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I like that guy. But those commercials are too serious.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they're very serious.

[Brian Bates]

I like that guy. He was in Heat. Yeah, he was in that movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he was in. He's been a lot of stuff. He was in a baseball movie. Mr. No, the one with Tom Selleck. Where they go to Japan, maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, he was also in Major League.

[Dusty Slay]

He was. There's a show called the unit Major League 2. That. He was the.

[Aaron Weber]

I've only seen Major League 2 once, so I don't remember. But you know him in Major League, right?

[Brian Bates]

He was the voodoo guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I didn't connect. That was him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, let's say, Dusty. Let's say we talked a little bit in the last episode about career ambitions, your goals. Let's say a company comes. I know you said the Cracker Barrel commercial, but what's your dream? Company comes to you. They go, we want you to be the flow or the Mayhem. The Mayhem, man. And we want you. You'll just do this the rest of your life. Make millions of dollars, do funny commercials. What's your. What's your Dream company to do that for.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. But I've been saying to people I'm trying to be the flow of Cracker Barrel. That is what I've been saying to people. I don't know. I don't know. That there's a product that I'm, you know, wholly looking to endorse the rest of my life. Well, do you have something?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm trying to think about you. Like who?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Survivalist stuff again.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But they don't really do.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Commercials. That's not going to make. Make you money. And especially if I'm trying to do it the rest of my life, it's like. And we need the survival of stuff. It's like, that keeps going. After a while they're gonna be like, do we really need this?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You wouldn't do like a Bass Pro Shops or something like that?

[Brian Bates]

Bass Pro Shops would be cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just to be like that guy Cabela's.

[Brian Bates]

That whole.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that whole universe. Yeah. Levi's or Wranglers or something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Not Wrangler, I don't think.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Because Wrangler gets associated now with. With the cheap jeans at Walmart.

[Dusty Slay]

Does it really?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it always has, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Because Wrangler makes very good jeans, but then they also make cheaper jeans.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then they get down to the rustlers.

[Dusty Slay]

Bugle Boy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You know, just. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

What about Waffle House?

[Brian Bates]

I'm. I'm. I am more of a Cracker Barrel guy. Waffle House was. Has really fallen off. I used to love it, but it's really fallen.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you're just growing up, man. I think Waffle House is what it is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What if Western sizzling started a campaign?

[Brian Bates]

If Western Sizzling got going again, I mean, you know, they probably want me to take the joke down about the sweating on the buffet.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe so.

[Dusty Slay]

Or lean into it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Wearing it right now.

[Brian Bates]

I am wearing it right now. And I also wore it this weekend as I had pants. These are some pants that I just found that I had that are Viori and they're so great. I was Low on hangers. So I started hanging pants inside of shirts. I didn't even know I had these. And they're great. I mean, you know, when I'm reading this, it says it's perfect if you're sick. And right. When I read that I thought, you know, I didn't feel great traveling this weekend. I wasn't sick, but I didn't feel great. And Viori felt very good. It is, it is comfortable and looks good. I am anti not traveling in jeans. I feel like everybody should be traveling in jeans. But Vori is the exception and it, you know, if I were working out, I would wear them to work out. They're great. I don't know a lot of the names, but I'll tell you this right now, I'm into the Sunday performance jogger.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes sir.

[Brian Bates]

It's part of the Their Sunday collection. It's soft lightweight with four way performance stretch. So it moves with you with no restrictions. I've never been a fan of sweatpants or what some people call them jogging pants. I've never been a fan. I said before I burned them, yeah, I burned sweatpants, but just could give them the goodwill. Not now. I don't even want other people.

[Dusty Slay]

They don't want them.

[Brian Bates]

Poor people don't even need to look like that. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I shop at Goodwill, so.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't need.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever done any commercials?

[Dusty Slay]

No, never done one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you did that. I mean kind of a commercial. That promo for Sprung. You were in that. Oh yeah, that aired during commercials.

[Dusty Slay]

That is true. I was on a national TV spot for a while.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's helpful when your one spoken line sums up the plot of the show in one sentence.

[Aaron Weber]

But you delivered it well.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a commercial now. I think I sent it to you. Somebody posted on Reddit for autozone or something and they say it Looks like me. Maybe it's not AutoZone.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not gonna be able to see it because Reddit's blocked on the.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, never mind.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Go look it up, folks. The Limu Emu. And Doug from Liberty Mutual has another insurance limu.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I like that one. They kind of punk that one guy, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Though.

[Brian Bates]

I don't like it. The main guy, he gets punked a lot on that.

[Dusty Slay]

What does that mean?

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's like. You know. Does that mean he's like the main. You know, he's like the cop in charge, and it feels like they always treat him like he's not good enough. And I just feel bad for that.

[Dusty Slay]

Guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Of all people, to feel bad for. I don't think those commercials are very good.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel bad for that coyote dude. He never gets the Road Runner.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I do feel.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I did feel bad for him.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the. Because a coyote should just be smart enough to just go for a different kind of bird.

[Dusty Slay]

But don't you think it's the. It's the. It's the rejection that is so tempting about it. You know what I mean? It's chasing that which cannot be caught. It's like Moby Dick.

[Brian Bates]

A good finale for that show would be him catching the Roadrunner finally and eating it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think he catches him once, but, like, somehow he's been shrunk in the Roadrunners. Like, he's so small that he can barely get his arm around the Roadrunner's leg. That was kind of the. Oh, he was excited, but he couldn't do anything.

[Brian Bates]

All Looney Tunes stuff like that. I used to love it as a kid, but it's like now when you watch it, it's like it's just always a loser and always a winner, and they never. The winner never loses. The loser never wins.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't you think a good ending to the Roadrunner Coyote would be the coyote catches the Roadrunner and he's about to bite into him and kill him. He decides, I don't know if I really want this. Maybe the joy. Maybe the thrill of this has been about the chase and that if I finally catch it, if I finally kill this roadrunner, I won't have any meaning in my life anymore. And he lets him go, continuing an endless chase. Wouldn't that be nice?

[Brian Bates]

I like this ending.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Hold on. Let me get.

[Brian Bates]

Let me get all of what you just said.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me get just a little something going here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I like what you said. All of what you said. He lets him go and Then the roadrunner runs, right. And then the coyote pulls out a gun, takes him down from long range, high powered rifle, and then gets to him, takes a bite and go. Goes, ah, this is tough. And then doesn't even eat the rest of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, that would be nice.

[Brian Bates]

And then he goes. Bugs Bunny's next.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, when Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live, they did a, A sketch, the emu.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Where he had a gun cut for time. And then they put it up. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And some people commented like, oh, emu with a gun. Got that from Nateland.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Which I don't think he did.

[Brian Bates]

I think.

[Aaron Weber]

You think so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's funny what you said about Bugs Bunny. Like Looney Tunes, the clear cut, winner and loser. All shows used to be like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched, I just watched Crocodile Dundee 2. You like the Crocodile Dundee movie?

[Brian Bates]

Paul Hogan. So great.

[Aaron Weber]

But in the second one is, you know, is when he goes back to Australia and the cartel chases him.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But he never ever. There's really nothing he ever does wrong. There's never any real conflict because he's always so much smarter than they are.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So by looking at it through today's lens, you're kind of like, well, what's the conflict? Why am I even worried for you?

[Brian Bates]

Because I've not seen two in a while. But I think they kidnap his friend. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

They kidnap his girlfriend.

[Brian Bates]

At the beginning, I thought they kidnapped his friend. And then he shoots his friend.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

[Brian Bates]

He shoots him, but he, he, he nicks him to make it look like he doesn't care.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's pretty cool. The thing about Crocodile Dundee, though, that I like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is it is like this is a, you know, this is a man that knows how to handle himself.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

But some of these, like the Equalizer and some of these, it's kind of cool. But yet when they never ever do anything wrong, you're like, well, you're gonna win.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Give them some flaws. Let them overcome something.

[Brian Bates]

Something. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You ever see Lightning Jack with Paul Hogan, Kangaroo Jack, Cuba Gooden Jr. No.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it good?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And Beverly D' Angelo.

[Dusty Slay]

I like her.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you drink in a beer commercial?

[Dusty Slay]

No, you can't.

[Aaron Weber]

Shane Gillis and Post Malone have a commercial now where they kind of allude to that. Right. Have you seen it now? Post Malone can't even do commercials now. It's not a, like, it's not a law. It's an industry. Self regulation.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The beer Institute and beer companies have all just agreed that it would be best not to show people actually consuming alcohol.

[Dusty Slay]

I love morals.

[Brian Bates]

What a sweet. Just, hey, guys. Yeah. Let's sell it to them. But let's. Let's don't show them drinking it, huh? I want beer and alcohol commercials where you see, where it's all people hungover, people hammered. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I want to show.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, let's talk about some of the most famous commercials ever. Apple 1984. You guys know this.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great one, though. It's the super bowl commercial.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. Introduced the Macintosh computer. It's often cited as the best commercial ever.

[Dusty Slay]

Wasn't the Macintosh a bit of a failure, though? I think it was the product that it was actually trying to sell. I mean, it got so much buzz. It's such an iconic commercial. I think the Macintosh was considered a failure.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you're right. Coca Cola, mean Joe Green.

[Dusty Slay]

Great commercial.

[Aaron Weber]

You know this Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so. Probably in Michelle.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's from the 70s.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you send it to me on here? I can probably just look that up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Me, Joe Grain, played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's walking off the field. Some kid somehow gets access and tunnel and.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, Mr. Green, you need any help?

[Brian Bates]

I just want you to know I think. I think you're the best ever. Yeah, sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Want my Coke? It's okay, you can have it.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, really, you can have it.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're listening, skip ahead.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he downs it, doesn't he? Kid's 60 now.

[Brian Bates]

I love that.

[Dusty Slay]

Such a good commercial.

[Brian Bates]

Give me chills.

[Dusty Slay]

That's so good. But you're right, it's so much. That would be a 15 second commercial now. Yeah, that was a minute long.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And a lot of it is like, maybe you don't have 20 seconds of him just drinking the Coke.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, let's try, you know, but that. You know, I watch the TV show Columbo a lot, and what I like is that they. They do take their time with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You let things set in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's not Quick Cuts all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like that, too. I mentioned this a few weeks ago, and here, I don't think you guys were familiar with it. Where's the beef? Oh, yeah, it's from Wendy's. Old. Old ladies are looking at the beef patty. I think it was referring to McDonald's. And like, she goes, where's the beef? This was such a popular bad when I was a kid. Everybody was like, where's the beef. It's a very big, fluffy.

[Dusty Slay]

Why is the beef.

[Brian Bates]

I love it. They probably can't even do commercials like that now. Now they're like, where's the impossible meat?

[Aaron Weber]

Budweiser has two famous ones was up and the Frogs.

[Brian Bates]

The frog wise. That's a good one. That was a really good. I remember that one as a kid.

[Aaron Weber]

That was a classic Captain Obvious. Somebody just called Dusty Captain Obvious on Twitter. Yeah, I agreed with him. Dusty made, you know, I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I saw that. That was a crazy comment.

[Brian Bates]

It's so, like, inappropriate. I mean, I'm just like, you know, just. Just sharing stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

I was surprised you didn't lay into him more.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but he seemed like he was. He follows me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It seemed like he was trying to be fun.

[Dusty Slay]

He was trying to.

[Aaron Weber]

That didn't usually hold you back. I follow you. Dos Equis, the most interesting man in the world. Those were great.

[Brian Bates]

Really good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Speaking of that similar vein, greatest commercials of all time. Real men of genius.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I forgot about that Genius.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't remember what the product.

[Dusty Slay]

Bud Light presents. Real Men of Genius.

[Brian Bates]

Those were great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't even remember what any of them were, but they were so funny.

[Brian Bates]

Toast Mentos had a good, good run.

[Dusty Slay]

How Morgan Freeman got a start?

[Brian Bates]

Is it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he's in a Mentos commercial.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Mentos. Where they would.

[Aaron Weber]

I did send you a link to.

[Dusty Slay]

Celebrities in commercials I might have completely made.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Mentos was like, you know, they'd be like. Like, oh, I'm scared to do this. And then you're like, papa Mentos. And then you're like, now I can do it. Now I can do it.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I was thinking of? That was actually that lady, though, that.

[Brian Bates]

Just popped up for putting the Mentos in the Coke.

[Dusty Slay]

I got Morgan Freeman mixed up with Vinnie Chase from Entourage. He started with a Mentos commercial. Some people say Morgan Freeman. This is a 1971 Alka Seltzer commercial. Look at young Morgan Freeman.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I never knew he was young.

[Brian Bates]

Well, this.

[Dusty Slay]

He was born 50.

[Brian Bates]

This confirms it to me. Some people say that Morgan Freeman is Jimi Hendrix.

[Aaron Weber]

Who says that?

[Brian Bates]

Some people say that.

[Dusty Slay]

Why would he become another famous.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's like, I've done everything I could do in the guitar world, though. Rolling Stone will have me as the greatest guitarist of all time. Every time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And now I can, you know, become a great actor. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

He looks like him there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A couple more Snickers. You're. You're not you when you're hungry.

[Dusty Slay]

Those are good.

[Aaron Weber]

They kind of relaunched Betty White a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Any of those commercials where they just create a formula and then they can just pump out like 30 of them. So smart.

[Brian Bates]

Joe Pesci has one of those too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Hungry. Why wait? That was a Snickers commercial too.

[Aaron Weber]

Volkswagen the Force, where the kids out as Darth Vader.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I haven't seen that one.

[Aaron Weber]

You know this Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

Nah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then the dad has the automatic starter. This is a few years ago when it was newer. And right when the kid's doing the Force, he starts the car and the kid freaks out cuz. Oh, yeah, he thinks he actually did it. So anyway. Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

That'S pretty cool. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's cute.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a good commercial.

[Aaron Weber]

A couple more from my childhood. I fallen and I can't get up.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, iconic.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Life alert.

[Brian Bates]

Let me tell you, those were so good.

[Dusty Slay]

When I was in maybe sixth or seventh grade, went to summer camp. At the end of the summer camp, we all had to put on little sketches for everybody at camp.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And in one of the sketches, my character fell down and our camp counselor was like, you should say I've fallen and I can't get up. I was like, that's not funny at all. He's like, trust me, it'll kill. And I go, I fall, I can't get up. And it murdered. And I had with all the older people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I had no clue what it was years later before I realized that's what it was a reference to. But it was that iconic of a commercial.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I did. I remember my senior year of high school doing act out thing in drama class where the girl goes, I fall and I can't get up. And then there's the second line. I'm having chest pains.

[Brian Bates]

To summon an ambulance, my next door neighbor, my family, and my doctor.

[Dusty Slay]

Without picking up a telephone, I use.

[Brian Bates]

This remote control to contact Life. Call my 24 hour emergency medical response service.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Watch.

[Brian Bates]

You just.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's what the dispatch guys look like. I'm having chest pain.

[Brian Bates]

I'm calling paramedics and your family, Mr. Miller.

[Dusty Slay]

I've fallen and I can't get up.

[Aaron Weber]

We're sending help immediately. Yeah, the crying Indian.

[Dusty Slay]

Never seen that.

[Brian Bates]

I. I know that it's very iconic.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that Lando Lakes butter?

[Aaron Weber]

No, this is a PSA actually, for like, conservative.

[Dusty Slay]

Keep America beautiful. 1970 Iron Iris Coney, Marlon Brando.

[Aaron Weber]

At the end, he has a little tear down his cheek from all the Pollution he's seen right there. Turns out that guy wasn't even Native American.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's where we've talked about this before. Yeah. That guy was not Native American. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

A couple controversial commercials help reduce litter.

[Dusty Slay]

By 88% across 38 states according to one reliable source. I don't know who that was. Just one guy was like, Nah. 88% reduction.

[Aaron Weber]

The peloton commercial from years ago where the guy got his wife a peloton. You seen that, Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And people got really upset.

[Dusty Slay]

Now peloton's doing great.

[Aaron Weber]

They had a couple of. They're not shows where people.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, they're laying off people by the thousands. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, there's a couple TV shows where someone died on a peloton.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think billions. And I think there was another one.

[Dusty Slay]

Where from a heart attack.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, somebody had a heart attack.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Pepsi's global message of unity with Kendall Jenner. Remember that?

[Dusty Slay]

I do remember that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You remember Head on apply directly to the forehead.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Head on apply directly to the forehead. Head on applied directly to the forehead.

[Brian Bates]

What about locally? We have that commercial about buying junk cars.

[Dusty Slay]

We buy junk cars.

[Brian Bates]

You ever hear that one? It's just some jingle. Real annoying.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever get a card in the mail for we buy ugly houses. And they're like, your house is on our radar. And you're like, oh, God, let me tell you. We buy ugly houses with Hitting us up hard, dude. They were like, you're top of the list right now.

[Aaron Weber]

The longest running commercial is discount tires Commercial first started in 1975. Still airs some places where the old lady throws the tire through the window. You guys know this?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe when you see it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it airs much anymore, but.

[Brian Bates]

She don't need Life alert.

[Dusty Slay]

Cost $18 to make that commercial.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Netflix now has a thing now, 7.99amonth. Of course you can have ads.

[Dusty Slay]

It was just a matter of time. Matter of time.

[Brian Bates]

$7.99. You can have ads.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Or you pay more. 20.

[Aaron Weber]

$25 is the highest subscription. I think a month.

[Dusty Slay]

But $8 is creeping back, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, couple more things here. Subliminal messages. Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Getting to this, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, that's what all of this is.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's the famous case that I always heard about. But I thought it was prevalent. But apparently it was just one time. 1957 market researcher said caught a press conference and he said that he repeatedly flashed the slogans drink Coca Cola and eat popcorn throughout a movie. Too fast for conscious perception. As a result, he claimed sales of popcorn rose 18% and Coke by 58%. And he called it subliminal advertising. He thought everybody was going to love it because it was going to save money making these ads. People did not like it. He later confessed that his research. He's not even sure if it did increase the sale of the ads, but. So that one you're looking at there, that is. That's a Burger King commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

Kfc.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, a KFC commercial where there's a dollar bill sublimity put in there.

[Brian Bates]

What's that supposed to mean? Like, you get that? Oh, because it's only a dollar?

[Aaron Weber]

I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

I think your brain just registers a. A dollar bill is a good thing.

[Brian Bates]

There might be money in that sandwich.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, get your snacks.

[Aaron Weber]

I may have lost a page here. There was a McDonald's commercial. There was a Iron Chef episode where a McDonald's logo pops up in the.

[Dusty Slay]

Middle of the middle of the episode.

[Aaron Weber]

Middle of the episode. They said it was just a mistake. It was an error. It's. It's. You know, who knows? But Dusty, you think this is going on?

[Dusty Slay]

Tough to explain as a mistake. I mean, it just.

[Brian Bates]

Well, for sure I think it's going on.

[Dusty Slay]

I meantly hit the McDonald's button.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I don't know how they're doing it, but I think they do it with music. I think they have frequencies and things that can change your mood. Can. Can, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, music can change your mood.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I think, you know, there's. There's subliminal things that are happening in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Like they put in something in music.

[Brian Bates]

And it makes change the frequency. Like there can be a healing frequency to music and then there also is, you know, the opposite.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I think everything is some kind of subliminal messaging to get to us, to make us buy, to make us consume. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You ever see the movie they Live?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When the guy puts on the glasses and then it changes everything. They Live is. I wouldn't say they Live is a great movie, but it's a must watch.

[Dusty Slay]

That's such a iconic scene. Obey.

[Brian Bates]

It's a must watch.

[Aaron Weber]

The longest running sponsorship. This is not tv, it's radio. Martha White for the Grand Ole Opry.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Martha White brand's been with advertising the Grand Opry since 1948.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty crazy, huh? You've heard those, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, sure. That in Dollar General.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

And Humana.

[Aaron Weber]

Humana Is the. I think, the title sponsor. Unfortunately for Reno Collier, Cracker Barrels Campfire Chicken. Supposedly shaped like a satanic symbol.

[Brian Bates]

That's not true.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what. That's just what they're saying. That's what they're saying. I don't know who they is, but that's what they're saying on Tick Tock, right when. When it opens up, there's a. I'm joking.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the ark of the Covenant.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, you want to get into. Oh, here's another one. Burger King tweeted, this is in 2021. Posted a tweet stating women belong in the kitchen. And it was supposed to be that. Only pointing out only 20% of chefs are women.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But people are like, what? So it backfired on Taco Bell used to have a commercial about the bell. Illuminati.

[Brian Bates]

Huh?

[Aaron Weber]

And it was playing off the end.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Charlie Daniels tweeted about it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Saying don't take. Don't be joking about the Illuminati.

[Dusty Slay]

And then he died.

[Aaron Weber]

And then soon after.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he died.

[Aaron Weber]

He got too close.

[Brian Bates]

Taco Bell. The bell in there does look like a snake's eye. You ever see that? Oh, oh, that reminds me. I meant to talk to you guys about something.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, again. Reptilian eye. And that. Look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

Just a circle.

[Brian Bates]

Nah, look at that thing in there. That's a reptilian eye right there, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Inside the bell.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What's he saying?

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's not saying anything.

[Dusty Slay]

He's just letting you know I'm watching.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Looking at you.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw last night when I was doing research, all those hidden little, like, FedEx. There's an arrow. You've seen that, right? There's a few others. Tostitos.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's two people, like, putting chips together in the middle.

[Brian Bates]

Right. Which will just break the chips. You never want to do that. Fighting over a chip. You never want to do that. Not over a bowl of salsa. Yeah, yeah. Get your carpet.

[Dusty Slay]

That's gonna ruin the carpet. Yeah. Put clubs out on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a whole thing.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I wanted to just. Just. This is not on commercials. But we talked about cats one time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And house cats, you know, they just say they're, you know, then evolved species of the other cats. But all the other feline have regular looking eyes, like almost human eyes. Whereas the house cat has more of a reptilian eye.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm glad you brought that up. Now it's a good time to talk about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It just Looks like an eye, but then the pupils dilate.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, so that looks like normal eyes right there.

[Brian Bates]

But look at a. Look at a lion's eye. My point is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, what's your point?

[Brian Bates]

That the eye. I just don't think that that is. They never have the slitted eyes. So I just think that the house cat is a different species and not just a domesticated.

[Aaron Weber]

So you think it evolved from reptiles?

[Brian Bates]

I think it's just a different kind of animal. And I just think that they always push the domesticated thing on us, but I don't. I don't think so. It's a different kind of. Different kind of cat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You've sent me some Instagram videos about this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

3:00Am I'll see my phone light up. I'm like, what is this? My mom. Oh, no, it's Dusty sending me a conspiracy video. My heart's pounding like, what's happened?

[Dusty Slay]

There is an explanation for this, but it's not. It's not interesting. So we'll just move on. But just know. Just know it's been talked about.

[Aaron Weber]

And no, Dusty's not going to agree with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, let's get into. Go ahead, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

No, I got nothing. Just don't, you know, Aaron's just saying what's interesting and what's not.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, no, I'm saying the rebuttal to what you're saying is not interesting.

[Brian Bates]

So what's it say? Well, just give us a synopsis.

[Dusty Slay]

Smaller cats have vertically slitted pupils which are better suited for ambush hunting and judging distances. So they've just. They've both.

[Brian Bates]

That seems interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a key adaption that helps them thrive in their respective environments.

[Brian Bates]

You know, that seems interesting to me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What about you, Brian?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm saying it's an explanation for. For the question that you're. Yeah, you're posing. It's an answer to it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I just. That's what I mean, though. I just don't think that they always just tell us they're domesticated lions. And I just. I don't think so. You know, there's its own.

[Dusty Slay]

There's a few steps in between.

[Brian Bates]

I think is the thing is all my. All I'm saying.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think it's a feline?

[Brian Bates]

No, I just think it's, you know, it's its own thing. It's not. It's always been this cat. Okay, that's my point.

[Dusty Slay]

Dogs were always just dogs.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't think they have a changing of the Eye.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And I think, you know, dogs are in Bible times, always referenced in a kind of a gross way.

[Dusty Slay]

Dogs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They certainly weren't considered pets, I don't think, then. Yeah, they're much more domesticated now. All right, guys, today we're talking about commercials. Here's one. We talked about some good commercials, some bad commercials. Here's one. Not even an ad because it's way of life. Bombas. Yeah, I'm wearing Bombas right now. Bomba Spring socks are the best. It's a busy time of year and the right. Right socks can make or break your spring.

[Dusty Slay]

Really can.

[Aaron Weber]

You really can. Bombas makes the ultimate errand socks from actually spring cleaning to walking the dog to everything in between. Bombas took their socks arch hugging, stay up cuff ultra cushion design very seriously. So you can take a load off. Bambas started making socks when they learned that they're the number one most requested clothing item in homeless shelters. So thank you for shopping with Bombas. You're helping Donate over 150 million essential items. Now, that's a lot of socks.

[Dusty Slay]

That is. Sure is.

[Aaron Weber]

And a lot of kindness. So head over to bombas.com nate and use code nate for 20 off your first purchase. That's B O-M-B-A-S.com nate code nate at checkout. Some TV commercial jingles. This is fun to me. I'll sing any of them you want. Alka Sasser. Do you know it?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I don't know that.

[Aaron Weber]

Pop, pop, pop, fizz, fizz. You guys don't know this is that melodic at all. Yeah. You're so young.

[Dusty Slay]

How does it go?

[Aaron Weber]

Pop, pop, fizz, fizz. Oh, what a relief it is.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I never heard that. That's amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

I got a lot more here.

[Brian Bates]

What a Kit Kat kit.

[Dusty Slay]

Dude, give me a break.

[Brian Bates]

Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar. What about baby back ribs? Baby back, baby back, baby back chilies, baby back ribs, barbecue sauce.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Iconic.

[Brian Bates]

How about rolaid spells relief?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know that one.

[Brian Bates]

That's not a jingle, I guess, but that's what that spells. Relief.

[Dusty Slay]

Nausea, heart. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea. Hey, Pepto Bismo?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know that one?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if that last part's out. Went. But.

[Aaron Weber]

Dr. Pepper, you said, well, I'm a pepper, you're a pepper. What? You want to be a pepper? To be a pepper. Drink Dr. Pepper, everybody.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know that everybody's a pepper. But not everybody's a Dr. Pepper.

[Dusty Slay]

Was that other expression.

[Aaron Weber]

Too.

[Dusty Slay]

That's pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Besties now would be. I'm a prepper. You're a prepper. Would you want to be a prepper too?

[Brian Bates]

Well. Everybody should be prepared to some extent.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Band Aid.

[Dusty Slay]

Band Aid. I'm a big kid now. Is that it?

[Brian Bates]

I think that's Oscar Meyer Wiener.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Barry Madison.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm a big kid now.

[Brian Bates]

Some kind of vitamin.

[Dusty Slay]

Hold on. That's. You know what I'm talking.

[Aaron Weber]

I do know what you're talking about. I just don't know what the product is.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe Kicks. The cereal Kicks.

[Dusty Slay]

That's kid tested. Mom approved.

[Brian Bates]

They don't eat. They don't what?

[Dusty Slay]

That's a Huggies commercial.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. What about Apple Jack Jacks? They don't taste like apples. We eat.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the year you're. You're born. You probably were. What was it? Apple Jacks.

[Brian Bates]

Apple Jacks. They go. The dad goes, why do they call them Apple Jacks? They don't taste like apples. And the kids go. We eat what we like.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

What about the tricks? They never let the silly rabbit. Yeah. Tricks are for kids.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not really a song, is it now? Oh, oh, oh. O'reilly.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that. Is that a national commercial?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it has to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

What about. They're great.

[Dusty Slay]

Only half of these are songs. But I like. Yeah, That's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

What about this one? I know. Chickens can't fly, but can they swim?

[Brian Bates]

That's a good one. That's a good commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh. What's. Oh. Cracker Barrel.

[Brian Bates]

That goes crack, crack. Cracker Barrel.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that really it?

[Aaron Weber]

No. Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

The snack that smiles back. Goldfish.

[Brian Bates]

Huh?

[Dusty Slay]

You know that one?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know that one.

[Aaron Weber]

Band Aid.

[Dusty Slay]

Band Aid. I'm a Band Aid now. What is it?

[Aaron Weber]

I am stuck on Band Aid cuz Band Aid stuck on me.

[Dusty Slay]

Great song.

[Brian Bates]

Getting cut at home and stabbed with a pencil. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That Barry Manilow wrote a lot of these jingles.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, including him. Man.

[Brian Bates]

But you came and you gave without taking But I sent you away. Oh, Mandy. Just a bare metal also.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. What is that for?

[Aaron Weber]

Meow Mix.

[Dusty Slay]

Meow Mix.

[Brian Bates]

I write the songs that make the.

[Dusty Slay]

Whole world world sing I've got chicken, I've got liver Meow Mix Meow Mix Please deliver Meow Meow Meow. Remember that one?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I just knew them. Yum yum, yum.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sure you did. Call JG Wentworth, 877 cash now.

[Brian Bates]

What about this one?

[Dusty Slay]

I have a structured settlement, but I need cash now.

[Brian Bates]

What about this one? J.G.

[Dusty Slay]

Wentworth, 8 7.

[Brian Bates]

I need cash now.

[Dusty Slay]

8 7, 7. Cash now. What about at the opera?

[Brian Bates]

Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan. You remember you.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm John Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan.

[Aaron Weber]

You made a spoof commercial.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I took all the commercials and I cut down to just the Morgan and Morgan of Morgan because it's like, I'm John Morgan of Morgan of Morgan.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That sounds ridiculous. It's just. Yeah, there's a. Remember, there's a phenomenon for a while. FreeCreditReport.com.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Remember those? FreeCreditReport.com Tell your kids, tell your dad, tell your mom.

[Brian Bates]

Remember that I was writing jokes about it because they just tell you to go check your credit and it'll get better.

[Aaron Weber]

What about. This is an old one. Oscar Meyer. Baloney.

[Brian Bates]

My baloney. Baloney has a first name. It's O S C A R. My baloney has a last name, second name, second name. It's M Y E. M E Y E R. There you go. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A few more. Toys R Us.

[Dusty Slay]

Toys R Us. Let me think. No, I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't want to grow up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then we grew up and they closed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they did.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, you worked in advertising, right, Aaron?

[Dusty Slay]

I did for a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you do commercials?

[Dusty Slay]

A little bit. Kind of. It was more social media stuff by the time I, I got into it and less about the guy I worked for. Created one of the best commercials ever. It was a McDonald's commercial like a Little League football. Then that eventually became the movie Little Giants. Really Ended up writing the movie Little Giants with somebody else. But it was a commercial first for McDonald's of kids all playing football. And it was just a great commercial. So I worked with people that did that, but I was never involved at. At any kind of level.

[Brian Bates]

I'm loving it.

[Dusty Slay]

Remember the one before that?

[Brian Bates]

No. Also though, that one and the ESPN one, the ESPN commercial with the. Where they're just doing the Sports center jingle at the beginning of football season. That was a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

ESPN has the best promo commercials. They're so funny.

[Brian Bates]

Very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

The Sports Centers ones.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't remember that. 1972.

[Aaron Weber]

I think they've had some in between.

[Dusty Slay]

You deserve a break. What is that all about?

[Brian Bates]

But yeah, and then the. We talked about the roll Tide commercial. I like that one. I don't know. High Tide. I don't know that one. You guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you guys ever do puffery?

[Brian Bates]

A little bit, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't inhale, though. Depends on what your definition of is. Is. Yeah. Puffery is the amount of. It's the kind of the license you have to exaggerate about your own business. And it's legal. Like, you're legally allowed to say best pizza in town, even if there's no metric to justify that statement. So it's not. It's like a vague claim that's just.

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of like puffing yourself up.

[Dusty Slay]

It's puffery. Yeah, exactly. It's beating your own chefs. Just saying, you know, whatever. It's the best thing since sliced bread. It's like. Well, it's technically not, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I say those sort of things, but they're true though, you know, so.

[Dusty Slay]

It'S like you're allowed to say it's the hottest show. It's the hottest show in town. Yeah, but like, you can't back that up with a science.

[Aaron Weber]

But if you were.

[Brian Bates]

I guess not.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you were making it, if I hired you as advertised to make a 30 second ad for me, what would be the copy? Would there be any puppy?

[Dusty Slay]

What is it for? For your shows or just for you in general?

[Aaron Weber]

It's a Brian Bates and friends is 80s.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, the sad reality is I probably just get Nate to talk. I really try to get it to you.

[Aaron Weber]

Just get him to voice it.

[Dusty Slay]

I just need Nate in the shot and I need him talking. And he'll go, hey, this is Brian. That's what'll sell the tickets, unfortunately. And maybe Dusty too. Get him. And Dusty just kind of keep you out of it. And I think that it's.

[Aaron Weber]

No stand up in the video.

[Dusty Slay]

No. God, no. You don't lead with the, you know, your worst foot.

[Brian Bates]

Focus on the friends part.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian Bates and Friends. Emphasis on friends.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Friends and Brian Bates and talk about puffery and Friends. They might not even really be friends. Exactly, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian Bates and Acquaintances.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Brian Bates and who is available title for a show that would be Brian Bates and Acquaintances.

[Aaron Weber]

Especially now when there's so many Anne Francis.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it'd be more accurate Brian Bates and Strangers.

[Dusty Slay]

Now you book your. You have your friends on the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Not the next one coming up now. I'm joking. All right. Any other commercials y' all want to talk about?

[Dusty Slay]

I think we covered all the big ones. We sang a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure we've got many.

[Dusty Slay]

This is probably the most singing we've ever done on the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think it's the hottest podcast we've done. No puffer.

[Aaron Weber]

I think Dusty's the hottest comedian in America.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, yo, no puffery here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Dusty, if you were doing an ad for yourself, what would you do?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm trying to do ads for myself all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, so what I tell people is I go, come to my show. It's a relatively clean show. I say. I say I'm an adult and I'm doing comedy for other adults. I don't recommend kid come, but this is the type of show that you can bring your aunt to and you're not going to be embarrassed that you brought her. That's my ad. I go, it's a good show. I'm not making fun of people. We're just laughing. We're having a good time. It's just like, hey, I make a few jokes of myself, but not enough to make you feel sorry for me.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

It's just fun, observational stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you make any jokes about yourself?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. This whole thing is. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Dusty Slay]

Not clean, not dirty. Yeah, Just dusty.

[Brian Bates]

It's dusty. Yeah. So that's the kind of ads I try to do where I'm like, hey, this is a show that you can just enjoy even if you don't know who I am. And then I say, hey, I got an hour on Netflix. I got an hour on YouTube. Go watch both of those if you want.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a long ad.

[Brian Bates]

Decide if you like me or not. Yeah, my social media team's having a problem with it, too.

[Aaron Weber]

I go, it's just too much good stuff.

[Brian Bates]

It's a little, say mini, decide if you like me or not, and then come see me. And you're gonna get a. A whole new hour, maybe more.

[Dusty Slay]

I like, do the mean Joan Gree commercial, but with you. And you're walking to the green room after a show and a kid goes, hey, Dusty, you want some of my Coke? And you go, no, there's all kinds of chemicals in there.

[Brian Bates]

Trying to give me high fructose corn syrup, buddy.

[Dusty Slay]

And he goes, okay, sorry. And then that's the end of.

[Brian Bates]

And then I swap it out of his hand. I go, you don't need to be drinking that either. Where's your dad at.

[Dusty Slay]

Mean Dusty Sleigh?

[Aaron Weber]

And then we'll do one for Aaron where he takes the coke and then takes a sweat towel and throws it in the kid's Face.

[Dusty Slay]

It's all wet in his face. That'd be fun.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I do one with me where like, hey, kid, can you be at my next show? I need some extra people just to fill the seats.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

No, we're all professional comedians, though.

[Brian Bates]

Here we are, the most professional of. Prof. We're the. Probably the most professional comedians out there. No buffering, no puffery.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you started it, so I'm sorry, I'll let you.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so this weekend I'm going to be in California. I'm going to start off in Modesto, California on Thursday, and then I'm going to go on Friday. I'm going on down to. To Bakersfield, California. Bakersfield, for a little Bakersfield sound, a little Buck Owens, a little Dwight Yokum, little Merle Haggard. And then I'm headed on up to San Jose, California to surf the waves and do some comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

It's gonna be great. I'm taking my friend from St. Louis, Will O' Donnell, with me. It's gonna be a lot of fun. We've recently got qt, the quick trip gas station, to send us some swag.

[Dusty Slay]

Awesome.

[Brian Bates]

And we like them, big fans of the QT and. And then, you know, just to throw a date out there down the road a little bit. I'll be back at Zany's on June 24th. Just want to throw that out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Where are you going to be June 24th?

[Brian Bates]

Zany's Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. How about here? In our own backyard. Yes, right there.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

June 29th, I'm back at the Great Ole Opry.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

July 6th, Good Night's Comedy Club in Raleigh. July 9th, Chattanooga at the Comedy Catch. June. July 29th, Brian Bates and Acquaintances.

[Dusty Slay]

Awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Here at the last.

[Dusty Slay]

You should call it that.

[Brian Bates]

You should call it that.

[Dusty Slay]

This weekend, big weekend for me. Saturday night, South Bend, Indiana, the Stock Room East. Hopefully both shows are sold out by now. Probably not. But then Sunday I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and I think that that's all sold out by now. So sorry if you can't make it, but if you are going to be there, I appreciate it. And then I want to. I want to plug it one more time. I won't talk too much about it. I'm worried I kind of described it wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me say for Fort Wayne, you actually added a second show.

[Dusty Slay]

No, we didn't.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that'd be nice. But I don't know. I don't know if we have the time to do that. But October 22nd, my wife and I are doing a fundraiser here at Zany's called Prater Silly. Prater Silly, sorry. It's for the. The organization. Prader Willie association of America, I think it's called. It's not for us. I want to make that. It's not a fundraiser for us. It's for the organization that we're hosting. The lineup's great. It's going to be a great show. We got a lot of corporate sponsors. People are putting money into it. We're going to give them a show worthy of it. That's October 22nd. My wife and I are really proud of what we're putting together. So make sure you. You check that out if you're in the area. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you. Y. Thanks, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

There used to be a comedy club in Fort Wayne called Snickers.

[Dusty Slay]

I heard of that. Never did it. No, but I did that.

[Brian Bates]

I wish I had did that club with a guy named Dobie Maxwell. Me and him did that club and we put on. I featured for him. We put on a really great show. Both shows were sold out, back to back. Really great shows. I mean, the audience laughed the entire time.

[Dusty Slay]

What happened?

[Brian Bates]

And then we go out to Stand by the exit. I got a little merch. I think he's got a little merch. I got a cd, and I think maybe he has something similar. And I don't think a single audience member even looked us in the face. I never been walked by. By that many people in my whole life.

[Dusty Slay]

Why do you think that was?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Yeah, because I never met Dobie, but I had a good set. And then I thought he had a really good set. And I never seen anything like it. I. My whole life.

[Aaron Weber]

Both shows, both.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even know if we went out there the second time.

[Dusty Slay]

Sometimes it'll be like that, the really great show. Then they just leave. And then you think it's a bad show and a lot of people come up and are very nice to you after the show.

[Brian Bates]

But it was great. I really liked. I liked Fort Wayne. That was also a club. I wrote a joke about this, but I went up to a waitress there at the club and I go, hey, can I order some food with you? Right? She goes, you want to order some food with me? I go, yeah. She goes, I'm busy. And then I was like, oh, okay. And. And then she. I was like, all right, whatever. I'll just find another waitress, you know? And then she comes running up to me and she Goes, oh, you want to order some food? I thought you were asking me on a date. I was like, oh, okay, well, that's much worse. Before, I just thought you were bad at your job. Now you're rejecting me?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm busy.

[Dusty Slay]

You got rejected without even putting yourself out there. Yeah, yeah, I'm busy. Oh, geez. That's very fun. I didn't know that was there. Yeah, well, come see me. Come see me there. Yeah, Summit City. That's it. You want to close it out, Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We've had a great time doing this podcast with you guys. We've sang a lot of jingles, we played a lot of commercials. This has been more of an interactive podcast than I think we've ever done. We showed a lot of it. I. I mean interactive in the fact that we use a lot of technology and put a lot of video into.

[Dusty Slay]

This and high production value.

[Brian Bates]

It's very good. Aaron just ran that computer like. Like that's his job out here. And Brian put together another flawless podcast. I mean, his research is unmatched. And I just want you guys to know as we're signing out here, that we all are professional comedians. This is what we do for a living. No puffery. And. And we want to. We want to thank you for listening to this podcast and come see us at our shows, and we hope you have a wonderful day. We're having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

See you next week.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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35% alcohol by volume. Captain Morgan rum coat, New York, New York.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and safeway now through June 17th. Shop in store or online for your favorite personal care Items and save $5 when you spend $15 or more.

[Dusty Slay]

Stock up on items like Dove Body.

[Brian Bates]

Wash, Degree Motion Sense Deodorant, Tresemme Hairspray, Dove Shampoo, Dove Bar Soap, Dove Men's Body and face wash, and Dollar Shave Club blades and save $5 when you.

[Aaron Weber]

Spend $15 or more.

[Dusty Slay]

Hurry in before these deals are gone.

[Aaron Weber]

Offer ends June 17.

[Brian Bates]

Promotions may vary.

[Dusty Slay]

Restrictions apply. Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details.