Nateland | Ep #289 - The In Between Episode (Revisiting Fairy Tales, Cartoons & School)

Summary

Public Figures Podcast Ep 289: Nateland | The In Between Episode

"Revisiting Fairy Tales, Cartoons & School"
Hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Release Date: January 28, 2026

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Episode Overview

This special edition of the Public Figures podcast, featuring the Nateland crew (Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay), was recorded in the aftermath of a massive snowstorm in Nashville that disrupted their plans for the official launch of the new show. Due to studio and power outages, the episode takes on an informal, nostalgic vibe as the hosts reminisce on favorite fairy tales, classic cartoons, and their own school experiences.

With characteristic humor and warmth, the trio explores the oddities and lessons behind folklore, fairy tales, and animated TV series from multiple generations, then shift to personal and cultural observations on school—from back-to-school rituals and school supplies to gym class, recess, and even school pranks.

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Episode Highlights

1. The Aftermath of Nashville's Snowstorm (00:38–04:20)

• Due to the "snowpocalypse," the debut of Public Figures was postponed.
• Each host recaps their current situation: Brian's in a powerless hotel with family; Aaron avoided power loss by being in California; Dusty escaped to Alabama.
  • Quote: “If I look more worried than normal, it's because we have no electricity... I'm in a hotel room with my wife, 3-year-old daughter and our yappy dog.” – Brian (01:22)
• Despite the circumstances, the hosts pivot to a "memory lane" episode, assuring listeners that the true launch will follow soon.

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2. Fairy Tales and Folklore: Dissecting the Stories (04:20–23:24)

• Defining the Genres: Brian distinguishes fairy tales, fables, and folktales, with Dusty humorously doubting anything is truly invented.
  • Quote: “What do you think Lord of the Rings is based on?” – Aaron (05:50)
  • Dusty: “They kind of loosely based it on Christianity and the Bible. Were there ogres? Probably.” (05:54)
• Classic American Folktales: Paul Bunyan, John Henry (and Brian’s debunking vs Dusty’s belief).
• Famous Parables: Tortoise and the Hare, and why fairy tales so often feature a dead mom and an evil stepmother.
• The George Washington Cherry Tree Myth: Laughter over why we lie to teach “not lying.”
  • Quote: “You would lie to tell a story about not lying?” – Dusty (07:02)
• Nativity Scene Myths: Debating biblical timelines and how narrative devices shape tradition; Dusty: “Could just be three guys who happen to be there. ...Don’t call us wise.” (08:41)
• Magic Logic: Dusty reads "Flora’s Magic Flute" (10:02–13:56), hilariously picking apart its flawed internal logic:
  • “Every day had been clear and sunny...and then Flora’s music made them remember after the last rain…”
  • Prompting a whimsical discussion about art’s power versus plot holes.
• Brian’s Dark Childhood Book: Story about a perpetually rainy world, a bullied kid, and missed sunshine—“kind of a dark [story]” (14:47).

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3. Cartoons: The Best Across Generations (49:39–74:00)

Segment Highlights:

• Pace Magazine’s 50 Greatest Cartoons List prompts an intergenerational showdown.
• Childhood Viewing:
  • Brian (’70s–’80s): Looney Tunes, Smurfs, Super Friends, Inspector Gadget, Speed Racer.
    • Quote: “Looney Tunes had been around since, like, the ‘30s...some of the references I didn’t get as a kid—Humphrey Bogart, Asian stereotypes...” (54:00)
  • Dusty (’80s–’90s): He-Man, GI Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Doug, Simpsons, Bobby’s World, Cliff the Cat, Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers.
    • “Doug was really good...Doug Funny is his name.” (62:53)
  • Aaron (’90s–’00s): Doug, Hey Arnold (“just the freedom of these kids running around the city. No parents anywhere.” 69:11), Rocket Power, Fillmore, Recess.
• Reflections on Changing Animation Styles:
  • Kids today often find older cartoons “too violent” or “bad” animation, compared to slick, modern styles.
• Adult Cartoons Discussed:
  • King of the Hill (“number one”), Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Beavis & Butthead, South Park, Futurama, Squidbillies.

Notable Quotes:

• “My mom worked at a plant that made VHS tapes—we had the hookup.” – Dusty (52:45)
• “All these Looney Tunes were just an animal, and then somebody trying to kill it.” – Aaron (53:59)
• “As an adult...these shows are all terrible.” – Dusty (65:26)

Funniest Moments

• Dusty slams “Bugs Bunny”: “When I watch Bugs Bunny now, I think he’s kind of a prick...I actually feel sorry for Elmer Fudd.” (55:16)
• Discovery that the Simpsons shifted focus from Bart to Homer as it matured (90:31).

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4. Back to School: Supplies, Rituals & Memories (96:12–151:00)

Key Segments:

• School Calendar Debates: Year-round vs. traditional long summer breaks.
• Practical Learning: Dusty argues for more life-skills education—paying bills, basic cooking, sewing—vs. calculus:
  • “I don’t even know what calculus is.” (98:55)
• School Trajectories & Culture:
  • Brian: One rural school K-8, then big high school; surprised by how grown-up senior girls seemed.
  • Dusty: Multiple schools during re-zoning in Alabama, recounts long commutes and reuniting with early classmates.
  • Aaron: Catholic school from K through college; discusses the challenge moving mid-high school.
• Popularity & Personality:
  • Discussing "cool" vs. "popular", being well-liked but not class clowns, and comedy origins.

School Nostalgia:

• Dress codes, uniforms, and peer pressure over brands (“Tommy Hilfiger was the thing...I prayed not to get things from Walmart.” – Dusty, 114:50).
• Pencil wars, paper football, “thump” games, pencil mustaches, and using the old wall-mounted pencil sharpener.
• “Did you ever leave the doctor's office and feel like you got nothing from it? ...They usually just tell me to drink more water.” – Aaron (17:17)

Iconic School Supplies:

• Mechanical pencils, eraser extensions, Trapper Keepers (with Dusty lamenting he didn’t bring his), overhead projectors.
• Farewell to the number two pencil: “SAT will be all digital next year...that’s the last time you needed to use one.” – Brian (132:16–132:22)
• Memories of buses, school lunches, lunchboxes—special mentions for GI Joe, He-Man, and Dukes of Hazard lunchboxes.

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5. School Hijinks, Fear, and Senior Year Memories

• “Did you ever do number two at school?”: Unanimous grade-school bathroom avoidance; Aaron admits high school changed everything.
• Senior pranks, like filling city fountains with laundry detergent (“The nextdoor app people were not happy.” – Brian 152:31).
• Cheating in Spanish class and the perils of being unprepared for finals (133:44–134:14).
• Lucid dreams about forgotten locker combinations, yearbook nostalgia unlocking long-buried memories.

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6. Reflections on Religion and Cultural Touchstones

• Discussing "The Chosen" TV series and issues with biblical artistic license.
  • “They humanize [Jesus] so much, I’m like, did Jesus really hit his thumb hammering?” – Brian (113:22)
• The role of Mary and Ruth in biblical and school naming traditions.
• Closing with the idea that, just like in fairy tales, real school memories “don't always line up, but you remember thanks to art, music, and friends.”

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On Fairy Tales Logic:
  • “My whole problem...these fairies were like, ‘it’s never rained before,’ but the moment Flora played the flute, they’re like ‘oh, we remember the last rain.’” – Dusty (13:10)
• On Growing Up & School:
  • “You have to wait four years to run this place.” – Aaron, on senior year confidence (126:56)
• On Life Lessons:
  • “You know, maybe learning would have become something important to me...learning a language opens different parts of your mind.” – Dusty (135:11)

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Memorable Moments

• Dusty’s “trailer park” cartoon pitch: Shows actual animation for an unrealized Hulu series based on his childhood (86:21).
• Nostalgic school supply props: Dusty almost brings in his original middle school Trapper Keeper, describes it in detail (128:50).
• Air travel mishaps: Aaron’s story about sitting next to the “worst smelling person ever” on a plane; Dusty’s about the airport groaner who misses his flight (153:42–155:24).

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Clever Callbacks and Jokes

• “If you’re into a girl and want to see her again, leave some stuff over there so you can call and go, ‘I left my phone charger...do you want to hook up while I’m here? My ego needs charging.’” – Dusty, channeling Cinderella (46:05)
• “Who cares, you can do whatever in a cartoon.” – Aaron (54:17)
• “This has been a great podcast. A bit of a Cinderella story, this podcast.” – Dusty (155:48)

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Structure (With Time References)

• 00:38–04:20: Nashville snowstorm, launch delay, checking in with the hosts.
• 04:20–23:24: Fairy tales, logic, parables dissected.
• 49:39–74:00: Cartoon deep-dives, kids’ programming across eras.
• 96:12–151:00: Back-to-school nostalgia, classroom habits, supplies, milestone memories.
• 151:00–156:06: Pencil battles, school games, reflection, and sign-off.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a warm, funny, and deeply nostalgic journey through American boyhood, brimming with observations about the stories we absorb, the shows we revere, and the odd, formative rituals of school life. It’s also a testament to the adaptability of podcasting: the snowstorm sent the hosts back to foundational memories, and in doing so, they deliver comfort, laughs, and insight for listeners across generations.

Transcript

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

By the way.

[Aaron Weber]

We were excited to record the first ever episode of the new Public Figures podcast this week. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans. I'm sure you've seen. Even if you weren't affected by the storms, a lot of places got hit hard. In Nashville in particular, took a beating.

[Dusty Slay]

Hi, Dusty Slay. We're having a good time. Hey. This week was supposed to be the first week of the Public Figures podcast, the brand new podcast. But the snowpocalypse came in and just turned Nashville into just an ice filled, probably beautiful, but ice filled landscape.

[Brian Bates]

Hey everybody, if I look more worried than even normal, it's because we have no electricity at our house and I'm in a hotel room with my wife, 3 year old daughter and our yappy dog. My wife and daughter went down to the lobby, My dog's still here. But anyway, yeah, we're probably gonna be without power for a while. Nashville is pretty much shut down at.

[Aaron Weber]

The time of recording this. I think there's still about, you know, hundreds of thousands of people without power around the city. So we were unable to get into the studio today and record. And because Brian couldn't figure out zoom, this is the best that we can do. Personally, we got very lucky. My wife and I, we never lost power the whole time, which I'm learning was pretty rare. So we're pretty grateful for that. I got to be honest, I was in San Diego this weekend, so I kind of had the opposite experience as most people that were in Nashville. I got back yesterday and it doesn't look like this, this ice is going to melt anytime soon. So hopefully things get better soon and I hope you and your family are doing okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And I was up in Cleveland. I sent my family down to Alabama, so I flew to Atlanta, my mom picked me up and now I'm in Alabama. And, and, and it's a beautiful sunny day. Alabama is always beautiful. But so I'm here and we can't do the first episode of the podcast today. And I'M sorry about that. I hate that.

[Brian Bates]

So, unfortunately, I'm bummed that we're not going to get to do a podcast this week. Our first podcast, Public Figures Podcast. But Nashville's just, you know, it's just not good here right now. But hopefully we'll get power back soon, and. And we'll have a great episode this week, a classic of me, Aaron and Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's still going to be great, still going to be fun, just so.

[Aaron Weber]

You can get a taste for what the Public Figures podcast is going to be. And we're excited to get in there and get things going, you know, without Nate starting our own thing. So we hope you enjoy a trip down memory lane.

[Brian Bates]

And we're so excited to get started next week with Public Figures Podcast. Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

And then we'll be coming at you next week with the Public Figures Gears podcast. We're having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Stay warm, stay safe. You know, we're going to have to come up with our own new catchphrases here. That's what I'm realizing. Live and in the moment. So enjoyed this episode. Hope you're doing well. Appreciate you.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm here with Brian Bates, as always. I'm here with Aaron Weber as well. These guys are two of my best friends, and I'm just happy to be here with them this week.

[Brian Bates]

You know, a few weeks ago, Dusty broke down Pinocchio, and people loved it. So I'm like, let's expand a little bit. The top two movies right now. Do you know what they are?

[Aaron Weber]

No idea. I can see it on the sheet in front of you, but.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Moana 2 and Wicked. Okay, Both, I would say, to some degree, are fairy tales, especially wicked. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what is a fairy tale?

[Brian Bates]

Fairy tale is. There's a broad definition, but generally there's fairy tales, there's folk tales, there's fables.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Fables generally have a message. It's usually an animal that has human characteristics, and there's a lesson to be learned in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a parable, like where there's something you're supposed to take away from it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like the. The tortoise and the hare.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

That's a fable. Folk tales are stories that, while made up, there might be some truth to. To the point where Dusty probably believes them.

[Aaron Weber]

Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, things like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, John Henry.

[Dusty Slay]

That's probably true. Yeah, man. These. All these things are probably based in truth. I don't believe anybody. Any of these imaginations out here.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think anybody makes something up entirely?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you think Lord of the Rings is based on?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think it's, you know, they kind of loosely based it on Christianity in the Bible. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's like, you know, you make up some stuff. But were there ogres? Probably. But you know what I mean.

[Brian Bates]

John Henry. John Henry was a real person. Most likely. But the story was, you know, that he was a still driving man. He battled the machine to see who could be better. He won. He died in the process. None of that's probably true.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, probably. Probably is.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then Paul Bunyan was probably real to lumberjack.

[Brian Bates]

Probably big blue ox.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So folktales are exaggerated.

[Aaron Weber]

Like George Washington cutting down a cherry tree. That never happened.

[Brian Bates]

I guess that would be a folktale.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's based on a real person.

[Dusty Slay]

Why do we think it didn't happen?

[Aaron Weber]

Because I think. Didn't we talk about this on the podcast?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think 36 years ago that big.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it was just. I think somebody admitted they made it up as just a device to prove the point.

[Brian Bates]

I cannot tell a lie.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, to.

[Dusty Slay]

So you would lie to story about not lying.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But is that really lying or is that just. Is that lying?

[Dusty Slay]

If you told me that George Washington cut down a cherry tree and he didn't.

[Aaron Weber]

But what's the point of that story?

[Dusty Slay]

That George Washington would always tell the truth.

[Aaron Weber]

That George Washington was a virtuous man who prioritize telling the truth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's the takeaway.

[Dusty Slay]

Not that over eating cherries.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. It's not about the cherries. It could be like a tree.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe it was during his campaign. They make this build this probably build his image. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or something. You know, somebody trying to. I think it's somebody trying to sell a biography about him after the fact.

[Brian Bates]

To prove he never told a lie. We're going to tell a lie in his behalf.

[Aaron Weber]

But is that really a lie? That's my point.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Or what was the cherry tree an analogy for something else? I think it's just.

[Aaron Weber]

Doesn't that have a little more than like apple tree?

[Brian Bates]

Someone just said the cherry tree sound nativity. Nativity scene.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Typical nativity scene. I made a point recently. The wise men were not there when Jesus was a baby.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It comes like a month later.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

It could have been years later.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But someone argues me. The point of this painting that we were talking about is to show that everyone came to realize it's don't take it so literal as what the person was telling.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

What if it was just. There was just three guys that happened to be there. And everybody's like, those are the wise men. And they're like, no, no, we're just three idiots.

[Brian Bates]

We're around.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, there's a lot of hoopla. We wanted to see what was going on over here. We're not that smart, really. Don't call us wise.

[Aaron Weber]

You check it out.

[Dusty Slay]

But it's like, yeah, we're not the wise men, but we were there.

[Aaron Weber]

And then the wise men come later.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then we're the wise men.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they've already been.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice try.

[Brian Bates]

And then fairy tales generally very often have a fairy or a witch or some type of magic involved.

[Aaron Weber]

Something supernatural.

[Brian Bates]

Supernatural that's tricking you. There's usually the mom's gone dead. There's an evil stepmother. Very often they have a very similar fairy tales because very often there's fairies above.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Which some people believe are also real.

[Brian Bates]

At this table, Fairies. So I don't know if we'll get in any that Dusty doesn't think actually happened, but.

[Dusty Slay]

But anyway, I do. I did bring a story that I'd like to read.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you do it now?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't know what it is.

[Aaron Weber]

The right time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's called Flora's Magic Flute.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, let's get a shot of.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a story I read to my daughter, and I want to read it to you guys because there's a bit of a hole in the story here. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

How long is it?

[Dusty Slay]

It's not very long.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

14 pages. No, it's not very long. Long ago, deep in the woods, a tiny village of fairies lived in pe. Fairy girl named Flora. I think we can all believe that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

For as long. Now, this is an important detail. For as long as the fairies could remember, every day had been clear and sunny. Okay. Flora played music on her magic flute, and all day the fairies danced and sang. But then one day, the sky grew dark and it began to rain. Soon the fairy village was muddy and gray. Everyone in the village was sad. Would the sun ever return? They said. Then Flora remembered how happy everyone had been when she played her flute on sunny days. Could her music make them feel happy? Now she took out her flute and began to play. All right, here we go. Okay. Flora's music made the other fairies remember. Now keep. Made the other fairies remember that after the last rain. Okay, let's go back. Let's go back. Here we go. Let's go back. For as long as the fairies could remember, every day had been clear and sunny. Here we go. And it made the fairies remember that after the last rain, the trees and flowers had become even prettier than before. So they all danced and splashed in the rain to celebrate the beauty that was to come. So this is talking about some kind of. Some kind of village where they forget everything they have. They can't remember anything because for as long as they could remember, every day had been clear and sunny.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But then one day, darkness came. Flora played the flute.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, there's no talk of the flute being magic. It's called magic. But it's just a flute.

[Aaron Weber]

But somehow it's called the Magic Flute. But they never mentioned it being magic.

[Dusty Slay]

They can't. Oh. But they can't remember anything. Every day is bright and sunny. Then she plays the flute, and suddenly they're like, oh, we remember. After the last rain, w had been clear and sunny. So what last rain?

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think music can be.

[Brian Bates]

Mic drop?

[Aaron Weber]

Let's see that book. Okay. Flora's Magic Flute, written by Stephen hall, illustrated by Jennifer Bartlett.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm trying to teach my kids to observe things.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I want to collect all four of these. Griff Learns to Fly, Auggie the Grump, and Scuttle's Diamonds. Yeah, this is a.

[Brian Bates]

What are you. What are you reading to your daughter?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm reading just. Just black and white pictures at this point.

[Brian Bates]

Philosophy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm not reading her Aristotle just yet, but black and white. It's just like a little book with a mirror in it and that kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

She's just starting to smile, which is pretty fun. Pretty fun. And it's pretty fun to get, like, a real. Not just I'm farting smile, but like a real I'm looking at you and smiling. That's pretty fun. This book. You don't think music can be transformative like that? Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

I do, but my. My whole problem with it is that these fairies were like, it's never rained before. But then the moment Flora started playing the flute, they were like, oh, we remember the last rain.

[Aaron Weber]

I think this is a story about art and how art gives us perspective in life. These people are tr. These fairies are just plowing through life, working hard. Right. They're not looking up at all. And they're so bogged down with the minutia and the reality of everyday life that they get depressed. Right. And then an artist comes along and goes, no, zoom out a little bit there. Is beauty in the world.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Good things are coming and they go, oh, and that's what art can do to people.

[Dusty Slay]

And also, like, wake up. Don't you remember it? It's rained before.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it has quite that energy. Yeah, wake up, you idiots.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it rains sometimes. How do you think we're growing all these mushrooms? Mushrooms don't grow without moisture and a little bit of darkness.

[Brian Bates]

This reminds me of a. When I was a kid. Looks like the Smurfs.

[Aaron Weber]

They do.

[Brian Bates]

When I was a kid, we read a book at school about a place where it rained every day. Essentially that. But Seattle. The kids never had seen a day where it hadn't rained, so they always had to be indoors. They locked one of their kids. They bullied him, put him in the closet just to mess with him one day. Well, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

Is this a folk tale?

[Brian Bates]

The same day. Same day.

[Aaron Weber]

This is from Brian's journal.

[Brian Bates]

Finally. I wrote it while I was in the closet. This could be. Yeah, Some truth to it. Finally, it stops raining, and the kids get to go out and enjoy the sunshine for the very first time in their life. When they finally come in at the end of the day, they realize, oh, yeah, we'd locked that kid in the closet, and he didn't get to experience. It's kind of a dark.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the.

[Dusty Slay]

And what a loser he is. You didn't even see the sun.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the point of the story?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I just remember reading as a kid. It, like, haunted me.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the turn at the end? Is there something. Does something happen?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I think they felt maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

A little bad, and then they found out that kid was blind.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe the turn is they all decide, let's not even tell him that we.

[Brian Bates]

Saw the sun, maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it's like he never missed out on it if he doesn't know that it happened. Could be something fun there.

[Brian Bates]

I'm subjecting my daughter to Christmas shows that I watch as a kid. And I've made Bonanza a bonanza Christmas. I do like bananas.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, me too.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good show.

[Brian Bates]

My Grandpa Hoss, Little Joe and Gunsmoke is good. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Smoke's good. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, which I had her watch last night. It was a little much for her. They have an Abominable Snowman.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that part's.

[Brian Bates]

It's a little.

[Aaron Weber]

It Was she scary?

[Brian Bates]

I bet she kind of. She didn't like it. But then Frosty the Snowman, and she's really gotten into Frosty the Snowman. We. She wants to watch it over and over and over again. And I don't know if you remember.

[Dusty Slay]

Particularly the part where he's in the greenhouse.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm getting at.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, Sorry.

[Brian Bates]

That's. Do you. I don't know how much you remember it.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't remember that.

[Brian Bates]

Basically, there's an evil magician wants the hat back because that's what's making him come to life.

[Aaron Weber]

So the hat is what animates Frosty the Snowman.

[Dusty Slay]

Hat never belonged to Frosty, to be honest with it. I don't know if this magician was evil or not. He's like, I just want my hat back.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they try to make it clear that he threw the hat away and didn't it, discarded it, and then they claimed it. But to warm. They're out in the snow trying to get North Pole to warm the little girl up. They go into a greenhouse, and then the magician shuts the door and locks him in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my gosh.

[Brian Bates]

So then Santa Claus shows up and goes in, and there's just that little girl in a puddle of water, and she's crying because Frosty is melted. And Santa's like, don't worry. It's Christmas snow. We'll bring it back to life. And they do, of course, bring it back to life.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But the trauma girl went through watching her best friend slowly melt away. He's talking to her. You don't see that, of course, but I just like, that girl's gonna need some counseling.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. And all the kids watching it. Right?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it was just. You mean watching the show? Yeah. Yeah. You don't see him melt. You just see the total water.

[Dusty Slay]

It can't be the same Frosty. You just can't make new snow and put it on his head and it'd be the same guy.

[Aaron Weber]

They're just gonna have to refreeze the water that melted, which is.

[Brian Bates]

It's kind of what they did. It kind of like zipped out the door and spun and become Frosty again.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, with still with the hat.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they had to put the hat back on. The magician still was claiming it, but Santa told him he's not going to get presents unless he.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I know the story of Frosty the Snowman. This girl made a snowman, and then the hat got put on it.

[Dusty Slay]

But when we put it on his head, he began to dance around Frosty the Snowman. You know that song?

[Aaron Weber]

I know the song was a Jolly. Jolly.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know the lyrics that.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the song came first.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Song came first.

[Aaron Weber]

One of Elvis's songs.

[Brian Bates]

Then they made an animated show. Same with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Gene Autry, like, Sangom in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

They make.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know that the song came before the show. Did the song invent the entire. Or the first to tell the story?

[Brian Bates]

I think so. Maybe. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, there's a. A song where he says, what is it? Where he says, we'll pretend. Like, oh, dang.

[Brian Bates]

We'll.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll talking about the snowman. And then they go, we'll pretend. They say, we'll pretend that he is parson Brown, which is like a preacher or whatever or somebody that can marry you.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

And it says, we'll pretend that he is Parson Brown. He'll say, are you married? We'll say, no, man, but you can do the job when you're in town. You know that song? You guys know that song?

[Aaron Weber]

What song is that?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's Frosty the Snowman.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the first seven I've never heard. I've never gone that deep in the song.

[Brian Bates]

I think you're right. But that's not. They don't do that part on the show.

[Dusty Slay]

He does say that. But I thought. I didn't know what Parson Brown was. I thought they were saying marching proud. We'll pretend that he is marching proud. And he'll say, are you married? We'll say, no, man. I was like, are they gonna marry Frosty the Snowman?

[Aaron Weber]

And I think this is actually from the song Winter Wonderland.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Frosty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, My bad.

[Aaron Weber]

But they all blend together.

[Dusty Slay]

But yeah, we'll pretend. See the line, though?

[Aaron Weber]

Parson is actually another word for a clergyman, especially a Protestant pastor. The word has gone largely unused since.

[Dusty Slay]

Around 1980, but apparently he could marry people. But I just thought he said marching proud, not Parson Brown. And then they said, we'll say are. He'll say, are you married? We'll say, no, man, but you can do the job when you're in town. I thought they were marrying the snowman.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I see. That's walking in a winter wonderland. That's the song.

[Aaron Weber]

Winter Wonderland. I don't know if they're walking in it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Got him confused.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, is this a. This is a different guy than Jack Frost. Huh? Frosty Snowman is a different guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, because we looked up last night. Because she's really into it. There is a Frosty two and the Global warming. The antagonist is Jack Frost.

[Dusty Slay]

What about. What about the Santa Claus three? You know that one? That's also Jack Frost. He's battling Martin Short as Jack Frost.

[Aaron Weber]

They're battling.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So Jack Frost is a villain.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. In. In Santa Claus 3.

[Aaron Weber]

No. I thought Jack Frost was a good guy.

[Dusty Slay]

The Santa Claus.

[Brian Bates]

I did, too.

[Dusty Slay]

There's like a. Like a.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a cls.

[Dusty Slay]

No, like a clause. Like a clause in a contract.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's spelled the same. Maybe just the E. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

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[Brian Bates]

All right, so fairy tale started back even before people were writing. They were doing oral stories and passed it down. And then 1600s. Charles Peralt. Something funny, guys? Sometimes you got to clear your thoughts.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I just caught Dusty's eye.

[Brian Bates]

Charles Baralt wrote Tales of Mother Goose. This is in 1697. It had little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Some classics. Oh, man.

[Dusty Slay]

The way these old books. What they call cats is too much. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't like it.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm trying to read these thing and what they call chickens and even a horse. There's one nursery rhyme I'm reading with a. What they call a horse. Basically a male rooster plus horse. Yeah. And I'm like, to Banbury Bush riding the blank horse to Banbury Bush. I'm like, I don't think so. Not in this house we're not.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy. Wait till you start reading Mark Twain.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of the. These fairy tales are very dark. Many of the classic ones are incredibly dark. And they were written for adults.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then later they were kind of sanitized for children to some degree. But some of these are incredibly. See, Disney written this old man.

[Dusty Slay]

He played two. He played knick knack on a shoe. That's apparently about like the Irish potato.

[Aaron Weber]

Knickknack, patty, whack.

[Dusty Slay]

Give a dog a bone, this old man came rolling.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It'd be a nursery rhyme.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's apparently. Is that not what we're doing? We are apparently.

[Brian Bates]

We haven't gotten to nursery rhymes yet.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. But that's about the Irish famine, I.

[Aaron Weber]

Think the potato fam.

[Dusty Slay]

Like people coming for food.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

But giving him a bone, the knocking.

[Aaron Weber]

On the door, give me a bone. And they go, we can't because all we have is potatoes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we're out of them. Something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So Aesop's Fables.

[Aaron Weber]

Aesop.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Aesop did it, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Collection of fables. Credit Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece.

[Dusty Slay]

What's some of his fables?

[Brian Bates]

Boy who Cried Wolf.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, man.

[Aaron Weber]

That stood the test of time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it did.

[Brian Bates]

Tortoise in the hare.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, tortoise in the hair. You know what bothers me about tortoise and the hare is there. They're constantly. All they ever talk about in every fairy tale is how slow the turtle is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, cut the guy some slack.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he wins in the end. That's the point.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but it's like they're always just, oh, he's so slow. And it's like the, the. The idea of that story is to tell us that the tortoise can beat the hair. If he's slow and steady. But the reality is the hair's beating you every time. The hair's gonna beat you every time.

[Brian Bates]

Well, clearly not.

[Dusty Slay]

You find a different race. Don't try to race the hair. Race other tortoises, okay? Because you're never gonna beat the hair.

[Brian Bates]

This is you swimming. You're gonna be ahead of Danielle, and then you're gonna start feeling cocky, and you're gonna slow down. This is just like we saw in the football game with the Titans. Leon Lett, famously, in the Super Bowl.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember that?

[Brian Bates]

He slowed down. He was. He wasn't much of a hair. But Don BB Snuck up behind him, knocked the ball loose.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm looking at a list of Aesop's fables.

[Dusty Slay]

Never going to beat the hair.

[Aaron Weber]

We know about tortoise and the hare, but a lot of these have been forgotten over time.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's get a couple. The Wolf and the.

[Aaron Weber]

How about the Monkey and the camel? What is that about?

[Brian Bates]

Classic.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I would think the monkey thought he didn't need water, and the camel was like, I have it in my back at all times.

[Aaron Weber]

The moral of this is, do not try to ape your betters.

[Brian Bates]

What does that mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Well, what a reach that is.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, camel carries a lot of water in his back.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a lot going on here at the club. I don't know if you hear that. I think there's some kind of theater troupe right there performing. It's a much different energy out there.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll tell you something about Aesop.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All except for the peacock. He loves the. And the.

[Brian Bates]

The.

[Aaron Weber]

The blank and blank.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The Wolf and His Shadow. The travelers and the.

[Dusty Slay]

The frogs who wished for a king.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's get into that.

[Dusty Slay]

What about the blank and the jewels.

[Aaron Weber]

Are so much longer, but this one, they. They reduce it down to the. The moral.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Which is nice. So the frog who wished for a king. The moral of that is, be sure to be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change. Geez. That doesn't.

[Brian Bates]

Or how about, here's some classics you.

[Dusty Slay]

Gotta change to better your condition.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg. That's an ASAP favorite.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Do you guys know that?

[Aaron Weber]

Not really. Not the way.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, there was a goose.

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of a clunky title.

[Dusty Slay]

Couldn't lay any eggs. And then one day. Laid a golden egg. And then the king came along and wanted to eat the egg because he's like, I got a lot of gold. This doesn't really mean anything to me. What I need right now is an egg.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

None of that's correct. I was buying it for a while.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I was so convinced. I don't really know what the point of this is.

[Brian Bates]

There's a man and his wife, they had a hand that laid a golden egg every day.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And they got actual gold. Yeah. The egg was made of gold.

[Aaron Weber]

Not just the color gold. It's a egg of gold.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Chain.

[Brian Bates]

It's an egg.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And they got greedy and said, well, I mean, she must be full of gold inside. So they killed her to cut her open to get the gold.

[Dusty Slay]

And this story is about the dumbest people that ever lived.

[Brian Bates]

The point is not to be greedy. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And use your brain a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Dumbest people I've ever heard of.

[Aaron Weber]

And for two years straight. This chicken is making us the best.

[Dusty Slay]

Who better kill?

[Brian Bates]

Let's cut it open.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's not even try. What would be that?

[Brian Bates]

A modern day equivalent of the dog.

[Dusty Slay]

And the me killing Nate. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Trying to cut Nate open.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Be like, Nate's given a lot of opportunities. He must be full of opportunities.

[Brian Bates]

Let's cut him open and steal his wallet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Let's grab him.

[Dusty Slay]

The. I think it would be similar to the, you know, the dog bone where the dog's holding the bone and he's looking over the river.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And the river he looks in and sees his reflection. And in that, the bone is much bigger. So he drops the bone to get the bigger bone. But it's actually just a reflection.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's. That's a dog. So you understand why he would think that.

[Dusty Slay]

Except for the dog holding that bigger bone must be bigger too. So it's like, you really think you better take it from.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know that. I don't think it was bigger. Right. I just think he saw another bone. He's like, I want that one too.

[Aaron Weber]

And this one's moving a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because it's in the river.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But this is a couple who owns a farm.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

I imagine they pay taxes like they. They run an operation. They're too smart to. There's no excuse even.

[Dusty Slay]

Just look at the mass. You're seeing this egg. How many eggs could possibly be inside the goose?

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

Even if the goose was just full of the eggs, how many could possibly be in it?

[Aaron Weber]

Just let it keep turning them out.

[Brian Bates]

Mm. The lion and the mouse.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know that one.

[Brian Bates]

The.

[Dusty Slay]

It's about a lion who got A new computer and having a lot of trouble with the mouse.

[Brian Bates]

The lion gets mad at the mouse for waking him up. The mouse begs for forgiveness and basically says, it would be no honor for you to kill a little mouse like me. Maybe someday I could help you in return. And the lion's like, yeah, right, whatever. I'll let you go. They're out of mercy. And then the lion, I think there's different versions, gets caught in a rope, and the mouse bites the rope and saves the lion.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So I guess I don't know what the message is that even little people.

[Dusty Slay]

Even if somebody keeps waking you up, let them live.

[Brian Bates]

That's the message.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That is the message.

[Aaron Weber]

Way too specific.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Do not murder over small inconveniences.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't kill a mouse. I mean, never know what they'll do for you in the end.

[Brian Bates]

Hansel and Gretel. So dark.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What is that? So Hansel and Gretel, they're leaving bread in the forest or something. What is Hansel and Gretel all about?

[Dusty Slay]

I think they find a house made of.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's two little Germans walking through the forest.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And they're leaving bread behind them.

[Dusty Slay]

And they got lost and they.

[Aaron Weber]

Why did.

[Dusty Slay]

But I think a bird came along and was eating the bread they were dropping. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that true?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I had to look the story up last night because I could remember the stepmom told the dad, get rid of these kids. So he took them out in the woods to get rid of them. Oh, my God. But the dad. Wait, well, hold on.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't breeze past that.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it gets much worse.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a story about a weak man. First off, you get rid of the stepmom. Just get rid of her.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he clearly doesn't care about the kids either. He goes, all right, I'll take him out to the woods.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And just leave them out there?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He didn't like it, but he had to do what his wife said.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my God.

[Dusty Slay]

He didn't have to. If he were a stronger.

[Aaron Weber]

Why did she. Why did she want the kids gone? Were the kids bad kids? Were they misbehaving?

[Brian Bates]

She wanted some peace and quiet.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I love my wife, but if she were like, take the kids to the woods and leave them, I'd go work. How about we just. We're gonna leave.

[Aaron Weber]

I go. I'm calling Immigration.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. She's a citizen now. There's nothing. I'm sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry, Anna.

[Brian Bates]

So the kids figured it out. They overhear the plan.

[Aaron Weber]

So the first, the kids are old enough to understand. How old are they?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't know. They're old enough to understand, so they're.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably old enough to be out of the house.

[Brian Bates]

They're 32 and 30.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a. That's a thing that Hanzo Gretel gets left out. That's the message they did need to get out of that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It was time.

[Brian Bates]

He voted in four elections.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, step brother. Okay. So I thought they were like toddlers.

[Dusty Slay]

As it goes along, you start to side with the stepmom.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They're probably nine or ten.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And they get wind of it. So they have these pebbles that they drop along the way.

[Aaron Weber]

And the kids are Hansel and Hansel and Gretel.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They drop along the way, and he drops them off. Then that helps them get back to the house because they follow the pebbles back. The stepmom says, do it again. And he's like, okay. And this time they take breadcrumbs, but the plant doesn't work because the birds come and eat it. So now they're out there in the woods, they find a house made of candy. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Cake and stuff like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And they're like this. We've hit the jackpot. We're glad. We're also. But it's really a evil witch, of course, who wants to eat them.

[Dusty Slay]

Sister to the stepmom wants to eat them.

[Brian Bates]

Wants to eat them. She has to fatten Hansel up first. So she holds him hostage to fatten him up before she eats him.

[Aaron Weber]

The girls are the girls. Gretel's already good to go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, her name's Gretel.

[Brian Bates]

You can imagine what she looks like. Yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. But she's fattening Hansel up. And then bottom line is, Gretel tricks the witch and like, hey, what's in the stove? Or something like that. And then she pushes her into the oven and kills her.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Gretel does. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they head back to the house to do the same to the stepmom.

[Brian Bates]

They escape with the witch's treasure.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, she had treasure there?

[Brian Bates]

I guess. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Why don't they just stay in the candy house rather than go back to the family that just tried to murder?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I would think they would do. But maybe the, you know, maybe the cops will come around going, where's that witch? These fat kids are eating all the cake.

[Aaron Weber]

Gingerbread.

[Dusty Slay]

They got no roof on the House anymore. Because they're eating the cake. House is the golden goose, and they're up there eating it.

[Brian Bates]

Gretel, I told you, don't eat the roof. We need that.

[Dusty Slay]

Even the support beams in there.

[Brian Bates]

Sleeping. Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. I couldn't have told you the difference. Do you know? I mean, I know now because I looked, but I get those.

[Dusty Slay]

They're very similar.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, is the dwarves. Is that the difference?

[Dusty Slay]

That's Snow White.

[Brian Bates]

Snow White.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I'm saying. Is that the difference? Sleeping Beauty is just no dwarves, no comic relief.

[Brian Bates]

Snow White, I mean, she was asleep, but she was poisoned, so they thought she was dead.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then she's poisoned.

[Aaron Weber]

By whom?

[Brian Bates]

The wit. There's always a witch, okay? There's always an evil witch. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been telling you guys that since I joined the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's always a witch.

[Dusty Slay]

Even before that.

[Brian Bates]

This is finally I come around to.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But then at the end now everybody's like, witches are good.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I guess it was a queen.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm a good witch.

[Brian Bates]

In this case, it was a queen. And then once they find out what's going on, the prince who saves Snow White makes the queen wear red hot iron slippers and to dance at them until she drops dead.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Well, that's insane.

[Aaron Weber]

Geez Louise.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Little Red Riding Hood. I mean, again, the wolf, you know, shows up, swallows Grandma hole. Then Little Red Riding Hood shows up, swallows her whole.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's the end in the original version.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Then he takes a nap. Then they sanitize a little bit and they. The next best, better version is people come to save them. Cut the wolf open. Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood are fine. They're just stuck in there hanging out. Yeah. Like a boa wolf's got bored digestion. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then they put rocks in the wolf so he can't move. And then there's much more sanitized versions.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But these are so dark.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the moral of the story when the wolf just eats them both?

[Aaron Weber]

Keep an eye out for wolves.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I do like that. I'll be honest with you, though. I like it. Let's put some fear into people because they need to be paying attention.

[Aaron Weber]

I love a story that ends with the main character taking a nap. That's just good storytelling right there.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Disney, it's kind of came and made these much more palatable. Palatable. But I think that probably was like the 90s on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I Was already in college and then working. So most of these stories, I don't really know that well.

[Aaron Weber]

You never caught the modern version.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to know what the three Little pigs. Really. What I mean. Or no, no, what is it? The three Little Bears. Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Goldilocks.

[Dusty Slay]

What really happened there? What's the true story of that? That bear came back and she's dead, and they tore her up.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, bear.

[Aaron Weber]

One of my favorite books as a kid was called. I think it's called, like, the True Story of the Three Little Pigs. And it was from the wolves perspective. It's, like, sympathetic to him. Oh, it was great. The illustrations were great.

[Dusty Slay]

I tried to make a joke one time about the three little pigs was talking about, like, living in a trailer, you know, and it's like. And the wolf is a tornado. And if you. And if you puff and puff, spend your time playing around instead of getting a proper brick home, the tornado is going to get you, but never really pan.

[Brian Bates]

What about. What about Humpty Dumpty?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm still working on that. That joke. People say Humpty Dumpy was a cannon or whatever, and that kind of ruins the jam.

[Aaron Weber]

Dump is a cannon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Does that mean.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought he was an egg.

[Dusty Slay]

I know he's an egg in the thing, but every. I posted a clip of the video one time, and everybody's like, oh, he's a cannon. He was a can. And I'm like, listen, Try to just hear the joke. I'm not really seeking answers.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that. You shouldn't let that deter you. Everybody thinks he's an egg.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Look at him.

[Brian Bates]

And.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm starting to get why somebody pushed him off the brick wall.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, put some pants on.

[Brian Bates]

That's not how normally dance is not there.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, can you quiet down for a little bit? And he's just twirling his baton.

[Dusty Slay]

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.

[Brian Bates]

He's like, it's 20, 25, guys. Come on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I will continue to dance up.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they just kick them off. Yeah. I mean, that guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Send the horses.

[Aaron Weber]

All the king's horses.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And all the king's men.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even think the men got down from the horses. Can you do it now? I can.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't reach.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, beautiful legs, though, huh.

[Aaron Weber]

Tone?

[Brian Bates]

Jack and the Beanstalk.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

That is a true one. I do believe that. That there is another, you know, kind of layer above us where giants live. And Jack.

[Brian Bates]

Above us.

[Dusty Slay]

Above us. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like where?

[Dusty Slay]

Why can't we see it past the firmament?

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And you get up there through a vegetable.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, however you can get there.

[Brian Bates]

Who are they, Jack?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they're, you know, they're giants and.

[Aaron Weber]

Giants.

[Dusty Slay]

Cannibals.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Jack and the Beanstalk. Do you know the story, Aaron? Let's just move on. He buys some magic beans.

[Aaron Weber]

Buy some magic beans when he should.

[Dusty Slay]

Have got food, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because. Because what? His mom was like, go get food for the family.

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

And he bought magic beans instead?

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Little bit on the mom for making the kid go buy the groceries.

[Dusty Slay]

Clearly, Jack is not capable of just getting the groceries.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the same guy who jumped over a candlestick.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's the same guy that killed the golden goose.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so this guy, when he grew up in a lot of trouble.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He buys a magic. Magic bean.

[Dusty Slay]

Jack be nimble.

[Aaron Weber]

From a witch. Probably a witch. Price sold it to him. Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But the real magic beans, they. They sprout a. An enormous beanstalk.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably putting out lots of beans, which.

[Aaron Weber]

Jack climbs, and it takes him to.

[Dusty Slay]

He doesn't have to climb it.

[Aaron Weber]

He doesn't have to.

[Dusty Slay]

Just putting out a lot of beans.

[Aaron Weber]

He's just got nothing to do. So he climbs it.

[Brian Bates]

Wouldn't you want to climb it to see what's up there?

[Aaron Weber]

And there's a castle up there. This is where fee fi, fo, fum comes from.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I smell the blood of an Englishman.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that.

[Aaron Weber]

He's English.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

So, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Gets up there. That's where the giant lives.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

Giant's not home. His wife's home. Jack's like, I'll stay for a minute.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this real?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, this is real.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And he's like.

[Aaron Weber]

He just hangs out. I'll hang out with the giant's wife.

[Brian Bates]

I'm hungry, he said. And she gives him some food. And then the giant comes home. Fee fa, fo, fum. He hides. And the wife's like, no, there's no. You're crazy. There's not here. And the giant's like, all right, whatever. I'll go to sleep. Jack leaves, goes home, comes back up the stalk later again to see his wife.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess Jack's got a crush. That's where the jack be. Nimble, jabby, quick. He's up there in the giant jumping over the candlestick.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. And I think, eventually the giant wakes up. This keeps happening. The giant wakes up, chases him.

[Aaron Weber]

I keep smelling him the whole time. I smell the blood.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He smells Him. Okay. And then he's like, I guess I'm crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Where's the giant going every day?

[Dusty Slay]

Just to work.

[Aaron Weber]

To work?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Just everyday life up there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

In the sky job in the sky realm. Long commute. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then eventually he chases him down, but Jack gets down, I think, cuts down the beanstalk, kills the giant. I guess his wife, too.

[Aaron Weber]

So the giant's on the beanstalk and he cuts it down.

[Dusty Slay]

He falls. But creating the grand can.

[Aaron Weber]

The cloud realm is not held up by the beanstalk.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no. The stalk is just a pathway there.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, of course there's a cloud realm. Mario showed us that.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm just saying in this story.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

There's no cloud realm.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, what. What was up there then?

[Aaron Weber]

Giant. Just castle.

[Brian Bates]

Just the top of the beanstalk. That's where he lived.

[Dusty Slay]

But the. Well, it had to be more.

[Brian Bates]

I guess if he's leaving.

[Dusty Slay]

Going.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it had to be there.

[Aaron Weber]

Before the whole economy up there. If he's.

[Dusty Slay]

The beanstalk was just the way to get there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's just the portal.

[Dusty Slay]

It was already there.

[Aaron Weber]

The interstate.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I see. I envisioned him. The top of the beanstalk is where the house was. It was on top of the beanstalk.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no. This was just a pathway there.

[Aaron Weber]

The pathway.

[Brian Bates]

There's a whole city there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, don't be silly.

[Brian Bates]

There's. All right, we'll do a couple more.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. If you hear a fairy tale story, modern day fairy tale story, you know kind of what that means, right? You and Lucy, the power couple.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, a modern day fairy. Like a storybook.

[Brian Bates]

Storybook.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, storybook romance, whatever. Something like that.

[Brian Bates]

A Cinderella story. They're all kind of mean the same thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Cinderella story, when. When Cinderella story is used in sports.

[Dusty Slay]

Now it's the rags to riches.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the team that has zero chance that everybody writes off just like Cinderella. Is that really what's. I thought Cinderella was just like she.

[Dusty Slay]

They lose a shoe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, she. What is. What is even Cinderella. But she was ugly or something. She wasn't put on a shoe and she became.

[Brian Bates]

She became the princess. I guess she did get hotter. But.

[Dusty Slay]

Did she have the stepsisters and they're real mean to her.

[Aaron Weber]

Evil step.

[Brian Bates]

Evil stepsisters. And then they go to the ball and.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's no beast. No, this is not beauty and the Beast.

[Dusty Slay]

I think the beast is the sisters.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

And then she gets the carriage made out of Pumpkin. Pumpkin. But then after midnight, things turn back and she. She lost her Slipper.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a lesson in there that things, good things don't typically happen after midnight.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

And.

[Dusty Slay]

But also if you leave a little something behind with the person that you.

[Aaron Weber]

Have an interest in, that's a reason to come back.

[Dusty Slay]

They'll come find you. So if you're ever into a girl and you want to see her again, leave some stuff over there so you can call and go. I left my phone charger over there. I need to come get it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's what George Costanza Seinfeld, he says I always do a leave behind.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, leave behind to go over there.

[Aaron Weber]

Ah.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks for holding onto this charger for me. Do you want to hook up while I'm here? You know what else needs charging? My ego.

[Brian Bates]

Three blind mice.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good one. Cut off his tail with a carving knife. You ever see such a thing in your life?

[Aaron Weber]

Two little mice are in a bucket of milk. What was that? Catch me if you can remember that there's two little mice, they're in a bucket of milk and one of them turned so hard that he turned it into butter. And you know what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

No, I have no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

While you'll ever see Catch me if you can.

[Brian Bates]

The Leonardo DiCaprio.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

20 years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Two little blind mice stuck in a pile of milk. It's a good film.

[Dusty Slay]

I like your Christopher Walken here. I had.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a good.

[Brian Bates]

That was good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a little Sebastian.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's 69 variants to the Cinderella story. Let's go through all around the world.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Dusty Slay]

This week's podcast is about.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that.

[Brian Bates]

Cartoons.

[Dusty Slay]

Cartoons.

[Aaron Weber]

What a segue.

[Brian Bates]

Dude.

[Dusty Slay]

I should be doing the segues up in here.

[Brian Bates]

Pace Magazine last week put out a list of the 30 greatest cartoons of all time. 50 greatest cartoons of all time.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

So I don't know how you guys want to. 50. Okay. I don't know how you guys want to start this, but I don't know if we just want to deep dive into this or.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I like the idea. I think maybe we should do our own list first and then see where they rank up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Now, Dusty pointed out that we're three different generations. I don't know if that's a. Ten years probably isn't a generation, but we got.

[Aaron Weber]

But enough that our cartoons are different.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, us three in particular. Right. Like, you're what, 31?

[Aaron Weber]

32.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. I'm 42 this year.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Next week, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, the 18th of May.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

52.

[Dusty Slay]

32.

[Brian Bates]

42. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

So we're just.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This is perfect.

[Brian Bates]

Cave drawings.

[Aaron Weber]

So even though these are not just separate generations, that's enough that we all watch different shows growing up. But did you. When did you guys watch cartoons? Was it Saturday morning cartoons? Like, how did you consume these things as. As children?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Saturday mornings was a big deal, but also there was Nickelodeon for me, which was big and as a kid, and I don't know where some of these were at. I'm going to go, this is. This is the 10. And I'm just going to rattle Them off.

[Brian Bates]

Can I answer his question before you.

[Aaron Weber]

Take over the stage? First.

[Brian Bates]

Hold your thoughts. I watched Saturday mornings.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I did not have even Nickelodeon. I didn't have. I just had three channels.

[Aaron Weber]

Abc, CBS and NBC.

[Brian Bates]

NBC and Fox didn't exist. But there was a. There was another.

[Aaron Weber]

There was a fourth channel that upn.

[Dusty Slay]

The wb.

[Brian Bates]

No, it was like. It was Fox before Fox.

[Dusty Slay]

WB was big back then.

[Aaron Weber]

You think it was just cbs, abc, NBC, and the wb.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, I felt like I watched. I feel like I used to watch the WB a lot.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think the WB was even a thing. But I would watch some of these in syndication. Like this.

[Dusty Slay]

Youngsters coming in here, trash in the wb. You grew up in a different wb.

[Aaron Weber]

My only TV credit is the cw, so I'm not trashing. Trashing the wb, its predecessor.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway. Some of these I watched like, in syndication, like afternoon after school or whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

But most of these are Saturday morning. All right. I just wanted to answer your question. Go ahead.

[Aaron Weber]

You sit in front of the tv, bowl of cereal, like.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, there was no way to queue up anything. Right. Like now, like, I had, you know, vhs. I had Looney Tunes on a VHS tape. But it was like, other than that, there was no way to queue up a cartoon.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, you just had to watch what was coming on.

[Aaron Weber]

Were you tape and stuff? Were y' all taping stuff from the TV?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, a lot of times this.

[Brian Bates]

We didn't have VCRs. When I was really small, my mom.

[Dusty Slay]

Worked at a plant that made VHS tapes.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's what y' all were doing that a lot?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we had the hookup.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So what would you. What would you watch? What were your go to's?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, maybe we should start. I'm the middle, so maybe we start with Brian.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Okay. What are we doing?

[Dusty Slay]

And then work our way down. Just give us our cartoons.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to hear. I want to hear what the plot is. I want to hear why you like it.

[Brian Bates]

You gave us kind of two categories, all time and children.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I guess I. What I did was kind of what I watched as a kid and then what I watched as an adult.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, as a kid, here's five. Number one, Looney Tunes. Now, generally, what I would say is Bugs Bunny because he was the star. But that also is Daffy Duck, too. Daffy Duck, the Roadrunner, Coyote.

[Aaron Weber]

All those are under Yosemite Sam, too. Is.

[Dusty Slay]

He was always in a Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck. He Was the.

[Aaron Weber]

The bad guy like Elmer Fudd was the bad guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, with both of those two? Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody. Sam was trying to kill Bugs Bunny as well.

[Dusty Slay]

Yosemite Sam was maybe in Daffy Duck.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like. Had the guns and so all these.

[Aaron Weber]

Looney Tunes were just an animal and then somebody trying to kill it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there was a lot of that.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Because the Roadrunner, too. Was that Looney Tunes?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And that was the coyote.

[Aaron Weber]

It was trying to kill it. Yeah. Trying to kill the road.

[Dusty Slay]

They're actually pretty violent.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I like them, but they are like. It is constantly hitting something over the head with a pan or a rock or shooting.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's a cartoon.

[Dusty Slay]

Who cares?

[Aaron Weber]

You can do whatever in a cartoon.

[Brian Bates]

Sylvester and Tweety Bird. He's trying to eat Tweety Bird.

[Aaron Weber]

There it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Tom and Jerry. The cat's trying to eat the mouse.

[Aaron Weber]

Tom and Jerry was Looney Tunes, too.

[Brian Bates]

No, no.

[Dusty Slay]

Somewhere.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Was that a separate.

[Brian Bates]

I think that was Hanna Barbera.

[Dusty Slay]

But it still is the. You know, a lot of classical music with a cartoon.

[Aaron Weber]

Not a lot of words.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So still those same vibe.

[Brian Bates]

Now, I didn't know this. I looked it up. Looney Tunes had been around since, like, the 30s or 40s when they first started. And some of those, maybe not that old, but as far back as the 60s, they would rehear. When I was a kid, there were some references that I obviously didn't get. They had some Humphrey Bogart and different characters.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's some really Asian stereotypes in some of these.

[Dusty Slay]

Is a lot. There's a lot that age too far back is. You're like, come on. Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet even at the time, you're.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, well, if you watch it now, for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

When I was a kid. Yeah. You weren't thinking about it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I love Bugs Bunny. I thought he was so funny. And.

[Dusty Slay]

And me personally, when I watch Bugs Bunny now, I think he's, you know, kind of a prick. You know what I mean? When you watch him now, you're like, well, you're kind of a jerk out here.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, the guy's trying to kill him.

[Dusty Slay]

The whole.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess you're right about.

[Aaron Weber]

You can get a few quips in if you're being shy.

[Dusty Slay]

I actually feel sorry for Elmer Fudd when I watch.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I just do. He's just such a pitiful guy.

[Brian Bates]

Or Daffy Ducks, who you should feel sorry for because you know he'll trick Elmer Fudd. Into shooting Daffy's face off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is Elmer Fudd a kid or is he supposed to be a full blown adult?

[Brian Bates]

Supposed to be me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That is true.

[Brian Bates]

He's a guy in his 50s with. I don't know. But I love Bugs Bunny because, so. And you know, the Roadrunner and Coyote, not really into that so much. I think a lot of people felt this way. They kind of rooted for the Coyote because you started feeling sorry for him. And there was no. There was no dialogue.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

You know, these cartoons.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure, sure.

[Brian Bates]

And obviously, you know, with Porky Pig, it would end.

[Aaron Weber]

That. That. That's all.

[Brian Bates]

That's all folks.

[Dusty Slay]

Today.

[Brian Bates]

Junior, Numerous people have suggested that's how we hit our podcast with that's all folks.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's where it comes from.

[Brian Bates]

My T shirt is me, like Porky.

[Aaron Weber]

Pig coming out, busting out there.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, now there'll be new merch with you as Elmer Fudd.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that'll be in Nate as Bugs.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'll go faster on these.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you showing this stuff to your. Your daughter yet?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think. You don't think that they.

[Brian Bates]

It's.

[Aaron Weber]

They're too young.

[Brian Bates]

She just has her own cartoons that are much more age appropriate. I mean, someday maybe, but I've tried.

[Dusty Slay]

To show Daisy some of these. She ain't into it. Really? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What is it? The animation, you think? It just looks so bad compared to modern animation.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'll try to put some on. Like, I. I'll be on YouTube and I'll try to put. She go, no, no, not this. Not this. But it is. The older she get, the more I'm like, oh, this is really violent, though.

[Brian Bates]

I try.

[Dusty Slay]

I really try to keep Daisy away from seeing violent stuff, Even if it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Animals in the cartoon. Yeah, that's probably good.

[Dusty Slay]

She's so sweet. She doesn't want to hit anybody. She's so sweet with her little brother, and I just want to keep it that way.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna show my daughter Saving Private Ryan when she's six months old.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just the first ten minutes on repeat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. My daughter watches Peppa Pig. Bluey. We've talked. We've covered this. A lot of adults love Bluey. It's like one of their favorite shows for adults.

[Aaron Weber]

That's weird.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, well, Drew Harrison is a big Bluey fan. He says it's a good cartoon.

[Brian Bates]

It is good.

[Dusty Slay]

Have you watched it?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

He said it's good.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it like Blues Clues? It's like One of those.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's like a cartoon dog family, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I wouldn't watch if I didn't have kids, but it's something I can enjoy while she watches.

[Dusty Slay]

Drew does watch it without kids.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Drew's into it.

[Brian Bates]

I'll go a little faster.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't care.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, he says he can't wait for my daughter to finally be into Bluey because she's not into it, so that me and him can talk about Bluey. And. I mean, I'm into it.

[Brian Bates]

My daughter's not into it as much. She's more Peppa Pig and stuff like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Inspector Gadget.

[Aaron Weber]

Inspector Gadget.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man, I forgot Inspector Gadget. I used to love love. I'm adding that to number three for me. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Smurfs. Smurfs were big right when I was the age to really be in the cartoons.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Smurfs. It wouldn't make my top 10, but I did like that one.

[Brian Bates]

Super Friends. That was superheroes that.

[Aaron Weber]

Never heard of that.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember that a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

What is Super Friends?

[Dusty Slay]

It was probably, like, Avengers.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think this was dc, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I think this was Superman combined. The rings. Is that the Super Friends.

[Dusty Slay]

That's Captain Planet, though. That's a good one, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Dang.

[Brian Bates]

I used to forgot about that. What is that?

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the guys?

[Dusty Slay]

Captain Planet. He's our hero. Gonna take pollution down to zero.

[Aaron Weber]

I was all about global warming and stuff.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. You're talking about the Wonder Twins.

[Aaron Weber]

I have no idea. This is all before my Super Friends cartoon.

[Dusty Slay]

They all had.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, this is literally Superman and his friends.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, what's the movie with Batman and Superman? They all combine.

[Aaron Weber]

Batman versus Superman.

[Brian Bates]

Justice League.

[Dusty Slay]

Justice League. Yeah, it's kind of that.

[Brian Bates]

What was the one, now that I got to think about that Wonder Twins activate or whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

Something like that. Yeah. Where the rings would touch and we go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but see, with this one, they had five rings. That was Earth, Wind, Water, Fire. Animals. Fire. Yeah. And then they would all combine, and that's when Captain Planet would come out. Like, some, you know, some people would be bulldozing a forest, and they would go. They would bring their rings together, and Captain Planet would come out, and, you know, I don't know. Stop it.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they would go, but we need wood to live. And then they wouldn't listen to them.

[Dusty Slay]

And it was probably brainwashing to try to get me into Global warming and stuff, but I escaped it. I was like, I still hate pollution, and I'm down to keep pollution down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah. I haven't heard any of those.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not buying into the propaganda, though.

[Brian Bates]

And then Speed Racer.

[Aaron Weber]

Speed Racer.

[Brian Bates]

Someone just told me recently their parents would not let them watch that.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Brian Bates]

I think they thought it was too violent.

[Aaron Weber]

Isn't it just driving around in a car? Or do they. Do they ever get out of the car?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, it's. It's Japanese animation, so it was. It's a little bit different, but I don't remember watching that Saturday morning. I remember watching that, like in the afternoon or something after school.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel like I watched a little bit of that, but I was never into that. All right, let me. Let me hit you with my kids ones. I'm gonna go real quick. WWF Superstars. That was a cartoon Saturday morning. They had Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, all that. That was a good one. The Batman cartoon. That was when I was a little more of a teenager. I forget it had an actual name. Gotham City or something like that. Really great cartoon, though. Okay. More serious. Chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers. Chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers Danger. That was a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

What would they do?

[Dusty Slay]

They just, you know, they were, you know, solve crimes.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like Mag. This is like Magnum, P.I.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they had those at that outfit.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

They would solve crimes. Right, Whatever. And then I had Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Here's one.

[Brian Bates]

He.

[Dusty Slay]

Cliff the Cat. It's spelled like Heathcliff, but we always call it Heathcliff. So I don't know if. Yeah, that was a fun one. I was always into that.

[Aaron Weber]

This looks like Walmart brand Garfield.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, a little bit like he was living in the trash can or whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, he's like a stray cat. Yeah, I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like this.

[Aaron Weber]

Got a little more edge to him than Garfield.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly. I like that show a lot. This one, I kind of watched it, you know, and it's still on today. But I was more into it as a kid. And that's the Simpsons. I've not been into the Simpsons so much as an adult, but I was. When I was a kid, I loved the Simpsons. Then there was Bobby's World. Bobby's World was Howie Mandel's Howie Mandel show when I was a kid. Great Saturday morning cartoon, Doug.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Doug was really good.

[Aaron Weber]

The first overlap on my list, Doug.

[Dusty Slay]

I was becoming a little bit more of a teenager watching Doug.

[Brian Bates]

Doug. I don't know what that is.

[Aaron Weber]

So, Doug, there were two Iterations of it. It was originally a Nickelodeon cartoon.

[Dusty Slay]

That's where I remember it as a Nickelodeon.

[Aaron Weber]

And then from like early 90s. And then two years later, Disney, I guess, bought the rights and re released it as a Disney cartoon. The animation's a little different. I like the Nickelodeon version better.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's really good.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's just this dorky kid just trying to live life, man. And everybody's a different color. People are blue. His best friend Skeeter down there, he just honks. He barely even talks. All right. And that's the love of his life right there, Patty Mayonnaise.

[Brian Bates]

Wow, that's nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Names are insane.

[Dusty Slay]

Doug Funny is his name.

[Aaron Weber]

Doug Funny.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's the bully over on the right, Roger Klotz. And he lives in a trailer park, so he's a bully, but really he's just dealing with his own stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, his dad's probably an alcoholic drug addict.

[Aaron Weber]

I think he is at one point.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Wow. All right, then we go. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

That's Nate's favorite two Edgy.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Teenage Mutant Ninja.

[Dusty Slay]

No. No. You looked at her when I said about his.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm just surprised. It's my kids cartoon that they're dealing with drugs.

[Aaron Weber]

We used to get into stuff in these cartoons, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the first cartoon. Really great. I had all the toys. I had a, like a. A toy like whole sewer system. Master Splinter. Really great. And I added last minute Inspector Gadget. That was one of my favorite. I mean, he talked to. He talked to his watch. He had his little helper, Penny. It was really, really good. And then my top two, Masters of the Universe, he man and Masters of the Universe. Such a heart hot cartoon when I was a kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Masters of the Universe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You had a joke about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so what is this main guy? That's he man, the Man Adam. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And Adam has a sword. And he will hold it up to the sky. And he says, by the power of Grayskull. And then he becomes he Man, Master of the.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds of interest. Whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, my, you know, my, my mom was not watching things like that. Like I was, you know, so I was into it and it's really great. And then they made a movie. The movie doesn't get a lot of credit, but it's. Dolph Lundgren is in it as He Man.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it a live action movie?

[Dusty Slay]

Live action.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's really good. It's got Courtney Cox, one of her first movies. Wow. She's in He Man. Masters of the universe. And then my number one favorite cartoon of all time as a kid, GI Joe.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

That was GI Joe cartoon.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a million.

[Aaron Weber]

This is it right here. Yeah, like, that's what it looked like.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a million GI Joe's as a kid and I loved GI Joe.

[Aaron Weber]

Have y' all gone back and watch any of this stuff as an adult and see how. How it's aged?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's all terrible.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

In what way?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, GI Joe is just like. I don't know, it's just not fun to watch. Master of the Universe is pretty ridiculous. Inspector Gadget, I've not watched.

[Brian Bates]

I haven't either.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sure some of it's good, but.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, this didn't make my list. But other classic cartoons like the Flintstones, Scooby Doo.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Flintstones. Yeah, Scooby Doo. I used to watch those a lot. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they're great. I remember when cartoons used to be really good. They just are not a lot of good cartoons now.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I wouldn't. No, I mean, the ones for our daughters are, I would say, really good. Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Nah. You know, like, Peppa Pig is not holding up. Like, like.

[Brian Bates]

But that's for two year olds.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Well, I guess so. But I'm just saying, I don't know what the cartoons are at now, but they don't have a Scooby Doo.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's a. It's different vibe. But even Scooby. I remember when they added Scrappy Doo.

[Aaron Weber]

What a Scrappy dude.

[Brian Bates]

So they jumped the shark. It's like a puppy that they were.

[Aaron Weber]

That's when the show about a talking dog jumped the sharks.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Scooby. Scooby didn't really talk.

[Aaron Weber]

He talked.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, Shaggy talked to him and maybe Shaggy was just high.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but Scrappy's like a full on, like, it's like, all right, dude, don't come up in here and take control of the show.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never even heard of Scrappy. Do you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was in the later years. And that's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the Harlem Globetrotter showed up. That was a fun episode. Oh, yeah, the Harlem Globetrotters came to an open mic in Nashville once. Oh, yeah. You ever heard about that?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Their trainer is an open mic comic. A young, young woman. And they were in town doing something and she came and did the mic and the Harlem Globetrotters showed up.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And you know, you're not profiling people when you see like nine enormously tall black dudes walk in. You're like, what is happening?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Surely they're not the Harlem. You don't want to assume they're the Harlem Globetrotters.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys play basketball? You ever thought about playing basketball?

[Aaron Weber]

But they are.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't get into comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys are pretty tall.

[Aaron Weber]

And they came and they sat in the back and they were awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Dude.

[Aaron Weber]

They watched the whole open mic. They laughed at everybody. It was like a great mic.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was one of the few nights I wasn't at that mic. They're like, the next day I go, how's the mic? Last night, the Harlem Globetrotters were there.

[Dusty Slay]

What? You were like. I was at home watching Doug.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, this is interesting because I'm hearing Yalls favorite cartoons. I don't know if this is a function of when I grew up or if it's a reflection of me, but all of my cartoons that I watched were of real life stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

These are kids cartoons. These are for kids when you were kids.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No superhero stuff. Nothing supernatural, just all normal. It could be a TV show.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

If they wanted it to be. So these are my favorites. Doug, we've already talked about. Hey, Arnold was a big one. This is takes place in what I assume is New York City. There are theories that it takes place other somewhere else, but it's in an urban area.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll tell you what, though. If Arnold's real, he getting made fun of.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he's made fun of relentlessly in the show.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

He's called Football Head.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's him right there in the front. That's his best friend Gerald.

[Dusty Slay]

Definitely call him Football Head at my school.

[Aaron Weber]

This is Harold right here, the fat kid. He's a bully, but he's Jewish. So there's an episode where you go to his bar mitzvah and really, you know, he's struggling with his own weight and everything else. Got his own issues, bad relationship with his parents. That's Sid. He's the poor kid. Stinky Peterson on the top left. I mean, just a great mix of people. Helga.

[Dusty Slay]

I've seen a little, hey, Arnold, she's the bully.

[Aaron Weber]

Helga. But she's actually in love with Arnold the whole series.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So there's a little tension there.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

This show I used to love. Just the freedom of these kids running around the city. No parents anywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

They would go take the train at like 2 in the morning. Like, who's letting these kids do this? Right? But Arnold grew up in a boarding house with all kinds of random people in there.

[Dusty Slay]

It's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

It Was crazy. And if you watch it, there's like some deep. There's like some of the episodes are sad and they explore like real stuff. This is a great show.

[Brian Bates]

Where did it air?

[Aaron Weber]

Nickelodeon. This is like the mid to late 90s.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you guys had professional cartoon channels?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, essentially. Yeah. That's all they aired. And we didn't have cable. But I remember the cable guy, when he was setting up our tv, he was like, we'll give you Nickelodeon.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Just Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon and espn.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I think he knew my dad. I think he went to the same church as us or something. So he's like, I'll give you all Nickelodeon, espn. So we had basic cable and the Nickelodeon, espn.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all we had. So I didn't grow up. We had Cartoon Network was around, but I didn't have it in our house.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I didn't watch any of those. Just Nickelodeon and.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And then the other one, Rocket Power. Have you ever heard of this? Now Rocket Power is a Nickelodeon cartoon.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, who is this kid, though? I know this kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Skate kids. That's Otto Rocket right there.

[Dusty Slay]

He's like to the right here. That's a kid from another cartoon.

[Aaron Weber]

That's Squid, dude. He's called Squid. You know what I'm talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel like I watched this cartoon and I feel like this guy had a different.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe it's just about kids again running around. Parents are not really around.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems like Rugrats.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, yeah, this is after Rugrats.

[Dusty Slay]

So maybe the animation rats are grown up.

[Aaron Weber]

The animation looks similar. There was a show called Rugrats All Grown up when they were 12.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Which is so funny to call them all grown up and they're in middle school.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems like a Rugrat, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, just the animation. Similar. Yeah, but that's Twister and that's Rocket Girl and that squid. He's the new kid. Okay, another great show. Let's pull it up right here. Fillmore. Now y' all are not going to have heard of this. This show was so shortly short lived. It used to air Saturday mornings on abc. I used to love cop shows. I told you. We watched Law and Order as a kid, as a family. This was Law and Order but at a school. Dude, that's Fillmore, the main character. He was like a thug kid. He got in trouble for stealing chalk. And then they're like, you can go to detention or you can become a cop, essentially. Okay, so it's a parody of cop shows, but it's hall monitors at a school so they just solve crimes.

[Dusty Slay]

This girl is the girl who does. She's is the scientist. You ever see the. You ever say s. The.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the one with csi?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, like, you know how he has the weird girl that is always like, oh, that's ncis.

[Aaron Weber]

Similar. Yeah, yeah. They all work on this hall monitor police force, and there's like, a captain. That's him in the back, and he's always drinking coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And they. And the funniest part about the show to me was when they find the perp, they. They chase them. They have these chase scenes, and you're like, they got to come to school the next day.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just let them come to school the next day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no point of chasing these kids. But that show is fun. It only lasted two seasons. The biggest one for me was this show, Recess Disney. Recess aired Saturday mornings on abc. Are you the Blanche Show? I'm a little bit of.

[Brian Bates]

That's me at the top.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so mean. If you're listening, he just pointed out the fattest kid in the group.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm the kid with the backwards hat. I'm the cool kid.

[Aaron Weber]

This. I'm a little bit of everybody in this group. TJ's the leader of this group. He's the cool kid. And then there's Spinelli. She's the feisty. She's into, like. I don't know. She's just kind of mean, but she's fun. He's the athlete. Vince is the athlete. Gus is the dorky new kid. He's the poet, the fat guy. Mikey's the poet of the group. And then that's the smart girl. And they exist on this. This playground where there is an entire society. There's a king, there's a class system. It's. It was so much fun, dude. I watched the show all the time as a kid. Recess. Highly recommended.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm glad that you had a couple I had not heard of.

[Brian Bates]

It is funny, though, how the Segway Minor, all totally ridiculous. Yours was a blend of kind of transforming into more. And then yours was.

[Aaron Weber]

Mine are all. You know, there was like, spongebob was around, and that's. Obviously, it's like sea creatures.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But all the ones that I really gravitated towards were just real, real kids. Like, that could have been a TV show. You know, there's nothing crazy in it, but a lot of fun.

[Dusty Slay]

What about adults?

[Brian Bates]

All right. I looked up, by the way. I'm still on this Wonder Twins. So they were part of the all new Super Friends hours, and they would touch their fist and say the phrase Wonder Twin powers activate.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's where that. And the rings would touch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, okay. All right, I'll type. I don't. These are a few, like, specials, like, number one, Charlie Brown's Christmas.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Now, a lot of people. I know I said I was overflowed. A lot of people on podcast say I'm Charlie Brown. I don't feel that way, but I'm okay. I like Charlie Brown.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Charlie Brown, and I like that. I used to watch that a lot growing up.

[Brian Bates]

Charlie Brown's Christmas. It's very good. I mean, it's amazing. That came out in the 60s, and it's about commercialization of Christmas and It was the 60s.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it really about that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Charlie Brown's upset because everyone's just into, you know, his dog enters a contest for best decoration and wins. And.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, our society has been in decline for a long time.

[Brian Bates]

That's amazing. That's from the 60s when you think it was whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think Charles Schultz. Do you think he made this cartoon for free or did he get paid to do it?

[Brian Bates]

Now you're trying to make a point about.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what is. So what's Charlie Brown's deal? Why is he always. Everything's bad and is happening to him?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it just bad luck or does he bring it on a little?

[Brian Bates]

That's a fair question, I guess. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he's got to bring it on a little bit. You got to know Lucy's going to pull the football. You got to be smarter than that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so he's a little bit of a dunce, but just bad luck.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if he's a dunce or if he's just trusting.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe that's it. Like, you just trust that Lucy this time is going to hold the football.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, so he's good to a fault in this world that just beats on him.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. I don't know enough about him to speak on it.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, the Peanuts comic strip went on for decades.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

There's not that many. I don't think actual live animation. There's specials, you know, but it started.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's primarily just like, cartoons in a newspaper.

[Brian Bates]

I think so, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I think the Peanuts went on for long, long time. But that's really good. I mean, there's a scene where Linus gets up and talks about the Meaning of Christmas and, you know, and reads a. Or recites a scripture from the Bible.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, interesting.

[Brian Bates]

It's amazing that that's still on prime time to me every year.

[Aaron Weber]

Also has the best soundtrack, the best Christmas music ever. This Charlie Brown Christmas, Schroeder. It's like great jazz music. Yeah, it's really, really awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Just a couple more. Garfield Halloween special. It was actually scary as a kid. It was like.

[Dusty Slay]

Garfield was great. I really like Garfield, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Garfield's Halloween. This was scary.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, yeah, for a cartoon. Like maybe that. Not that shot.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta realize he's not been like. Your cartoons were all reality, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So he's not been jaded. Your parents were making you watch Law and Order svu.

[Brian Bates]

A white. I was just an innocent kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Just a white sheet with two idols. He goes.

[Brian Bates]

There were some scary scenes.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

You were desensitized too early.

[Aaron Weber]

I was. I was. I was calloused.

[Brian Bates]

Also, Christmas here. How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Frosty the Snowman.

[Aaron Weber]

Those are all great. Classic, Timeless.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, these are just all time. These are not necessarily ones you just enjoyed as an adult.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they're kind of all time. I thought that's what you said we were supposed to do.

[Dusty Slay]

I lost track. I thought we would do some as a kid and then some as an adult.

[Aaron Weber]

This is why you let him run the podcast. Stop trying to do stuff yourself.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, or I'll do a couple as an adult. Aqua Teen Hunker Force.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's on my list. I love that show.

[Brian Bates]

Watch that show.

[Dusty Slay]

That's on my list. I love that show. I thought nobody would have that on the list.

[Brian Bates]

Boom.

[Aaron Weber]

This show stinks.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Gosh, I love that.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never seen it, but I'm just looking at it. It looks like the worst show.

[Dusty Slay]

It does look like the worst, but it's really funny.

[Aaron Weber]

What is it? A drink and a thing of fries and a meatball talking to each other.

[Dusty Slay]

Meat wad.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I never. Yeah, it's meat wise.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Get it right.

[Aaron Weber]

Meat wad Shake.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Then they got a neighbor.

[Brian Bates]

Carl. Yeah, there's Carl. I never got into Adult Swim. All those are so weird. But somebody told me about there was a period, they're like, oh, you should watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force. And it was funny.

[Dusty Slay]

It is really funny.

[Brian Bates]

Squid Billies. Watch that for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's a great one. I'm gonna add that to number 10. I forgot about it. That way I can have 10.

[Brian Bates]

I forgot about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I recognize this little octopus thing. Yeah, our Squid.

[Dusty Slay]

Squid. Yeah, I actually have that hat. That's hilarious. Somebody gave me that hat in a show.

[Aaron Weber]

You have a hat that says Booty Hunter.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I have that exact hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Somebody gave that to me at a show.

[Aaron Weber]

Wear that on the podcast sometime.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think that's shot in Atlanta and I think a lot of Atlanta comics have done some voicing on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

Not shot, I guess, but yeah. Quiet on set.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it used to be Mr. Squid.

[Brian Bates]

Come on out.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Billy Joe Shaver's done some stuff on it, I think, and country singer that I like. All right, you want me to hit my 10?

[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna go.

[Brian Bates]

I'm do 10, but that's enough.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna go Squid Billies first. But obviously I just wrote that down. I'm going south park number nine. South park gets a little too. Too much for me. But I would be lying if I have not, did not say I had not enjoyed a ton of south park episodes.

[Brian Bates]

Because when it came out, you were the perfect age.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I. Yeah, I mean, I was in high school when it came out. I mean, I've laughed at South Park a lot. There's a show that I just recently started, but it's one of my all time favorites already because it's so good and I'm into anything Mike Judge does. And this is Tales from the Tour Bus, which is. He just animates, basically. Interviews. The first season is all country music. And the very first episode is Johnny Paycheck. And it's so great. It's so good.

[Brian Bates]

Looks funny.

[Dusty Slay]

The next Beavis and Butthead. Really great. I wasn't able to watch it as a kid, but I've gone back and watched a lot as an adult. Very funny. Bob's Burgers. Great, great cartoon. Futurama. I like that one a lot. That's the Simpsons creator. Love that one. Number four is a more of a movie, but it's called Planet Hulk. And it is basically. It's basically Ragnarok, but in this, Hulk wins. It's not.

[Brian Bates]

That's a regular show.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a. I mean, a regular cartoon. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, never heard of this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Thor does not win in this. The whole problem with the Marvel universe is that they used Hulk as kind of like this punching bag to show how strong the other Avengers were. And I didn't read a ton of comic books, but from what. What I understand, Hulk people don't beat up on Hulk like that.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm so surprised. I'm Always surprised you're so into superhero stuff because it feels so against everything else. You.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's like. It's from your childhood. You know, you get into all these things as a child and then like Harry Potter when you. Yeah, exactly. You know, Exactly. So, you know, I mean, it is exactly like it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but why is it okay. Not okay for him, like Harry Potter.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, but it is okay for him to like. It's witchcraft. But it is okay for him to like it, you know? And then number three, I put Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Laughed at that a lot as an adult. Number two, Family Guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Family Guy. So great.

[Dusty Slay]

And number one adult cartoon of all time. King of the Hell.

[Aaron Weber]

King of the Hills.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of people call you Dale Gribble. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And other than being, you know, super weak, I agree with him. Dale Gribble's a super, super weak man. But other than that, I. I agree with him.

[Aaron Weber]

He is a weak guy. Right. I mean, his wife is having a kid with a. Yeah. What's his name? The.

[Dusty Slay]

What is his name?

[Aaron Weber]

Johnny.

[Dusty Slay]

Johnny. Johnny Redwood, I think. Red. Is it Redwood?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Red, man. Isn't it? It's something on the nose.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I don't remember.

[Aaron Weber]

Great cartoon.

[Dusty Slay]

But I love that cartoon, though. What is the guy.

[Aaron Weber]

But what is it about? What is it about a cartoon? Any of these. If they were live action, I feel like the charm of it will be gone.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

To some degree. Yeah. And I think Mike Judge animation is really good because it's not perfect animation, but it's just in the way that it's like animation can be too good. Now to where I think that a little bit of it letting you know because there. There's a. Another one like it's called like 6 ounce mouse or something like that. It's like some of the worst animation ever, but it. It was pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

Big loudmouth, that one.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's like something mouse. It's like mouse. Yeah. And it's like. It's. It's pretty good. I mean, it's just the dialogue that goes back and forth and. Yeah. I mean, King of the Hill is. Is number one cartoon of all time now. You know, hopefully. I mean, I've been pitching a cartoon. I sold a cartoon to Hulu one time that never got made. And then I saw. I sold one to another company and they never got made. But I'm working on some stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Tell us anything about them.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me see if I can find. I don't. Well, I Don't even know anything about it yet.

[Brian Bates]

But that's probably why your pitch didn't get picked up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's true. Now, the.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know anything about this cartoon idea. No, the old one.

[Dusty Slay]

If I could find a picture of, I would share it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Airdrop it to me of the open.

[Brian Bates]

So I did not watch. Still don't. Most of these adult cartoons. The Simpsons started when I was in high school. That's how it's been around. And I really have rarely watched it, but I know there's so many cultural references that come from the Simpsons. Yesterday, we're headed to the airport in Albuquerque. We drive by. Our Uber driver is giving us a tour of the city. Basically, we didn't ask him to, but he just volunteered to tell us, you know, about a tour of the city now. I'm sorry, what?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry. He just pulled it up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but he's okay.

[Brian Bates]

So I'll wrap this up. Tell your board.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. All right. Sorry.

[Brian Bates]

We drive by.

[Dusty Slay]

I. What? I. I've been searching for it the whole time you've been telling the story. So I was not, you know, that.

[Aaron Weber]

We weren't just sitting quietly waiting for you to.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, but I missed the. All the story.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yesterday, I'm in Albuquerque. We're headed to the airport. Our Uber driver voluntarily starts giving us a tour of the city, which I'm interesting because Breaking Bad, there's a lot of stuff there. We drive by their minor league baseball stadium.

[Aaron Weber]

Isotopes.

[Brian Bates]

Isotopes, right. That came from the Simpsons. Did you know that?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I didn't know that at all.

[Brian Bates]

Apparently, there's episode. I have it here somewhere, because I remember it, where they're moving the team from Springfield in the Simpsons, and they're the. Well, sorry. The Springfield Isotopes from the Simpsons season two, called Dancing Homer, in which the main character, Homer Simpson, temporarily becomes his local team's mascot. In the episode, Homer attempts to thwart the team's plan to move to Albuquerque by going on a hunger strike.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And they did a fan vote and they call themselves.

[Aaron Weber]

I just assumed it was something to do with nuclear energy or something.

[Brian Bates]

I think that helps.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. I think it's a good fit for it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Now, the sim. I'm sorry. We'll get to that. Maybe one more question, though. The Simpsons is in your mind, Homer, the main character.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, when I was a kid, Bart Simpson was the man. Because it was like. I mean, that. That's what I would say. I want to watch Bart Simpson. I wouldn't say the Simpsons. I mean, Bart Simpson was the main character somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

It shifted though.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a toy, Bart Simpson.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think it shifted from your perspective or in the show the way the show told us?

[Brian Bates]

Well, who's your perspective?

[Aaron Weber]

I never really watched the Simpsons. I was not allowed to watch it as a kid and I never really picked it up as an adult.

[Dusty Slay]

I just think that as we grew with the show, I think they shifted it to Homer be. Because now we're adults.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe so, but who would you envision? Because I didn't watch the Simpsons.

[Aaron Weber]

When I think of the show, I think of Homer Simpson. I think with the donut, you know, that's what I think of.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I feel like they shifted it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, let's look at this.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the, the. It was a working title. We didn't. We weren't like this is the name. This was just kind of a working title. But yeah, this was our animation. Obviously. I'm the little kid there with a hat that says dusty on it.

[Brian Bates]

If you're listening, it's outside a trailer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And then there's like this. My mom has got her arm on me. And then the two other girls are my sisters. And then that's my brother in law in the lawn chair. And then their daughter. Right. So that was amazing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that is amazing. There's a possum on the roof, I believe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Because, you know, I got a joke. Possum's got a toothbrush. You know, I got a joke about a possum.

[Aaron Weber]

Was that going to be a character in the show? The possum was like your pet?

[Dusty Slay]

Not my pet, but it was going to be kind of a.

[Aaron Weber]

A thing that would pop up just always around.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so cool, man.

[Brian Bates]

Looks like some California redwoods back there.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that is what I told him. I said, well, you're, you're. I said, this is great. But I was like, your trees are off. You got the wrong tree.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but some pine trees out there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Like your trees are off. But everything else looks good. Even the concrete steps that cement block steps.

[Aaron Weber]

Now what is it? What is this girl doing? She have a. She is more of a. Well, that's nine to five job.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. But because there was like, you know, you know, we had a, you know, the kind of two sisters, you know, one. One being more redneck than the other kind of thing.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

And then that's my sister like trying to get out of the.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And that's your other sister and her baby?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so cool, man.

[Brian Bates]

And where does this stand? Is this. Could this happen?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't know. Something like this could happen, but this was the. This was the one I sold to hulu in. In 2020. And now what.

[Aaron Weber]

What happened in 2020?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think what happened was King of the Hill was announced that they were coming back, and apparently King of the Hill is coming back, but it takes a long time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The animation takes forever.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So that was announced that it was coming back, and I think it killed my show.

[Brian Bates]

Greg Garcia, like I said, was on the road with us this weekend. He worked on a couple of seasons of Family Guy as a writer.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's.

[Brian Bates]

He said it's so fun just to say we're in Saudi Arabia and you can just write a scene.

[Aaron Weber]

Just do whatever you're doing. A live action show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And the guy. The guy writing this with me was a writer from Family Guy, and we had. We. I thought we wrote a really great script. It was really funny. Yeah. We just had tons of free time during 2020. I'm just zooming with this guy and we're writing it. And you're right. You just do whatever you want with animation. You write whatever you want.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy, because there's stuff you probably don't even think of if you're doing a live action show, because obviously we can't go to the Sahara Desert.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or the, you know, the Eiffel Tower or whatever. That's so cool.

[Brian Bates]

Right? Yeah. So we should go through that list real fast, see if there's anything we missed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, let's just go through. We got a few minutes left here. This is the top 50 cart, this car, 50 cartoon characters. Oh, is that the list you sent me?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, top 50 cartoon characters. Let's just go down to the top 10.

[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I already skipped past Steven Universe. Never even heard of this.

[Dusty Slay]

Created 2013.

[Aaron Weber]

A little past my prime. Zuko from Avatar. The Last Airbender. Never watched that.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't either.

[Aaron Weber]

Here we go. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

They lumped all four of them in.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, see, that was my show right there. I mean, that show. I had all those toys. I mean, that show was great.

[Brian Bates]

That's by far Nate's favorite.

[Aaron Weber]

Scooby Doo. And Shaggy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, never knew his last name.

[Dusty Slay]

Me either.

[Aaron Weber]

Shaggy Rogers. That doesn't even seem to sound real.

[Dusty Slay]

Great character.

[Brian Bates]

What's by Casey Casel?

[Aaron Weber]

Also, have you ever had the Scooby snacks.

[Brian Bates]

The.

[Aaron Weber]

The actual snacks.

[Dusty Slay]

Pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty good. They're like gummies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That tastes good. Mickey Mouse, no doubt.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not a big fan, but no doubt. That's one of the greatest characters.

[Brian Bates]

I think he's the most popular, probably worldwide.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wouldn't you say?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, sure, yeah. The ears are just. The ears alone are iconic. SpongeBob SquarePants up there. Yeah, yeah. Tom and Jerry.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, that's surprising there in the top four.

[Aaron Weber]

Charlie Brown and Snoopy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, three.

[Aaron Weber]

And then number two, Homer Simpson. Not surprising. Longest running, I think the longest running TV show of all time, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then number one, Bugs Bunny. I mean, that's a solid list.

[Dusty Slay]

Up a little bit. Oh, no, no. Back down to Homer. Yeah, right here. Right here. It says, oh.

[Aaron Weber]

The first two seasons of the Simpsons episode were focused on Bart, but as it became Homer centric, the show became something truly special. So it did shift. Yeah, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

I think the first popular cartoon I read was Mickey Mouse. It was called Steamboat Willie. And there's a scene in.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I've seen that.

[Brian Bates]

There's a scene in Saving Private Ryan where they can't capture a Nazi soldier and they're about to execute him. And he's trying to show them, guys, I'm Americanized now. I love America. And I think one of the references he tries to say is Stingboat Willie.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he starts singing the national anthem. He goes, oh, say can you see? Oh, say can you see? It's actually really heartbreaking scene.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Betty Boop. I think he references Betty Boop, another cartoon.

[Aaron Weber]

And that guy comes back and kills a bunch of Americans at the end after they let him out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Spoiler alert.

[Aaron Weber]

War as hell, boys.

[Brian Bates]

There's Flintstones was the first prime time cartoon. And there's a commercial, I think I said to you, a cigarette ad, where they use the Fred Flintstone and Barney to promote cigarettes.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? The good old days, huh?

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying.

[Brian Bates]

It's very funny. They're out hanging out. Their wives are working. They're like, this is tough, man. Let's go in the back and get away from this. As Barney saying, let's get out of here. And they go in the back and way.

[Aaron Weber]

They're just trying to get away from their wives working.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's a very funny. Even today would be very funny. They're like, this is tough to watch. Let's go hang out. And then he's like, no, I could really relax with some. Some cigarettes. Some Winston.

[Aaron Weber]

Some Winston's. Dude. Winston One hundreds.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know. You know, they. They work really hard, those guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Barney work at a rock. That's true.

[Brian Bates]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay. They're not just, like lazy bones.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, they work really hard.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you're right. That's how it starts with them. Them sliding down the back of the dinosaur. Here's a couple of phrases.

[Aaron Weber]

This is so funny.

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Trying to imagine, like, a spongebob commercial where they're doing this.

[Dusty Slay]

You work in a rock factory, you deserve a cigarette. That's what I'm saying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's a Saturday, right? Yeah. Cowabunga. You know what?

[Aaron Weber]

That's from?

[Dusty Slay]

My old boss used to smoke Winston's. Cowabunga is.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a phrase.

[Dusty Slay]

Ninja Turtles.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Turtles. When you said. I remember the episode where you said, I think therefore I am is the most popular phrase.

[Aaron Weber]

Cogito ergo soon.

[Brian Bates]

Whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

And Nate said, cowabunga. Oh, that makes sense. He's a big Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

What's up, Doc?

[Aaron Weber]

Big one. Big one.

[Dusty Slay]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes and a half shell Turtle power They're the world's most fearsome fighting Teenage Mutant Turtle power Or something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Is that. What's the most popular theme song for a cartoon?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably the spongebob one. Dude for my generation.

[Dusty Slay]

Chip and Dale's.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you ready, kids? I, I Captain. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

[Dusty Slay]

It's for sure. But Chip and Dale's was a big one.

[Brian Bates]

Mine's the Jetsons.

[Aaron Weber]

That's.

[Brian Bates]

Here's George Jetson or Scooby Doo. Scooby Doo theme. Some.

[Aaron Weber]

What is the Scooby Doo theme?

[Brian Bates]

Scooby. Scooby Doo.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a big one. That's a big one for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

G.I. joe. American heroes.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know what probably transcended all that was the Batman.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I've never even seen that.

[Dusty Slay]

That was a real show that was doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

But I've never seen that cartoon. But. But I know the thing.

[Dusty Slay]

But that cartoon.

[Aaron Weber]

That wasn't a cartoon.

[Dusty Slay]

That wasn't the theme of the cartoon. That was the theme of the real show.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

The cartoon was pretty dark.

[Brian Bates]

But I think the opening where they do that, it's animated, isn't it?

[Aaron Weber]

Kong Pow.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

I think that's how it was for me too.

[Brian Bates]

It could have been like the Tuesday, like literally the day after Labor Day. I don't remember but Laura was telling us about how now they're here considered year round schools. It's not that different but they do start earlier because they have fall break and a spring break. We never had a fall break.

[Dusty Slay]

We never had a fall break.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, there's a lot of data to suggest that a better model would be to eliminate summer vacation altogether and just have year round school.

[Brian Bates]

I think I'd prefer that.

[Aaron Weber]

And you just have. And you'd have another like fall break, another like week break break somewhere in there. But taking two months off some, you know, you don't retain a lot of what you learned. There's a lot of data that says all the kids will be better off. What do you think about that?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I think there's so much useless stuff that goes on in school anyway. I just think about the stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

You think the lack of retention is good?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's just we do need.

[Aaron Weber]

To get a little.

[Brian Bates]

Forget some of this.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's like, I think we should, like, be learning really practical things, like, so that when we get out of school, we know how to do stuff. Like, people don't know how to pay bills. They don't know how to balance checkbooks. They don't know how to do their taxes. They don't. I think we should be learning all this stuff. I think you should know how to cook basic food for yourself. I mean, and then we come out very productive humans. Instead of being like, we just come out ready to go to college. We're like, let's get in debt.

[Brian Bates]

Now. There are some classes in high school that do some of that, but they're.

[Dusty Slay]

They're class. They're electives that you can.

[Brian Bates]

They are.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we should Folk, like. It's like, you know, like, calculus was a class that you could take in my. And it's like we, you know, it's like, if you want to get into math later on, like, get into it in college.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I thought you meant, like, once you retire.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's.

[Brian Bates]

Then take up a hobby. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, I don't need calculus. And in high school, like, let's go algebra. Let's do algebra 1.

[Aaron Weber]

But here's. Do you think the kid that wants to take calculus is also the kid that needs to take a class on how to button his shirt?

[Brian Bates]

I.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, but button a shirt is. I mean, that's a stretch. If he doesn't know how to button his shirt, then the answer is yes. But I don't. I think these are classes that people need to be taken or they learn. Like, we took a sewing class. It was an elective. We took something, but, you know, I know how to sew.

[Aaron Weber]

Sewing as an elective?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, I don't know. It was middle school, so it was a. Kind of a required time. So I know how to sell with a needle and thread. You know, I learned to use a sewing machine. I haven't done that in a long time, so I don't know if I could do it.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's pretty cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And I think, you know, can you do calculus? Not at. I don't even know what calculus is, to be honest with you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I barely. Let's go over, like, what. Where we went. Like, mine's pretty simple. I was first through eighth grade at the same school. It was the smallest school in the county.

[Dusty Slay]

First through eight.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I didn't go to kindergarten.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

First through eighth grade at the same school. And then I went from the smallest school in the county to the biggest school in the county in high school. And. And so I was only at two schools before college.

[Dusty Slay]

When you got to the big school, like, because this happened to my mom, too. Was that a real adjustment?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. But it was great because I was with the same kids for eight years, and there's just a few of us.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you get to high school and you're a freshman, you see the senior girls and you're like. They're like. They're women.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they seem so mature and. And just put together and. Yeah. It was a huge adjustment. It was so nice, though, to be around other kids that you hadn't been around all the time, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And doing stuff. There's a. I was hot. I mean, there's a. Whoa. I mean, that's probably.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good look, though, I'm gonna be honest.

[Aaron Weber]

It is a good look. You got kind of the dusty sleigh glasses.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's why you think it's a good look?

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I think it's a good look. I mean, you got a head hair. What is that? Yeah, I mean, there's. Yeah, I like it. I'm in.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that a Lacoste?

[Brian Bates]

Sure, it could be. It could be. That's a good. It's a good call on that. I was third grade, maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, your hair looks good. You got a good head of hair, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I've had a haircut like that. I had a haircut like that most of my life.

[Brian Bates]

Is that kind of Alabama bangs?

[Dusty Slay]

I would say, like an Alabama swoop.

[Aaron Weber]

Bam. Yeah, the Bama swoop.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. So that's pretty much. I mean, dang, that's a good.

[Aaron Weber]

Public schools. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Were there, like. Was there ever talk would there were, like, Christian schools or private schools that you would have maybe gone to, or was it.

[Brian Bates]

There is one in Lebanon that. I mean, still there, but I don't ever remember any talk about it.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't.

[Brian Bates]

I just don't think we could afford it and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So. And, I mean. No. You went to private Christian school. I see advantages and disadvantages. I mean, I'M I mean, my daughter now, you know, I'll be considering for her in a few years. Word? Extended school. And there are some advantages to public.

[Aaron Weber]

School, but what are the advantages?

[Brian Bates]

I feel like you're around a more diverse group of people. I may be wrong because I wasn't in private school, but. But I feel like you're diverse.

[Aaron Weber]

In what way?

[Brian Bates]

Well, in race and economics and just different, you know, just not everyone's maybe as similar as you. I may be wrong, but that's how I feel.

[Aaron Weber]

There's probably some truth to that. I think it depends a lot on the school.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, I got stabbed in eighth grade.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the kind of diversity.

[Dusty Slay]

I got punched in the bathroom, busted my eye.

[Aaron Weber]

And luckily you could do your own stitches after you got stabbed.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

Just taking a sewing class.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Because I learned things. Things?

[Aaron Weber]

I had to go to a nurse and they had to do it.

[Dusty Slay]

My locker got broken into a lot. I lost a lot of money. You know what I mean? So.

[Brian Bates]

And how many schools did you go to growing up?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I was just talking about this the other day. It was weird for me because some schools were being built in Opelag. I went to a school called Carver from kindergarten and first grade, and then the new school was being built. So I went to another school called Brown while that one was being finished. And then I went. I was the first class at Southview Primary School. So I did second grade there, and then I did third grade at a school called Martin third, fourth, and fifth, which would later be called Northside. And then I went to middle school, Opelika middle school for 6th, 7th, 8th, and then high school. OHS, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12.

[Aaron Weber]

Damn, that's a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Jumped around a lot. Like a military family.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I was about to say.

[Dusty Slay]

All in the same town. So all these primary and elementary schools, we all came together in middle school, so it was similar to that.

[Aaron Weber]

So you had friends that made all these jumps with you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so you had friends that you went from kindergarten all the way through high school?

[Dusty Slay]

Absolutely. Matter of fact, the girl who told me that her boyfriend peed on her pea coat. We were in kindergarten together. Went all the way through school together.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Such a huge chunk of your life in the same room with another person.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, she wasn't in every class with me, but we made the journey. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you grew. You were five when you started.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Her last name was. Her name was Lindsey Savage. So Savage and Slay. We were always like, you know, when your last names are close, you're always like, kind of like in the same homeroom together. Stuff like that. A lot of the S's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You were taking an elective in junior high.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't know if they were called electives, but they were like, just, you know, you'd be. You'd have all your regular classes and.

[Aaron Weber]

Then you had it's elective in that, like, you decided whether you went to school that day or not.

[Dusty Slay]

That is true. That is true. Yeah. I got into home ec. I did chorus, you know, stuff like that. I did a little chorus thing. I just realized we were singing God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood in middle school. Oh, no, maybe elementary school. And I looked at the dates and that song was brand new at that time.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

So. Because I was like, man, this song must be way older. But it was like brand new.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought it came out after 9.

[Dusty Slay]

11, had a resurgence.

[Aaron Weber]

Had a bit of a research.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, it did.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember hearing it all over after that.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, I met Lee Greenwood a couple of times and it's like, you don't hear other Lee Greenwood songs.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't need another.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You've got the song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

But I remember when that song came out and I knew who Lee Greenwood was because he had stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. He has. He has a few albums. But it's like, I mean, when that song. When you got that song.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Career changes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Now we're all 10 years. Well, you and I are 20 years apart, but we're 10 years different. So I graduated high school in 1990. Did you graduate in 2000?

[Aaron Weber]

2010.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. I'm the class of the new millennium here. Me. Oh, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What does that mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, first graduating class of 2000. You know, the.

[Brian Bates]

I think it'd be 2001 would be.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that was the argument that 2001 people. But we're the first. We were the first class to not use 19, you know, the first 20.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All the 2001 kids made that argument. We were the first. Because you don't start with zero, you start with one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I get it.

[Aaron Weber]

But those are the nerds. It's like, you know what we mean.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

I think I. My first grade year, I think, was 1978. 79.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good year.

[Brian Bates]

It was a good year.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a lot going on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there was a lot of happening back then, but so. Oh, look here.

[Aaron Weber]

Here we go. This is.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Saint Bead Gray basketball team.

[Dusty Slay]

Look how happy you are.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm pretty excited, man. I'm excited to be playing hoops and.

[Dusty Slay]

A few poinsettias in your back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. In front of a weird kind of mural of the Virgin Mary.

[Brian Bates]

How many skills did you go to, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

I went to the same for. I went to Catholic school my entire life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Kindergarten through college. It's pretty crazy. But I went to Saint Bede K through 6, and then the. It was a feeder school for Montgomery Catholic Middle School, and then that fed right into Catholic high school. And then I moved in the middle of high school to Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Was that hard?

[Aaron Weber]

It was pretty hard. I've been going. Like, you're talking about. I've been going to school with the same kids, kindergarten through 10th grade.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And those are all the people in my life. And then we all moved.

[Dusty Slay]

Were you cool at the new school? Did you fit right in, or was it hard? Like, obviously it was hard. We just asked you that question. You said, yes, it's hard. But, I mean, in class, in class, was I cool?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I could be cool in class. I wasn't a class clown. I wasn't doing.

[Dusty Slay]

You didn't make a lot of jokes?

[Aaron Weber]

I think I was probably thinking funny stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

I made a lot of jokes.

[Aaron Weber]

You made a lot of jokes?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Did you make a lot of jokes?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I wasn't the class clown. I would say stuff under my breath to my friends, make them laugh. But, yeah, most comedians aren't the class clown.

[Dusty Slay]

I had no concept for getting an education. I was like, I'm just here because they're making me come.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, did you ever have first day of school nerves or excitement or.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's always some nerves also. Always, like, I don't want to go back to school. I'm enjoying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The summer break.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, look at this.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the Saint Bead Gold team. This is. This is how I used to pose in every picture right here.

[Brian Bates]

Is it. Because football players would never smile.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good look for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, dude. Just a frown.

[Brian Bates]

Almost.

[Dusty Slay]

A little bit of a flat top going on here. You're like. You almost had, like, a military cut that you let grow out.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the same hair I have right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I've always had that weird.

[Dusty Slay]

Widow, but it feels a little more. A little more flat top in this picture.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think that's because my. My just. My mom was cutting my hair.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, they didn't put a whole lot of thought into the. The shape of it or anything.

[Dusty Slay]

So what about that guy next to you? You still in contact with that?

[Aaron Weber]

That's Wallace Harvey.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I know Wallace really well, actually.

[Brian Bates]

So which.

[Aaron Weber]

Which tough picture of him?

[Brian Bates]

Which kid did not start. There's six of you there.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, who wrote the.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't.

[Brian Bates]

Not the girl.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. That's. That's an interesting question. I don't remember a whole lot about this team.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that. You got to keep the ball, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Got it between my feet.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you're a real star.

[Brian Bates]

Were you guys good?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

This does not look like a good basketball team. Your. Your friend who's having the rough picture.

[Brian Bates]

I think the public school would win.

[Dusty Slay]

This player on the team.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What about this team? This is the team for the. From the next year.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Well, that's a lot different. You guys have grown.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You look like you've aged a lot in one year here.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember all these kids, man.

[Brian Bates]

And when the girl.

[Dusty Slay]

The girl got kicked off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We were like, we're trying to win some games. You get out of here.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, and your other buddy Walter or whatever, he's off the team too.

[Aaron Weber]

Wallace.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he was a grade above me, so I think he's in a different league now that I moved up a year, so. These are fun to look at. I hadn't looked at these pictures in long time, but. No, we were not a basketball school.

[Brian Bates]

Who's on the wall back there?

[Aaron Weber]

That's Mary.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

She's a mother of Jesus and in the Catholic church. They like her a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Gotcha.

[Dusty Slay]

They do like her a lot.

[Brian Bates]

What? They love her.

[Aaron Weber]

They talk about her like, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm like, that's not even really a mean kid character. And they really get into.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, she's a supporting actress.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, probably. Yeah. Oscar. Oscar nom.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, she plays a big role.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Or she's probably lead actress. If. If. If the Bible were a movie, she'd be nominated. Lead actress.

[Brian Bates]

I think I'm watching.

[Aaron Weber]

Ruth.

[Dusty Slay]

They wrote a whole book after Ruth.

[Aaron Weber]

They were trying to be nice.

[Brian Bates]

Gotta throw a woman in here.

[Aaron Weber]

Old men names. Let's throw Ruth a bone.

[Brian Bates]

I'm watching.

[Aaron Weber]

Talks about Ruth.

[Brian Bates]

I talk about her a lot. Yeah. Really? Well, my wife.

[Aaron Weber]

Tell me one thing. Oh, that's your wife's name. Okay. Was she named after the Book of Ruth? Yeah. Okay. All right, I'll stop talking about It.

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean, to your point. So her brothers are John and Stephen. There's some million male biblical names.

[Aaron Weber]

Stephen. In the Bible.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. First Christian martyr. Okay. And then for girls, you're like Mary.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And. Okay, I guess we'll go with Ruth.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you don't want to do that. Esther.

[Aaron Weber]

Mary Magdalene. That's still married.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm watching. You guys know this show, the Chosen.

[Dusty Slay]

I've heard of it.

[Aaron Weber]

I've heard of it. Yeah, I've heard you. I've heard you and Nate talk about it on the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

I. I just started it, so I didn't know anything about it. He'd mentioned it on Rogan, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's where he talked about it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I just started it, and I had a hard time getting into it because they created.

[Aaron Weber]

You know how it ends?

[Brian Bates]

Well, they create backstories for these biblical characters. Nice. That aren't in the Bible.

[Aaron Weber]

Artistic license.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So I had a hard time, you know, I won't watch it, but because of that.

[Dusty Slay]

Just because I don't like any of that stuff when they. When they create, you know, stories. What Jesus looks like. And I don't. We're not supposed to do that.

[Aaron Weber]

And would you watch a movie in the first person from Jesus's perspective? So you never see him?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, maybe. Maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Like a body cam.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a body.

[Dusty Slay]

That's interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, if Jesus had body cam footage, we're coming in body cam footage of the crucifixion.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Would be tough.

[Brian Bates]

So you didn't say the Passion of the Christ. No. Yeah. For the same reason.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I didn't see that one because they talk about, you know, the whole scene of what happens to Jesus, and I'm like, I don't want to see that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Brutal to me. I don't want to watch.

[Aaron Weber]

But you'll read about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But God forbid somebody put it on film.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they're allowed to do it. I just don't want to see.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Like ufc, for instance. Right. Like, I'm glad it exists. People love it. But I don't want to watch people get beat up like that.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't handle it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, that's fair.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, even fictional stuff, for the most part, it's okay. I actually. I like Quentin Tarantino the most because most of his movies, it seems so wild, so over the top that it seems fictional, because it. Like Reservoir Dogs I can't handle. But the others are so over the top that it's like, this is silly.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, but, like, saving Private Ryan. Like war movies?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Too realistic, too. It's very painful. I hate it.

[Brian Bates]

Well, anyway, the Chosen, I had some of the same issues because they're creating these stories of these people that, you know, they take an artistic license. But now we're getting into the parts that are in the Bible and so.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I'm starting to get on board with it. All right. Pretty good.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I hear nothing but good things.

[Brian Bates]

Things.

[Dusty Slay]

People love it. People are always telling me to watch.

[Brian Bates]

And I know all the stories in the Bible. I've read them so many times. It's nice now to even do a pretend thinking about what they look like or putting some personality to. To the characters. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Brian Bates]

Now, to your point, Jesus does some stuff like, they humanize him so much, I'm like, I don't know. Would Jesus really hit his thumb hammering or whatever?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, he would.

[Brian Bates]

He probably would. But it's just. It's hard to think of him that way.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think Jesus misses. He hits his thumb if he wants to.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

That's fair.

[Brian Bates]

So there's some of that. That's. That's already gonna. I don't even know how we got off to that. Oh, yeah. I asked you about the picture on the wall.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That spiral. But Mary Magdalene is a. Is a big role in. In.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

In the show. That's nice. So, anyway, so what about going to.

[Dusty Slay]

School for the first time? Would you guys, like. You had like a whole. Going to the. Where would you go shop?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's what I was about to ask.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, was it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Where would you go shop for your. For your new clothes? Like, what'd you like to get?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, my older brother's dresser.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's where I got all my clothes from.

[Dusty Slay]

What kind of stuff would he have?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we had school uniforms.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I always had school uniforms. My.

[Dusty Slay]

That makes it easy. I actually like that.

[Brian Bates]

That.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, now it's all. In Alabama, it's all the public schools have uniforms.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Most of them, at least in Montgomery County.

[Dusty Slay]

I like a school uniform thing because I'm surprised. Well, I like to get wild with it. But yeah, when you're. When you don't have a lot of money, like, you end up feeling self conscious about your clothes that you're wearing to school.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a big part of the reasoning, is that it just alienates kids from each other and it causes all kinds of problems.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's like every Tommy Hilfiger Was the, was the thing when I was growing up. Right. And it's like, I was never gonna get Tommy Hilfiger. Right. And it's like, so Timmy Hilfiger.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. With some off brand.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'd be wearing, like, Duckheads, sometimes Bugle Boy, or, or, or, you know, I. I really pleaded to not get clothes at Walmart. That was my thing. I was like, anything, we'll go to Sears. Well, now I came, but we gotta. We gotta stay away from those. But, you know, and so it was hard. So I ended up getting more creative with what I would wear, you know, and so I think it, you know, created some creativity. But.

[Aaron Weber]

But it would have been nice to just wake up and put the same thing on.

[Dusty Slay]

Absolutely.

[Aaron Weber]

Every day. And knowing that your friends are all gonna be wearing the same thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it annoyed me. We'd have dress down days at school. You know, usually it was like a fundraiser. Like, you bring $2 in, you get to dress down.

[Dusty Slay]

So the kids that got no money, still wearing the uniforms.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We still found ways to alienate the kids.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, but looking back, it's like I. I didn't mind the uniforms at all. They're probably a good thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I could see that. I don't think in elementary school I was even thinking about, like, just whatever my mom bought, that's probably what I wore. But by high school, Lebanon, the options are pretty limited. And we had one clothing store that opened Goodies.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember goodies.

[Brian Bates]

And to us, that was high fashion.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you'd buy a nice shirt from there and then go to school the next week and. Or the first day of school, there'd be three different guys wearing the same shirt.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, that's the problem. Yeah. And you get some new clothes and it's like, well, there's still five days in a week. Yeah. So you're like, you're trying to rotate them out and.

[Aaron Weber]

And.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I told a story on here before you joined us, Dusty, that my first day of my senior year in high school, I wrote a War and New Kids on the Block shirt to school because somehow I'm. I'd missed it. That's not cool.

[Dusty Slay]

So was it a fresh one?

[Brian Bates]

I'd just been to their concert.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, no.

[Brian Bates]

So this is fresh as you can get.

[Dusty Slay]

Almost like a faded one. You could get away with being like this. My sisters. I'm wearing it ironically.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron said that, I think. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Before I said, once you realize everybody's making fun of it, just Go. Yeah, this isn't the hilarious that I'm wearing this. Yeah, that's all it was.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how cool I. I am.

[Brian Bates]

I should have done that, but I did not.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I had a couple. I had a Toby Keith shirt I remember wearing. I think I wore it like one time. Didn't feel. Nobody was making fun of Toby Keith, but it just felt weird.

[Aaron Weber]

What was the shirt? It was big dog or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Dog. Oh, yeah, there was a big dog. There was a. There was some other stuff, but there was some like, big dog. Like if you can't hang with a big dog, stay on the porch.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was stuff like that. I remember those shirts. Those were big dress down days. People come in the big dog shirts on.

[Brian Bates]

That was after my time.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember. You want to know something weird? Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's why it's like any of those shirts I could think to bring up are all inappropriate because you go to like the. You go down to Panama City and go to one of those beach stores and they had all the. I had a lot of shirts like that. I would get in trouble all the time about shirts.

[Brian Bates]

Spencers type stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, like. Like, you know, not airbrush, but like, you know, I can't even describe some of the things that I had I shouldn't have been wearing.

[Aaron Weber]

Something crass.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yes. But nobody was. Nobody was monitoring what I was wearing. By the time I got to high school, I just was, you know, I was getting myself dressed and heading out. Even in earlier school, my mom worked third shift. Most of the time I'd catch the bus before she even got home. So nobody knew what I was wearing.

[Brian Bates]

Did you guys ride the bus to school?

[Aaron Weber]

I never did. No.

[Brian Bates]

Because your parents were. Or your dad was driving.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, my parents worked at the school or I had older siblings. Yeah, that would drive me. But in Alabama, I don't even think we had the option to take a bus For a private, Small, private Catholic school. They don't have busing.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I rode the bus usually about half and half. I'd ride the bus to school. My mom would pick me up. Or the other way around, I'd write, she'd take me to school, I'd ride at home.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you quit coordinate stuff like that? Back then, no cell phone.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess you just, you know, they would give you just the, you know, my mom would just be like, I'm gonna pick you up. You know, or. Or I guess you might call the school and say, hey, let Dusty know I'll be picking him up. Today. Or let Dusty know to ride the bus.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. But it's a lot of. Say, tell this to this person.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a lot of this message, too.

[Brian Bates]

I think it was mostly just they tell you that morning, and that's the plan.

[Aaron Weber]

But do you remember there being a lot of, like, problems caused by this lack of communication or were you even thinking about it at all?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think there was ever problems for me. Maybe one or two. I got. I got banned for the bus for a little while one time for throwing pencils, but.

[Aaron Weber]

But that didn't have anything to do with no cell phones.

[Dusty Slay]

No. That was only like, a week, too. And I got to.

[Brian Bates]

That's nice, man.

[Dusty Slay]

I knew I wasn't. I wasn't malicious.

[Brian Bates]

I think school bus drivers have one of the most stressful jobs out there, dealing with all those kids and driving this huge, gigantic vehicle.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And the kids aren't even wearing seatbelts.

[Brian Bates]

No. And they're just going crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

No seatbelts at all. I threw up on the school bus one time.

[Brian Bates]

And there's that.

[Dusty Slay]

We're three to a seat, and I was middle, and it hit the seat in front of us and went all over the other kids. I remember the kid digging throw up out of the crease of his bag with a pencil being like, you're gonna buy me a new bag? And I'm like, well, I'm about to get off at a trailer park here, so you just hold your breath there, buddy.

[Brian Bates]

Set that laptop up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What'd you throw up from? Just, like, general being a kid.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, food was never good. And who knows? I mean, the food at the school was always crap. I mean, it was.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I was gonna ask you, did you take your lunch or did you do cafeteria?

[Dusty Slay]

I would do about. Not half and half. I take my lunch sometimes, but. But it.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, that's probably about 10 of the time. I'd buy lunch at a sack lunch most of the time.

[Brian Bates]

Do you ever have a lunchbox?

[Aaron Weber]

Never really. A lunchbox was just a brown. Brown paper bag.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a lunchbox as a kid.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember what it was?

[Dusty Slay]

I got a GI Joe and a He. Man, those are my favorite two cartoons.

[Brian Bates]

I had Super Friends and Dukes of Hazard.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I would have beat y' all up in elementary Stage.

[Brian Bates]

What are you talking about? Those are cool.

[Dusty Slay]

They were cool back then. No, I had a little GI Joe lunchbox with a little GI Joe thermos inside that. Sometimes you put soup in there.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not cool to like stuff, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, we were. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

That might be a different generation of this chain.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not cool to care, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Even as you got older. For sure it wasn't.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm just kidding.

[Dusty Slay]

For sure, though, when you got older, it was like, you wear one strap of the backpack and you. You'd rather give yourself back problems than just wear it correctly.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, because it looks so cool to just carry it with one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. The movie 21 Jump Street they gotta talk about that. Very funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, but that was true. I mean, Hannah would talk about, you know, growing up in Canada. The coolest. Cool thing was to not wear coats. Like, if you were, like, cool, you would just be freezing to death.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's what it's going on now. Kids, or at least boys will wear shorts to school when it's 10 degrees outside.

[Aaron Weber]

I used to do that. I get that. I would all. I would. I would pride myself. Now I don't need a jacket and I'm wearing shorts.

[Brian Bates]

I think you had a school uniform.

[Aaron Weber]

Flip flops. I'm talking about just, like, in general.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, so weekends.

[Dusty Slay]

What about using the bathroom at school? Like. Like, number two, Would you do it? I was. I never did it. I don't think I ever did it a single time. My whole career of high school.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I did either.

[Dusty Slay]

I would. I was so terrified.

[Aaron Weber]

Dude, in high school, you're looking for. Yeah, I'll take. I'll go take a break.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd rather check out of school.

[Aaron Weber]

High school is like. Oh, like a job in an office. Yeah. I'm gonna go use the bathroom.

[Brian Bates]

You playing a horse with no name.

[Dusty Slay]

I never would do it.

[Brian Bates]

I don't. I never.

[Aaron Weber]

School. I bet I was too. Too scared to do that. But high school. High school, it's like I'm running the show now. I don't care. Yeah, let them. You know, let them in.

[Brian Bates]

I'm.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm taking care of business.

[Dusty Slay]

I was not for it. I like to be very discreet about my.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a poop bandit at my high school. Ever talk about that?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a guy who had. Was. Van was vandalizing the bathrooms with.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, gross.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Hence the name the poop bandit.

[Dusty Slay]

That's disgusting.

[Brian Bates]

You want to fess up right now? He was.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not me, and I don't know who it was, but it was. It was a thing for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

That's disgusting.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

Now, did you guys do recess, or was that banned by the time you got in school.

[Dusty Slay]

I did recess in primary school, but it was done by elementary school. Primary was first, kindergarten, first, second. I don't think we had it after that.

[Aaron Weber]

I think middle school, we. We had little breaks, but it wasn't called recess. It was like a 15 minute break or something. Something K through 6. We had legit play kickball, dodgeball.

[Dusty Slay]

We had PE and I guess what recess was, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but when you're younger you have just like a general, go out in the playground, do whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

First, second, kindergarten, first, second. We had that. I don't remember it after that.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't think in third grade you had recess?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it was P.E. that was.

[Aaron Weber]

So you didn't have recess? You're learning how to sew. Did you go to school at a sweatshop? That's what it feels like.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds like it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It does sound like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We had portables, so in a way I did live in a trailer for a while. You guys know what portables are?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

I had art in a portable.

[Brian Bates]

Basically, if they didn't have enough classrooms, they would bring in.

[Aaron Weber]

That was like a trailer.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. We had some poor. I took some classes and portables. I'd never heard them called that.

[Brian Bates]

Just come trailers.

[Aaron Weber]

We just call. Yeah, just trailers.

[Dusty Slay]

I just called it art class. There's enough trailers around and we didn't think it was weird.

[Brian Bates]

We were complaining. Dusty's like, this is nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's a good trailer.

[Aaron Weber]

Honestly, it's a double wide.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you do a lot of after school, like activities?

[Aaron Weber]

Just sports.

[Brian Bates]

All the way through.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, all the way through.

[Dusty Slay]

I did some sports, but for the most part it was. I was heading onto the house. I didn't do a lot of activities.

[Brian Bates]

Do campus life or anything.

[Dusty Slay]

I did campus life. Yeah. You know what? The campus life people from Orlando came to see me not long ago and I've been wanting to wear that shirt.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway.

[Dusty Slay]

Here. Campus life was like a Christian kind of after school thing. And in high school I was really into campus life. I loved it. I became a leader at campus life.

[Brian Bates]

Really.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I started throwing a lot of parties and I got demoted from leader.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

They didn't kick me out of campus life, but they were like, we really can't have you being a leader. Throw a lot of parties. I go.

[Brian Bates]

This is in high school.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I love middle school. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Throwing ragers at the trailer. Seventh grade.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. By high school, by. By 10th grade we had moved out of the trailer and so 10th grade, I lived in a house just a mile in front of the school. So, you know, so I would walk to school a lot before I got a license. And it was great. It was so easy to invite people. I might just go down this road.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Last house on the right. You'll hear party.

[Aaron Weber]

You'll hear it. Follows the music.

[Brian Bates]

I'm the campus life leader.

[Dusty Slay]

Senior year was hot for me. I really made some waves by senior year.

[Aaron Weber]

Senior high school, you kind of came into your own.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was hot.

[Aaron Weber]

Let your hair down.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know you're popular.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was a hot year for me. I don't like to use the word popular, but I was cool. You know what I mean? You're popular. Seems more douchy.

[Brian Bates]

I was cool.

[Dusty Slay]

People liked me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You were a well liked guy. Yeah, that's fair to say.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How about you, Brian?

[Brian Bates]

Well liked. Yeah, I mean, I think I was liked. Yeah, I wasn't popular.

[Aaron Weber]

But were there when you think of high school, were there, like that's the popular group or whatever?

[Brian Bates]

There was. And I. I can't say that was in that group. Maybe I was in the minor leagues of that group. I knew some people wrong with that.

[Aaron Weber]

In the farm, you know, I do.

[Brian Bates]

Feel like my senior year was by far the most fun year because, I mean, I guess that's true for most people, but there's something about when you're the oldest ones. Yeah, you just have a different attitude.

[Aaron Weber]

You have to wait four years to run this place.

[Dusty Slay]

Ninth grade was really my worst year, I think, just in the way that I. And I don't think it had necessarily anything to do with changing schools to high school, but it was just like, that's the year I felt the most insecure, you know, in my life. So it was a real turnaround for. For my senior year.

[Brian Bates]

That's probably true for freshman year.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I wasn't getting picked on or anything. I just was like, well, you're going.

[Aaron Weber]

Through some changes personally at that time in life.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, there's a lot going on.

[Dusty Slay]

There is a lot going on.

[Aaron Weber]

I get that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if ninth grade. I didn't peak in ninth grade either.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I mean, the size difference, some of the kids, there's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's men and kids.

[Brian Bates]

There's freshmen in high school that haven't hit puberty yet.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're in the same locker room with. With grown men now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I remember there was a guy. I don't know if he was in 11th grade or 12th grade when I was in 9th grade. Named Rex Story. And I remember seeing that guy and I was like. Like, this is a grown man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He's going to the school. He had a five o' clock shadow all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy's in school shaving between classes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Who is this?

[Brian Bates]

So I looked up number two pencils were very big back in my day.

[Dusty Slay]

I got banned on the bus for throwing them.

[Aaron Weber]

And then he got stabbed by one Did.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think that it might have been. That it might have been a lead pencil.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what a number two pencil is, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean like a.

[Aaron Weber]

A mechanical.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you have mechanical pencils growing up?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Yeah. I mean, we didn't use them much, but they did exist. We had the pins that four, like four different colors and.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, those are neat. Yeah. Purple, green.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you have the erasable pens? Those were so weird.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, they were weird.

[Aaron Weber]

I used to hate those erasable pens. Yeah, they didn't write well. That didn't erase. Well, what are we doing?

[Dusty Slay]

I got an erasable pen. You mean a pencil?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What about a trapper keeper?

[Dusty Slay]

I. You know what? I have a trapper keeper at home from middle. Middle school that I almost brought. But I thought, you know what? I bet people know what it looks like.

[Brian Bates]

I wish you had.

[Aaron Weber]

What is it? I don't even know what you're talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

A trapper. You don't know what a trapper keeper is?

[Aaron Weber]

Trapper Keeper?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it like a.

[Brian Bates]

You don't know either?

[Dusty Slay]

Lord, I have a trapper keeper in. In perfect condition.

[Brian Bates]

I wish you'd have brought it.

[Dusty Slay]

I should have brought it.

[Aaron Weber]

I still don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's a folder. It's like a three ring binder, but it folds.

[Brian Bates]

Mechanical pistol.

[Dusty Slay]

It folds and then it has another piece that comes over and velcros on and then it has other little pockets in it. Had a lot of cool designs on it. None of those are.

[Aaron Weber]

Doesn't open up like an accordion.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

One of those.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's just a three ring binder, really. With another piece that comes over.

[Brian Bates]

That one right there on the right with the football. That's a Trapper keeper.

[Aaron Weber]

This one right here?

[Brian Bates]

No, the one on the far right. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Trapper keeper.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's.

[Brian Bates]

It keeps all your stuff in there.

[Dusty Slay]

I should have brought it. It's in such good condition.

[Aaron Weber]

What's inside of it?

[Dusty Slay]

A three ring binder with other pockets.

[Aaron Weber]

No, but what's inside yours. You just have.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I had card comic cards from when I was a kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Comment cards.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I thought you said too.

[Dusty Slay]

Like comment cards. Like Marvel comics.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a comedy club comment card.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Still keep it open.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

I have a lot of comment cards from when I worked at the restaurant that we. I love to keep. They were just not always about me, just funny ones.

[Aaron Weber]

I love those comment cards for at hyman's.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Any mean about you?

[Dusty Slay]

Not really mean about me that. That I was able to get now. There could have been some that I didn't acquire, but yeah, I mean, there would be some mean about the restaurant or. Or funny or nice about me that I liked. But yeah, I mean, I saw. I got a guy was like giving me a real attitude one time when I was working there and he. And I seen. Pull the comment card out of the thing. So I take a pin out, click it, hand it to him. Oh, I was like, that's a power move. Get it, dude. I was like, get it. Fill it out.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did we had on our pencils little. I don't know what you call them, little rubber things you'd put on the pencil to kind of grip it.

[Dusty Slay]

Grip, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Guys know what I'm talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, Big time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, those are really fun. They're supposed to keep your hand from. From cramping up, but if you're left handed.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never used these triangular ones. These look.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's what I was talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

That's probably the original.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm talking about they were just flush with the pencil.

[Dusty Slay]

By the time you had cylindrical. By the time you come along, they perfected it. But we had. Let's keep it from rolling off the desk.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's what it was for.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it would play that.

[Aaron Weber]

Was that an eraser too? Could you use that as an eraser?

[Dusty Slay]

I think there were some. You remember the little eraser that went over the top?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, big time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, those were fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Those were a good time. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What about the mechanical pencil that you would twist and that and the lead would come out real far?

[Aaron Weber]

Never saw that.

[Dusty Slay]

You never saw those as a yellow one. And it would twist at the end and then the lead would come out real far. I think it was made by. I think it was made by Meadow Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

But did you use pencils in school?

[Aaron Weber]

Mechanical? Yeah. Yeah, we.

[Brian Bates]

We.

[Aaron Weber]

We ran the gamut.

[Brian Bates]

I read where I was none of those doing this research.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, maybe that pencil, mate.

[Aaron Weber]

There it is. Yeah, those. I know you I know you're talking about now The.

[Brian Bates]

The SAT is going all digital starting next year.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, so.

[Brian Bates]

So no more number two pencils needed.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a huge blow for the number two pencil industry because that's kind of the last time you needed to. To use one.

[Dusty Slay]

They should have been prepping for this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Should have been getting themselves prepared.

[Aaron Weber]

How do they do it digitally now? Do you go, like a voting booth? You go in and take it?

[Brian Bates]

That's a good question. I. I don't know. I read that. It's supposed to be it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. More fair. It did seem like an ad rate. He goes. That's a good question.

[Brian Bates]

Well, look at papers here. We'll provide devices to students who do not own their own computers. Some people don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so you're just man who attend.

[Brian Bates]

Schools without access to technology, doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

On, like, a Chromebook in a classroom.

[Brian Bates]

I guess it'll now be shorter, moving from three hours to just two hours and give more students more time per question.

[Aaron Weber]

You should be able to take the SAT and then just get your score back that night. Wow. Yeah. What was that reaction?

[Brian Bates]

I know. It sounded like I was thinking, that's a hot take. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you ever, like, cheat off people's papers or have other people cheat off your papers? Like, copy it? Like, in class when you'd be caught, you'd be copying off them. I. I was in Spanish in 11th grade. I didn't want to take it. You had to take one foreign language. And my teacher was pregnant. And so halfway through the year, she left. And we got a substitute. And this substitute, there was these two girls, Haley and Katie, and they would let me copy off. And they were very good at Spanish. They would let me copy their paper every day. The teacher knew it was happening. They would just straight up let me copy.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Nobody cared. Finals time came. The substitute wouldn't let me sit next to them, so. And the. The entire final was in Spanish. I hadn't. I didn't know a single one.

[Brian Bates]

No bueno.

[Dusty Slay]

I just went. I was the first one done. I just went. That's. There was no point. And even read it.

[Aaron Weber]

Could read the instructions.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I just went all the way through it. I failed that test so bad. I had, like a. A hundred in the class. Yeah, but I failed the final so bad, I almost failed the class.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why the teacher let you do it. I know they're like, you're shooting.

[Dusty Slay]

But that's really. But she. You know what I mean? That was really. I. I don't I don't appreciate her method because it's like, come on. And it's not become. It's not been a problem for me to not know it. To not know Spanish, but it would.

[Aaron Weber]

Have been nice to know it, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I bet. I bet Haley and Katie don't even know. No, you know what I mean? Not from that class.

[Aaron Weber]

If you were doing stand up in Spanish right now, I think your career would be a lot different.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah, for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

You would definitely sold out in Austin.

[Dusty Slay]

For sure. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean. Yeah. Well, you're right. It could have played.

[Aaron Weber]

You do one night in English, do the next night in Spanish, but who knows?

[Dusty Slay]

You know, what? If I'd learned Spanish and end up, you know, going into a different field, I may be more successful in another area. You know, I mean, who knows what road I would have went down? Maybe learning would have become something important to me. To me. And I would have said, you know what? Actually learning a language has opened different parts of my mind.

[Brian Bates]

This earth is spinning so fast.

[Dusty Slay]

I could be a scientist or something talking about planets.

[Aaron Weber]

I would have gone to D.C. for vacation.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad that Dusty doesn't exist.

[Aaron Weber]

You'd be an astronomer. That's the end of it.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, maybe I would have got so into languages, I would have been like, let's learn another one and then another one. But you know what? My substitute teacher, she didn't know anything about Spanish. Right, Right. You know, I mean, don't. Don't be like, you got to learn, but you can't teach it.

[Brian Bates]

That's why she needs babble.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

I was hoping that would be a sponsor. That would be great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that would have been perfect.

[Brian Bates]

Do you guys ever have the dream that you can't remember your locker combination and have to get into it? It's a very common dream, apparently.

[Dusty Slay]

Never had it.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a dream. I haven't had it in a couple years now, but I used to have a recurring dream that I was in college and it was the day of final exams, and I found out I was in a class that I had never been to, or I was signed up for a class I didn't know about, and I had that dream. I mean, and then I'd wake up and be like, oh, dude, I graduated four years ago.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Such a relief.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't know what that is in my brain, but I think that's a common one.

[Brian Bates]

It is. I've had that, too.

[Aaron Weber]

God, Isn't that bizarre?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What is that?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd never have school dreams. But I will tell you something that happened. My mom brought up some middle school yearbooks to me, and I had. I had seen this, the high school yearbooks over the years. I had looked at those. The middle school yearbook. It felt like it opened parts of my brain, memories that had been shut down. As I'm turning these pages and seeing this, and it shut. Shook me up for a couple of weeks. This is about a year ago. And I just was like. It was just bringing back, like, not necessarily bad memories, but just things I had completely forgotten.

[Aaron Weber]

These weren't memories you've repressed. These are just. Just stuff you forgot about. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I just was like. Because I remember high school well, but I don't really think about middle school that often.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But it was just bringing that up, and I was like, this is weird. And I think I might have had a couple of dreams around that time. It shook me in a weird way.

[Brian Bates]

I can see that just brings you back to memory lane. I went back to my elementary school a few years ago for some event and went into some of the same rooms, like the cafeteria. It seems so big to me as a kid, and now it just seems so tiny. I couldn't believe it was the same room.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Everything seems so much smaller.

[Brian Bates]

Right? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's. There's a crazy. You're. There's a crazy, crazy scene in the Office where they go back to Pam's high school when they're doing that career. Career event. And you. Have you seen the Office?

[Dusty Slay]

I've seen a lot of it. I've not seen this episode.

[Brian Bates]

They.

[Aaron Weber]

She goes back to the art room thinking that a picture she drew when she was in high school would still be hanging up. Do you remember that part of it? She's like, I thought it might be hanging up. 35 at this point.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think she's supposed to be that old. But to your point, I think your.

[Aaron Weber]

Terrible drawing is going to be hanging up here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

17 years later.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that.

[Aaron Weber]

That part always annoyed me.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what people always think, though, in a way. People always think like when, When. When they leave a job or they leave a school that, oh, they're going to remember me. And it's like when you work at a restaurant and you think the moment you leave, people are just like, can I get your shift?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We had kids. You have this. I. I don't know if this is common or if this is just a my school thing. But we had kids who graduated the year before. They would show up the next year and just come to class, like, the first, second day of school. Like, isn't that funny? We're here, but we graduated.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

In uniform.

[Brian Bates]

That's weird.

[Aaron Weber]

It is weird. I remember thinking, God, these kids are nerds. Dude, you're done with high school. Get out of here. It's not funny that you're here.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, if you peak in high school, it is. I think it is hard to let.

[Aaron Weber]

It go, but most of those gave it a chance.

[Brian Bates]

I'm assuming most of the kids at your school went to college afterwards.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So weren't they. Shouldn't they been at college somewhere?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I guess maybe it started early.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

My high school gave us the option. I remember my senior year, they gave us the option. We voted as a senior class, do you want to extend the school day by 15 minutes every day, or we start the school year a week early. So we started July 31st that year.

[Dusty Slay]

In July, rather than just having extra 15 minutes each day.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we voted on that. I voted to start early, too. I thought, it's going to be tough for a week, but then every day, the whole school year, I'd be thinking, gosh, I'd be out of here by now. This last 15 minutes is brutal.

[Brian Bates]

I think I would have done that, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like, let's just get it over.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably at the time. But I think I would go the extra 15 every day, though. Give me that week off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If it was on the back end, it would be more appealing.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's true. Yeah. You end a little bit earlier.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What about now, though? Let's say you're doing stand up and they're like, all right, they're gonna go, you come in on Thursday, do a show on Thursday or the Friday, the two shows on Friday, two shows on Saturday, you do an extra 15 each show. What would you do?

[Aaron Weber]

I think that the show would suffer if I had.

[Dusty Slay]

The audience votes.

[Brian Bates]

They're like, you know what? Do it Thursday. Yeah. How about doing Wednesday as well? Yeah, do them all. That's a good question. I don't know. In college, our classes Monday, Wednesday, Friday were 50 minutes, and Tuesday and Thursday were an hour 15. And I like the Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes better, even though I went three times a week just because hour 15 felt so long. Yeah, I just wanted to get out of there.

[Dusty Slay]

See, block scheduling came in while I was in school, so we would do. We were doing six classes a day, sometimes seven for about an hour. And then after ninth grade, in 10th grade, we went to block scheduling where we did four classes a day, all about an hour and a half.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Hour and a half class. Tough man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then you gotta leave and go right to another one and start it.

[Dusty Slay]

But it was great in the sense that like you, you know, you'd have your, your two main classes, your two. And, and then, and then you do that half the year and then the second half of the year you'd switch to four other classes.

[Aaron Weber]

Now let me ask you a more extreme version of this. So my, my high school in Alabama, Catholic high school school in the early 90s, I think they, they, the senior class voted to move to a four day school week. So they went like 8 to 5, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, then they had Fridays off and they did that for one year. And then they all voted like, let's go back.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Huh.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a long day. That is a long day.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a really long day to be in school. And it's long for, it's long for the teachers, it's long for everybody.

[Brian Bates]

And if you play sports, then what do you do? Stay till seven?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, yeah, we used to probably stay that late anyway. But you say way later than you would.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, if you can't start practice till 5:45. Yeah, that's tough on everybody.

[Brian Bates]

Was it cool having your dad as the principal or was it not fun?

[Aaron Weber]

It was convenient. Sometimes I'd know things before other people, that kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you think that's why you weren't class clown? Like, what? Because you're like, there's immediate consequences if I'm getting in trouble here.

[Aaron Weber]

I think actually, if I'm being honest, it gave me a little more leeway with people because the dynamic between me and the teachers was different.

[Brian Bates]

Because your dad's their boss.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, essentially. So that probably played into it. I don't know. It was just never that. There were always guys that were funnier than me, you know, that were like doing physical stuff, getting big laughs, you know, and I was never that guy. But I like snow days were, were big.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And so my, my school here in, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, we had maybe two snow days when I was there and it was a big deal to get a snow day. Sumner county public schools, if there's a cold breeze, they go, we're out for a week.

[Brian Bates]

Almost every public school in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They're like, oh, we can't we can't do it.

[Brian Bates]

We were out all the time, and.

[Aaron Weber]

My dad would wake up at like 4am he would drive to the school to see the roads. He'd drive, like, back roads and be like, the roads are fine out here. And we'd be the only school in the county open.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

All the time, dude.

[Brian Bates]

So parents like that, or did they get mad?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if the parents liked it. The kids weren't pumped about it, I'm sure, you know, So I would have.

[Dusty Slay]

If the parents still have to go to work, they like it.

[Brian Bates]

That's probably true.

[Aaron Weber]

But if the parents like, you know, my. My particular road is dangerous, whatever, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

And your dad's like, well, I'll drive there and say, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Would it be really? I drove by your house last night. Yeah, everything's fine.

[Brian Bates]

Would that be an excuse absence if they said, hey, it's not safe?

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. Yeah. I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

But you know that your dad would make the drive.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, dude, my dad. When the Nashville flood happened, the. The big one.

[Brian Bates]

Come on in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No, it's not.

[Brian Bates]

It's not over our neck.

[Dusty Slay]

The.

[Aaron Weber]

The JP2 in Hendersville was like. It was like a moat around it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was so flooded and you could not get to it. We had to take our AP test that weekend, and they're like, well, we're gonna have to reschedule because the AP tests, the physical tests are in the building. And my dad got in a rope. My dad got the boat and went to the school to get the tests and then took them back at a boat, and we took the test, like, off campus somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Your dad was.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not gonna let us get behind on stuff just because the weather, you know.

[Brian Bates]

There you go. Say helicoptered in.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that. I like the boat, though. I like the idea. Your dad's, like, rescuing the test. The tests are trapped.

[Aaron Weber]

There's all kinds of animals in there getting drowned. Yeah. Just gotta grab these test real quick.

[Dusty Slay]

They're like, oh, Mr. Weber, you're here. He's like, I'm just here for the test. I don't have enough room for you in the boat.

[Aaron Weber]

Uhhuh.

[Brian Bates]

Were chalkboards still a thing when you were in school?

[Dusty Slay]

We were fading them out. We were going. We. We started chalkboard when I was in school, and see, I feel like I'm the in between.

[Brian Bates]

You are. For us.

[Dusty Slay]

You are. Yeah. And then it went all dry erase. By the time I was in high school, it was all dry, like a whiteboard. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And did you.

[Aaron Weber]

In Alabama, we were all whiteboards. When I came to Tennessee, every classroom had a smart board.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I think. That's not what I thought you were going to say. I think it was like, y' all still had chalkboards here.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Smart board. So is that like you. Will you operate from an iPad or. They was like a TV that you could touch.

[Aaron Weber]

It was.

[Brian Bates]

You gasp.

[Aaron Weber]

It was still a projected image, but you could touch and control things by touching the screen.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. What about the. What about the thing? The little. Looks like a. A little.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I know. Box.

[Dusty Slay]

And it had, like a glass top with a light in it, and then that had a mirror, and then it would project it, and they would have little plastic.

[Aaron Weber]

And even, like, you could roll the plastic sometimes.

[Brian Bates]

It was in that thing you had earlier. I forgot what it's called.

[Dusty Slay]

It's called a projector.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe if you scroll down, it's on there.

[Dusty Slay]

And it had, you know, they could write on it with a little dry erase markers.

[Brian Bates]

And I thought it's just what that overhead projector.

[Dusty Slay]

Overhead projector?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We use these.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. That was big time.

[Aaron Weber]

Plenty of these.

[Dusty Slay]

The overhead projector was big time. Yeah. You could write right on. If you had a, you know, a erasable marker, you could write right on the glass.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it was big time.

[Aaron Weber]

I would never do that.

[Dusty Slay]

I loved an overhead projector.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But once you. Once you get a smart board, you're like, oh, these smart board.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems wild.

[Aaron Weber]

Overheads are weak.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, obviously they didn't have cell phones when I was in school. They weren't invented, but I bet it was pretty crazy. Maybe when you were in high school.

[Dusty Slay]

For me either. Yeah. I mean, they might. Cell phone was probably invented, but it was not prevalent. No smartphones.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't get a cell phone till my sophomore year of high school. I didn't have a smartphone until my sophomore year of college.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So I had, like, a dumb cell phone.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Through high school.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Still a bit of an issue with people texting. I didn't have texting in high school. Maybe I did towards the end, but it was not that big of an issue. I. It's probably insane right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're doing everything on your phone. I think they got to a point where they're like. They can't even tell you to put your phones away. They're like, we just got to figure.

[Dusty Slay]

Out how to teach you they should do.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

The phone Zany's does and have the.

[Brian Bates]

The yonder Bags.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, yonder back schools are actually yonder's some of their biggest clients.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah. That's what they should have.

[Aaron Weber]

You lock your phone up in a little pouch at the beginning of the day and then at the end of the day they open it for you. Yeah, that's the way they should do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And I want to say I invited Harper Bargazzi to come on to tell us about what school's like today. She declined the offer. She had absolutely tough to get a. It is. I asked Laura. Asked Laura. Laura said no as well. So I gotta talk to you guys.

[Aaron Weber]

They moved out of here. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They're not even here. We don't even know what's going on. On we just show up. But the. Yeah, I mean, pistol sharpener like that. Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I love the pencil sharpener. This was an excuse to get out of your chair.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you sat on the other side of the room, Pegger sharpened my pencil. You'd walk around, see what's going on.

[Dusty Slay]

And there's nothing like a freshly sharpened pencil.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's great. Especially from one of those bad boys.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

The mechan, the electric ones. And everyone worked.

[Dusty Slay]

It wasn't as good.

[Aaron Weber]

It wasn't as satisfying, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just to really feel it. I have one of these in my house.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah?

[Aaron Weber]

Just randomly, just on a wall. I haven't used it.

[Dusty Slay]

You have it now?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. My grandmother had one growing up, so maybe that's just a thing. How old's your house? Like old. 50s.

[Aaron Weber]

50S and 60s, I think maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They just came with pencil sharpeners back then.

[Dusty Slay]

People were writing stuff down.

[Aaron Weber]

You were using number two pencils all the time.

[Brian Bates]

Gotta sharpen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What an industry. Number two pencils used to be.

[Aaron Weber]

What a fall from grace.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. They.

[Aaron Weber]

They ran the country back in the day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What happened? Number one.

[Dusty Slay]

What about pencil break? Do you ever play that number two pencils where you breaking each other's pencils?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, we used to play that a lot. We hold. You hold it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why you got stabbed and then other.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I got stabbed for.

[Aaron Weber]

We don't have to get into it. Yeah. It wasn't a game.

[Dusty Slay]

It wasn't a game. Well, yeah, not getting stabbed. That was never a game. But break. Pencil break was, you know, you could, you know, you snap and then also thump. Did you play that where you'd hold your knuckles out like that and you'd thump each other's knuckles.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever do that? I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

What is that cool?

[Aaron Weber]

You don't see that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Like a little tracer.

[Brian Bates]

It's a. It's, like, flimsy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I like.

[Aaron Weber]

It's an optical illusion.

[Brian Bates]

It looks like it's bending and flexible. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

See that?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a solid.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. That is physics.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. What about pencils on the nose? Would you do that? I like to put pencils in the nose. And then I could hold a pencil with my chin, you know, Like, I can't. This is not a pencil. I can't do this. But, you know, it's also been a long time since I've done it.

[Brian Bates]

But.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then you do do this mustache before I had a real mustache.

[Brian Bates]

For the record, Nate's back next week.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the good stuff. This is what I've been waiting for.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what I'm talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

This is. This is what school's really all about.

[Dusty Slay]

What we were doing in school.

[Brian Bates]

What about football? Like, with a little paper.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, Paper football.

[Dusty Slay]

Paper airplanes.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember. Do you have nap time in kindergarten? Oh, yeah, we play paper football during nap time. We'd have a towel. You brought a towel to use as, like, your blanket?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a bath towel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Aaron Weber]

And we played paper. Paper football.

[Brian Bates]

What did you sleep on, though, on the floor?

[Aaron Weber]

I. I never slept during that time. But you're supposed to just sleep on the. On the towel.

[Brian Bates]

We had a little mat that we would bring.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess you could bring them out, I think. I did have. I did have a little mat, actually.

[Aaron Weber]

Bath towels.

[Brian Bates]

This is the late 70s.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I know.

[Brian Bates]

Not in kindergarten. I didn't go to kindergarten. But, like, first grade.

[Dusty Slay]

This is, like. Yeah. I mean, to me, this is the stuff on the. On the bus. It was pencil break. It was thump. You didn't do that, though. You hold your knuckles out like that. You try to thump it real.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, we would do that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, pencils weren't involved.

[Dusty Slay]

No pencil. It was two. There's two different games. Okay. Thump and pencil break. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We would play this game.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember that game where if you look at it below the waist, you punch them on the. I used to come home from middle school, just huge bruises all over my. My arm. My mom's like, what are you doing all day? You know, I'm respecting the game.

[Brian Bates]

You have a joke about senior prank. And when I was in Fairhope this past weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Somebody had poured, like, laundry detergent in the water fountain, and it was bubbling out everywhere.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That probably cost a lot to fix. That probably caused some real problems.

[Brian Bates]

My buddy said that on this next door app, people were not happy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, dude, I hate that laundry detergent in the. The water system of the high school school.

[Brian Bates]

No, it wasn't. This was just like the city fountain, like, there in Fairhope.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, like a decorative fountain?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Not like. I'm sorry. Not that.

[Aaron Weber]

You mean like the water system of the high school, where, like, the water.

[Dusty Slay]

Fountains, like, everybody's eating Tide pods.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Like a decorative.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I kind of like that a little more.

[Brian Bates]

I thought y' all were taking it hard.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like it, but I. I don't like vandalism, but I. You know, I was also in an Airbnb this weekend, and they. It was clear. They.

[Brian Bates]

Last week you talked about vandalism stores the whole time.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm vandalizing a competition. That's.

[Brian Bates]

That's different.

[Dusty Slay]

It's an evil corporation. You know what I mean? Not the city's water supply.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, yeah, I don't think the. The decorative fountains tied into the drink water.

[Dusty Slay]

That's where they get it.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's. All the wishing well pennies are down there, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's where they get it. You got it. You know, copper is good for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was.

[Aaron Weber]

Water tank tastes weird.

[Dusty Slay]

But I was in Airbnb, and they clearly had used too much fabric softener. And I woke up in the night, and all I could smell was. I couldn't even sleep. I felt like I was just breathing in poison.

[Aaron Weber]

Dude. I had a guy on the plane this morning. Smells so bad. Smelled so bad. Worst I've ever smelled. A person sat. It was that seat in Southwest where there's no chair in front of me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then. So the row right in front of that guy smelled. So he sat down. Joe Kelly was with me. He texted me. He goes, this dude stinks. And then I caught a whiff of him. I was like, oh, my God, dude, it was that bad. And he kept sticking his arm out to touch. To touch the. Like, the window thing up and down. And every time he did that, I would. Like, I was sleeping, and it kept waking me up.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, oh, he was reaching over you.

[Aaron Weber]

No, just reaching to the side, Just making movements. There's no chair in front of me, so I'm catching all the backdraft from this dude. And he had, like, greased up, oiled Hair. He spent some time on his hair, but he hadn't taken a shower in probably a week.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it was. My whole flight was. This guy stunk.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awful.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I was at the airport. I never. I forgot all about this until you talk about this, but this guy, I was sitting looking at the airline that was taking off.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And this guy was facing me. He had big headphones on. He was so hungover. He was making, like these groaning, moaning noises very loud in the airport. Like he was just in horrific pain. Just. Oh, he kept doing it. I don't know if he could even hear how loud he was being because.

[Aaron Weber]

He had the headphones on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And his flight boarded. And shut the door while he's just. And then he finally gets up and looks around and sees what's happening. He starts losing his mind at the counter. He's like, I'm right here. I've been right here the whole time. As I do. You gotta take those headphones off. I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You gotta exist in the world.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. He missed his flight. Sitting right there, obviously in a lot of hungover pain. And I'm like, oh, dude, you messed up. And it was so satisfying to me for some reason, you were glad. But this is. This has been a great podcast. A bit of a Cinderella story, this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Real storybook podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Fairy tale ending, if you want.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think. I think the clock's about to strike midnight, ladies and gentlemen, and.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, well, thank you, guys. Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay signing off. We're having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Time. And we.

[Brian Bates]

Sam.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway. Are you feeling those winter blues?

[Brian Bates]

Well, do not worry.

[Dusty Slay]

They've got you covered with ways to.

[Aaron Weber]

Boost your mood, add a little sweetness.

[Dusty Slay]

To your day with big savings on all your favorite sweets. Shop in store or online and save on items like Gummy Savers, Five Flavors.

[Brian Bates]

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, Sour Patch Watermelon.

[Dusty Slay]

M M's Party Size Stand Up Bags, and Ferrero Rocher Mixed Variety squares. Offer ends February 24th.

[Aaron Weber]

Restrictions apply.

[Dusty Slay]

Offers may vary.

[Aaron Weber]

Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

This is Julian Edelman from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jewels. Sunday mornings I've got my game day.

[Dusty Slay]

Ritual, coffee, lucky socks, and now new Morning Uncrustable Sandwiches.

[Aaron Weber]

It's all about that 12 gram protein boost with the new Uncrustables Bright Eyed Berry or Up and Apple flavors.

[Dusty Slay]

Bright Eye Berries got a feisty receiver.

[Aaron Weber]

Energy up an apple. Your classic Do it all tight end.

[Dusty Slay]

Soft, pillowy, packed with protein and easy.

[Aaron Weber]

Enough for Gronk to grab from the freezer. Whether you're on the couch, driving to the tailgate or heading to the locker room, new Morning Uncrustable Sandwiches are the MVP of snacks.

[Dusty Slay]

Your new Sunday kickoff ritual starts here with New Morning Uncrustable sandwiches packed with 12 grams of protein.