9: #9 | Meats with Greg Warren

Summary

Podcast Summary: Public Figures – Episode 9: “Meats with Greg Warren”

Date: April 1, 2026
Host: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Special Guest: Greg Warren

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Episode Overview

This episode of Public Figures dives into the world of meats and barbecue, as comedian Greg Warren joins hosts Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay. With each host sharing stories of life on the road, favorite barbecue experiences, and personal opinions on the best regional meats, the episode marries stand-up camaraderie with genuine food nerdery. The conversation also features a healthy serving of inside-comedy banter, catchphrase debates, and plenty of riffs on road gigs and food traditions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Greg Warren’s Return and Show Rundown (02:27–07:59)

• Greg Warren joins as a “first-time guest,” reflecting on past experiences in St. Louis and the perks of performing at local clubs.
  • “I did the Factory this weekend in St. Louis. Sold out. They gave me a jersey with my name on the back. I don’t like wearing jerseys with other men’s names on the back, but when I got my own name, it feels good.” – Greg Warren (02:51)
• Banter on show scheduling, podcast episode numbering confusion, and differences from their previous podcasts.
• All hosts share upcoming tour dates, emphasizing their Missouri connections.

2. Comedy Gigs in Unusual Places & Local Color (09:05–12:10)

• The group trades tales about performing in Sykeston, Missouri, at churches, spaghetti fundraisers, and other unconventional venues.
  • “Comedy and spaghetti, I mean, come on. I think there’s a Caesar salad served beforehand. Just quiet.” – Brian Bates (09:59)
• Dusty and Greg reminisce about other comics who find gigs in forgotten corners of the country.

3. On the Road: Personal Show Recaps (13:59–25:46)

• Greg describes eventful weekends in Paducah, Kentucky, and St. Louis, including lively crowds, pizza jokes, and cigar bar hospitality.
  • “They say it’s the number one Pizza Inn in the country, which I don’t think there’s many left.” – Greg Warren (14:48)
• Personal anecdotes about awkward moments at the Grand Ole Opry and meet-cutes with Opry legends.
• Greg and Dusty share observations on fellow comics progressing in their craft and the vibe shift between their respective shows.

4. Catchphrase Competition & Signature Moves (43:58–54:10)

• Spirited debate erupts over which comic “owns” certain stage catchphrases and gestures.
  • “People think it’s easy to take common phrases and make it your own.” – Greg Warren (50:53)
  • “Boy, I tell you. I’ll buy shares right now. Yeah, I’ll buy shares in that.” – Dusty Slay (50:19)
• Joking rivalry over props (like sweat towels) and comedic trademarks, with the group pretending to invent new traditions on the spot.

5. Barbecue Deep Dive: Regional Styles, Brisket, and Sauce Philosophy (61:30–79:17)

• Greg and Dusty break down U.S. barbecue by region:
  • Texas: Brisket rules; focus on beef, dry rubs, minimal sauce. “Brisket is how you measure a barbecue place.” (65:38, Dusty)
  • Kansas City: Famous for burnt ends; Joe’s BBQ gets special praise.
  • St. Louis: Pork steaks spotlighted, but discussion reveals mixed opinions.
  • Memphis: Dry-rubbed ribs are the city’s signature.
  • Carolina: Pulled pork and varied sauces—mustard in the south, vinegar in the east.
• Extensive dialogue on proper sauce usage.
  • “Let me try the meat without the sauce. I might dip it in there a little bit, but let me try it without…” – Greg Warren (67:54)
• Adventures in odd menu items (barbecued bologna, beef ribs, baloney joints) and regional fast-food takes on barbecue.

6. Barbecue & Steakhouse Stories, Food Faux Pas, and Meat Trivia (80:09–98:56)

• Discussion of legendary (and lackluster) local recommendations, the etiquette of letting tour support pick restaurants, and regional dish rivalries.
  • “If you eat at the wrong place in [this] city, people get so offended… there’s not a single city where there’s like a unanimous answer.” – Aaron Weber (71:55)
• Detailed steakhouse banter: preferred cuts (ribeye, filet mignon), cooking temperatures (“medium rare” vs. “medium”), and beef quality (Angus, Wagyu).
• Revealing the origin of Filet-o-Fish at McDonald’s (100:13–101:31), and the hosts’ personal relationships with fish as “meat.”

7. Animal Meats: Legal and Cultural Perspectives (93:01–98:56)

• Riffing on unusual meats (gator, squirrel, kangaroo/“guanaco”), legal restrictions (can’t eat whale, eagle, etc.), and grocery store trivia.
  • “It doesn’t make sense that dogs and cats [can’t be eaten], but I don’t understand why they’re protected.” – Greg Warren (95:49)
• Fun sidebar: best cracker for caviar—Ritz emerges as a favorite (98:05).

8. Yacht Rock, Audience Age, and Medical Emergencies at Shows (104:45–107:42)

• The comics discuss preferred pre-show music, the demographic shift in comedy audiences, and managing live show emergencies.
  • “At my age, with the age of my crowd, we’re gonna have to start doing [medical staff].” – Dusty Slay (105:21)

9. Wrap-Up: Tour Dates & Final Thoughts (108:38–112:29)

• The show closes with the hosts sharing upcoming show dates (with signature self-deprecation), a recap of the “audition” nature of guest appearances, and much mutual appreciation.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Brisket as the True Test
  • “Brisket, that’s how I measure a barbecue place.” – Dusty Slay (65:38)
• On Steak Doneness
  • “If you’re trying so hard… I bet it’s good. Just don’t do well done.” – Greg Warren (86:00)
• Comedy Road Wisdom
  • “Brian’s planting seeds for new markets. Yeah, everybody.” – Greg Warren (09:50)
• On Stage Rituals
  • “You cannot, you can’t go to the well two times a show on the [sweat] towel.” – Dusty Slay (53:29)
• On Food Loyalty
  • “People get so offended if you eat at the wrong place in their city.” – Aaron Weber (71:55)
• On Yacht Rock and Crowd Age
  • “I request yacht rock now. I think it’s the right vibe for what I’m trying to do.” – Aaron Weber (105:43)

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Timestamps of Major Segments

• Intro and Banter: 02:27–07:59
• Road Gigs & Comedy Fundraisers: 09:05–12:10
• Weekend Recaps & Noteworthy Gigs: 13:59–25:46
• Audience Comments and Catchphrases: 43:58–54:10
• Barbecue Core Segment: 61:30–79:17
• Steakhouse Stories and Meat Trivia: 80:09–98:56
• Unusual Meats & Legalities: 93:01–98:56
• Show Emergencies & Yacht Rock: 104:45–107:42
• Wrap-Up and Tour Dates: 108:38–112:29

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Tone & Style

The tone of this episode is signature Public Figures: light, riff-heavy, and runs on good-natured teasing among comics with years on the road together. There’s sincerity in the talk of food and gig memories, but always with a punchline around the corner. The podcast balances insider comedy references with approachable explanations, making it accessible and fun for both diehard comedy fans and casual listeners.

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Transcript

[Greg Warren]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Greg Warren]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Greg Warren]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Greg Warren]

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[Aaron Weber]

Good morning, everybody.

[Greg Warren]

Brian Bates.

[Dusty]

All right.

[Greg Warren]

And our special guest for the first time on the Public Figures podcast, please give it up for Greg Warren.

[Dusty]

Hey, guys. It's good to be here.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, we're pumped to have. You know, I was going to wear this jersey anyway because I was just in St. Louis.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

But I'm happy that you're here on the day that I'm wearing this.

[Dusty]

Man, that's really nice looking.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I did the factory this weekend in St. Louis. Sold out. And so gave me a jersey with my name on the back. I don't like wearing jerseys with other men's names on the back, but when I got my own name, it feels good.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that's. How'd you like St. Louis?

[Greg Warren]

I loved it.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I had a great time. I mean, of course, the factory's in Chesterfield.

[Dusty]

It's out in the suburbs, but I

[Greg Warren]

live in the suburbs, But I love it. They treated me so nice. The club, the fact Factory was great. They gave me. They gave me a cake, they gave me gifts. I went to a cigar bar after called lit and they really hooked it up. I'd never been treated so well. The owner took pictures with me, gave me free cigars. Really, it was amazing.

[Dusty]

Any. Did you get any food?

[Greg Warren]

I got no. Nothing notable.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I should have told you. I forgot you're going there. There's a place across the street across the highway called Annie Guns.

[Greg Warren]

It's a steakhouse.

[Dusty]

It's really good.

[Greg Warren]

I should. I wish I could have gone.

[Dusty]

That's real good.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Well, this is going to be another great episode. And we are, you know, this is. We're on episode six, I think, of this podcast and it's been going well

[Brian Bates]

and people are just like 10.

[Greg Warren]

I don't.

[Dusty]

Nine. Okay, well, I'm gonna stick with six.

[Greg Warren]

I think it's six.

[Dusty]

I prepared.

[Greg Warren]

I prepared for said upside down six. It's an upside down.

[Brian Bates]

Greg prepared for six, so we better stick to six.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't come in with nine. Energy.

[Brian Bates]

We're gonna talk about farming today.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah. And. And is there anything I need to know, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's a little bit different than Nateland.

[Dusty]

Yeah. That's what I was wondering because I came in with sort of we.

[Brian Bates]

We pitch where we're going to be this weekend off the top, and then we do it again at the end of the show.

[Dusty]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So we really want to get the dates out.

[Dusty]

I get that.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. That's really what this is all about.

[Dusty]

Nobody told me about that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So are your dates. Do you have your dates ready?

[Dusty]

Yeah, I got. I mean, I. I got a couple.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

As long as you have it ready.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You know, don't mess this up.

[Brian Bates]

You were our. Our most guest we had on Nateland. I didn't say that real well, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

I think would be frequent.

[Greg Warren]

And our most.

[Aaron Weber]

You are the most. And every way you can say that you're the most.

[Brian Bates]

We'll see about public figures. It's all new ball game.

[Dusty]

So this is somewhat of an audition. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're starting from scratch, buddy.

[Dusty]

You don't get anything going in?

[Greg Warren]

No.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty]

That's no carryover.

[Brian Bates]

Nope.

[Dusty]

All right, man. You Know, that's a lot to deal with. I got to remember dates right off the top.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah. We got new co. We got our own coffee cups now. You see that?

[Dusty]

That. That's impressive.

[Greg Warren]

Look at that.

[Dusty]

And then. And. And different colors and everything.

[Greg Warren]

We only get them in the studio. We don't get to have any of these at home, but we do get them in the studio.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah, man. I'd like to have one of these.

[Greg Warren]

I'll tell you what, that's the first time I've seen a fourth one. Yeah, they might have printed that one

[Aaron Weber]

for you just for Greg.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that's.

[Brian Bates]

There's one back there, too.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty]

Really nice looking, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

And the purple, I think is. Is the best color.

[Greg Warren]

I think so. It's kind of a combination of. Of a couple of colors.

[Aaron Weber]

Blue and red.

[Greg Warren]

Is it? Yeah, Red and blue and white, I think, makes purple.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that. I don't even think you need white, but you made a little white for that shade.

[Greg Warren]

Might have lightened it up a little. Yeah, yeah. You don't want a dark purple.

[Dusty]

No, no.

[Greg Warren]

But, yeah, so that's where, you know, I was insane. But next, you know, I'm off for April, basically, I have a show at Zany' 14th, and then I'm. I'll be in Dallas May 1st and Houston May 2nd, so.

[Dusty]

Oh, great, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Used to live in Houston.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And if you go see Dusty at Zany's that week, stick around for that weekend. I'm going to be headlining Zany's Comedy club as part of the Nashville Comedy Festival that weekend, I think. April 16th, 17th, whatever. That Friday. Saturday first time in the. In the big room. I'm pretty excited about it.

[Greg Warren]

And then May 1st headlining the bigger. He's been in the big room many times.

[Aaron Weber]

Too much. Yeah, too much.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

May 1st and 2nd, I'm in salt Lake City at Wise guys. And then May 3rd at the DC Improv, Washington, D.C. so I'm excited about all those shows. A lot coming up. Greg, what about you?

[Greg Warren]

I love that club, by the way. DC Improv for nothing but good things. So fun.

[Dusty]

I. I know. April 10th, I'm in Columbia, Missouri, at the Missouri Theater.

[Greg Warren]

All right.

[Dusty]

I went to College. And then April 11th, I'm at the Galois Theater in Springfield, Missouri.

[Greg Warren]

All right.

[Dusty]

That's where I was born.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

And then April 14th, when you're doing, you know, I don't want to counter program you, but when you're doing your show over there as part of the Nashville Comedy Festival. We're doing an episode of the Consumers over here.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

And Aaron Weber is going to be our guest. And then later that week, the 15th.

[Greg Warren]

So if my show doesn't sell out, that'll blame you guys.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I mean, yeah. I mean, we got less seats over here, so it's like you can't put it on us.

[Greg Warren]

So even so, some. Some overflow from your show may come into mind.

[Dusty]

That's what I'm hoping. The other way around. That's what I was angling for here. No, those, those tickets are going pretty quick, so. And then the. The 15th, April 15th through the 18th, I'll be at the. The Moon Tower Comedy Festival down there in Austin, Texas.

[Greg Warren]

All right.

[Dusty]

We're doing. I'm doing some stand up and I'm doing. Doing some episodes of the Consumers too, so.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome, man.

[Greg Warren]

Real moon tower's fun.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Yeah. I did it one time. It's great, isn't it?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

They got. I'm gonna get. Go all in on some barbecue down there.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty]

Austin does a real nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Save it for the topic.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Terry Blacks. Yeah, yeah, that's a good spot.

[Brian Bates]

Did not just hear Aaron say save it for the topic. Strike Terry Blacks. Terry Black. Do not mention Terry Black.

[Dusty]

Well, he said it. I. I had. At least all I said was. Yes, I know. I mean, I. I didn't want to just pretend like I didn't hear him.

[Aaron Weber]

You brought it on.

[Dusty]

It's rude. Yeah, I started it. I need to.

[Brian Bates]

I got a lot here on Terry Blacks.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I don't actually.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, Brian, you got a big night tonight, but what else do you have coming up?

[Brian Bates]

Well, most of my shows in April already sold out, but just to play along with you guys.

[Dusty]

What's that like?

[Brian Bates]

Try to be humble.

[Dusty]

You must be feeling like you're just playing with the house money.

[Brian Bates]

It is. Let me think about my next public show that that isn't sold out.

[Dusty]

Is that 2825th.

[Brian Bates]

April 25th in Sykeston, Missouri. April 25th, I'm in Saxton, Missouri. Do you know where Sexton is?

[Dusty]

Yes. Man. What are you doing there?

[Greg Warren]

You guys are really hitting up Missouri pretty hard. Yeah, just was in Missouri.

[Dusty]

I don't really think there's ever been a comedy show in Sykeston.

[Greg Warren]

Well, that's the kind of shows. Brian, what are you doing down there? He brings comedy to people where they've never had.

[Dusty]

It is unbelievable.

[Greg Warren]

They go, is this guy doing a testimony or what?

[Brian Bates]

I was gonna find it's just easier

[Dusty]

to drive Greg Yeah, no, I know that. I know about that. I'm telling. I drove through Sexton the other day. I had a friend from Sykeston. It That Nobody's ever done a comedy show. Is there a club?

[Brian Bates]

Not exactly, but there's a Christian Academy that's doing a spaghetti fundraiser.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah, man. I try to get booked on that several times.

[Greg Warren]

Brian's planting seeds for new markets. Yeah, everybody.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that's got to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you got to.

[Dusty]

There's a whole generation of comics are going to work. Sykes and Brian Bay.

[Brian Bates]

Comedy and spaghetti. I mean, come on. I think there's a Caesar salad served beforehand. Just quiet.

[Aaron Weber]

You just hear.

[Greg Warren]

You're up there going, twirl the fork.

[Dusty]

Twirl the fork. Yeah. So pass Parmesan. I. My buddy Johnny Kavanaugh, he was a comic in St. Louis. Yeah. And he's just a real nice guy, and he would always have these gigs that nobody ever heard of, and he was a real generous guy, and he'd always want to hook you up with these gigs. And I think one of them was down in Sexton. He'd just have these clubs and they were clubs.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

And he was like, what yet? Do you never play door knockers down there in Sykeston? I call Fred right now. I'll get you.

[Brian Bates]

They're always shocked when you've never played it.

[Greg Warren]

What's that. What's that club name we always joke about? What's that? Somebody made fun of me.

[Brian Bates]

Stinky's Joke Barn.

[Greg Warren]

Stinky's Joke Barn. Yeah.

[Dusty]

Is that real?

[Greg Warren]

I don't think so.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great name, though.

[Dusty]

Yeah, it is.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Well, I think you're going to kill down there. I think there's a lot of money in Sykeston.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there is. I can tell you.

[Dusty]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

I don't go to Sykes if we just see anybody.

[Dusty]

Somebody told me, per capita. Now, my friend Lance in high school told me, but per capita, one of the richest places in the world. And Lance didn't get everything right. So I don't. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You think Sykes could get me if they weren't one of the richest places?

[Dusty]

You're right, man. Brian's playing.

[Greg Warren]

That's right.

[Dusty]

And then Bahrain.

[Greg Warren]

That's why his calendar. That's why Brian's calendar is not so full, because it's only where the big.

[Dusty]

I see what you're saying.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I didn't say it wasn't full, but. Okay, Dusty, thank you. Yeah, I got a couple of holes in there, but I make up for it in Sykeston.

[Dusty]

Is there a deal where you can get the spaghetti and not see your show?

[Brian Bates]

That's a good question. Like doors open at six. I go on a seven.

[Aaron Weber]

Bring it to go box.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Are you here for the show? No. It makes so much.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, that's what they ask him. You're here for the show or the spaghetti.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

So we talk about our past weekend. You've kind of got it going, but

[Greg Warren]

yeah, I also went to Paducah, Kentucky and. And it Was great, great show. They're really fun. People got pretty rowdy though, towards the end of the show. They really like, I don't know, about an hour 18 in and people. They just can't hold it of your set.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, I don't blame them.

[Greg Warren]

They can't hold it together anymore.

[Dusty]

What were they doing?

[Greg Warren]

They were just yelling out. They were yelling at requesting jokes. I mean, it was fun. I liked it. But yeah, they really. And I kept talking about that. I saw a restaurant there called the Pizza Inn. And so I made the joke. I just said, yeah, we got a good place. We're staying out. We're staying at the Pizza Inn. And the place went wild because apparently this Pizza Inn is very popular. Paducah, they say it's the number one pizza inn in the country, which I don't think there's many left.

[Dusty]

There was one when I was growing up. They had them in. Cuz I don't think there.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never heard of it. It's a chain.

[Greg Warren]

It's a pizza restaurant chain. But it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it a hotel?

[Greg Warren]

It's not a hotel. It's just called the Pizza Inn.

[Aaron Weber]

In with one end, like it's two ends. There's pizza in here.

[Greg Warren]

Two ends. Okay, Mike, it's a hotel. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Then we should stay a while.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, so. But they were great. Another cigar bar, I went to there, the Old Fashioned cigar Bar. They stayed open a little later for me. Very nice people. It's great. Loved it. And the St. Louis show was amazing.

[Dusty]

That's great to hear, man. Yeah, our buddy Will did well.

[Greg Warren]

Will o' Donnell Crush. Also had another guy, Scott Bed Good out of Chattanooga. They both crushed. Will is get. He's so good at comedy now.

[Dusty]

Yeah, he's getting.

[Greg Warren]

He's always been good, but he's. It's really hot comedy now.

[Brian Bates]

That's great.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, he's on fire. He's got some. He's got some good coffee shop jokes that I'm into. I don't know if you.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Gonna do them.

[Dusty]

I don't know that I've heard those.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I allow people to be a little less clean on my show. So some. They may hide some stuff from you.

[Dusty]

I mean, I'm not a dictator.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank God I'm not with Gregory. Spread my wings.

[Greg Warren]

No, I don't mean it like that. But I do. I mean, you get a little looser. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Greg's like, I don't want any coffee shop material on my shows.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, that's the last about the Coff Coffee Shop.

[Dusty]

Dusty sits him down. Well, listen, we're here to have fun. This isn't a Greg show. Yeah, this is exactly. You can do what you. Yeah, it's. This is fun. Okay. He ruins everything.

[Greg Warren]

I'm not gonna wrestle you to the ground if you don't.

[Dusty]

I. Yeah, he's great, man. I'm glad. Glad you got. That's. That sounds awesome.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it was super fun. Yeah. Whoever wants to go?

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Maybe I should just start running this.

[Greg Warren]

Well, you could just go, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, Well, I was.

[Greg Warren]

Don't wait for me. You now. And now you, Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, just a polite deference to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's called leading the show. Does get in there. All right, well, you do it, don't you? So, yeah, we should all just do whatever I want. I was. Saturday night, I was at the Grand Ole Opry and had a great, great time, great set. But I was walking off stage and, you know, the lights are very bright while on stage, but off to the side, it's dark over there where the rest of the artists hang out. And I walk off stage, and I see Connie Smith standing there looking right at me. Now, Connie Smith is a opry legend. She's 84 years old. She's been a member of the Opry for 60 years.

[Dusty]

Wow. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Married to Marty Stewart.

[Dusty]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

They treat her like royalty there. And she's looking at me and she's smiling, and she's right my line of sight. And she appears to have her hand out like she wants to shake my hand. So I'm like, she likes what she sees. You know what I mean? And I go over to her, but like I said, the lights. There was some adjusting going on there. It was hard to see what was going on. And I reach out my hand to shake her hand and realize she did not have her hand extended. She had her hand on the stanchion there. This roped off. So I end up just putting my hand on Connie Smith's hand. Someone I've never met before.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And just smiled at it as if

[Dusty]

you were comforting her in a time of need.

[Brian Bates]

There's a lot that could happen there. She could think I was hitting on her. She might just be like, I think, like, yeah, follow that, babe.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I just patted her on the hand and then just kept on walking.

[Greg Warren]

Well, you know, she's probably used to that. Connie Smith's 84, but, you know, back in the day, she's pretty hot.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Marty Stewart might be wanting to kick my butt now.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I bet he Is this isn't

[Dusty]

the first awkward thing.

[Brian Bates]

No, it's not.

[Dusty]

Greg coming off the stage at the Opry.

[Brian Bates]

No, it's not.

[Greg Warren]

No, no. One time, the host who. Who likes to shake your hand as you come off. I. I was told that one time you were walking off, they went to shake your hand, you handed them the microphone.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you weren't told that, Dusty. We showed video on our podcast of me doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I was told that she extends with her. They're still talking about left hand to shake your hand. And I got a little confused, and so I just handed her the mic. Like. Like the Opry only has one mic that everyone shares. It's your turn now.

[Greg Warren]

I think it's like a big time move, really. You gotta shake your hand. You gotta take this. Just take this. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Take care of this for me. So I'm getting a reputation of the opera.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, at least the ladies there. Connie Smith's like, I do not want him back.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Or she's like, I'd like to. I'd like that, young man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, you're a young man.

[Dusty]

I'd like. I'd like him to be a member.

[Brian Bates]

30 years younger than she is. She likes younger men. Marty Stewart's like, late 60s.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So, you know, and then last night, Sunday night, I was here at the lab running my special set, and it was a great time. You guys were here. That's right. Good to see you, Dusty. Now, you were in St. Louis last night, right?

[Greg Warren]

No, I was just at home with my family.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Greg did a set. Greg. Let me just say this. I was hosting and closing the show. And when I got ready to introduce Greg, he went ahead and stepped out the door. And before I could even introduce. I see people, like, getting excited, women screaming like it's the Beatles. And I'm like, what is going on?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was crazy how excited they got when Greg. Before I could even introduce him.

[Aaron Weber]

Real power move to just step into the room before your name. I mean, I didn't know.

[Dusty]

It's like a talk show or something.

[Brian Bates]

You didn't know that? You don't supposed to come out till they introduce you.

[Dusty]

I didn't. I mean, yeah, usually I stand in the back. I don't know. I'm not familiar with the door system.

[Greg Warren]

I heard, Greg, you have about 20 minutes on chairs.

[Dusty]

It's getting there and I like that.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I'm into that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

That's great. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You were thinking about going sofas just to branch out a little bit, or strictly chairs.

[Dusty]

I Don't know, man. I got into swings a little bit and, and yeah, I, I, I don't know. Sofas, maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty]

But then that's a whole different thing.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the next special.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I don't know. I'm, I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Yeah, I got some chair material, but that was a great set last night.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. Yeah, thank you. It was fun.

[Dusty]

I mean, we're doing this right before your big.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Tonight. My special.

[Dusty]

Yeah, it's one in town and I'm excited about it. If you just do what you did last night, that's gonna be a great special.

[Aaron Weber]

Be great.

[Brian Bates]

I appreciate you saying that because when I got off stage last night, Greg's like, maybe you should try some of your old. Jo did say that.

[Dusty]

I did.

[Brian Bates]

What about that AutoZone joke?

[Dusty]

I said, I said if you, I think that out ought to be in there. It's a great joke.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I think it's a really funny joke. But I, I, I said a lot of things. Nice to you too. I didn't say that.

[Brian Bates]

You did. But I'm also tired of every comic say, hey, Mitch, her Hedberg bombed and they just sweetened it, so don't worry. Saying that every comic that I haven't even asked for and they're like, hey, Mitch, Hedberg, he, you know, he bombed. So don't worry.

[Dusty]

No, I just think it's the first one of the first tape things you do. So it's like when if you're not gonna bomb.

[Brian Bates]

No, I know.

[Dusty]

It just, it just if things don't go exactly the way you want, act like that. You think you might. Nah,

[Greg Warren]

I just say don't, don't put it out there like it can.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's what's exciting about stand up is it could always happen.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Yeah. No, I, I think you're in great shape now.

[Brian Bates]

Greg was so nice and so supportive of me.

[Dusty]

Yeah, you're in, you're in great shape. I can't wait to watch.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Greg Warren]

What about you, Aaron? Where were you?

[Brian Bates]

Well, wait, we skipped Greg.

[Greg Warren]

Well, I'm leaving.

[Brian Bates]

You're trying to leave.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry.

[Dusty]

You're right.

[Brian Bates]

You're right. My bad.

[Aaron Weber]

I, I had a good weekend. Thank you, Dusty. Minneapolis, Minnesota, at Sisyphus Brewing Co. Four shows. Connor Larson was with me and part of the Nate Land family, I guess you could say. Yeah, people might be familiar with him.

[Brian Bates]

And he's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Guy named Joey Hamburger was the host.

[Greg Warren]

Hamburger Jones.

[Aaron Weber]

Joey Hamburger, his real name.

[Greg Warren]

Wow. Does he do the hamburger thing?

[Aaron Weber]

He doesn't say hamburger like Hamburger Jones does.

[Greg Warren]

He can't do that. I don't know if your last name is really Hamburger. I wouldn't think about doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

He would just. I was obsessed with that clip for so long. Hamburger. Hamburger Jones on Def Jam.

[Dusty]

Yeah, man.

[Aaron Weber]

We go. He just found, like, kind of an overweight girl in the crowd. And he goes, look at this big roundaway girl right here.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Look like you've been sitting on a bus stop sucking on pork chops.

[Dusty]

Hamburger Joker, who you supposed to be?

[Greg Warren]

Didn't you edit a video together of him saying hamburger for an hour?

[Aaron Weber]

I know. I did a video of Shucky Ducky saying Shucky Ducky for an hour. I did a video Hamburger Jones on America's Got Talent. That got a lot of views.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I'm a fan.

[Dusty]

I'm a fan of both of them. You know, I. I remember watching them and. But I did ask my friend who sort of was booking comedy clubs back when those guys were doing a lot of going, you know, doing the club circuit, and I was like, who's got the edge? The Duck or Hamburger? She goes in a pit. Probably the duck.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Said they're both very good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Maybe shuck a ducky. Quack, quack, quack.

[Aaron Weber]

Hamburger Jones out of bed, he goes, look at this big joker here. Type of fool. Look at a ymca. Said they don't spell Macy's wrong. Yeah, that's the kind of jokes.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh,

[Dusty]

Joker, who you supposed to be like? He went right in on the.

[Aaron Weber]

Happy Halloween, baby.

[Dusty]

Joker, I'm who you spot Hamburger. I'm supposed to be a guy that just. I bought a ticket to your show.

[Aaron Weber]

Try to enjoy you.

[Dusty]

Yeah, he was. He hit him pretty hard right off the bat, man.

[Greg Warren]

Well, what about you, Greg? Where were you at this weekend?

[Dusty]

I was in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the loony bin.

[Greg Warren]

All right.

[Dusty]

Having a. Having a blast.

[Aaron Weber]

You get lobotomized at the looney bin?

[Dusty]

No, I didn't. I didn't. Is that a drink there?

[Aaron Weber]

They have a shirt that says that.

[Dusty]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I was lobotomized at the Little Rock lady.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Because it's like, crazy house.

[Dusty]

I don't think we. Yeah, I got it, man. No, I know. Yeah. I mean, I felt like I was having strong sets, but nobody. I don't think anybody got lobotomized or.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, good.

[Dusty]

Wasn't to that level.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good. You don't want to get to that level.

[Dusty]

Yeah, they. Yeah, Well, I think some guys, that's probably what they want.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

You know, it's like, man, I just was out of. Lost my mind. Most people kind of had all their faculties when they left my show. Yeah. So I don't know if it was. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you have Sean or Tim with you?

[Dusty]

No, both of them couldn't go. I had.

[Brian Bates]

My careers are taking off.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I know, I know. It's a point of contention.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Sean had a real dumb excuse for not going. Tim's got two small kids, so it's a. It's better. But my buddy Ryan Beck, my old roommate from New York City, came and did the shows and did a fantastic job, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Good deal, man.

[Dusty]

Yeah, it was fun. Had some. Well, we're not allowed to talk about it yet, but I'll get. I'll get to it when we get to the topic.

[Brian Bates]

All right, let's do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Can I share some Nateland news?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Brian.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. Nateland presents The Showcase Season 4 rolls on. Last week, John Heffern. Are you familiar with John Heffron?

[Dusty]

Friend of mine, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Killer.

[Brian Bates]

He is great. And his set was great. This Thursday, we. We reveal a new comic every week. This Thursday, 7:00pm, Jody Carroll. Now, I believe Aaron and I met Jody at the same time. We were both in Tacoma.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

A couple years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

And

[Brian Bates]

Aaron came, did sets, and Jody was on the show. And she's great. She's. I don't know Jody, she. She's done a few shows with me since then. She's out of Tacoma.

[Aaron Weber]

She's a relatively newer comic, but very funny. Yeah, looking Gets a lot of work from up there and. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that'll be on the Naetland. YouTube. YouTube channel. We have a new comic every week. Derek Stroop's Netflix special Nostalgic is out now.

[Dusty]

It's great. Yeah, man, it's good.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So go check that out. And Dusty's book. We're having a good Time is on pre order. Grab a copy anywhere you buy your books. November 10th is when it's on bookshelves.

[Greg Warren]

And that's just a book cover, though, so that's not the real book.

[Dusty]

Oh, really? I gotta.

[Greg Warren]

So don't start reading that.

[Dusty]

I gotta get one of these. And my. My friend Liz is. She's the biggest Dusty fan in the world. Have you sign one for her?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Dusty]

Really? She'd like that a lot.

[Brian Bates]

And you remember, Nate, Remember the last time you were here? There was a guy Another one. Nate.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Production guy.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, no. He was.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That was a different Nate. Nate Bargazzi.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He's got a tour called the Big Dumb Eyes, and this weekend he's going to be in Washington, D.C. worcester, Massachusetts.

[Dusty]

Worcester, Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Worcester.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wash your sister, whatever. Is it the sauce? Is it the same word as the sauce?

[Dusty]

I mean, that's how the sauce is pronounced, right?

[Aaron Weber]

I think Worcester Street.

[Greg Warren]

I think he got it right. Yeah. I'm leading the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

I think, you know, he made a ruling.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. No, no, go ahead.

[Dusty]

No, I mean, if it's. If it's New England, it's Worcester.

[Brian Bates]

Worcester.

[Dusty]

Yeah. I'll be on those shows.

[Brian Bates]

And April 4th, Boston, Massachusetts. I saw the lineup for those shows. That is an incredible lineup. Who is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Let Dusty be the judge. He's the ruler of this episode.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the lineup?

[Brian Bates]

It is, of course, Julian's hosting, as always.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Mike Vecchione, Greg Warren, and Ryan Hamilton.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. It's okay?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's fine.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, you're good.

[Dusty]

Yeah,

[Brian Bates]

those guys are awesome.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, that is a great line.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Those guys are monsters.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Worcester.

[Brian Bates]

Worcester.

[Greg Warren]

Okay, Worcester.

[Brian Bates]

Gotcha.

[Dusty]

And I think it's Washington, D.C.

[Greg Warren]

i like how you said Massachusetts.

[Aaron Weber]

How'd you say.

[Greg Warren]

I just feel like you just kind of came out at the end and you just kind of. Just kind of said it.

[Brian Bates]

Massachusetts.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Chooses.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Should we get these comments?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Greg Warren]

Let's get into it.

[Brian Bates]

Who wants to read them?

[Greg Warren]

Well, I guess I'm reading them because I'm reading the podcast, if you want to today.

[Brian Bates]

Well, usually I thought we'd. Whoever led did not read, but I'm

[Greg Warren]

leading it today, so I'll make the call.

[Brian Bates]

Fair point. Fair point.

[Greg Warren]

Fist, man. Sometimes when you, you know, other people are leading it, they leave it up to other people, but I don't. I don't like people just jumping in at any time. I like to call fair point.

[Dusty]

It's more, if you don't mind me saying, the public figures is more of an authoritarian system than iron fist.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, for sure. It just changes who's the authoritarian every episode.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, that's how we get fair about it, you know, we trade up, you know.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

But I, you know, honestly, I don't care, though, because I don't think I can read very good today. But comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and [e-mail] and I'll

[Aaron Weber]

say people have stopped Venmoing me for comments, which I appreciate. Now people are Venmo requesting me money, which is equally annoying. So please stop doing that.

[Dusty]

You have to pay them for them to.

[Aaron Weber]

They're requesting $20 from me and then leaving a comment, which is a great way to get me to read it. I have read all of them, but they will not make the podcast, I can promise you that. So please stop doing that.

[Brian Bates]

Great. Do we have a laptop?

[Aaron Weber]

We don't. No, not today, man. We're gonna have to do it old school.

[Brian Bates]

Some links, too.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. It's just two, though.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Greg, you remember the. The old show, highway to Heaven?

[Dusty]

Michael Landon.

[Brian Bates]

Michael Landon. You remember sidekick?

[Greg Warren]

The car.

[Dusty]

Was it Merlin Olsen?

[Brian Bates]

Merlin Olsen. That's a good guess. Merlin Olsen was on Little House of the Prairie with him. But it was Mr. Edwards who also was on Little House of the Prairie. He was on highway to Heaven.

[Dusty]

I don't remember that.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, anyway, he always wore Oakland A's hat.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty]

Oh, my gosh.

[Greg Warren]

Man.

[Aaron Weber]

I wish I had my life.

[Dusty]

That's really good.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that show. That's the gamer there.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that's a great hat.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like I. I feel okay wearing an Oakland A's hat. As a Braves fan, it's a bit like wearing, you know, a Ghana hat during the Olympics. You know what I mean?

[Dusty]

You don't think they're going to win it?

[Aaron Weber]

No, but I like, I support what they're doing.

[Dusty]

I like, I like because, I mean, there's some teams that I really admire the look of their uniform.

[Aaron Weber]

I like their uniforms a lot.

[Dusty]

Can't wear anything but a Cardinals Had. I feel like you're saying you.

[Aaron Weber]

Can I get that? Yeah.

[Dusty]

They're not a threat.

[Aaron Weber]

They're American League. They're basically. They're being moved. Like, in my head, this is an Oakland A's hat. It doesn't even exist anymore.

[Greg Warren]

It's an old retired team.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Moneyball.

[Greg Warren]

All right, let's get into these comments. Leon Mozart. You see how he spelled that?

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Mozart. You know, it's going to be a good episode when you're eight minutes in and Aaron is already conducting a study about how people open their straws. Keep up the good work, gentlemen.

[Aaron Weber]

Appreciate that. Mozart, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. When you get a compliment from Mozart, that feels good. Leon Mozart feels like a long lost cousin that got shipped off to America.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Karen Z. Love this episode. I'm a huge Western fan. Thank you, Karen. My favorites are Once Upon a Time in the West. Great one. The Magnificent Seven. Not watched it yet, Shane. Not watched it yet. Rio Bravo, High Noon, El Dorado and True Gripped. And I think my favorite western director is John Ford. And. Oh, you're right, Dusty, who Shot Liberty Valance is a great one too. It's really one of the best. Have you guys watched any of these westerns since that episode?

[Brian Bates]

Most of the comments this week were complaining about stuff that you left out, so.

[Greg Warren]

Well, that's. I mean, western is such a huge genre. I mean, there's so many movies. Yeah, if I was just gonna name them all, that's what the whole episode would have been. Me just naming movies that you guys haven't seen and that's not all that entertaining. No, I thought of a few more.

[Brian Bates]

I've seen Quick and the Dead.

[Greg Warren]

That's a good one.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I have seen anything.

[Greg Warren]

Gene Hackman or.

[Brian Bates]

I have seen Magnificent Seven.

[Greg Warren]

I've not seen it. There's two. There's an old one and then a new.

[Brian Bates]

I've seen the new one.

[Aaron Weber]

What about Holes? Y' all seen Holes?

[Greg Warren]

I have seen Holes.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a western movie.

[Greg Warren]

I don't really think it's a western, but it is good.

[Dusty]

Horror movie? No.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no, not horror at all. It's a coming of age story, really, but it's kind of split between modern time and then like they flash back to the. The Wild west and there's a bank robber and kissing Kate Barlow.

[Dusty]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Wonderful film. Wonderful book. Louis Saccar, Shout Out.

[Dusty]

I'll check that out. Is Outlaw Josie Wales a western?

[Greg Warren]

For sure. Okay, that's a good one.

[Dusty]

Yeah. That's about Missouri.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Clint Eastwood's.

[Brian Bates]

What was the one with Ed Harris and Vingo Mortensen? Where they come in is the Marshalls.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, I just bought that one. I'm gonna watch it.

[Brian Bates]

It's good.

[Greg Warren]

I forget what it's called. I bought so many.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Last week.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Actually, everybody's recommendations of the movies I missed, I went and bought, so that's awesome. Yeah. Brian Best. This podcast is one of the highlights of my week. And Dusty and I agree on most things, but I'm a little disappointed that I don't remember Lonesome Dove even getting a mention in the episode about westerns. He mentioned how much he loved Robert Duvall, but somehow completely glossed over Robert Duvall's favorite character that he ever played, Augustus McCray. And you're right, that was a big miss to not even mention it. But the reason is it's so long. I only Watched it as a kid and I want to go back and re. Watch it, but series, right? It's in. Yeah. It's like incredibly long.

[Dusty]

Yeah. So that was the era of the miniseries, right? Yeah, the, the, the Thornbirds, I think, was a big one back then. Roots was a big miniseries.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

He said that was his favorite character.

[Greg Warren]

I guess. I, I, you know, I'd not spend a lot of time with Robert Duvall,

[Dusty]

but I like the Days of Thunder guy, man.

[Brian Bates]

Robert was great.

[Greg Warren]

I like the Days of Thunder guy too. I don't think the day, The Days of Thunder movie felt like they were writing it as they were going along, but his character was really good. Yeah.

[Dusty]

Get out of that race car, Cole. Get out of that race car.

[Brian Bates]

That's good, Greg.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, that is very good.

[Dusty]

Amazing performance.

[Greg Warren]

You should be the next Robert Duvall, man.

[Dusty]

I'd do it.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah. For Days of Thunder two. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's so funny. That's how celebrities worked. When the celebrity died, just somebody else became them.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just got all their work, everything.

[Greg Warren]

That would be nice.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, his first role was Boo Radley. It was Kill a Mockingbird. Yeah. He was adult then, non speaking. So kind of similar to my neighbors. You on the greatest of average America.

[Dusty]

They used to come.

[Brian Bates]

So you're on the Right.

[Dusty]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're saying that's not. This isn't speaking from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. That's not speaking.

[Brian Bates]

You're right.

[Dusty]

You're right. Huh?

[Brian Bates]

My mistake.

[Dusty]

That's. Come on, I, That's a cheap shot, man. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Okay, here we go.

[Dusty]

My neighbors called me Boo Radley because I didn't get a lot of sun. I've never been able to get sun. Yeah. And I, I was a very white adolescent. And yeah. John McGuire called me boo Radley and he never went outside. That's where that came from.

[Aaron Weber]

What was Boo Radley's deal? What was going on with him?

[Greg Warren]

Was he doing something in a tree or something? He's putting some.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't he end up being a nice guy, though?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Saved Scout. I don't want to ruin it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did he shoot the ra. Rabid dog or something? Did he kill a rabid dog?

[Dusty]

He saved Scout somehow.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Yeah, maybe it was.

[Greg Warren]

I don't even know who Scouted.

[Aaron Weber]

He had nothing to do with that. He had nothing to do with the trial. Nothing to do with.

[Dusty]

Nothing to do with it.

[Aaron Weber]

Atticus. It was just like two different stories, okay?

[Dusty]

It was like the mean old lady or what? Everybody's like, oh, they live in that house. And they must be. They're weird, so they're scary.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

He was just. I think he might have had some health issues.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

And. And then something happened and he ran out, which was probably a big deal for an agoraphobic or whatever. He ran outside and saved Scout. Scout's main character, a young girl.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

It's been a long time. Scout Finch, Atticus's daughter.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Matthew Hawkins. Good grief. The fact that this wasn't primarily about John Wayne is a problem. I. I said. I talked about John Wayne. I said Clint Eastwood's my favorite Western guy, but, I mean, this guy has a problem with it. Here in West Texas, John Wayne movies are a rite of passage. The Searchers, the Cowboys, El Dorado. I mean, Dusty claims to be a big Western guy, but you all mainly talked about modern movies. You all need to do a deep dive on John Wayne to truly understand the Western genre. Well, I don't think that's true, but I. I did talk about a lot of modern movies because I was trying to get Brian and Aaron involved in the conversation. But I don't think Clint Eastwood's movies are not modern movies. I don't think. And the man who Shot Liberty Valance is. Is a John Wayne. So I don't get the problem.

[Dusty]

What's the one where he was the. Over in Ireland? John Wayne, I think it was with Maureen o'.

[Greg Warren]

Hara.

[Aaron Weber]

Lucky the Irish wasn't.

[Dusty]

No.

[Greg Warren]

John Wayne has so many movies. Yeah, but I got some.

[Dusty]

That's all. They were all on Sunday. Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, that's.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, I've watched a lot. But, you know, Quiet Man. Oh, yeah, the Quiet Man.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

I also, I. I burned DVDs to my computer, and then I. Them on the airplane. That way I can, you know, do whatever I want and not have to rely on WI Fi and the Searchers. When I downloaded it, somehow it downloaded also the commentary with it, so I wasn't able to watch that yet. So that's coming, though. So I'm. I'm very sorry.

[Dusty]

What's the commentary?

[Greg Warren]

It's like the movie starting and the guy goes, all right, I'm gonna be doing a little commentary on this movie while we watch.

[Brian Bates]

Remember DVDs when they. They'd have an extra section.

[Dusty]

I never did it. Yeah. Yes.

[Greg Warren]

I never did it either. I don't like it. You know, I don't need somebody filling in the gaps for me.

[Dusty]

So they're just explaining, like, when we shot this, we were. Or. Yeah. Or Was it like, don't go in there?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The only one I ever did for that I remember is Comedian, the Jerry Seinfeld documentary.

[Dusty]

Oh, they had that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He sits down and with a buddy and talks about it as they watch it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's cool. I would listen to that.

[Greg Warren]

Describes people's jackets as leaf raking jackets at times. Very in touch.

[Dusty]

What did he say about Ornie?

[Brian Bates]

Did he. I remember there's a scene where Ornie is going through cabinets of jokes that he'd saved, like following him. And I remember Jerry said something like, yeah, he thinks he needs all those, he doesn't need all those jokes or something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

So he was just mean to him on the commentary.

[Brian Bates]

That's the only thing I remember.

[Dusty]

Yeah, but I mean, it could have been way meaner, but I mean, they kind of, they must have told Ornie, like, dial it up a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, hope so.

[Brian Bates]

It worked for him, I guess.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I remember watching that early on as in a, as a comic and thinking, man, I don't want to have to do all that that Orie's doing.

[Dusty]

Yeah, he's funny though.

[Greg Warren]

Is that what you got to do to be a new comic? You had to do it that hard? I remember thinking that, like he just seemed to be.

[Brian Bates]

I've done shows with Orie and we've.

[Greg Warren]

Me too. Very nice guys.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah, he's, he's real nice. He's real funny. I, I, my, the only thing about comedian I remember, because it was like I had been doing some pretty hard road gigs at the time and they like Seinfeld had, you know, he was working on his new material or whatever and he had maybe a less than desirable set, you know, for Seinfeld. Yeah. And he, they showed him like they were playing like sad music as he was getting back on his plane

[Greg Warren]

like that.

[Dusty]

I'll show you, I'll show you sad music, Jerry.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's so hard to get comfortable. That's what he kept saying. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

You want to see uncomfortable.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty]

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[Brian Bates]

I appreciate it. I complain. It's like, Abby, your hair is getting ridiculous.

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[Greg Warren]

I was just gonna say, you know, it's like, yeah, this weekend I did the Little Rock Looney Ben.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You talk about uncomfortable.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

No, I've had some good times there. But it is, you know, if you. If you're. And you are selling tips tickets, but if you're not selling tickets at the Little Rock Looney Bin, it is a wild club.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a real wild.

[Dusty]

Crazy wild.

[Greg Warren]

But it's.

[Dusty]

It's. I used to go when I thought, I'm like, man, I might have a CD in me or a special.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

You know, And I'd be. Let's go down here and find out.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Whether this is any good.

[Greg Warren]

If you're selling tickets. All clubs.

[Dusty]

Yeah, exactly. Like, it doesn't. It's just a. A venue. Like, yeah, it's. Yeah, they. It's the Spaghetti and Sykes dinner. Whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

It's.

[Dusty]

You know, it's.

[Greg Warren]

I used to. I used to say that about the Greensboro Comedy Zone. I used to talk about how bad of a club it was. And then I went after. I was selling tickets and I go, oh, it's incredible.

[Dusty]

It's amazing.

[Greg Warren]

At a great time.

[Dusty]

Yeah, you're right.

[Greg Warren]

When you're a great club.

[Dusty]

I also had the advantage of, like, Opening for Nate and Leanne in Little Rock.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty]

Both of them. Yeah. Leading up to this thing. So it was, you know, thanks to them.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, train's coming. All right, here we go.

[Dusty]

It's called Brian Bates Special.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Dusty]

I hear it, Augie. Freight Train.

[Greg Warren]

Mike. How would you say that?

[Dusty]

Mike, man, that's a. That's meek. That's a tricky one.

[Greg Warren]

Back in the 90s, my brother and I were sitting at a car having lunch between paintball matches at a facility in Southern California.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a lot going on in that scene.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There is.

[Greg Warren]

There was a woman sitting next to us that we didn't recognize, waiting for her husband who was playing. We recognized him. It was Tom Hanks. We got to talking, and he said he was preparing for an upcoming movie the following summer. Saving Private Ryan came out.

[Dusty]

Out.

[Greg Warren]

By the end of the day, he had shot me, and my brother had shot him.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty]

A lot going on here. One he didn't recognize. Rita Wilson.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess not.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Did some good work in a couple of those movies.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think of Tom Hanks?

[Dusty]

I enjoy a lot of his movies.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I never played paintball with him.

[Greg Warren]

He never shot Tom Hanks.

[Dusty]

Never shot Tom Hanks. Never been in the same zip code, probably, but I think he's great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I mean, I don't know. Be hard to. I mean, you know, Splash was a formative movie.

[Brian Bates]

I had a very similar childhood.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Splash was amazing.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

What's going on in Splash that you really like?

[Dusty]

Daryl Hannah was a mermaid, and John Candy played Tom Hanks. Sort of ne' er do well, brother. And John Candy, when I was, you know, 14 years old, could say anything, and it was the.

[Greg Warren]

John Candy is the greatest.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

It makes me sad that he didn't get to make more movies.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

But we talk about Tom Hanks sometimes, and I get. You know, I just feel like Tom Hanks plays all these, like, prominent, like, hero people, and I'm just like, what's going buzzing, buddies. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's. You know, he's landing a plane. He's doing the Hudson River. He's getting taken over by Somali pirates.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah, man.

[Greg Warren]

He's Mr. Rogers. He's now gonna be Abe Lincoln.

[Aaron Weber]

He's astronaut.

[Greg Warren]

Astronaut. He's, you know, he's like all. He's like, everybody.

[Aaron Weber]

Walt Disney.

[Greg Warren]

He's everybody that he met in the movie. Forrest Gump,

[Aaron Weber]

Bear Bryant, Richard Nixon. Yeah.

[Dusty]

That's great. You think that's how he comes up

[Greg Warren]

with these I think so. Yeah.

[Dusty]

That's a great point, man. That might be how he's getting this stuff.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Trying to think of who else he met in that. I mean, John Lennon.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Elvis didn't meet Elvis.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. He met Elvis.

[Dusty]

Elvis. Elvis stayed at their hotel.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The boarding house, whatever it was.

[Brian Bates]

Now, I think one of the few characters he's ever played that wasn't a good guy was Elvis's manager.

[Dusty]

Oh, Colonel Tom Parker.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. In that last. I didn't see the movie, but I, I, I remember people saying that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Yeah. I didn't think he was such a great guy in Joe vs. The Volcano, but it was a different take that most people don't see.

[Greg Warren]

All right. Oh, big commenter here. Princess Summerland.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah, man. I'm familiar with Princess.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty]

I see her online quite a bit.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll never see if it's a nice comment.

[Greg Warren]

Okay. I think she usually going from being told we love you to you're boring isn't as funny as you think.

[Dusty]

There's something there.

[Greg Warren]

I feel like that's the one insulting.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I feel bad about this, Princess.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah. Oh, I see. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I, I, I called them bores, the fans.

[Dusty]

You're taking shots at Princess Summerland.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I've never seen anything but nice things.

[Greg Warren]

Always nice. Always.

[Brian Bates]

Nate would always say, we love you. And I, I guess I would say princess. I didn't mean it. And neither did Nate, so.

[Dusty]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Both of us were joking.

[Greg Warren]

She's a big commenter and that. I didn't know what that was referring to. And I was like, oh, that's the only time I seen her with some, some angst.

[Brian Bates]

I said, hey, boars.

[Aaron Weber]

So instead of hey, bear.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

But you said boars B O R E or bores, as in the like a wild boar.

[Aaron Weber]

B O R E. Yeah, Like, I

[Greg Warren]

think he meant the South African farmers. That's how they're referred to. Oh, really? Yeah.

[Dusty]

I didn't know that.

[Greg Warren]

It is true.

[Dusty]

Why wouldn't you do it? The, the, the, the wild pig do that too?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'm just making it.

[Aaron Weber]

It was said out loud. He didn't spell it in the moment. So it could be both.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A little double onon.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm going to stop it now because of Prince. I'm sorry, Princess.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, you should apologize to her.

[Brian Bates]

And we do love you. We do, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Are we.

[Brian Bates]

That sounded weird. We love everybody.

[Aaron Weber]

God save the Queen.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Tom Hammond. I like that. Brian puts us normies in our place. Thank you, Tom. I get a real cocky. I get real cocky throughout the week, and I appreciate him humbling me.

[Brian Bates]

Tom gets it. Tom Hammond, former Notre Dame play by play.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think that's him, but is it?

[Greg Warren]

I think it is.

[Brian Bates]

Well, there was an announcer, Tom Hammond.

[Greg Warren]

I think that's him.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, maybe.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Why would you guys not think it's him?

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like you would have included that in the comment.

[Brian Bates]

That guy probably was getting cocky, though, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Robin, Gillum, Aaron and Brian IMITATING Dusty's intro is getting played out. Get your own. All right, guys, be original. I mean, I didn't include this, but I'm glad it was included. But no, that's mine too. I got all the catchphrases, and that's

[Aaron Weber]

because you trademark normal stuff.

[Greg Warren]

Well, that's not my fault.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm the hi, how you doing? Comic. And you're like, well, what about. What else am I supposed to say?

[Greg Warren]

But can.

[Aaron Weber]

If I'm having a good time, how do I articulate?

[Greg Warren]

But can you.

[Dusty]

Don't.

[Greg Warren]

But you're not. But can you be the high. How you doing? Comic? That's the thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I've been there.

[Greg Warren]

Can you do. Can you do a phrase that everybody else does and make it your own?

[Dusty]

Boy, I tell you. I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Boy, I tell you.

[Greg Warren]

Start doing it.

[Dusty]

I'll buy shares right now. Yeah, I'll buy shares in that.

[Brian Bates]

Boy, I tell you. You could do that area.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll tell you what.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Boy, I tell you.

[Greg Warren]

Don't.

[Dusty]

Don't get the what in there. It sounds like you're putting a little too much mustard on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Yeah, you just. Yeah, just. You do. You do about five minutes, okay. And then you go, boy,

[Aaron Weber]

take a beat.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Take a beat.

[Aaron Weber]

Hold for applause the first time.

[Dusty]

Don't you know. Don't. Don't.

[Aaron Weber]

It's gonna take a little while for the legend to spread.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

People think it's easy to take common phrases and make it your own.

[Dusty]

Boy, I'll tell you. Yeah, this is a gold mine.

[Greg Warren]

I'm gonna capture the whole English language.

[Dusty]

The only problem. Yeah, they're. They're gonna be saying it, though, man, before it's like hamburger. Yeah, you're just. They're gonna be. Is he gonna say it, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

Boy, I tell you.

[Dusty]

Weber.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You're at the airport, people see you and they go, boy, I tell you. Yeah, you gotta be careful. You gotta be careful.

[Dusty]

Yeah, man. I mean, the only thing is, is you gotta Figure out how long to lay on the boy. Boy. I'll tell you.

[Greg Warren]

If you see Aaron at the airport greeting him in that way.

[Dusty]

Yeah, boy.

[Greg Warren]

All right.

[Dusty]

He doesn't. It's perfect.

[Greg Warren]

All right's one.

[Dusty]

Yeah, it's perfect, you know, but he doesn't stay on it too long.

[Aaron Weber]

You also have.

[Greg Warren]

Okay, okay. Yeah, I've taken. Okay, now. I tell you.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. And. All right. How can I be affirmative without copying you?

[Greg Warren]

I'll get them all. I'll get them all.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks for coming.

[Greg Warren]

Don't even try to. Don't even try to wave on stage either.

[Dusty]

Dude. I can't wave.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't put my hand behind my back. I can't use a sweat towel. According to Greg. I'm in a box up there, man. I got nothing. I got nothing.

[Brian Bates]

You do now, though, boy.

[Aaron Weber]

I sit down on the ground with my back to the audience. That's the only thing I have left.

[Dusty]

Told him, that hand behind the back, that's a military thing.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I was always.

[Dusty]

I always forget.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's rooted in military.

[Dusty]

But I'm with him. No, with him it's not.

[Greg Warren]

But when people open for me, I let them use the towel if they want.

[Dusty]

I'm just saying. That's fine, man. I know if you're. I don't like. You're real loose with these openers. It's. It's sloppy, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Will o' Donnell just up there at the Sweat Towel.

[Dusty]

I'm gonna tell you right now. I mean, I. Funny, but he's building some bad habits. It's. Yeah, it's. It's.

[Aaron Weber]

Comes back. His whole set's about weed. He's got.

[Dusty]

Come on, man. Keep it between the lines. Yeah. This ain't a dusty show.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a sweat towel all weekend, man. I just like to have it there if I need it.

[Greg Warren]

He was in Minneapolis.

[Aaron Weber]

I do need it.

[Greg Warren]

Quite hot up there.

[Dusty]

You're a young guy. It's not that hot.

[Aaron Weber]

It's hot under light.

[Dusty]

Not. You don't need it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's.

[Dusty]

You're too young, man. You're a young man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. You shouldn't be sweating that hard.

[Dusty]

Now.

[Brian Bates]

I will do that.

[Dusty]

I will say this, man. I'm gonna go into this because I've all on record on this program. I've always come out against the towel.

[Greg Warren]

Okay?

[Dusty]

But if you give it a boy, I mean, come on. Yeah, come on.

[Greg Warren]

Every time you use a towel, you got.

[Dusty]

You cannot. You can't go to the well two times a show on the top.

[Aaron Weber]

These Kids are crazy.

[Dusty]

You're putting too much on it. Just take. And you go to that towel only twice a show.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, that.

[Dusty]

Yeah. And then. And then. And that's how you end the special.

[Aaron Weber]

If I get two dabs a show, it's got to be a real problem before I get it.

[Greg Warren]

And you're the new Jerry Clower after

[Dusty]

Boy, I tell you. Good night. We got something here.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, no, no. Dusty's got good night. He.

[Dusty]

He's.

[Brian Bates]

He's.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

I say good night to.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, Say good night.

[Dusty]

Yeah, man, it's just. It's a minefield,

[Brian Bates]

Man.

[Dusty]

I tell. Yeah, I'm. I'm investing. We're gonna sign the picture, get some shirts.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm getting shirts made. I'm doing shirts.

[Greg Warren]

Hopefully your merch. And they're making it right now.

[Dusty]

Action figures.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

You.

[Aaron Weber]

Pull a string up. Boy, I tell you, boy. Boy, I tell you.

[Dusty]

Yeah, man. This is a gold mine.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Thank you, Dusty.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, no problem. I mean, if you guys.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Robin, Gill.

[Greg Warren]

If any of you guys need catchphrases, you know, come to me.

[Dusty]

Yeah, man. I've been working on them forever. Got one.

[Greg Warren]

I think you missed an opportunity by not calling the special Peanut Butter Boy.

[Dusty]

I know. Nate shot it down. Yeah, Nate shot it right now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they messed up.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Put it into that real quick.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, Peanut Butter Boy. That's.

[Dusty]

Peanut Butter Boy.

[Greg Warren]

Was.

[Dusty]

No, he said, yeah, that's a good one. They'd weighed in twice on that special, and that was one of the things he came out.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Matt Richardson. I almost wrecked when Beaver Nugget said, that's Brian. Well, it's a new podcast. You've not been a part of this one.

[Dusty]

Act like I'm just some guy guy.

[Greg Warren]

Okay. When he said, I love Cowboy Take Me Away by the Dixie Chicks, and Dusty quickly replied, that adds up. That is true. Thanks for letting us into your friendship in such a way that we know you well enough to know how true and hilarious that tiny comment really is. Keep it up.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great song, though.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

Cowboy Take Me Away. You know the song?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I do know it.

[Dusty]

I don't think I know it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a big song by a big band.

[Dusty]

I mean, I know the. The band. I don't know music that well, though.

[Brian Bates]

Who's the band?

[Aaron Weber]

The Chicks.

[Dusty]

The Chicks.

[Brian Bates]

Testing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Past.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Aaron said it first, but. All right, go ahead, Dustin.

[Greg Warren]

I like how they went from something they thought was offensive to something that that's like. Like sexist.

[Aaron Weber]

In a way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

With the chicks.

[Aaron Weber]

They're not the broads.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, chicks.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Aaron Ferris. I predict that in a few episodes, Brian will walk off mid podcast. And honestly, I'm here for it. Brian is extremely funny in his own right. However, you can't be a comedian and have thin skin.

[Dusty]

Yeah, you big baby.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I like how the first sentence, he seems to be in support of you and then he follows up with a. Ah, yeah, but he can't handle it. Can't take the heat. Get out of the kitchen.

[Dusty]

That sounds a lot like guys that come up to me after my show and have some, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like what you're doing up there. You're a lot looser than the last time I saw you.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I like. If you do one, I could do, you know, you could do an hour and a half. You do one old joke and then people go, yeah, I've seen a lot of that stuff.

[Dusty]

Yeah, it was all.

[Aaron Weber]

It was all old stuff.

[Greg Warren]

I just said, we're having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Boy, I tell you.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, you get it, Joseph. I'm glad someone else says biopic instead of biopic. Thanks. Breakfast.

[Dusty]

It is. Is it? Which is it?

[Brian Bates]

I said biopic.

[Dusty]

That's what I always thought, but biopic makes more sense, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

I guess, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because it's a biographical picture, right?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, but I. I've always heard biopic. But I. I have no idea. That's just what I've heard. I never tried to break. Oh, biopic, Biopic. But that's kind of like.

[Brian Bates]

No, that's not what I said.

[Dusty]

Yeah, you did.

[Aaron Weber]

Both. Both pronunciations are used, but biopic, emphasis on bio, is generally considered correct by dictionaries because the word is a combination of biographical and picture. So we're wrong, though many people pronounce it biopic, like the word myopic.

[Greg Warren]

What about the movie Biodome? Would that be Bi. O. Dome.

[Dusty]

Bio. Dome.

[Aaron Weber]

Biotum.

[Dusty]

Yeah, Biotum. Amazing show. One of the bald ones was in that, right?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Was that Paul Lee Shore?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, it was a bald one in there. A lot of. He had a lot of piercings on his face.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Steven, I believe.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

All right, last comment comes to us from Camp Girl. The consumers want a trivia game, them versus public figures. While regular trivia was suggested, I'm proposing a conspiracy style twist to make it more engaging and educational. They should be based on Dusty's theories. With him as host and final judge.

[Dusty]

Doesn't seem fair.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the twist? Just the correct answer is whatever Dusty says.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If it's a. If it's a conspiracy theory based on Dusty's theories, that's certainly a twist.

[Greg Warren]

Camp girl gets it.

[Brian Bates]

And they're not Dusty's theories. They're just the truth. Right, Dustin?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

Bring it to our attention. Attention.

[Greg Warren]

I bet. I guess you could argue with me and say, you know, I don't believe everything that he says. That's what people say to me a lot. They. I don't always agree with Dusty, but.

[Brian Bates]

And they're dead. Dead to you if they don't agree with.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I mean, get on board. I go. Just give it time. You don't agree now at this moment.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I haven't seen the light.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

How's that?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah. At this moment, my. My vision is clouded.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you ever leave your doctor's office and feel like you got nothing from it?

[Aaron Weber]

Every time.

[Greg Warren]

Time.

[Brian Bates]

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[Greg Warren]

Okay, Brian, we got. We got a. Well, take us away with the topic.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I was debating what to do this week and I knew you were coming as a guest and I saw a video of you talking about barbecue.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I Looked, you've got a few jokes about barbecue out there.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I know you're a big barbecue connoisseur, but I'm like, let's broaden it out a little bit. Bit and just talk about meats in general.

[Dusty]

Okay?

[Greg Warren]

I.

[Brian Bates]

You're not a fan, Aaron.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, Aaron loves.

[Dusty]

I think we could have filled it with just barbecue.

[Greg Warren]

Okay, well, we want to get all kind of meat.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

We don't. You know, because I don't even. You know, I don't eat pork, so I wanna.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I wanna.

[Dusty]

You know, there's a. You know, it's not. Pork's not the only thing in barbecue.

[Greg Warren]

Well, I do get a brisket here and there. That's what I want to talk about is brisket.

[Dusty]

If we just did brisket, risk it.

[Greg Warren]

And I get. I like to get some barbecue chicken. Yeah, I like that. I went to. You know, I went to a barbecue place one time, and I asked the guy that my server. I go, you got. You got barbecue chicken here? And he goes. He goes, what? I go, barbecue chicken. He goes, I never heard of that. And I go, are you serious? And then the next table behind me ask him for barbecue chicken. And the guy goes, why is everybody asking about barbecue chicken today? And I knew that guy worked there a long time. So you're telling me you've never heard of barbecue chicken, and then the very next table asks you about barbecue chicken. So the first time you've ever heard it, you heard it twice.

[Dusty]

What. What state are we talking?

[Greg Warren]

This is Tennessee.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

This is in McMinnville. It's a great place. I like the place.

[Aaron Weber]

What the disconnect was, I don't know either.

[Greg Warren]

He never heard of it.

[Dusty]

Because there's some, like, in Carolina, I think they would tell you the only barbecue that exists is pork work.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, that's.

[Dusty]

They don't divine anything else.

[Aaron Weber]

Even if you've never heard of that, you know what both words mean. It's not like.

[Dusty]

It's not like you have no idea

[Aaron Weber]

what they're talking about, you know?

[Dusty]

So you're saying, now I know what a chicken is, and I have a barbecue restaurant.

[Aaron Weber]

Hold up now.

[Dusty]

That just doesn't add up.

[Aaron Weber]

That couldn't be.

[Dusty]

No.

[Ad Reader]

Well, you.

[Greg Warren]

You got it.

[Brian Bates]

We'll start with barbecue. Then you. You hit up barbecue restaurants whenever you're on the road.

[Dusty]

Every town. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I had sort of a highlight down there in Little Rock. Yeah, yeah. It's gonna sound like I'm bragging a little bit.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

But I went to this place called Wright's Barbecue. Now, I. I first heard of them in Fayetteville. They got fantastic place, so that I saw they had one in Little Rock, and I took Ryan, we went to rights, and I was in line, and the dude in the back of the goes, you playing in town? I go, yeah, yeah, man. Gave him like, 50 off or something, man. Oh, I think it's because I've had a couple of these barbecue jokes.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, take it off.

[Dusty]

Hit the Internet.

[Aaron Weber]

It gets passed around the industry. Yeah, it's got to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And then when he left, he goes, I thought Robert Duvall died.

[Brian Bates]

The new Robert Duvall,

[Dusty]

Cole. Well, get out of that race car. Cold.

[Brian Bates]

Robert Duvall was from, like, San Diego or something. That's where he's born. But didn't he always. Didn't he feel like a Southern. Yeah, just the way he talked and not even the accent.

[Greg Warren]

I think Southern California is like that, though.

[Dusty]

La.

[Brian Bates]

That's.

[Dusty]

Well, I would think, like somewhere like. Like Bakersfield.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Is that not Southern?

[Dusty]

That's. That's more. No, central.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Central Valley. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

But, yeah, San Diego seems more surfer.

[Greg Warren]

I guess so. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so let's talk about some different styles of barbecue.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I got a few different places here. Texas.

[Dusty]

Yeah, man. I mean, you know, I'll just come right out and say. And. And I. And I would. We can get into all the different regions.

[Brian Bates]

We can delete this if we. If you get out of hand.

[Dusty]

No, I'm gonna say it, though. I mean, and I. Texas, I. I think brisket is how you measure a barbecue place, and I think.

[Greg Warren]

I agree with that.

[Dusty]

Yeah. I think. How's your brisket?

[Brian Bates]

And why is that?

[Greg Warren]

Well, because it's probably harder. I think it's harder to get a good brisket. So how good?

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Okay.

[Dusty]

It's just I. And I think it's the. The best thing in a barbecue. Like, sausage is great, but you're not going to mess up sausage.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, there are degrees of.

[Greg Warren]

Good. Good.

[Dusty]

Okay. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

You know, but I think brisket, that's how I measure.

[Brian Bates]

But could you say the worst thing is what you should measure? Because if they can make that good, then anything's gonna be.

[Dusty]

But no, but brisket, you can. It can be very bad. They can dry it out so easily.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Or it's tough.

[Aaron Weber]

Hairy, kind of.

[Greg Warren]

Or just all fat.

[Dusty]

See, I like. I like a fat.

[Greg Warren]

I like a little bit, but it can be all fat.

[Dusty]

But I will tell you this. You. You're Texas is not going to miss on the brisket. And I've been to all the cities and they, they, they.

[Greg Warren]

Salt Lick. You've been there? Salt Lake.

[Dusty]

Salt Lick. Yeah. That's Austin. Ish.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That, that brisket's really good. They got burnt ends that are really good.

[Dusty]

Burnton's is a Kansas City thing, man. That's their, that's their thing.

[Greg Warren]

They did it well there, though.

[Dusty]

Yeah. And Kansas City, now, I mean, that's, that's a great barbecue town. A great one. And it's neck and neck with Texas, But I, I would say that there's a place called Joe's in Kansas City.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

And that, man, they do it right. Right. The ribs there are unbelievable. Yeah. Joe's is like everything there is good, you know?

[Brian Bates]

So what's the difference in style between Texas and Kansas City? Well, Kansas City.

[Dusty]

Kansas City. Burnt ends is their thing. Okay. Like, that's their thing.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's a question of what the focus is.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I, I think, you know, now there's. I'm gonna be wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

Sauces differ, I'm sure.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I, I think Texas has it.

[Brian Bates]

Let me read this, and you tell me if you think this is right.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Texas beef focused, featuring slow smoked brisket, ribs and sausage cooked over oak or pecan wood, known for minimal sauce and dry rubs.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I like about. I don't like, Man. To be honest with you guys, I'm gonna say it, and I had some last night, and I like Nashville barbecue, but they'll. If you don't tell them, they're gonna sauce it up.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I like a dry rub. Let me try the meat without the sauce. I might dip it in there a little bit, but let me try it without the.

[Dusty]

Figuring they're hiding something.

[Greg Warren]

Don't you?

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You messed up that meat.

[Greg Warren]

I'm for not putting sauce on anything. Let me do it myself.

[Dusty]

I'm with you, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Let me do it myself.

[Dusty]

When I worked.

[Brian Bates]

You want to jump in?

[Dusty]

When I worked at Proctor and Gamble. Sorry, this is important.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, I want to hear it.

[Dusty]

I don't like sauce on really anything.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

And we would go through the cafeteria when I worked in the, the big office, the corporate headquarters, we go through and, you know, know. And this one cafeteria lady, she knew me so well. I remember one time I was going through. This is when I knew I, I, I was a fixture at the company. As I was walking with this. There's a New lady. And she started putting my food on, and she goes, he don't like the sauce.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man, that's awesome.

[Dusty]

That's a good feeling. He don't like the sauce. And then I was like, yeah, I'm somebody here. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And if you let them put sauce on there, they. They. They go wild with it. I go, just a touch. I just wanna. I like a little flavor.

[Dusty]

There's a place in Nashville that does, and it's a very good place, but they will. They will know the place. I had Martin's last night. I think it's Edley's.

[Greg Warren]

Adley's will sauce up that. They'll sauce up that brisket, and the brisket's very good.

[Dusty]

But I went to Martin's last night, and I went late. It was after Brian's show, and they were like, hey, we're out of a lot of stuff. Just, you know, dude, we're out of all kinds of stuff. Stuff.

[Brian Bates]

This boy wants ribs.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Three o' clock in the afternoon.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah. That's my. That's one of my theories about barbecue is like, they're the one place where, like, it's just fine for you to not have the stuff that you said you were gonna have. Yeah. But Martin's, they're like, we're out all kinds of stuff. They go, we got wings and we got baloney. And I go, all right, man, give me some wings and baloney. And I have never had barbecued bologna.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I wasn't.

[Dusty]

And it was outstanding.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I believe it.

[Dusty]

The. The baloney at Martin's just. I'm telling you, man.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's. I mean, it's massive.

[Dusty]

Oh, you kid. It's like this thick. Yeah, it's so good. It is. It is unbelievably good. I didn't even. I had, like, one wing.

[Greg Warren]

I just.

[Dusty]

I went all in on the baloney. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. You fill up on baloney. Not a lot of room for wings. Yeah, Yeah.

[Dusty]

I was like, man, I'm like, you know, I'm not gonna get any brisket, man, I'm glad that happened sometimes, you know?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. You would have never known about baloney's would be. It's the last choice for everybody, which is why they still have some.

[Dusty]

Now there's a place In. In. In St. Louis.

[Greg Warren]

Would you go to an all baloney place now?

[Dusty]

Maybe.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It be tough for that place to stay open.

[Greg Warren]

All baloney.

[Aaron Weber]

Just all baloney. Yeah, it's what it's called.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah, man, this place is baloney.

[Dusty]

Yeah, it's narrowly. Narrowly focused.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

Be like, what would a comedian's version be of the guy? That's that all a narrow focus comic, you know. Boy, I tell you, he doesn't do the jokes. Catchphrase, just catchphrase show.

[Aaron Weber]

Be a guy that just did sound effects on stage.

[Greg Warren]

Michael Material. All right, what about the place in St. Louis?

[Dusty]

Oh, they got Sal, Mommy.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, man.

[Brian Bates]

Now you took me to a place in St. Louis.

[Dusty]

That's where I took you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, it was great.

[Dusty]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Will o' Donnell took me a place when I was there where I think

[Dusty]

he took you to. Terrible place.

[Brian Bates]

It was like on a cobblestone street. It was like an old.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I know exactly where it took you, man.

[Brian Bates]

We sat like outside on it.

[Dusty]

What a dummy. I was so mad at him for doing that.

[Brian Bates]

I let Will do what he wants to do.

[Dusty]

I know, man. That's his fault, man. You let these guys run wild. He's gonna be big headliners coming into town to take him to a third rate barbecue.

[Greg Warren]

I will say, I don't let the features pick where I eat.

[Dusty]

Good.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was his town.

[Greg Warren]

So I don't want to take what happened.

[Dusty]

It wasn't as good as my place was.

[Aaron Weber]

Place called Quiznos or something. I can't remember what it was.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What about this?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't even tell people where. People get so offended if you eat at the wrong place in this city.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And there's not a single city where there's like a unanimous answer. Everybody goes, don't go to that.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah, don't go to that.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you, an idiot?

[Greg Warren]

Don't go to the place.

[Aaron Weber]

And you go, well, I'm just, you know, I'm gonna go Chipotle and then not talk about it.

[Dusty]

Yeah. You know, you ever do this?

[Greg Warren]

This is.

[Dusty]

This will. This will break somebody. It'll crush them if they. They're real enthusiastic about their place. My friend Matt Howland, when I moved to Cincinnati, you gotta go to Kwapman's, man. They got best hamburger. I was like, yeah. I mean, he was after me for six months. You got to go to Kwapman's. I go, all right, buddy, let's go to Kwatman's. And we go, he's got this best burger, best burger you'll ever eat. She goes, what do you want? I go, I'll take a chicken sandwich. He's like, what are you doing? What are you doing, man? And then to even just rub it in a little bit more about three weeks later, he was telling somebody else, you got to go to Kwapman's. I go, it's not very good, man. He ordered a chicken sandwich. One stellar hog is the place that I took you to. Yeah, that. That is a good. That's real good. That. That's the place with the salami. What, man? Stellar hog's great. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's your problem?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, you got.

[Dusty]

You got.

[Greg Warren]

No, I went to, like, when I was in Philly, I went to these two. There's these two places they tell you to go. These two Philly cheese places.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They're, like, right across the street from each other, and. And they're like, oh. Everybody was telling me. They're like, it's the best. You got to go there. So I went to both. I got a place from each cut in half. You know, me and my buddy, you know, both tried.

[Dusty]

I like that.

[Greg Warren]

And then I talked to somebody at the thing. They go, ah, that's the tourist spots, man. You gotta go. You got. You know, you got.

[Dusty]

You can't win.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, exactly. And it's like, what do you want me to do?

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah, that's. I. I talk about this a little bit in my act, but, you know, that's a big thing on barbecue, is. It's never close in Texas.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty]

I mean, that's place right across street. You don't want to go there.

[Brian Bates]

You don't want to.

[Greg Warren]

You don't want to go there.

[Dusty]

That ain't real barbecue. You gonna get on a freeway going about 96 miles. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

St. Louis Barbecue, from what I read, staple is pork steak sliced from the shoulder of the pig.

[Dusty]

Yeah. And I'm not into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Pork shoulder is what you.

[Dusty]

Yeah, well, they call them pork steaks, man, and that's like a St. Louis thing. And I've never. Okay, not for me. Yeah, but I mean, that is the same.

[Greg Warren]

I want my pork. Yeah, I like the way I was gonna say that, but I like pulled pork. Yeah, I like it. I like pulled pork.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I think I knew. That's good, man. Yeah, that's a nice job.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I don't eat pork now, but when I was eating it. I like pulled pork.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah. That's a Carolina specialty, right?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I used to go to Melvins and Bessemers. Those are the spots.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Those two. I think they're owned by the same family. I used to go. Then they had Sticky Fingers. I would go there.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I've been to sticky Fingers down there. But where I used to live. Right.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. They had good ribs. Yeah. But Bessemers I used to go to all the time, almost daily.

[Dusty]

I gotta try that.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Pulled pork's not my favorite thing. It's. It's fine.

[Greg Warren]

Opalika used to have a Papa Joe's barbecue, which was really good, but now we have Chucks and on. You know, we go there on Saturday. You get. Buy 1. Get one free pulled pork sandwiches. And I used to. One time I ate four.

[Dusty]

Wow.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I was pretty fat, but I was heavy. I was drinking a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Wits. Because, like. Wits.

[Greg Warren]

I've been to Wits. Yeah. Wits is good.

[Brian Bates]

I don't guess. I thought that was a national chain. I guess it's. It's a chain.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a fast food barbecue, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Is it not local? I thought it was local.

[Aaron Weber]

I've only seen them here.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. That's why. Yeah. I thought. Thought it was everywhere.

[Greg Warren]

So I've been a couple of those.

[Dusty]

I don't know if there is a. Well, there was one national fast food barbecue place. I can't remember. I mean, Famous Dave's is.

[Greg Warren]

Is regional, but it's Famous Dave's. I'm gonna be honest. There's one in Hermitage and it's pretty bad.

[Brian Bates]

It's still there.

[Dusty]

Yeah, I've had a couple. Good.

[Greg Warren]

I don't mean to trash them, but it's. I don't know what they're famous for,

[Brian Bates]

but if you're going to a barbecue restaurant for the first time, you get the brisket biscuit.

[Dusty]

I get. I get everything. I do. I mean, I probably always get a three meat sampler. And I. And. And sometimes more. I want to try everything. I don't eat it all, but. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever gone to a restaurant, said, give me everything?

[Dusty]

No, man. That'd be cool.

[Aaron Weber]

One of everything.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that'd be.

[Greg Warren]

You done that?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Dusty]

I'm not making that kind of money right now, but I'd like to.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah. You know, Will could have. You could have done that at the place Will took you, and you'd still strike out. What a dumb dummy.

[Greg Warren]

And we don't get.

[Dusty]

We don't get a lot of people coming through St. Louis comics.

[Brian Bates]

I'll never come again.

[Dusty]

And I always want to make sure you have a good time. Yeah. And that's what he's gonna pull, is

[Greg Warren]

that Will didn't even recommend a place for me when I was there.

[Dusty]

That's the best thing could have happened.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

You'd have been eating dry barbecue.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Overlooking the Missouri River. That's as close as of a hint as I'll give you is where that place is. I'm not, I don't notice. I'm not going to come here and say the name of a place.

[Aaron Weber]

You would never, you would never.

[Dusty]

No, I'm not doing that.

[Brian Bates]

Now, what about, what does this mean exactly? Greg, Unlike most other prominent barbecue sauces, the St. Louis style variety doesn't contain liquid smoke.

[Dusty]

Oh, I, I mean that. I don't know that. I don't know that. You'll find that I'm not very knowledgeable about something that I'm very passionate about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I just know what I like.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, you don't have to spell toilet to use one. You know what I mean?

[Greg Warren]

Boy, I'll tell you.

[Brian Bates]

Well said.

[Dusty]

I've never heard that one. That's very folksy and I like that. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Now there's Memphis style barbecue.

[Dusty]

That's. Is that the ribs is a big thing there, right? Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Serve dry season.

[Dusty]

Dry rubs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Carolina, which you already touched on a little bit, using vinegar based sauces in the east and mustard based sauces in the South.

[Dusty]

South. I like a mustard sauce.

[Greg Warren]

I like a mustard sauce, too.

[Dusty]

Georgia.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Now, y' all do some weird stuff in Alabama.

[Aaron Weber]

Alabama.

[Dusty]

Yeah. I, I've never tried. It doesn't appeal to me.

[Greg Warren]

That's more the Tuscaloosa area. I think where I'm from, we, I think we're using all mustard base.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

White sauce. So it's called.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

You had it. You like it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's great.

[Dusty]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

I like it. I haven't heard a single thing that I didn't like so far.

[Dusty]

Birmingham's got a couple of places that go out.

[Aaron Weber]

Dreamland's a big one.

[Greg Warren]

And Moon.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know the other one.

[Dusty]

No, no, it's dreamland. I, I, I can't remember.

[Greg Warren]

I went to a dreamland not long ago in Birmingham and it had, it had fallen off.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Their thing is ribs, isn't it?

[Aaron Weber]

It's a little bit of everything.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty]

Jim and Nicks is pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like Jim and Jim and Nick.

[Greg Warren]

I like, I think they dropped the gym, though. I just think it's Nicks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they got a fight.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that real?

[Greg Warren]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I go there every time I go to Stardome. They used to always put us that hotel right next to Jim and Nick's.

[Greg Warren]

I'd walk over there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they should have done it like Ruth's, Chris and it would be Nick's Next Gym. Nick's Gym Steakhouse or whatever. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever hear that story? We talked about that on the podcast. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. It was a guy named Chris who had a steakhouse, and they. And Ruth, the wife wanted in a divorce, and despite him named it Ruth. Wow. Chris Steakhouse.

[Greg Warren]

Wow. I own you.

[Dusty]

You.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's true.

[Greg Warren]

That's why the name is so confusing. It never made sense to me, I

[Dusty]

bet, but I bet it is why they. It's memorable.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Greg, do you know how Hot Chicken started here in Nashville?

[Dusty]

No, I. I don't.

[Brian Bates]

It was a little bit of similar. A spite story. There was. I'm gonna draw a blanket. His name.

[Greg Warren]

It's a. Well, I don't know his name, but a man.

[Dusty]

Hattie B. No.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, Prince's.

[Brian Bates]

Prince, yes. I'm sorry. Prince's Hot Chicken is the original first hot chicken here in Nashville. And the guy was. He was a little flanderer. He was out on the town. His girlfriend didn't like it, so she, like, he was out late one night, and she was like, I'm gonna teach him a lesson. And she put hot spices on his chicken. He comes home, middle of the night, early morning, eats it, loves it, says, this is great, and the rest is history. Generational wealth. I bet you that really showed her.

[Dusty]

Yeah, she must have that. I feel her now, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

That.

[Dusty]

That. That had to be a. A real sobering morning.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if it happened all that fast, but. But yeah, he liked it. Now. Hot Chicken was not a thing in Nashville when I was growing up. This is a recent thing. Is it now? At least among white people, like Boltons and Princes, they've been around forever. Okay, but as far as, like, like white people, like, oh, you got to go to Nashville to get the hot chicken. That's something.

[Aaron Weber]

As far as, like, being commercialized franchise.

[Dusty]

You don't have to go to Nashville everywhere.

[Greg Warren]

You go into Princess, but Bolton's is great.

[Aaron Weber]

You go to a Zaxby's in Nebraska and they have Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

It's everywhere.

[Dusty]

I mean, yeah, there's every. In St. Louis, there's a Nashville hot chicken.

[Greg Warren]

And Hattie B's has really figured it out, though. Hattie B's has got it down like. Like to, like, commercialized. I mean, they really know how to work it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they've really. Like, when tourists come to Nashville, that's where they go. Hattie B's.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Unless they do a little research and then they maybe go.

[Dusty]

Is there more than one location?

[Aaron Weber]

Multiple.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

There's several in Nashville, but they've also branched out to other cities.

[Dusty]

Okay. And as long, I mean, we are talking meat. So that the whole Zaxby's and what's in canes, the whole raising canes, that's all Alabama, right? That started there.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know.

[Brian Bates]

I think they're Louisiana raising canes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, feels more Louisiana.

[Greg Warren]

The Opal Auburn area though, is I. It's got to be chicken finger capital.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I remember there is. There is chicken, there is Tenda chick, There's Jim Bob's, which is the best you're getting into.

[Aaron Weber]

Guthries.

[Greg Warren]

Guthries.

[Dusty]

Guthries is the one. Guthrie is the one. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

I think sort of Zaxby's took what Guthrie's is doing and made it bigger.

[Greg Warren]

Maybe what Jim Bobs was doing.

[Dusty]

Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Guthrie's Vic Henley, a comedian used to

[Aaron Weber]

talk about from Auburn. Right?

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So, yeah, I think there's a lot of Guthries out there.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

the cruise, most of us came in the day before, and the day before we departed.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And us three did. And Aaron said, I got us reservations at a restaurant. You want to go? I was like, absolutely. And we all went. There was a few Greg Garcia, Mike Vecchione, Abby, and her husband. Lucy was there. And we get there, and it's Charlie Steakhouse, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember thinking, wow, I wish kind of Aaron had mentioned this is a little prostery for me, you know, and

[Greg Warren]

we hadn't got that Sykesville gig money.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

We had a great time. Aaron foots the whole bill. I couldn't believe it. And then that was incredible because it wasn't cheap. And then this is the key. This is what you got to do. Then Greg said, could can we help with the tip? And Aaron's like, yeah, yeah, sure. You got to fumble with your wallet a little bit and hold up and then wait till somebody.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait till Greg offers.

[Brian Bates]

Then Greg. Greg threw a tenor in there, and we're on our way.

[Dusty]

I did not throw it. I came in a little bit on that one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Dusty]

I felt bad, man.

[Greg Warren]

He.

[Dusty]

That was a big pill. So Aaron. Aaron. Aaron stepped.

[Aaron Weber]

Happy to do it.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Aaron.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Aaron's very generous. And of course, I missed that dinner.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you flew in the morning of the next morning.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What? Dusty, if you're going to order a steak, what. What do you get?

[Greg Warren]

I don't know. I mean, I used to be like. I used to like to go, like, medium rare, but now I'm more of a medium guy. I don't really trust everything going on out here these days, and so I don't want it to be too rare. Yeah, I like it about medium. That's where I'm at.

[Dusty]

Medium.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice. A nice place. I go medium rare. But if it's like a. Whatever place, I'll say medium.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't really. I kind of just go. I want to just go. Just do it and bring it and bring steak lovers.

[Brian Bates]

They freak out about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't care.

[Brian Bates]

Knock the horns off. Bring it out.

[Greg Warren]

I feel like. Yeah, I mean, you, like, you're trying so hard, like, when you're. When you're like, oh, it's got to be like this, and it's like, just. I bet it's good. Don't do well done.

[Dusty]

My brother does.

[Aaron Weber]

Does he really catch up on it, too?

[Dusty]

Well done. Butterflied, like, just. Yeah. My brother Matt.

[Aaron Weber]

Scattered, smothered, covered.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I don't like well done, but I could even go medium well.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that's right. I worked my way down.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Medium, and I'm not going any farther.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever sent a steak back because you thought it wasn't cooked properly?

[Greg Warren]

No, man.

[Dusty]

My friend Mark, Gross. I think he put this in a script on Leanne show, so I don't know if I should say it, but I'm doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty]

He had this buddy of his and his dad, they were all out to dinner, and the waiter comes out with a steak, and it. It falls down on the floor, and. And the guy goes, I'm so sorry. I'm gonna get you another steak. And the. And he picks up the steak, and he starts walking. He goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He goes, that steak stays here.

[Aaron Weber]

Smart.

[Dusty]

Isn't that, like.

[Greg Warren]

It's such a dad.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'll still take the other one.

[Dusty]

He goes, I want the steak, but that one stays here. Go back there and dust off that steak. Yeah, I. I hope I don't ruin the lean. I think that might be part of the next season lean. Yeah. But, yeah, Mark said, I think they worked that story into one of the.

[Aaron Weber]

That's really funny.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, which cut of meat do you do, though? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I was about to ask.

[Aaron Weber]

I like filet mignon. Just.

[Greg Warren]

I like a ribeye.

[Dusty]

Yeah, ribeye.

[Aaron Weber]

I like it all. I like it all.

[Dusty]

And I've come to it over the years, I used to get a New York strip, but now it's ribeye.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what isn't? So people always joke that a steak is bleeding on the plate. That red. But that's not blood, right? What is the red stuff coming out of a steak? Oh, I don't know. Do you know that?

[Greg Warren]

I don't know. I always.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, but I heard it's not blood. You look that up, Tristan. Wish I had my laptop.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Oh, that's right.

[Aaron Weber]

I was like, I'm not gonna need one today, dude. Greg's gonna carry the episode. And here we are.

[Brian Bates]

I honestly didn't even know what some of these.

[Dusty]

That's a lot to cut. I mean, if we were Narrowed on something. The guy just all, I mean, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you talking about? Do you know the red liquid in steak is not blood, but it's a protein called myoglobin Mixed with water, it stores oxygen and muscle tissue and turns red when exposed to air, acting as a natural juice that contributes to the flavor and tenderness of the meat. All blood is removed during processing, so there's not blood in any of the cuts. Yeah, but I always thought it was literally just bleeding on the table, and we still ate it.

[Greg Warren]

I went to a restaurant with a guy one time, way back, and he ordered it like that, knocked the horns off, and it came, and it was so raw that I felt like he regretted it, but he had to eat

[Brian Bates]

it, didn't want to admit it.

[Aaron Weber]

It.

[Greg Warren]

He had to eat it. And we watched him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's okay to eat raw meat, right? Can't you.

[Greg Warren]

Raw beef.

[Dusty]

Beef, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Okay. Yeah.

[Dusty]

I don't.

[Greg Warren]

Not a lot of medium rare chickens.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever have. Yeah, yeah. Chickens are different.

[Dusty]

My brother used to do that just to make my mom freak out. My mom, she was barbecue. She, she's like, mom, how do you want, you want your chicken medium or what?

[Brian Bates]

Growing up in Lebanon, there was no steak restaurants or no nice restaurants where they're even going to ask you how you want it.

[Dusty]

Yeah, serve.

[Brian Bates]

So I was like, Like a young adult before I even had to answer that question. And I just said medium well, because that just seemed like what you say.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that's what I did.

[Brian Bates]

And for probably the first 20 years of my young adult life, that's what. And then all of a sudden, people start telling me, like, that's ridiculous. You get it rare.

[Dusty]

And I swear I'm never doing rare.

[Brian Bates]

I do medium.

[Aaron Weber]

So annoying. To shame people on how they want it. Just eat it. Who cares, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

The western sizzling doesn't give you options.

[Dusty]

So that's what we had in Lebanon, Western sizzling.

[Greg Warren]

And it's on a metal plate. It's still cooking.

[Dusty]

They had buffet in addition to the steak, right. At Western. The same as Bonanza, right?

[Greg Warren]

Yes.

[Dusty]

Get a steak, but then you got, you also got the buffet.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, gotcha.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You usually get, you know, either a steak and the salad bar or the buffet with.

[Dusty]

Man, I, I, I can't tell you how happy I was walking into a bonanza as a kid.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, that was the best.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty]

I can get it whatever I want.

[Aaron Weber]

You're saying I've never heard of Bonanza. It's just a buffet.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Like a Golden Corral type place.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Similar to Western Sizzler or Western.

[Dusty]

Like, sort of a predecessor to, like, Mr. J's.

[Greg Warren]

You ever hear Ponderosas?

[Dusty]

Ponderosas.

[Aaron Weber]

Ryan's, maybe, or somewhere like that.

[Dusty]

Yeah, Ryan's is more Golden Crown.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, that's true.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They came about later.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Get it. Get it. Right. I'm sorry. All right, so there's different types of. Of beef for the steaks as well.

[Greg Warren]

But for the record, though, just on that about sending food back, I. You never send anything.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree with.

[Greg Warren]

You never send it back if it's.

[Dusty]

What if it's.

[Greg Warren]

You just don't eat it. You just don't eat it and leave.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Because you don't know who's in the kitchen. He doesn't like the way this is cooked, huh? I'll give him some flavoring.

[Brian Bates]

I remember going with a date to some nicer. So when I was a young man, it was one of the first times I ever been to a nice restaurant and they bring out a steak, and they're like, can you cut into it to make sure it's prepared properly? I didn't even know what it was supposed to look like. And I'm. I'm so nervous just cutting it. Could have been bugs coming out of it. I was gonna say. Yeah, it looks good to me. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Looks very warm.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, thank you. They put you on the spot there with the. The cut into it. Everybody's watching that.

[Dusty]

That's a really. I don't know if I've even been to a nice steak place now that I've never had that happen.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty]

Yeah. Where they tell you to cut into it.

[Brian Bates]

That place we went in Tampa, they. The guy comes out with the display

[Aaron Weber]

dude comes out with the whole presentation.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah, he was good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he was good. He had it down.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So there's different types of beef used for the steaks. The most popular now among nice restaurants is Angus beef.

[Aaron Weber]

Angus.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. The American Angus Association. This is just the type of cow it is. Certified. Certified Angus beef, standalone brand that represents the best. Now, the best beyond that is Japanese wagu.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And that's much more expensive and something I never order.

[Dusty]

Wagu.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, you got to. Yeah. It's like you get the steaks, and then wagu is like some insane price, and you're like, I'm fine with this. I would have been fine with a western. Says on. You know what I mean?

[Dusty]

The wagyu with ragu on it.

[Aaron Weber]

The wagyu, ragu, Wagu, ragu.

[Dusty]

Yeah, that's a good one. It throws people for a loop.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Because it's sort of like.

[Greg Warren]

Kind of like the best and the worst.

[Dusty]

I don't know about the worst, but it's, you know, ragu's pretty low. Common man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

You know, type thing.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

It really.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

That's a good. I guess you'd be the ragu wagyu.

[Aaron Weber]

Wash it down with the fake, whatever.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it's ravioli with wagyu beef in the ragu sauce.

[Dusty]

I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Ragu, wagu ravioli. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So Tristan pulled up a picture of the cow.

[Dusty]

I didn't.

[Brian Bates]

I never knew beef brisket was. That's where it came from, the front.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah. Right in the chest, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Right in the pecs kind of area.

[Dusty]

Yes.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Chuck is coming from the shoulders and neck. Nothing from the head. Huh?

[Dusty]

You guys have. Well, I don't.

[Greg Warren]

Depends on where you're at. Some countries will eat a lot of.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Have you guys ever had beef head beef ribs?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

I mean, those things.

[Greg Warren]

The ribs are huge. Not a lot of meat on them, but they are very good.

[Dusty]

Yeah, they're giant.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like Flintstones type.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

They call them dino ribs.

[Greg Warren]

It's.

[Dusty]

Right. And it's that usually I haven't found a place that has them every day. Usually it's like Sundays.

[Greg Warren]

I bought some beef ribs, did them in the crock pot, you know.

[Dusty]

Oh, I bet you that was good.

[Greg Warren]

Very good.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What's an animal that you can legally eat but you won't eat that or you haven't before?

[Greg Warren]

Are there animals that are illegal to eat? Yeah, I mean, eagle. I know you can't go get.

[Dusty]

You can't eat an eagle, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Well, you talk about.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you can't get a zebra burger somewhere.

[Greg Warren]

But is it illegal, though?

[Aaron Weber]

I. I think. Yeah, I think it's illegal, though. Is it? Yeah. Oh, well, I bet.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I would think so.

[Dusty]

Eagles, that's 15 years, I bet. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You can't even. Yeah. You can't even kill an eagle, much less eat it.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right, man. 15 for killing 25.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I had kangaroo in South America.

[Dusty]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

They're called, like guanaco or something. It's like essentially their kangaroo, but it's like a. It's more of a llama looking, but it's like. I shouldn't have even said.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I haven't eaten a lot. It's their version, but, you know, like our version of a kangaroo is a deer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that is what I meant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I never thought I would eat that. I'm trying alligator recently.

[Dusty]

Alligator's good.

[Greg Warren]

I've had alligator. Yeah. I mean, you know, some of that stuff is. I feel like it's just like. I don't know the word, but, like, you go into. And it's like, oh, it's cool. Yeah. Let's eat a little snake. Let's eat shark. Let's eat frog leg.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you had rattlesnake? I have had it, yeah. Is it good?

[Brian Bates]

Tastes like chicken.

[Aaron Weber]

Squirrel. I've never had squirrel.

[Greg Warren]

I've had squirrel. I had a squirrel. I shot a squirrel and ate it.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it good?

[Brian Bates]

I'm all for that.

[Greg Warren]

Coming over, you know, it's like, yeah,

[Brian Bates]

that's car problems because of squirrels.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. In the US it is illegal to eat animals that are protected by conservation laws. So that includes sea turtles, migratory birds, whales, sea seals, and sea lions. You can't have whales or sea lion. Dogs and cats, you can't eat. And bush meat.

[Brian Bates]

Bush meat.

[Aaron Weber]

Bush meat, which comes from wild animals such as bats, monkeys, and antelope.

[Greg Warren]

Doesn't make sense that dogs and cats are like. I mean, I don't want to eat them, but I don't understand why they're protected.

[Aaron Weber]

Because we care about them.

[Greg Warren]

I don't know, but there's so many. Think if we opened it up up, the pounds wouldn't be as full. Animal shelters would get a break. I think we should start opening it up.

[Dusty]

I don't even feel comfortable with this, I think so.

[Greg Warren]

The shelters are full, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty]

I don't like that they put antelopes and bats in the same category.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. Well, those are grouped together because the CDC says they have a higher risk of communicable diseases like Ebola, so bats, monkeys, antelope, stuff like that.

[Dusty]

I didn't know antelopes were getting the same kind of.

[Greg Warren]

I feel like an antelope is like a deer.

[Dusty]

Yeah. It's getting into the same kind of trouble as a bat.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You can't eat any animal lungs. Those are banned by the usda. Shark fins, you can't. Can't eat that. Horse meat for commercial sale. So you can eat. If you kill your own horse and eat it, that's legal, but you can't sell it for other people.

[Greg Warren]

Have a horse meat restaurant, and if

[Dusty]

a guy's going around with, you know, Mr. Heads, seven horses worth of horse meat, that's for distribution. That's not for consumption.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

In 2005, this was a big day for me. The importation of wild beluga, sturgeon, caviar.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Was banned.

[Dusty]

Yeah. You were going crazy after.

[Aaron Weber]

After 90% population. I was 14.

[Dusty]

14 years old. This used to be a great country.

[Greg Warren]

How big are those eggs?

[Aaron Weber]

You think, oh, my gosh. They got to be like, you know, those orbeez things that inflate in the water? They got to be like that big Caviar. Just caviar. Just a bunch of them.

[Greg Warren]

Because we had. We would catfish and, you know, when you fillet the fish, you know, sometimes they'd have eggs in them, and that's what my dad would say. This is caviar. Some people eat this, and then we would just throw it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You ever had. Had it?

[Aaron Weber]

I've had caviar.

[Dusty]

Caviar. I don't think. Is it good?

[Greg Warren]

You like it?

[Dusty]

It's okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It's kind of like, just salty. It just kind of. It's fine.

[Dusty]

You use it as a dip.

[Aaron Weber]

I've had it on like a cracker.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Who knows if it was even the real thing?

[Greg Warren]

What kind of cracker you think? It seems like it's got to be a good cracker.

[Aaron Weber]

Ritz is the best cracker.

[Dusty]

You.

[Aaron Weber]

You won't find me a better cracker than Ritz.

[Dusty]

What about a townhouse?

[Greg Warren]

Ritz is a good cracker, but I'm. It just feels like you're having caviars.

[Dusty]

Shape thing tastes.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, there is a cracker that. Right. I think. I just think a Ritz is perfect. I just think it tastes great. It's perfect. But I think the townhouse makes. It's like half cracker, half pretzel. Have you seen those where it's like pretzel on the bottom, cracker on the top? Anybody know what I'm talking about?

[Dusty]

I mean, I, I. I feel like I know something about it.

[Brian Bates]

Valerie's on it. She's.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Get to the bottom of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Look at half cracker, half pretzel, please. Pretzel cracker hype hybrid. There it is. Townhouse, right sides. Look at that unbelievable cracker technology right there.

[Dusty]

Man, that. Yeah, that's some man. I'm gonna check that out soon, so

[Greg Warren]

that might be good to have with some caviar. Flip side.

[Dusty]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Townhouse.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. We have caviar. I brought my own crackers, please.

[Greg Warren]

Thank you.

[Dusty]

I almost feel like there's too much going on there. Just the right.

[Aaron Weber]

Just the right amount.

[Greg Warren]

It's almost like putting a lot of sauce on something. It's like.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it's like that.

[Dusty]

Like the one that's on the top left there. A chicken and a biscuit cracker.

[Brian Bates]

You don't want.

[Dusty]

You don't need anything. It's all in it. It's all there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Chicken and a bis. I remember eating three boxes of those.

[Brian Bates]

Greg, do you know the history of the Filet o fish sandwich? No. Sounds like something you would share on Bob and Tom sometime back in the day.

[Dusty]

Did a Bob and Tom report this morning. It's current. It's a current segment.

[Brian Bates]

You still do those?

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty]

Time to time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty]

Making it like it's a thing of the past.

[Brian Bates]

I honestly thought once the consumer started.

[Dusty]

You're still doing comedy.

[Brian Bates]

Gr.

[Dusty]

Acting like. Acting like my report's outdated or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Greg, you're still at it.

[Dusty]

Good for you, buddy.

[Brian Bates]

There was a McDonald. Can I share with you?

[Dusty]

Yeah, man. Got got you doing a spaghetti show here in a couple days and you're coming to me about, you know. Oh, no, What was that guy's name?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Brian walked off.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron Farris. You were right. Flay with fish. There was a McDonald's franchise in Cincinnati that was predominantly Catholic. All right, so during Lent they were not selling any hamburgers because on Fridays. On Fridays during Lent. Right. And not Ash Wednesday up until Easter. And so the franchise owner went to Ray Kroc and said, can I create this sandwich, the Filet o fish to sell on Fridays. And Croc wanted to try the hula burger. Grilled pineapple with cheese on a cold bun. He said, we'll try both and whichever one people like the most, you know, that's what we'll go with. And Filet o fish dominated and one hands down. And now 25% sounds like a rare

[Greg Warren]

bad decision on Ray Kroc. Rocks end.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Pineapple sandwich. It sounds terrible. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

25 of all FileTo fish sales occur during the 40 day period of Lynn.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy. Just on those few Fridays, where did

[Greg Warren]

the McRib come in?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Greg Warren]

Easter Sunday.

[Brian Bates]

Now I think of ham, I think of rib sandwich, fishes, meat. But I guess it's pescatarian technically.

[Dusty]

Is that right? Yeah. Well, I mean, that's basically saying fish is fish. Okay, well then pesca means fish.

[Aaron Weber]

Fish is fish.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

I think that is right, though. It's like it's not technically meat. It's. It's fish.

[Dusty]

I always thought roast beef was, you know, roast beef, but it's just roast beef. I Mean.

[Greg Warren]

Well, that's true too.

[Brian Bates]

I really didn't know what that was. I looked it up.

[Dusty]

Pescatarian beef is one who eats only fish, I believe.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, well, what is fish then? Is it, is it a meat?

[Dusty]

I mean, if you go in a lake or a pond or anywhere there's

[Greg Warren]

water, there could be something.

[Brian Bates]

I will leave again.

[Dusty]

No, I mean, this is what we're googling.

[Aaron Weber]

What is friends.

[Dusty]

Do you have any friends that thought the filet O fish was a healthy alternative? Yeah, I had a lot of friends that thought that.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it ever sold that way? Kind of. Or was it just, you think it's.

[Dusty]

I just had friends to be like, well, you know, diet. I'm going to have a. Yeah, I

[Greg Warren]

can't have this beef. I'm going to have a deep fried fish.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that and that.

[Greg Warren]

Clean, clean oil at McDonald's.

[Aaron Weber]

While technically fish is animal flesh or meat, it is often characterized separately from land animal meat like beef and pork in culinary, dietary and religious context due to its distinct nutrient profile, which is high in omega 3 fatty acids. So there's, there's some sort of chemical difference.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Enough that you can categorize them differently.

[Brian Bates]

Gotcha.

[Dusty]

Yeah, the O, by the way, that means of.

[Aaron Weber]

If you guys didn't filet. Yeah, yeah, Like o'. Clock.

[Dusty]

Yeah. No, is it o'?

[Aaron Weber]

Clock? Is of the clock.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, really?

[Dusty]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's five of the clock.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

O'Reilly's of the Riley.

[Dusty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I had a clock this weekend in my hotel room and I went in late at night and it said, it said zero. And then they had the, you know, the colon or whatever and then it said, you know, 56. So it was, you know, it was on military.

[Dusty]

Military.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, that's. Oh, there is. Oh, there is an. Oh, 50.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be 12:56am

[Dusty]

Oh, I thought they'd say that in the army.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty]

You will be up at 0500, which 5am Okay.

[Greg Warren]

I never been in the military, so that was really. Thought the clock was like really broken.

[Dusty]

You were on your way in, right?

[Aaron Weber]

What is it, 0o'?

[Greg Warren]

Clock? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Didn't you have another medical situation this weekend at a show?

[Greg Warren]

Oh, I did. I forgot about that. Yeah, in, in St. Louis towards the end of the show. And actually, you know, we talked about this how Vince Fabra said I should call for the house lights when that medical emergency happened. This time an audience member goes, can we get some house lights? I go, well, let me, let me make the call for a him. Let me. Yeah, there's 30 minutes left in the show. Let me. Let's just wrap this up.

[Aaron Weber]

30 minutes. An hour and a half. 30 minutes.

[Greg Warren]

There's three minutes. There's three minutes was left. I had two jokes.

[Dusty]

An audience member had it.

[Greg Warren]

I had a seizure in the audience.

[Aaron Weber]

Why don't you work your way up to theaters? Then you can control the lights. All right, buddy.

[Greg Warren]

That's why, you know, I'm going to take some time off to let my audience, you know, get healthy so that I can start doing shows again.

[Dusty]

I thought. Thought that you had a medical. Personally had a medical.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, no.

[Dusty]

I was like, hopefully you didn't ask Will. He would have taken into Arby's to get checked out where it takes people to get barbecue.

[Greg Warren]

But, yeah, two Saturdays in a row I've had medical emergencies. Wow. Yeah.

[Dusty]

There was something going on at the Brad Upton taping yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is a. Man, it's great.

[Aaron Weber]

Did they stop the taping or did they just keep going?

[Dusty]

We skipped.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Front row. Yeah, front row.

[Brian Bates]

Front, man.

[Greg Warren]

That's what I think. We just need to have staff ready when somebody has a medical emergency. Scoop them up, get them out of there. Let's not even interrupt the flow.

[Aaron Weber]

Figure it out in the lobby.

[Greg Warren]

Exactly.

[Dusty]

At my age, with the age of my crowd, we're gonna have to start doing.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty]

I mean, I was listening to this. You know how old your. You are. Because at Little Rock, man, I was like. I was like enjoying the music as they were coming in. And I went to Wayne, I was like, are you doing all yacht rock? Because how old I am. He goes, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

He goes, yeah.

[Dusty]

I go, it's great choice, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I request yacht rock now.

[Dusty]

I think it's a.

[Greg Warren]

It's a. I like Yach. It's.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's the right vibe for what I'm trying to do. Because so many times I go to a club and it's like. And you go, well, that's not what we need.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I said it in. When I was in Edmonton not long ago. They go, any recommendations for a type of music music? I go, they just like some yacht rock. And they're like, yacht. Yacht rock. I was like, yeah, yacht rock. Like the boat. And they're like, you know what? It was like boat music. I go, it's yacht. Like, okay, yeah. And then I had to, like, pull it.

[Greg Warren]

Jimmy Buffett, Chris type in yacht rock.

[Aaron Weber]

It's gonna be fine.

[Greg Warren]

Who's that?

[Dusty]

Yacht rock was A term, Christopher.

[Aaron Weber]

Totally. But I don't think it's a. Comedians came.

[Dusty]

There's a documentary right now.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen the whole documentary about it. Yeah. It's amazing.

[Dusty]

The part when they, they asked. They asked Donald Fagan if he wanted to be part of the yacht rock.

[Aaron Weber]

No. And I don't remember it.

[Dusty]

They go, donald Fagan, who's Steely Dan, who is. You know. You know, the guys, they go, hey. He calls him up, he goes, hey, we're doing a yacht rock documentary. Do you want to be part of it? He goes, a what documentary? He goes, yacht rock. And he had some choice words for him and hung up the wrong. Not all of them embrace the term. Term. Yeah. Making fun of their.

[Greg Warren]

Well, I've always liked that music without even knowing that's what it was called.

[Dusty]

Me too, man. Me too.

[Brian Bates]

I used to have a joke about my Uber driver always turning it. When I get in the car, he would turn it that. But I didn't know that yacht rock was such a well known term that I could use. I always say 70s light rock.

[Dusty]

Yeah. And it's got a lot of R B in it. Really is the point that these guys were making. They. They kind of stole from a lot of R and B. I remember when I would like listen to the radio station and they would be talking about how what they're not going to play. You know, on the other stations you might hear this, but on your station you're going to hear this. And I was like, I like the one from the other. Because they would always be like. It would always be the Doobies or Christopher Cross.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Toto.

[Dusty]

Or you listen to that station, you're going to hear this. I'm like, well, all right.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Like, will you, will you plug the other station at least? Plug the station.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Going to. I've gone to a church like that and other churches they're talking about. And I was like, that sounds pretty good.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Let me go over there.

[Greg Warren]

I kind of want to go to your church based on what you're saying.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You would love my church.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're probably a little too. Not conservative enough for it, but okay. Pretty strict over there. Pretty strict.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty strict. Even the men aren't allowed to wear pants. We protest. Chick Fil a cuz they're open on Wednesday nights. Those are jokes you can hear on Brian Makes a Special. Boy, I tell you, we can wrap it up. I got a special to go do, so.

[Dusty]

Yeah, you do

[Brian Bates]

this weekend?

[Greg Warren]

Well, I'll you know, I'll ask.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You know, I'm leading.

[Brian Bates]

You're right. I'm sorry.

[Greg Warren]

And so, yeah, so we'll wrap it up here. Brian's got a special to do. And.

[Dusty]

What you said meant nothing.

[Brian Bates]

There was an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer finds the old Merv Griffin set, puts in his. And he's pretends like he's hosting a show.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And he has guest on. And George comes in and Jerry said, what happened? And Kramer's like, I'll ask the questions here. And he goes, what happened? Wonder what Dusty just did.

[Greg Warren]

Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So, well, this has been a good episode.

[Aaron Weber]

About.

[Greg Warren]

I liked it. And, Brian, where are you going to be this weekend?

[Brian Bates]

Well, this Saturday, I'm going to be here at Zany's on the comedy All Star show trying out new material. Because now that I taped a special, I got to get some new stuff out there.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I'll be doing that then. April 10th, I'm in Rochester, New York, comedy at the Carlson. Two shows, both sold out.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that true?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, some people help me out, a little fundraiser.

[Greg Warren]

But whatever, it doesn't matter.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't need to say that.

[Greg Warren]

They're still coming.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, I wasn't going to say it, too. Okay, I'm sorry, but the show I really care about is April 25th in Sykeston, Missouri. I mean, I didn't mention Alfredo as well.

[Dusty]

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe. Maybe do an encore with the pancake

[Dusty]

fettuccine and spaghetti yeti.

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Dusty]

Sort of white sauce, red sauce. Deal.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I might get crazy.

[Dusty]

And once again, we're going to get some clarity on whether you can just get the pasta.

[Greg Warren]

Exactly.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that's where I'm going to be in April.

[Dusty]

Yeah, April 11th. The Galois Theater, Springfield, Missouri, where I was born. Home of the Bass Pro Shop.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the original Bass Pro Shop.

[Greg Warren]

I think I've been there to that place.

[Aaron Weber]

It's an un.

[Greg Warren]

I know I've been to Springfield, and I know I've been to the Bass Pro Shop, but I think Galoy's Theater. I. I did.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I liked it. I had a great time.

[Dusty]

Okay. Yeah, I'm. I'm excited about.

[Greg Warren]

I did a theater there. I don't know what it is.

[Dusty]

I bet it was Galore.

[Greg Warren]

I bet it was a great time.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron. Where's the boy, I tell you tour going.

[Aaron Weber]

The boy, I tell you. Door.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry.

[Greg Warren]

That's all right. I'LL let you take that one.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm here in Nashville, Zany's Comedy Club. April 17th and 18th. It's part of the Nashville Comedy Festival. Then May Salt Lake City at Wise Guys, and then over to Washington, DC, our nation's capital at DC improv job. I'm excited about all these shows. Aaron WeberComedy.com for this is Aaron, by the way. AaronWebComedy.com for all mature dates. That's my MySpace page. Check it out. Come see me on the road. We're really doing it.

[Greg Warren]

Okay. April 14th, I'll be at Zany's Nashville. May 1st, Dallas, Texas. May 2nd, Houston, Texas. So come check me.

[Dusty]

Where are you playing in Houston?

[Greg Warren]

You know, I don't know. It's a theater, but I don't know where it is. That's great. Dallas is sold out, I think, at the majority Majestic. But Houston, there is some tickets available.

[Dusty]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

So. So get some.

[Dusty]

Yeah, get out there. People that I know in Houston. Yeah, I used to live there. Go see Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Okay. Well, we had a lot of fun. It's a great episode. One of the best, and I think so. Thank you, Greg Warren, for being his first appearance.

[Brian Bates]

You passed.

[Dusty]

So I can come back here, like.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I mean, I don't want to speak for these guys, but I feel like you.

[Aaron Weber]

We don't know. You're not. It's not going to be like 15 times again like the last time, but every now and then we're not even

[Brian Bates]

gonna have 15 times.

[Greg Warren]

Well, I was just thanking Greg. I was thanking Greg for being here when you guys jumped in.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Greg Warren]

Started insulting him.

[Brian Bates]

You're right.

[Dusty]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry.

[Greg Warren]

Thank you for being here, Greg.

[Dusty]

You're welcome.

[Greg Warren]

I appreciate it.

[Dusty]

Yeah. Appreciate you.

[Greg Warren]

You're welcome back anytime.

[Dusty]

Thanks for having me on your show.

[Greg Warren]

Yes. Yes.

[Dusty]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. You got to be on one of the lucky ones that I lead. And, you know, thank you for your stuff, City. You know, I'm repping the Cardinals out here, so. All right, well, thank you very much. We're having a good time. Boy.

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