Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Dusty Slay

Episode Date: July 24, 2024

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that I've seen and worked with and thought we'd expose him to just a bigger crowd. Super cool Southern gentleman. Dusty Slay has a new special on Netflix called Workin' Man. He's very sly and clever. He's low key. He doesn't even feel like he's performing at all. Yeah. It's like he just kind of shows up.

Great writer, really funny, sweet guy. It was an interesting. Yeah, interesting chat. Little Mitch Hedberg in there. There's a lot of, like, he's got his influences and any style, he's got long hair, whereas the Chucker had a lot, any of these Southern comics or whatever they're described as, Theo,

there's a lot of them. There's a lot coming in that are great, a whole new wave and he cracks me up, he's got some good, clever stuff and he's funny to chat with. Yeah, the thing I came away with, Jesus is a really nice, earnest guy. Yeah.

That really doesn't feel show busy at all. Humble and funny. I hope you enjoy it. The opposite of me. I'm super show busy. Cocky and only marginally gross. You know I'm David Smith. All right, here's Dusty.

["Dusty"] You know I'm David's Bait. All right, here's Dusty. Now, I do think you have a crazy crew. You've got Brian Breakfast Baits. Where does that nickname come from? Do you call him Breakfast? Well, I think Breakfast is one of my favorites of his nicknames, but people call him every B word that they can think of becomes his nickname. Oh, okay. Bastard bitch.

Well, you know, it's a clean podcast, so they, oh, knucklehead was spelled with a B. Yeah. I mean, if they could get away with bastard or bitch on there, that would, it would be there. Dusty Slay, uh, Dana our listeners, is a very funny comedian. He is from Charleston, South Carolina. I saw him do a really funny set on Jimmy Fallon.

Crushed on Fallon. Crushed on Netflix. He's really crushed. He has his podcast. Ted Sarandos' home number. Oh yeah, Ted Sarandos is your buddy, right? Who is my buddy? The president of Netflix, we're just kidding.

Oh yeah, we're best friends. I mean, I'll be his friend. I mean, he's been hooking me up, but not to offend my own hometown. I lived in Charleston, South Carolina for 10 years, but I'm from a town called Opelika, Alabama. Just in case, you know, they're tuning in, I want them to know, you know, I're tuning in, I want them to know,

I've not forgotten about them. Do they have Wi-Fi? Yeah, you know, and some parts, you know, my dad actually lives outside of Opelika and he was getting internet in on an antenna for a long time. Whoa, we had an antenna on top of the house that you'd have to go up and they would turn it, my brother would turn it and then you'd yell, okay, it looks good. We're going to city. Missoula Missoula. And then, you know, the Bay area peninsula, San Carlos near San Francisco. Dana was early in Missoula, Montana.

And then San. Yes. I was. Yeah. My wife was just up in Montana visiting relatives. So we've got some kind of a country. But I love Montana. I'm a big fan of Montana.

Yeah, Western Montana in the summer, it's kind of like, okay, why would anyone ever be anywhere else? Yeah, I did a few cities. I don't know what side of Montana it was, but it was so great. But yeah, it's the winter that gets you. The 70 below, yeah, it gets your attention.

Sounds good at first and then. It's almost as big as California and it's got like 700,000 people. I mean, it's that because of the winter. Oh, they can't get people in there. The winter's brutal, yeah. Where is your accent right now within the Southern Continuum?

Is it a little combo of Alabama and North Carolina? I don't know what's happening. My wife is Canadian. So is my wife. Yeah, okay. All right. Well, there you go. I grew up in Alabama. Canada churns him out. Alabama, mostly.

And my brother-in-law was from Michigan. My sister's 11 years older than me. So he came into my life very young. My accent started to get mixed up. Then I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where all my friends were like from Ohio. And they just, and then I moved back to Nashville and I got a little Southern again.

But it's a real mixed up accent. You know, when did you add the nasal? Uh, I think, I think that's always been there. I think, uh, I got need in the throat one time when I was, I was on the wrestling team and, uh, I was talking raspy after that and I kind of think it's stuck. It's kind of good. It's very unique. It's at least, you know, you need things to stand out.

I always wondered, like when I would, yeah, I was in high school and I ran track cross country. And then you go into gym and you see the dudes wrestling. It never had any appeal for me. I would have been in the 90 pound weight class. I don't know if that's, is there something lighter than flyweight as a freshman? Well, I think the light weight class is where you want to be. You know, if you're real,

like if you're real ripped, my problem was I was in a fairly lightweight class, but the guy that I had to wrestle against was like, I mean, just shredded. Like there was no reason we were supposed to weigh the same. I didn't join because were you allowed to wrestle if you weren't gay? This is a real was no reason we were supposed to weigh the same. I didn't join because were you allowed to wrestle if you weren't gay? This is a real question. Um, no, I'm kidding. When I, when I, but I, Dana, I was in weightlifting and we'll delete that. When I was in weightlifting, which why was I weightlifting?

We don't know. I weighed 114, but it was an elective. And when I was a sophomore, I could bench 185 Dana when I was 114. No, no, you didn't. Yup. Let's keep it truthy here. I think he's got the clean podcast. We have the sometimes fibbing.

No, but I'm going to weigh in with Dusty. Do you think a 114 pound high school could honestly bench 180 pounds? I mean, I think that'd be tough. I don't really know the translation. I don't know how it works out. That seems like a lot. You're like, it sounds like more than your body weight. Well, Uber driver in Arizona, I think who said he took weight

lifting with you for real. Yeah. That's very true. That's very true. And it checks out cause I wasn't any good. I didn't really lift the weights per se. I think that was just like a suggestion, but I, uh, I was, we were in a weight lifting room the whole day and I'm like, do we actually get around to it or do I

just lay down and take a supervised nap? Listen, write a passage. How, what's the most pushups you've ever done in your life? Honest pushups. Well, I mean, I w you know, I went through a little workout phase. I mean, I would say I maybe did 40 at one point. I was really like, I mean, I went through a little workout phase. I mean, I would say I maybe did 40. At one point I was really like, I was really lifting it. I got, I was getting wild.

I got beat up one time as a drinker and then I really hit the weights after that. You know, it's funny, but you're still drunk, which makes it harder to play. That's the bummer. But you don't feel the punches. Right. Yeah. Right.

I did get punched a lot and I took it pretty well because I was pretty drunk. Yeah, my brother came home. I had three older brothers. He had 10 Heineken's. He was like 18. He'd never drank in his life. And he had pink popcorn at the fair

and threw all up over my dad's car. So then he came in and he was so drunk. My dad was just, he was sitting on the bed and he was doing left, right, left, right. I thought I was witnessing something real horrible, but my dad broke his hand on his head the first punch. Wait, they were fighting right when he came in? No, no, Mark was just drunk.

So he was just sitting on the bed in a stupor with a smile on his face. My dad was just unloading on him, who weighed about 180, but he broke his hand. And then we had to tell everybody for weeks that he bumped it on the coffee table. Well, that seems like a very tragic story that you just told me like that.

Yeah, that got very tragic, very light tragic story. Well, you know, the Carvys, we were just like the sons of Katie Elder. We were, you know, hard driving, just, you know, I mean- Fighting Carvys. It was the sixties. How was your childhood? I mean, with your, I mean, hard driving, just, you know, I mean, it was the sixties. How was your childhood? I mean, with your, I mean, was it violent like that? Or was it? No, I mean, I grew up in a trailer park and it was like, you know, there was every reason that it should have

been violent, but it was a pretty chill. I mean, you know, people were drinking around me, but they were having a good time. You're our first trailer park guest. That's fascinating. Okay. All right. Well, I appreciate it. Yeah. You know, I mean, thanks for having me. I guess that you've excluded trailer park people up until this point. So I hope I'm happy to break the barrier. Well, the cliche of trailer park is the word trailer park trash. I didn't invent it. It's become kind of a meme. So what was your experience? Like nice neighbors, kind of fun, you didn't feel you were poor, it was just cool.

I mean, I assume. Yeah. All of them bugs? Okay. All right, I answered the question. Yeah, I mean, that is it. I mean, I thought you were reading my bio. That's what I assume that cliches are often not true.

Yeah, I mean, you know, they were definitely the, you know, the cliched people in my trailer park. But yeah, I mean, we had a, you know, our trailer was a little messy. My mom dated some married men. I have sisters not related to each other, but we were all having a good time, you know? Well, wait a minute, and that's how that became your,

which I love your, I don't know, reoccurring phrase. I don't want to call it a catchphrase. We're having a good time. Mantra. Yeah. Yeah. So, people. Yeah, I like a mantra.

Just a quick plug in the middle of the interview. We're having a good time. Dusty Slade, Netflix, sitting there. Really great standup special. Thank you. Written tight, tight, funny. And you come off, you really, I think you may be the most casual guy coming out there.

I mean, there's no pretense. I mean, it's like just, you're just hanging out. It's very, I come out like a dancing monkey trying to get a laugh. And you come out so chill. It's very relaxing to watch. And then it gets just funnier and funnier. Well, yeah, you know, I started doing comedy. I started doing improv first and I was never very good at playing a character and everybody would come out. I was doing improv

with very good improvisers, but they would all come out and they will be doing a thing and they would be real silly and I always had a hard time doing that. I just, I don't know. I feel like that I, you know, it's like, I don't know. I don't want to take myself so serious that I'm just like, I'm just coming out to, I just want to tell you these things and I hope you laugh at them sort of thing. Yeah. Improv is terrifying. I like in his bio Dana says, Sleigh moved to Charleston, South Carolina and joined the hot improv comedy scene of South Carolina. Is that a big comedy? Is that in my bio?

Yeah, it's funny. I was in Charleston two days ago, dude. How about that? I've never been there. It's also in your bio that you hate wearing hats. Okay. In your bio. People just write bios.

I don't know how they end up. It's all made up. Yeah. But I should be a bio writer. Yeah you're bio. People just write bios. I don't know how they end up. It's all made up. Yeah. But I should be a bio writer. Yeah. Go ahead. I'm always looking for a bio writer, but because a bio gets written and then it just is out there. And then bio is the funniest word.

And then you, you know, I go and I do a corporate event and people are reading the bio and I'm like, oh, don't read that. Just bring me out. They introduce you. this next guy, grew up in a trailer park in Opalika, Alabama. Right, I'm like- After high school, he enlisted in the army but did not attend bootcamp due to legal issues.

What the fuck is that? Is that in my bio? I mean- That's your introduction. Yes. Well, I joined the army and in between joining and getting shipped off, I got arrested for weed and alcohol, so I couldn't go because my court date came after my ship off date. Oh, I thought it was spinal bifidone.

No, no, I got, no, that's the legal issue. I don't know why they listed it as a legal issue. Like I didn't pay my taxes. I got- We had a real Trump on our hands. Alcohol was legal, but weed was illegal, I assume, at that point. Yeah, well, I got arrested for underage consumption.

I was 19, and I had an open bottle in my car, and the policeman, he put me in the car, and then he comes back and he said, "'You're under arrest for the underage consumption of alcohol.'" And then he goes back to my car, finds the weed. And as he's putting my buddy in the car, he goes, oh, by the way, you're also under arrest for possession of marijuana.

And I'm basically like, you know, I'm trying to join the army and clean up my life, right? So you're going to arrest me and now I'm going to live in a trailer for the next two years doing worse drugs. Who is your lawyer? Kid Rock? I don't know if this is it. My brother, my brother drove through the South with a friend and he had a guy pull him over and he does a pretty, he has a pretty good ear. And it was like, I'd like you boys to step outside of the car right now. And it was kind of scary cause movies that are again, sort of stereotypical of the Southern sheriff is a little, you don't want to hear that in that accent.

Yeah. Well, I was living in Alabama and I didn't want to hear it in that accent. I didn't want to hear it in any accent though, to be honest with you. And that really must've bummed you out because you honestly were trying to clean up your life and go in the army, right? Yeah, I was, I had gone, you know, I was working at Western Sizzlin' and I was getting high all the time and this guy was telling me about how great-

Western Sizzlin'? Sorry, Western Sizzlin'? Yeah. Is that a steakhouse? Is that a restaurant? Yeah, it's a steakhouse. It just closed. The one in Opelika just closed this past Saturday.

It's a very sad day. Did they say, does the slave work there with a plaque or anything? They did not. You know, I made a joke about them on my Netflix special and about people sweating into the green beans. And I don't think... That wasn't the promo they were looking for. They close a week later.

Now, were you a waiter or a busboy or dishwasher? I was a waiter. I was the only waiter. It was all 50-year-old women and I was an 18-year-old boy working there. I am Dusty. I'd like to check out our specials. We have catfish and carp. Yeah.

And then I would get a quarter for a tip. So when the guy was like joining the army, it was great. I got to see a lot of the world. I was like, Oh yeah, I'm into that. So I went to the recruiter's office right after work and joined. Meanwhile, you're a dishwasher in the army. You got the idea. And right after work, you got took off your apron, like Norman Ray. Yeah. To a recruiter's place. Yeah. And, uh, they were like, happy to see me walk in. They were like, this is what I'm talking about. And then, you know, and then they helped me,

you know, they talked to me about getting off weed and, you know, this and that. And I start running, I start learning the military alphabet. I mean, I am all in. ABC. What's the military alphabet again? You know, like alpha, beta or whatever. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, call signs. Charlie, something.C. What's the military alphabet again? You know, like alpha, beta or whatever. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, call signs.

Charlie, something like that. Oh, that's right, Charlie one. We have, good to kill. I didn't learn it, I just, I started. Alpha rabbit hamster. Did you actually sign up or you're just sort of getting ready to be going to bootcamp? Yeah, well, I signed up and you know,

we went and did the physical and everything where they go and, you know, examine your body. Dr. shrugs his shoulders and goes, he'll do. Yeah, exactly. They, you know, they, you know, they can do weird things and, you know, they touch you and they look at your butthole and stuff like that. And then-

Okay, what's the, what's the bad part? Well, sorry, I'm too- Are we back to the policeman or was that still at the doctor? Well, not, you know, none of it was bad except for, you know, they tell you, they're like, you can't tell them you ever smoked weed or did any other drugs or you won't be able to get in. And so it's like the government teaching you to lie to the government, to work

for the government sort of. And I'm like, I don't know why we're doing this. Let's just be honest about it, you know? But my recruiter, when I get home, my recruiter goes, he goes, all right, I know, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I know you like to. It's like your agent.

Yeah, yes, exactly. He's like, I know you like to smoke weed and they're gonna drug test you when you get shipped off in 30 days. So if you wanna do it, do it tonight. And then that night I got arrested for weed. Oh my God. Yeah. Wow. So it worked out. I would have been shipped off in August of 2001. So I would have been in boot camp when September 11th happened. Oh no. Yeah. Just a more particular

time. They'lly in the military. You're going to Afghanistan tomorrow. I know. So it really worked out. I mean, you know, I was hoping to go to like, you know, I don't know, Amsterdam and Thailand and places like that. And instead I was like, yeah, I'd be in, I'd be fighting. You really would have been fighting.

I know people. Did you really, did you think that there's some scenario where you'd be fighting or was that the whole idea? No, it's like, you know, that it seems weird to even think about, but during that time, there was like a real moment of peace, at least what we were being told. You could have maybe scammed through in the middle of the four years. 1999's, pre-911. Yeah.

I was like, yeah, I'm just going to get some free college here, see a little bit of the world and I'm going to get right out of here. It's just going to be a good time for me. Yeah. You're like, they go, oh my God, Dusty, the twin towers blew up and then planes hit them right after. Yeah, but sign right here. Turn the TV off. Just turn the TV off. The towers are going out. Sign, sign, sign. Go, go, go. Mr. Slay, Mr. Slay. Yeah. And instead I was like sleeping on a couch in my room and my sister called me and she goes, hey, planes just hit the twin towers and I was like, you know, what's that? And you know, I had no idea. I had no idea anything.

She's like she you didn't know what she meant because she goes dusty 911 happened. Yeah. And you go, what does that mean? I go, is that what time it is? Yeah. She's like, well, this will be called 9-11, but today's 9-11. Yeah, she was in on it. This episode is brought to you by LEGO Fortnight.

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wherever Nashville is. I have met Kid Rock a couple of times. You have to. He's the mayor. So you're very close friends, right? Yeah, yeah. Best friends. He loans me money.

Because Kid Rock is funny because he's sort of the mayor of Nashville. He runs around and when I play Zanies, I don't know many people. I actually invited Carrie Underwood once. She was nice enough to come down. She, yeah, I don't really know her that well. She's super sweet, came down to goddamn Zany's. They were flipping out over her, of course. Kid Rock, that goddamn goat roper came down and then we went to his place. But he's one of those guys that, you know, he has such a horrible rep right now. But I, uh, I always liked the guy.

He did me a huge favor. He came blindly into the Joe dirt to do it. He did said if, and that's the best movie role he's ever had. I mean, it's unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, I, I, I, I saw it when I was in Charleston. I'm not even lying. I haven't seen it in 10 years.

It was on. And so I was just watchingeston, I'm not even lying, I haven't seen it in 10 years, it was on and so I was just watching it going, oh I don't remember this, you know, and Christopher Walken was sounding so Christopher Walken, Dan, it was so funny how crazy he did his lines, loved him. But I saw Kid Rock and I was like, God, he is good in this and people like, you should never talk to him again. And I go, well, you can't start with someone like have a good beginning of a friendship. And then the way he thinks now and talks, I just think we're all.

What is the problem with people having different opinions? I don't, I'm not aware of it. I'm just like, maybe he has a different point of view on America. Right. Well, Robbie is a great character. He goes, uh, did I get you dirt? He goes, no, he goes, no, you're not. I mean, that's like the best line ever. I mean, it's like.

He sprays me with rocks, I think twice or three times with his Trans Am. And so, you know, that Trans Am had 87 miles on it. For some reason, they got us the best newest Trans Am. Movie cars are a big deal. They just sold the main Joe Dirt car a month ago in an auction and I should have bought it, but it's too much. 300 grand or something. But the- Yeah, but it's, you know, these movies, these comedies from the 90s, they just get shinier and brighter as time goes on. Because then you look at Joe Dirt

on TV and you go, this is just really funny and so silly and I'm very happy watching it. You know? Right. Um, he pulled up in this thing to yell at me and Christopher Walken at the end of the movie and he climbs up out of the sun roof to yell at us and the stupid story day that we have this car that's like immaculate for some reason, instead of just an old Trans Am we wrote in, they brought us a great one.

I'm like, we don't need a great one. And then of course he ripped the fucking seat fabric with his shoe while he's climbing up, and then they had a conniption fit, no Kid Rock. And so they're like, oh, you damaged this perfect car. I'm like, oh my God, that was a big story that day. Of course now who cares? But then, um, cause I tried to buy that car too. We tried to get hi, my name is from Eminem for the trailer and

Kid Rock was his buddy and we couldn't get it for the price. But Eminem did come to the premiere, which is I love, cause I love Eminem. But overall we're back to Kid Rock. Kid Rock did a great job. He's fun. Every time I go to Nashville, I see him. I see him sometimes in LA, but yeah, there is that thing where people go, don't get a picture with him.

I go, just relax. I got a picture with whoever. I did the Kid Rock comedy jam at the Ryman. It was great. Last year I did it. Not this year. I didn't get a playback, but I had a hot set, but, um, no, it was good. It was great.

And I saw him at Zany's and, uh, yeah, I mean, he likes to have fun. Yeah. Yeah. If I were still drinking, I mean, it'd be a blast. I mean, I would've never made it to where I'm at in comedy if I had kept drinking. But if I were still drinking, I mean, I'd be all about a kid rock party. Could I ask you, because I'm always curious about, well, at your peak, how much were you consuming and of what type of alcohol? Well, the thing for me, for some reason, this was always in my mind and I don't know why, but I always wanted to take a sober day.

Each week I was like, I got to have one sober day. And I think that really- To prove that I'm not really a drunk. Yeah, I think so. And I think in the end that helped me, right? Because I got buddies that would stop and they go throw these weird alcohol withdrawals and have hallucinations. It didn't really happen to me. I was mainly drinking like Bud Light or I liked a Coors Heavy. That was my favorites, but I also would get into Bourbon,

you know, like the banquet beer. That's what I always called it was the Coors Heavy. Right. Yeah, pretty light. Bourbon, there was a bar in Charleston, it was on James Allen called the Oasis. And it was this real trashy bar where you could smoke cigarettes inside. And they would do buy one get two free bourbons. So we would go there and just get we would get a triple bourbon with a little little taste of Coke in there. And that's what we would drink and, uh, smoke black and miles and stuff and just really just destroy ourselves. And, uh, uh, but you know, it was a good time, you know, it was in my twenties

and then I, and then I quit by at 29. So, you know, uh, I'm able to look back and joke about it. What are you 55? Uh, 62 and What are you, 55? Yeah, 62. You look great. What are you, 70? 62 today, according to your bio. So you look back, I'm sorry, go ahead.

You look back, you're glad you did it. You look back and now, you know, the thing is is that drinking, when human beings eat a quart of ice cream or drink two, you know, every human consumption thing is kind of funny. I mean, there's a point if it's a DOI or a tragedy, it's a tragedy, but it's funny just a human being drinking so much alcohol, they're throwing up. Did you get hangovers much or were you just someone who didn't get hangovers?

Oh, I got all of the things. I would get hangovers, I would black out you know, I got all of the things, you know, I would get hangovers, I would black out sometimes I would throw up something because people say you either throw up or you black out and I would do a little of both, you know, I mean, I would set up. Yeah, you know, I've been known to have brunch, go have some, you know, champagne and orange juice. And then, as we switch into from brunch to kind of happy hour time, you move on to a bourbon and then they don't really mix. And then you go throw up and you come back and you go, all right, I'm good now.

I don't like that comeback guy. Once you throw up, just tap out, but nope, it ain't over. Yeah. I mean, I didn't do it a lot. Usually throw up would, would, you know, I would be out, but you know, sometimes you go. Put a damper on the afternoon. Yeah, you just, you know, you clean up and you come back in, you know.

I always tell people, if they ask me, like, there's nothing more dangerous than an insecure man after midnight with alcohol in his system. So did you ever have to fight? Well, I would say I was that guy. You know, I was that insecure. You were throwing punches.

Yeah, I mean, I would get into fights, but mainly it was all verbal stuff. You know, I've always been very good at talking trash, like at least as a drinker. But I'm like- Nothing to back it up. Do you remember one of your lines? Well, I say good, but I mean, you know, I was just good at like getting to the, you know, really getting to someone in a way to where they're like,

they weren't, they didn't want to do anything. They were like, I don't know if this guy can fight or not, but I'm, I would rather not. Tapped out. Yeah, you never know. That's the thing is, and you gamble that they don't want to fight you. You just want to sound cool in front of the ladies at 2 a.m.

Right, but I only got beat up one time. So I feel like for all the times I trash talk, that was pretty good. I mean, I always had a lot of buddies that were pretty good fighters or at least seemed like it, and they liked me. They liked to get wild. And so they kind of wanted a reason to fight.

And I was like that guy. It never really came to that. I last had a fist fight in seventh grade. Okay. And that was like a big thing, scary. But I wonder as an adult, when you're in a bar fight, the moment where you realize in your own mind, I'm getting beaten up right now. Like, is it sudden?

Yeah. Like I'm losing. Socks. Yeah. That must be a terrible feeling. Yeah, that moment was, my face was on the sidewalk and a guy was punching me in the face. And I was like, okay, I'm about done with this, you know?

And- You know what, that's that, when I'm getting beat up like that, I go, hey, what are we even doing here? What are we even doing? Like, once you start losing, you change your tune a little bit. Yeah, you're like, this is immature, guys.

This is so dumb. And I got up and I had a good attitude about it. I said, you know, I had this coming. And, you know, sure, we tried to find the guy, but, you know, I had this coming. I don't think I'd be a big shake hands guy after. I see people do that. I don't know if I love that. No, I don't like that either. I'm not that good of a sportsman.

No, I don't. Just walk away. Yeah. So you're 29, you quit drinking. I don't know what, tell us, I just want to hear how you became Dusty Slay, the headlining comic, you know, fighting through that battlefield emotionally.

Well, at 29- From pesticide salesman. Yeah. Well, I was selling pesticides all this time and I think that that was part of it, right? As I was like, I hated my job during the day. What? You go door to door and go ants be gone.

I would go to Lowe's and Home Depot, I was a sales rep. Oh, gotcha. So I would go to the manager and be like, hey, you know, a good spectro side display would really look good here by the front door. And then he'd go, no, we're not gonna do that. And then, so when he left, I would tear down the display that was there

and then I would build my new display. What a dick. And build that old, you just, just when he was gone, you just displace it and put your own one. Yeah. Your company must have loved you. You know, I'm so proud of that. That's what they'm proud of that. That's what they want you to do. That's what they wanted you to do.

You know, and it was all about the picture. You just had to get the picture of the display. It didn't matter what happened after. And then send it back into them and then they'd be like, wow, that's awesome. And then they put you in the bulletin and then they go, oh, Dusty Slays, getting some big wins down in Charleston.

You know. Some big W's down at the Piggly Wiggly. So you got, you got money for the first time in your life. Yeah. Yeah. So I, yeah. So I was, uh, you know, so then, you know, um, and I was also waiting tables downtown, um, Charleston. So I was like, you know, I was in with the real drinking crew, but I asked, you know, I'd started doing improv and stand up. And then at 29, 2011, I won the local comedy competition. So I won a thousand bucks.

And I was like, all right, that's how many years of doing it before you won that. I would say, I would say three, three good years and three good years of actually working on it. Yeah, that's pretty good though. Yeah. And then I quit drinking. And then, so by the time the 2012 competition came around, I won it again, but I won by like miles. I mean, I was like, I really tightened up. A year of sobriety really tightened up my comedy.

Oh, okay. If anyone listening, that's a really good life lesson right there. Yeah, it really tightened it up. And then, um, and then, so then the next two years I really worked on comedy in Charleston and then decided to move to Nashville, uh, because I wanted to basically be a road comic. You know, Nashville is one of the few, few cities you can do that day.

And where you can, you know, there's San Fran had a pretty big scene. I don't know if it's still as big, but LA, New York, right? Maybe Austin now, uh, and Nashville, I think, but does Nashville have enough clubs? Well, Nashville, uh, you know, we only have one club really, but we have two rooms now, but it wasn't, you know, and I had an inn at Zany's, which was the only club I had an inn at, uh, but I, um, uh, but it's also about the cities that are around it. There's all these cities, you know, Birmingham at three hours, Lexington, Kentucky, three hours, Louisville.

So you can drive within eight hours. There's so many cities with clubs. So I started getting in as a feature, really working the road. And so you started as a feature and obviously you're gonna headline. How long did that take? And did you have people trying to fuck with you? I mean, you know, the club scene can be pretty brutal, especially when someone's climbing up.

There's a lot of, if you hang out with the comics, you know, it's a little bit of psychological warfare. It was always okay for me because I've always just been nice to people. I mean, you know, I made enemies along the way. I mean, people start disliking me for no reason. I don't know why. Because you're good, probably. Maybe. And and, you know, I'm clean, too.

And when I would book shows, I would want other comics to be clean. And then they would try to like act like I'm trying to censor everyone. And I'm like, I just don't, I don't even need you to be that clean. I just don't need you to say the worst possible things that come to your mind. That's all I need. You're always ready for corporate gigs though, which is nice when you're clean because you don't have to do anything. Well that's yeah. I mean, that's what I'm all about is trying to create the kind of

set that no matter where I'm at I can just do it Yeah, I don't have to go. Oh, what is this? I'm doing. Let me try you know if it's too clean, then I'll have to take out weed jokes and stuff like that, but For the most part. I'm like, yeah, I just do my jokes. I think Seinfeld was like that I think is like that I think Leno Dana also Nate Nate is, uh, you know, more presently doing great, which is clean, which is just known for being clean, which is not what it used

to be, but there's a lot of people that have gotten more R rated and, uh, Jeff Foxworthy is, Oh, Foxworthy. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. You know, I'm saying that, you know, the, the Southern comedians, Ron White and Jeff and Larry the Cable Guy, Dan, those guys, those Southern comics were huge. And I'd be playing Minneapolis or something and I'm who's coming in.

And it was Jeff or somebody on a goal stream. Or the Blue Collars or Bill Engvall. Yeah. They monetized stand up in a brilliant way with marketing and books. And there's something that heritage and now we have Burt and you and others, it's kind of interesting.

Do you think about that? I mean, those Southern comics and they tour together and they all got incredibly wealthy, I believe. Oh yeah. Well, I've worked with most of them and I talked to them about it, but I don't know that that sort of thing really would work now, especially that branding.

That's why I don't try to do the blue collar branding, but I called my special working man, because my whole idea is to just, I don't know, I worked- Man of the people kind of. Yeah, I worked, just, you know, I don't know, I worked, you know. Man of the people kind of. Yeah, I worked for 15, 20 years, just doing regular jobs before I became a comic. So I'm like, you know, I can relate to people on being broke and working a job that you hate.

So that's what I'm into. And it's like, you know. Well, you're succeeding immeasurably because watching your special, which early when we got on the Zoom, Working Man was right above, We're Having a Good Time, but that's not the name of the special. Oh yeah.

It's Working Man. Yeah, you're- I'm okay with them thinking it's We're Having a Good Time though. If they search it, that's fine. And also your name's easy to search. Yes. You know, Dusty Slay. Is that your real name? Because it's a pretty cool name.

It is my real name. You know, I have a little debate with myself, right? My parents, they named me Dustin, right? And then they wrote down Dustin on the birth certificate, but never called me that. No one's ever called me that. So if my parents call me Dusty, I mean, does it make any difference

that they wrote down Dustin? That's what I always say. Who cares? It's still a subsidiary of Dustin. It happens all the time. You get a name and then someone's named Thomas and then they're Tommy or whatever. You know, it's very common. But what, yeah.

Why even call them Thomas? You know, I guess, I don't know. I guess it's some professionalism that you may want at some point in your life. I don't know. Yeah. I know someone who named their baby Ollie. No, no, Oliver. And I thought the kid's gonna just be Ollie,

just know that. Yeah. Everyone's gonna call it, hey, Ollie. And that's just different. Yeah. You know what? The only thing that caught on. Dustin, Dustin writes books.

And David, the only thing that caught on was dipshit. And I thought it would be Dave or Davey, but it kind of went south. Well, it's not a ring. They got to hate when they go that far away, that far removed. I go, let's keep it in the David row. You have one letter you started with. You just took the D. It's very lazy nicknaming.

It is a lazy nick name. That's a shame. It's a shame. It's a shame. It was lower hanging fruit. I mean, that's obvious, David. You know, it's such an easy transition. played tennis, this joke's not over. When I played tennis, I said, I want to be known as the Spade of Ace because, you know, it just writes itself. And then in the paper, they said, Pindick wins again. I'm like, I don't know. Now you're not even, you're throwing everything out the window. You can't make yourself a cool nickname. You never can make- I know, that's the problem. Spade was good enough. Just leave it.

Spade of Ace. I mean, that's a cool name. I like that. Yeah. But Dusty Slay, I mean, it is kind of, it's definitely could be an outlaw and a Western or something and it has a cool, badass vibe to it. Yeah, it worked out for me. If I want to switch from comedy and just, you know, be a serial killer or any kind of thing, the name works. Anything.

Yeah. You, that's kind of catchy. Like the BTK killer is catchy, you know, Dusty Slay, BTK. Yeah. Dusty Slay. Dusty Slay. You're compared to him a lot, I think. I don't know who BTK is, but...

He's a killer. Yeah. Okay. I don't... Serial killer. I like to make serial killer jokes. I think what does it stand for, Dana? But I don't know who BTK is, but he's a killer. Yeah. Okay. I don't serial killer. I think what does it stand for Dana, but I don't know a lot of them. Son of Sam. That's what's the most famous. Ted Bundy, son of Sam.

These are famous serial killers for 10. Bob David. Oh yeah. My Siri just pulled up BTK killer because it heard me. Oh man. I think it stands for bound torture kill. Okay. Yeah.

Serial killer. Big time killer. He seems like you, I mean, his positive things about him seem like you. He travels a lot. Maybe he was the only somebody. Yeah, I mean, you know, all things about serial killers are not bad. It's the, it's the killing part that is really the best part. The very last, last part.

They're fun on dates, they're positive. They're so quiet, they tend to themselves. They have a really nice cat. Ted Bundy was apparently very good looking, charismatic. You know, those are good qualities. It's like, just don't kill people. That's the whole key to life, really. And the name of your next special.

Yeah, don't kill people. Yeah. Don't kill people. How do you manage it? I'm just curious for a sec how you, cause you gotta invent a style. You have to do all these jokes. Like, did you start with a word processor?

You go, are you someone who taped your act? We've talked to Jim Gaffigan and others and the discipline of it, or even Nikki Glaser for the the Tom Brady roast, two months of listening and workshopping. Where are you on that? Because Nate seems they seem similar. Your acts are so tight.

Do you how do you work? How do you do that? Do you record and listen or is that painful? Well, for a long time, that's what I was doing. I recorded every set. Now I'm moving into theaters and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get a video camera set up for a long time, that's what I was doing. I recorded every set. Now I'm moving into theaters and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get a video camera set up for myself every time. But I don't know, I have a pretty good memory and I like to write a set list and I like to try

to stick to the set list. But now that I am in theaters, I get to go, I can riff a lot. Right? So I'm like, as long as I stick to this, I'm like, all right, I'm going to do my hour that they've paid for. So if I riff for an extra 20 minutes, that's okay. And then that's how I write jokes. That's scary. Yeah.

I mean, you might come up with a winner. That's true. If you're doing well, I just played this weekend. If you're doing well, I just played this weekend. If you're doing well, it's so much easier. I played a theater that had a sound problem and it was echoing. Oh no. And we're like, you can't fix this echo.

And they're like, no, they don't hear it out there. And I'm like, I don't know. And then you're doing your acting. I'm sticking, the point is I'm sticking directly to what works because I can't fuck around. You know those nights where you're like, I cannot even gamble with something over here. And then I just saw an article data, they said,

the sound was a little off at that show, unfortunately. I was like, oh my God. So it was out in the audience. Yeah. Fuck, it's such a disappointment. Sometimes for me, if I'm doing like a bad gig and my good jokes are not going well, it's almost better for me to riff because I'm like a bad gig and my good jokes are not going well, it's almost better for me

to riff because I'm like, all right, if the good jokes are bop, then well, I got nothing else. I got the good jokes and then I got these things that I've been loosely working on. And at least the ones I've been loosely working on, I don't know how they're supposed to go. So if I get mediocre laughs, I'm like, all right, that feels pretty good Cuz this is a new sure if it's a joke, I know that rushes Yeah, do you do crowd work ever? No, I don't I will mess around with the audience some if I peek cuz I get a Lot of drunk people. I'm sure we all do but if people are yelling out, I'll try to riff with them a little bit

Mainly to try to get them to be quiet, but, uh, I don't want to be mean about it. So I try to, I did the same thing. You did the go ahead. Troubadour. That's true. Troubadour in LA, uh, for the Netflix festival. And that late show was so rowdy. They were all wearing my hats. Half the audience bought my hats and we're wearing them in the crowd, but we're still yelling at me the whole time. It was so rowdy. I crowdworked so much on that show. I never do that. And I was actually

getting mad at some people. Yeah, I'm the same way. It's scary. It's hard to crowdwork. And if it goes south on you, they're just yelling. There's no back and forth. So you're, I'm just noticing this. The last guest we had on this podcast, who was quote, moving into theaters from nightclubs, which is a big deal, was Shane Gillis. Yeah. Oh yeah. He was there really starting to put him in theaters. So you must feel pretty good right now. I mean, it's kind of, it's very flattering.

I do feel great. I mean, I, you know, it's like, I've already been more successful than I ever thought that I would be. So at this point, anything's just a bonus. I'm already like, I'm like, my manager was like, what do you want to do now? And I'm like, I don't know. I've already achieved all the goals I ever hoped to achieve. So I'm good now. Let's just ride this out. Yeah, this might be it. Hey, so Dana, here's a couple. 28 minutes.

Here's a couple of his jokes that are funny. All right, let's hear, so let me hear these. Okay. Dusty Slay joke. I'm trying, he goes, he, I thought of this because I check out of hotels too. He goes, they said there's when you, he says there's a seven step process. They say to make checking out of your hotel faster. He goes, what's faster than just leaving?

He goes, when I check out of a hotel, I just leave. And he goes, I didn't even know you had to do anything. I know my friends that go, Hey, we're leaving. So do we go by the front desk, give them our keys and have a little goodbye speech? I go, I think that's over. I think people just walk away. Yeah. Yeah.

You don't have to let them know. Actually you tell them when you're going to be leaving, when you check in, you know, it's like, just expect that I'll stick to that. It's really for people who, isn't it for, I don't know if you're like this, so there are people who want to get the receipt, look at the room service chargers, double check. That's the only reason to go to the front. Oh, true.

I used to do that. Yeah. I didn't have a chocolate milk. And then he says daylight savings. No, first it starts with, I mean, you ask someone the time and they say, it's 20 to four. And you go, listen, if you don't know,

just say you don't know. 20 to four, you can't figure that one out. Well, why am I asking questions and you're giving me other problems? What do you mean? You say it's 340? 20 to four is funny. Yeah, that's like what's so specific. He goes, if you don't know the answer,

just say you don't know. And he's like, I know it's 20 to four. And he's like, all right. It's 20 to four, but I asked you what time it is. Not the steps I need to get there. Yeah. You say there's nowhere else in life you do that. Yeah, like why are we breaking everything

down into problems like that? Yeah. In one minute minute it'll be 19 minutes until four o'clock. I mean, it's yeah, should be just what's the problem. In Australia they say what time is it you go it's half thirty or something and they go what does that mean? They go it's it's half four and I go does that mean four thirty? You know, but I don't know. Yeah. Just tell me the fucking time. It's too much. It's easy to just, what time is it? It's 3.20. Oh, okay, great.

Got it. I don't want to stand here for 10 minutes. Yeah, they're like 20 past the hour. I'm like, okay, but what is the hour? What is the hour? Oh, daylight savings. And you don't even know why we do it, of course. And then you go, oh, if it's cold in the winter, oh, you cold? Well, maybe we should just get it darker

a little earlier. Yeah. It's like the coldest time of the year. They're like, let's make it, let's take the sun away from you. How about that? I was laughing. Your whole felon said, I call felonon and I said, what do you think of Dusty Slay? And he said, who is he? Does he, I said he has long hair and then he thought it was Jennifer Aniston. I was like, no. And then we just, we, we got cut off. But overall, I think he would think you were very funny on there.

He was laughing in the shadow. Well, they showed the shot over you and onto him. He's convulsing. I mean, yeah, that's always the helps. He was laughing in the shadow. Well, they showed the shot over you and onto him. Yeah. He was convulsing. I mean, he's- Yeah, that's always helps. He's always a good audience. And we have a great time. Yeah.

He's a fucking great guy. We have a great time on there. I mean, he did a great job. How many times have you been on Jimmy Fallon's show? Four times. Oh, really? So you do have at least 24 minutes of material. At least, yeah.

I did Jimmy Kimmel one time too. So let's, we can go ahead and add another, another five. So you're up to five. Do you have to go do panel? No, never. I, they were like, there was some talk that I might do panel on this last time, but then they said one of the guests went too long. So that they're going to go. There was some loose chatter. Yeah. Loose chatter.

Who was the guest? Dana Carvey. I was out there going, not gonna do it. And I was on a loop. I couldn't stop it. Not gonna do it. They're trying to unplug him. Not gonna do it.

Yeah, so your peers, your friends, I mean, that you come up with this standup, how are they doing? Or do you have friends you want to help bring on the road with you that haven't made it yet? And, you know, just that thing. Hey, Dusty's kicking it, man. You know? Well, most of the people that I started doing comedy with in Charleston have quit doing comedy.

You know, like some of them, I got a buddy that moved to New York, a couple that moved to L.A. and they're still doing it. But, you know, I have people that live here in Nashville that I do take on the road. Uh, you know, but yeah, more fun. Yeah. I love to take people with me. Uh, you never know who you're going to get paired up with. And you're like, ah, and then you got nobody to hang with.

And I don't even hang a lot. I just like to do a little comedy and then have a cigar. That's what I like to do. So I need someone that will, I need someone that'll smoke about half a cigar so I can smoke mine and then I smoke the rest of theirs and then we go to bed. That's all I want.

Then do you go to the mall in the day when you're on the road or no? Sometimes if I'm at a club attached to a mall, I might walk around in there, but the mall makes me sad. I just feel bad for people in there. I don't know what they're doing there. And I just, I don't know what it is. I walk around in there and I go,

ah, this seems like, everybody seems like they hate their lives in the mall. And I don't know why. Well, you ruined them all for me. I kind of sense a 10 minute chunk on malls being depressing maybe maybe Dusty. Yeah, well, I just feel like it's like, I was in the mall in the nineties,

and then it feels like everybody in the mall has been there since the nineties. It just feels like they're trapped. They never love, it come to me, still there from the nineties. Yeah, I do go, it's sort of the number one time killer on the road on family feud. If you're a comic, it's like number one thing you do mindlessly on the road, go to the mall. You don't buy anything. You don't, you just walk

in circles and you go, well, we did that. I think that's the sad thing about it. Yes. You're just walking around in there. You got no, you don't want to buy anything. Getting stamps. Everything you like sarcastic, there's stores in there called It's Sugar. And I'm like, I gotta, yeah. Thanks for being honest about it, but I don't need any of that. Mm-hmm. You know, and I'll eat sometimes at the food court

and I always regret it. I go, oh. Cramps. Gosh, yeah, I feel disgusted. There's one called It's Cramps. Yeah. Yeah, I don one called it's cramps. Yeah. Yeah. I don't do a lot of activity. I see people like, I'll see people on tour with Nate and then, or Bert Kreischer.

And I see all of the things that they're doing. And I'm like, Oh, that's a go kart racing. Yeah. I'm like, how do you have time? How do you have time? It might be part of the show. I think Burt, after two comics, they go-kart race around the auditorium.

Yeah, I'm like, how do you have time to sit in your room and get sad? I mean, I don't know what you do before a show. That's what I need. I need to like get, save all my energy for the show and also be like, you know, get into some mindset of why am I even doing this? Do I like this? And then go out and then I get to really kind of explode onto the stage. Yeah.

Yeah. Ray Romano would just go golf 18 holes in Vegas. Run, you know, with his friends. And I just thought, you know, it's a heat wave and they're out there and then just come in and I know in Vegas, Dana, he would do the show. We'd get done right before midnight because we had, we both go on. It's a late show. Yeah. Then we do a Q and A. Then he goes, you going in? I go, yeah, I've never been up this late since New Year's Eve. And then he goes, okay, we're going to go gamble. And I'm like, and then you're going to get up and golf and then you're going to come to the show. And I think he's older than me. I'm like, and then you're gonna get up and golf, and then you're gonna come to the show. And I think he's older than me.

I'm like, this guy's in great shape, he's killing it. That's where I got sad. I just, I don't know, to me it just comes down to like, you know, it's like, you like doing that? You like going to gamble? You like going to golf? I know, I'm jealous. I don't know, it just doesn't seem fun to me.

I like to golf, but I don't like to go out all night and feel like shit, but it's just not my thing anymore. Yeah, it's like, I don't like, I like to be in nature, but I don't, you know, golf to me, it's like kind of nature, but you're on like a real kind of like fertilized up AstroTurf kind of lawn and, uh, you know, all the animals, you know, yeah. And then you, uh, what are you doing?

You hitting the ball around, you know, I'm just not, I like, you still don't even know what golf is. You're like, and then what do you do? You just grab the stick. All golfers suck. I mean, basically every single amateur golfer is horrible and looks like a clown. Me included. So, and it's painful to swing and looks like a clown, me included. So, and it's painful to swing and miss at a golf ball.

But when you do connect and you really hit it, I guess that keeps you coming back another day or you sink one long putt. But most people say. Like Rich Nate, he's like, Dana, he gets all in a week off a while back and he was pretty good. He's really good now. And I'm like, yeah, well, Nate, I don't know if he gets all in a week off a while back and he was pretty good. He's really good now. And I'm like, yeah, well, Nate, I don't know if everyone takes all their money you have, cause you get to go take lessons at NASA or something. And then he's like, I am objectively way better than I was.

That's what money does. Nate is money. I mean, for me, I'm like, I want to buy, you know, I just bought a four-wheeler, you know, I bought a zero-turn lawnmower. That's where when I get some money, I'm like, I'm trying to buy some things to drive around. Do you have a farm or a big piece of property kind of out in Nashville or out in the country a little bit? Right outside of Tennessee, I got about 10 acres.

But I got some land in it. I got some land in Alabama. That's where my dad has a farm in Alabama. So we've got a little land there. Um, and so, you know, we can do, so I grew up kind of doing stuff like that, running four wheelers and, you know, that sort of thing, swimming in the creek and the pond and I'm more into the real country stuff. Mm hmm.

You're not faking it. Have you ever heard John Devere song? Thank God I'm a country boy. Oh yeah. Okay. Do you ever heard John Deaver's song, Thank God I'm a Country Boy? Oh yeah. Okay. Did you come up to that? Is that your walk on? I would not come up to that.

That's too cheesy to come up to. Well, I find it a good song. Jesse Slay, hang on. I'm eating some jerky and yeah. All right, before we let you go, let me see. You were on Lights Out. You did a great job with us there. Yeah.

We won two times on Lights Out. I love that show. I had a great time. I loved it too. I don't know why Dave quit. I don't know why it quit me. It was a great show. Yeah.

We had a blast on that show. Theo was on that a lot. You were on that a lot. Yeah. Oh, you're all famous. Oh, we got, you got a good luck with the, we're having a good time. We love Nate, we're just busting his balls, of course. Nate's on that with you and you have one with your...

I do the, we're having a good time podcast with my wife and then I'm on... Oh, that's what that is, right? I'm sorry, Nate Land. Nate Land podcast with Nate. That's why I was confused. I apologize, okay. I listened to the one with you and your wife. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Thank you. It's charming. Yeah, we just get on there. You know, my wife used to do comedy. We did a live podcast taping at the comedy store when we were in LA recently. Very fun. With an audience, it gives it a lot of supercharge to it.

Yeah. It's fun with the crowd. It is fun. You have a lot of fans that like wanna dress like you and do sell hats. I guess you do merchandise and they do. You have a lot of fans that like want to dress like you and do you sell hats? I guess you do merchandise and they do. I have his hat. Yeah and it looks good. I mean yeah I mean every time you wear it I'm sharing it because I'm like look how good this hat looks. Oh yeah I gotta get another one. I'll get Dana one too. Yeah I'll get you both some hats. Yeah I'd love to. Yeah I

do that. And you have a full head of hair. Yeah I mean it yeah. Yeah you have a full head of hair. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, you have a full head of hair. And then, because my brother always said, one of my brothers again, he always said, if I go bald, I'll be the guy with the hat. I'm just gonna be the guy with the hat. Solve that whole problem. You know? You should sell scrunchies.

Yeah, I like to rest the hat on, just kind of rest it on there. You don't really wear it. You just kind of rest it on. Yeah, that's the thing. It doesn't squeeze your hat on, just kind of rest it on there. You don't really wear it, you just kind of rest it on. Yeah, that's the thing, it doesn't squeeze your head. Yeah. It just kind of sits. I don't, yeah, that's why my hats look stupid.

I always like these big, stupid trucker hats, but I do like them mostly because I don't like my hair, but you have good hair, you look like kind of Shooter Jennings meets Aniston. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like I've gotten a lot of Jennifer Aniston comparisons and I don't mind it. I mean, she obviously, I'm very attractive person.

I'm sure it comes up all the time. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Dusty. You're a good dude and I'm glad you got to see Dana and we have fun talking to you. Well, I am too. I'm very honored to be here. You guys are great and I appreciate you. Well, we think you're great and it's always fun to talk to someone who's so humble about it, like you've already reached your dreams. That's my touchstone. This is how I make a living, doing comedy. Yeah. And there's all the rest of it, but this is my job. Yeah. This is so great that I get to do this podcast. I never thought I would be doing stuff

like this. It's all really great. I've watched you both on TV for many years. It's a real blessing to be here. So I appreciate it. But yeah. Thank you. I mean, this is, yeah, this is my job and this is fun to do. I mean, comedy is a blast.

Yeah. Yeah, it's fantastic. I just love your attitude and have fun out there and theaters can be fun and all the hotels. And I guess you just, the only, the end game is how many dates do you do and how do you pace yourself? Yeah.

The powers of B would love you to do 300. Oh yeah. Well, I got a good team and they seem to be okay. You know, cause I got two small kids, so they seem to be okay. They don't pressure me to be out too much. So. That's good. So you come and go and pick your spots.

Cause I wanna, you know, I love to do comedy. I love to be out here doing it, but you know, I also, you know, I like my, you know, I like my family. So you like your kids? You just find a balance. You'll be around them. Yeah. Yeah.

You like your kids. Yeah. All right. See you buddy. Really, really nice meeting you. You too. You too. Thank you. All right. See you, buddy. Really, really nice meeting you. Peace out. You too. You too. Thank you.

God bless. This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all this stuff, smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts. Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.