The Nateland Podcast - 254: #254 Commercials

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

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Music Okay, welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Nate Land podcast. Here we are. Hello folks and hey bear. There it is. I'm Dusty Slay and I'm here as always with my wonderful cohost, Brian Bates. All right. And Aaron Weber.

Where in the world is Nate Bargettsy? This is a Nate Land podcast that Nate is a part of. Oftentimes it is not a, just a fan podcast devoted to Nate. We do do a podcast with Nate and he's, uh, you know, not here today and that's okay. Because as someone in the comments once pointed out, I say this a lot, but we're all professional comedians Yeah, a guy said that in a comment. He said if I had a dime for every time dusty said we're professional comedians He said I'd have you know 80 cents 80 cents and I go I commented I go send me your Venmo

Joke him up. He never sent it. Yeah, sounds like a cash-up guy. Yeah But we're here and we're pumped about it. Recording a little early. It's Memorial Day week. That's right. We're recording a little early, so who knows what's happens. Yeah. That's true.

So I won't be able to comment on whether Vermont was fun because I, I'm sure it was, but you know, I'm not gone yet. So, but you know, is there, should I jump into this news here? Do you ever think, do you think if you died this weekend, we would play this episode? I would hope so. You want us to just play it. If you die in Vermont, I hate to get morbid right off the top, but it's one of those days.

Let's say you die horrible. Let's say you go to the world's tallest filing cabinet and falls on you. Yep. I mean, what do we do? What if champ comes out of the water, eat you? Yeah, so what do we do for this week? Just play this podcast, act like nothing happened, or do you want us to do like... You play it and you say Dusty's in heaven and stop eating pork. That's your one message to the world? I think we would record another one without, we'd keep his ad reads. Okay. Of course, we need the money.

Yeah. But we would do it without him, but we would never even acknowledge he wasn't here. I would feel like we would read Nate's date. You'd have to do a little something at the beginning. You would have to go. No. We'd say, Nate's shooting a movie, guys. That was a good intro that I did.

So I do want you to air it. Okay. I think we would say Dusty's obviously not here. We'll get to that in a minute. But first, Nate's shooting the breadwinner right now. His big Dumb Eyes tours in the city. Yeah. We got Dusty shooting the dead winner.

Because he died this weekend. And we're going to miss him. And then we'd move on. Yeah. Dusty's on his big demise tour. Demise. Yeah. Cause he's dead. Demise.

Yeah. I hope you don't die, man. Well, I hope not too. Yeah. You don't want to go to heaven? No, I do, but I have kids now, you know, so I got to stay and protect my kids. Right. Well, I had, I had a- Before kids, I could, but I have kids now, you know, so I try to stay and protect my kids. Right. Well, I had, I had a four kids. I could go on it anytime.

I had a super turbulent flight last weekend. Oh yeah. The flight where you start to like look around and everybody's looking around. Like at what point do you start to go? What's happening? Yeah. Yeah. It was that bad. It was so bad. Everybody applauded when they landed and I wasn't that upset about it. Cause it was like, it did feel good to land. What were the flight attendants doing? They couldn't get up the whole flight. They never got the clear, the clearance to get up. So.

Could you see them? I couldn't see them from where I was sitting. I did look for them. They looked fine. They were playing it cool. But I talked to, I might've mentioned this on the podcast. I talked to a Southwest flight attendant and she said about twice a year, they're legitimately scared on a flight and they still try to play it cool. Cause they know people are looking at them. Are you in an exit row on this? Oh, are you like, are you like, well, let me go ahead and get that pamphlet out. Do you start stretching?

Yeah. You started looking at the door. Can I do this? I said, yeah, but you I even know how this works? Everybody's looking at you like, uh, this is the guy that. Have to open it. The dude I had me and Lee Kimbrel sitting aisle window in the exit row. And you know, it's getting towards the end of the flight and you're like,

I might have an empty seat here. And you start celebrating a little early. I always make that mistake. Dude walks on late, big fat dude. He comes, somebody's sitting right here. I was like, golly, dude had to get up, let him sit down. It's like this guy had never been on a plane before kept putting the table down. Flight attendant had to be like, you gotta leave it up.

Taken off, pulls it down. He's watching gladiator two on his phone, vertically. He's never rotates his phone. He's watching it vertically like this the whole time. Of course, no headphones had to be told. The guy did like a million things wrong. And then I watched this guy get off the plane and he's walking, flow of traffic just stops in the middle of it. This guy lives in his own world. It was just, the guy did, it was the last guy you wanted in the middle seat. Yeah.

You know? That's how it goes too, because if you're on Southwest and you're trying to protect that middle seat, all the good people are going to pass you by. I know. And then you're going to get, you know, you're going to get the bad guy that's got nowhere else to go. I know. And then you're gonna get, you know, you're gonna get the bad guy that's got nowhere else to go. I know, smelled bad too. Yeah.

It's one of those, man, it was just watching the, well, watching a movie vertically. I don't know why that annoyed me more than anything. You wanted to say something so bad. Buddy, I go, hey buddy, if you scroll down, you can unlock and then rotate your phone through the magic of technology.

Yeah. It's gonna, you're gonna watch it. You're like, it's hard for unlock and then rotate your phone through the magic of technology. Yeah, it's gonna you're gonna watch it You're like it's hard for me to watch on your phone. You're doing it like that. I Watched a movie yesterday on the flight on my phone and I saw the guy next to me reading a book You know a couple of times I could see his head kind of look over. Yeah, of course. He's gonna that's way more interesting Yeah, I watched 21 Jump Street yesterday. So funny. It's so funny. Both of them are.

22 Jump Street is too. Yeah. Yeah, it's very funny. It was really great. I watched A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan movie. Yeah, how was it? Yeah, it was great. It was very, you know, Bob Dylan seems like a jerk. Yeah, yeah.

But very interesting. Timothy Chalamet was good in that. Yep. I like real old Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan hasn't done anything that I like in the last 40 years. Well, this was about a four year span from 61 to 65. Okay. I mean, that stuff is incredible.

Yeah. Yeah. Michael Jordan hasn't done a lot of good basketball in the last 20 years either. No, but Bob Dylan's still making albums. I know, he's still doing concerts and it's brutal. But everybody says that, I've never went to see Bob Dylan, but everybody that's gone said he just does new stuff, he won't do the classics. And in the movie, that's the issue.

Oh really? That's part of the issue is he won't do the hits. Well, he has a Nobel Prize for literature. That he didn't attend. Did he really? He skipped it. That he didn't attend. Didn't really? He skipped it. I kind of like that. Yeah. Anyway, I like, I mean, old Bob Dylan though.

I had the essential Bob Dylan and disc one of the essential Bob Dylan is really great. That's yeah, those are all his greatest hits. Yeah. It's really great. Just two has got some hits. Oh, when somebody goes, what's your favorite album for somebody? Well, the greatest hits album is really awesome.

Yeah. So it's just nonstop hits. But he has Blood on the Tracks is a really good album altogether. So just in case you're looking for a full Bob Dylan album. That's good. Yeah. Mm hmm. Uh, Desi, you want to give some Nightline news?

Yeah, he has a song. I will do it. He has a song called Idiot Wind on that song, on the album, Blood on the Tracks. And in the song, I Only Wanna Be With You by... Somebody's got it in for me. There are plenty of stories in the press. Yeah. How'd that sound? That sound just like it. Yeah, thanks. He has a whole line out of that song, a whole chunk

that is just directly in the, I only want to be with you song by Hootie and the Bowfish. Really? Yeah. So he stole it from them? I only wanted to be with you. Well, he did a unique thing where he, I think he references Bob Dylan.

So it's like, I think it's like, I shot a man in Italy and something like that or. Just to watch him die. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Nate news, the breadwinner Nate's first feature

film is filming this week. Big dumb eyes tour coming to a city near you. Check out nateland.com and then in the Nate land world, we have Gregren's new special greg warn one of our favorite comics favorite guest my favorite is new special the champ the champ is out now so go watch it we love greg naitland has a handful of great specials from aaron weber yes sir Weber, Nick Thune and Steven Rogers, plus the Nate Land podcast network. Don't forget to catch the Consumers every Tuesday.

Uh, let's see it. Do you know this one? Don't make me come back. Every Thursday. It was written out DMCBT and I don't think, yeah. And the new website is live called nateland.com. So there's a new website just devoted to the Nate land 20, June 22nd, 23rd, 24th.

You skipped something there, that arrow. Do you have an arrow pointing down from the podcast? No, you got all kinds of info on there that we don't have. You want to chime in? You want to chime in? All right, breaking news. Sorry, Dustin. Yeah, in? All right. Breaking news. Sorry, Destin. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you. Breaking news. Let's hear it. I apologize. I apologize. Breaking news. So we've got the consumers get, don't make me come back there. Of course, Nate land and launched last week.

Correct opinions with Trey Kennedy. Oh, all right. I like to think I helped with that because I did his podcast and we talked about this. I don't know if I did it. I got them on this podcast. Well, so we both helped a little bit. We'll double assist. I like Trey Kennedy.

Way to make it by yourself. Very nice guy. Yeah. Trey's great. Correct opinions every Wednesday on the Nate Land network. Really? Same day as us. Yep.

Going head to head now. There's other days in the week. I wonder why they're doing that. He's always been on Wednesdays. There's only so many though. But there's two more here that we don't have a day, Friday and Monday. Well we, maybe honors the Sabbath. Dusty, maybe you should try.

Well that's Saturday. Well, that's one of the days. Yeah, yeah. Well, not one that I named. But June 22nd, 23rdrd and 24th, we're back with season three of Nate Land presents the showcase. Yes, sir. Tickets are on sale.

If you want to be part of this taping right here in the great city of Nashville, Tennessee. Yes, also Nate Land merch drop now available at natebargottsy.com. Just click shop at the top. check out the site for new drops. And if you're coming out to a show, come find us at the merch table. Not you, not you. I'm not going to be there. You're working Nate's merch. Yeah.

This guy's just like a big fan. Hard up for cash, dude. He's going to be selling t-shirts and that shit. Our favorite comic, the comic we've devoted this podcast to. That's right. We started to, I built, this is my house. I built a little shrine in native. Just a big fan of what he does. You know what I mean? Be cool to meet him. All right. So let's get on into the comments. I say we jump right in.

Yeah. Get into it. Comments come from Twitter. Well, let me ask you this. Where were y'all this weekend? Well, I was off. I was off. Well, I was in Vermont.

Yeah. Oh yeah. And you thankfully survived. Yeah, that's right. Okay. All right. Let's talk about something we all deal with. Bad hair days.

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And nateland.com, I imagine. All right, how about that? Okay. Mo Afram. You think that's it? Afram. This guy's written in before, I think. If he had an E at the end, it would be Mo Afram. Mo Afram. Afram cabin. Yeah. With all the playful ribbing and loads of genuine laughter, you all embody the true meaning of friendship. It's a big reason I've been listening to you all

since day one, really makes me appreciate the great times with good friends, talking about nothing while enjoying the simple joy of being together. Thanks for being a bright light and a source of happiness. Well, you didn't have to read a sarcastic one. I thought that was very well written. You do. Anytime something's remotely sincere, you have a way of making it sound super sarcastic. Thanks for being a bright light. Happiness ends in an ellipses.

Happiness dot, dot, dot. It's like he had more to say. No, I appreciate Mo here, but I, what I was trying to do was read it with some, like you could put soft classical music behind that read and that would come off as very genuine. Okay. Let's do it.

Hold on. I'm going to find it real quick. Okay. I'm going to find some royalty free music. Sure it's royalty quick. Okay. I'm going to find some royalty free music. Sure it's royalty free. Yeah. I'm going to find some royalty free music. I want to see how this sounds because I want to see how it sounded in your head.

I put my own podcast on YouTube and I have some royalty free and I got flagged. Now I got it, I got it fixed, but it got flagged. Copyright free. There's public domain music right here. Okay. Here you go. With all the playful ribbon and loads of genuine laughter, you all embody the true meaning of friendship.

It's a big reason I've been listening to you all since day one. Really makes me appreciate the great times with good friends talking about nothing while enjoying the simple joy of being together. Thanks for being a bright light and source of happiness. I like that. That was good. That was good. Music changes everything. It sure does, man. Scott Nafel. Every time I fly and I fly often, I get bad anxiety. Do any of you guys get anxiety when you travel, even though you guys travel all the time?

What do you do to control it? By the way, I love flying. So it's not the flying part that I get anxious about. Well, what are you anxious about? I don't understand what, I feel like he just negated everything he said. I can't talk about necessarily what causes my anxiousness sometimes when I'm getting on a plane, but this is what I tell myself.

I go, you got to get it together. I say, you're about to get on this plane. You like to get anxious. I said, there ain't going to be no escape for you, but get it together. That's right. Well, I think Scott, you're right, Aaron. I think Scott's living a lie here. Yeah.

He gets bad anxiety every time he flies, but he's like, it's not the flying. Well, it sounds like it is. Every time I fly, I get bad anxiety. I love flying, so it's not the flying part that I'm anxious about. Well, then what are you, I feel like you're missing something. You're trafficking something, I think.

He's nervous about what he's got in his bag. You've got contraband on you, Scott, and I get it. But I do think that that method of just telling yourself, get it together. Can I tell you something? I got my tags renewed. I made it 13 months. Got my tags renewed on my car.

Had to buy both years, you know, the year that I did and I had to do both of them. And for the first time in over a year, I'm completely illegal. My license is renewed. My tags are up to date. I miss the rush. Do you get that real ID? I got the real ID. I don't have real ID.

I've been traveling with my passport now. I want, I tried to make an appointment and the earliest appointment I could find is August 11th. You don't got to do an appointment. Go to, go to, go to the Lebanon DMV, go to outside of Nashville, and just show up, put your name on the list. You can go to your car, they text you when you're ready. It takes two seconds.

Don't bother with the appointment. You got to get outside of Davidson County. Somehow I'm against the real ID, but I'm also like, I'm not in for the fight because we already lost. Yeah. You're just giving into the man, Dusty. Yeah.

Well, we've already lost. Like people, I watch all these people that are refusing to take, have the picture taken of them. And I used to, you know, I pre-checked, so I go through and I don't have to go through the weird X-ray machine, which I do hate. And then you can refuse that if you get randomly selected, you can refuse, but they really make it hard to refuse. So I just, I just have given in.

I'm like, we already lost. I'm not, who am I fighting this battle for? You know, if I flew once a year, maybe, but I'm flying every weekend, sometimes multiple times a weekend. Right, right. So you still do clear? I still have clear, but I, most places it's not worth it.

I mean, Nashville, it's, you know, the only thing clear gets you is skipping around that long corral they make you walk through. Yeah, but I'm, I grew there and I was in line of the day. It was my turn to go up and then they stopped, somebody stops me like, hang on. And I thought, oh, it's somebody important. The pilot or something.

It's just a guy with clear. That's some dork in a vest escorting this person. Well, that's the thing. You know, you pay a little extra money, you get a little extra perk. It's I don't, I'm not into it though. I, I, I, I'll be honest with you. I'm not into it. I was walking past them.

Guy goes, you want to sign up for clear? I go, no. He goes, may I ask why not? I go, I object to your whole business. And he was like, okay. He's like, I'm not trying to get into it. This guy he's like, do you know Dusty Slay? Okay.

Richard Phillips. I met Aaron briefly at the Atlanta airport. I listened to the podcast, but didn't realize how much weight he has lost. He looks downright skinny as expected. One of the nicest guys. Huge fan. How old is this comment? This came from a while ago. This was from wait, oh 1994.

That was three. That's very nice of Richard. No, that was from like two weeks ago. That's nice to say. Aaron is skinny. People say, oh, you're being mean with a fat joke. No, he's not fat. No, well, thank you. I'm technically morbidly obese would be the technical term, but it's very nice of you to say, thank you, Richard.

It's good to meet you. That is very nice. People are very nice with the air. People come and say hi at the airport. It's nice. Braden Meadows. I got married last Saturday. Took my honeymoon honeymoon in Panama city beach.

There you go. Good. That started right. Yeah. On our way to our condo, we passed the Fontaine blue. I had to explain to my wife why I started laughing on our way back home. We listened to the new episode and dusty quickly became her favorite. What? Thanks for the laughs.

Well, Brayden sounds like you got a good woman. Brayden sounds like she makes some bad decisions. Sounds like you got a good- You and Dusty. You got yourself a good woman and the Fontainebleau will always be a- Special place. Special place for me. Yeah.

That's cool, man. Yeah. That's where my dad met his wife. Which one? This current one. Yeah. That's where my dad met his wife. Which one? His current one. Okay. I've been making a lot of jokes about my dad recently and I feel like I went out to LA

and I did that stand up on the spot. And I did a couple, I think I already talked about this, but I did a couple of jokes and I'm like, and then they clip those up and I'm like, oh. Has your dad seen them yet? Yeah, probably. My dad watches them. You haven't talked to him about it? No. Okay. But you know, it is what it is. I got more jokes about my dad that I'm doing and I'm doing a show in Auburn and I don't know what I'm going to

do. I got the same, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. I got the same problem though. I got a show coming up my mom's coming too. Wow. And I'm like, I got some jokes that I think might embarrass her a little bit. Yeah. But they're some of my best jokes. So it's either her or me. Yeah. And then you just remind her, you go, remember that auction that we did? I was pretty embarrassed then. Yeah.

And I still sat with you. Bob's automotive. Looking forward to bifocal baits. When he does bring them, I want to see Nate put them on and roast baits for them. After the roasting, Nate will say they actually help his vision though. Bob's Automotive is very funny. A few weeks ago, we were talking about names for comments and I said, you know, as long as it's a real person, I'm not going to do like Bob's automotive and you were like, Oh, I'd love to hear from Bob's automotive. And this person, Wow, that's fun.

Yeah. This comment is confusing because everybody calls you a B something. So he's called you bifocal baits, but then he gets into it as if you really are bringing bifocals. Well, I said last, I guess it would be two weeks ago now on the podcast, I'm getting glasses and you guys kind of glossed over it, but I just got a email, I mean a text from my

optometrist office saying their glasses are in, come by. What kind of frames are you looking for? I've already picked them out. What do they look like? How would you describe them for the listeners? Thin, I don't know how to describe them. Thin glasses. The frame of it is thin?

No, I think it's great. Cause I'm very insecure about it. So when you go thin glasses, that makes me think I messed up. Now I was just confused at what you meant. The frames like they're not big thick. Um, are they like red? What color do you like? Uh, black, brown, like, uh, do you? They're like, uh. Black, brown.

Like a. Do you know the colors? Are you colored? Is this what the glasses are going to help? The colors? I think they're like gray. Break out a color wheel. Gray, okay.

Okay. What'd you say? Break out a color wheel. That's exciting. You're going to be wearing those on the pod. Maybe, maybe we'll see. Next week. Maybe.

You're going to have them. Glasses are kind of my thing though. Oh yeah. I should have known you wouldn't want me to get them. I'm growing my hair out. Only Dusty can wear glasses. Yeah. We're all just going to become the same person. Singularity.

Aaron Thum, for my 30th birthday, my girlfriend surprised me with tickets for us and my parents to Nate and Peoria. What an incredible birthday surprise that my favorite member of the band, Aaron Weber, was on the show as well. That's what I'm talking about. The next day, my parents watched Signature Dish because they enjoyed Aaron's set so much. Thank you, Nate Land, for making my dreaded birthday a lot better.

Well, thank you, Aaron. Aaron's got to stick together. Why was this a dreaded birthday? 30th. He's turning 30. But his 30s not as scary as one is. I think he liked his 20s. Now, my life got better, exponentially better in my 30s. Me too. Than my 20s. Yeah. I think you're going to like your 30s. And my 20s. Me too. Than my 20s. Yeah, I think you're gonna like your 30s.

And my 20s were a blast. Yeah, well there's a difference, we've talked about it before, there's a difference between happiness and fun. Yeah, that's true. You know what I mean? Yeah. You're happier now. Because I'm much happier, but I don't have a lot of fun.

That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's the difference. You get your fun out of the way in the 20s, and then 30, you find meaning. I wonder if he likes you the best because he's close to your age. Cause probably that I just don't understand why you would be his favorite.

It doesn't make sense. We have the same name. Yeah, I guess. Aaron Thumb. Is it thumb you think? I said, nah. I think thumb too, but thumb is fun. Yeah. Aaron's thumb.

Aaron Thumb. What if he has bad thumbs? Yeah, dude, that'd be tough. Dottie Mack went to the comedy catch in Chattanooga this weekend and the night started with a 50 year anniversary video featuring Aaron and Dusty. How about that? Well, I thought I, first of all, I think it's 40 year anniversary, but I thought I was in it. People have told me they've seen me in it but maybe Dottie just skipped over me. Dottie I think you probably went to see Steve Byrne and my

friend Vince Fabra featured for Steve Byrne. I think you're right. I think she added that part. Yeah and that was very exciting. Mm-hmm. Steve is great. Vince is great. I don't know who the host was, but I'm sure they were great. Yep. Maybe it was Eric Lonez. Might be Eric Lonez. Yeah.

I hope it was Eric Lonez. Eric's my friend. Eric, I like Eric. Letty Wadford. Hold on guys. Yeah. Get it going. Around 2006, my mom and I took a trip to Charleston.

We went to a wonderful restaurant and had a delightful waiter who was so nice and kind to my mom and me. He brought boiled peanuts as an appetizer to the table. As a fan of boiled peanuts, I thought that was the best. I remember the food was good, but the service was amazing. I'd like to think that we were at Hymen's and Dusty was our waiter. Wow. Well, Letty, I appreciate that because I don't know where you went. Oh, oh. Were you there in 2006? I was there in 2006 and I was working at Hymen's. Okay. And I was a good server. Did you serve bold peanuts? Bold peanuts to every table. Okay. And I, as far as I know,

I think we're the only restaurant in Charleston that was doing that. I looked much different in 2006 and it's likely that I was hung over, but I was still very good at my job. Right. Right. Well, let me write us back and see if, did he eat food off your plate or off your boyfriend's plate? If you, if you're attractive, Oh, he shoes with her mom. Okay. Yeah. So, so I probably ate off both after they were done with it. Yeah. You know, one time I, we used to serve a sesame seared tuna and it had a lot of sesame seeds on it. Yeah. And we, and that tuna would often be overcooked because you want tuna very

rare, but you know, it would, it would come up and then they would put it onto the heat lamp and if the food runner didn't get it fast enough, the lamp would actually continue to cook it. Right. So this guy ordered this, uh, tuna and he said, this is way overcooked. So I go, I'll get you another one. Don't worry about it. And then I take his tuna that's not eaten and I take it to the back and I start eating it.

I just tear it up. And then the new tuna arrives pretty quickly and I go out and I just check, I go, how's it look? He goes, looks great. I'm smiling. I'm happy. I go back, look in the mirror and I have sesame seeds all in my teeth. So we both got fed and I told him I appreciated it. Yeah. That's funny.

Thank you, Letty. That was a very nice email and I bet I was your server. You know, now they have my name on the table. Yeah, we talked about that. That's really cool. Brian Paris. Paris. Paris. Brian Paris? No, it's Paris. It's too large. Not bad. As professionals, do you have a higher bar when listening to other comedians or can you appreciate it all? I'll let you guys take this, cause I hate it all.

I think we're probably much more, I don't want to say judgmental, but yeah. I mean, we probably graded a little bit because we've heard so many sets. If someone has a hacky premise, the average person who goes to a comedy club once a year is not going to know that, but we're going to know that. Right. There are certain jokes that people can do that work for almost any audience, and then

it crushes. But when we're watching it, we go, we've seen that joke a million times. But you can't, you almost can't blame the person. No, you can't. Because it's getting a laugh. It's working. So the audience is happy. So that's really all that matters.

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

But somebody's just murdering, you're like, all right, respect. You know, I, here's an example. I worked with a comic magician named Eric Eaton, right? Yeah. And I had interacted with Eric a little bit, but I had never seen a set. And we talked a little bit online. I'm just, I always say to myself that I'm not, and I know Nate's dad does it too, but I always say I'm not into this comedy magic stuff. But he let me do a guest spot on his show.

And then I sat and I watched his whole show, which I don't think I've watched a comedian's whole set in years. And I loved it. It was so funny. And he was, you know, he's being fun with the crowd. He was, you know, he was- Spells.

He was a little, now I know, it was all kind of just fun magic, right? And he was roasting the crowd a little bit at times, but it was all nice, all in good fun. And I really liked it. So it just, I don't know, it just got to hit me the right way. There are comics I like that Aaron doesn't like, but it doesn't mean that they're not funny.

It is, comedy is subjective. Every now and then, it's like you start to appreciate things that are just different. You know, I saw Ornie Adams in Austin. I watched like 30 minutes of his show. Yeah. It was so much fun Yeah, he's very cuz he's just so different from any anybody else I've ever seen So yeah, once you just like anything you see a lot of stuff you just yeah, we start to Who's some comics that you don't care for? At this table or just in general Either I

Was joking I know I. I was joking. I know. I know. I was trying to think if I could cover the funny answer. No, there are things- Like myself sometimes. Well, people get into politics or social commentary. I usually tune out pretty quick.

I'm just not into it. I don't want to hear another take. I'm not into it. People can make a light joke and it'd be fun, but I don't want you, if people are like, if they, I've seen comics go, they do some political joke and it bombs and they go too real for you. It's just like, nah, nah, just not funny enough. Yeah. Uh, Cindy Tully, that's a, I have a cousin named Cindy Tully. Could be her. Cindy Tully. Can I just say that it bothers me how Aaron can continuously pat his stack of papers on the tabletop multiple times, but the edges of the

papers never go into order and line up together. How is that even possible? I don't know Cindy, because I can do it. And look at that crisp. You don't even know this is multiple sheets of paper here. Uh, I don't know, Cindy, it bothers us all. Yeah. We talk about it and he's just always, he's like the John Stewart in here stacking his papers.

Cindy, I think you might, I think you should just listen to this. You know what I mean? We tell a lot of people, you go to YouTube, you're missing out on a lot, but I think Cindy, I think you might, I think you should just listen to this. You know what I mean? You tell a lot of people, you go to YouTube, you're missing out on a lot, but I think you're, I think you should just listen on, you know, just audio. Oh, you just mean listen to the book. Yeah. Just listen to what you're saying.

Stop watching it. Cause then she won't know that you never get them straight. She'll still hear you stack at them. She'll assume at that point that you're getting them right. I also disagree. I just got them straight just now. I can do it. Yeah. I have dexterity in my name.

In your face, Cindy. Cindy, I got to agree with you though. Yeah. Why? It's the first time he's ever got them straight. Yeah, I think so. That's often what I think. He stacks it sometimes when he just has one piece of paper. The fancy farm girl. I like that. Who are these people out here dogging on Dusty? That's what I'm saying. I feel like every Wednesday I tell my husband, Dusty brought up that thing I was telling

you about the other day. Thanks, Dusty, for representing the people with questions out here. Listen, Fancy Farm Girl, I get what you're saying. I mean, Brian and Aaron, sometimes I don't even think they open their apps to see what's going on in the world. And, uh, I present them with a new idea and they just stuff it down. They just, I'm like, I'm just trying to open up the world to everybody. And they just close it down for yourself and they shut it down. It's our college education that they train us to shut. Well, yeah, they've turned opinions down. They've indoctrinated you and, uh, and you guys are clouded by it for life now.

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

I mean, I'm like, it made me laugh and I want it to make you laugh. Well, sometimes you'll share something and it makes me laugh. And I think part of the reason I'm laughing is because it made you laugh. And I could just think about it. You shared one, this has been a while,

but I thought it was so funny. It was just a montage of honking the horn right when someone's about to do their golf swing. Yeah. And then they just lay, and then they would get so mad. Yeah. And you shared that and I laughed and I play golf, but. The thing I liked about that one is that

I agree with the men being honked at. Where I'm like, I'm mad about it too. I don't even golf, but I'm like, that'm mad about it too. I don't even golf, but I'm like, that's annoying to me. And I just love how mad those guys got. Oh, I figured you were with the honkers. No, no. I, the honk, I, I like, I like a little bit of both. Yeah. But you know, I, the one that I shared that I find the most funny is there's a lady who was in like some local, um, what do you call it? Like a town hall kind of local town hall.

And they were, they were like, we're here for 50th street. She lit, she's like, I live on 60th street. And he's like, okay, well, this is about 50th street. She goes, I, I hate Facebook. I don't like social media. I can't find a job. Does that make any sense to you? And the guy's like, man, this is about stuff here on 50th street.

Yeah. And I just love it. We're all struggling out here. And the lady's like, I'm about to get hurt. This is the video I've been watching nonstop. I watched this, these two ladies man, even among twins, it was a good stuff, dude. What'd you like to see these two ladies at a gas station? Yeah.

I don't appreciate the snacks they have, but I like everything else going on. I don't know what they're twins. I don't know. I know they're twins, but I'm saying even for twins, they are right there in the store. Yeah. Why not? They grabbed the whole box. You see those Australian lady twins that are like completing each other's, uh, they like witnessed a crime and they're like completing each other and they're telling

the story and they're like echoing each other as they're telling it. And they're like. Completing each other. And they're telling the story and they're like echoing each other. Yeah. As they're telling it. I don't like that. It's pretty wild. I guess it corroborates if they were telling totally different stories.

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

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Nice. Breaking Baits needs to start his own podcast where he just sings or nose whistles old commercial jingles, kids songs, and classic TV theme songs. He would, however, need some co-hosts that actually recognize and appreciate the iconic tunes. Oh, we found the oldest man in the comments section. Well, he didn't say that he would even understand. He just might want me to do it for others.

Well, thank you, Tim. I appreciate that. That's a good segue into our topic today. Commercials. I've been doing impressions, by the way. In your act? Yep. Can I hear one?

Wow. No, I mean, we get, it started right here. Okay. And like, you know, I do impressions now. Everyone knows it and I'll say, throw out some and they'll throw out and I'll do it. Can we do another round? Just like a real rapid fire, just quick round?

If you want, I'm good at it. Who's he got? Hank Williams, Jr. Let me think. The preacher man said it's the end of time. Yeah, very good. I'm trying to country boy can survive. Yeah, that's very good.

Thank you. Trump, Hank would be do, do Trump and then we'll Trump, uh, China. Very good. You're a natural. I don't know. I agree. I don't know how you've not been doing these your whole life.

I agree. I agree. People kept asking me this week to do Nate. Yeah. What'd you do? Nate is tough to do an impression of. I'd go, um, uh. So.

Yeah, something like that. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Yeah. Morgan Freeman. I've spent a lot of nights in the hole. No, not in the hole. What does he say? What it he says? What is it he says? Nah, that's a good one. I like that one. I spent a water night. It's not a bad quote to do. It's just-

Let's clip that out. I've got a lot of bad lights in the hole. That's your Morgan Freeman? I thought I'd nailed it. You did nail it. What is it he says? It's not in the hole, is it? He's in multiple movies. I'm talking about Shawshank. I remember my first night in the hole. I'm talking about the night where Andy he's waiting for it. It was like a long time ago.

You guys are natural. Well, I am at least a tall drink of water. All right. Um, and to do frame, I guess I just miss my friend. Some birds aren't meant to be killed. You know, I've said before that I've cast us all for Shosha. Yeah. You're Andy. Yeah. You're Morgan Freeman Redd.

Yeah. Okay. Nate's the warden. Yeah. And I'm Brooks. Yeah. Okay. Nate's the warden. Yeah. And I'm Brooks. Yeah. All right. Today we're talking about commercials. Let me ask you guys this. When's the last time you've actually bought something you think based off a commercial? I buy Fire, the, I go to Cracker Barrel all the time now. Well, yeah.

What was the last time you were in a commercial? I was going to make the same joke. And then decided. I was going to say, we were at Cracker Barrel debating this. And yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Uh, that's one of the great fun things in life. It was being in, you know, time of your life where you're free enough.

You see a commercial about something and you go, I gotta go get it. Just don't even know when that was. And you get in the car and go and get it. It depends on what you mean by commercial. If you mean a YouTube or a TikTok ad, um, two or three times a week, I'll buy something off TikTok. Oh, okay. Then the TikTok shop.

Yeah. Like what? I bought a little, uh, I don't know, a compass, a water filtration system, a, we're getting different ads, a bug out bag. You know, what about your survival shovel? Remember that was on a tech talk ad. Yeah. I think, well, that might've been before the tick top shop, but I, it was an ad.

Yeah. And they got me. So you buy survival survival. I all kind of, sometimes stuff comes out. I don't even know what it is. I got stuff in my car because I tick tock, I sent to the post office box. So I'll go pick, check my post. I was like, what is this stays in my car? But at the time it seemed like it was a, it was a must have. Uh huh. Okay. What about your?

Oh, I think it was, I mean, I think I remember just years ago, but I remember seeing a Zaxby's TV commercial when I was living with some buddies from high school and I was like, that looks so good. I could go for that right now. My buddy's like, let's go. Got in the car, drove to Zaxby's. I think that's the only thing. That's great. Yeah. I'll occasionally see a food commercial. I'm like that looks so good I'm hungry right now. Yeah, and the next time I say I don't go out the next time I see that restaurant passing

I'm like, I'm just gonna go there. Mm-hmm. It never looks as good as it does commercial You ever been fool and you see a TV commercial and you're like everything looks disgusting. Yes Sometimes though on a commercial the food looks bad and you're like, this is, this was your chance to showcase it. Yeah. Most of the time it looks way better than it does in real life. So commercials, big Texas. Big Texas! I've never seen anybody go for a Big Texas cinnamon roll. Oh, is that what that is?

That's a Big Texas cinnamon roll, yeah. The commercials have evolved a little bit over time. Well, one, I think I sent you this. It used to be cigarettes could just advertise on TV It hasn't been since 1971 that they finally realized cigarettes are bad for you. So they stopped doing ads but It's when they admitted they they were bad. Yeah, and I think we've showed this before because we did a Advertising episode years ago, but I sent you some links. There was a cigarette commercial where the Flintstones,

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

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

that they would never do that. Not now. But you know, Andy's just lighten one up out there. It was different then. Yeah. It's like a character trait. Now, like a lot of Aaron Sorkin's characters, like the hero will smoke cigarettes. Yeah. Just to let you know they're a little complicated. They have some demons. Well, I think we're gonna do a tobacco episode here pretty soon. I've already done some research and we can talk about some

cool TV characters. Okay. I was, again, I was watching the Complete Unknown. That movie, Bob Dylan's never had, did not have a cigarette in his hand, which is probably true. Probably. But I mean, it was just one right after the other. But TV ads used to be 60 seconds. Even I don't remember that. 60 seconds.

What are they now, 15 if you're lucky? Yeah. So then most of my life, it's been 30, but now 15 is more prevalent than even 30 because people's attention span just keeps getting. What were yours, 15 seconds? 15 seconds, my dad, I talked to my dad the other day, he goes, ah, you gotta do a longer one.

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

That is such, that's such a dad comment. Yeah. Mm hmm. Do a longer one. Um, but now let them know. Yeah. Yeah. Some Superbowl commercials, uh, you know, I think the night of they might be a

minute and then the next time you see them on TV the next day they're shortened down. Condense it down. Condense a lot. Like Nate's I guess. Oh yeah, the Door Dash. It's a Door Dash one. Yep.

Yep. All right. Do y'all have a commercial as a kid or something that stood out to you? A favorite commercial? There have been a lot of really good ones dude. I remember Goot one. That's what people say when they can't think of one. What do you mean? I was about to get into one, dude. I remember goo. That's what people say when they can't think of one. What do you mean? I was about to get into one.

I'm sorry. You're like, where do I get started? So many. Like I was thinking of the answer. Which ones aren't good. But I was going to lead into it. So seamlessly the people would have known. Okay.

I was thinking about it as I said that. Gotcha. And I'm still doing it right now. Okay. But probably my favorite out of all the very many favorites that I've had, and it's been such a journey, just getting to watch all these commercials. I would say if you put a gun to my head, let's say you put a gun to my head and said, Aaron, what's your favorite commercial of all time?

I would say, listen, there's so many good. It's hard to narrow it down. It is. Google Chrome had a commercial, um, years ago, and it was about, uh, a single father and his daughter, and it was all about their communication together over Google chat. And it's, it's a tearjerker. You'll cry at the end of it. It's, it's a, it's just like a super cut of, you know, them talking to each other

and, and she's going off to college and she's hitting them up and it's, it'll make you cry. And then you look at the logo and you're like, oh, that's 666. Google? Yeah. The Google Chrome logo. Cause I don't, that's 666. Google? Yeah, the Google Chrome logo. Hold on. Because I don't remember that from the commercial.

You're saying that's the 666? It looks like a circle divided into, you know, three things. Oh, I see it, Destin. That's such a reach. Why would Google, why would they put 666? That's such a reach. Why would Google? Why would they put 666? That's the question.

Yeah, why would they? Is it a reach, Aaron? I think it's pretty obvious. Yeah, this demonic browser. Dest, do you have a favorite commercial? I don't think so. I mean, I'm sure that I... This is gonna be a short episode. No, I'm sure I've had some, but it just doesn't stick out of my mind. Cracker Barrel right now in my mind. Cracker

barrel right now. Yeah, obviously. Cracker barrel is the best commercial on TV currently. I like Matthew McConaughey driving in a Lincoln town car. I mean, I think he's cool. There's that one where they do the Paul Harvey, if I were the devil or maybe they didn't do that. Where they did the farmer one. The farmer one is very good. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, to me right now and, uh, uh, you see, you don't watch commercials, anything flows in or the other girl that does AT&T, Lily. You haven't seen, I haven't seen Lily Lacey.

She's a stand up comedian. that does AT&T, Lilly. Mm-hmm. You haven't seen, I haven't seen Lilly lately. Yeah. Yeah, those are good. Yeah. She's a stand-up comedian. Is she? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I saw her here one night at Zany's. Oh yeah?

Were you on the show? No, I was just here hanging out. You didn't tell me? Cheap me a text. I mean, this might have been before you even moved to Nashville. Oh, okay. She was... Do you follow her online?

No, I didn't know she was a stand-up comer. There's a lot of pages just dedicated to AT&T. AT&T girl. Yeah. I have AT&T. I would say right now... There's your end right there. Do a commercial for AT&T? How are you? I have a, you know, I have a D and D, right? I have a phone service and fiber. Well, you know, she does, uh, how many times have you done after midnight? Uh, one time. Okay. She does, she does that. So maybe I'll be on the same episode. That show just got, uh, taken off the air. It did. Yeah. Did it. Oh, I didn't know that. I got renewed and then she stepped down from doing the show. I had no Yeah. Did it? Oh, I didn't know that. You got renewed and then she stepped down

from doing the show. Oh, I had no idea. So it's over. Until somebody else takes it over. Would you do that show? Yeah, I'll take it over. Okay. Tone of it's gonna change a little bit.

Yeah. That's a Way after midnight. It's gonna be. That's me. It's the only way the FCC will allow it. After 2 a.m. with Dusty Slay. Yeah. Anyway, to me, the funniest ads going today and I'm referencing the last last week's episode is those

progressive commercials where you can't make you not come more like your those are very funny. They're very you you said it it makes you- No, I do think they're funny. I like them, but I do think it steers people away from just being polite and having conversation out in public. I don't think people's behavior are that dictated by progressive commercial. And I think the guy who's the director- Art shapes the culture.

You think that's art, a progressive commercial? Yeah. Okay. You know what? Now that you've said that though, I think my favorite, uh, commercial chain is the mayhem man. The mayhem all state. Yeah. The insurance industry.

I have a whole thing here. Dominating. I love the commercials. The mayhem. What is up with that? It's really great. Why is that it's beer and insurance? Well, they have a ton of money because they were just giving them money.

For nothing. For nothing. For nothing. Yeah. I read a tweet somewhere was like, my favorite thing about having health insurance is that you pay a whole lot of money and then you get hurt and go to the hospital and have to pay a whole lot more.

Yeah. Yeah. But you're right. The Geico Gecko. Oh yeah. They all, so easy a caveman could do it. Caveman, yeah. The first time that aired,

I was in a restaurant in Charleston watching, and the first one where he said, it's so easy a caveman can do it, and then a caveman's holding the light, and he's like, come on, dude, I'm right here. That really made me laugh. Well, the Geico Gecko was a cultural phenomenon. Yeah. I mean, that guy was everywhere. I think there was a TV show about him. I think so very short-lived

It became a thing beef jerky with Sasquatch. Let me let me go through the insurance What's it with Sasquatch, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah just remember it commercial yeah, well, that's your favorites, but now move You're just remembering commercials. Well, I asked your favorites, but now I'm going to move on to- Why that? All right. But as, as we start to, the mine's starting to open. Okay. Yeah.

Dusty's mine's finally starting to open. Dusty's in. Yeah. That's how they get you. It's that Google Chrome logo got them going. All right. Anyway, yes. The caveman, the Geico Geco started in 1999.

He's been around for a while. Yeah. 15 minutes could save you 15% more in your car insurance. Everybody knows that line now. Flo from Progressive. She's appeared in more commercials than any actor. And then her little sidekick that kind of looks like you. Yeah. Good looking dude. Well, he is. He's in shape. Why can I not find how many commercials she's been in?

How would you, if you're trying to find that guy, how would you Google it? Oh, progressive. Dorky progressive guy. Progressive. I think progressive guy got him. I didn't need to, I didn't need to insult him to find him, but there he is. Seat gig. She, she's appeared over over 150 commercials as Flo from progressive.

Flo's great. I would never have guessed that many. She's in over 150 commercials as Flo from Progressive. Geez. Flo's great. I would never have guessed that many. She's in Mad Men. She plays a very small character in Mad Men. I think she makes a lot of money now as Flo. Yeah, I don't think she needs to do bit parts like that anymore. Jake from State Farm. I remember when Jake was white.

That first commercial? Yeah, there was a few, I think. And there was one where it was a very bad commercial. Oh, khakis. That's a great commercial. That one is a good one. That's so good. I'm talking about the one where the wife thinks he's cheating. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, that's so terrible. What are you wearing? Jake from State Farm? Khakis. I thought I was gonna say your comedy. You would hack. What are you like? What were your favorite ads from little orphan Annie cigarettes?

Yeah. Winston natural. All right. Uh, the Affleck duck. Yeah. Oh, my dad sold Affleck for 30 years. Was it, were they doing the duck back? Oh yeah.

Yeah. Uh, not when he started, but while he was, and he would have the little stuffed ducks. Yeah. That he could give to people as, as gifts. And he used to go around telling people that he was the voice of the Aflac duck. That's a great lie. I thought it was Gilbert Godfrey. It was Gilbert, Gilbert Godfrey. Was it really?

Yeah. Well, nobody, most people didn't know. So my dad would just, and then Gilbert Godfrey made some kind of joke about, um, something in Japan, uh, the tsunami or some kind of joke. And apparently Japanese people are now, this is just what they said is, are very concerned with cancer because of, you know, some obvious things that went down with, uh, nuclear bombs. So they did a lot. They do a lot of business with cancer policies with Affleck. So he made that tweet and Affleck dropped him. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. How about that? We bomb a country, then we swoop in and sell them insurance. Yeah. And now it's Nick Saban and Deion Sanders.

That's right. That's like the- Nick Saban is the worst actor of all time, but I love, I love Nick Saban. He's in those Virbo commercials now. He's in a lot. He's pretty good in those, I think. He's just playing a jerk. Yeah, playing himself, but the writing's good.

Now that he's not a coach, he's probably getting some acting classes. Mm-hmm. The Mayhem Man from Allstate. That's the best. I love that character. Dean Winters is his name. I love that character. And then there's the Dennis Hatspert is his name. That's Allstate Stand.

That guy? Yeah. I like that guy, but those commercials are too serious. Yeah, they're very serious. I like that guy He was in heat Yeah Yeah, and he was in we spent a lot of stuff. He was in a baseball movie mister

No, the one with Tom Selleck where they go to Japan, maybe I don't know. Oh, he was also in Major League. He was a There's a show called the unit on CBA. I think too. He was a, there's a show called the unit on CBS. He was the, I've always seen major league two once. So I don't remember, but you know him in major league, right? He was a, the voodoo guy. Yeah. Oh, I didn't connect. That was him. Yeah. Wow. Now let's say dusty. Let's say we've talked a little bit in the last episode about career ambitions, your goals. Let's say a company comes, I know you said the Cracker Barrel commercial, but what's your dream? Company comes to you, they go, we want you to be the flow or the mayhem, the mayhem man, and we want you, you'll just do this the rest of your life. Make millions of dollars,

do funny commercials. What's your, what's your dream company to do that for? I don't know, but I've been saying to people I'm trying to be the flow of Cracker Barrel. That is what I've been saying to people. I don't know. I don't know that there I've been saying to people, I'm trying to be the flow of Cracker Barrel. And that is what I've been saying to people. I don't know. I don't know that there's a product that I'm, you know, wholly looking to endorse the rest of my life. Well, do you have something low? No, I'm trying to think about you, like who, I'm,

I don't know, survivalist stuff again. Yeah, but they don't really do real commercials for them. That's not going to make you money. And especially if I'm trying to do it the rest of my life, it's like, and we need the survivalist stuff. It's like, that keeps going after a while. They're going to be like, do we really need this? Yeah. You wouldn't do like a Bass Pro shops or something like that? Bass Pro shops would be cool. Yeah. Just to be like that guy. Cabela's, that whole... Yeah, that whole universe. Yeah. Levi's or Yeah, just to be like that guy. Cabela's that whole universe. Levi's or Wrangler's or something like that? Yeah, not Wrangler I don't think. Okay. Because

Wrangler gets associated now with the cheap jeans at Walmart. Does it really? Well, it always has. Okay. Because Wrangler makes very good jeans, but then they also make cheaper jeans. Okay. And then they can get down to the rustlers. Yeah. Bugle boy. Yeah. You know, just, I don't know. What about Waffle House? I'm, I'm, I am more of a Cracker Barrel guy.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't insult them. Waffle House was, has really fallen off. I used to love it, but it's really fallen off. I think you're just growing up, man. Maybe. I think Waffle House is what it is. Yeah. What if Western Sizzlin started a campaign?

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Yeah. There's helpful when you're one spoken line sums up the plot of the show in one sentence. But you delivered it well. Yeah. Thank you. There's a commercial now. I think I sent it to you.

Somebody posted on Reddit for AutoZone or something. They say it looks like me. Maybe on Reddit for AutoZone or something and they say it looks like me. Maybe it's not AutoZone. I'm not going to be able to see it because Reddit's blocked on the... Oh, well, never mind. Go look it up, folks. The Lemu Emu and Doug from Liberty Mitchell has another insurance.

Lemu Emu. Oh, I like that one. They kind of punk that one guy though. I don't like it. The main guy, he gets punked a lot on that. What does that mean? Well, he's like, you know, he's like it. The main guy, he gets punked a lot on that. What does that mean? Well, he's like, you know, he's like the main, you know, he's like the cop in charge and it feels like they always treat him like he's not good enough.

And I just feel bad for that guy. Of all people to feel bad for. I don't think those commercials are very good. I feel bad for that coyote dude. He never gets the road runner. Yeah, I do feel bad for him. I don't think those commercials are very good. I feel bad for that coyote dude. He never gets the road runner. Yeah. I do feel bad for him. Yeah.

The, uh, because a coyote should just be smart enough to just go for a different kind of bird. But does he think it's the, it's the, uh, it's the rejection that is so tempting about it, you know what I mean? It's chasing that which cannot be caught. It's, it's like It's like Moby Dick. A good finale for that show would be him catching the Road Runner finally and eating it.

Yeah, I think he catches him once, but somehow he's been shrunk and the Road Runners, he's so small that he can barely get his arm around the Road Runner's leg. That was kind of the joke. He was excited, but he couldn't do anything. All Looney Tunes stuff like that. I used to love it as a kid, but it's like now when you watch it, it's like, there's just always a loser and always a winner and they never, the winner never loses. The loser never wins. Don't you think a good ending

to the Roadrunner coyote would be the coyote catches the roadrunner and he's about to bite into him and kill him. And he decides, I don't know if I really want this. Maybe the joy, maybe the thrill of this has been about the chase and that if I finally catch it, if I finally kill this roadrunner, I won't have any meaning in my life anymore and he lets him go continuing an endless chase wouldn't that be nice I like this ending yeah hold on let me get it let me get all of what you just said let me get just a little something going here yeah I like what you said all of what you said he lets him go and And then the road runner runs.

And then the coyote pulls out a gun, takes him down from long range, high powered rifle, and then gets to it, takes a bite and goes, ah, this is tough. And then doesn't even eat the rest of it. Wow. That would be nice. And then he goes, Bugs Bunny's next. And then he goes, Bugs Bunny's next. You know, when Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live, they did a sketch, the emu where he had a gun.

Cut for time. And then they put it up. Yeah. And some people commented like, oh, emu with a gun. Got that from Nate Land. Oh, that's funny. Which I don't think he did. I think so.

You think so? Yeah. Sounds like pretty good. That's funny what you said about Bugs Bunny, like Looney Tunes, The Clearcut Winner and Loser. All shows used to be like that. Yeah. I just watched Crocodile Dundee 2. You like the Crocodile Dundee movies, right? I love it. Paul Hogan, so great. But in the second one, you know one is when he goes back to Australia and the cartel chases him. Yeah. But he never ever, there's really nothing

he ever does wrong. There's never any real conflict because he's always so much smarter than they are. Yeah. So by looking at it through today's lens, you're kind of like, well, what's the conflict? Why am I even worried for you? Because-

I've not seen two in a while, but I think they kidnap his friend, right? The kidnap his girlfriend at the beginning. I thought they kidnap his friend and then he shoots his friend. Oh yes, yes, yes. He shoots him, but he nicks him to make it look like he doesn't care. That's true. Yeah.

That's pretty cool. The thing about Crocodile Dundee though, that I like, is it is like, this is a, you know, there's a man that knows how to handle himself. That's right. But some of these, like the equalizer and some of these, it's kind of cool, but yet when they never ever do anything wrong, you're like, well, you're going to win. Yeah. Yeah. Give them some flaws. Let them overcome something. Yeah. Yeah. You ever see lightning Jack with Paul Hogan? You seen kangaroo Jack? Kuba Gooden Jr? something. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You ever see lightning Jack Paul Hogan? She kangaroo Jack Kubrick and jr. No. Yep. Is it good? Yeah and Beverly D'Angelo. I like her. Yeah

Can you drink in a beer commercial no you can't Shane Gillis and Post Malone have a commercial now where they kind of allude to that, right? Yeah. Have you seen it? No. Post Malone can't even do commercials now? No. Um, it's not a, um, like it's not all, it's an industry self-regulation. The Beer Institute and beer companies have all just agreed that it would be best not to show people actually consuming alcohol.

Oh, I love them morals. Makes sense. Okay. What a sweet, just, hey guys, yeah, let's sell it to them, but let's don't show them drinking it, huh? I want beer and alcohol commercials where you see where it's all people hung over. hammered. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I want to show. Mm-hmm Alright, let's talk about some of the most famous commercials ever Apple 1984 because know this it's a great one though. It's the Super Bowl commercial. Yep

Introduce the Macintosh computer It's often cited as the best commercial ever. Wasn't the Macintosh a bit of a failure though? I think it was. The product that it was actually trying to sell, I mean it got so much buzz, it's such an iconic commercial. I think the Macintosh was considered a failure. I think you're right. Coca-Cola, Mingeo Green. Great commercial. You know this Dusty? I don't think so. Probably if you show up. It's from the 70s.

Did you send it to me on here? I can probably just look that up. Yeah. Mingeo Green played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's walking off the field. Some kid somehow gets access in tunnel. Hey Mr. Green. Yeah.

You need any help? on. Hey Mr. Green? If you're listening, skip ahead. Okay. Well, he downs it, doesn't he? Kid 60 now. I love that commercial. That's such a good commercial. That's great. Give me chills. Yep.

That's so good. Yep. But you're right. It's so much, that would be a 15 second commercial now. That was a minute long. Yeah. And a lot of it is like, maybe don't have 20 seconds of him just drinking the Coke. Yeah. Like let's trim it down a minute long. Yeah. And a lot of it is like, maybe you don't have 20 seconds of him just drinking the Coke.

Yeah. Like let's trim it down a little bit. You know, but that, you know, I watch the TV show Colombo a lot. And what I like is that they do take their time with it. Yeah. You let things set in. Yeah. It's not quick cuts all the time.

Yeah. Yeah. I like that too. Uh, I mentioned this a few weeks ago here. I don't think you guys were familiar with it. Where's the beef? Oh yeah. It's from Wendy's old, old ladies are looking at the beef patty.

I think it was referring to McDonald's and like, she goes, where's the beef? This was such a popular fad when I was a kid, everybody was was like where's the beef? I love it they probably can't even do commercials like that now now they're like where's the impossible meat? Budweiser has two famous ones was up and the frogs the frogs was That's a good one. That was a really good. I remember that one as a kid. That was a classic captain obvious Somebody just called dusty captain obvious on Twitter. Yeah, I agreed with Dusty made you know, I saw that was a crazy comment It's so like inappropriate. I mean, I'm just like, you know, just, uh, just sharing stuff. I was surprised you didn't lay into him more.

Yeah, but he seemed like he was, he follows me. Yeah. It seemed like he was trying to be fun. He was trying to. That didn't usually hold you back. I follow you. Uh, Doseckis, the most interesting man in the world. Yeah, those were great. Really good.

Yep. Oh, speaking of that similar vein, greatest commercials of all time. Real men of genius. Oh, I forgot about that. Real men of genius. Oh yeah. I can't remember what the product was.

Bud Light presents real men of genius. Those were great. Yeah. I don't even remember what any of them were, but they were so funny. Mentos, Mentos had a good, uh, good run. That's how Morgan Freeman got a start. Is it?

Yeah. He was in a Mentos commercial. Yeah. Mentos where they would, uh, Is that true? I might've completely made that up. I did see your link to celebrities in commercials. I might've completely made that up. Mentos was like, you know, they'd be like, oh, I'm scared to do this. And then you're like Papa Mentos. And then you're like, now I can do it. Now I can do it.

You know what I was thinking of? That was actually that lady though, that just popped up for putting the Mentos in the coke. I got Morgan Freeman mixed up with Vinnie Chase from Entourage. He started with a Mentos commercial. Some people say Morgan Freeman. This is a 1971 Alka Seltzer commercial. Look at young Morgan Freeman. Yeah. I never knew he-Seltzer commercial. Look at young Morgan Freeman. Yeah. I never knew he was young. Well, this is born 50. This confirms it to me. Some people say that Morgan Freeman is Jimi Hendrix. Who says that? Some people say that.

Why would he become another famous? Well, he's like, I've done everything I could do in the guitar world. Though, Rolling Stone will have me as the greatest guitarist of all time every time. Yeah, and now I can you know become a great actor All right. He looks like him there. Yeah a Couple more Snickers. You're you're not you when you're hungry. Those are good I kind of relaunched Betty White a little bit Yeah Any of those commercials where they just create a formula and then they can just pump out like 30 of them. So smart. Joe Pesci has one of those too. Yep. Yeah hungry. Why wait?

That was a Snickers commercial too. Volkswagen the force where the kids out is Darth Vader. I haven't seen that one. You know this dusty and then the dad has the automatic starter. This is a few years ago when it was newer and right when the kids doing the force, he starts the car and the kid freaks out because he thinks he actually did it. So anyway. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, that's cute. Yeah, it's a good commercial.

A couple more from my childhood. I've fallen and I can't get up. Oh, iconic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Life alert. Let me tell you. Gosh, those were so good.

When I was in maybe sixth or seventh grade, went to summer camp. At the end of the summer camp, we all had to put on little sketches for everybody at camp. Yeah. And in one of the sketches, my character fell down and our camp counselor was like, you should say I've fallen and I can't get up. I was like, that's not funny at all. He's like, trust me, it'll kill. And I go, I fall.

I can't get up and it murdered. And I had with all the older people. Yeah. I had no clue what it was. Oh, that's the older people. Yeah, I had no clue what it was It was years later before I realized that's what it was a reference to but it was that iconic of a commercial Yeah, I did. I remember my senior high school doing Actile thing in drama class where the girl goes I fall and I can't get up and then there's the second line I'm having chest pains

My next-door neighbor my family and my doctor without picking up a telephone having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains.

I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains.

I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having chest pains. I'm having paramedics and your family, Mr. Miller. I've fallen and I can't get up. We're sending help immediately. The crying Indian.

Never seen that. I know, I know that it's very iconic. Is that Lando lakes butter? No, this is a PSA actually for like, uh, conservative. The environment. Oh, keep America beautiful. 1970. Iron iris, Coney.

Marlon Brando. Uh, at the end he has a little tear down his cheek from all the pollution he's seeing right there. Turns out that guy wasn't even native American. Oh, that's where we've talked about this before. Yeah. That guy was not Native American. Yep.

Wow. A couple of controversial commercials. Help reduce litter by 88% across 38 states according to one reliable source. I don't know who that was. Just one guy was like, nah, 88% reduction. The Peloton commercial from a few years ago where the guy got his wife a Peloton. You've seen that Dusty?

I think so. Yeah. And people were getting really upset about it. Now Peloton is doing great. They had a couple of shows where people, Oh. They're laying off people by the thousands. Well, there's a couple of TV shows where someone died on a paladin.

Really? Yeah, I think Billions and I think there was another one where. From a heart attack or something? Yeah, somebody had a heart attack. Wow. Pepsi's Global Message of Unity with Kendall Jenner. Remember that?

I do remember that. Yep. You remember Head On, applied directly to the forehead. Oh, yeah. Head On, applied directly to the forehead. Head On on applied directly to the forehead. Oh yeah. Head on applied directly to the forehead, head on applied directly to the forehead. What about, um, locally we have that, uh, commercial about buying junk cars. We buy junk cars. You ever hear that one?

It's just some jingle. Real annoying. You ever get a card in the mail for a, we buy ugly houses and they're like, your house is on our radar We tell you we buy ugly houses were hitting us up hard They're like you're top of the list right now The longest running commercial is discount tires commercial First started 1975 still airs some places where the old lady throws the tire through the window you guys know this now maybe when you see it I don't think it airs much anymore but she don't need life alert cost $18 to

make that commercial yeah Netflix now has a thing now, 7.99 a month. Of course. You can have ads. It was just a matter of time. Mm-hmm. Matter of time. 7.99, you can have ads. Yeah, or you pay more.

$25 is the highest subscription, I think, a month. But $8 is what comes. Creeping back, dude. All right. A couple more things here. Subliminal messages. Dusty, you're getting to this, right? Yeah. I mean, that's what all of this is. Just comes creeping back, dude. All right. A couple more things here. Subliminal messages. Dusty, you're getting to this, right?

Yeah, man. That's what all of this is. Here's the famous case that I always heard about, but I thought it was prevalent, but apparently it was just one time. 1957, a market researcher called a press conference and he said that he repeatedly flashed the slogans, drink Coca-Cola and eat popcorn throughout a movie, too fast for conscious perception. As a result, he claimed sales of popcorn rose 18% and coked by 58%. He called it subliminal advertising.

He thought everybody was going to love it because it was going to save money making these ads. People did not like it. He later confessed that his research, he's not even sure if it did increase the sale of the ads. But so that one you're looking at there, that is, that's a Burger King commercial. Mm hmm. A KFC. Oh, a KFC commercial.

Well, there's a dollar bill sublimity put in there. What's that supposed to mean? Like you get that because it's only a dollar. I think so. I think your brain just registers a dollar bill is a good thing. It might be money on that sandwich. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, get your snacks. Um, I may have lost a page here. There was a McDonald's commercial. There was a iron chef episode where a McDonald's logo pops up in the middle of the middle of the episode, middle of the episode. They say it was just a mistake. It was an error. It's it's, uh, you know, who knows, but dusty.

You think this is going on? Tough to explain as a mistake. I mean, it just... Well, for sure, I think it's going on. I accidentally hit the McDonald's button. I don't know. I don't know how they're doing it, but I think they do it with music. I think they have frequencies and things that can change your mood can, you know. Well, music can change your mood. Yeah, but I think, you know, there's sublim mood yeah but I think you know there's there's subliminal things that are happening in there like they put in something in music and they change the frequency like there can be a healing

frequency to music mm-hmm and then they're also as you know the opposite yeah so I think everything is some kind of subliminal messaging to get to us, to make us buy, to make us consume. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. You ever see the movie they live? Yeah. Yeah. When the guy puts on the glasses and then it changes everything.

They live is, I wouldn't say they live as a great movie, but it's a must watch. That's such a iconic scene. Obey. It's a must watch. The longest running sponsorship. This is not TV, it's radio. Martha White for the Grand Ole Opry. Oh, yeah. Martha White brand's been with advertising the Grand Ole Opry. Oh yeah. Martha White brand's been with advertising the Grand Ole Opry since 1948. Wow. It's pretty crazy, huh?

You've heard those, right? Yeah, sure. That and Dollar General. Yeah. And Humana. Humana is the, I think the title sponsor, unfortunately for Reno Collier. Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha. Cracker Barrel's campfire chicken, supposedly shaped like a satanic symbol. That's not true. That's what, that's just what they're saying. That's what they're saying. I don't know who they is, but that's what they're saying on TikTok. When it opens up, there's a, I'm joking. It's the Ark of the covenant. All right. You want to get into, Oh, there's a, I'm joking. Yeah. It's the Ark of the Covenant.

All right. You want to get into, oh, here's another one. Burger King tweeted, this is in 2021, posted a tweet stating women belong in the kitchen. And it was supposed to be that only 20% of chefs are women. Yeah. People are like, what? So it backfired on them. And people are like, what? So it backfired on them. Taco Bell used to have a commercial about the Bell Luminati. And it was put off the end.

Charlie Daniels tweeted about it. Oh yeah. Saying, don't be joking about the Luminati. And then he died. And then soon after, he died. He got too close. Taco Bell, the bell in there does look like a snake's eye. You ever see that? Oh, oh that reminds me I meant to talk to you guys about something

Okay, okay Reptilian I and that look at that and just circle That's a reptilian I right there man Inside the bill. Yeah, what's he saying? Well, he's not saying anything. He's just letting you know I'm watching. Yeah. Looking at you. I saw last night when I was in research, all those hidden little like FedEx, there's an arrow. You've seen that, right? There's a few others. Tostitos. It's two people like putting chips together in the middle.

Once we'll just break the chips. You never want to do that. Fighting over a chip. You never want to do that. Not over a bowl of salsa. Yeah. Yeah. You get your carpet all messed up. It's going to ruin the carpet. You have to put club soda on.

Yeah. That's the whole thing. You know, I wanted to just, this is not on commercials, but we talked about cats one time. Yeah. And house cats, you know, they just say they're, you know, they're an evolved species of the other cats, but all the other feline have regular looking eyes, like almost human eyes.

Whereas the house cat has more of a reptilian eye. Well, I'm glad you brought that up now. Look at that. It's a good time to talk about it. Yeah it just looks like an eye but then the pupils dilate really. I mean so that looks like normal eyes right there. But look at a look at a lion's eye. Wow. My point is. Yeah what's your point? That the eye I just don't think that that is they never have the slitted eyes. So I just think that the house cat is a different species and not just a domesticated. So they get involved from reptiles.

I think it's just a different kind of animal. And I just think that they always push the domesticated thing on us. I don't think so. It's a different kind of cat. Yeah, you've sent me some Instagram videos about this. Yeah. 3am I'll see my phone light up. I'm like, what is this? My mom. Oh, no, it's Dusty sending me a conspiracy video. My heart's pounding. Like what's happened? There is an explanation for this. It's not, it's not not interesting so we'll just move on

but just know just know it's been talked about. And no Dusty's not going to agree with it. Yeah. All right let's get into or go ahead Dusty. No I got nothing. I just don't you know I aren't just saying what's interesting and what's not. Yeah. No I'm saying the rebuttal to what you're saying is not interesting. So what's it say? Well, just give us a synapsis. Smaller cats have vertically slitted pupils, which are better suited for ambush hunting and judging distances. So they've just, they've both. It seems interesting.

It's a key adaption that helps them thrive in their respective environments. You know, that seems interesting to me. Yeah. What about you, Brian? I'm saying it's an explanation for the question that you're posing. It's an answer to it. Yeah, but I just, that's what I mean though. I just don't think that, they always just tell us they're domesticated lions.

And I just don't think so, you know? There's its own thing. There's a few steps in between, I think is the point. I think it's its own thing is all I'm saying. Okay. You don't think it's a feline? No, I just think it's, you I think it's its own thing is all I'm saying. You don't think it's a feline? No, I just think it's its own thing. It's always been this cat. That's my point.

You think dogs were always just dogs? Well, I don't think they have a changing of the eye. And I think, you know, dogs are, in Bible times, always referenced in a kind of a gross way. Dogs? Yeah. Yeah, they certainly weren't considered pets, I don't think then. Yeah.

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You guys don't know this? Is that melodic at all? You're so young. How does it go? Pop Pop Fizz Fizz. Oh, what a relief it is. No, I've never heard that. That's amazing.

I got a lot more here. Kit Kat? Kit, dude, give me a break. Give me a break. Break. And me a break. Bring me off a piece of that cat ball. What about, uh, baby back ribs? Maybe back, baby back, baby back. Chili is baby back ribs.

Barbecue salt. Yeah. Iconic. How about roll aid spells relief? I don't know that one. That's not a jingle, I guess, but that's what they say. Rolade Spells Relief. Naza Heartburn.

Indigestion. Upset stomach. Diarrhea. Hey, Pepto-Bismol. Yeah. You know that one? Yeah, I think so. I don't know if that last part is how it went, but.

Dr. Pepper. We said, I'm a pepper, you're a pepper. What you want to be a pepper to? Be a pepper, drink, Dr. Pepper, I'm a pepper, you're a pepper, would you want to be a pepper too? Be a pepper, drink Dr. Pepper. Everybody's a pepper, but not everybody's a Dr. Pepper. Was that another expression too? That's pretty good. Dusty's now would be, I'm a pepper, you're a pepper, would you want to be a pepper too? Well, everybody should be prepared to some extent. That's right. Band-Aid?

Band-aid. Band-aid. I'm a big kid now. Is that it? I think that's Oscar Meyer Wiener. Is it? I don't know. Barry Matalow. What is I'm a big kid now?

Uh, some kind of vitamin. Uh, hold on. That's, you know what I'm talking about. I do know what you're talking about. I just don't know what the product is. Kit Kat? Kit Snickers? Maybe Kix the cereal. Kix. That's kid tested what I'm talking about. I do know what you're talking about. I just don't know what the product is. Kit Kat? Kit Snickers? Maybe Kix the cereal.

Kix, that's kid tested, mom approved. They don't eat, they don't, what? I'm a big kid now. That's a Huggies commercial. Oh, okay. What about Apple Jacks? They don't taste like apples. We eat what we want.

That's the year you're born. You probably were, what was it? Apple Jacks? Apple Jacks, they go, the dad goes, why do what was it Apple Jacks they go the dad goes well why do they call them Apple Jacks they don't taste like apples and the kids go we eat what we like oh what about the tricks they never let the silly yeah tricks are for kids that's not really a song is it now? Oh, oh, oh, oh Riley Is that all part is that a national commercial? I think it has to be I guess about their

right What about this one I know chickens can't fly but can they swim swim? That's a good one. That's a good commercial. Oh Cracker barrel that goes crack crack cracker barrel. Is that really? The snack that smiles back goldfish, you know that one I don't know that one Band-aid band-aid I'm a band-aid now Uh, band-aid? Band-aid. I'm a band-aid now. What does it do? I am stuck on band-aid.

Is band-aid stuck on me? Great song. I'm getting cut at home. Stabbed with a pencil. Yeah. Barry Manilow wrote a lot of these jingles. Did he really? Yeah, including that one.

Good for him, man. But you came and you gave without taking. But I sent you away, oh, Mandy. Just a bare mental also. Okay. I was like, what is that for? Meow mix. Meow mix.

I write the songs that make the whole world sing. I've got chicken, I've got liver, meow mix, meow mix, please deliver. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Remember that one? Yeah, I just need the meow, meow, meow. I'm sure you did. Call JG Wentworth. 877-CASH-NOW. What about this one? I have a structured settlement, but I need cash now.

What about this one? JG Wentworth. 877 this one? J.G. Wentworth. 877. I need cash now. 877 cash now. What about the opera? Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan. You remember you made that commercial?

I'm John Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan. You made a spoof commercial? I took all the commercials and I cut down to just the Morgan and Morgan and Morgan because it's like I'm John Morgan, the Morgan, the Morgan. Yeah. That sounds ridiculous. Yeah. There was a, remember there was a phenomenon for a while.

Free credit report.com. Oh yeah. Remember those free credit report.com. Tell your kids, tell your dad, tell your mom. Remember that I was writing jokes about it. Cause they just tell you to go check your credit and it'll get better. What about, uh, is there, is this an old one? Oscar Meyer baloney.

My baloney has a first name. It's O S C A R. My baloney has a last name. Second name. A second name. It's M Y E M E Y E R. Yeah. Uh, a few more, Toys R Us.

Toys R Us, let me think. No, I don't know. I don't wanna grow up. I'm a Toys R Us kid. Oh yeah. And then we grew up and they closed. Yeah, they did. Now you worked in advertising, right Aaron?

I did for a little bit. Did you do commercials? A little bit, kind of, it was more social media stuff by the time I got into it and less about. The guy I worked for created one of the best commercials ever. It was a McDonald's commercial, like a little league football. Then that eventually became the movie, Little Giants. Really? then that eventually became the movie, little giants.

Really? He ended up writing the movie, little giants with somebody else, but it was a commercial first for McDonald's of kids all playing football. And, uh, it was just a great commercial. So I worked with people that did that, but I was never involved at any kind of level. I'm loving it. Ba da ba ba ba.

Remember the one before that? Yeah. Also, that one and the ESPN one, the ESPN commercial with the, where they're just doing the Sports Center jingle at the beginning of football season, that was a good one. ESPN has the best promo commercials. They're so funny. Very funny. The Sports Center Swims. I don't remember that. 1972? I think they've had some in between. You deserve a break? What is that all about? But yeah and then we talked about the Roll Tide commercial. I like that one. I don't know High Tide, I don't know high tide. I don't know that one.

You guys talked about that. Did you guys ever, uh, do puffery? A little bit. I didn't inhale though. Uh, depends on what your definition of is. Is, um, yeah, puffery is the amount of, uh, it's the kind of the license you have to exaggerate about your own business. And it's legal, like you're legally allowed to say best pizza in town, even if there's no

metric to justify that statement. So it's not, it's like a vague claim. That's just kind of like, yeah. Puffing yourself up. It's puffery. Yeah, exactly. It's beating your own chest. Just saying, you know, whatever.

It's the best thing since sliced bread. It's like, well, it's technically not, you know? Well, I say those sorts of things, but they're true though. You know, so. It's like you're allowed to say it's the hottest show, it's the hottest show in town. Yeah. But like you can't back that up with a science.

But if you were- I guess not. If you were making it, if I hired you as an advertiser to make a 30 second ad for me, what would be the copy? Would there be any popery involved? What is it for? For your shows? Yeah.

For you in general? It's the Brian Bates and friends at Zany's. No, well, the sad reality is I'd probably just get Nate to talk about it. I'm really trying to get it to... You just get him to voice it? I just need Nate in the shot and I need him talking and he'll be like, Hey, this is Brian. That's what'll sell the tickets, unfortunately.

Or maybe Dusty too, get him and Dusty. Just kind of keep you out of it. And I think that it's good. No stand up in the video. No God, no, you don't lead with the worst foot. Focus on the friends part. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Brian Bates and friends emphasis on friends. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So Brian Bates and friends emphasis on friends. Yeah. Yeah. Friends and Brian Bates. And you talk about puffery and friends. They might not even really be friends. Exactly. Yeah. Brian Bates and acquaintances. Yeah. Brian Bates and who is available. That's a funnier title for a show. That would be Brian Bates and acquaintances. Especially now when there's so many Anne Friends shows. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it'd be more accurate. Brian Bates and Strangers. No, you have your friends on the show.

Oh, not the next one coming up. No, I'm joking. All right. Any other commercials y'all wanna talk about? I think we covered all the big ones. We sang a lot. I'm sure we've got many. This is probably the most singing we've ever done on the podcast. Well, I think it's the hottest podcast we've done. No puffery. I think Dusty's the hottest comedian in America. Hey, yo.

No puffery here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dusty, if you were doing an ad for yourself, what would you do? Well, I'm trying to do ads for myself all the time. Yeah. So what I tell people is I go, come to my show. It's a relatively clean show.

I say, I'm an adult, and I'm doing comedy for other adults. I don't recommend kids come, but this is the type of show that you can bring your aunt to and you're not going to be embarrassed that you brought her. That's my ad. I go, it's a good show. I'm not making fun of people. We're just laughing. We're having a good time. It's just like, Hey, I make a few jokes of myself, but not enough to make you feel sorry for me. It's just fun observational stuff. You make any jokes about yourself? Oh, yeah. This whole thing is, yeah.

What? Not clean, not dirty, just dusty. Just dusty, yeah. So that's the kind of ads I try to do where I'm like, hey, this is a show that you can just enjoy, even if you don't know who I am. And then I say, hey, I got an hour on Netflix. I got an hour on YouTube.

Go watch both of those if you want. It's a long ad. Decide if you like me or not. Yeah, my social media team's having a problem with it too. I go. Just too much good stuff. It's a little mini doc. Decide if you like me or not, and then come see me,

and you're gonna get a whole new hour, maybe more. I like you do the Mean Joan Gris commercial, but with you, and you're going to get a whole new hour, maybe more. I like you do the mean Joan Greer commercial, but with you and you're walking to the green room after show and a kid goes, Hey, dusty, you want some of my Coke? And you go, nah, there's all kinds of chemicals in there trying to give me high fructose corn syrup, buddy. And he goes, okay, sorry. And then that's the end of, and then I swap it out of his hand.

I go, you don't need to be drinking that either. Where's your dad at? Mean dusty sleigh. And then we'll do one for Aaron where he takes the Coke and then takes a sweat towel and throws it in the kid's face. Yeah. It's like, oh my gosh. This is fun.

And then I do one with me where like, Hey kid, can you be at my next show? I need some extra people just to fill the seats. All right. Uh, no, we're all professional comedians out here. We are the most professional of, we're the probably the most professional comedians out there. No puffery. No puffery.

Um, well you started it, so I'm sorry. I'll let. No puffery. Well you started it so I'm sorry I'll let you. Alright so this weekend I'm gonna be in California I'm gonna start off in Modesto California on Thursday and then I'm gonna go on Friday I'm going on down to Bakersfield California Bakersfield for a little Bakersfield sound, a little Buck Owens, a little Dwight Yoke, a little Merle Haggard. And then I'm headed on up to San Jose, California to surf the waves and do some comedy. It's going to be great. I'm taking my friend from St. Louis, Will O'Donnell with me. It's going to be a lot of fun.

We've recently got QT, the quick trip, the gas station to send us some swag. Awesome. And we like them, big fans of the QT. And then, you know, just to throw a date out there down the road a little bit, I'll be back at Zany's on June 24th. Just wanna throw that out there.

Yeah. Where are you gonna be June 24th? Zany's Nashville. All right, how about here? In our own backyard. Yes. Right there. Yeah. Where are you gonna be June 24? Jamie's in Nashville. Alright. How about here? In our own backyard. Yes. Right there. Exactly. Yep. Uh June 29th. I'm back at the Grand Ole Opry. Okay. July 6th. Good Nights Comedy Club in Raleigh. July 9th. Chattanooga at the Comedy Catch. Uh June, July 29th. Brian Bates and acquaintances. Awesome.

Brian Bates. You should call it that. You should call it that. This weekend, big weekend for me, Saturday night, South Bend, Indiana, the Stock Room East. Hopefully both shows are sold out by now. Probably not. But then Sunday, I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and I think that that's all sold out by now.

So sorry if you can't make it, but if you are gonna be there, I appreciate it. And then I want to plug it one more time. I won't talk too much about it. I'm worried I kind of described it wrong. Let me say for Fort Wayne, you actually added a second show. No, we didn't. Oh, okay. Yeah, that'd be nice, but I don't know. I don't know if we have the time to do that. But October 22nd, my wife and I are doing a fundraiser here at Zany's called Prater Silly. Sorry.

It's for the organization, Prater Willie Association of America, I think it's called. It's not for us. I want to make that, it's not a fundraiser for us. It's for the organization that we're hosting. The lineup's great. It's going to be a great show. We've got a lot of corporate sponsors.

People are putting money into it. We're going to give them a show worthy of it. That's October 22nd. Uh, my wife and I are really proud of what we're putting together. So make sure you, uh, you check that out if you're in the area. That's awesome. Yep. Thanks, man.

Appreciate it. I know there used to be a comedy club in Fort Wayne called Snickers. I heard of that, never did it. No, but I did that. I wish I had. Did that club with a guy named Dobie Maxwell. Me and him did that club and we put on, I featured for him, we put on a really great show.

Both shows were sold out. Back to back, really great shows. I mean the audience laughed the entire time. What happened? And then we go out to stand by the exit. I got a little merch. I think he's got a little merch. I got a CD and I think maybe he has something similar.

And I don't think a single audience member even looked us in the face. I never been walked by, by that many people in my whole life. Why do you think that was? I don't know. Because I never met Dobie, but I had a good set. And then I thought he had a really good set. And I never seen anything like it in my whole life. Both shows?

Both shows. I don't even know if we went out there the second time. I'll be honest. Sometimes it'll be like that. They're really great show, then they just leave. And then you think it's a bad show and a lot of people come up and are very nice to you after the show.

But it was great. I really liked I liked Fort Wayne. That was also a club. I wrote a joke about this, but I went up to a waitress there at the club and I go, Hey, can I order some food with you? Right? She goes, you want to order some food with me? I go, Yeah.

She goes, I'm busy. And then I was like, Oh, okay. And then she asked, all right, whatever. I'll just find another waitress, you know? And then she comes running up to me and she goes, oh, you want to order some food. I thought you were asking me on a date. That's like, oh, okay. Well, that's much worse.

Before I just thought you were bad at your job. Now you're rejecting me. I'm busy. You got rejected without even putting yourself out there. Yeah. I'm busy. Oh, geez. All right.

That's very funny. I didn't know that was there. Yeah. Well, come see me. Come see me there. Yeah. Summit City. That's it.

You want to close it out, Dusty? Yeah. We've had a great time doing this podcast with you guys. We've sang a lot of jingles. We played a lot of commercials. This has been more of an interactive podcast than I think we've ever done. We showed a lot of it. I mean, interactive in the fact that we use a lot of technology and we put a lot of video into this and high production value is very good.

Aaron just ran that computer. Like, I guess his job out here. And Brian put together another flawless podcast. I mean, his research is unmatched. And I just want you guys to know as we're signing out here that we all are professional comedians. This is what we do for a living. No puffery. And we want to thank you for listening to this podcast.

And come see us at our shows. And we hope you have a wonderful day. We're having a good time. See you next week. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

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