The Nateland Podcast - 33: #33 | Radio

Episode Date: September 16, 2026

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Hello, commenters. Welcome to the Public Figures podcast. I'm Brian Bates, as always, joined by Public Figure Aaron Weber. Good morning, everybody. Public figure, Dusty Slay. Okay. All right. Aaron, where are you going to be this weekend? I am going to be in beautiful Orlando, Florida at the Funny Bone, and then Conroe, Texas at the Riot Comedy Club. Come out and see me. I'll be at a casino and Des Plains. I'll be at a casino and Des Plains. Illinois. That's how they tell me to pronounce it. It looks like Des Moines with no S's. You know, like you don't pronounce the S's with Des Plains. But with Des Plains, they want you to say them both. But also in the state that they're in of Illinois, you do not pronounce that S.

I'll also be at a casino in Harris, Michigan. Nice. Friday and Saturday. I'm homeless weekend, but I am in New York City this week. So if you're listening to it this Wednesday, the day it comes out, I'll be at the New York Comedy Club tonight. All right, big time. Yeah. The good egg show? Yeah, good eggs. What's that?

It's a show that Martin Ormond and Gary Veter put on. And I don't know that I think it's just like, we're good eggs. Okay, cool. I don't think it's a theme. It's just the name for a showcase. But the way you said it, the Great Egg Show, I thought it was, you know, something. Oh, he's breakfast. Yeah.

Let's get him on the Good. Oh, on the Good Egg Show, yeah. Scramble. Yeah, I got to be on there, right? Yeah. Well, welcome, guys. Good to see you. We pre-recorded last week's episode, so it's been two weeks since I've seen you guys, so I've missed you. Yeah, I missed you guys. Aaron, what have you? What was the last time we saw each other? Two weeks ago. Okay. I'm trying to think of what has happened. Well, I know something that happened to you this past weekend. Oh, yeah. I was in Texas this weekend. I was opening for Kathleen Madigan, San Antonio, beautiful San Antonio, Texas. One of those underrated cities.

Love that city. In America, I think. I think so many places feel like the same that San Antonio really feels like it's doing its own thing. Yeah. You know what I mean? I love San Antonio. It's got its own something. And then we were in Austin, Texas Saturday night at the Austin City Limits, which was awesome.

It's like a historic venue. And they got a little smoking patio out there with Willie Nelson's cutout. That's where he used to go smoke when he played shows there. So it's a cool. spot. Also, that was where Ohio State was playing Austin. They were playing Texas in Austin. So it was just like chaos in that city. College game day was there. Yes. And we watched the end of the game at a bar and there was just, it was so much fun. College football is so much fun. There are a lot of things wrong with it. But at the end of the day, like, it's the best. Yeah. People going nuts.

People screaming at each other. Ohio State fans, not very well liked all over the country. I'll tell you that. Texas fans had some mean things to say about them, especially the guy sitting next to me at the bar. But I'd say what I dealt with all weekend was Southwest lost my bag. I checked the bag. Southwest lost it. That's unbelievable. And you've been such a champion for Southwest for so long.

One of it's more outspoken advocates out here. I know. Yeah. And I go, I love Southwest. And then I made the mistake. I have a CPAT machine in that check. Oh, no. So you've not slept.

I didn't, I got to sleep. I'll tell you what happened. I get there to San Antonio and they go, well, We don't know what happened to the bag. And I go, well, what? Like, can't you, give me, you got a little bit of info on it, right? And they go, it never got scanned. So it never got off the conveyor belt behind the guy who checked it in for me.

Wow. So I was like, well. Do you the curbside check in? No, I went up to the priority lane. And the guy printed off the tag. I have the receipt. He just never put it in. on the thing. The curbside guys in Nashville are top-notge. Yeah. Well, it's not my fault. But,

so Southwest called, they're like, we have no idea where your bag is. And I go, all right, well, and they go, we can maybe put it on another plane to San Antonio. And I go, I'm not going to, I'm not going to be in San Antonio tomorrow. And they go, all right, well, maybe we can put it on a plane to Austin. And then after the show in Austin, I get back to the hotel, Southwest calls me. And they go, hey, hey, it's the baggage claim in San Antonio. We got your bag. And I go, well, I haven't been in San Antonio and over a day. And they go, oh, well, can you come get it tonight?

I was like, no, I fly home to Nashville tomorrow. And she's like, oh, no. So anyway, she ends up putting it on a, she breaks a few rules. Sally Sound in San Antonio? A little bit. I can't do. She was from Wisconsin. Yeah, it's like Abe Howard.

They're an international company. They have employees all over. But I think she broke some rules, stuck it on a plane for me. I got off the plane in Nashville. It was waiting for me a baggage claim from a different flight. Wow. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy.

Plus a $150 travel voucher. All right. That's the least they can do. That is the least thing that they can do. And how did you sleep? I slept terrible. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I wasn't breathing. And what did you do about clothes? I wore the same clothes all weekend. I bought a pair of underwear from Buckees. because I was like the one thing I got to change is the underwear. Yeah. And Buckees is the place to go. So Buckees, it was the only place we stopped between San Antonio.

They only have novelty under there. So I have a pair of underwear that just says gasquatch on it. All right. Wear those in here next time. I was wearing those on stage at Austin City Limits. Gasquatch. Yeah, I mean, I left them in Texas. What's the mascot for gasquatch?

clock. It's a Sasquatch, but he's going, just going like this. Wow. He's waving away a bad smell. And that was the least ridiculous one that I could find. I can't remember the others, but I was like, I guess this is what my weekend is. Wow. So I just smelled bad all weekend, wearing the same clothes. A little gross on stage. I mean, I walked and got some toiletries and stuff. I walked and got a toothbrush. But like, other than that, I was like, you know. What was Kathleen saying about all this? She thought it was hilarious. She thought the whole thing was funny. I was like, I was wearing the clothes I wore on the plane.

So I was on stage, like a little underdress, but I had jeans and I think like this exact hoodie on the whole time. But she was cool about it. That's just the stuff you deal with. It doesn't even like. That's too bad. Yeah. Losing a bag, an airline losing a bag is the most ridiculous thing. I just never hear about anymore.

When I got it, I go, I just want to know like what happened. And there we have no idea. But did it ever, like what? Just walk me through it. And she's like, I don't know. And why would you send it to San Antonio after I told the lady not to send it to San Antonio? I called twice and said, please don't put it on a plane in San Antonio. I'm in a different city now.

Good news. Your back turned up in San Antonio. Oh, that's awesome. I'm not there anymore. But anyway, that's just the life, the life we live out here. What about you, Dusty? I went to, I did a show in Nashville, Zanis. It was great.

and then I went to Charleston, South Carolina, did my final show at Theater 99, my old home club. Why is it your final show? Well, they closed. Somebody bought the building. They're tearing it down. They closed like after your show? Well, I knew that they were. Not because of the show.

I know, but like literally, good night. And then they went, no, no. They had shows Friday and Saturday. It was my final show. I did two shows, Theater 99. That's a club that I started doing comedy with, and they're closed now. They may reopen in a day. different location, but...

But it's the people who are buying it, they're going to keep it going? No, no. The people that are buying the building are tearing it down and building condos. Oh, I'm sorry, you said that. They're building condos. Wow, that's where everything's had to. Yeah. Got 99 problems, but a theater ain't one.

Yeah. A lot of places to live, nothing to do. That's right. Well, I was... And then I'm sorry. Then I went to Columbus, Ohio on a Friday. Thankfully, not a Saturday. Friday.

Well, they would have been away. Yeah, but people might have. have been sad. Yeah. Oh, but that's great. At least they had been watching the game. Oh, at your show, they would have been saying. Oh, okay.

I love Columbus, Ohio. I've always had a great time there. It was a great show. And then I went to Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday. Great show. And Louisville played on Friday. So my agent is on point with the booking. Yeah.

So it was great. All great shows. How much time did you do? All sold out. In Louisville, I did right at 90 minutes. It's a little over on stage by myself. 90 minutes. It was hot.

Did you have an opener? I did have an opener. Vince Fabra was with me all weekend. And a couple of my buddies in Charleston opened, Jason Gross, Tim Huckle, old comedy buddies. Guys he started with. Yeah. That's cool. And then, yeah, Vince Fabra, open for me on the weekend.

Hot shows, man. Yeah, nobody was leaving. I met a guy in Columbus, my biggest fan, he said. 75-year-old man named Dave. Yeah. Yeah. Did he look like your biggest? Like could I pick him out of a group probably?

He said over and over again that he was and his kids were there. And he said, you know, their dad's watching me a couple times a day. But have you lined up a bunch of people and they said one of those is Dusty Slay's biggest fan? Do you think I could pick him out? Well, it depends on what the other people look like, you know. But no, you know, he was a 75 year old man. So he didn't, you know, it wasn't like he wasn't had long hair with a trucker hat on her. Yeah.

Do you look like my biggest fan? No, no, it was cooler than that. But, uh... He wasn't that old. Now, but it was great. It was a great weekend. What about you, Brian? I was home, but, uh, did a show here at Zanis.

I also watched the, the Ohio State, Texas game. You all watch it here at the club? You watched it in the green room. Oh, that's fun. Uh, Connor Larson's, you know, really into it. And we mentioned Connor every week on the pod, so I want to keep going. And they keep calling, they're down on the goal line. And they keep calling time.

out or stoppage and finally they called him to the stay. So he missed the end of the game. Oh, that's awesome. I love that. Yeah. I like it too. But I did a show here at Giotis Park, the soccer stadium. Wow. For Great Cities Missions. Wow. Sold out? Was it in the stadium? Was it in the stadium? It was in the suite, the lounge or whatever they have, but it was at. But you don't need to say, you know. Well, I didn't. Yeah. I didn't tell us. You say you headlined Geotis Park. Sure. That's what I was trying to. I really want to into the details. It was sold out for the room that it was in.

Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah. Which is a great mission work, planning churches throughout Latin America. You know, I've said that unironically before I go. If the room was smaller, it would have been sold out. Yeah. That's why COVID was nice.

You do a lot of rooms with 50% capacity and it's easier to sell out. Sold out. Yeah. There's 20 people there. I noticed yesterday at church how much I pay attention to the setup of every room. now if there's a speaker. We went to a Bible class and it was in this giant room with bad acoustics. There weren't a ton of people in there and people were spread out and I felt so bad for the guy up there talking. Yeah. Because I wanted to get everybody to move up front. Was the guy talking,

doing everything right? Well, he had some stuff on the monitor and they couldn't get the thing to work. So, yeah, it was not going well for him. Wow. But I felt sorry for it. Every time I go anywhere now, there's a public speaker. I'm thinking about the room set up. Can you imagine going to the trouble of having a teleprompter set up just for it not to work? Yeah. Like, you're like, you shouldn't even set this up?

It's like a PowerPoint. I've seen comedians come here and they got a little PowerPoint or something and they can't get it going in like the middle of the show. Oh, my God. It's so hard to watch. Yeah. We had a... Almost like with stand-up, you just want to do a regular old act. I agree.

why don't you just talk it's tough for that to get messed up I did some we had some event a conference for PWS that Lucy and I went to and there was a motivational speaker at one of them and everybody

everybody's like kind of trashed her and you're like this I was defending her I was like this is an impossible setup for what she's trying to do like it was the setup wasn't perfect and everybody was tied and it was late.

I was like, I've done dozens of shows just like that, you know. Need a little motivation or speaker for the motivational speaker after the show. Hey, you're doing good. They're motivated, okay? They are motivated. They're making fun of you, but they're motivated to do that. You brought them together. Common bond.

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You guys familiar with Thursday Night Thing? No. I didn't understand a lot of what you just said. Okay, well, let me just say it again. I did. I think everybody else did. Is this like, what were the television networks back in the day? They had Friday night, whatever.

There you go. TGIF. TGIF. So this is Thursday night thing. TNT. Yeah. We're TNT. Yeah, Thursday night thing.

It's a new comedy every Thursday. And it kicks up. We know drama. TNT. Yeah. We know comedy here at N. Our buddy Colin Chamberlain will be the first comic. I like Colin.

Colin's a friend of mine. Yeah, I grew up in Pittsburgh. Yeah, I like him. New York now. Very funny guy. That premieres Thursday. You know what time? 7 p.m.

7 p.m. this Thursday. And every Thursday, night, thing. I like that. Thursday night thing. From now on. Forever. All right. Also premiering this week,

Nate Land presents Mike Goodwin. Mike's half hour special premieres this Friday at 4 o'clock. I went to this taping. Mike K. killed it. Mike's very funny too. He's so funny. What do you call Fridays? Good clean Friday. Good clean Friday. Wow. GCF. Do you have one for every day of the week? Okay. Because it's Monday right now. Maddenick Monday. And Nick, Nate Land's next round of half, anyway, go check out Mike Goodwin this Friday at 4 o'clock.

Very funny. And Nate Land's next round of half hours, it's October 18th, Andy Woodhull, Mike James, Mark Delafoo at the historic Woolworth Theater here in downtown Nashville. That's Sunday, October 18th's afternoon show, so you'll be home for dinner. Are you going to pop in, stink up the place again? I might. I might. That's my thing. Those are three funny guys who I'm friends with, so I might go down there.

Is that just the one particular Woolworth or the whole chain? You guys still don't get that joke? Come on, guys. Oh, brother where art though? Yeah. Yeah, sorry. Come on, guys. Well, you're doing a call back to a joke you did the last episode.

episode? Yeah, but, you know, every time Woolworth comes up, I'll probably say it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Because that's where you can go see those guys. Well, anyway, I'll remember to stop mentioning where you can see them. Uh, so you guys want to get into these comments? Let's start it off. I'm excited, uh, because we have two episodes worth of comments. That's right. We're playing catch up here. Comments come from Twitter. Well, not really. Instagram. No, YouTube, mostly YouTube, and mail at Natelandpodcast.com. I'm just being more honest. where these come from. This is from the Frank Kelly Endo. I hate an Apple podcast review because you can't comment back. So no matter what they say, it just is there. I know. I don't like that. I like for the commenter to have to answer for themselves. What I do is if they give us, I go on there and comment myself, I create my own review and I just trash that previous comment. Oh, I like that. Yeah. Like I lash back at them. What percentage of people that leave mean comments do you think would say it to your face if they were looking right at you.

Zero. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I think zero because these people that get mad at me in the comments, if they were actually talking to me, I don't think they would take any of it that serious. If you, you should get a number out there and FaceTime these people. Just go, if you want to say something mean, FaceTime you say it to my face.

No, because they might do it. Because that's still not to my head. It's like we're having a good time. Can't take a chance. It's still not to my face. I agree. Yeah. But I agree with you.

Those Apple podcast reviews, they'll say something that's totally wrong. And I want to reply to them and I can't. Yeah. You have to leave your own review. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. All right.

This is from the Frank Kelly Endo episode. Lindell Chambers. It's Colin's mom. That's Collins Chamber. Yeah. Lindel Changers. Sorry, Colin. Sorry, Lindell.

sorry Colin sorry to everyone Lindell Chambers except to Aaron I'm sorry to the listeners for the last five minutes of this Lindel Chambers

fantastic episode I only wish you would have had Frank Breakdown Aaron's football highlight reel as Gruden What a great get for you guys Having Frank on the show Bravo What's your highlight reel

It's a video we've played on the podcast before. I don't have a highlight reel from my high school football career. I appear on several other people's highlight reels, including a guy who played football at Tennessee and eventually in the NFL. He is a highlight real of him hitting you? He posterized me. I think Derek Struke was here instead your own skates. It looked like I was on skates. Yeah, it was embarrassed. That would have been fun to have so many unbelievable impressions that Frank does. I think the Gruden one is my favorite. Yeah. because the face the face everything what he's saying it's just man that guy's so good

the man that joe rogan the rogan killed me people a couple of people i think said they they thought the rogan was a voice like they like a drop yeah like you're listening he just thought he yeah was put in wow uh cori douglas it hurts me a little that erin never did his morgan freeman impression for frank i think erin's impression is as good as any of I've heard, including Franks. Oh, wow. That's high praise. I think you're wrong, but thank you.

I think so, too. I mean, I think your impression's good. And I, you know, and but I, you know, I mean, Frank Caliando, to me is really the king of impression. But even if I took pride in my impressions, that was not the time of a place to do it. You know, if we had Jimmy Hendricks on the podcast, I'm not going to play Wonderwall at him. It would, you know?

It would be fun to see two Morgan and Freeman's have a talk. Morgan Freeman? Yeah. Just going back. When I chime in? No one ever does the Morgan Freeman from Lean On Me. You know, they never do that Morgan Freeman. Yeah, it kills your brain cells.

Yeah, because he's, it's a different. It's like Morgan Freeman, like, it's the only character I've ever seen him like that. Where he's animated, this was before he like really settled into being the, I'm just going to talk slow guy. Morgan Freeman from Lean on Me is maybe my favorite Morgan Freeman. I mean, I love that movie. That's a great movie. So good. So Frank Kelly, though, you think it's the king of impressions.

Yeah. Yeah. Who you think is the queen? I don't know. Maria Bantford. Yeah, I was going to say Maria Baford. Yeah. Does she do impressions or is it just voices that she does interact?

I think it's just voices, but. I think, I really think Melissa Villasneur is really good. She's very good. She's great. Yes. And there are all this, when you have a woman's voice, you can do all these impressions. You don't normally hear from a male impression. So that's fun.

Yeah. That's a good call. She's very funny. Jacob Reed. I came here to learn about Wisconsin. A left with less knowledge about Wisconsin than I started with. Well, that's, I mean, that just sums up what this podcast is all about. Sorry, Jacob.

Jacob, if you like to read so much, just go look up Wisconsin on your own, buddy. They'll come here harassing us. Jacob Reed. We give you Frank Calli Endo, and you hear you hear. you are crying about what you want to know about Wisconsin. You learn a lot about it from Aaron. He does a Minong. Do you still do the Minong, Wisconsin joke?

I haven't in a while. I need to get it on film. Yeah, you do. Do a Wisconsin impression. Yeah, that's pretty much the only voice I can do. No matter where you're from, my impression you will be a Wisconsin. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

Remember that guy? Uh-oh. Or whatever. Yeah. I will say. Oh, yeah. None of us, I don't think you'd met Frank before. you? No. None of us had ever met Frank before.

Never met until he comes in. In retrospect, he was so good, so funny, I would have just skipped all the Wisconsin stuff. Right. But in the moment, I'm like, I don't know if I can keep what we're doing here going for two hours. You don't know if you want to be like, you don't want to put too, he was carrying the episode.

You don't want to be like, keep carrying us. You're like, no, I have some stuff too to get us through it. Yeah. I was just, honestly, just entertained by Frank Kelly. Yeah, me too. I wasn't even like, I don't even need to be here. I'm just enjoying. I wish you weren't. Listen it to it.

Well, you don't wish that. No, I don't. Come on, Brian. I don't wish that. Come on. Tara Kelly. I love that Dusty absolutely lost it when breakfast showed his poster. I laugh more to him than I did at the actual photo.

Y'all are the best and I appreciate your content each and every week. What was a poster? My poster from upcoming show at... There it is. That's a gut. That's Sayliss Fuddybone, October 25th. If you're listening, it's an AI photo. That's wild.

It's AI, but it's not that AI. It's not bad AI, but it's not even, it's like close enough to be brought. It's like, why did they do it? Yeah. Because no one else's poster was that. A club did an AI of me too, but they nailed the face, but the body, they made me like a real thick dude. Yeah. Like, I just was like, I looked like, uh,

You know, like I worked on a ranch or whatever, yeah. Maybe. Here's my only theory on why they did that, Brian. Is when they asked for a headshot, you probably sent them a low resolution, small version of that headshot. And rather than bother you, they go, let me scale this up with AI. You text him a picture that was texted to you, maybe. You know, that's a good theory. Possible, but my agent sent it to them in every other club uses it.

Okay. Yeah. All right. Then yeah, I don't know. They just weren't happy with what you said. I've got Will O'Donnell on the case. He's doing a little reconnaissance work trying to find out if they've fixed it or not. Wow. Is that your shirt and that's your body?

Yeah, it looks like you working. Who is that? It looks like an actor, though. I can't think of who it looks like. But it looks like you're like. My hairline's kind of better, actually. You're like a, you own a store. You, this guy owns a store

Yeah Doing very well in a small town Yeah Yeah You know The teeth are much better Yeah the teeth are Yeah

The more we talk about The more I may just want to keep it Yeah Yeah I've changed my mind You just keep that And then when you show up Tell them that the regular headline

Couldn't be there The good looking guy Couldn't be here I'm his ugly half-brother Well thank you Tara Palmer G-I-S. I'm a cartographer, and I make maps for a living. Dusty is right.

People make propaganda maps to tell the story they want to tell. The Russians use a projection that makes Russia look large. Every map projection distort, shape, area, distance, and direction. The map makers choose the projection that suits their purpose. Trust in Dusty. His grounded gut instinct is likely correct. Yeah, I mean, they just put out a map saying that they're correcting the whole map.

They're correcting it. Why do we ever doubt you? I really don't know. I really don't know, guys. I got to push back on this. I know I make it all seem... This is a cartographer who's like Dusty's right. Your entire career is based on something Dusty doesn't think is real.

So like, you better hope he's not right. Well, listen, if every cartographer were like this guy, then... We'd all be lost all the time. Then we'd all go, oh, okay, well, Dusty wouldn't need to be. to make comments like that. Because it'd just be right. But even just saying the word projection implies they're taking something that's not two-dimensional

and trying to display it on a two-dimensional, in a two-dimensional way, which you don't think is what's happening. He says people make propaganda maps to tell the story they want to tell. I feel like you missed that line. No, I caught that one for sure, but then I kept going.

And he talks about a lot of projections. But I don't think that one gets rid of the original line. I mean, I think there's many maps. But you don't think that there's any accurate projection. I don't believe the current one that we're always shown. Okay. World map. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think we're all in agreement here, but I think you're having a tough time with it. Yeah, I'm having a tough time. Yeah, go ahead. All right. Thank you, Palmer. But we always say that... Thank you, Palmer, G-I-S for really bringing that out.

Let me also know what a cartographer was. I would not... I would not think that's what you do. You would have thought we'd been done doing that by now. I would have thought. If they wouldn't lie to us all the time, then we would be done with it. Oh, okay. Palmer's getting to the bottom of it.

Yeah. Palmer gets it. The only honest cartographer out there. Well, probably there are a lot of honest ones, but they won't let their map go. to print. Yeah. Big map.

Gets to them. Holding them down out here. Big map. Mm-hmm. All right. This is comments from the philosophy episode.

Adam Schmidt. Great job, Aaron. This was a very fun episode. All right. Okay. This guy gets it. Yeah,

he does. He does get it. You're doing a good job. You did a good job with that episode. Thanks, yep. Yep.

It was. I don't know why you can't have the same kind of support for me, but I, that I have for you. I think you do good job. You know, I feel like we give you a lot of support. I think you do a good job.

Oh, thanks. A lot of people said the Frank Eliando episode was their favorite we've ever done. Yeah. Some people said it was their least favorite. And they said, I just want to hear you three guys banter. I don't know the impressions. A lot of them didn't follow sports. And I get that. I get that if you don't know what he's doing. Yeah. It's probably not that entertaining. But if you're like us, it's, it was unbelievable. Yeah, it's awesome. Well, whenever you find yourself in a situation like that, just, you know, just listen to an old episode. We'll just be there bantering away, and then you can give us one more view on that old one. Yeah.

Or, you know, if there were some lulls in this episode, just remember how great that Frank Kelly had no one. Remember how hard we were laughing during that one. Yeah, next week they'll come back. I changed my opinion. Yeah, Frank is now, that's my favorite one now. But Frank is, you know, I mean like, you know, 10 years ago, like, or more, I don't know, Frank was everywhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And you don't see him as much these days, but he's still so funny. It is just mind-blowing. He is so, that's what the impression is incredible, but he's so funny. Like, even you doing your impression, you said you did two voices. Yeah, I mean, I said that a long time ago and people keep bringing that up, but I, yeah. He was so funny. He said. He's great.

He is great. Joel Frye. This was an awesome and fascinating conversation. I wish you guys had spent more time on the unmoved mover premise. Aaron? All right. Well, we're going to get to that on our Aquinas episode. What was the unmoved mover?

Did we talk about it at all? Maybe we brushed over. It's one of the main things, Aristotle. Aristotle talked about that Aquinas adopted in his arguments for God, that God is the unmoved mover, that everything has a cause. Every cause has a cause. And if you trace that all the way back, ultimately something has to be an uncaused cause or an unmoved mover. And Aquinas called that God. And a lot of people call that God.

That's pretty much it. It's good stuff. much time to spend on it then, I guess. No, I guess. We really covered it. Yeah, I guess we're done with that. Well, no problem, Joel. We'll just pick that up right here.

I don't know if I'm summing it up well, but I think that's the general idea. Yeah. So I was getting off 440 last night, and there's a sign for Aquinas College. And I assume that's named after him. Yeah, I hope so. I didn't know. It's George. Billy Joel Aquinas.

Billy Joel Aquinas. Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. David Womack. I would love to read a book on Dastonian philosophy. Is that me? That's you.

I have a book coming out called We're Having a Good Time. Is that a philosophical treatise? I will say this. Once I become a published author and there's some heat behind my name in the author world. I might get at it. Yeah. I might start getting out it. What does that mean?

That means writing some more books. And this is the beginning of a path that ends with you leading a commune somewhere. Like, I think you'll start your own church. Well, I'm just saying once I'm a published author, then I can start writing other things to get some other stuff. Some literature out a little bit. Yeah. I got some ideas. Yeah, I bet you did.

I wouldn't mind a philosophy book. I like philosophy. I like, you know. What would you say some of the tenets of a Dastonian way of life would be? Well, first off, just stop believing everything that people tell you. Okay. Just go ahead. Should we believe anything?

Well, you know, that's up to you, but you shouldn't really believe anything without some question. It is going to be hard to start an ideological movement where the first rule is don't believe anything. Don't believe. Stop believe. Stop believe everything. Oh, don't believe everything. Believe what you tell them? Everything that people tell you.

Every time people are like, oh, this is it. have some questions. Right, but never, don't care about the answers, but always have questions. Well, is the answer satisfactory to you? To you? Yeah. Okay. I mean, ultimately, if you're asking the questions, it matters if the answer is satisfactory to you. Okay. That's deep. Yeah. That's nice. That's tenet two. Yeah. If we're having a time, it is good. Right? Well, that's the idea. That is the idea. Not all time. can be good. He is deep.

Could you ever see yourself starting at a church? Not like you guys are trying to imply that church would have to be around Jesus. I mean, not anything that you guys are trying to imply. But yeah. Well, yeah, I just, yeah. I think that's what he meant. He didn't mean a religion based around you. Well, you said Colt, and then he said, what do you about starting here on church?

I never said the word Colt. I said a commune. I did say Church of Dusty. Oh, commune. Of course. That's what I'm saying. I mean, I'm trying to get land now. I'd love to start some kind of friend commune.

Yeah. Well, we could all just live on one plot of land, all do a little gardening. You know, maybe we go out, have our jobs, but we could all agree on a way of life. I think I see where things are headed for me. Just like story of Noah, not that Noah, but Noah in the Bible. Nobody thought it was going to rain. And then people's at ark and people are knocking. Let us in.

When AI Watched us out here in a few years I'm going to be calling Dusty Say hey, get any more room in that commune to live in? Yeah, exactly. You got to be ready.

Yeah. And you're going to say, oh, sorry. Yeah, back me up more. Exactly. Exactly. Too many animals in here. Not enough room for you.

It is so, it's so hot out there still. We're recording this, September 14th. It's supposed to be in the upper 90s all week. It's, It's very hot.

Some might say it's a wet heat out there, huh? Maybe. All right. David, coming out soon. Not that book, but... There's probably a bit of philosophy in there. Yeah, yeah. Eric Smith, Dusty said Morgan Freeman has gone away.

He's currently one of the stars of one of my absolute favorite shows called Lioness. He's great, and so is the show. I've never heard of it. No one's ever heard of it. Eric Smith is the only guy watching it, I bet. Katie says it's so good. Well, the last time Katie talked on the podcast, people really got mad.

I know. Shut it up, Katie. Lioness. American spy thriller TV series, created by the, what's the Landshark guy? What's his name? Taylor Shard. Yeah, the Yellowstone guy. Yeah.

Oh, that's the only guy doing shows people watch. I know. His shows are great. His movies are great. See, this is like the size image that Brian probably emailed the club. By the time you zoom in, it's all blurry. That's Morgan Freeman. That looks like an old Dave Chappelle.

It does. He's got a cigarette down by his waist and his mic from the other. Is he the president in this? So he's got a Cole Kidman. Yeah, Morgan Freeman plays the U.S. Secretary of State. Okay. Zoy Zaldana. Yeah.

She just got back. She was the highest grossing actor of all time. Just got passed. Just got passed by Tom Holland. That's right. Isn't that crazy? That's wild, man. I mean, I know she was in Guardians of the Galaxy, but what else was she?

So all the Avengers. Avatar, too. And Avatar. So all those movies made $50 billion. She's either blue or green. Yeah, I couldn't. Yeah. All right.

Wow. And then second was Scarlet Johansson for, also for the, all those Avengers movies and then Tom Holland just passed both of them. So he said Donna also in Drumline. Remember her in that movie? I don't think I've ever seen Drumline. You never saw a drumline? Our friend Renard Hersch was in it.

I never saw it. No, I bet you love it, don't you? Yeah, of course. Of course. So more highest growth, more higher grossing than Tom Cruise, all those guys. Not making more income, like the movie she's in. The movie should have been in. Oh, okay. But not

Robert Downey Jr. Oh yeah, more than... Because she was in all those movies and Avatar and another franchise, yeah. And Tom Holland was... What was the other franchise? I don't know. Tom Holland was in the Odyssey,

which is also... And the Spider-Man. All the Spider-Man's and the Avengers. Okay. Wow. She was in Star Trek, too. I remember her in Star Trek, I think. The movie?

Star Trek, the movie, not the TV show. Yeah, yeah. This episode is sponsored by Better Help. If you could wake up tomorrow and just magically be better at one thing, what would it be? Dusty? Me? Yeah. I'll get back to you. Aaron?

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I sure do. And so much so that we all had to look it up. But thanks, Eric. No, Katie said it was so good. But let's not pretend like Morgan Freeman did not disqualify. disappear for a long time. Yeah, this is not Game of Thrones. You know, we didn't.

I mean, it was like he was like a gigantic actor that people are doing impressions of, and you don't see him for a long time. Yeah, yeah. What was the last thing we've seen him in? I think he was in some movie with Tommy Lee Jones where they were like in a retirement community. The bucket list. Remember that movie?

Oh, yeah, he was in that too. Old people. He was in that like 20 years ago. Yeah. He was old. Yeah. Scott Tidwell. Brian saying that he gets only 20% of this podcast made me laugh because he's 33% of the podcast,

which means he doesn't get 13% of what he says. Well, Scott, if you think we all comment the same amount on this podcast, you're not listening. I'd say Brian is easily 50% of the podcast. You do? Yeah. And then I'm the other 50, and Aaron chimes in here. Wait, that's 100% us. You've got to give Aaron something.

Yeah, there's a hit or miss. Yeah. It's a degree of error. He runs the computer, so we keep him around. Thanks, guys. Okay. I think Vince Gill is universally loved and should be considered as a most beloved Tennessean. He was born in Oklahoma, but it seems like he's lived in Nashville forever.

That's a good one. I don't know if enough people know who Vince Gill is. I mean, he's an eagle now. He is an eagle now. I think he's... I mean, he's super well-known in music, but I don't know if the average person is like that familiar with Vince Gill. What is that pertaining to that comment? The Dolly Parton.

We were building the Tennessee Mount Rushmore. Oh, okay. And they're saying Vince Gill qualifies, which it does qualify, but I think I don't know if he's well known enough. Could be wrong about that. But he also is from Oklahoma. Yeah, but they're arguing, which we talked about, do you have to be born here? Yeah, I'm super probably Elvis should probably be in there too, right? We discussed him.

Oh, yeah. I tend to tune out. I just chime in every now and then. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I forgot. Yeah. let's go to

Dustin Nickerson was in town doing the Britt Peterson Foundation thing which you guys have done and right before I've done it

the Predators thing at Bridgettow Oh yes Okay yeah And right before they call him up We got a special guest It's Vince Gill

And he went up And like played a few songs Wow That's a tough follow in Nashville Yeah You know what I've followed Vince Gill

at the Opry before. And I said this, I said on stage, this doesn't make sense. That you're going after him. Yeah. About to go rest high on that mountain. Yeah.

Because I'm going to die up here. I've done it with him a couple times, but he's 100% closing out the show. Yeah, I think it was like a newer, like, because they kind of always put us right in that same spot as comics. And I just think there was like a newer,

like hot popular country singer. So they kind of did it. that. Okay. This doesn't make sense. Yeah. So he probably kicked off the second half of the show, maybe, and then you were next. I guess so.

That's usually where they put something like that. Comics. All right. Well, this week, guys, I'm very excited about today's topic because we are talking about radio. Radio, which is basically what this is. It's the modern version of radio. This is radio.

But I want to ask you guys, I'm going to dare to venture the guest that I listen to radio terrestrial radio more than you guys. You started before us and you've been doing it longer than us, for sure. That's a definite. But when you guys in your car coming here, going places, do you listen to radio? If you mean regular AMF and radio, if you listen to it for one second of the day, you listen to it more than me. Oh, you know what, though? That's not true.

That's not true. Nothing you say is true. Well, that's not true. Don't believe everything. But I, you know what, in Nashville, there is, I do listen to talk radio. in Nashville. And I do listen a bit. So, well, I listen on the way here because I have a friend. Usually when I'm coming to the podcast, I have a friend that's on the radio, 99.7. He's covering his bases here. Oh, my bad. I actually listen to my friend.

No, I do listen to him sometimes. Matt Murphy. And he's my friend and I do listen to him. So you know what? I do listen a bit. What about you? Very rarely. I listen to ballgame sometimes. Yeah. Baseball? If I'm driving, yeah, yeah, on the road. Wow, that's the best. Listen to baseball on the radio. Yeah, if you're driving, you know, and you don't want to watch the game.

No. But you know what I mean? There's a, that's very old school. I love it. I know, I do too. When you watch a game on MLB TV, you can watch the game, but then take the audio feed from local radio and put it on top of the game. Oh, clear.

So you're listening to the radio while watching it. It's the best. Yeah. Those announcers are so much better than the TV, guys. You know, I forget about talk radio. Sometimes when I say how much I don't listen to radio, because I never listen to music on the regular radio. I have Sirius XM and I do that. But talk radio, local stuff, you get to hear about some local jams.

My dad used to listen to a lot of baseball on the radio. It is nice. You hear the crack of the bat like over the radio? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sounds real nice. I used to hear a story. I don't know if it's true or not that they would have a pencil and they would break it over the mic or

close to the mic so it sounded like the bat. Really? Yeah. That kind of breaks my heart. But I guess it makes sense. I don't think they had the mic. Yeah. I don't think it was miced up that well back then. Yeah. But man, it sounds good.

What's the last time you've, do you even know your presets or are they even set? I don't think I've, I have a car that I've had about a year. I don't think I've ever turned it over to AMFM radio on that one. What about you does? Well, I have serious XM, but yeah, I have a ton of presets. Yeah. I was going to say, when's the last time you changed a preset? Oh, the other day. Actually, I had three classic rock stations, one, two, three, and then I switched one of them to kind of the lithium, 90s rock station that I found.

Sounds like you listen to the most radio out of all. That's all you do. Serious X-M. Oh, serious. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. We're talking antenna. Yeah. No, no of them. Okay. Channel 7 is my talk radio. I used to, I tried this as a joke and I couldn't get to work, but about my age. Like, I recently got excited about finding a new radio station that I changed it to.

It's true. It's a 90s country station. And I changed my preset. A Nashville one? Yeah. All right. That's a big deal because you've been listening to the same ones forever. I listen to, I do have Siris XM.

And so I do listen to that certainly on the road. But if I'm just around Nashville, I'm usually listening to local radio stations. A lot of sports talk today on the way here, listening to people talk about the time. Titans. People are excited, huh? It's going great for the Titans. It's fun to listen to... We got blown out on Sunday by the Jets. Oh, cool. Good thing we're

getting that stadium, though. That would be fun to watch that. Somehow keep getting worse. Are we still on the Jumbotron there, you think? I thought it was two years. They took us off after one? It was supposed to be two years, but I think a lot of change. I saw a video of... We don't do that podcast anymore. There was some guy calling in complaining about everything, and it kind of went viral because the guy had a lot to say. And he was like, everything, what was on the field

and the game day experience was terrible. And he started going through it. And I was like, I hope he doesn't mention the Code of Conduct video. He didn't mention it. I don't think you got there in time for that. But yeah, the mood is not good over there right now. Go ahead. You know, when I first started working the road, though,

I had a car with no, no ox plug and no, and I had, I would listen to CDs and then regular radio quite a bit. And out here on the road, that next, next, next button is just pretty frustrating. When you're in the middle of nowhere and you're hitting seek. Yes. And then it's just some pastor or something in the middle of nowhere. I actually would be happy about that because I go, all right, here's something.

Yeah. Here's something for a while. Here's another human talking to me. Yeah. Do you ever call into radio shows, Bro? I was going to ask you that. I've never called into anything. Your entire life.

No. I maybe tried to call to win tickets for something when I was a kid, but I've never called in to speak on a show. I, have you, Dusty? Yeah, I called in last time about 10 years ago. What was it for? I was 99.7 and I was living here in Nashville and I don't know. I forget what it was, but it was, they were just talking about some stuff and I got, I'm about to get in. I'd like to weigh in on that.

Did they block you? I could, I would have loved to heard that. I, yeah, I, as a kid, I remember calling in to like a radio station to where they take request. Oh, okay. And I remember my sister and I could. Could you play sugar, sugar by the Archies? What was your request? Not quite that old, but I remember what it was.

Yeah. It was the Dukes of Hazard thing. Oh, that's always. Yeah, that's a big one. And Duke's of Hazard was so big as a kid. And my sister and I called in, and then we just waited forever for them to finally play it. Did they eventually? Yeah, they did.

But I'm like, why isn't this the top? Did they play a clip of you requesting it? No. Oh, that'd have been cool. No, no, no. And then I've called into sports talk. it's been many years, but a time or two. It'd be fun to find out you were like a crazy guy who calls in a Feinbaum.

Do you ever listen to Feinbaum? All the time. Yeah. If you're not from the South, Paul Feinbaum is on ESPN now, but he ran super popular college football radio show, and it ultimately became Jerry Springer for college football. I had it on Sirius XM when I was selling pesticides. It was great.

People would call in, I mean, just crazy. easy sounding. Reoccurring characters. Yeah. Yeah. I was listening to Paul Feinbaum when the guy called in and said he poisoned the trees. You were listening to live when that happened? Yeah.

Well, let me tell you what I did. He said, I poisoned those trees down there. I drove down from Daveville, about 30 miles from where I live, and I poisoned the tumors trees. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, what was his name? His name was, uh, what did I say? Humphrey, Humphrey, Hugh, Hugh, something.

Harvey. Harvey Updike. Harvey Uptake was his name. And I remember fine, but I'm going, that's illegal, right? He goes, you think I care? Roll tide. Yeah, unbelievable stuff. I called into like the Titans' coaches thing once.

Which is so funny because I'm going to be on there next week as a guest. Oh, that's cool. So that's a nice little step up. Are you going to take calls when you're on there? I would love that. I'd like to call in talks and trash. I would love to take calls about the Titans. What channel?

Uh, 104.5. That's a good one. I've listened to that a few times. I like that. That's a good station. Yeah. And I do, uh, like Joe Dubin show some. Oh, Big Joe on the go.

Yeah, I know, yeah, he's the man. He's the man. He's been good to us. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I act like I'm on every week, but, you know, I'll be on there two, three times a year. Right.

Just to promote something. Uh, but, um, I remember calling in probably 12, 13 years ago. They said, uh, what's a, an upcoming athlete that we should know about and what's an upcoming stand-up comedian that we should know about. And I called in and said Nate.

Wow. 12 years ago. Maybe longer than that. At least that. I was trying to do the math. I think the player I said was Taco Fall. Do you remember him?

Oh, sure. Yeah, he's 7-5 or 7-6. This one who was in high school. And I'd seen highlights of him. So about 4. 50%. You ever seen Taco Fall? No.

I've seen a Taco Fall before. Look how tall he is, man. That's him next to a... It's tough to... He's behind him, too. Yeah, what about... Yeah, and that girl's probably real short. Well, you can tell he's tall, though.

Well... Be away. I said Nate. I mean, come on, dude. That guy looks short, though. Look at that guy. How short can he be? He's on the Boston Celtics.

Come on. I don't know. I don't know. Is Taco not good? I mean, Bad knees. Not for 7, 6. It's tough.

If you're that tall, man, your legs just die out on you. I think he's still playing, isn't he? Yeah, but I think, I remember some hype around him

like he was going to be the next huge star. He played at UCF, I think, and just. He's from Senegal. Yeah, he's on the 76ers

with LeBron right now. All right. All right. LeBron's on the 76ers? Yeah, he's on the 76ers. Okay. He didn't see that?

No, I don't. I don't keep up now, but... You got to listen to 101 of 4.5. Yeah. But when I said Nate, nobody knew who he was. Really? Yeah. It's kind of funny.

What's he doing on the 76ers? LeBron? Yeah. Whatever he wants. They're saying he is going to live in New York and take a helicopter to Philadelphia every day. Oh, good. Where I'll be tonight at New York Comedy Club. Oh, yeah, there you go.

It'll be a wet heat. Yeah. Oh, good. I love that. Just reading the first page of a book, lecturing us, and taking a helicopter. That should be an interesting team. Tell us about Malcolm Beck.

He was an amazing man. And he was just an amazing man. But you never called him to play a contest or anything or try to win tickets? I tried to win tickets. You know, like seventh caller win smashmouth tickets. And then I'd call in and try to win. And then they go, you were the 440th caller. This contest was yesterday.

I would go see Smashouth. What's the station that pays? I remember, dude. All-Star by Smashout. That was the first time I remember being conscious of, wow, this song is having a cultural moment. That song was everywhere. You were like real rock music. That's what I'm doing.

Hey now You're an all-star Get to show on Get paid Smash mouth That was maybe Second or third album I ever bought Was that Smash on them?

Not Shrek Shrek game later Dude Shrek was the The smash mouth Reconaise Renaissance Somebody once told me

The world Is gonna roll That song was massive It is a good song No I like it You ain't the sharpest Tool in the Shed You never called in to request a song?

I think so, yeah, many times. Have you called in to complain about the songs they have been playing? Not lately. No, I never have. He does not hear. That's a good idea, though. Yeah. I mean, I still call in radio all the time.

I do, I mean, you know, I have a radio guy. Aaron uses this guy too, and we, I'll get a sheet, and it goes, all right, for the next two hours, you're going to call a radio station every 10 minutes. Yep. And talk to you. them and it's exhausting. I like it. A lot of the people I talk to, I really like talking to them. I don't know how many people hear these call-ins, but I do, I want it to be good because I like talking to them. It was such a big deal at some point to be on the radio that I'm like,

oh, now I finally got a radio guy. I want this to be good. I just don't know if people are really listening now. Isn't it funny when they're talking to you normally and then they snap into that radio voice so quickly? All right. We're going to go live in about five seconds. That all right. Welcome back to Wyoming's number one radio station. We got a very funny guy, Dusty Slade with a what's cracking dust air. All right. We're having a good time. That's how they all start. And, you know, but I lately, I just, I kind of stopped doing the jokes, you know, and I just talk and try to be funny with what I'm saying. And I talked to a long, a guy about, you know, raising tadpoles into frogs and letting them go. And then at the end, I go, is this been your weird, weirdest interview yet?

He goes, maybe. And then, you thought he's going to be like, oh, no, no. Yeah, probably. But I was just like, I'm just talking, right? You expect him to go, no, everything. I'm just trying to be interesting because I just, I don't know, sometimes I think just joke, joke, joke, on the radio is not really the way. It's not going to stand out. But I feel like if you are kind of weird, people will go, who is this guy? And it might go Google search you and find you and go, oh, I like him. Yeah, that's worked for you well.

Yeah. Yeah. I can't remember where I was. I was with Zach Townsend, who's a buddy of ours comic here in Nashville. And I had a couple radio spots lined up through the club for like Friday morning. So Friday morning, we woke up early. We went to this radio station. And the lady there was so nice at the reception desk.

She was telling us about this insect exhibit that they had in town. She was like, y'all going to go check out the bug exhibit. So we go in to do the interview, and Zach decides everything I talk about is just going to be bug related now. Okay. So, you know, the lady was nice. She goes, what are y'all getting into while you're in town? He goes, we're going to go check out the bug exhibit. She keeps talking about bugs.

And then she goes, well, who are some of your favorite comics? And he was like, I really like bug Stanhope. He's probably going to do this thing. I'm at the table too. I'm like, stop doing this. But he just kept doing it. And it was a lot of fun. Yeah.

I don't think the lady knew what was going on. Oh, yeah. But it was a good time. Yeah, I mean, I think you've got to have fun with it, but, you know, you don't want to like this. That's a risky for a feature to do that. Yeah. A lot of the, a lot of the TV stuff, like some of these comics will do them and they're like, you know, they're obviously just messing around with the host. But I feel like sometimes they go too far.

And it's like, well, now you kind of potentially blowing it for everybody else. It's like now they're not going to want to do it. Not that I think morning TV is selling tickets either, though. But sometimes it's a cool thing for comics to do. Yeah. You know, you get a good picture, a good video clip or something out of it. Erica Rhodes lately. Oh, she had that one go supervise.

Yeah. Yeah, but I know firsthand some specific examples of clubs. The TV stations, I'm no longer taking comics from that club because of this guy. One time I was in Indianapolis and I was featuring for April Macy. and we were hanging out, you know, having cigars. And I go, she's like, I go, you know, if you're doing Bob and Tom tomorrow, you know, can I go just kind of sit in and kind of see what's going on down there? And she goes, yeah, that'd be great, actually. And so I get up super early and go.

And then Ruth Ann comes and picks April up. And I show up and she goes, what are you doing? I go, I was just going to go kind of hang out. She goes, there's no room for you there. I just went back into my hotel I was like, okay. There's no room anywhere for me to sit. Yeah, come on.

I was like, I just want to kind of see what's going on and how this goes, you know? Yeah. Yeah. But you've done Bob and Tom as much you want now. Yeah, that's true. Have you ever had like a station you listened just because of the show or the DJ?

Because of the DJ? I don't know. I mean, we used to listen to John Boy and Billy a lot when I was a kid, and we liked them, but it was basically just all we had. I mean, on the radio, as far as morning goes. Yeah, Rick and Bubba, too. Yeah, I don't think Rick and Bubba was around when I was a kid.

It came later, probably. I do remember there is a popular DJ for like a pop station in Montgomery, where I grew up. And he was one of the guy, I can't remember his name, but you would know his name then. Tom Joyner? My friend had like, we were in eighth grade. My friend had a dance party, and that guy was the DJ. And I remember that took a lot of the allure away from it. I was like,

this guy's DJing an eighth grade party. Yeah. I was like, maybe this guy's not like a legend like a funny one. I know. You know, he's probably perfectly nice guy, but he was struggling like everybody,

you know. I got a home video of us like when we were kids meeting some of the, like South 106 was a station. And I remember listening to that. And I got a video of us like meeting some of those guys. They were doing a thing at the hearties. and Lafette. You told a story about the worst interview you ever did.

Yeah. In Dayton, Ohio. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's a great one. It is a great story where basically you talked about your sinus infection, a funeral. Right. I was making small talk with the DJ, not knowing we were on the air. I use that story now for the start of every radio call, just knowing using that information, knowing that can happen.

and you might be on the air. I come in hot. Well, you know, she got me too after that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So she emailed me and said, hey, I'd love to have you on the radio show. Promise I won't, you know, I'll let you know when we're starting or whatever. I won't do you what happened to Aaron. And I'm like, yeah, I'd love to do it.

I was at a kid's place center with my daughter. And she calls and I step out. And she's like, I'm like, I was just here to kids place here with my daughter. I'm stepped out to talk, whatever. We're already on the air. She got me again. That's funny the second time. Yeah.

If I'm like, you're setting us up. Well, this is what I do. You know, I call them. And then when they answer, I go, hey, it's Dusty Slay. You know, I come in hot. Right. But if we did that, it's Aaron Weber. No, I say, dude.

Hey, I know Dusty Slay. All right. It's Brian Bates. Just got to do it. Come in hot. You ever switch over to A.M.? No. I don't dare venture.

over at a.m. I don't know what's going. I will venture over there when I'm on my way to the Opry. What do you? Oh, listen to the Opry. Yeah. They play it on Willie's Roadhouse on Sierra XM. So I'll listen to it. Live. Yeah. No, little delay. Yeah. I like to let hear it live. Actually, what I can do when I do the Opry, I can do my set, get out of there, get in the car, and then listen to me in the car on the way home. You get it, you leave that quick? Well, it's still a little. I mean, yeah, maybe one person after me. And depending on who it is. I'll stick around, but usually I leave right after my car. Do you sit down between leaving the stage and getting in your car? No. Okay. Yeah. You're out of there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless I like, you know, not that I, not that I don't like anyone, but if I'm excited to see the last

person, I'll stay and I just stand on the side there and watch. But I, no, I never go back into the green room and sit down. Decompress. Yeah. I go get in the car and smoke a cigar on the way home, listening to Willie's Roadhouse. You know those pieces in your claws that you find yourself wearing on repeat? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The sweater that goes with everything. The perfect pair of pants.

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Radio waves or electromagnetic waves of frequency. They were discovered by German physicists or proven by German physicists Heinrich Hertz. So that's why it's megahertz. Yeah, there you go. The hertz or gigahertz or megahertz. And they move at the speed of light. Is that true? 56 miles per hour.

I don't know. Probably pretty fast. I don't know. Because I know the radio signals, all the ones that we've transmitted on Earth are out in space somewhere, just going. Since the, I think the Olympics in the one that Germany hosted, I know this from the movie Contact, because it was Hitler that's opening the games. And they sent that message back because it was the first thing that. So billions of years from now, there can be an alien civilization sets up a receiver and they start hearing Hitler's speech.

Or may you go on. Hey, it does your son. All right. But so am, you know what it stands for? I have no idea. After midnight. Applitude modulation. Okay.

And FM is frequency modulation. So in AM, the amplitude changes based on the dial, but the frequency say the same. FM, the frequency changes, but the aptitude stays the same. Oh, okay. And the frequency, as you know, have you ever wondered why it's certain numbers on the dial? Yeah. He starts at 88 and it goes to 108. You know, I never have, but I probably should have wondered that. What does that mean? I'm not sure, but I just wondered. You guys wondered that too. Why does it start at 88 and in the movie Back to the Future, they have to get to 88 miles per hour? It says frequencies below 88 megahertz was historically used for VHF television, like old analog TV, while frequencies above 108 strictly reserved for critical aircraft navigation and air traffic control.

Oh, okay. So I guess that's just the range they gave radio stations. Yeah, so like police scanners do are their own frequency. Yeah. But AM, you can hear way better further than air. FM. Did you know that? I had no idea. I thought this is going to sound dumb based on everything you just said. I legit thought growing up, AM was talk radio and FM was music. Well, that's usually, well, that's usually all they use AM for, I feel like. Like you could find like there was that

coast to coast on AM and I guess that's because the signal is stronger. I never could find it. But I, AM, I've always found A.m. That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. Yeah. Well, this is what I would do. I go on A.m. and hit seek. You know. know, and then it just runs all the way back to the starting place. I go, oh, no, a. I'm stationed. So especially, it goes much further at night. Did you know that?

Why is that? Oh, I'm glad you asked, Aaron. So during the day, AM radio signals travel along the ground in a straight line, which limits how far you can hear them. Sunlight creates a lower layer of the atmosphere called the D layer. The D layer absorbs AM radio waves instead of letting them bounce. Wow. But when the sun goes down, the delayer quickly breaks apart and fades away.

AM signals can rise higher in the sky. And that's why you can hear AM station, some of them across the whole country. WSM, Grounded Opera, you can hear almost all over the U.S. Wow. You know, I've gotten a corporate gig before from someone listening to me on the Opry in North Dakota. Really? Yeah. The same AM station that we're using here.

That's amazing. Yeah. Where does it launch out of? I'm Nashville, I'm guessing. Yeah. I think the tower down there on Concord Road is their tower. That big one down there? Yeah.

I think. You guys know? No, they're not always. I'd like to get... What do you do around here? Besides giggle and ruin our audio. I'd like to get some kind of radio. I feel like radio is like, you know, not as popular.

And I'd bring it back. I'd love to get some kind of big antenna like that and just start doing my own radio station. Yeah. You can do it. You can get a hand. radio, start doing it. Make your own station there. What would your number be?

69. Too low. You can do 106.9, maybe. 106.9, yeah. 106.9, Dusty Slay Radio. All the hits from two-year span in the 90s. from 92 to 94. And that'd be a popular station.

Brooks and Dunn. A clear channel radio station. But I'd just talk. No music. No, I might play a song here and there, but I just... Your song. It's just you holding your phone up. Yeah.

Like your podcast? Yeah. Clear Channel radio station's a high-powered AM station that has special legal protection from nighttime interference. It was originally created to make sure people living in remote or rural areas could still have reliable news and emergency alerts. There's like 50 in the country,

two in Tennessee, WSM and WLAC. All right, look at us. Yeah. Two out of the 50. Is it true, I don't know if this is on there, is it true that you can pick up the radio

in a tooth filling? Or is that just in cartoons? Maybe that depends on what they're using for the filling. That's a good other point. I don't know what the fillings are made out of. Well, they used to use mercury.

Well, that probably didn't end well, huh? I'm not going to repeat that. Yes, metal dental fillings can theoretically pick up AM radio signals under very rare in specific conditions. So saliva interacting with different types of metal fillings can create a tiny cell, like a mini battery, that produces faint clicking or popping noises. I don't understand. How would you... I have no idea how this way. You would hear it coming through your mouth?

I don't have no idea. I got to see an example of this. The radio waves create tiny electrical currents that cause the metal to vibrate faintly, which passes through the skull to create a faint sound sensation. So I don't think it's going to be crystal clear. But it's happened. But you're going to feel the vibrations. I don't have any more metal fillings, but do I have feelings?

Oh, so many. What do you use? Ivory? Well, now they use, you know, just, I mean, I think they probably, some people still use Macon. But I've had all my mercury fillings removed. Oh, okay. I don't know if I was, were they doing mercury recently for fillings?

Probably in your lifetime. That feels like an asbestos era type thing. I mean, maybe. When I was a kid, so I had a lot of mercury. Yeah, you're not that much older than me. Silver. Yeah, okay. Apparently they're still doing them.

You have to ask for it. No mercury, please. Yeah. Because you can get mercury poisoning. It says it's rare, but you know, don't believe everything. So is losing your bag at the airport. I agree. Yeah. But if you have somebody remove it that doesn't know what they're doing, then it can really mess you out.

You're using a lead pencil to try to scoop it out. Yeah. Who did you use your barber? No, I mean, you go to a holistic dentist. Oh. It used to be in Brentwood. It used to be Jeff Allen's, F. D.D.H.

His daughter's father-in-law. Did they use real sedatives there? Can they knock you out? Well, for a dental? I don't think you need to be knocked out.

Did they? For like a root canal or something? Yeah, you get numbed. Yeah. Holistic dentist doesn't do root canals. Oh, okay. They just clean and do cavities. Well, they can, you know, they do fillings and they can,

but root canals are terrible for you. I've never had a root canal. Because you leave a dead tooth. You have dead tissue just in your body. Oh, so you would just pull the tooth if you needed it? Well, yeah, you try to avoid, just avoid that by, you know, you can grind the tooth down and put a cap over it. But yeah, you don't want a dead tooth in there. Oh, I had a root canal.

It was terrible. Yeah, I had one years ago, but I had that tooth pulled. Yeah, don't do it. You don't want just... It's too late. I already did it, but yeah. Is it still a little bit? still in there?

Mm-hmm. It's like, it would be like, it'd be like, oh, this, my appendix is really hurting. And then they go in there and instead of taking it out, they just cut off all the, everything that's going to it and make it lifeless. It's not exactly the same, but close. He had that done too. Yeah, I had that done as well.

Yeah. They do say they're bad. And that's how you can tell if a dentist is authentically holistic, if they ask them if they do root canals. That's the secret question. Yeah. Root canals are safe, effective dental procedures, but this is a dentist writing this.

Yeah. So what is a truly neutral source on this? Because the people you're talking about, they also have an incentive to feel one way about this too. So how do I find a truly neutral source about root canals? I don't think there are, I mean, there's no truly neutral source. sources. But those people could make much more money by going the traditional route, so they must have incentive to... Yeah, there's no truly neutral sources. So I just...

What do I do? You trust me. What do you? Yeah. What tooth has it? It is. I'd be easy to pull. Yeah. Let's do it on the pie. I like that I still have a tooth there. But you get an implant. Well, how is that worse? How is that better for you than... Because it's not real tissue. Oh, no, that's a real tooth right here, dude. Yeah. I know it because it still kind of hurts. Is that your dip tooth? No, no, I don't have a dip tooth.

Okay. If you have it pulled, will you do it on the podcast, and will you let Dusty do it? I'll let Dusty pull it. Get some pliers, yeah. If you numb it up, it's really not even that hard, I don't think. It's the molars that are, they go really deep. These up here, they don't even.

Did you have wisdom teeth removed? Two of them. Okay. I wish I'd never done it. Okay. I was not. That was not. That was not.

That was not. No, he was okay. Yeah. But I don't. It's kind of holy. I don't know. I didn't know then what I know now about this. Right.

And I think we should have our wisdom to you. Mm-hmm. I think it's all a scam. You still have two? Yeah, because they were worried. They said one is kind of touching a sinus and one is kind of touching a nerve. And they were worried if they pulled them, it would mess me up. So they didn't.

And I wish they had not done any of that. Yeah, I can understand because I think the whole idea of a. removing wisdom teeth, you would reject the premise of it. So, yeah, you probably wouldn't want to get them taken out, knowing everything you know now. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So the radio.

It's a money maker. The first commercial radio broadcast, Eric. First commercial radio broadcast. Yep. I have no idea. November 2nd, 1920. Yeah, I didn't even know what you were asking. Oh, I'm sorry.

what it was or when it was or where? What was going on November 2nd? Of what year? 1920. 1920, World War I. That's true. That's a good guess. But the presidential election or any elections usually.

So World War I had just wrapped up. I think that's right. And 1919. It ended maybe? I think so. Okay. So 1920? Presidential election and the results were transmitted at KDKA in Pittsburgh.

Okay. It was the first radio station. And they announced the winner over the radio? The results. So before then, you had to wait for the newspaper the next day? I guess so. Wow. And now it takes longer to know who won.

Yeah. Even then. I'm sure not the next day, though. Yeah. It was probably multiple days before you got it. But even back then, most people would not have heard it on the radio. No, because nobody had bought one. It's almost like when shows started broadcasting HD, but no one had HD TV.

And then 1938, Orson Wells did War the Worlds. Yeah. You know that story? Yeah. Apparently it's been over dramatized how panic people were, but. Very few people were legitimately freaking out. Probably. Yeah.

But it's still a fun story. Yeah, definitely. If you don't know it, if you're listening, you don't know it, he did a radio play that aliens had attacked America. and it was like an adaptation of War the Worlds the book right I guess that's true they would do like news cut-ins and people thought it was real is this the Tom Cruise movie

it is the Tom Cruise movie but not Tom Cruise didn't do the radio portion of it yeah he's been around a while he hasn't been around a while doesn't seem to be aging

something's going on so the largest radio owner IHeart Media. They own 860 AM stations and about 150. No, I'll get an AMNF stations. So we've jumped up from the 20s. I can keep going. No, no, no.

You said I heart media. I was like, they've been around that long. Yeah. It's kind of a weird name for the 20s. I didn't know we were going to talk about radio, and it's interesting in one of these ad reads I brought up, or maybe it's Nate Land News, I brought up O Brother War Art thou. You know, in that movie, you guys have seen it?

Yes. In that movie, they go in and they make a little money, they pay them a little money to record a song on the radio. And so they make their little money, you know, and they have no idea what's going on with that song on the radio. Because, you know, they're not just riding around listening to turn in the car. They have no idea. It becomes a big hit. Yeah. They have no idea what's going on.

Is it the Foggy Mountain? No, it's the Man of Constant Sorrel. Well, didn't they have a name, though? Oh, the soggy bottom boys. It's a lot of them boys. It's been a long time. And then they play, they do that song live at the end of the movie and it's like. People go nuts.

Yeah. And they had no idea. Yeah. I love that. You see The Odyssey yet? No. Is it good? It's based on the same.

Oh, yeah. Book is O Brother Where Art? Yeah. Dusty, how do you feel about I heart and cumulis owning all the radio stations? Well, I don't like it because I think that anytime somebody buys up all these things, it takes away from the individual. of it. DJs can't play what they want to play. They all get a playlist.

And then you can't have authentic, like, it's a couple of bands, and I can't remember who it was, but they were like, they were like, yeah, we got our start because this DJ in this town really liked our music and started playing it a lot.

And now it's like, that never happens. It just feels like now, if they want something to be popular, then they just go, all right, we're going to play this song a lot. and people are going to love it. Who decides that, though?

I don't know, but I imagine it's one of these companies. There are obviously new country artists or any genre coming up, so they go through some type of process. I would imagine they make some kind of deal with the record companies and they all come together. At Bilderberg. Yeah, and they decide what's going to be the hits. And that's why.

Somebody still has to discover them, I guess, right? Like Laney Wilson, how does she go from when you knew her to so big? She was doing it 10, 11 years before she started really taken off. I don't know what that step was that took her to the next level, but she was. She probably started like coming away, terrible open mics. You work your way up to bigger videos. The right person spotted you. Right, right.

Yeah, I mean, I believe that that happens, but it's like just authentic radio play and being like, oh, I never heard that, that guy before or whatever. Yeah. You know. That's gone. I just feel like it is. Yeah. You know.

And that's why it's like it's hard to believe even any like billboard stuff. It's like, is this genuine? Like I know that people like, you know, the Ella Langley song, Choose in Texas. I know people like it. But how much is authentic and how much is not, you know. It's like the number one most successful song ever now or something crazy. Yeah. And how do we know that's all?

I mean, people, I'm not saying people don't like it. But how do we know that people are like, yes, this is our favorite song of all time? That's a good point. Some people think that Ella Langley is the Hocua girl. Yeah. That's a conspiracy that I'm into now. That makes sense. I think that they got rid of the Hocatua girl for a while to, you know, recast her.

Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. But if it was... Looking at side by side. I mean... Yeah, that's her. No, that's not the photo to see it.

I mean, she looks like her there. Yeah, that's it right there. Yeah. I actually started this conspiracy before this picture came around. I didn't start it by publicly saying anything, but I did mention it to a couple of people. They sound alike, too. They have similar voices. I think Ella Langley's from Montgomery's.

Montgomery, Alabama. Do you know that? I didn't know that. And I, you know, I'm just saying maybe, you know, maybe they replaced Ella Langley with this new character. No, replace Hock Tuva girl with Lange. Well, she's playing the new Ella Langley. Oh, I see. Why not use, this is what I've always wondered.

I would love for this to be true. Why would they keep, so they're like the Hock 2 experiments over, but we still have this asset. Yeah. Why not just get rid of her instead of trying to turn her into a different famous person? I think maybe that's fun for them. Okay. You know what I mean?

Can we do it again? Has anyone ever been three people? Yeah. I'm sure they have. Yeah. I don't know. None that you know about. Well, so McCauley Colkin is Kid Rock, right?

Yeah. Or Kid Rock's McCullin. So, but he could be, to tell us, to become a third person. There is time. Yeah, he's kind of transforming into Dr. Phil sometimes. He's going to be the new Dr. Phil.

Okay. I mean, they do look similar, man. Yeah, look at that. Yeah, that's definite. Yeah. So, look at that. Look at that. Come on.

But do you think if you were, which ones are they both existing at the same time right now? Yeah, maybe so. Okay. It's kind of switching out when he doesn't want to be in Nashville. Yeah, because McCulley Cokin's in L.A.

Yeah. You know, you never see them in the same place. And we're all a different person on the road, aren't? Of course, of course. Some famous radio DJs throughout history. Alan Freed was a DJ in the 50s. He popularized the term rock and roll. Wow.

Looks like a rock and roll guy there, doesn't he? He does. I love a good name for a genre of music. You ever heard butt rock? Butt Rock? I feel like that's Gasquatch. No. It's also called like Divorce Dad Rock.

Okay. But a lot of people call it But Rock now. Okay. Creed, Hubestan. Why do they call it? I have no idea. I don't like that. Why it's called that?

I'm afraid to Google it. Because those kind of, well. But Rock is a teasing slang term for mainstream hard rock and post. grunge music from the late 90s to the 2000. I don't know. So like nickel back would be a little butt rock. You got three doors down, stuff like that. Now, those are all great.

I don't like that term for it. I think they've kind of embraced it. I mean, yacht rock I'm into. Is that pretty well-known yacht rock? I think so. It's a station. Serious XM station. It's an American term.

I tried to say it in Canada, and they had no idea what I was talking about. Because I have that joke about my Uber driver. Yeah. And I always just say 70s light rock. because I don't know how well people know Yacht Rock would work here, I think. Okay.

But if you're in Edmonton, Alberta, don't say Yacht Rock. You both, you guys both have Yacht Rock jokes. No, I was requesting. Well, I don't. I'm scared to tear it. I was request,

because I, you know, like, when you walk in the club and the seating music they're playing, it's like, bums and I'm like, we got to change the vibe in here. And I was like, can y'all just put on some yacht rock?

And they were like, what? Yeah. Some Brian Bates music. Oh, okay. Yeah, should have said, you put on Bates Spotify playlist, please?

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Casey Kaysom? Love Casey Kaysam. You know Casey Kaysen? Is he the Scooby-Doo guy? Mm-hmm. He was shaggy, I think. Frank Eland. It was a ton of impressions.

But he better know for hosting America's top 40 for... Casey Kaysam was big when I was a kid. Yeah. Me too. I love Casey Kaysen. Wolfman Jack. Wolfman Jack was a little old for me, but yeah. I mean, other people used to tell me I sounded like Wolfman Jack.

That's a scary picture. Yeah. He had a show called The Midnight Special, and he was in the movie American Graffiti. He kind of played himself in that movie. Wolfman Jack. He started working as Daddy Jules in Newport News, Virginia. Oh, Newport News. Yeah, that's where I started.

Well, I did do a lot of stuff early on. I did with you. Yeah. Remember we did the condo right after Spanky Brown died. Yeah, yeah. And we were using the same bathroom. He died in the week before. Yeah.

It's pretty scary. Yeah, it is. Dusty and I were lighting some candles, saying some prayers in there. Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey. Good day. I love Paul Harvey. Yeah.

Gosh, I love. I mean, many days. My mom picked me up from school and we'd drive home. Then Paul Harvey would start. And we'd sit in the call. we'd make it home before the story was over. We'd sit in the car and let it finish. That's nice. Yeah. Rush Limbaugh?

Rush Limbaugh, yeah. Rush Limbaugh is one that you could find out in the middle of nowhere when you're just hitting the button and you go, here's a guy talking. I'll take it. Yeah, it seems angry. Yeah. Tom Joyner. Oh, Tom Joyner. Oh, Tom Joyner, yeah. Tom Joyner. I think he started Montgomery. Did he really? I think so. Dude, there was a radio station, a hip-hop station in Montgomery where I grew up. And every day after school, we would listen to it. They would do this thing called press the button and blow it up. And you would call in and they go, where are you calling from? You'd be like, I'm calling from Montgomery Mall.

And they would go, all right, you know what it is? Press the button and blow it up. And then they would just honk the horn and honk it. And you just listen to like 15 people do that. Wow. I don't know why it was so entertaining. at the time. Before the internet.

Just terrorizing the city. It was just honking their horn at people. I remember... Press the button. Driving through downtown Nashville, rush our traffic, and, you know, my parents lived in Lebanon.

It's the craziest thing they've ever seen. Just, you know, and I'm driving and listen to the radio. And every time they do the traffic report, they would honk the horn, you know, just... And every time it would halt, my dad would jump

because he thinks somebody's behind us and talking us to go. Still think about that. I still get annoyed when there's sirens or a honk in a radio. Radio or a TV show or anything. In a song? Yeah, no sirens in a song. No siren should ever be in a song.

It bothers you in a TV show? Because, I mean, I watch TV shows when I drive sometimes. Watching the pit, like, why are these ambulances? It's ridiculous. Howard Stern. I used to listen to Howard Stern a lot back with a series X-M. Yeah. It had a real heyday where I enjoyed it.

Who's the biggest thing in the world for a long time? Delilah? I don't know, Delilah. I listened to a bit of Delilah too. Rhea Bedford does a good Delilah. Yeah. Plain white teas. No, Delilah was a, you call in and get some love advice.

Oh, okay. She's with like relationship problems and she was a good advice that she would give? Who knows? I called her many times. So no. How do I get a girlfriend? How do you have you friends? Dahlia cusses me out.

She apparently still doing it. Yeah. 66 years old. Okay, yes, she started 1984, she started doing it. 1983, I guess. Charlemagne the God. I know Charlemagne.

Host a popular radio show called The Breakfast Club. You never listen, but I've seen a lot of YouTube. A lot of course. A lot of clips. Yeah, a lot of clips. Yeah. Here's some more regional ones. What's that?

It's Kat Williams. He had a pretty famous one on there. Didn't he? Oh, no. That was a, it wasn't Charlemagne. It was a different radio station. Oh, about the podcast. Where you start trashing that one with her face.

You should be talking about sizes. Yeah. You big on a radio. You're the only one here. They got $14 with a jewelry on. Oh, that's one of the great clips. Yeah, you got to look that up. That's so funny.

I would say the top DJ now in Nashville is Bobby Bones as far as popularity. He's kind of transcended Nashville. He's huge everywhere now. He won dancing with the stars. He did? He did. Wow, amazing. When I was...

It is amazing, I guess. Yeah. When I was growing up, it sounded so sarcastic. I'm not saying it's the coolest thing in the world, but that's... Just trying to illustrate how famous he is. For sure. For sure. But I just... He won Dancing with the Stars.

Amazing. I do think it's amazing, though. It's very good. Yeah, sounds sarcastic. Well, I don't know that you can say amazing and it not sounds sarcastic. Would you ever do a show, not dancing with the stars specifically, but would you ever do a show like that? I would like to say to you no, but let's see the offer. Yeah, I would like to see you.

You know that show Bear Grills takes people out in the wilderness? He's doing it with celebrities. Oh, yeah, I'd be into that. Yeah, you think you could do okay out there? What are they doing out there? Everything. Yeah, I'd do it. Yeah, I'd do it.

You got to drink your own pee every now. Raising tadpoles. Yeah, well, who hasn't drank their own pee once in a while? Me. Come on, guys. Do you guys know Ralph Emery? I know who that is? You do?

Yeah. Is that a circle back on pee real quick? Yeah. Like a religious guy? No, go ahead. Go ahead. Are we sure that asparagus is not poisonous? I'm circling back on it.

I've eaten it too. So I don't, I'm pretty sure. But, you know, asparagus, it works immediately. Like on the pee? Yeah. Yeah. Now, how did the people back in the day not think, well, this is clearly toxic? Because it's creating this insane smell.

Oh, yeah. Well, I think they say pee is excess. Like, poop is waste. P is like, that's why if you like eat a multivitamin and then you pee real yellow, it's just excess vitamins that your body doesn't absorb. So it's good. So the worst smells the better. That is, I mean, they do say that pee is. I can't wait to be they someday. They do say that pee is okay for you. Yeah. Can help you. I know that it's not bad for you, but I'm just thinking, how are they not like, whoa, we shouldn't be eating this? Yeah, and I'm not saying drink pee, but I'm just saying, why not? That's good.

Yeah. He's not saying, disclaimer for all the listeners. But I am saying I've followed people on Instagram and I go, that's a step too far. Well, they start telling you that. And I go, unfollow. Even dusty. Unfollow. This is limits.

Yeah. Quit telling me to drink pee. Unfollow. Unfollow. There's something called maple syrup urine, uh, ISIS,itis or something. Oh. You know what I'm talking about? Or your pee gets not FISIS.

You get it real thick pee. I think it's so bored with radio, you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't we know our asparagus peas. Maple syrup urine disease. Yeah, it feels like a thick pee. I think it's pretty self-descriptive of what it is. I think you have maple syrup urine.

Yeah. Sounds kind of nice. Would you drink that? I don't know. What was the, I'm in an eye hop? Gary Fletcher's joke. Gary Fletcher, who's a Nashville comedian. He was just one of the funniest guys in town when I started.

And he had a joke. He said, I had to quit drinking Mountain Dew after I clogged the toilet with urine. He said it came out like silly string and hurt. Gary was very funny. He said, you ever put a pizza box on your head and make fun of people that graduated college? He had just a million little things like that. Very funny. So funny.

Of all the people that you want to quit. comedy when you're watching open mics. He was not one of them. No. And he actually did it. Yeah. It's for him though. Probably so much happier now.

Who knows? But he was so funny. Yeah. Ralph Emery. Okay. No, he was not a religious person. He was a kind of legendary Nashville radio personality.

Emory University, though, is a religious school. Okay. Is it? I don't know. That was really asking a question. You're talking about Emory in Alabama. It seemed like a statement, but it wasn't. Private research.

All right. It was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church. There we go. And named in honor of Methodist Bishop, John Emery. John Emery. How about that? Not Ralph. Wow, that's incredible.

It is a Methodist University. It doesn't get talked about that way. I'll tell you that. How does it get talked about it? I don't know. Well, anyway, I know that's where, do you ever see Into the Wild? Yeah.

Yeah. Reese Witherspoon? That's wild. Into the wild. No. No, okay. That's another one. Okay.

This is Emil Hirsch and it's directed by Sean Penn. It's based on a book by John Crackauer about a guy who cuts up all his credit cards and his idea. Yeah, okay. Yeah. But he went to Emory University. Okay. That's all I have to say. Okay.

But they don't talk about it like it's a religious institution. it seemed like he wanted to destroy his leg guy he got anything anything else well anyway Ralph Emery he was big all right so we'll move on and then

80s and 90s the big radio DJ in Nashville was Jerry House you guys know Jerry House How do you spell it? H-A-U-S-H-A-U-S-E Oh really? Just straight up Yeah the House Foundation

he was huge He wrote some country songs, you know, George Strait, the big one. I don't think so. I'm going through the big. No. It's the big one. I'm falling in love. He wrote Little Rock by Reba.

That's a big one. He wrote On the Side of Angels by Leanne Rhymes. And then he also had a song recorded by Brad Paisley, Randy Travis, the Oakridge Boys, Big and Rich and others. That's crazy. Jerry House was huge. Whoa, Little Rock. Would he just play country music? Yeah.

His radio show was so popular, the House Foundation. There was, it might have been those guys that... There's more to live than what I got. Some guy said he was going to stay up on a billboard until Tennessee won a football game. And it was up there for like... And he did it. He stuck with it? Yeah, I think so.

Wow. Yeah. I remember reading about a guy. What do you need to stay up there? Like he lived up there. Oh. On a bill. Jerry House?

No, I think it was one of his colleagues. Oh, okay. There's a guy, I think, an elementary school teacher. And after 9-11, which just, which just, the 25th anniversary. Celebrate. I was trying not to use that word. Commemorated. Commemorated, yeah.

He said, I'm not going to shave my beard. Oh, this is until bin Laden was killed. Okay, I thought it was until the troops came home. Much different. Wow. Yeah, but he, uh, have a bit of him. About that? Ten years, ten years. Doesn't seem that long, honestly.

I mean, it looks pretty gross, man. You see some, in Birmingham, Rick and Bubba, we already talked about. Jake Tom. Charleston, Gino Jones. You know Gino Jones? I don't know Gino Jones. Gino Jones.

Is that him? Yep. Looks kind of fun. He looks jovial. Yep. He doesn't he? He's happy. So here's some.

here's some radio shows that have made comedian's careers. He's at a root canal. I think he's a comic. Okay. Some mercury in there. I'm going to. Bob and Tom.

Bob and Tom. Bob and Tom are good friends. We've all been on there. Tim Wilson, Haywood Banks, Donnie Baker. Ronnie Carrington. Dusty Slay, Brian Bates. Well, I'm talking about guys whose careers recurring, yeah.

Greg Warren was on there all the time. Greg Warren. It definitely helped Greg. Yeah, back of the day. Yeah, for sure. Howard Stern, Artie Lane, Gilbert Godfrey, Jackie Martin. Greg Hahn. Yeah.

For Bob and Tom? Yeah, Greg Hahn, for sure. And then a bunch of Howard Stern guys, we can't say on the show. The Doctor Demento show. My friend Apples used to call into Howard Stern all the time. As himself? Yeah. And what would he say?

He would, you know, he would just talk trash. He became a reoccurring guy, but really? I don't think very popular. Is he still around? Yeah. He's a recurring guy that they ate at them. Yeah. Well, there was a little Reddit thread on apples for a little bit.

But I saw apples recently. He's doing great. Where's he at? Charleston. Still there. Yeah. Well, he moved to Denver. Yeah.

Now he's back. Yeah. I don't even try to make fun of apples, but you guys are. Yeah. He's doing great. Well, I'm just curious, a guy named Apples, who calls into Howard Stern regularly. What are he doing now? Well, I wasn't listening during that time, so I don't know what he was saying.

There was a guy here that used to call it or be a character on Howard Stern. Really? Yeah, I thought that might have been the ones who were referencing. It's politically incorrect, like, his character. Gary? I don't know his real name. Okay. He was a superhero.

Okay, no, I don't know. I don't know who you're talking about. I don't know about beetle juice. That's about it. Yeah, it was something like that, but it was... No, Bobba Bowie? No, there's not wrong with Baba Booey. I'm talking about there's a local Nashville comic

who used to go on Howard Stern some as like a politically incorrect word man. Okay. And he had some issues with him, like, you know, too. Okay.

Opie and Anthony. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Jim Norton, Bill Burr, Patrice O'Neill, Louis C.K. All those guys. Steve Harvey Show. The top radio show now in the U.S., you may want to guess. I love Steve Harvey.

Steve, dude, Steve, we're watching some of his stand-up last weekend. That dude is so funny. Number one radio show in the country right now. Bobby Bone. Is it in the South? Mm-hmm. Ricky Smiley? That's a good guess.

but no. You tell you what genre? Yes. Financial. Dave Ramsey? Yes. Wow. Okay.

So kind of like the Ricky smiley of finance. Number one is Dave Ramsey show. Second is something called Marketplace, which is also financial. Then All Things Considered, Sean Hannity, Morning Edition, the Mark Living show, Coast to Coast, A.m. I've always wanted to call into the Dave Ransy show and just make up like a horrifically bad situation. I just took out a loan for $5 million. I make $12,000 a year. Got zero in savings.

Wait till John Deloney's like on there with him and do something. All right. Let me show this. If you were hosting a radio show, your own show. Right. They gave it to you. You have to accept. You can't just be a comedy.

Can't be funny. What's your genre? It can't be a comedy show. No. I mean, it's going to be funny, but it can't just be comedians talking to another comedian. Can it be a music show? Yeah. Okay.

But it's got to be a certain format. A certain format. Like, give me an example. Give me yours. Your answer to this question. I would do sports. Oh, a sports talk show. Yeah.

Local sports talk. Yeah. I would do high school girl volleyball. I would do like fine bomb. That's a joke. He said high school girls show. And then no one responded. Like, let me just get that out there.

That is a joke. Go ahead. You do fine bomb. It'd be fun to do like a fine bomb, but like, I don't know, maybe a little more elevated, more highbrow discussions. But it would eventually devolve into people. Earn. I can't run the ball, Aaron. I'm going alien abductions.

Yeah. That's the kind of show I'd want. And what do you do on that? I just talked to them. You talk to people who have been abducted by alien. Yeah, they would call in and I would go tell me about your story. And do you? And then after they're done, I play a song.

Okay. A country music song. Whatever it makes me think up. I would love that. Yeah. What, are you trying to poke holes in their story or are you supportive of them? I want to hear it. I just want to hear it.

Okay. But if you think someone's lying to you, how do you handle it? Do you call them out on the air or do you kind of play along? I think you call them out. Okay. You just keep asking questions and they'll call themselves out. Socratic method. Exactly.

There you go. You guys get it. But it would maybe start as that, but then probably branch out, right? Like some Bigfoot, some... Bigfoot. Like, basically... Regular kidnappings. You want a crypto zoology hour.

Yeah. There you go. That'd be fun. Yeah. A little Adanaki. Yeah. Yeah, what have you guys saying? Tell me about it.

So yours would be... That makes sense. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't anything about that. Yeah. Yours would be a high-brow sports show what everyone wants. A philosophical Notre Dame sports show. I want to tackle the intersection of sports and culture. Yeah, you call it digging deeper into the unmoved mover.

The unmoved mover. That could be your new nickname. Yeah. The unmoved mover with the... Unmoved movers here. Notre Dame Center. Aaron Weber. Who's Notre Dame played this week?

The center is an unmoved mover. Mm-hmm. Right? You don't, because you just kind of move forward a little bit, but you don't really move, but you're moving the ball. The center? The unmoved moving. The center's moving quite a bit, dude. Yeah, depends on how good the guy on the other end.

You should see me play. Yeah. I was moving. Yeah. Yeah, we played Michigan State this weekend. Oh. My favorite university. Again.

I really respect him as an institution. Where is it at? it's at Notre Dame. Big game. Yeah, that is a big one. Is it that? Yeah, it's at Notre Dame. Notre Dame's good right now, man.

Yeah. Where a lot of people's picked to win the national championship, which makes me little nervous. 2-0, they've faced two great teams so far. Well, rice and petty. Oh, rice has always been a tough one. Well, we dominated rice. Yeah, they've always been a tough team.

You'll beat them 52 to nothing. Yeah. Aaron can dominate some. rice. Who was the first one you played? I don't like how this is going right now. Chicken and rice. Well, Vanderbilt

has played Austin P. and Delaware. Lost both? Barely beat Delaware. I know. Way too close. Just crazy. We played Wisconsin the first week. Okay. Yeah. Really beat them. So we'll see.

What are these guys doing here? You're right. They're walking out of the tunnel. What do you think they're doing? They just seem like they're standing around clapping. They're waiting to walk out of the time That's the head coach Marcus Freeman Oh yeah I got it

He's the man Get it Two watches or is that a bunch of wristbands A bunch of wristbands He's got an apple watch on Yeah Good clapper He's got a great clap

He's got a good time Have you ever seen You've seen the movie Rudy Yeah Right The clap The clap and the Rudy Oh yeah

This guy Charles Dutton Five foot Nothing. Hunter, nothing. I remember my friend Brad Zativa. We're talking about that. He said, that's the worst clap I've ever seen.

And now that's all I can see with that. I mean, it's like he's never clap before. Well, you know. Three independent hit. That's not even a clap. He's just hitting his hands together. He's not trying to, you know, stay in rhythm with a clap. He's just excited.

It's like, a genuine, organic. Yeah. Yeah. Showing his emotion. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't even want to. It's like he wanted to clap one time, but then he got so, he just kept feeling it.

So he go, I'll give him another one. And then he goes, one more time. Because I got to get back to work. But I, yeah. Because I can get back to work. I don't do a longer lunch, just to come out in and see this. It's cold out here. Yeah.

Do you know they're making an NFL version of Rudy now? No, what do they do? It's called Mr. Irrelevant. It's, uh, about, well, he's got a great name. What, Tuggle? John Tuggle, I think. John Tuggle. Yeah.

I don't know anything about it, but I know he was the last guy picked. Nobody thought he had a chance. It seems very similar to Rudy. It looked bad, though, I'll be honest. I agree. I saw the trailer. It looked really terrible. I saw the trailer.

But Lawrence Taylor. Is Rudy a bad movie or is it a good movie? Rudy's a good movie. I worry I'm blinded by the Notre Dame of it all. No, I think it's a good movie, but I think it's been parody so much that sometimes people forget. The story, but you watch Rudy and, like, the football is so good. that that I think it's a good movie. But sometimes you see stuff like this and you're like,

galley, dude, this looks terrible. Rudy's a good movie. Hope it's good. The only scene that I don't like is when he runs up to like the gate guard at the beginning, he goes, I'm going to play at Notre Dame. The gate guard's like, buddy, what are he doing over here? He was trying to get on campus. Yeah, but I just, I hate that scene.

But by the way, that where he's trying to enter campus makes no sense in that scene. You would never walk up to that gate. Yeah. So that part of it's kind of weird. He didn't know because he'd never been there. I guess you're right. Yeah. You said they'd put him on Adderall.

Yeah, they would be like, you're diagnosed with something. That would have never happened. Just for his behavior at practice? Yeah, just his idea of wanting to go to Notre Dame, and they'd be like, settle down about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Too hype about it. Yeah.

That's a good movie, though. Radio. Oh, radio the movie, too. Yeah, yeah. Much different. My buddy Cuba Gooding Jr. Your close friend. Yep.

that's it that's it that's radio yeah I found it interesting that was a good that was good radio

about fillings and about you don't think that's kind of crazy you can get radio through your teeth I did no totally but I mean I learned about

root canals I learned a lot more and just that learned about Ella Langley yeah how she's Hawk toa we did cover a lot

of ground here yeah from Haley Welsh to Ella Langeley I mean that makes sense It totally makes sense. All right. All right.

So, Desi, where are you going to be this week? This weekend. I'll be in Des Plains, Illinois, and at Harris, Michigan, at the island, casino, and resort. A place that me and Aaron went years ago. Wow. And I did the side room. Now I'm back doing the big room. You should post this week.

You should post the recap of our last show. I should. Yeah. And just how bad that was. and then compare it to now you're doing the real venue. And then I'll find out when I get there that I'm actually in that same room. No, there's no way. No. It's going to be great.

I actually accepted the gig just because of that. So I want to go and have redemption on any city or club that. Since Greensboro, North Carolina, I used to talk bad about that comedy zone. And then I went back with my own audience years ago. And I go, oh, this club is actually incredible. incredible when you have an audience. This is the part of me bombing on the show. Can I play this?

Yeah, for sure. This is, what year is this? It's probably eight years ago. Yeah, it's probably 17. Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Oh, they're playing copyrighted music. Here's me on stage bombing.

We got anybody here celebrating anything else. We got birthdays, anniversaries here. What do we got? Something right here. Where do we got? First of all. I can't believe I used to dress like that. I mean, I guess it's not much different from what I'm doing now.

But it looks tough. It's pretty different. When it's not focused, I got a backwards hat, my hair's long. I never thought about you. Probably 50 pounds bigger than I am now. I never thought about you looking like that until I see you said to me. Yeah, your set's the worst thing. Not the worst thing to worry about.

We've got anybody here celebrating anything else. We've got birthdays, anniversaries here. What are we got? Something right here. Where are we got? anniversary how many years 22 years give it up for a little

I mean this is good I'm trying to get a noise clip it clip it nothing clever to say about it 22 years huh can anybody beat that

but there's one part where a heckler walks in about to come in right now I'm trying to find about to come in right now yeah I think I'm holding the mic stand I'm doing my closer immediately

that's how bad the show was Oh, well, geez. I had no idea what he was doing. He's just holding out. He's waiting like 20 seconds for a nod. There he is, ladies and gentlemen. How are you? That's you laughing at the back.

There's one guy laughing. And it's dusty in the back of the room. Oh, God, I hope the show goes better for you this time around. It could be a tough crowd. But, yeah. If I remember correctly, they liked you fine eventually. Yeah. It took a long time.

Well, you kind of had this biker crew in there. Yeah. And they were holding back. And then this was your opener. All right. I'm going to be this weekend. Tomorrow night, Thursday, September 17th, Orlando, Florida, beautiful Orlando at the Funny Bone. Then I'm heading over to Conroe, Texas, Friday and Saturday at the Riot Comedy Club.

Come out and see me. Jay Flake will be with me. You guys know Jay from the podcast. Come on out and see us. Orlando and Conroe, Texas. Sister cities, I'm told. Great routing. Routing is terrible.

This is Brian Bates speaking. September 25th. I'm going to be in Canton, Ohio. That is an outdoor free show. All right. Well, tonight, if you're listening, day comes out, I'll be at New York Comedy Club. but then September 25th in Canton, October 3rd Commonwealth Comedy Club in Cincinnati,

October 7th, Orlando Funny Bone, October 8th, Good Night's Comedy Club in Raleigh. October 11th, Witson Comedy Club in Charleston, South Carolina. All right. All right, well, that is it. Thank you so much. Dusty, thank you for everything. Thank you, Brian. Aaron, thank you for everything.

Thanks, man. Thank you, Aaron. Yeah, appreciate it, guys. And, yeah, we'll see you next week. We're having a good time.