The Nateland Podcast - 5: #5 | Montana

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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If you're new here, this is a podcast where we talk for two hours about nothing and make it funny. Yeah. And it's going to be great. I'm Dusty Sleigh, and I'm with the other host of the podcast, Aaron Weber and Brian Bates. Okay. And we're excited to be here. And if you don't know, let's say this is the first time you've listened to this podcast. We're professional comedians.

All three of us. The three of us are professional comedians. You can find us, you know, on the internet. We also do live shows. And they're so good. Like, where are you going to be at this weekend? I'm going to be at home. Okay. Well, all right. See, that's what I mean. Two hours of just hilarious

podcasting. I'm going to go ahead and cover something next weekend as well. Okay. Listen, two of us are professional comedians that do it full time. And, but we're very excited to be here. What about you, Aaron? I am heading north of the border this weekend. I'm going to be. I'm in Edmonton, Alberta at the comic strip at the Edmonton Mall. So come on out. I'm just around the corner from the pirate ship. Oh, yeah.

And that giant mall comes to see me at the comic strip. While you're there, you're going to go to meat? I am going to go to meat. I love that restaurant. I hate saying it out loud. I hate typing it in in, but it's a good restaurant. I love that restaurant. They told me that you get a, you take a piece of brisket,

and then you put a little yellow mustard on there and a pickle in each bite. You ever go to a restaurant and just go, just do what you want with me? Maybe you're not worded like that. Well, a place called meat. Hold on. I'm saying, you ever go to a restaurant? I see people do that in movies where they go, why don't you just take care of me? Well, I don't eat pork or shellfish.

So I don't. Yeah, I don't let people just go wild with my idea. You got to be persnickety about it. Yeah, I go. I might walk into, I might walk into meat and say, give me what you got. Yeah, yeah. Just give me a plate of meat. Yeah.

Anyway, come see me in Edmonton this week. You know, I was just thinking, I am 54 years old. I had never been to Canada or Mexico or the American border. Until you're in your 50s? Until the last three or four months. Wow. I went to Canada a few months ago, about an hour into Canada. As I said, I flew in Detroit and drove south.

About as southeast you get. And then I walked 100 feet into Mexico on the United States. the cruise. So, oh, that's why you wanted to get off the cruise. Yeah, well, that needs to go check. Now, that makes sense. That makes sense. Well, I mean, other reasons, too, but yeah. But you'd been to other, you've been to Australia. I've been to Europe. I've been Australia. I've been to Asia, but never. Not Africa, huh? No. Well, you really threw me a curb ball just now, though, because, you know, I wanted to make jokes about you not leaving the country. And then I find out you actually are more well-traveled than me. That would have really backfired on me.

So, yeah, I wish you to let him be kind of going. you got that out before. But I'll be, this weekend, I'll be, you know, I just want to complete the, that I'll be in Montana. I'll be at Billings, Montana. Great city. And Butte, Montana. Great city.

But, uh, apparently that show's already sold out. But, um, uh, Bute I went to a long time ago. And I, I love it. Yeah, she's a Bute. I fell in love with the city. And so I'm excited to go back. Spelled butt, though. With an E at the end.

Yeah. Yeah, is that how you spell butt? If I'm feeling fancy. I'm feeling. Spend like butt though, except not. Yeah. Except there's more letters in it. But that's, so yeah, we, this is the podcast, public figures podcast.

We're all public figures. Also, if you've not noticed that about us. Also, what about your weekend this weekend? What were you off to? Did you have any fun? experiences? Yeah, yeah. I went to Covington, Tennessee. It's the First Baptist Church, and had a great time. Yeah. Had a great time, a lot of nice... Did you do a show, or do you just went to church? You just can't get fun to get church in

Nashville, so I'm like, I'm going to drive three hours west. Yeah. Let's get all the way almost to Memphis. Yeah. Noah had a show there, Friday night, and went great, met a lot of nice folks. Yeah. Did they say anything about me when you were there? Do they remember me? I did a show there years ago. In 2019, they said. 2019. Wow. And they took a little time off. Yeah. I think we're good on comedians. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now they remembered you. Okay. They remember you were the first one. It was you in 2019, then Johnny W. in 2020, and then COVID hit. And they did take a few years off until now.

They gave it a shot. It took all this. What? They still wear masks in there? Or what? I mean, go on. I think they just got out of the habit and they're like, let's do it again. So yeah, they said they loved you. That's great. I had a good time there. I remember I did a Valentine's Day. Yeah, that's what this was. Oh, okay. Just post-valentine. It was a couples thing.

Oh, that's like the real couples. It's like you don't go out on Valentine's Day. Right, right, right. You go a couple weeks later. Yeah. Church celebrates Valentine's Day, huh? They celebrate marriage, you know, any opportunity to come together. They just kind of a date night event.

Just the date night. I schedule it around February 14th, but. Yeah, just a date night. Just when love is in the air. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. I like that. St. Valentine's Day.

What about you? Where were you at? Wait, where was it? I know where you were. Huntsville. Oh, yeah, yeah. I was with Kathleen Madigan this past weekend. Huntsville, Alabama at the Mars Music Hall.

Wow. I realized I had never, Huntsville's close to Nashville. It's like, I don't know, under two-hour drive down to Huntsville. So when you start out doing comedy in Nashville, you do a lot of shows in the Huntsville area. Yeah.

There's a lot of, like, great local shows. The Flying Monkey Theater. Yeah. There's the clubs. down there, and it's close by. So I remember early days, that's really the only road that we were doing was like, we'll go down to Huntsville and they'll let us do a, you know, a 10-minute spot, which was a huge deal at the time, and drive back. But I realized that I hadn't been since the club open. I had never done a theater or anything other than the club in Huntsville.

So Kathleen Madigan sold out the Mars Music Hall, which is like- Did they name that after the planet? Everything's space themed. Everything's space-themed. in Huntsville. So I'm sure it has something to do with the planet. What was the theater you did there? I think I did, I feel like it was next to like the Warner Von Braun Center, but not. Well, it's a complex.

There's a bunch of stuff in there. Yeah. I feel like it's in the same building, but not that. So this was like a rock club that's attached to all. It was just an awesome venue. Oh, yeah. And then drove back to Nashville at night, picked up my wife and baby, woke up at 4 a.m. drove to Atlanta where Kathleen sold out the Cobb Energy Center.

What time was that show? Seven. It was early. We had, yeah, we had stuff to do during the day in Atlanta. So we were able to get out there. And just very cool, right? I mean, I could see the Brave Stadium from my hotel room. I got a little fired up.

I got excited. The season's about to start. Yeah, you got some old school. You know, there's no serious injuries yet. You got Bob Horner. What about him? I said, you look like him. Oh, thanks.

Old school. Appreciate that. Yeah. Do you know Bob Horner? No. No, me either. No. Okay.

I assume. Yeah. I remember Dale Murphy. America's team. Yeah. Back in the day. Terry Forster? Terry Forster.

Okay. You know him? No. You look like a... You're going to say something mean, and I just said too nice. You look like Chick Korea, dude. Who? Chick Korea.

I don't know who that is. Is that a baseball player? It's a jazz pianist. Okay. Okay. Well, all right. Well, let's see how many people we can name that no one knows. Yeah.

And then this weekend, I was in... Yeah, I do look like that. You're right on. Well, can... Do you think I look like that? No. I think Bob Horner. I was just trying to think of the most random guy.

I'm trying to think of it. But thank you to everybody who came out. There were some fans of this show at those shows. It was pretty cool to see them out in the open and excited to be in Canada this weekend. What about you, Dusty? Where were you? I was in New York. I went to Poughkeepsie, New York.

Poughkeepsie. Great. Did you watch the Poughkeepsie tapes? That's a scary movie? No. Okay. I didn't want to get scared while I was there. But the audience.

Was it scary? No, it was a great normal place. I really have been talking about it for a while, acting like it was closer to New York. York City than it is, but it's two hours outside of the city. It's a plenty. Normal place. Hutswell's closer to Nashville than...

Yeah, I mean, it could be anywhere in the country. And it was great. Went out to a cigar bar after. And the cigar bar closed at 10. And, you know, my show's not going to be over until 9.15 or so. Right. So the guy I called him and he said, well, if there's people here, I'll stay open a little later, you know. So I, I, announced from the stage that would be going to the cigar bar after, hopes that people would go there and that way we could keep it open. And it worked. Oh, that's awesome. I'd say about 20 people came from the show. Wow. And we filled that place up and it was really great. And they were a good hang? The 20 feet? Yeah, they were a great hang. I think that's the key. If they're willing to come to a cigar bar,

they're probably going to be all right. Yeah. I think. And it was fun. It was a good fun hang. It's good ventilated? Pretty good ventilated, yeah. Yeah. Not like the lounge on the cruise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a pretend ventilator on there. Even though I did have some great hangs there, too, but it was very smoky.

And then I went on up to Albany, New York, where I've been many times, to the egg. The egg? Is this your first time not doing the club there? It is. First time in Albany, not doing the club. Do you know what the egg looks like? Is it egg shaped? Is it round?

Look at this. See it. Look at that thing. That's the theater? Yeah. I don't understand. Where's the, you walk into that building? I drove in underneath in a parking garage and came up the elevator.

Okay, so the actual theater is raised above the... To be honest with you, I have no idea. But it does look like that from the road, but I don't know if we're in that or not. I think you're in that. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That'd be weird to just put that and there's nothing inside of it. Yeah.

Oh, that's amazing. Was it a cool theater? It was cool, yeah, very cool. I had a hot show, my friend Derek Humphrey, and another friend of mine from New York, Ian Falance, often confused with Ian Fidance, who's also another funny comic. It's tough to be one letter away.

Yeah, but Ian Falance, both very funny guys, but Ian is my friend, and he does a lot of stuff on the internet, but him and Derek, good one-two punch for the opening. It was great, a lot of fun. Each to two minutes. Yep. Because I had to fill the rest of the time. But you know what?

No, Derek did 20. Ian did 10. And I did an hour and 20 on the first show and an hour 28 on the second show. Wow. Wow. Yeah. So, yeah, this looks like it's just in the, it's in the egg. Yeah.

That would make sense. That could fit in there. But it's kind of balanced up on it. If you're just listening, it looks like somebody cut an egg down the middle. And then they put it on a little. it's like balanced up in the air. It's kind of crazy. Look up the egg.

It was a great show. And we had a good time. I gave up trying to describe that. It was a great description there. It is hard to. Look it up yourself. I did do this. I've never done this before.

This makes me seem a little snobby, but I've never done this before. I booked my own hotels, right? I stay at the Marriott's. And I book, I don't, I don't know what I'm doing a lot of times. You know, I just book it. I booked a Fairfield Inn. I like a Fairfield Inn. Okay.

Well, I booked one. And I showed up and I left. Wow. You must, was it, was it was a foul field in or was it? It was, I even went to the room and then I,

and then I left. And I got it. What was so bad about it? It just, I didn't like, because you've stayed in some. Well, I have,

but I'm like, I have, but I'm like, I don't want to stay in the cesspool. I meant I'm performing at the egg tonight. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to stay in the cesspool.

And I don't need a fancy hotel. This is it. It's like there's, there's bad hotels. There's fancy hotels. I just want to be, right there in the middle. Like a Hampton Inn. That's all you need. So I found a residence in by Marriott. Residents ins are great. Right near the mall. And it was great. Yeah. It was just...

You got a whole little apartment there from that. I wasted a little money and I hated that I did it. But my decision, even I got to that Marriott, they upgraded me for free. I didn't even tell them what I had done. But they upgraded me for free. I got a very nice room and I felt very validated. You didn't drop your flyer from the egg. Oh, my bad. Oh, it was just up the egg tonight. What was wrong with the first? Yeah. It just, you know. You didn't get a refund on it either?

I'm working on the refund. Okay. I did call and ask about it. But, you know, I, it's like, you know how you check into a lobby? I feel like you can tell a lot by the lobby. If you go into a lobby, a good hotel is going to have a tall ceiling. It's going to be very spacious. And then a bad hotel, it's going to be a very tight lobby.

Interesting. And you won't know. But look at this the next time you check into a hotel. It'll be a very tight. lobby. And then it was just too many people up front. I feel like bad hotels always had too many employees up front. Yeah. And then the snack area was like empty, like no one had been stocking it. And that's not a good sign. And then I get to my room. So you knew even before we saw the room. Yeah, but I was saying to myself, I go, all this could be bad, but the rooms could still be

top notch. Because I stay at courtyard Marriott most of the time. Okay. And I've stayed in courtyards where it's, you know, 14 feet, 14 stories, and then I've stayed in others that are two stories. The rooms, exactly the same. So I thought, you know what, maybe the rooms are going to be fine. But it looked like it used to be a motel and they just changed it. It smelled dingy. And it was like, I'm not above staying there, but I was like, a lot of my life has spent on the road. And I just, I want to feel good about where I'm staying, you know?

Sure. So you didn't go down and check out right there? No, I left and then I called. Yeah. Interesting. And I don't even need a refund. Credit will be fine. Just give me a credit because I'll use it.

Yeah. But, you know, I just, you know, I just wanted to share that. You guys ever check out of a hotel? Never do. I always just leave. I give them the car. I try to give them the cards back. I collect the cards, so I keep it.

I rarely do. But occasionally if I'm walking out and there's literally someone standing right there and walking past, I'll just say, Hey, I'm checking out. But you're not going to stop and fill up sign stuff or anything like that? They never asked me. They just like, what room you're in? I'll tell them like, okay, you're good.

I got trapped behind a dude disputing his bill at the, just taking forever. And you want to be like, come on, dude, just leave. I know. I know. I have a joke about how I don't check out. But I, and I don't go, yeah, I'd like to check out. I just give them the card. Okay.

Yeah. I like to return the cards. Just kind of throw it at them. Well, it cost them money, I'm sure. So I like to return them. Cost of money. How much could it possibly cost? Over time.

I mean, how many have you collected? I mean, a few hundred. Yeah. You're like, public figure here incoming. Yeah. I mean, a cent. I usually even save the cardboard with the room number on it. You give that back to them?

Yeah. So they can recycle it? Yeah. They don't recycle it. You know, but hey, but that's their problem. That's on them. Yeah. Okay.

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Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple, there's no guarantee, but maybe if you write a good comment. You know what? Before we get into them, I want to go ahead and share some Nateland news. Yeah. Before we get in the comments. Let's do it. All right. Just in case they're new, Nate Land, that's our parent company. Yeah.

Nate Land has a lot going on. We're going to tell you about some of it right now. That's right. So Nate Bargatsy, was a former co-host of ours. He's a stand-up community. On an old podcast called Nateland Podcast that we used to do. I think you can still find it if you look hard enough. It's gone now, but it was a hot podcast.

Well, now he has a game show called Greatest Average American. It premiered last week. It was a hot show. We watched in episode two airs tonight, Wednesday, the day this comes out on ABC. 9 o'clock Eastern, 8 p.m. Central. What would that be Pacific? Right, six. Six, yeah.

Probably six. Yeah. I know, I was joking. Okay. Well, I mean, don't ask the question. You don't want an answer to it. It sounded like one of the questions on the game. Yeah.

It's 8 o'clock in Nashville. What would it be in LA? Nate Land presents Brad Upton. Brad's filming is one hour special, March 29th at the Franklin Theater. Tickets are on sell. 3 o'clock show and 7 o'clock show, I think. Right? And we all know Brad.

He was on season two of the Nateland Showcase. Very funny. Yeah. Nate's Big Dumb Eyes World Tour heads to Las Vegas, March 17th and 18th. And then Dustin and I both. had announcements this week. Oh, yeah. I forgot to bring this in, but maybe we can add the graphic later.

But what's your announcement? Well, I had a big announcement, and then Dusty didn't like me getting attention, so he had to put out one same day, same day to kind of steal it away. But whatever. Oh, I'm sorry about that. Mine was, I'm filming, filming my special. All right. At the lab.

March 30th, here at the lab. I don't even know what I'm telling you guys, because it's already sold out. That's what we're talking about. You know. So thank you, everyone who... Do you have a name picked out? Help. Sell it out.

We're having a good time. Okay. No, I don't have a name. I haven't yet. But if you didn't get tickets for my show, March 30th, I'm going to be hosting a Brian Bates and Friends here at the lab the night before on March 29th. We won't be filming that for the special, but I'll be running my set. This will be my trial run, dress rehearsal.

People can give feedback on just, you know how Saturday Night Live? does the dress rehearsal. They're like, cut it, cut it. Right, right. You can warn people coming to the night next night, you know, go to the bathroom during this joke. Can I hop on that show? Sure, sure. You want to hop on that show?

Oh, he didn't sound that excited. You know, I don't have to be there, dude. Just good luck with everything. Hope it goes well. I would love to have you on that show. Dusty, you want to hop on there, too? March 29th. If I'm in town, I'd like to do it.

I mean, you're just throwing a date on me here real fast. and, well, 30th we had talked about. Well, I, yeah, you said. You don't need us for that. Mark 29th, I'm good for that. Okay. Well, maybe I don't know about the 30th. We'll see, though.

Dusty said, you should put me in Aaron on so you can sell some tickets. And then I sold out later that day. So that's in you. Well, listen, we were having a conversation, and I was saying, if it helps, maybe you can say we'll all do the show. That's not how you worded it. You said, you should put me and Aaron on. Well, that's what I mean, though. We're, you know, we're a podcast. So if we come as a package deal, we're bound to sell that thing out. Not that you can't do it yourself, but I was saying if you need, you know.

He was just offering it. Yeah. You know, and you didn't need it. I just want the best for everybody on this podcast. Well, thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I would love to have you guys. Yeah. You know, I kind of rethought it in the last couple minutes. I wish you luck, man. And I can't wait to watch the special. Dusty, will you watch the special? Yeah, I'll line it up. I'll, I got all Nate's in the queue, and I got errands, and then put yours in there. His dry bars are in there.

But how about you'll watch the special when we... Oh, yes. When you read my book. Crazy. Yeah, I have a book. I wrote a book. Is it done? Like, you finish it?

The book's done. There is going to, you know, I'm sure there's. some things that they're going to want to do here and there. But yeah, I wrote a book. That's awesome. It's called We're Having a Good Time. And I forgot to bring a copy of it in. Oh, I do. I'm sorry. I have a statement here from the Helen Keller Foundation. What would even have to write about? Yeah, exactly. Well, things I see, things I hear. From Southern comedian Dusty Slay, the beloved Everyman comedian behind Netflix's wet heat and

working man specials comes a memoir in essays featuring his signature storytelling and finding the hilarity in the every day. That's unbelievable. And, you know, people... For fans of Nate Bargats and Morgan. I left that part. Come on, Brian. And, uh, not for my own fan. And, uh, you know what? Somebody commented about my comment section on the book. And so many comments are, is this going to be available in audio? And somebody coming. comment it that everybody is saying, are you going to read it to us? Which I think it's funny that my fans would not read books. Yeah.

Are you going to do an audio book? Probably. Yeah. They'll probably make me do it. Well, I'd rather listen to you tell it than read it in my head doing an impression of you voice. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Because that's how I would read your book. I would read it the voice in my head that I hear. There was a guy that helped me write it. So he's a, you know, he's a good writer. Well, I don't want him to read it. I want you to read it. I'm just saying when you read it, you'll go, Duss didn't write this, but they are my stories.

Do you have any idea what the book's about? Yeah, no, I wrote it all. It's about having a good time. I worked very hard on it. But yeah, there's a guy who helped write it and make it sound good. Punch it up and tighten it up and all that kind of stuff. I wanted to write it like me, but they were like, we want people to buy this thing, man.

I go, let me write it. And don't even, don't even edit it. Based on how you wrote this email, I think we're going to pass on that. We're going to hook you up with a guy. That's awesome, man. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you, guys. I've got one thing I want to say real quick.

My wife and I just announced we're doing the second annual fundraiser called Prater Silly that we did last year at Zanis that both of these guys were on. It was a lot of fun last year. We raised a bunch of money for organization called PWSA, USA, USA. Prader Willie Syndrome Society of I don't know what PWSA USA USA stands for United States for America

That's the USA part Yeah The Prater Willie Syndrome Association, maybe Anyway, we're raising money for them again this year The show is going to be in September We've already started selling tickets It's been good, just want to plug it PraderSilly.com if you want to

check out anything Information on that. We're excited about it All right. All right. So we weren't getting these comments? Yeah, let's get into the comments. Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews, and mail at Natelandpodcast.

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I'm going to put that in. Yeah, that's a good, yeah, it's a good comment. I appreciate that. Thank you, Jessamine.

Jisman. Jisman. Zoe Rose. As one trailer park child to another, Dusty is so misunderstood. He's just out here saying what everyone is thinking. He's an inquisitive thinker that just wants to know what's going on out here. Zoe Rose gets it, and I appreciate that. I do appreciate it.

Zoe Rose, Rose of the trailer park. It doesn't sound like a trailer park name to me. Does it sound like one to you? Yeah. Okay. I'll trust you. Sorry, there's a chord here and there was a lot going on. I'll tangled up.

Yeah. I can't tell if the headphones are on or not. They're completely off for me. That's why I'm just not going to use them. Brett Sholebin. Okay. Good to know if Aaron went blind. He could still use the remote to watch TV.

I could. I could. It'd be hard to know what channels, what. Listen to TV. But I guess. Yeah, yeah, I could listen to it. Yeah. And I could find the channel based on what I hear.

Yeah. I just want to say now that the headphones are back, I was a little spaced out while they were gone. But Zoe Rose, yeah. I mean, I am an inquisitive thinker that just wants to know what's going on out here. And I want to ask the questions. And I want other people to ask the questions. And you want to laugh at people that disagree with you about the answer to some of this question. Yeah, humiliate them.

Yeah, yeah. Like the people were making fun of the Jim Carrey impersonator. And then it turns out it wasn't impersonator. Yeah. And now they're like, oh, this conspiracy theories put it to bed. Well, that conspiracy theory was right, correct? That's what I'm saying. You read my tweet.

Yes. They said, yeah, they said debunked. People thought this was not Jim Carrey. Turns out it was a Jim Carrey impersonator. And I go, okay, so they were right. You didn't debunk it. They were right. And then they go, we hope he's doing.

and well. It's like, so you don't know where he's at. And yeah, listen, I've seen Aaron work a remote control. You could, this guy, this guy could listen to TV all day if he were blonde. Thanks, man. Ryan Weber, is that related to you? No, great name though. Spelled it right and everything. I'd like to see Brian read Poultry, poetry by Boyd. Try it again. Poultry, poetry by Boyd. That's pretty good. Poultry and poetry sound about the same for you.

Are they right or both right or both wrong? They would turn around. Poultry, poultry. Poultry, poetry by Boyd. I think you're good with poultry. I don't know how to say it. You nailed it. Poultry?

Yeah, poultry. I told you I never used that word. I say chicken or turkey. I just get specific with it. How do you say Boyd? Boyd. Boyd. People say I say a tea at the end, but I don't think that's true.

You think everyone's lying? I've seen video compilations that people make. Yeah, people are lying. It's all AI. Erica Rodriguez, Dusty's Uber story had me cry laughing on my way to work. When I arrived at the office, the receptionist asked me if I was okay. Time to switch to waterproof mascara. But seriously, good on you for speaking up about that weirdo and looking out for others.

I had someone message me saying they had a similar experience in Traverse City. It might have been the same guy. We talked about it and I had screenshoted a picture of this guy and he said, no, it's not him. So there may be something going on with the Traverse City Uber drivers. Something in the water out there. Yeah, a little investigation needs to be done. Thank you, Erica. Angie, Aaron, I agree with you about Clear.

I think Dusty thinks it's affiliated with the government, but it's just a business who knows who now has full access to do what they want with the stuff shared with them. People are their product. Well, I think it's funny that they don't think that this is somehow affiliated with the government, even if it doesn't say that it is. I mean, they're allowing it at the airport, and they're allowing you to you, they're allowing Clear to be enough to get you through. So it's somehow affiliated. They talk to each other. You can guarantee the CEO of Clear and the government Of course. They have an agreement with the airport and there's money exchange for them to operate there. But Clear has made it very, very clear that the goals of the company is to have Clear going everywhere.

Everywhere there's a line in your life, they want there to be a clear lane there. Yeah. Imagine going to a ballgame or going to the movies and there's a clear line there. Well, I don't... Is that the kind of world you want to live in? I don't go to any of that stuff, but if... But you've been... into places where you're in a line. But if I go to, yeah, I mean, if I go to a baseball game and

having Clear and I go, oh, I can skip the whole line here with a service that I already have, let's do it. No one's denying it. Be convenient. I'm asking if that's the kind of world you want to live in. Well, there's a lot of stuff about the world that I don't want to live in. But so far, Clear's been fine. Absolutely good. And they're not going to do anything nefarious with your eye, or your fingerprint. What would they do? You're trying how odd this is for you to be on this side of the conversation? Well, no, I'm asking. You know exactly what they would do with it.

It's the same thing that's been done by all of these companies, 23 and me. What did they, what would they do? All that data gets leaked and it gets sold to other people. What would they do with it? What do you mean? What would they do? If they sold it, what would somebody buying it do with it? Whatever they want with it.

Like what? What information specifically are you talking about? Well, I'm asking, though, if you're clear data gets leaked. If you're pitching this as a threat, like, this could be dangerous, what is the danger? The danger is. This is opposite day, by the way. Yeah, this is, I can't believe this is happening right now. Is this some kind of like reverse psychology?

Well, I just want to see. You're going full Socratic on me? I just want to see how big of a conspiracy theorist you are. You know, where would it go? I mean, I know. All the way to the top. I would go all the way to the top, brother. All the way to the top.

But what do you think they would do with? with it. The same thing anyone would do with your data if it gets leaked. What would they do? What would those people do? They would sell it to people who are going to use it for bad reasons. They're going to have market and advertise to you. They're going to send crap to your house. They're going to track your location. They're going to. And you don't think the government would ever do that sort of stuff. The government does that all the time. So in other words, probably no escaping it. Because the government takes a picture of you every time you fly. It's true.

And they say, oh, no, we delete it right away. But I bet they don't. So why don't you tweet right now all the information that you've given clear? Just tweet it out to the world. Well, why don't you tweet all the stuff you've given a TSA pre-check? I don't want to do that. That's why I'm not going to willingly sign up for another company that does the same thing. But you already have signed up for the government.

I have one system. I have one system that I use. TSA pre-check. You're absolutely right. My point is... And I acknowledge that it's not fully consistent with the way that I look at things. Yeah. You refuse to take that.

step. No, no, I agree, but I'm already have TSA Prey. So you're like, well, that's what I'm saying. Well, you already, it's all for not, right? So just tweet out all your information to the world. Post your address on Facebook. Well, no, I'm saying that, you know. Let me get a real picture of your eye real quick. I'm going to tweet it out real quick. Like, come on, dude. What are talking? But that's what I'm saying, though. You're yelling at me about it, but you are doing the same thing with TSA. Did you all, like, agree to do that? What is this? I'm getting like ambushed here. What I'm saying, though, is by bizarre and five minutes. This is the Jim Carrey impersonator in a dusty mask.

What I'm saying is I don't trust the government with information and you don't trust this company. So what I'm saying is it's the same thing. It's a false dichotomy. I can not trust either of them. Yeah, I don't trust either of them either. But it's like at some point you make compromises because you're like. There it is. Well, yeah, I'm not denying that. I never have.

I don't use Clear at the airport, but if it starts showing up everywhere for lines, I'm signing up for Clear. Well, Brian, we already know. You're first to go in the New World Order. Like, you're first. But my point is, you do it too with TSA Pre. You've made that same compromise, but you just drew a line at what Clear is. Eyeballs. And fingerprints. I have drawn a line. I have drawn a line. And you're saying that there's no point of a line. That's the difference here. No. You're saying that the – No, I'm just saying – Where's your line drawn? I'm just saying that that gap of TSA and clear, it's the same thing to me. It's, you know, it's like these days, a lot of these corporations are no different than our government.

Our government is basically a corporation. I don't think there are any differences. Okay. And we're all just trying to move through the airport out of it. You have real ID, right? I do have real ID. Yeah, because I needed one to travel. But I use a passport.

I don't have the real ID, so I don't need real ID to travel. I already have the passport, so I don't need to. So I'm just saying, we all make you say, I need it to travel. I need it to move faster. Do you use face ID for unlock anything? No, but I don't. No. I do.

I love it. That's what I'm saying. Sign me up for all of it. That's what I'm saying, though. That's the point, though. You're kind of coming at me about clear real hard, and I'm saying, listen, I don't trust clear. I don't trust TSA Pre.

I don't trust real ID. I don't trust any of it. But at some point, you're just, you just go, whatever, because we're traveling so much that you make compromises because you're traveling so much. Like you do with food on the road and stuff like that too? Yeah. Yeah. Like you have to, right? Yeah.

Like you got to live in the world and be in the world to function out here. Yeah. I mean, I don't eat, you know, McDonald's and Burger King and Wendy's and Taco Bell and, you know, but yeah, you make. You make compromises. Angie, Aaron, I agree with you about clear. Oh, wait, you've already read that one. I'm just saying, though, well, you know, you're really against clear. And I get it.

I mean, on the surface. That's not even why I'm against clear. I'm against clear because it doesn't speed up the airport at all. It's literally a line cutting service. TSA precheck speeds up the entire airport because it has lanes, designated just for TSA precheck. Clear does now, too. In some airport, some places, they just put you right in front of the precheck lane.

But it's like... Or they put you in front of the... Clear and Nashville now has its own lane. And I think, yeah, so you go, you just go right through. Because I've been, I'll be next to go up. And then they're like, hold on a second. And I think, oh, this is somebody important. Hold on it.

Hold on it's dusty walking in front of you. And they have a person with them. He paid $89 and gave him a draw of blood from his arm. And he goes, well, you got to fly. But you don't think that they have your fingerprints or your eye and stuff now? Fingerprints, I don't know. I've never given my fingerprint for anything, but I'm sure they could get it. But I'm not going to pay $89 to give it to a company that I don't trust at all. Yeah.

You know? I mean, Dusty already, they already have his fingerprints. He has a criminal record. That's true. Yeah, that's true. I mean, they got it all. They got his mugshot. But nothing's digitized in Opelika.

They'd have to go down there and get it in person. I mean, they got everything, you know, and that's what's, that's the scary part. I mean, our iPhones are our own personal spies that travel around with us all the time. They get every time you push, you got fingerprints, your eyes are looking at it all day. I mean, they got all at all. You remember there's a lot of futuristic movies like this, but Minority Report? Yeah. I mean, there was a lot of that where billboards, they would scan your eyes and put up personal ads for you.

Yeah. That didn't seem so far-fetched now, does it? No. I think in China, they do have the social credit score and certain parts where they already have your info. And if you get out of line, they go, okay, well, you're not going to be able to use the train today. Yeah, that's crazy. Wow. Yeah.

Jared Murphy. I love the input. This was fun, by the way. I like that. That's what this podcast needs. Jared Murphy. That was, you know, make sure we clip this. Jared Murphy. I love the input and the camera cut to the behind the scenes crew.

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Stephen... Because that's eight, right? Yeah. Spades. That's how you spell eight, yeah. Stephen Spates. Dusty, how could you leave off? She thinks my tractor sexy by Kenny Chesney on the Farming Country songs.

Well, because I was, you know, tasked with making a top five. That song stinks. And that song did not make it. No, yeah. That song stinks, man. You know, I was listening to that song not long ago, and something occurred to me because my line of think good has always been like, no one thing. think's attract or sexy.

But I was thinking, you know what, if this guy... It's a euphemism. If this guy's married to this lady, maybe she does find it attractive. But I don't believe she's bringing out a basket full of chicken and a big cold jug of sweet tea. I was driving home from Covington, Tennessee, this weekend. And I was, you know, I'm texting with Aaron. While driving. Yeah.

Yeah. And Aaron... Driving with his knees. Yeah. and pulled the old, oh, I'm fading fast. I'll talk to you later, which we've all done when we don't want to talk to someone. It's 2 p.m. I'm turning in, buddy. Then I see him post things for the next three hours.

There's 11.55 p.m. you were texting me. Well, I mean, when do you go to bed before midnight? Not very often, but that was a... You should have called me. I'd put you on FaceTime in the cigar bar. That is true. I thought, well, it's almost 1 a.m. where you're at. Ah, yeah. You were just getting off stage. Yeah.

That was Friday. I drove back from Huntsville that night from the show. So it was a long day for me. Yeah, I was joking about that. But then I listened to some country radio, some, and I listened to little Charlie Daniels. Yeah. And I tell you said, I listened to little Charlie Daniels. Like Little Jimmy Dick gets.

I was like, I don't know if anybody's called him at it. I put on Little Charlie Daniels. A little Charlie Daniels. And Dusty, I know you hate what you call country rap. Yeah. But I mean, a lot of his songs, which I love, you can almost argue we're kind of like that. He's talking. The devil went down to Georgia, half of it.

He's just talking. A lot of that old school country, man. They are talking. Yeah, they're talking, but it's not like. Kind of preaching. Colt Ford. Well, I don't know. Actually, I don't mind some cult for it.

But it's not like that. Jelly Roll or something. Yeah. Legend of Woolly Swamp. That's another word. He's just fast talking, but it's like, yeah, it's not. Rhythmically, rhythmically. Yeah.

Yeah, it sounds like rap, do. I don't know. Charlie Daniels is great. Little Charlie Daniels. I love Charlie. If you ever go back in the woolly swamp, well, you better not go at nine. That song used to scare me. In the middle of them woods, make a young man die from fry.

I don't know that one. That's a good one. All right. Things that crawl, things that fly, things to keep around on the ground. All right, let's move on. And they say the ghosts of Volusius Clay gets up and he walks around, but I couldn't believe them. I just had to find out for myself. Aaron, chime in.

Is that NWA? That's a good one. Rachel Anderson. FFA is more than just farming. Education about where our food comes from and how everything ties into agriculture is important. I've always said that. However, there are so many other opportunities for skills. and growth.

Even if a person doesn't want to be a farmer, there are so many programs and opportunities available through FFA that will provide skills that can give these high schoolers an edge going into the world. I believe that. Yeah, you guys kind of dog farmers last week, and I don't know why. I mean, there are a few. I don't think I. But also.

I was making fun of the songs that they sing. Yeah, I mean, uh, yeah. I mean, Rachel should direct this energy towards our government who keeps stealing everybody's farmland to make data centers. And what's the difference between the government? in private companies anymore. Yeah, that's what I've been saying this whole podcast. That she should direct them at private companies too, right?

Yeah. So just be mad at the world? But not us. Everybody but us. We're doing it. We're comedians. Yeah, I don't think we're doing it. Blake?

Heron? Blake, I'm sorry. Your parents made you spell your name like that. Spell that for the camera, Brian. B-L-A-I-K-E. Come on. I'm sorry your parents did that to you. That's promo code Blake.

The FFA National Convention is a huge event. Kids from every state come and compete national contests in agricultural skills, public speaking, and others. They also give out very prestigious awards that kids work their tails off for. And in the clip, Aaron showed they were selecting their officer team for the next year. I love it. Yeah, we love the clip. Yeah, I think we actually, when the camera turned off, we watched it for like another five minutes. Yeah, we thought it was great.

I mean, it's like, yeah, it seems over the top and crazy. but they're excited and we support it. If I were, you know, if I went to a school where that was a big thing, I could be totally involved in that. My dad lives on a farm still. He would have never let me be part of that. But it seems fun. Why wouldn't he let you be part of that?

Because he would have watched that video and go, now you're not going to be wrapping arms of those people, dancing around. You're not going to be doing that. Gallivanting. Yeah. I used to have a joke that I told for many years when I first started. about how this is when I was single.

Do you know this joke? The shingle ladies, Joe? No, we've covered that one. I used to say, my friends, I'll say, you should get out there and sow your wild oats. That's a great joke. And I'm like, apparently, I don't know how to farm. I'm like, I don't know if it was a class I missed,

regarding Expo. It's been a long dry summer for 38 years. I would, I did that, whatever. One night I'm at Zanis, and the guy yells, maybe you need a bigger tractor. I posted that video And it's still probably the second or third Most views of any video

Millions of views on YouTube At least a million The way you titled it was really smart What is it? Sometimes the heckler has the best line Yeah Yeah But you responded to it so well

Sometimes it's like Somebody says that You just sat at it for a while Yeah And then that gets a laugh Because it's like you processing it Yeah And then you concede it to them

That's a great line You know Yeah Thank you Aaron No, it is. Why it felt so gastric? No, I was thinking of something that felt inappropriate to say, so I kept it to myself. Thank you. Dusty.

Well, that's what the guy, that's what he's talking about. No, no, I was just going to further it, but I decided not to do it. Okay. Don't try to pull it out of me. I would never dream of that. But if you're a Patreon subscriber, Dusty, we'll post it. Yeah. Now, I'm joking.

All right. Tough last name. Susan. Susan Gassman. Sheep milk is the closest to human milk and is best for babies if human milk is not available. The next is goat and then cow. Cal milk is more readily available and you can produce way more, way faster. So now we have cow milk. Interesting. Well, those are great. My friend, you guys, probably your friend too, Ed Wiley, owns a lot of goats. And Ed told me that if you milk goats, you have to milk, you like milk goats all the time. You have to constantly milk the goats. Why not? Why?

I just think they produce so fast that you just have to be milking them all the time. What happens if you don't milk them? Do they explode? I think they can swell up. I thought that was the case with cows. I think you milk cows every day. Well, what does a cow do in nature if it's not being milked by a human? I think the baby gets at it.

Fair enough. Yeah. All the time? Yeah, I mean, the baby drinks, you know, it's the baby's food. What are we feeding the baby cows that if we're taking the milk from the cow? I'm not a dairy farmer. I'm just, you know, I don't know a lot about it. Don't jump in if you don't got all the details about something, man.

But do you think this is true, Dusty? I don't know. I never, to be honest with you, I never heard of sheep's milk, really. But I have heard of people who couldn't produce breast milk giving their children goat's milk. I have heard of that. Because, you know, and a lot, like, raw milk will have a lot of the vitamins in it that are pasteurized and homogenized milk doesn't have. What kind of milk do you buy? Well, if I do like to buy raw milk if I can get it.

Cows milk. Yeah. Is it legal to buy? It's illegal in Tennessee, but you can get it. Goes across the border. You can get it. It says four pets only. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. And then, but it's legal in Pennsylvania. I bought some out of store in Pennsylvania and drank it while I was there. Loved it. It's illegal in South Carolina. It's insane that it's illegal to drink raw milk. What's the reason that it's illegal?

They say it's dangerous. But yet, McDonald's and cigarettes are still available. Andy Wexler? I think that's Wexler? I think so. I'd like to suggest that the next topic you guys choose be one that involves less singing. Well, too late, Andy. Yeah, sorry about that.

Andy. What is it about the singing that you didn't like, can't you? Probably the same thing. I'm not crazy about. I'm going to be honest with you, though. Last episode, you were doing the singing. That's right. Well, I was like, if you're going to be singing the whole episode,

A melodically, I might as well jump in and try to sing with the tune. Listen, you were singing. Last episode, it was you. I was getting into it. FFA. Let's be. Let's do one more video comment. Oh, we got a video.

comment here. Okay. From Brian Holt. Here we go. We're going to play it here. What's up public figures? My name's Brian. Grew up in Palatine, Virginia, just outside of Richmond. Did 4-H, not FFA, but we had about 30 sheep when I was young. And I went out to feed the sheep one morning, about 10th grade or so. And there is a mom trying to give birth against gravity on the side of a hill. And so I ended up having to go out there and yank that sucker out of there.

Took care of the lamb, got it up on its feet. I ended up getting out of school that day. So that was pretty nice. Got lots of other farm stories too. We had llamas later on. But yeah, it's good times. And I appreciate the show. Appreciate you guys.

Have a good one. What does he mean by gravity? Sorry, go ahead. And he's working on his catchphrase, right? Yeah. Have a good one. What is that? That's a good story.

I've helped birth a cow. Really? Yeah. Did you grab it and pull it out? Well, well, it's a sadder story, I guess. I mean, it's not sad to me, probably to other people, but the calf had died. Oh, okay. And so he had to save the mom.

Oh, okay. So you had a stillborn calf. Yeah, inside. You have to get it out of there. So we hooked it, like, when you're building barbed wire fence, you have what's called a wire stretcher. So we had to tie some wire around like the leg of the calf and then we had to like pull it out with that kind of wire stretcher. That's so much more gruesome than I thought was. Yeah.

That was. Sorry, I asked. Thank you. That was younger than 10th grade. I'll tell you that. You got to school for it? I don't think so. Support for today's episode comes from Square, the system powering like half of the world.

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One year ago this week, March 7th, I went to Montana for the first time and performed at last best comedy club in Bozeman. Oh, yeah. And now a year later, you're going March 7th. Oh, okay. Same time of the year. Yeah, I've been to Montana before. but it was only one time, and I'm very excited to go back.

Last time I did Butte, Bozeman Billings. The three B's. Yeah, the three Bs. This time I'm just doing two. I'm doing Billings and Butte. And I'm a big fan. I love them. You know, there's a great country song by Dan Sills and Marie Osmond.

Meet Me in Montana. Oh, yeah. You know that? You want to sing it for us? Well, now she, he was aspiring country singer, moved to Nashville and failed. She went to Hollywood, try to make it an actress and failed. And the song is, let's just give it up and get back together, Montana. Oh, yeah.

Won't you meet me in Montana? Oh, yeah, that did it for me. I want to see the, are you lying? Yeah, I am lying. I want to see the mountains in your eyes. You don't know the song? I bet I do know it. I know Dan Seals.

I just sang it. Say it perfectly, by the way. If you guys don't know it, then how do you know if that? That's Marie Osmond? Yeah. So who is Donnie Osmond? Is that her husband? Her brother.

Her brother. Yeah. You know, I did a show. So it's not a biographical song. It's just like they're playing characters in the song. A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. What are you talking about? He said that she moved to Hollywood and was a failed actress.

It's Dan Seals. Oh, the song, yeah. They're not. So there's just the character in the song. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You know, the three best Montana songs, in my opinion, all come from Hank Williams, Jr.

That's a cut bank Montana, Montana song, and Montana Cafe. How do they go? Montana Cafe. I'm not going to sing a lot. This is for Andy Wexler. Yeah, but no, those are my three favorite Montana songs. Yeah. We got a package here from the producers.

Let's get a cut of them. Make sure you see who we're dealing with over here. Chris Stapleton has a song where he says Billings, Montana, I think. He's got a song with Mumford and Sons on their new album, too. That's really good. Okay, we got an eBay package. This is wrapped This is wrapped the way my uncle would wrap Christmas gifts

So they can make fun of you the whole time While you're unwrapping it? Yeah And then it's just a card in there or something Yeah You got a loose cigarette All right, this is another This is a Montana pin

I'm gonna try to just cut it through I got a Montana pin I don't know why you always give it to air and to open Because I think You know I mean we know you have the grip strength But I do have the best grip strength on the podcast

Yes you do Feels pretty good I don't like it. That's a nice Montana pin right there. A shot of that. We'll put that on the wall. We've got a wall over here. We're going to keep track of all this stuff over here.

That's very cool. What's on there? It looks like probably the state flower. A lilac? What is that? Ah, the state flower. Glad you asked, Dusty. I don't think we did ask.

It is a bitter root. That is a bitter root. Yeah. Do you know a bitter root, Dusty? I don't. You used to grow it, right? In your yard? I don't think so.

Okay. I just assumed you did. Roots fleshy, branched with a simple or branched codex. Stems leafless, erect, or ascending. Okay. That didn't help at all. Okay. It's very bitter.

That's from the Montana Field Guide. That's the description of the bitter root. It's just... The name describes it. Pink slash purple and it just looks like a blooming onion. Is that better? Yeah. Yeah, I know.

Blumen onion, yeah. I want to share that our producer Abby helped come up with some of this research. this week and our friend Hunter Lloyd, who's open for both of us in Montana. Professor Lloyd. Professor at Montana State. He's a lifelong. I don't know if he's lifelong, but he's lived to Montana for a long time. He sent me some fun facts about Montana. Okay. He's, uh, I think he's coming to your show this weekend. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which one? He's a good dude. You got to connect you. Uh, uh, Billings? I don't know. Probably Billings.

You guys know the capital of Montana? Helena. What do you think, Dusty? I only know three cities in Montana And three Bs Yeah and I don't think it's either of those All right let me ask you this How many Cutbank Montana

State capitals Like if you had to write them all down Could you name? All 50 You could? Yeah No way to know Yeah

I mean we could easily do it I'm saying No way to know Right offhand How many I could name I'm gonna say 25 There was a time in my life When I was a kid

I learned all 50 Now I think I could probably do 40. And if you gave me like two minutes to look at a list, I think I could quickly remember a day off of you. I might have missed this one. I don't know that I could have told you the capital of Montana. What you say it?

Yeah. I'm like, oh yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah, Helena. Yeah. Is it Helena? Mm-hmm. Oh. Mm-hmm.

Where you've been saying? I never heard that. I never heard that city in my life. The name Montana comes from a Spanish word, Montenia, which means mountain. or mountainous country. Tony Montana, Scarface. Oh, his name's Anthony Mountain. Yeah.

Okay. Tony Montana sounds way better. Tony Montana, Scarface. Yeah. Do you watch Hannah Montana? I did watch Hannah Montana back of the day. Yeah. Miley Cyrus.

Billy Ray Cyrus too. Yeah. And then her older brother, who was like 15 in the show, but the actor was like 35. She has a sister, too. She has a few sisters. Yeah. Not in the show. No, but in real life.

So Montana has a few nicknames. I think David Alon Coe has a song called Tanya Montana, and he may have a daughter named that. Named Tanya Montana? I think so. Wow. Tanya Montana? Yeah, Tanya, probably.

I think it's Tanya. Really? Okay. Yeah, namesake of... Tanya Tucker. Tanya Tucker. All right, and the daughter of country outlaw legend, David Allen Coe. You're right.

Yeah. Joe Montana. There you go. Just name it all the Montana's down. I think we've covered it. We're off to the races with the state of Montana here. These are all Hunter Lloyd's facts right here? No, these are my own personalist.

I'm saving hunters because they're so good. Okay. It has like three different nicknames, big sky country. Big sky. Because the sky out there is big. It's real big. And you don't get that until you're out there and you're like, it is a big sky. It is.

Do you like looking up the stars, dusty? Yeah. Okay. Well, you're going to enjoy it. Yeah, you know, I, well, I've been there and I did, I did enjoy it. You know what? I landed in Butte last time, small, small airport. And what was fun is it, you know, how they bring the jet bridge out to the plane? Like a very attractive Native American girl brought the jet bridge out. And I just thought, this is a great welcome to Montana. It just felt like I was really out in the west, you know? You mean she like did the joystick? Yeah. Yeah, and it just falls just like, oh, this is cool.

This feels like a cool welcome to Montana. Yeah. I think it's so many places as you travel just feel the same. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Most cities you're in, you go, this could be in Oklahoma, and nobody would even know the difference.

It's all the same cheesecake factories, same. There's a top golf, you know, it's all the same stuff. But there are places, Montana's one of them where you go, I really feel like I'm somewhere. different. Yeah. I really feel like I'm somewhere unique. I really loved Montana.

I mean, when I went there the last time, I could not stop talking about it for a long time. I can't wait to go back. Mm-hmm. I'm glad next week's episode's pre-recorded. Maybe a two weeks he'll forget about it. Yeah. Just kidding.

But I heard you talk about on your podcast how on the cruise you enjoy looking up the stars and the moon and... Yeah. There's not a lot of light. pollution out there. Yeah. Yeah. It's also called

the last best place. And, you know, the comedy club there, last best comedy club. I never really thought about why it was called that. All these comedy clubs have weird names, but that's kind of one of their

I had no idea. What does it mean? I think it just means like... Like what you just said, so many places are the same. That's right. Except Montana. It's one of the last best places.

I love that. Yeah. gets one of the last, yeah, exactly, has been polluted with people. It's so cold in the winter, I think, that it kind of makes it hard for people to want to live there. It was so cold last time I was there. It's also a nickname the Treasure State. Because a lot of copper mines. Yeah, there's a lot of minerals there. So anyway, it, people started settling there in the 1800s. They used to just give away land to try to get you to move out west. The Homestead Act 1862, you'd get 160 acres of federal land if you would be

willing to farm it and build a house there and cultivate it. And still, nobody. How much would they give you now for free? Still, nobody, that was 1862. It was 1868 before anyone took them up on their offer for Montana because they said that wasn't enough land for that type of climate. Man, 160 acres? Yeah. And then. Oh, this is a song, I think Marty Robbins has a song called 160 acres in the valley. I got a, I think it is 160 acres. Well, there you go. In 2023, Montana became the first state to attempt a band TikTok.

Wow. And it didn't work, huh? Yeah, you know, there was talking about a national band. First negative thing I've ever heard about Montana. Yeah. I don't understand who you are today, man. I love TikTok. He loves TikTok.

But you shouldn't. I like TikTok when China owned it the best. Okay. You love giving data away. Yeah. This guy loves giving data to nefarious entities. I think they just dropped that lawsuit. Please, Palantir.

Please take my blood. Come on, man. They already got it. They already got it. So Hunter, I remember him telling me this when I was there. And then, oh, let me just say this. It's one of the largest states in size, fourth largest state in actual size. You can drive from the southeast corner of Montana and get to Texas quicker than you can drive to the other side of Montana.

That's pretty wild. Yeah. It's 44 state and population, though. It's not dense. So for comparison, Manhattan. Patton has 70,000 people per square mile. Think about that. 70,000.

Nashville has 1,500 people per square mile. Tennessee has 173 people per square mile. Montana has eight. Wow. That's unbelievable. Yeah. I love that. I love that.

It's a lovely place. The cows outnumber the people three to one. There's a million people in Montana, three million cows. Just did the quick math right there. But things are changing. A lot of celebrities are moving to Montana. A lot of people in general. Just like here,

all these people from California moving. Why wouldn't you, man? The more you hear about it, you're like, I might as well go out there. I know. Hunter was telling me about home prices that skyrocketed out there.

Are they hating it out there? Yes, Montana's people, Montanians, they hate it. Yeah, I bet. All these people coming in here. I bet because they're, yeah,

they're the worst. I couldn't remember the exact. the exact wording of it. But I remember I got a message when I first played Montana. I don't think it was from Hunter, though I ended up talking with Hunter for a while. But another guy was like, a few things you need to know about Montana. Buy local, buy Montana stuff, and don't move here or something. You're like, jeez, I'm just coming to tell some jokes.

But I get it now. Yeah. Well, it's like you're not the problem, though. If you wanted to move there, you'd be a great addition. Thanks, man. Well, that's what everyone says. No, I don't say, I don't say that about everyone. Just bulldozing trees and just being the worst.

Everyone says that about themselves, but I don't say that about everyone. That's nice. He says Justin Timberlake and Jessica Bill are members of his golf course. He ran into Johnny Depp at the gym. Kevin Costner got a flat tire in front of his aunt's house. David Letterman moved there. Bobby Knight used to love watching his son hit range balls. So all these celebrities are moving there.

But they also have Dusty, a lot of people who hate the government. Yeah, but give it some time, though. Enough of these celebrities move out there. And they start, enough of them start loving the government. And then it doesn't matter that in Montana they hate the government. I know, but there's a lot of space out in Montana and a lot of wilderness. So it might take a while. These people, they go deep in the woods.

The Unabomber, that's where he, you know, spent some time. Yeah. in Montana, hating the government. The Montana Freeman, they were anti-government. We all should hate the government. That's what's so weird. We all should hate them. And love companies.

Maurice Hillman, not everybody from Montana's great, Dusty. This guy invented a lot of vaccines. And save millions of lives. But come on, man. So you win some, you lose some. But this Montana Freeman does, he seems like something you could get on board with. Montana Freeman. Anti-government, Christian militia.

They refer to their land as justice township and declare their leaders and followers, sovereign citizens. Oh, there were those kind of. No longer under the authority of any outside government. This isn't a car. It's a vehicle. Have you just watched those videos? Yeah. No.

I mean, I do like the idea that, you know, We own our own community. We make our own rules and our own laws. And, you know, I like that. Yeah. Our own kind of communes. I thought this was interesting. The continental divide.

You guys heard of the continental divide? I've driven past a sign. I've heard those words. It cuts through Montana. I couldn't exactly have told you what it was. But basically, all the water flows down from Canada. And this is the place where it either goes to, the left or goes to the right into the body of water.

Okay. Throughout the whole United States. That's cool. It's like the rooftop of a house, but it's the continent, huh? I guess so. Yeah. Works with gravity, I think it's that. Triple divide peak in Glacier National Park in Montana,

has a water flow into three major watersheds, Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Hudson Bay. Nice. In the Arctic Ocean. So three raindrops following. within inches of each other, we'll end up in three different parts of the world. That's crazy.

It's pretty cool. That's really cool. That is pretty cool. Nate Bargetse, everyone. Oh, it is. Is it? Yeah. Okay.

Come on, guys. The smallest river in the world is in Montana. What's it called? Little River. The Roe River, Gray Falls, measures 200 feet. Oh, that's not a river. Where does it go to?

What's it called? The Roe River, R-O-E. A row river in Montana. I think it fluctuates. I think sometimes it gets down to 50 feet. Oh, dude, this is a ditch somebody dug around. Well, what's interesting about that is, you know, like in McMinville, I have a creek. Yeah.

And my neighbor said, I've not walked this, I do want to do it in the summertime. But he says, if you go, you know, a certain distance up the way, the creek is completely dry because it's mountain fed. So all these mountain streams come to feed this creek and it runs behind my land. Huh. So even in the summertime when it's really hot, the water is like ice cold. Really? Yeah. Look at the Roe River right here.

That's the Missouri River. Ice is maybe a little. And then the Roe River that's just kind of a doop. They just kind of cut a line out just around the corner right there. Wow. Missouri River runs through Montana. Isn't that crazy? Yeah.

I think the Missouri River runs through Montana. River is the longest? That's the Mississippi. I thought the Mississippi was the biggest overall. I thought Missouri was the longest. I don't know. It says Missouri River here. Yeah.

They have Yellowstone National Park, also Montana. Only 3% is in Montana, but three of the four entrances to get in there is through Montana. The largest temperature swing in recorded history in the U.S. at least, was in Montana, 103 degree swing in one day. In one day? Yeah. What do you go from?

What are the temperatures? I think it would be cooler if it went from like zero to 103. 103, yeah. It was minus 54. So it was so cold and it got up to 49. That's so crazy. Wow. It's like you raise that many degrees and you're like, still cold.

Still a little chilly. It's a little cold. I mean, a light jacket now, but. So I always ask this as far as when you think of Montana or any state, who is it you think of from that state? In Montana, I couldn't tell you anybody. I mean, immediately I can't think of anybody. And then I would think Joe Montana. And I know in my head that's not even right.

But I can't think of a, I mean, maybe Lewis and Clark. I always think of Hank Williams, Jr. And then I would think of. But where's he from? Alabama. Oh, okay. But I would think of Robert Redford in... The Horse Whisper?

No, the movie Jeremiah Johnson. Even though I don't think that's Montana either, but I would just think of him and that. There are, I mean, obviously people, famous people have come from there and a ton of people who moved there. But none that I knew. Dana Carvey was born there. Britt Musburger was raised in Billings. Evil Knievel. Okay.

It was from there. That makes sense. you get bored up there, not a lot going on. You start jumping over stuff. Augie Smith. You guys know Augie Smith? I do know Augie. Very funny comic.

Grew up in Billings. Yeah. The Billings Gazette called him one of the most underrated comedy stars of his generation. I believe that. I did the Big Sky Comedy Festival in I think 2018 or 2019. And Augie Smith is one of the big comics on that festival. I opened for Augie at Toledo Funnybone on about 2015. How'd it go.

It wasn't great. Yeah. Reggie Watts. Okay. Wouldn't have never guessed that? No. Here's one that Abby found, and I did some research, and one of my favorite all-time country singers is Charlie Pride. Okay.

Now, Charlie Pride wasn't born in Montana, but I also knew he played minor league baseball. Did you know that? No. Played some minor league baseball, and he was playing in Montana. and he ended up just getting a construction job in Helena. And then he was recruited a pitch for the local semi-pro baseball team, the East Helena's smelterites. And the team manager got everybody a job as a smelter.

And they could work around their schedules to play baseball. Wow. But they started noticing Charlie was a good singer. So the team manager paid him to sing for 15 minutes before each game, which increased the attendance at the game, and earned him another $10 on top of the $10 he would get for the game. And it eventually became such a big deal. He had to quit baseball and become full-time singer.

That's crazy. Imagine if we were like Dusty, such a good singer on this podcast. Let's just have him sing a little bit before the podcast starts. Yeah. Yeah. That would be pretty fun. I'm into that idea.

If you give me an extra $10, I'll do it. I think Charlie Pride is a pretty good singer. What about my singing? Charlie Pride is really great. You're more of an impressionist, the singer. You know, interesting thing, I did the opera one time with Charlie Pride. I was there. You may have done more than once, but you invited me once and I came.

With Hannah's dad. Yeah. Did you meet him? I don't know if I met him. I did meet him. I didn't get a picture, but I didn't meet him. But my father-in-law was there with my wife, who's from Peterborough, Ontario. And then Charlie Pride sings a song.

And then after the song, he goes, written by a man named blah, blah, blah out of Peterborough, Ontario. That's cool. Really interesting. But he didn't know the connection? He didn't meet them beforehand. That's wild. Yeah.

I remember that night, Crystal Gale was on that show. Yeah. It's a hot show, but... My mom was there, too, because she met Crystal Gale. I think there's a group photo of all of us underneath that stage. Yeah. That sign somewhere when you walk in. Yeah.

It's cool, man. It would have been fun. We had a great time, didn't we? Are you doing the Opry anytime? Actually, doing it tonight as this podcast comes out. I'm doing it. No, I thought they got rid of comedians.

Well, shortly after that, you messaged, we talked about it, and I said I hadn't done it in a long time. It's been a really long time. Yeah. And my management asked me, sent me a couple of dates. Okay, I'm glad to hear they're still doing it. Yeah. Because I haven't known any stand-up comics that have done it lately.

I hadn't done, I've really not done it in a, like. Over a year. My wet heat came out in July, and I was hoping to get on there some point plug, and I have not been on there since July, for sure. March 4th, yeah. Susie Bogus I'm on with, big fan of Susie Bogus. T. Graham Brown, Daily Vincent, Riders in the sky. Sacha? Sasha, yeah.

Ronda Vincent, I know. I know, yeah, I mean, that's going to be great. Actually, I listen. I didn't know Sasha. I listened to her. She's got a country sound. I'm a big fan. Susie Bacchus has a song, Someday.

Someday soon, yeah. You know that song? No, I don't know that. It's a great song. Yeah. It's so good. Susie Buggis has a lot of great songs. Some celebrities who live there now, Michael Keaton, Tom Brokaw.

John Mayer. He's got a place out there. He does. Huey Lewis, Jeff Bridges. Are they living in towns or they got there a bunch of land? No, it sounds like they got ranches. I don't know. Connie West had a huge

in Montana? Yeah, huge like ranch Really? Something out there, yeah. Yeah. Huh. Yeah, I think of these are I think that's what...

Ranch is. I would say, Montana, I couldn't think of a person associated. I think of movies. Specifically, two Brad Pitt movies

that came out pretty close together. Legends of the Fall. Great movie. Yeah. A river runs through it. Yeah. Similar in a way.

Yeah. He's the rambunctious wild brother. And the other brother and the dad trying to keep things running. But both set in Montana. Both great movies. River runs through it. It's got some beautiful.

Brad Pitt. Yeah. Scenery. No, that's not what I was. Take it easy. Take it easy. Well, Aaron looks like Brad Pitt. Kanye was in Wyoming, by the way.

I apologize. Okay. I'm sure everybody was upset. Yeah. Open range. You've got seen the movie Open Range? No. Just watched it.

just watch it what are you right what do you what are you right what are you how do you watch a movie well you know I buy DVDs yeah and then I burn them to my computer and then I watch them on planes or whatever I've been watching a lot of Colombo

so you take your laptop out on the plane and watch the movie yeah okay sometimes I'll air drop it to my phone okay and just watch it on your phone yeah but I do the laptop do you sit down and do you watch a movie at home sometimes not really it's hard with two kids yeah

any kids at a hotel or watch a movie at a hotel I'm overly I really just flip around the TV and if I come across one

I'll watch it me too but I won't you watch open range on the on the cruise actually yeah I couldn't sleep

and then I thought well I'll put on this Western and it'll help me fall asleep and I watch the whole thing in the night Robert Deval

it's so good Kevin Kosson and part of Lonesome Dove you ever seen Lonesome Dove Dusty? I have a long time ago It's great, too.

I want to watch it, but it's a long, super long one. Part of it's set in Montana. And then there's all these TV shows that are now set in Montana. All these Tyler Sheridan. I mean, there's like four or five of them. What are them debuted this week? So Yellowstone's the main one. Yeah, that's the hub.

Yeah, because California is so expensive to film in. Now they're like anywhere they can go. They're filming. Well, this is a movie about a ranch. So he couldn't really film that in LA Anyway I bet they could find a place in California Yeah I'm sure somewhere in California

But and then there's prequels to Yellowstone There's 1923 I think that's the one With Harrison Ford right Okay And then there's 1883 Harrison Ford I used to love that guy

I'm pretty done with him I feel like everything I see him in now He's so lazy about what he's doing It's like I just don't care Oh he's just old though Yeah He's 83. Yeah, it's not good, though.

I saw him last night get the Life Achievement Award. Yeah. The Saga Awards. Well, yeah, I mean, he's, you know, obviously he's been a great actor historically, but now I just, he's just phoning it in. But I asked my wife, I said, is there anybody else alive who has been two iconic characters, Indiana Jones and Han Solo? I mean, two of the great movie characters of the last 50 years.

Zoe Sal Donna, right? she has been in like three of the biggest movies but her character's not you couldn't say her character's name and even know I don't know who she's played any of those movies but I know she was a I don't know she was blue she was blue in Avatar and then she was green in

Avengers Guardians of Galaxy and she read and something too I feel like she's in a third really big movie but maybe because of the sequels and stuff she's been in a ton of it. Well it's probably tough to do because most guys it's like you can't think of them as not the first guy.

Gianno Reeves, Bill and Ted, and Neo. It's pretty good. That's not a bad one. Mike Myers, Wayne's World and Austin Powers, and Shrek. It's a good one. Yeah, I'm not saying, those are good ones, but they're not as good as the one Harrison Ford's are. They're not as iconic as these two roles.

I mean, there are two of the biggest franchises. Ever. But those are good. Now you ask if she's ever read. Harrison Ford was read last year. He was the Red Hulk. Which was the worst Marvel movie there? No, it's not the worst, but it's close to the worst that we've ever had.

What's the worst? Probably the Marvels. Oh, I haven't seen that. Yeah. I don't watch any of those, man. Demonic. Well, you read about that. And then there's a, came out this week.

The Madison, which is the guy from Yellowstone, who's now, either you watch Yellowstone? No. I didn't either, but he's, I think he's a Marshall now or something. Okay. Rising up. Yep. Yep. Abby found an interesting thing, I think she emailed it to us, that rock formation where if there's a group of rocks and if you hit each one with a hammer, they make a

a ringing sound. But if you remove one, the sound goes away. And they don't know why this happens. It's called, I can't remember what it's called, but while you're looking that up,

okay, I'll keep going. I think it's in the email she sent us. The ringing rocks of Minnesota, or the Montana? If it's Montana, there might be, I think there's one in Pennsylvania too.

Okay. The Alberta Bear Theater in Billings is known to be haunted with a demon living in the green room. Jeez. What is it? The Alberta Bear Theater. Let me make sure that's not where I'm going. I kind of hope it is. I kind of hope it is. They're called The Ringing Rocks.

What are these rocks? I'm looking at, nobody sent me anything. Oh, that is where I'm going. Is it really? Alberta B-A-I-R. Yep, that's it. Oh, man. So do you know anything about this?

Yeah. Says, I made this up. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. All right, good, good, good. Oh, that was awesome. That's good. I just wanted to get dusty fired up. That's good.

That's good. I was already contemplated what I was going to do. Cancelling the show. I'm going to sit out in the audience with you. Okay, great. What did you ask me right before that? I remember. What am I looking up?

Something with rocks? Let's just move on then. Yeah, something with rocks. Montana State won the 2025 FCS National Championship in football. I love college football out there, right? Yeah. They take it pretty seriously. A big rivalry.

Oh, it has the most grizzly bears, Montana does. I mean, state. Wow. More than Alaska? Maybe the lower 48. Okay, the lower 48. It's a good call. All right.

I would think Alaska would have more polar bears. They don't have polar bears in Alaska. So probably not. I bet they're tied for zero. I guess they got a few. Yeah, where are they even at? Florida Ocean. They got some up there.

You're not in Alaska. Where are you even at? Yeah. The northern and northern. northwestern coasts. Yeah. But not like where a lot of people are living, it looks like. Yeah.

Because, I mean, look how far. I mean, Anchorage is down on the bottom. But they still have them, though. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. But I don't think it's mostly polar bears. Yeah.

Has ever heard of Custer's last stand? Yeah. Battle of Little Bighorn. I read a whole book about that. I don't remember anything about it. It kind of made me rethink books. Who are you, Dusty? Dusty's read it?

No, but I remember reading this book going, I'll learn all this about Custer's last day. I think it was just called Custard or something. And it was about pie? No, that's why he thought he was reading it. He quit books when he found out it was about a battle. It's the last page. Where's the pie?

I always thought it was... I may be getting mixed up with someone else, but I always thought he was kind of looked as a not a good figure. Is that what you thought to? Yeah, I think so. But I'm not sure... Yeah, it was like really brutal. Yeah, it was especially brutal, right?

Okay, that's why. I thought his... Because in the battle, he was just way outnumbered. Like, the troops got wiped out. A little big horn. He had been, like, pretty brutal, and I think they finally got him. Yeah, and they returned the favor. Yeah.

The bell ringing boulder, that's what it's called. The bell ringing boulder. Near Butte, Montana. If you take one away, it goes silent. The sound only works when rocks are together. Scientists did not agree on why it works. You're going to go check that out while you're now. Yeah.

You're going to go see it? Check it out. Yeah. Really? No, probably not. I don't know. I am renting a car. Oh, okay.

So you'll be able to hop around. How far is Billings and Bute from each other? I think about two hours. So you'll see a little of estate. Well, I've driven all that before. Three hours, three hours and 20 minutes. Yeah, I actually have a video on YouTube about my... On the road.

On the road with Dusty Slam, Montana, yeah. And who's opening for you? It's an old one. Seven years old. I don't think you were taking openers at this point, right? No. But, I mean, who's opening for you this time? Well, you're restricted on the Zanis now.

Oh, okay. This is good. I told them to crack down on this. Yeah. Will O'Donnell out of St. Louis is going to go with me. He's a big fan of Montana as well. Yeah, that's great. We're going to go on a little adventure. The world's largest snowflake, according to the Guinness World Records,

was reported to be 15 inches in diameter. That's after the... Okay, celebrities move there. Yes. Come. Cool. Okay. We're having a good time, you know?

15 inches? Isn't that crazy? How is that even possible? That's just not even a snowflake at that point. That's just like a sheet of ice that came down. Yeah, that's hard to prove. 15 inches. Yeah.

I mean, how do you prove that land? Somebody go get the tape measure. Oh, it's gone. I saw a snowflake that day. It's 15 inches long. Sure you did, but I'm sure that was a snowflake. They've never had a president or vice president in Montana. They didn't have one guy.

And they don't want one either. Yeah. The Democratic governor. ran in 2020 for the Democratic Party, Steve Bullock. He never, he made it on one debate, never got any traction. Oh, I think I remember that debate. There were a couple of guys on the debate that you never saw again, but actually a couple of them I liked. Are you did?

Yeah. For Montana? Well, I don't know. I don't know. There's a couple of guys I remember on a debate that you never saw again. That I was like, oh, this guy's not bad. Yep. Oh, we were talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Yeah, so he was brutal. That's why he's looked down on in history. I think so. Because in the battle itself... I think he was like arrogant and really got ahead of himself, and that's why he ended up getting. He looked like a cool guy, though. He looked like he could be related to Tyler Childers.

A little bit, yeah, the same kind of face shape. Yeah. The richest man in Montana is, Dennis Washington. Dennis Washington. He's based in Missoula, built his fortune through the railroad industry. The football stadium University of Montana is named after him. And he's 91.

He looks good there. Any day now. Yeah. I'll get blamed for that. Two sons, they'll inherit the Washington. Billions. Yeah. All right.

We can wrap it up before we want. Yeah. I was trying to see if there's anything else. You never found that boulder, huh? The ringing boulder. I mean, there's nothing. I mean, it exists. Do you want a video of it?

She sent a YouTube link that showed people hitting it, but that's okay. I'll find it. I'll plug your dates real quick, and then I'll... This weekend, I'm going to be in Billings, Montana, and Butte, Montana. And, you know, if you want, go to Dusty Slay.com, And then in a couple of weeks, I'll be in Clearwater, Florida, and Orlando, Florida, Paducah, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Missouri. Boom. We're in Paducah.

You know, I don't know. It'd take me a minute, too. Some haunted theater. March. The Carson Center for the Performing Arts. I don't know. C. C.P.

C.P. Yeah. It's haunted. There's a demon in the... Yeah. That was a good joke. Thank you, Dusty. Well, I am a professional comedian.

Yeah. Where are you at this week? Well, let's don't get into specifics, but March 19th is my next public show. March 19th through 22nd. I'm in Destin, Destin, Florida, Puppino Beach, Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, and Gadsden, Alabama. I love it. Doing shows with Johnny W. And Ed Wiley.

Nice. Oh. Goat farmer. I bet I got some fan. Family in Gadsden. Send them out there. Yeah, I hope they watch this podcast. I don't know them by name, but I do have some relatives in Gadsden.

I got family and Gaston, too. I'll send them to come out. And, of course, my special March 30th, but the night before, March 29th, we're doing Brian Bates and Friends here at the Lab at Zanies. So I'd love people to see people at that. I'm busy that night, unfortunately. I'm just kidding. Mark, I'm going to be Edmonton this weekend, Edmonton, Alberta, the comics trip.

This is Aaron Weber. This is Aaron. This is Howard Weber. Next week, Lexington, Kentucky, at Comedy Off-Broadway. It's March 12th, 13th, and 14th. And then my round it out March, I'm going to be in Minneapolis at Cicephas Brewing Company at the end of the month. So coming out and see me, Edmonton, Lexington, Minneapolis. And he'll be at the restaurant, meat, just telling them to do whatever they want.

Let me have it, guys. Yeah. All right, Dusty, you got this one started, so you wrap it up. Okay, well, listen, if you got any stories about my... Montana, send them in, send in a video. We'll feature it here on the podcast if we like it, if it's good enough. The videos that get rejected, we put into a file and we hang on to them to roast you all. No, we sell them to the government. And our own private time. No, we don't do that. But send in a video so we can feature you on here. And I'll have as, try to have as good of a

mustache as the last guy, if you can. That guy did look sharp. And just to say again, because people keep sending them, emailing them, some to me personally. You go to YouTube, right? And it's in the show description. Yeah, it should be. I missed it this last week. Yeah. Let's be sure to show Tristan's face as he's saying that.

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