Dusty Slay: all My Show Notes appearances

Dusty is a week off cigars and sick the whole time. He recaps a casino show in West Wendover, Nevada, a stop at the Salt Flats, a Shake Shack milkshake and a Tucson show at the Rialto. A milkshake sends him back to his pesticide-salesman days, when he planned his Lowe’s route around buffets.

No guest this week. Brian, Aaron, and Dusty open with travel and a CVS scam on Aaron and Lucy, then Dusty’s Air Force bases and the Kelly Clarkson Brooklyn store blowup. The topic is amphibians: Dusty’s backyard tadpoles and tree frogs, the plague of frogs, water vs. tree, and whether Kermit still beats the Budweiser frogs.

Leanne Morgan joins Brian, Aaron, and Dusty to talk Marriage: Season 2 of her Netflix sitcom Leanne, opening for Billy Gardell, the charity dance-off she finished with a fresh hernia, almost 35 years with Chuck Morgan, and why every couple should take the 5 Love Languages test.

Brian shares a stage with a cotton-candy stand in Canton, Aaron makes his case against dance, and Dusty wants the letter X gone. Then the guys dig into Hair: AI hair swaps, big wigs and Louis XIII, transplants in Turkey, Samson to Samsonite, and the styles of every decade.

Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, and Dusty Slay open Public Figures #34 from Zanies Comedy Showplace in Nashville with a long weekend-recap cold open: Dusty’s new favorite town (Portsmouth, NH), Brian’s 5:30 a.m. BNA run-in with Dusty, Aaron’s Conroe/Lake Conroe “more bodies than fish” sightseeing, then college football’s wild Vanderbilt–NC State ending.

Brian, Aaron, and Dusty catch up on two weeks of road stories (a lost Southwest bag, Theatre 99’s final show), clear out two episodes of comments, then dig into radio: AM vs. FM, the first commercial broadcast, legendary DJs from Casey Kasem to Ralph Emery, radio through your fillings, the most popular show in America, and the radio show each of them would host.

Brian, Aaron, and Dusty open on a 94-degree Nashville day and a weekend of Hobbs, New Mexico, Phoenix haboobs, and a ringtone that said “So you had a bad day,” debate a Mount Rushmore of Tennesseans, read comments on 2005’s music, dipping in church, and robot chores, then Aaron leads a tour of philosophy from Zeno’s paradoxes and Plato’s cave to Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and the simulation question.

Dusty looks back on the comedy-condo years on the road: sharing condos with headliners and managers, featuring at the Tulsa Loony Bin with his wife hosting, opening for Ary Spears, a bartender barbecue spot, plus magnesium, conspiracy rabbit holes, Popeyes, and the Ten Commandments.

Brian promotes The Breadwinner, Aaron isn’t a fan of the King James Bible, and Dusty defends his singing. Then the guys get into UFOs: government disclosures, Disclosure Day, the missing-scientists conspiracy, favorite alien movies, first contact, and how people would react to real evidence — plus a detour through 3:10 to Yuma and A League of Their Own.

Dusty flies solo after a jump in views: why YouTube Premium beats ads, Workin’ Man now on his YouTube, running the Monday open mic at the Upper Deck in Charleston and the packed night Aziz Ansari dropped in, how the podcast started with his wife in 2018, the places he lived along the way, property taxes, Ecclesiastes 12:13, and what Jacob and Esau’s bowl of lentils says about trading tomorrow for today.

Dusty wants a pause on anything new, Brian has an awkward moment at a bed and breakfast, and a viewer has a singing request. Then the guys take on 2001: the real Y2K, Segways, Wikipedia, the iPod, where they were on 9/11, the top singles and sports moments, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and whether 2001 was a good year.

Dusty cracks a no-sugar Spindrift and swears it’s disgusting, then keeps drinking it. From there: Charleston happy hours at the Noisy Oyster, a friend’s two-beer tip, heading to an early screening of Nate Bargatze’s The Breadwinner, a Zanies set with John Delony, a listener’s Mark 7:15 question, AI songs, the hantavirus cruise, freeing a bird from a sticky trap, and a run of Van Damme movies and John Wayne Westerns.

Recording late on a Wednesday, Dusty is back from his first road run after a month off. Shane Gillis told a podcast that Christian Bale brought up meeting Dusty at an airport, so the story is confirmed.

Recording early before his dad visits, Dusty talks newborn nights and feeling useless with the baby. Then Daisy wants to ask ChatGPT why storms happen, and he admits he’s been making songs on Suno. Also: a Michael J.

Dusty’s got compost and a mountain of mulch, and he wants a backyard playground. Then a sold-out Zanies show where his old friend John Brennan turned up. Brennan got him to try stand-up in Charleston, and later got him to come back.

Dusty’s back after Connor Larsen filled in: Sonny Ray Slay arrived two weeks early, so it’s Daisy, Sammy and Sonny now. He talks about an Ampex hat for his mom’s old factory, Chuck’s Bar-B-Que, sold-out shows in Paducah and at the Factory in St. Louis, and the St.

Dusty’s having his third baby, so his friend Connor Larsen takes over. Connor covers spring in Tennessee: raised beds, drip lines, poison ivy, blueberries and deer that bite every tomato once. He remembers his first road gigs with Dusty, three tries at landing in Beaumont, and a Texas trip where nobody would make black coffee.

Dusty’s mom visited with the two kids she’s raising, and his stress is high. He reviews Next of Kin, the Patrick Swayze movie he hoped was a Western, and tells about shows at Space Force bases and the Air Force Academy. Then there’s a long day of American Airlines delays, and why he’s done chasing their status.

Back from McMinnville, Dusty’s been caging trees, laying cardboard, finding salamanders and trying watering bags. A listener’s photo of a cashless restaurant gets him onto the mark of the beast and property taxes. Then a McMinnville food tour (Collins River BBQ, Juicy’s, Begonia’s and the Coffee Cat), raw milk and Farmageddon, and a Montana weekend: a stranded opener in Billings, an egg waffle in Livingston and a sold-out Mother Lode in Butte.

No cigar today, so Dusty starts with where enjoying something ends and addiction begins. He follows up on saying “geez,” explains why the family left the old neighborhood, and tells how someone who cleaned the old house commented about it on TikTok. Then CLEAR versus TSA PreCheck after his Public Figures debate with Aaron Weber, how he signed up for CLEAR at Clusterfest, and why he went back to wired headphones.

Dusty Slay is an American stand-up comedian known for his blue-collar storytelling style, often drawing from his own life experiences growing up in a trailer park in Opelika, Alabama. Born on May 18, 1982, Slay's comedy centers on relatable, everyday observations with a warm, eternally optimistic outlook.

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In this lively and insight‑packed episode of Nateland, the crew — Brian Bates, Dusty Slay, and Aaron Weber — welcome stand‑up comic and former high‑school teacher Mike Vecchione for a classroom‑to‑comedy deep dive.

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Dusty drives home from Louisville, does a short corporate set, then flies to Charleston to film Theater 99. He is about to record the audiobook and closes on a pork aside he almost skipped.

Theater 99 is leaving 280 Meeting Street, and Dusty wants the room on film. He also killed a tank of tadpoles, spent three nights in McMinnville, and argues Shop-Vac is a brand, not his Craftsman vac.

Dusty asks whether there is too much to watch. Radio, Netflix, a DVD he actually finishes, Dave Grohl, and a Mr. Bean set he ordered and has barely played.

Dusty goes back through a fair in Lebanon, a Billy Currington song, a club set called Let Loose, and private shows, then Enid and Tinker Air Force Base.

Dusty stacks Providence, a Halifax date, and a 5:20 a.m. Montreal connection. The flight is cancelled, not delayed.

Dusty is glad to be home and walks back through Opelika: the trailer, Jim Bob’s, the Alex City location, and the Workin’ Man special. He also flags pork casings on an all-beef order.

Dusty’s solo hang: garden updates, comedy and fame, modern consumerism, coffee and diet, travel and public annoyances, his special Workin’ Man on YouTube, social media and conspiracies, taxes, service-industry frustrations, and how everything’s getting weird.

Nateland favorite Greg Warren makes his Public Figures debut to talk barbecue, steak and other meats: BBQ restaurants and styles, Nashville hot chicken, steak dinners, types of meat and cuts, and the history of the Filet-O-Fish. Plus paintball with Tom Hanks and catchphrases.

Westerns, TSA rants, Passover feasts, hotel sleep kits & why lyrics might be messing with your eternity

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