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We've got a very special guest with us tonight.

I'm sure you've heard of him.

He's been on Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Trifecta, one of the few comedians to hit up all of them.

Been a breakout favorite of the Grand Ole Opry where you've vlogged more than 20 performances and counting.

You can hear him on SiriusXM.

You can catch him on Netflix.

he's got two specials on there the most recent one wet heat dropped back in july and absolutely crushed it also co-host the we're having a good time podcast with his wife hannah and as a co-host for the wildly popular nate land podcasts with old nate bargotzi welcome to hootin' a hollering always having a good time mr dusty sleigh there he is all right hey i appreciate you i only want to say i never did stephen colbert's show i did the tonight show several times.

I used to work with Stephen Colbert's niece and was one time at a wedding with Stephen Colbert.

I don't know if that counts.

Close enough.

We were told to you, all right, well, if you can just log off then.

No, I never did.

I did, you know...

I did Jimmy Kimmel first, and then I got to do The Tonight Show.

And it feels like once you're in with one of the late nights, I don't know, it kind of feels like you shouldn't do the other ones.

Really?

So Kimmel was the first one to have you on.

Yes.

Did he see you perform somewhere, or did somebody on the show book you?

Well, his booker, yes, saw me.

I did an audition for Just for Laughs Montreal, and I got booked from that.

Oh, cool.

So what year was that that you were on Kimmel?

I did it actually 2017, but it aired the first show of 2018.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Yeah.

And it did nothing for me, really.

But it was exciting.

It wasn't very good.

I had never done a late night, and so I didn't know how to do it.

I didn't know how to prepare for it.

So I had this five minutes of jokes that was crushing, but I would do it like middle of my set, you know, I never opened with it.

So I go, I do Jimmy Kimmel show.

He has all of his audience in one room watching, you know, the rock and Guillermo, Guillermo del Toro or something, a very big director.

And and then and then he stands his whole audience up moves them to a different room to just come see me do comedy for five minutes so it's practically a cold audience and then i opened with jokes i'd never opened with before and it took half my set to get them into what i'm doing trailer park jokes in la right yeah and it took a minute.

I bet.

So you got them there though, at least.

Yeah.

And they had just been listening to the Pan's Labyrinth guy or whatever.

Huh?

Yeah.

That's, yeah.

That's a wild follow there.

They were all very pumped.

And then they were like, who's this guy we've never heard of.

Even Jimmy Kimmel said to me right before I went up, he goes, it's a weird audience.

So anything you get out of them, you earned it.

Well, well, it was nice of him to say, I did appreciate it, But yeah, but so then in mid 2018, I did the Tonight Show and then I had like, I knew how to prepare.

I was like, I know how to do this now.

So I got to, I really rocked that one.

That still sounds so terrifying to me.

Not only doing like your first Tonight Show deal, but with that audience.

Is that the roughest one you've ever had?

Like as far as a TV appearance or anything at that level?

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, stand-up wise.

You know, the great thing about Netflix is I just film it myself and then sell it to Netflix or lease it to them.

So I don't have to, there's no real pressure.

You know, it's just a regular show.

It's my audience.

And then if I don't like it, I mean, it costs a lot of money, but if I think it sucks, I don't have to do it.

Right.

But with the Tonight Show, it's almost like, I mean, I guess if it really sucked, they would say, let's not show it.

Right.

But I've seen some pretty bad Tonight Shows, so it would have to really bomb.

At one time, Late Night was kind of the goal for comedians.

Is that still a big deal to get on Late Night like that?

I mean, I think it's still a big deal.

It's not like that, though.

Back in the day, I mean, if you crushed a Tonight Show, you know, you practically had your own sitcom.

Yeah, you were set, for sure.

But now, it's like it still did a lot for me.

Jimmy Kimmel didn't.

I don't think it's his fault.

People hate Jimmy Kimmel, by the way.

I didn't realize they hated him quite so bad.

I made a promo video recently, and I just had people introducing me, like different shows I had done, you know.

And Jimmy Kimmel was one of the clips And like every comment is like F Jimmy Kimmel You're stupid for putting this in your promo What an idiot You must not want to sell tickets I had no idea, I mean, I knew people didn't like him, but I didn't think it was like that.

You missed all the news and politics like a month ago?

I'm very curious if you managed to get away.

Like, yeah, I'm jealous.

No, I mean, I saw it, but I'm like, I just didn't know five seconds in my video was going to cause that kind of reaction.

It wasn't me going, I love Jimmy Kimmel.

Oh, yeah.

They just saw his face and got mad.

I'm at the age where I see Jimmy Kimmel, and I don't really watch the show regularly.

Sometimes I might flip it on, but when I see Jimmy Kimmel, I think of The Man Show from Comedy Central.

That's my memories of Jimmy Kimmel.

Yeah, that's my Jimmy Kimmel.

That's how I came to know him.

That's safe.

Yeah, that was a wild ride of TV.

Well, my mom, last time I did The Tonight Show, I told her, I said, oh, I'm doing The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

She goes, well, tell him not to be crying on TV.

And I go, you're thinking of Jimmy Kimmel.

That's Jimmy Kimmel.

In her defense, there are too many Jimmys.

A lot of Jimmys.

Yeah, too many Jimmys.

A lot of Jimmys and a lot of crying on TV these days.

Sure, so enough.

A lot of grown men crying out here on TV.

It's a thing now.

Yeah.

It is.

Because it's okay to cry.

People love to cry.

I'm like, where are all these men crying all?

I've never seen my dad cry in his whole life.

We're going to, we have a crying segment, but we can, we can, we don't have to do that.

Yeah.

We normally take about 10 minutes to share our feelings.

It's normally off camera though.

Cross that.

I should have known if you were a Stephen Colbert man, then you weren't going to do the cry session with us.

Cross it out.

But you grew up in Opelika, Alabama.

Yeah.

And how many, how many years did you live in Alabama?

When did you move out?

I left when I was 21.

Okay.

And then you've not, you've not moved back since.

That was, never look back.

That was it.

That was, what did that be, 22 years ago, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah, I- Miss us at all?

Well, I like Opelika.

You know, I was born at the East Alabama Medical Center, and then I lived in Lafette, right outside of Lafette, Alabama, for about two or three years.

That's where my dad lives, a town called Pennon.

P-E-N-T-O-N, Pennon, though.

You don't really pronounce the T, it's Pennon.

Huh.

You know what I mean?

If you say Penton, they know you're not from around there.

Like Aniana.

There's a T in there.

Who knew?

And then even Lafette is spelled Lafayette.

But they said Lafette.

Yeah, I was thinking that when you said that, I never realized that's how it was pronounced.

Yeah.

Yeah, almost like L-A and then space and then F-E-T-T-E.

Lafette.

We have up here, we have a place called Alliance, but it's the word Alliance.

You better not call it.

it's it's allies okay yeah that's a weird one and a lot of people in here refer to fayette county as.

Oh, yeah.

There's a lot of that.

My brother used to work for, what was it, Auburn, Opelika News or vice versa there?

Oh, yeah, the OA News, Opelika, Auburn News, yeah.

Long time ago.

Yeah, that was the hot paper growing up.

Yeah, for sure.

So one thing that you and I have in common is that we grew up in a trailer park in Alabama.

I'm assuming in the 80s for you as well.

80s and most of the 90s.

But I can remember back in the day, you could just walk out on a random Tuesday and just see two grown men fist fighting.

Is that kind of the way yours was?

Well, you know, my trailer park was pretty good.

You know, we were on a dirt road.

You know, it was off the highway.

There was a row of brick houses, and then we were a dirt road behind.

And we only had about, I don't know, maybe 20 trailers back there.

We were lot eight.

And it was pretty good.

I mean, I'm sure people were doing drugs and they were a lot.

I mean, I know there was a lot of alcoholics.

One time I heard my friend, his mom had him when she was pretty young.

So she was pretty hot.

And I remember hearing her have sex in her trailer next to ours, middle of the day.

And I thought that was pretty cool.

Yeah.

I was, you know, like a little kid.

My mom was raking leaves.

Well, forced gun situation.

Yeah, we could hear her banging next door.

And I was me and my buddy were like, not not the buddy that was her kid, but a different buddy.

And we were inching up trying to hear what was going on in there.

That just reminded me, I think, of a lot of Southerners, maybe in Alabama especially, have had moments like that in their youth.

Because I remember staying the night at a friend of mine I played baseball with at his house or the trailer that he and his mom and sister lived in.

And the next morning, his mom got up wearing just like the thinnest white T-shirt I've ever seen.

And those were the first time I've seen a pair, like pretty much in person.

Like they were there.

You could see everything.

Just walking around the trailer.

And I know my little like 12-year-old eyes were just glued to them the whole time.

Oh, yeah.

How could you not?

It's a beautiful thing.

Even now with the internet and there's so much stuff out there, just seeing something in real life, you know, when you're not supposed to, there's something about it.

A couple of trailer park, double D's.

Yeah.

Saturday morning.

Yeah, man.

Bowl of Froot Loops.

Yeah.

But not Froot Loops, the Malto meal fruit rings or whatever they are.

Yeah, and it's like, for me at least, there was this phase of my life where I was like, you know, trying to like let my mom, like, not let my mom know I was into girls, you know, like, not that I was into dudes, but I just was like not at that phase of my life yet where I'm, so you're like, you want, you don't really want your mom to know you're like looking at them, but you're like, I do want to keep looking at them, I want this to keep happening.

Yeah.

Oh the the 80s trailer too reminded me i think there was only one design for a trailer in the 80s but it was like the there's like a half wall between the dining room and the living room with a giant window cut out of it was that y'all did y'all have that too it was there was a lot of that yeah we had we had no divide if you pull up that we had a bedroom up front and then you had the living room with the door and then it just went straight into the kitchen no divide the divide was where it went from carpet to linoleum oh yeah yeah and we would usually put a couch there kind of as the divider and then you had the narrow hallway with the washer and dryer bathroom last bedroom and the least amount of insulation possible yeah my gosh trailers kitchen down on the end a lot of times, on the very end on the old business.

Oh, I've seen those, yeah.

That's kind of the older 70s.

That's the one we lived in.

Oh, yeah.

Kitchen was one end and the two bedrooms were at the other end.

Yeah, I see a lot of that.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I did some whippets with some people in a house with a kitchen on the other end one time.

You'll fall right through one of the walls for it.

I have seen somebody do that.

At my DHR days, going to somebody's house and there was a separation between the wall and the floor of the trailer.

And you could just see outside.

And I said, what happened here?

And they said, oh, he fell against the wall.

Yeah.

Ah, wow.

You broke the house.

That's impressive.

In the South, you know, it's like all these trailers are built with press wood and it gets hot and humid and then they start to swell.

And you would get like these lumpy floors.

And then where it got real kind of like thin wood, it would fall through.

And we replaced all hours with plywood, but I was at my nephew's house.

I took my wife.

My wife's Canadian.

She had never been inside a trailer.

I took her.

He had one dog that was out, one dog that was in a cage sort of thing, both inside.

And he was showing us something.

And he had like, I don't know, he had a pretty nice trailer at one point because it had like a fireplace kind of thing.

And he stepped on the tile near the fireplace and fell right through the floor.

So pretty embarrassing for him.

Through the floor?

Yeah, through the floor, yeah.

Well, your wife got the true experience on that one.

Oh, yeah.

Even the dog.

We felt bad for the dog in the cage.

So we were like, take the dog out of the cage.

It's fine.

And then like three seconds, you're like, put it back in the cage.

Put it back in the cage.

He's pissed all over the place.

We're so good.

He's going through the hole in the floor.

Yeah.

Me in the cage.

Oh, I think I was trying to remember like the first thing that I saw you do.

It had to have been on TikTok or something, but I know that the first, the one clip I found that like, this was my thing was when, I don't know, you're with friends, you're just going through YouTube clips and then I'll just like, all right, let me show you some comedians I like.

And I will pull up your bit on five o'clock somewhere.

Oh yeah.

It's so funny to me because I have one to do like a little sketch or joke about the end of that song for so long, because I feel like they're fighting for the last word.

And then...

What blew me away is your mom was like, no, this whole song is hilarious.

And you broke it down in a way that is, well, I've never, I can't hear it the same anymore.

I imagine that dude sitting at the bar with these ridiculous lines that he says in the song.

I never think about what a terrible employee he would be.

You should have been fired multiple times over.

Oh, yeah.

Well, you know, I used to sell pesticides and I would go from store to store and I used to drink a lot back then.

So I just thought about myself back then when I was listening to this song and I'm like, that was me, you know, just hung over every day, complaining about your job, knowing that your job would probably be fine if you didn't feel so bad every day.

Right.

But, you know, just wanting to get off and go do it again.

And even my buddy that used to work with me when he heard that bit, he goes, this song is about you, right?

This bit is about you.

Yeah, I would say he was responsible for the for getting into a cab.

He doesn't drive himself back home after drinking.

He takes a cab back to where I think you maybe point that out to the.

Yeah.

Pulling back into work after your lunch break in a cab.

Yeah.

You don't you don't leave work in your own car and come back in a cab.

Yeah.

Where the hell is your car?

Oh, my one of my favorite things, though, is that in that in the middle of it, forget what you say.

But it's something it's the self-awareness of yeah this this whole bit is about the song i'm still going and i don't remember what point you dropped that but that that wasn't originally part of the bit right you added that in and then it had to have killed and you just kept it right yeah i mean that's part of you know just doing this live you know basically this is a seven minute breakdown and you know if you're in the south or the midwest like ohio or michigan people get it.

Yeah.

But you know, you get out to California and you're like, oh, half this audience might not have ever even heard this song.

And so I'm.

Two minutes in, three minutes in, and I go, yeah, we're going to do the whole song.

And it feels like it kind of would break the tension where people, I felt like people were thinking, is he going to do this whole song?

And so when I say it, I don't know, it feels like it just, it's a breath of fresh air for them to go, okay, he knows that we're not into this.

I love it.

Does that, do you not use it everywhere?

Cause the, I don't know where you were at in the clip that i saw but do you use that line every time or when you i guess you don't tell that anymore but that when you were telling that joke does it get used every place yeah once i started doing it yeah i mean that you know that's that's what i like you know we talked a little bit before about live performance versus you know recording sketches it's like you know in and when it's live it like stuff happens spontaneous stuff happens where it's like this this mode kicks in where you're like always just been funny your whole life where you're like your instincts of if something starts dying on stage, you go, I got to make this funny.

This has got to become funny.

I can't just start bombing all of a sudden, you know, so you just say that and then you and it when it works, you go, oh, yeah, now that's a new line.

That's a new joke.

Any kind of story.

I'm just looking to get laughs every 15 to 30 seconds, you know, because you want to keep them in it.

The longer they listen to you talk without laughing, the bigger the laugh has to be.

So you're out touring right now.

And I saw those dates.

If you want to check out Dusty Go's website, you've got all those dates.

You're around the South for a good bit over the next couple of months.

I imagine you tour of the South a lot.

That's got to be home base.

How much of that set that you're working on now is like, I imagine the goal is to eventually make that a special too, right?

Yeah.

I mean, I got a, I got a brand new hour to an hour and a half that I'm doing.

When I do theater shows, I usually do about an hour, 20 hour and a half and it's all new.

And yeah, I mean, eventually I want it to be a special, but I don't know.

I'm kind of into the live show right now.

You know, you want to put out the special just to, just to drive ticket sales, but I'm like on this new thing where I almost want to do a two hour show.

I almost want to do no opener and just come out and do two hours.

I don't know why I want to do that.

It feels excessive, but...

Does anyone do that in the industry?

I don't think so anymore.

I think that's what George Carlin and maybe Bill Cosby used to do, maybe even Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan maybe.

But I just like that idea that someone buys a ticket to see your show, and then when the show starts, you come out and just do the whole show.

No music ahead of time?

You're going to just make them sit there in silence, darkness, and then come out?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That's the way to do it.

Yeah.

No drinks.

You can't even drink water.

No bathroom breaks.

Leave them alone with their thoughts.

We'll start when I say we're going to start.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you do the...

How are you on cell phones?

Are you pretty strict about, like, I don't want to see them, or are you just...

Let the venue take care of that.

I don't really care.

I tell people not to take pictures.

But I don't really care about pictures.

I don't do it.

I have the theater do it.

But the only reason I say don't do it is because people will, if you go, you can take pictures, just don't do video.

They'll pretend like they're taking a picture and they'll take video.

And I don't even care if you video it, if you just want to show it to your family at home.

but people post it on YouTube and then it's hard to get down.

Yeah, I bet.

And I don't want you monetizing my set, especially when I'm like trying to build a new hour or something like that.

So that's why you have to be like that about cell phones.

I don't care about pictures at all.

And matter of fact, I like when people take pictures, share that they were at the show.

I feel like it builds up excitement.

Yeah, definitely.

Someone video and also just ruins the experience for everybody there.

You know and one of the things a lot of people don't realize is the stuff they see on social media is mostly like crowd work that's done after the show right yeah well you know some people do that they do this like i don't know i like like video farming what do they call it clip farming yeah where they will do a q a at the end and it's a q a but they make it look like crowd work, You know, I, anything that I post is authentic.

Like it happened in the moment.

I matter of fact, I mean, I don't want to do a Q and a, I don't really want to do crowd work.

You know, I just want to do my jokes because, you know, you do crowd work, you know, somebody in the audience might be funnier than me and I'm not into that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I guess that's a gamble, but I do crowd work in the sense that if people talk, you know, I do try to.

Talk back to them and make it funny.

I'm not like, shut up, get out of here, unless they keep it going for a while.

And then I'm like, all right, but do be quiet though.

The extremely drunk ones.

Yeah.

So, I mean, I hope it doesn't happen, but I have to imagine that you still might occasionally have hecklers at the level you're at now every once in a while, but I bet it's probably more prevalent in the earlier days of smaller venues, right?

Yeah, I mean, I feel like I have someone yell out something at every single show I do.

Really?

But now it's at least like, it's usually people, they're fans, they're excited, and they're just yelling out something.

They'll request a joke.

Like this past week, a lady go, like somebody held yelled out for me to do a joke.

And a lot of times I forget the joke.

Once it's on a special, it almost just completely leaves my brain.

And so I was saying that.

And then another lady goes, you know, tornado.

And, you know, I have a joke about a tornado in the trailer park.

And it was fun because I was like, I started to say, well, I don't, I'm not going to do that joke.

And then I go, oh, are you asking for the joke?

Are you telling us that a tornado is coming?

Like, what if you were telling us a tornado was coming?

And I'm like, oh yeah, that's a good bit.

And then I just get into it.

tornado shut up lady so that's the comedian's equivalent of somebody in a concert yelling free bird yeah wagon wheel yes yeah wagon wheel yeah but you know and i i appreciate it i appreciate that they like a joke that i've done enough to ask me to do it live but usually i forget the joke some of the joke like that tornado i'll probably never forget that joke because i did it you know, for like 10 years before I ever got it recorded on something.

Yeah.

But now you do a year, year and a half, and then you record it, and then you're on to something else.

Yeah.

Flattering, though.

It is.

The cadence, though, of remembering a joke, though, that's everything, I think, isn't it?

Yeah, you may remember the punchline, but the delivery is...

Yeah, especially song breakdowns.

Like, that's what they asked for me to do, the Working Man breakdown that I did of Brooks and Dunn's song, Hard Working Man.

And I, yeah, I mean, I'm just like, I would need to run through that again before the show.

I think muscle memory, it can all come back, but I'd need to run through it again.

Your breakdowns of the country songs are so good, man.

That's really kind of how I found out about you is through that stuff.

Well, thank you.

I appreciate that.

I got a couple I'm working on now.

Now, I one of the I tried working on a Garth Brooks that summer joke a long time ago.

Oh, my God.

Perfect.

Yeah.

And I never could quite get it where I wanted.

But I think I found a new direction now that I really like.

So I'm pretty pumped about that.

Yeah.

It's hard.

It's hard to dive into that one without being like, oh, this is this was sexual abuse.

Yeah.

This young man was underage.

He was taking advantage of it.

Yeah.

Well, that's yeah.

I mean, that's and there's so much in the song, you know, where it's like he said, I've rarely held another when i haven't seen her face and it's like yeah that could be romantic i guess but it could also be trauma right he never can for every time he tries to be intimate with a woman here comes that lady's face exactly what is like flashback to the wheat field do we have an age breakdown on that video do they say that song well that's another thing that i say too i say you know because if he, this is in the 90s, right?

So if he's 17 and she's 40, that's pretty cool.

But if he's 15 and she's 80, that's a different issue.

It's all to go.

It's bad for him.

It's bad for her heart.

It's just all the way around.

That's a whole different search.

Yeah.

It's still very much illegal.

Yeah.

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Somebody tagged you.

Was it in our video about Travis Tritt?

Yes.

Oh my gosh.

And are you, you maybe were talking about, you know, you have a bit on Great Day to Be Alive, don't you?

Yes.

And we talked on the podcast too about how definitely turning into a werewolf in that song.

Oh yeah.

I also saw in the comments, you got the same comments we did, which was people want to let you know real quick who the songwriter is yeah and uh oh yeah oh yeah as you were wondering yeah i found i you know i looked his song up i found that guy he actually has a version on spotify and it's good really yeah but but yeah i'll be honest we didn't care to listen to it right that's the thing right people go oh that's not you know that's not who wrote the song right and it's like yeah you know that I don't care, right?

I'm talking about the, like, 5 o'clock somewhere, people go, oh, he's going to be shocked when he finds out that's actually a Jimmy Buffett song.

And I go, you know what?

I'm not going to be shocked.

I don't care.

Yeah, he is on it.

I'm talking about the Alan Jackson version.

Well, who's, I mean, who knows that song from Daryl Scott?

Let's be real.

Right.

Nobody.

Nobody.

But that's why they're so proud to tell you.

They're very proud that they know this obscure fact.

We had people tagging Daryl Scott's Instagram.

Oh, yeah.

Look at these idiots.

Like, Daryl Scott's going to be mad.

He wrote the song.

He's probably so excited.

If you guys talk about it, people go listen to the song, and he gets a little extra money in his pocket.

But I didn't see Daryl Scott's son taking off with it, making it a thing.

No, no.

Yeah.

Oh, Daryl Scott's son is Daryl Scott.

Maybe he's not around.

Yeah.

I don't want to say he died, but is that what I mean?

What, Daryl Scott?

Oh, no, I don't know.

No, he was referred to Travis Tritt's son.

Travis Tritt's son took off with it once he saw our clip.

Oh, yeah.

He came on the show just to confirm basically that his dad is a werewolf.

Yeah, he came on our show and he started posting videos of himself inheriting the werewolf gene and turning into a werewolf.

Yeah, he loved it.

I wish I'd have thought of that angle, you know, because he does say a little long in the tooth.

And uh howling yeah i let the moon and then he howls yeah he does growing the fu manchu and he hasn't shaved in a while but i just took it as is he really having a great day or is he like is it that kind of sort of thing where you're like the day's so bad you're just like yeah it's a great day that's kind of how i've seen it everything else sucks so bad that he's excited about yeah rice in the microwave he's making it the equivalent of living the dream And is it, you know, is, is it rice-a-roni or, you know, what is it?

What we got going on there?

It's gotta be good.

It's gotta be good.

He says he's making a homemade soup and I'm like, you're, you're doing microwavable rice and homemade soup.

I'm not buying it, buddy.

Anything about that.

That is culinary, two different worlds there.

The other great thing we talked about with Travis Tritt, I don't know if you've seen this, that Eric brought up that three of his music videos, he is in a wheelchair.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, that was a hot series.

I don't know if it was late 80s or early 90s, but that was a hot series.

I think they were all part of a theme he had.

It was a trilogy, yes.

But stretched him out.

It wasn't like a whole album, I'm going to do this thing.

It was like, all right, I'll do this.

And then three years later, I'll do it again randomly.

Seven years later, I'll do it again.

Did he fall in the water?

Didn't he fall in the water?

His wife?

Something like that.

His wife drowns in the second video.

He can't crave her because he's in a wheelchair.

Yeah, I think he falls off the pier, right?

Yeah, something like that.

I know in the third one, his buddy's just looking at him like, you're pathetic.

You can't swim.

On the third video, she's already died and it's just him and his daughter.

Yeah, it's wild.

Anyway, it was great talking to his son about that too because it was like, why did he do that?

And the son was like, I have no idea.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know why Ted did that.

Yeah, you know, but you know, it's the real, I mean, back in the day, CMT was really something, man.

I loved CMT.

Yeah, it was really good.

Classic CMT was hard to beat.

We lived in the golden age for music videos.

I mean, I know they're still kind of a thing, But not like they were back in the day.

Not CMT and MTV and all that stuff.

It was, it'll make or break a song.

Didn't MTV shut down?

Yeah.

Videos are all, it's all some kind of weird satanic ritual all the time.

They got blood pouring over them and stuff like that.

But back then it was just a good old, you know, some guy with a bandana around his neck and a mustache and a mullet.

And it was good stuff.

You know, you had Alan Jackson, Joe Diffie, Ricky Skaggs, all rocking that same look.

Oh, man.

Yeah, Alan Jackson just skiing in his blue jeans.

Yeah.

Like a guy that's never been in water before.

Like, I have no idea what to say.

Yeah.

Just terrible decision.

Yeah, and then Jeff Foxworthy was in that Alan Jackson video about Barry and the Waitress.

I'm in love with you, baby, and I don't even know your name.

Oh, yeah.

He's great.

Yeah, wow.

Classic.

We need, Dusty, you need to host like a pop-up video style country music.

I should do that.

Or like a riff track, you know, like a commentary over it, I think, That's, that's, that's content right there.

Yeah, that would be great.

I should do old country music videos, but the problem is you can't monetize anything.

I guess you could just mute it, right?

And then just.

If you, you gotta be very careful.

If you can, if you can cut it down and only throw out about a few 10 second clips of each song and space it out pretty good, you probably won't get flagged.

Okay.

Because you'd be pretty heavy on commentary.

It's pretty easy to defend the commentary on that instead of just like, oh, I'll play the whole song.

Okay.

That's good to know.

All right.

I'm going to give it a try.

Maybe don't pull me on that one.

I don't do that.

So that's not.

Well, it's not like it'll get me kicked off.

It'll just, and not that I'm like just trying to do things to be monetized, but there's nothing like knowing that your video is not monetized and then it does really well.

And you're like, ah, that would have been good for me.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

That's big.

That sucks.

That's the, that's the beauty of social media.

Yeah.

Well, we do have, speaking of country music, I thought you might want to play a little game with us here, which is Country Song or It Ain't.

It's pretty simple.

I'm just going to tell you the name of a country song, a title.

You tell me if you think it's real or not.

Would these be new or old?

They're pretty old.

Okay.

All right.

They're pretty old.

First one here, I bought the shoes that just walked out on me.

I'm going to say that's a song.

That is a song.

Yeah.

Never heard the artist.

That's a breakup song.

Guy buys his girlfriend some shoes and then she breaks up with him.

Probably some heels too.

It's going out now.

Yeah.

I bought the tank of gas that just left me.

That's a good one too.

Bought the truck.

Who sings the song, I bought the shoes that just walked out on me?

That'd be Dennis Roberts.

I don't know Dennis Roberts, but.

Me neither.

You know, Travis Tritt wrote that song.

Yeah.

Yeah, somebody in the comments let us know right now who the songwriter is.

Here's another dropkick me Jesus through the goalpost of life.

I mean, I know that.

I don't know if that's a song or an expression, but I've heard that.

I'm going to say it's a song.

It is a song.

But again, artist Bobby Bear.

Bobby Bear.

Yeah, I know Bobby Bear.

Yeah.

Okay, well, there you go.

Bobby Bear's great.

He's got a lot of great stuff.

I didn't know that.

I've not heard of Bobby Bear before.

him oh man oh you're in for a real tree i can't wait there's a he has a mermaid song that's really good oh i'm a tree i'm going to spot you'll be into that he's talking about how like i don't remember exactly what he's saying but he's like something about a mermaid and only the top half is a woman and the bottom half's not and he's like well that don't do me no good you know.

Are these are these intentionally funny is this kind of like uh bobby bear was a little funny he had some serious stuff too but he was a little funny okay yeah it was a very serious sincere song i've got to hear serious yeah that would be the way to play it i can't get over you since you got under him, Whew, that's good.

I'm going to say not a song.

Man, you are on a roll.

That's not one.

All right.

Wow.

Wow.

Her teeth were stained, but her heart was pure.

I'm going not a song, though.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, this is incredible.

You are batting 1,000.

Single wide, double trouble.

Gosh.

That sounds like a country song.

That sounds like a Travis Triss.

That is a country song.

Yeah.

That is not.

That's a favorite.

Single wide double trouble though that's a that's a good song somebody's taking a couple of twins live in a single wide trailer oh let's write the song here we go yeah let's do it single wide double trouble you show up couple of chicks in the air do they have rhyming names they don't have to give them like uh like like a i don't know will and bill will and bill oh wow i thought looking for too but that's a different song hey miranda lambert singing about i mean it is 2025 yeah maybe it's miranda lambert she's like you know she's going over there will and bill, yeah true that does sound like it takes us any route we want to really murder somebody so yeah you're the reason our kids are ugly.

That's a song.

That is a song.

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty.

Yeah.

Wow.

That's a kid.

And here you go.

Satellite Dish, Pointing to Heaven.

Jeez.

I'm going to say not a song.

That's not a song.

Why are you on this one?

That is insane.

Impressive.

Single White Double Trouble is too good of a fake name, though.

It really is.

It might be ripping off something that's pretty close, but yeah, you can take it.

That's yours now.

I mean, that could be a Toby Keith song.

Yeah, I mean, Travis Tritt had I Smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

Yeah, he could spell.

The, uh, while in man form, yes.

While in human form, we don't know.

Oh, dude, the werewolf version of Travis Tritt could not spell a thing.

He tried.

No, he tried.

Missed.

You were talking about doing jokes out in California and some of the stuff, like the country music stuff, not really translating there.

Are there certain, like, I guess, parts of Southern life that you have to change your wording for them to understand?

Or, like, you don't even tell that joke because you know it won't land at all because there's just no, like, that culture's just not there at all?

Well, I don't really change anything up.

I got a big joke that I'm doing now about dip, and I'll be in certain places, and I'll be telling.

It's about, I don't know, a five or six minute joke.

And I'll be a couple of minutes into it and I'll go, I know this is probably not a dip area, you know, and that'll get a pretty good laugh.

And then I can, I'll kind of go on and on about how I probably shouldn't have did this joke out here because nobody gets dip.

And then after I do that for a little bit, I go right back into the dip joke.

And then I feel like they're into it now.

Now they're like, all right, he's going to do it anyway, I guess.

But, you know, California outside of the cities is pretty rural and pretty country.

I mean, it's like lots of farms, you know, it's like it's just a shame that what we see mostly of California is these huge cities full of homeless people that.

California is really great outside of those cities.

Yeah.

Well, it's the same thing.

It's like when they show clips of Alabama, they ain't showing like nice, like mountain brook outside Birmingham, like the nice built up rich areas.

No, they show us where we live.

Yeah.

You mentioned your wife was Canadian.

Do you have to explain to her all your jokes or does she understand any of them?

She gets it now she's been here for almost 10 years but also can't you know there's some stuff she doesn't get like i got you know i got two sisters and my one sister married a guy from michigan and she's still very southern but her accents really changed my other sister married a guy from talladega and they're both very country and my wife has a hard time talking to my sister on the phone.

She can't really understand what she's saying a lot of the times.

Where did you meet your wife at?

She used to do comedy.

We actually met in New York City doing open mics.

I didn't know that.

I've heard her on the podcast stuff and she's very funny.

And then her videos that she posts, that makes sense now.

That tracks.

Yeah, she's very funny.

And she also was raised on a farm in Canada.

That also tracks with the videos at the house because you just bought a ton of land.

Well, I got nine acres in McMinnville, Tennessee, and I'm trying to build a little orchard out there, but I don't get to get out there very often, so it's not doing great.

And my dad has, several acres in Alabama, you know, in Pennon.

So, you know, we got, you know, so I like to get into it a little bit.

I mean, farming is something I never wanted to do growing up.

I could not wait to get away from anything like that, but now I love it.

I'm like, I mean, I don't want to do it for a living.

I don't even know if you can right now, but, but I like it.

I like doing it for fun.

What's the goal here?

Grow some stuff and then take it to the farmer's market, set you up a booth?

Well, I just want to grow things that I can eat.

I just bought a house outside of Nashville and I got three acres.

So I'm going to try to do a little orchard.

I just want my kids to be able to walk through there.

Growing up, my dad had a bunch of apple trees and a fig tree and a plum tree and a pear tree that his dad planted.

And his dad died in 1966.

So this is all pre-GMO plants.

And so as a kid, I ate so bad.

I ate, I mean, I'd probably drink four Cokes a day and candy and whatever.

I lived on cereal, but I would pick all this fruit and eat it.

And that's probably how I got any nutrition at all.

Yeah.

Well.

I mean, I ate just, I don't know, just the worst.

As we all do.

My stomach is a nightmare now.

And I think it's, you know, from eating bad my whole life and then, you know, drinking a lot during my 20s and, you know, probably a lot of dip spit went down there, too, you know.

I think, did I see where you had, I forgot his name, but he's also in Alabama.

I feel like he works for the Department of, like, Forestry or Conservation or something.

I don't know, but he does the natural work.

You know, trees, shrubs, plants.

Oh, yeah, Kyle Lahrbarner.

That's it.

Yeah, the Native Habitat Project.

That's it.

You had him out, didn't you?

Did I see that?

Yeah, he came out to McMinnville.

We did some stuff like that.

We planted a plum tree, walked around.

He showed me all the native species that I had growing.

Yeah, we did a couple of videos.

Yeah, I've seen that as well.

He's super knowledgeable.

I just not, I assume he's telling the truth.

I mean, there's no way for me to fact check him.

Well, you know what?

interesting like he would go through and and and say this is this is this and then i had a little plant app and i would i wasn't trying to fact check him right but i was like trying to save it to my phone so i could remember right right and he was spot on he didn't miss a one it's pretty amazing now he might have a name for something and then you go well you know but he's pretty spot on yeah it's pretty amazing in the south trying to think of one off the top of my head but there's all kinds of plants that'll have like five different names.

They're pronunciations and it gets, yeah.

We've got some, some ladies.

We'll have multiple names for animals and everything.

Mispronouncing things.

Yeah.

Animals, a whole nother ball game.

Yeah.

So I thought like watching his videos, my thought was when you had him out, it was like, oh, he's going to tell you exactly like, this looks good.

Leave it alone.

I get the vibe of, he just doesn't want to see invasive plants brought in.

I guess if you have them, get rid of them and then just let nature do its thing.

Is that not?

Well, there's a whole thing.

I was trying to get into it.

I was trying to...

Take the land that I have and convert it all to native species.

But there's so many invasives now that you actually have to do stuff.

Like you have to burn the field or stuff like that or really like treat it and then come back and plant native stuff because there's too many invasives now.

You got any kudzu on that land?

I do have kudzu.

Not a lot, but we did a video about it and we were making a joke about how I was raising kudzu.

Oh, that's going to be good.

And they were saying that it was going to really upset people.

Yeah, absolutely.

Kudzu to me now, I don't know how long it's been in the south, but to me it's so southern now that I don't see it as invasive.

I know that it is, and I know it will just straight up eat everything, because it did around my grandma's house.

I remember having to burn off the whole half acre to get rid of the kudzu.

It'll take over an entire house.

To kill it all the way down to the root, which was down by a creek.

But I love seeing kudzu on the side of the road just eat up like a hill.

I was on like a mountain road in Kentucky a month or so ago.

And on either side of the road for like miles, it was just kudzu.

It was so insane.

It was just kudzu everywhere.

I like when they go over trees and power lines.

It looks like dinosaurs or something.

Pretty wild.

My friend from Baltimore was with me.

He had never seen kudzu before.

And that's what he said.

It looks like giant.

Yeah, it really does.

Yeah.

Wait till he finds out you can eat it.

You can make, I think you can make rope out of it.

You can do whatever you, yeah.

That's kind of trend has died down, but I feel like in the 90s, there was always a little booth where somebody was selling kudzu soap and kudzu clothes.

Yeah, eat it.

Could you jam?

Is that what you said?

Could you jelly?

Yeah.

I'm not going to do that.

I never saw that.

I don't think a lot of that was going on in Opelika, but.

Man, you missed out.

Well, all right, Dusty.

Well, real quick, run out of time here, but I do want to know what your go-to Waffle House order is.

That's usually one of the questions we ask.

We have someone of your caliber on here.

We'll let people know you're still a man of the people.

Well, you know, I.

Waffle House enthusiast.

I mean, I used to go, you know, I mean, I don't know.

I keep it pretty simple.

I like eggs and what is it?

The all-star plate.

I don't go to Waffle House a lot these days.

My stomach is bad.

And I almost can't eat anything.

But I would get a patty melt.

I like a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich I used to get with hash browns.

And I'll be honest with you.

I don't like to do a lot to the hash browns.

I think they're good.

Just a salted, regular hash brown.

I don't need all the stuff.

I like the hash browns there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm the same way.

But I like to get a little, you know, a little runny egg, mix it in, maybe mix it in with some grits.

I like that.

I like to get a patty melt, eat with a little Heinz 57 sauce.

I'll share another unpopular thing that I tell people and I don't think they like it, but I really like the huddle house.

I'm a big fan of huddle house.

It has its fans.

Yeah.

People get mad, but I like it.

We just don't have who, I don't know if it's a franchise or the corporate stores around here in like the Birmingham metro area, but ours aren't good.

Yeah, don't go to them here.

I can't even give them the benefit of like, yeah, the food's good because you can't even get the food you ordered.

Oh, yeah.

That's rough.

Well, I went, I told the same trip where I saw the kudzu, my opener that went with me.

I took him to Huddle House two days in a row and everybody made fun of me.

They were like, oh, you're really treating your opener well, huh?

And I'm like, listen, we were out in Kentucky and West Virginia.

There were not a lot of options.

And I got a patty melt two days in a row at the Huddle House.

Man, that's where it's at.

Patty melt is hard to do.

When you're out on the road looking for food, do you try to find a hole-in-the-wall place?

Or do you have a go-to chain restaurant?

That's my place.

I don't have any go-to chain restaurants these days.

I like to find a good diner.

The sad thing is, I used to be all about it.

But I feel like Cisco just delivers to every restaurant now.

Yes.

And so it doesn't matter where you go, even in the middle of nowhere, Cisco's still delivering them whatever, and they're deep frying it or whatever.

And I don't know what's happened.

And they certainly are.

It makes me sad because there's like, it's hard to find a place.

I went to this place in Richmond, Virginia years ago, and they had the best like corned beef kind of pastrami sandwich I'd ever had.

It was so good.

And for years, I tried to find this restaurant again, and I finally went back, and they didn't have it, and they didn't even care that I had been looking for it for all this time, and they acted like they didn't even remember the sandwich.

And I'm just like, what are you guys doing?

I showed them the review I left where I said, this is the best sandwich I've ever had.

Yeah.

And they were like, basically like, who cares?

We're trying to tell you when you got the sandwich.

Move on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then they were like, we'll try to make you something.

And it was such a bad version.

I think they were like, never ask for that again.

This is what you're getting.

Never do this to us again.

No secret menu, Adams.

Get rid of this guy.

That's great.

All right.

Well, Dusty, thanks for coming on.

Really do appreciate it.

Right now, if you're listening, you can go watch Working Man and Wet Heat.

They're both on Netflix right now.

Dusty's on tour right now, so go to his website, check out Odds Are for our audience, wherever you're at listening.

He's probably coming really close to you here soon.

And of course, two podcasts you can hear him on.

We're having a good time with him and his wife.

And then Nate Land with Nate Bargazzi, Brian Bates.

Brian Bates, yeah.

And Aaron Weber.

Yeah.

and then a revolving cast of different Nashville comedians Leanne Morgan was on there the other day I saw that oh yeah, Well, I appreciate you guys having me.

I like what you guys do.

Big fan.

And so I appreciate it.

I've been following you for a long time.

Thanks, man.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hope you had a good time.

I did have a good time.

I appreciate it.

There it is.

Yeah.

Well, we're having a good time.

You know what I mean?

We're having a good time.

I like this stuff.

I just want to get one out of you.

That's it.

What's this coffee mug here that you have here?

Is that?

I feel like I recognize that, but.

You know, you do.

Oh, yeah.

Is that a Hardee's?

Oh, yeah.

This set, many flea markets and grandparents' basements for the couch and the chair.

I'm a big fan of that coffee table and that afghan.

That's for sure.

Eric snagged both of those.

I'm not sure where.

A lot of the stuff we don't ask.

You just like, I like it.

Don't want to know where you got it.

Yeah, they just happen.

And the paneling on the wall, that feels old school.

That's Home Depot.

You can get it right now.

Yeah.

At least in the Jasper, Alabama Home Depot.

So you can, yeah.

They were still using it.

They still sell it.

Is that wooden Alabama thing?

Is that a clock?

That logo?

Yeah, it was.

It was broken when I got it, and I ended up just having to get some pliers and pull.

And that's Bear Brian on either side?

It is.

I think my dad has that clock.

It's got a nice, like, tint to it.

You know it was in a smoker's home for those kids in their life.

Yeah, it's perfect.

All right.

Well, I appreciate you guys.

Yes, everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you, man.

Good luck for everything.

Thank you.

All right.

We're having a good time.

Yeah.