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(00:00):
Comedian Dusty Sleigh, Dusty, whatare you doing this morning? Man?
Oh? You know, I'm justhaving a good time out here. Yeah,
where's out talking on the radio?Where is out here this morning?
Where are you calling from? I'min snowy Nashville, Tennessee today. Now
Nashville, of course one of theseplaces hit hard by this winter storm.
(00:22):
And that's what we're doing here isdealing with temperatures. You know around would
like to twenty eight degrees. BurBur Corpus Christi is frozen over. Man.
I'm saying that because everybody's already wipeddown all the toilet paper and all
of the and all the stores.I don't know if they're making toilet paper
(00:44):
torches. But what's the temperature whereyou are? Well? Get ready,
it is twelve degrees in Nashville,Tennessee. See. Now, that's when
you go out and your raid toiletpaper and water, not for you know,
twenty eight degrees. Yeah, Iain't stealable. My wife's Canadian when
it's twenty eight, she makes funof me about being cold. I gotta
admit I googled, you know,some of your comedy, and the first
(01:08):
thing that popped up was a podcastwhere you were talking about stealing leaves.
Oh yeah, are you still stealingyour neighbors leaves so you can mulch your
own yard? Well, I'm notso any in a while. Yeah,
only because I've been caught a coupleof times, and now i'm a little
(01:29):
I'm a little worried about stealing leaves. To me, it was not stealing
leaves before. Before I thought,well, nobody wants these leaves. I'm
doing these people a favor. I'mout here raking their leaves to them.
I thought they would come outside andgive me money or something, or or
a bottle of water. But insteadthey're like, they come out and they
go, I want these leaves,you know. See I don't want mine.
(01:53):
You know. It's a We've gota bunch of big trees, and
I'll actually take two of those egoblowers, one in each hand, and
I'll blow them over to my neighbor'syard and hope that he doesn't notice the
fact that I have no leaves inHis trees are just dropping like crazy.
Oh well, you know, Idrive by this guy's yard now his leaves
(02:13):
are still on his lawn. Idon't even think he wants them. I
just think he didn't want me tohave them. That's what I think.
The only time that I've been caughtis when I'm blowing them into a yard
where they have no trees, andthen you see those neighbors walk outside and
they just look up like, man, I don't think the wind was that
bad. Got all the rest Gabriel'sleaves over here. Yeah, you're like,
(02:35):
that's wild that those leaves blue onyour yard like that lucky man.
Hey, So I'm reading here itsays Dusty's debut one hour Netflix stand up
special Working Man, and this thingactually what premier's tomorrow right, yeah,
January sixteenth. Very exciting. Itis my first one hour to ever be
(03:00):
on Netflix. It looks good,it sounds good, the jokes are good.
It's a it's a great hour.Well, I think by now,
if people don't know the name,they've already recognized the voice and they can
certainly google you. But of courseyou can visit Dusty Sleigh dot com uh
to learn all about you. You'vegot your what is it the night shift
(03:21):
tour that's happening right now? Areyou still is that still underway? That
is that's still underway? You knowI'm my special is called working Man.
Yeah. Uh so I've named thetour the night Shift Tour because obviously all
my shows are at night. Andyou know, a couple of people have
been offended by the title because Ithink that, you know, because I'm
(03:44):
a comedian. They're like, well, you're no working man. Even my
own dad was like, what's thisworking man thing? And I'm like,
well, my dad still views methat. I think he still thinks I'm
in high school. And he's like, what's this work con man thing?
And then I start explaining to himand then I'm Mike, are you even
listening? And he's already zoned off. Dad's will do that to you.
(04:08):
I've got I think I was doingthis for you know, around twenty five
years before, my father had actuallyasked me every time i'd call, have
you found work yet? Oh?Yeah, you're still doing that radio thing?
Yeah? What was that like whenyou when you actually got that phone
call about the one hour special?Because I mean, you're no stranger to
TV or the Grand Old Opry.It says, let me see, at
(04:32):
thirty six, you were the youngestcomedian to ever perform on their stage.
I mean, it's not like youhadn't done stuff before. Were you just
ready for the Netflix people to calland say, hey, we're giving you
an hour or you or were youat all even surprised? Well, I
was pretty shocked, because, youknow, in twenty twenty one, I
got to do a Netflix half hour. Yeah, and so at that time,
(04:57):
the half hour was kind of thepas to the hour. But during
that time things changed, like thewhole way that Netflix does things changed,
Like they don't really just give peoplehours anymore. Used to be back in
the day, they go, hey, we'd like to give you an hour,
and then they film it and thenthey give you money, and it
(05:19):
was like this just amazing thing thatwas happening. But that doesn't really happen
anymore. So it's kind of like, all right, well, I'll just
go film my own hour and thenI'll put it out myself. So I
filmed. It's really it looks looksreally great. I hired the people to
do it, I hired a director. I did all this, I got
(05:39):
the venue, I sold out theshows, and then we pitched it.
You know, we tried to sellit to companies. I don't know my
management did it. I don't knowwho they tried to sell it to.
But either way, Netflix was like, yes, we love this and we'd
like to buy it. So yeah, so it was still a bit of
a shock. I mean, youknow, on one and I'm like,
(06:00):
yeah, this is great, whywould you not want this? But on
another hand, there's a chance theydon't want it, and then you're just
and then you're just out the cashwith an hour special. Yeah, I
mean, and then you know,I would go to YouTube, and you
can't make some money off YouTube,but it's not cheap to film things.
I mean, I had, youknow, a couple of heart attacks when
when getting the bill on I betjob. So it's nice that Netflix wants
(06:25):
to get it because I'm able toyou know, make my money back.
And then my manager tells me thatNetflix is subtitling this in thirty five different
languages. So oh good. Peopleall around the world can hear me say,
we're having a good times. That'sthat's so much better than you know,
you spending all the money to dothis and then going, well it'll
(06:47):
be four years before I have return Yeah great, wow, wow man,
Well that's really cool. So ifpeople want to actually watch the special,
it actually premieres tomorrow. Well,I think there's a certain amount of
I don't know, maybe a littlemore love for you and a little more
flavor for you. The fact thatyou went ahead and you flipped the bill
to make an hour special and thenNetflix bought it instead of Netflix approaching you
(07:12):
and saying, hey, we're goingto take care of everything. Kid,
sit back, and you know,put you out here on stage and you
get paid. So that's pretty coolthat you invested in your own craft.
Yeah, well, yes, Iappreciate that because, you know, I
in some ways it's like I gotto do this exactly the way I wanted
to do it. So I waspaying the money, you know, and
(07:33):
I don't know what it would havebeen like to do it the way Netflix
used to do it, and maybe, you know, maybe they would have
given me that kind of freedom anyway, but it was really nice to be
like, I'm paying for all this, so I'm going to do this exactly
the way I want to do it. And all of the people involved seemed
to really love my comedy, sothey seemed to get the vision and they
(07:55):
were all on board. So Iwasn't like, you know, thankful I
didn't have to be like a demandingperson. I hate those sorts of things.
Yeah, because everybody was in theywere like, we like what you
do, we like your comedy,We're excited to do this. That's really
cool. And if people are unfamiliar, you've probably seen you on the Tonight
Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, last comic Stanning, or just google
(08:20):
the name Dusty Slay. While you'reready to just go to dustysleigh dot com
and you can check out his brandnew stand up special Working Man that premieres
tomorrow, the sixteenth. Man.Thank you so much for taking some time
this morning to give me a shout. Yeah, thank you for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Comedian Dusty Sleigh, Dusty, whatare you doing this morning? Man?
Oh? You know, I'm justhaving a good time out here. Yeah,
where's out talking on the radio?Where is out here this morning?
Where are you calling from? I'min snowy Nashville, Tennessee today. Now
Nashville, of course one of theseplaces hit hard by this winter storm.
(00:22):
And that's what we're doing here isdealing with temperatures. You know around would
like to twenty eight degrees. BurBur Corpus Christi is frozen over. Man.
I'm saying that because everybody's already wipeddown all the toilet paper and all
of the and all the stores.I don't know if they're making toilet paper
(00:44):
torches. But what's the temperature whereyou are? Well? Get ready,
it is twelve degrees in Nashville,Tennessee. See. Now, that's when
you go out and your raid toiletpaper and water, not for you know,
twenty eight degrees. Yeah, Iain't stealable. My wife's Canadian when
it's twenty eight, she makes funof me about being cold. I gotta
admit I googled, you know,some of your comedy, and the first
(01:08):
thing that popped up was a podcastwhere you were talking about stealing leaves.
Oh yeah, are you still stealingyour neighbors leaves so you can mulch your
own yard? Well, I'm notso any in a while. Yeah,
only because I've been caught a coupleof times, and now i'm a little
(01:29):
I'm a little worried about stealing leaves. To me, it was not stealing
leaves before. Before I thought,well, nobody wants these leaves. I'm
doing these people a favor. I'mout here raking their leaves to them.
I thought they would come outside andgive me money or something, or or
a bottle of water. But insteadthey're like, they come out and they
go, I want these leaves,you know. See I don't want mine.
(01:53):
You know. It's a We've gota bunch of big trees, and
I'll actually take two of those egoblowers, one in each hand, and
I'll blow them over to my neighbor'syard and hope that he doesn't notice the
fact that I have no leaves inHis trees are just dropping like crazy.
Oh well, you know, Idrive by this guy's yard now his leaves
(02:13):
are still on his lawn. Idon't even think he wants them. I
just think he didn't want me tohave them. That's what I think.
The only time that I've been caughtis when I'm blowing them into a yard
where they have no trees, andthen you see those neighbors walk outside and
they just look up like, man, I don't think the wind was that
bad. Got all the rest Gabriel'sleaves over here. Yeah, you're like,
(02:35):
that's wild that those leaves blue onyour yard like that lucky man.
Hey, So I'm reading here itsays Dusty's debut one hour Netflix stand up
special Working Man, and this thingactually what premier's tomorrow right, yeah,
January sixteenth. Very exciting. Itis my first one hour to ever be
(03:00):
on Netflix. It looks good,it sounds good, the jokes are good.
It's a it's a great hour.Well, I think by now,
if people don't know the name,they've already recognized the voice and they can
certainly google you. But of courseyou can visit Dusty Sleigh dot com uh
to learn all about you. You'vegot your what is it the night shift
(03:21):
tour that's happening right now? Areyou still is that still underway? That
is that's still underway? You knowI'm my special is called working Man.
Yeah. Uh so I've named thetour the night Shift Tour because obviously all
my shows are at night. Andyou know, a couple of people have
been offended by the title because Ithink that, you know, because I'm
(03:44):
a comedian. They're like, well, you're no working man. Even my
own dad was like, what's thisworking man thing? And I'm like,
well, my dad still views methat. I think he still thinks I'm
in high school. And he's like, what's this work con man thing?
And then I start explaining to himand then I'm Mike, are you even
listening? And he's already zoned off. Dad's will do that to you.
(04:08):
I've got I think I was doingthis for you know, around twenty five
years before, my father had actuallyasked me every time i'd call, have
you found work yet? Oh?Yeah, you're still doing that radio thing?
Yeah? What was that like whenyou when you actually got that phone
call about the one hour special?Because I mean, you're no stranger to
TV or the Grand Old Opry.It says, let me see, at
(04:32):
thirty six, you were the youngestcomedian to ever perform on their stage.
I mean, it's not like youhadn't done stuff before. Were you just
ready for the Netflix people to calland say, hey, we're giving you
an hour or you or were youat all even surprised? Well, I
was pretty shocked, because, youknow, in twenty twenty one, I
got to do a Netflix half hour. Yeah, and so at that time,
(04:57):
the half hour was kind of thepas to the hour. But during
that time things changed, like thewhole way that Netflix does things changed,
Like they don't really just give peoplehours anymore. Used to be back in
the day, they go, hey, we'd like to give you an hour,
and then they film it and thenthey give you money, and it
(05:19):
was like this just amazing thing thatwas happening. But that doesn't really happen
anymore. So it's kind of like, all right, well, I'll just
go film my own hour and thenI'll put it out myself. So I
filmed. It's really it looks looksreally great. I hired the people to
do it, I hired a director. I did all this, I got
(05:39):
the venue, I sold out theshows, and then we pitched it.
You know, we tried to sellit to companies. I don't know my
management did it. I don't knowwho they tried to sell it to.
But either way, Netflix was like, yes, we love this and we'd
like to buy it. So yeah, so it was still a bit of
a shock. I mean, youknow, on one and I'm like,
(06:00):
yeah, this is great, whywould you not want this? But on
another hand, there's a chance theydon't want it, and then you're just
and then you're just out the cashwith an hour special. Yeah, I
mean, and then you know,I would go to YouTube, and you
can't make some money off YouTube,but it's not cheap to film things.
I mean, I had, youknow, a couple of heart attacks when
when getting the bill on I betjob. So it's nice that Netflix wants
(06:25):
to get it because I'm able toyou know, make my money back.
And then my manager tells me thatNetflix is subtitling this in thirty five different
languages. So oh good. Peopleall around the world can hear me say,
we're having a good times. That'sthat's so much better than you know,
you spending all the money to dothis and then going, well it'll
(06:47):
be four years before I have return Yeah great, wow, wow man,
Well that's really cool. So ifpeople want to actually watch the special,
it actually premieres tomorrow. Well,I think there's a certain amount of
I don't know, maybe a littlemore love for you and a little more
flavor for you. The fact thatyou went ahead and you flipped the bill
to make an hour special and thenNetflix bought it instead of Netflix approaching you
(07:12):
and saying, hey, we're goingto take care of everything. Kid,
sit back, and you know,put you out here on stage and you
get paid. So that's pretty coolthat you invested in your own craft.
Yeah, well, yes, Iappreciate that because, you know, I
in some ways it's like I gotto do this exactly the way I wanted
to do it. So I waspaying the money, you know, and
(07:33):
I don't know what it would havebeen like to do it the way Netflix
used to do it, and maybe, you know, maybe they would have
given me that kind of freedom anyway, but it was really nice to be
like, I'm paying for all this, so I'm going to do this exactly
the way I want to do it. And all of the people involved seemed
to really love my comedy, sothey seemed to get the vision and they
(07:55):
were all on board. So Iwasn't like, you know, thankful I
didn't have to be like a demandingperson. I hate those sorts of things.
Yeah, because everybody was in theywere like, we like what you
do, we like your comedy,We're excited to do this. That's really
cool. And if people are unfamiliar, you've probably seen you on the Tonight
Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, last comic Stanning, or just google
(08:20):
the name Dusty Slay. While you'reready to just go to dustysleigh dot com
and you can check out his brandnew stand up special Working Man that premieres
tomorrow, the sixteenth. Man.Thank you so much for taking some time
this morning to give me a shout. Yeah, thank you for having me.
I really appreciate it.
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