Comedian Dusty Slay

Popular comedian Dusty Slay calls in to the show, plus some Mavs talk 

Episode Transcript

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This is the downbeat on ninety sevento one, the freak right, here's
the deal here we got comedian manDusty slay Hong in a couple of minutes.
Do you know that Friday, whetheryou're a golf fan or not,
you can all come together at thePGA Frisco. Uh, it's the monument
Realty PGA District in Frisco. Ben'sgets you on the speakeasy Friday ten am

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to six pm. Let's uh,it's a freaking the weekend. It's all
going down. It's gonna be busThey're gonna be that top golf lounge,
which is cool. I have simulatorswhere we can play basketball, football,
baseball, soccer, hockey. Isaw some kids playing that. Yeah,
that's so cool. Like the othersports, Yeah, like football, and
there's like moving targets you have toYeah, it's not just hitting golf balls.

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You can play all kinds of stuff, dodgeball. But I feel like
there's a huge putting green if youwant to bring your putter and just put
it around, and a massive bigscreen overlooking the putting green you can go
watch Friday. I've said we weren'tgonna talk golf for an hour and eleven
minute minutes and I made it nineminutes. Well, it's fine. We're
promoting. We're promoting what we're talking. You're not talking to masters, I'm

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sorry. Difference than talking golf twentytwenty four masters, the masters, you're
not talking that. No. Iimagine if you're a golfer in this area,
you've already been up and seen thePGA. But if you haven't,
and even if you're not a golfer, you just want to go get the
kids out putting. It's free.Yeah, just strut out there with your
putter and a couple of golf ballsand you have like a They don't have
it cranked up to a twelve onthe stint meter, but it's essentially like

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a PGA quality green, a littleslower, big screen with audio or music
playing and food drinks galore. It'sand it's golf heaven that they just built.
And let me tell you to youit's being out there. First of
all, it's a new place inthe metroplex that you should check out if
you care about the city or thetown. You know, like if you
care about your area that you livein. There's a new attraction in town.

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But it's not stuffy. You know, you're not gonna like if you
go out there, you're gonna votesgolf and no, there's shops, there's
ice cream parlors. Yes, Andif you kids are at school and you
just want to go have a drinkand have some food, you know that's
the way to go. I loveit. I love it. So okay,
we'll do a little MAVs at eighttwenty. But joining us now on

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the free cotline. It is ournew friend, comedian Dusty Sleigh. Good
morning, Dusty. How are youfriend? All right, we're having a
good time. I'm pumped to behere. Hell yeah, Dusty, Well
you wouldn't. Why'd you call hisfriends? We're just meeting right now.
We're not friends yet, Kevin.It's like if you say that, it
gives him like he drops any ifhe was on guard or anything. Yeah,

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he puts down his guns and goes. You know what, I might
like these guys. Do you haveany weapons on you? Dusty? Uh
no, not. Well I'm athome, so yeah I have some.
But but yeah, I mean we'refriends. Okay, Well there you go.
I love it now right now westarted being friends. If the clock
is ticking Mike paternship always starts forme. I walk up to someone and

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I go, we're friends. Ilove it, So Dusty, let me
ask you this, And I don'twant to be the dude that on the
morning wacky radio show that asked youthe same question you've been asked a million
times. But for those folks thatmay not know your name as well as
we do around these parts that arelistening right now, give us a little
bit about your background and how yougot started in the business and where you

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are in the world of comedy.Now if you don't mind, well,
I'm the greatest comic and I'm veryfunny. I have a show. I'm
doing two shows in Dallas coming upat the Texas Theater and it's so great.
But yeah, I grew up ina trailer park in Alabama. We
you know, I like to say, you know, we were pretty poor,

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but I mainly think we just didn'tknow how to spend our money.
Like, you know, we probablycould have had a mortgage, but instead
we wanted to go see NASCAR racesand buy WWF pay per view and you
know, stuff like that. Wewanted to live a life rather than have
a home on a Sturby foundation,you know, and and my parents divorced.

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I don't even it's a miracle thatthey even ended up married to each
other. They did get married beforethey had got pregnant with me. It
wasn't one of those situations. ButI don't know how they ended up married.
I could never see them married toeach other, but somehow they did
for just a short time, longenough to bring me into the world.
And then divorce and go, youfigure it out. And now now they

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were very nice people, so stillare their life and and then you know,
I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where I went from this trailer
park kind of country background to I'min this city. Now that's a very
arts and cultured city with a lotof old money. And I didn't fit

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in very well. So I wasdrinking a lot. I was doing improv,
hanging out with real silly people,and I was drinking a lot trying
to keep up with them, butreally it would just bring out the real
redneck side of me, and Iwould want to fight people. And then
after years of doing that, Iquit drinking, and I got better at

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comedy and I won a competition,and then I thought well, maybe I
could make money at this and stopbeing a pesticide salesman. And then that's
what I did. When you weregrowing up living the trailer park life,
now, did you were you everin a place long enough to where you
actually had the luxury of tying downyour trailer or were you like me that

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My dad looked at the trailer houseand looked at it and said, you
know, the wheels are on therefor a reason. And we ended up
moving every three months. You know, fortunately for me, we did.
We were very stable. We movedthere when I was about three years old,
and we moved out when when Iwas fourteen, and we moved into
a house. We never moved thetrailer. Now, when I was nineteen,

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I bought the trailer back from mysister. My mom gave it to
my sister, and my sister tradedit in to another trailer company for a
new trailer, and I bought thatfrom that company for one thousand bucks.
And so for two years I livedback in the trailer on my own as
an adult, and I really turnedit into a party house and it was

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a lot of fun. This iscomedian Dusty Slay, who is going to
be at the Texas Theater for twoshows Saturday, May eighteenth. You get
tickets at dustyslay dot com. That'sSlay Dusty. You you spent a lot
of time in Texas well. I'vebeen to Texas a bunch, you know.
For years and years, I couldnever get a gig in Texas.

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I when I was growing up,my aunt Pud lived in Texas, just
just barely over the Louisiana line,and she was just barely in Texas.
We would go there to see her, and I always liked that Ampub was
great. I don't know why thatwas her name, that was her nickname.

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My grandmother's nickname was Boozy and shedidn't even drink that I'm aware of.
I don't know where that nickname camefrom. But yeah, but I
could not get a gig in Texasforever. But since about twenty eighteen,
I think that's where the first timeI came to the Addison Improv just north
of Dallas. There where I've beena bunch since that time. I've been

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coming there all the time. Ilove Texas. I'm a big fan.
Texas was the first place I gotto come after covid Man. That's amazing
that you went from Addison improv andthen basically five years later you've got two
shows at the Texas Theater. Ithink, what was that thing hold?
Like five hundred people. It's bigger, It's huge, right, Yeah,

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Texas Theater's great. You're gonna loveit. Oh my god, his story.
I'm so pumped. Yeah, Imean it is amazing. You know.
It's like, uh, you know, considering where I came from doing
comedy, Charleston, which is notreally a comedy city. I mean,
the whole thing is really not takenthat long. I mean I've been at
this for about ten years, andyou know, compared to a lot of

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people, it's really not that long. And I just, you know,
I feel good. I mean comedy, I don't know, I've always liked
being funny, and I just Ijust feel like I got a real feel
for comedy, you know. Yeah, Dusty, I got a question for
you here. By the way,comedian Dusty Slave joining us here on the
downbeat. You mentioned Nascar? Areyou you have you seen Daves of Thunder?

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I have seen David, you know, honestly, not that long ago.
I watched David Thunder for the firsttime. I think I watched it
as a kid, but as anadult I wanted to rewatch it. If
you could have one celebrity be yourcrew chief, who would it be.
Well, I well, I don'tknow if he was the crew chief,
but Robert de Ball in the movie. I mean, I'd love to have

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that guy working with me. Yeah, he was fantastic. Give me Robert
de Ball, give me a GeneHackman. I've been seeing pictures of Gene
Hackman circulating. It's almost I couldtrying to be like, look how sad
he looks. I mean, hegot ninety four years old walking to get
a coffee and an apple pie.If I could do that at ninety four,
that's a win. If I coulddo that now, I'd be happy.
Yeah. New York Post is rippingGene Hackman for wearing the same outfit

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like twice in two weeks. Havethe Post come sitting on this show for
a week. Yeah, Danny hadthe same Muhammad Ali sweater on for four
months. Yeah, I mean Iwear the same shirt about every time to
perform. I mean it's like,I don't know what they're trying to do.
Hey, let me ask do youOkay, So I've watched quite a
bit of your stand up, andfrom what I can tell, would you
consider yourself a clean comic? Yeah, this, I like to say that,

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I'm glad you brought that up.I like to say that I'm a
relatively clean comic. I don't liketo advertise myself as clean, but I
i'd like to say that I'm thekind of comment that if you're if you're
like, if you're an adult whohas grown kids, you can bring those
kids to my show and you're bothgonna have fun. If you're like a

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grown kid and you want to bringyour parents or grown adult you want to
bring your parents to the show,you're not going to be embarrassed that you
bought them, and you both canenjoy the show. And if I didn't
tell you I was clean, youprobably wouldn't even know it. Yeah,
that's kind of how I felt aboutit, because I've watched a lot of
stuff. It's like, I kindof thinking back, It's like, man,
this dude doesn't really cuss, AndI was curious what was the impetus

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of that? Was that just kindof a natural thing that you wanted to
do. Was it by design orwere you maybe influenced by guys like Brian
Reagan or Jim Gaffigan or some ofthe more noted guys that don't really work
too terribly blue all the time.Yeah, I think probably a little bit
of all that stuff where it's like, you know, I don't mind something
thrown in there once in a while, but it's just like, I don't

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know, it just seems over thetop. It's just like, this is
my theory is that at some point, you know, comedy was clean.
This is my theory. I don'tknow if this is true. You're right,
you just weren't like allowed to saycertain things. And then all of
a sudden, a couple of peoplecame out and they started saying the things
you weren't allowed to say, andit was real edgy. Everybody was like,

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ooh, this is cool, thisis edgy. But now we've got
to a place where it's like you'vesaid, everybody said everything. There's nothing
new to be said. It's comedyis so like so dirty that I feel
like raining it in being a littlemore clean, a little more creative,
is the new way. Do youdo you like golf? I'm not a

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golfer, but do you like golf? Like the Masters is tomort you care
at all? I don't care,not at all. You're like our listeners.
Yeah, I mean I I yeah, I mean I like I like
college football the most and NFL alonea little bit. And that's that's about
it. Who would be your celebrityhead coach of your favorite college football team?

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Like a celebrity or an actual coach? Like any Yeah, any celebrity.
Yeah, I guess some of themare. Oh Man, Robert v
I know I've already said him,but yeah, I mean Robert Davault,
Gene Hackman. I mean, comeon the replacement? Yeah? Oh hell
yeah, me a Dinzel Washington,you know throw uh remember the Titans.
I'll take it. Don Johnson maybeno, Don Johnson, Yeah, I

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don't know. He would be waydown on the list. Kevin, our
friend here, is obsessed with celebrities. That's why keeps bringing him up.
Do you want to just do yourimpression Kevin for him? Go ahead,
Kevin. He brings up Days ofThunder to every guest we've ever had on
the show because he does a terribleRobert Duvall impression. But he'd like one
line, he'd like, it's onlyone line, but he'd like to do
it from you. Is that okay, Dusty, I'd love to hear it.

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Okay, go ahead, Kevin,here's your moment. His time's up
for the call. Hey, Dusty, I'm eating ice cream. That's it.
What do you think? I thinkthat's great? I love that you
know the scenes, say that,Dusty, Dusty, you know what happened
to the Texas Theater the place you'regoing to be performing out here pretty soon.

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Yeah, this is where where JamesEarl Ray that's the guy on the
right track. That'd be Lee HarveyOswald Lee Harvey. I knew that there
was two guys that assassinated Martin LutherKing and JFK. And they both had
three names. Yep, we're backin the sixties, as Dallas sites would

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say. That's where they rested thatfellow that killed that Kennedy boy. Oh
yeah, yeah, I could hearthat. Yeah, Dusty, thanks for
the time. Hope you enjoy yourtime in Texas. May eighteenth, see
him at the Texas Theater two shows. Tickets at Dusty Sleigh dot com.
Have a great day, dude,take it easy and we'll see you next
month. Thank you very much.I appreciate you having me. Thanks dude,

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Dusty sleigh bump bum. I couldhave talk to him about the whole
clean comic angle for a few morequestions. Yeah, he does podcast about
Bargazzi, So, I mean,Nate Bargozzi is a clean and so he
probably didn't want to say like,I'm a clean guy because Nate Bargotzi's got
that market swept up. Yeah.I think he was saving all of his

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jokes for the Texas Theater performing usedMike wants him to come in and do
their act to them. I meanI talked too though. Look, that's
why podcast funny kind of thankfully wehad the wild comedy impressions of Kevin Turner.
Yeah, to bring a little mirthto the view. You were the

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number one rated comedian you thank you, Mike. So my works game last
night, Yeah, man, dude, they crushed and then they then they
slept, slept walking the third takethe foot off the gas a little bit
to save fuel when looking I wasoff in the first quarter like that,
and Mark Followell starts shouting out allthe affiliates to other ABC channels at your

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carry of the game and shouting outwhere the threes have been been launched from
suburbs at the area that he's in. Oh good, it's my favorite.
I mean, he's given shout outsall across Texas. It's such a good
bit. I don't think they wanthim to do that. Maybe that's a
part of the deal if you're goingto carry these games on Channel A.
Yeah, I think that is.That's awesome. But he works it in
great and it's like call your friendsand he does this thing he always does

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when Luca's about to go off.But when the Luca first quarter heat check
is just so fun and there's aplay. I took a video of it
where it was that they were playinghandball when he threw it and Derek Jones
Junior saved it from going out ofbounds on the baseline, threw it back
out the half court. Luca hasto keep both beat in so it's not
a backcourt violation. Throws it overto Kyrie. Then Luca cuts to the

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basket. Kyrie hits him on thegive and go. I was like,
they just created a new sport onthe fly. God, they're fun and
Charlotte's sucks. Yeah, but lastyear Charlotte sucked and they beat us.
What back to back games they killedus. Yeah, and this year we
still handled up on them nice toensure right that they are not in the
play in Then with the Sun's losslast night, didn't that lock them into

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Yes, okay, into the topsix? Yes, we're good. They're
either gonna be five or five orsix. Do you do you, guys?
Okay? When you when you watcha team that uh that has players
that have either played with you inthe previous season or guys that you traded
at the deadline, it was weirdto see uh Grant Williams and uh Davis

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Bretons, do you ever wonder andthey usually those teams are just garbage.
Rarely does a Maverick get traded.I mean some Mavericks has been good for
a long long time. Do theMavericks trade somebody and send them to just
like a really great team and youplay them, you always play them in
their link. Oh, they're gonnabe lucky to get twenty wins this year.
Do you ever feel bad for themor wonder what they're doing? Wonder

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what they're thinking? When when GrantWilliams is out there getting you know,
housed by thirty and just trying andBurton's is trying to dunk and make threes,
just knowing how this this damn date'sgonna end and what their brains are
seeing when they look over the maps. Just have this chemistry and a big
man that scored twenty two and gettingfifteen rebounds, and Luca and Kyrie are

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BFFs. Are they looking over therejust going, oh my god, where
am I? I used to beon that? I don't know they're realizing
themselves. I think about that.Yeah, well, I was one thing
I was thinking about with Grant Williamswhen you watch him try to do something
offensively and then you see PJ.Washington who had a off night last night.

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He was off, but when youjust like put him next to each
other too, and you're just like, oh, yeah, we got this
guy. I'll take this guy.Like if you just put him in a
line and I said, which guycan I have, We'll give me this
guy like every time. E.PJ. Washington's a really good player who
had a bad night, but thatwas a that was big. They wiped
him away and Luca just nuts.Yeah, it seems like they've gotten over

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that little that that scary dynamic whichwas always on the table for the MAVs
of the Getting snake Bit game.Yeah, you know, and there's always
those teams that you kind of cansleep walk through and the end up getting
bit that I don't think that's gonnahappen with this team. It's starting to
make me insane that Lucas probably notgonna win the MVP. We may do

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this tomorrow or the next day.We we should talk about it's starting to
make me insane. Yeah, no, there's there's I don't think there should
be an argument for anyone else atthis point. I think he's done enough.
Yeah, but now that they're continuingto move up their seed in the
West, Yeah, it's making menuts. All right. Morning News,
yep, dude, dingus Morning News. After two hive spots, this is

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to go first, don't I need? I need to hit the oxygen masks?

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You get your heart right back downafter that joke,