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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's be saying, all right, John, how are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm doing great? What about you?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I am doing excellent? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let me start and congratulate you, dude. Your wet heat
is so good.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And I know, I know it's your second hour on Netflix,
but man, it is.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I can I ask you this a couple of things
about the special, and I don't want to overly dwell
on it, but are you the first comic to release
a special on Netflix that was recorded in Chattanooga?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes? I think I am. I think I am.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I just feel like whatever it is, like, it's somebody
either in a major city or something, and.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You're like, hey, Chattanooga. I was like, that's gotta be
a first for me.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, yeah, I mean I just want and you know what,
I want to do things like that.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Right. My first special was filmed in Knoxville, Tennessee. Right,
and then this one.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I live in Nashville and this one was in Chattanooga.
I'm just giving my my my state some love.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Hey do you do you really have vertigo?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, I've not had an attack in a while, but yeah,
I mean I have it's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean I get uh.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I rode the carousel with my daughter at the mall
and I was like, I got pretty dizzy.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I gotta tell you I've had I've had two bad
attacks of it, if you will, and uh, I'm with you,
but I love how you make fun of it in
the special.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well yeah, I mean you know, I'm just uh yeah,
I mean that's the whole my my whole thing is.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's like it just feels.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So weak, like uh, you know, I go, oh, I
can't spin around, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean like I used to go to amusement parks.
I used to you know, I like to, you know, swing.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I try to swing the other day and I was
like even I wasn't even spinning around, and that movement
got me like, oh messed up. And I'm like it
just yeah, it's like physically my body is fine, but
I'm like, oh, I'm too weak to spin around.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
But I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I tried dealing with my kids. This goes back a
couple of years to a go kart course. Dude, don't
even yeah, don't think about it, don't even try it.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean you know what, I can ride. I
got a four wheeler and I can ride it. It's
almost like if I'm in control, it's not so bad.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And like my dad was always like this.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I don't even know if it's vertigo for him, but uh,
you know my dad, if he was sitting in a
rocking chair, my dad could rock himself, but if you
push the rocker, he would get motion sickness.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh no, kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Really, my family is a very grounded people.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
My grandfather was born in nineteen hundreds and he plowed
a field with a donkey and rode a horse and
buggy to town. And then I'm two generations removed from that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Like you you can't get on a merry go round.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, I'm not supposed to be doing the things that
I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So wait a minute, So does he let me ask
you this?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Like, obviously we know that you live in that you
live in Nashville, and you mentioned it in the special,
and we've talked to you before about like growing up.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
In a in a in a in a trailer and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Like that, when you where was where was home when
you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I grew up in Alabama, Alabama?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's right, that's right, that's right?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Is that where is that where your grand is that
where your your your your grandparents were when they were
plowing the field.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I mean my dad still lives in the same house
he was born in in nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Uh, and my grandfather built a house.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And yeah, he uh.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Plowed a field with a I guess probably a horse.
I don't think it was a donkey, but it was
a but a hand plow and a horse. And they
had a car, but they didn't have a truck, so
if he needed to feed for the horses, they would
ride the horse and buggy to towel.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, so back to the back
to the special real quick. A couple of other things.
Number one, I left so hard when you delivered the
line who's wearing cologne?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
God, damn it hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You know, that's a that was a pretty underappreciated joke
of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I actually have been sitting on that joke for a
long time.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I would I would take it out of my set
and then it would come back later.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And I love that joke.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I appreciate good.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And then the other thing I love the and I
don't know, maybe I'm way off, but I love when
you tell the joke and then you tell them the
specific joke that you knew it wasn't going to go anywhere,
and that you're just talking longer than you knew the
joke should go on.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh yeah, well, thank you. Yeah, I mean I had
a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean, look, I have jokes sometimes that I think
are funny, and then the audience is not as into it,
and I'm like, listen, guys, this is funny, and I'll
find a way to make this funny to you, even
if I have to tell you it's not funny, just
to build it up, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And uh, and yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I yeah, I mean I I keep going. I mean,
I I see.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I like my joke. I like to tell Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I like a triangle jokes where you know, it starts
off at one place, it's funny in the middle, and
then I keep it going for way longer.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's no longer funny. It's a triangle joke.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Hey, Dusty, let me ask you this. And you've done this.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
In the past, but in in in the in the
special Wet Heat, you break down the Brooks and Dune
song hard Working Man, and you've you've done that like with.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Not with that song, but but previous.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I read somewhere that prior to the special, you had
never met Brooks and Dun, you would never run into
Brooks and Done. Since the special has been out in
streaming on Netflix, have you heard from them?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, Well I posted the video that joke itself on
Instagram and we tagged them.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Okay, and they did.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
They did respond the Brooks and Dun Instagram and Ronnie
Dunn separately both responded.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So that's pretty fun. I mean I've not met them.
I have met a lot of country singers, but I've
not met them. But that would be fun to meet them.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I mean, Brooks and Dunn was probably the first cassette
tape I ever owned, So that would be fun to
meet them.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now, what about Home Depot? If you heard from them?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Never heard from Home Default, which is too bad you
didn't tags I really meant, I mean, I mean Low's right, Yeah, okay,
but Low's doesn't have the nationwide recognition that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Home Depot had.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Everybody knows what Home Depot is. I think Low's is
a bit more regional, so I changed it to Home
Depot just so people would recognize it, and so you
would think.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Home Depot would give me a little love out here.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Hey does it?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Does it kind of stink like the like like I said,
wet Heats out on on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now, obviously you're touring and doing doing a whole new tour.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You're coming to Richmond and DC and I'll get to
those dates in a second.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But does it kind of suck that that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
People want to talk to you about the special but
you do you're touring a whole new hour or.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
So, uh yeah, no, I mean it does. I like
talking about these jokes, so yeah, I do have a
brand new hour that I'm doing and uh so, uh
you know, but yeah, like that this is the stuff
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
We talk about the old jokes, and you know, I
like these jokes. Some of them I'm bummed.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
That I can't tell anymore because this specials out, and
others I'm happy to be done telling. So yeah, but
you know, it's a bummer with some of it. Like
I'd like to tell wet Heat every show I do
from now on. That's a fun joke to tell. But
I love talking about the weather. But you know, you
(08:19):
got to be done with them.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And by the way, when I say you're out doing
a new hour, aren't you doing like so like like
you said, like you're not doing clubs anymore. You're doing
like halls and theaters and stuff. Aren't you doing like
an hour and a half an hour forty?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Now? Well, I'm doing about an hour and twenty every show.
Some shows I do an hour and a half. And
I think my goal eventually.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Is to that.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I would do a two hour show and just have
an opener do about ten minutes, and then I do
two hours.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's my goal in the end.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I don't know if that's what people want, we'll find out,
but I think that's my goal in the end.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I saw you I can't remember who it was, but
I was watching.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
One of the Nateland podcasts and they were like, oh,
I'll do I'll be the opener for five minutes and
then I am gone enjoy your two hours see you
later people.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just
think that's what I want to do.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I mean it's like, you know, I put out a
special working Man and then.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You know, a little over a year later.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I put out another special wet heat, and I'm just like,
you know, is that really the way I like putting
stuff out? But is that really the way I could
build towards just a bigger, longer live show and really
make the live show.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The special thing. Cause live comedies where it's at.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh, I love you know, I love it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I mean it's like, I don't know, I just feel
like the media landscape is changing a little bit. I
don't know what's going to happen, but there are so
many specials out there. Everybody can, every every comedian or
even person that's attempted comedy can film, you know, a
one minute reel and put on Instagram and build up
(10:09):
a fan base, but not everybody can do a full
hour plus comedy set.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I think that's that's the special thing.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
So that's that's what I want to make sure that
people know when they come see me live, they're gonna
get a good long show.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Hey, Dossey, can I can I ask you a nerdy
comedy question if you don't mind?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Sure? Hey?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So I saw I saw you were talking about like
starting to push to get to two hours, and you
were talking about it, and I like this part where
it was very historical where you were talking about like
comics back in the day, whether it was I think
you mentioned Carlin and you mentioned somebody else where. It
was like they would do two hours, like they would
they would get up there and they would just go.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
But the nerdy thing.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I wanted to ask you is you said that you
said something around like starting the show is hard. Once
you're going, it's fine. Why is starting the show so hard?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I think it's because you know, you're meeting a new audience,
all right, Every audience is new, and so you know,
you go out and you're just like, it's this balance
of I don't want to waste too much time at
the beginning of the show talking or or you know.
But I also I don't like to walk right out
and just start doing material.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I like to give it a beat and uh, you know,
just try to you know, introduce the audience to me
get introduced to the audience. But you know, you don't
I don't like to just go right out and do
a bit, you know. Right, So if there's something about
the city that I'm in that I can joke about,
or if something fun happened that day, I'll talk about that,
(11:50):
but if to me, I know comments that do it,
But to me, it feels inauthentic to say, oh, this
just happened to me today on the way here. It
didn't happen right on the way there, you know what
I mean. So I'm like, if something happened that day,
I can talk about that, and that's a nice intro
into the show.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
To me, I feel like it's the hardest part getting
the show going. But once it's going, you know, then
you can roll.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Then you're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dostee, how far back does the alphabet story go for you?
It's like it's over ten years, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I mean I put it on an album ten years
ago called Making That Fudge, and eleven years ago actually probably,
but it's I was doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'd say probably around twenty ten. I probably started doing
it and it grew a little bit here and there.
But it's you know, it's a hard joke to tell
because if the audience is into it, it's really great.
But they're not always into that sort of joke. So
I'd never wanted to tell the joke again.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So that's why.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
But I wanted more people to see it, so that's
why I decided to find a guy to animate it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's the animation's great, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, I thought he did
a really great job.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I'm hoping that the video does well enough to encourage
me to do more of that because I got other
bits that that I actually have videos for, but I
got other bits that I think it would be fun
to see them animated.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Uh, And I like that. I just like doing different
kind of artsy stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's like, like I.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Say, it's easy these days for people to just get
up on stage, record themselves doing a bit and post
it online. And even crowd work has become easy because
you know, crowd work live is hard, but crowd work
for a video. You know, there's there's ways that comics
can do called like like clip farming, where they just
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ask the audience questions. They do a Q and a
sure and then the and then the audience, so it
seems like they're doing crowd work, but really they're like
manufacturing crowd work.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You know, I got you and they saw these tricks.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So I'm like, let's, you know, let's just find something
a different way to get people content that's fun and funny,
and so that's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So I was listening to the latest Nateland podcast that
obviously you're a part of.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Two things.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Number One, I love what everybody was talking about their weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And I don't remember who it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Was was talking about, like, oh, I was playing a
club in Mississippi and the air conditioning was out and
it sucked. And then somebody else was like, oh, I
was also in Mississippi, And then I like Aaron, who goes, oh,
I played a ball arena. I was opening for Nate
two sold out shows. It was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, but you know what was great listening to to
j Flake and him talk about also being a referee
and refereeing sports.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Dude. I could have listened to him tell stories forever.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean I don't know anything
about that world.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, my mom was an umpire.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
When I was a kid for sawt ball, but I
was off, you know, playing cutball with the.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Other bad kids. There you go, So but yeah, I
mean it's fun.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I mean I saw a video yesterday where it looked
like the Detroit Tigers intentionally hit the umpire with the
ball with a pitch right, and I thought that was
pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I never really liked the reference.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I like Jay Flake, and I hope that doesn't happen
at him, but I never really liked referees.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So I was looking at your schedule October eighteenth, you'll
be at the Carpenter Theater at Dominion Energy Center in Richmond.
November fifteenth, Capital One Hall here in Tyson's. But then
I was looking a little bit forward at the Nateland
at Sea. That'll be the cruise that you guys are
all doing with Nate Barghetti and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Dude, are you a big cruise guy.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I haven't been on a cruise since two thousand and eight,
and I haven't been on a cruise since I have
developed this vertigo motion sickness.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So I don't even know that I'm gonna enjoy that.
My agent.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
My agent said to me, she said, everybody else from
Nateland is.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You're not gonna want to miss it, And I go, Okay,
let's do it. I like those guys, but I just
don't know that I'm a cruise guy.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, the good news is the entire cruise is sold out,
so if you end up.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Losing it, the entire cruise will know.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I don't even really like small boats, to be honest
with you, I got control issues and I don't like
being told I can't just go home whenever I want,
you know.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
October eighteenth, the Carpenter Theater at Dominion Energy Center in Richmond.
November fifteenth, Capitol One Hall in Tyson's Wet Heat is.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Out and streaming now on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Dusty the Specialist fantastic good talking to him, my friend, Well,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You got it. Thanks Dusting
Let's be saying, all right, John, how are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm doing great? What about you?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I am doing excellent? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let me start and congratulate you, dude. Your wet heat
is so good.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And I know, I know it's your second hour on Netflix,
but man, it is.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I can I ask you this a couple of things
about the special, and I don't want to overly dwell
on it, but are you the first comic to release
a special on Netflix that was recorded in Chattanooga?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes? I think I am. I think I am.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I just feel like whatever it is, like, it's somebody
either in a major city or something, and.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You're like, hey, Chattanooga. I was like, that's gotta be
a first for me.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, yeah, I mean I just want and you know what,
I want to do things like that.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Right. My first special was filmed in Knoxville, Tennessee. Right,
and then this one.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I live in Nashville and this one was in Chattanooga.
I'm just giving my my my state some love.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Hey do you do you really have vertigo?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, I've not had an attack in a while, but yeah,
I mean I have it's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean I get uh.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I rode the carousel with my daughter at the mall
and I was like, I got pretty dizzy.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I gotta tell you I've had I've had two bad
attacks of it, if you will, and uh, I'm with you,
but I love how you make fun of it in
the special.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well yeah, I mean you know, I'm just uh yeah,
I mean that's the whole my my whole thing is.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's like it just feels.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So weak, like uh, you know, I go, oh, I
can't spin around, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean like I used to go to amusement parks.
I used to you know, I like to, you know, swing.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I try to swing the other day and I was
like even I wasn't even spinning around, and that movement
got me like, oh messed up. And I'm like it
just yeah, it's like physically my body is fine, but
I'm like, oh, I'm too weak to spin around.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
But I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I tried dealing with my kids. This goes back a
couple of years to a go kart course. Dude, don't
even yeah, don't think about it, don't even try it.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean you know what, I can ride. I
got a four wheeler and I can ride it. It's
almost like if I'm in control, it's not so bad.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And like my dad was always like this.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I don't even know if it's vertigo for him, but uh,
you know my dad, if he was sitting in a
rocking chair, my dad could rock himself, but if you
push the rocker, he would get motion sickness.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh no, kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Really, my family is a very grounded people.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
My grandfather was born in nineteen hundreds and he plowed
a field with a donkey and rode a horse and
buggy to town. And then I'm two generations removed from that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Like you you can't get on a merry go round.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, I'm not supposed to be doing the things that
I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So wait a minute, So does he let me ask
you this?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Like, obviously we know that you live in that you
live in Nashville, and you mentioned it in the special,
and we've talked to you before about like growing up.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
In a in a in a in a trailer and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Like that, when you where was where was home when
you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I grew up in Alabama, Alabama?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's right, that's right, that's right?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Is that where is that where your grand is that
where your your your your grandparents were when they were
plowing the field.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I mean my dad still lives in the same house
he was born in in nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Uh, and my grandfather built a house.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And yeah, he uh.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Plowed a field with a I guess probably a horse.
I don't think it was a donkey, but it was
a but a hand plow and a horse. And they
had a car, but they didn't have a truck, so
if he needed to feed for the horses, they would
ride the horse and buggy to towel.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, so back to the back
to the special real quick. A couple of other things.
Number one, I left so hard when you delivered the
line who's wearing cologne?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
God, damn it hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You know, that's a that was a pretty underappreciated joke
of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I actually have been sitting on that joke for a
long time.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I would I would take it out of my set
and then it would come back later.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And I love that joke.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I appreciate good.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And then the other thing I love the and I
don't know, maybe I'm way off, but I love when
you tell the joke and then you tell them the
specific joke that you knew it wasn't going to go anywhere,
and that you're just talking longer than you knew the
joke should go on.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh yeah, well, thank you. Yeah, I mean I had
a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean, look, I have jokes sometimes that I think
are funny, and then the audience is not as into it,
and I'm like, listen, guys, this is funny, and I'll
find a way to make this funny to you, even
if I have to tell you it's not funny, just
to build it up, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And uh, and yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I yeah, I mean I I keep going. I mean,
I I see.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I like my joke. I like to tell Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I like a triangle jokes where you know, it starts
off at one place, it's funny in the middle, and
then I keep it going for way longer.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's no longer funny. It's a triangle joke.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Hey, Dusty, let me ask you this. And you've done this.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
In the past, but in in in the in the
special Wet Heat, you break down the Brooks and Dune
song hard Working Man, and you've you've done that like with.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Not with that song, but but previous.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I read somewhere that prior to the special, you had
never met Brooks and Dun, you would never run into
Brooks and Done. Since the special has been out in
streaming on Netflix, have you heard from them?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, Well I posted the video that joke itself on
Instagram and we tagged them.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Okay, and they did.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
They did respond the Brooks and Dun Instagram and Ronnie
Dunn separately both responded.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So that's pretty fun. I mean I've not met them.
I have met a lot of country singers, but I've
not met them. But that would be fun to meet them.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I mean, Brooks and Dunn was probably the first cassette
tape I ever owned, So that would be fun to
meet them.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now, what about Home Depot? If you heard from them?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Never heard from Home Default, which is too bad you
didn't tags I really meant, I mean, I mean Low's right, Yeah, okay,
but Low's doesn't have the nationwide recognition that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Home Depot had.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Everybody knows what Home Depot is. I think Low's is
a bit more regional, so I changed it to Home
Depot just so people would recognize it, and so you
would think.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Home Depot would give me a little love out here.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Hey does it?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Does it kind of stink like the like like I said,
wet Heats out on on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now, obviously you're touring and doing doing a whole new tour.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You're coming to Richmond and DC and I'll get to
those dates in a second.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But does it kind of suck that that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
People want to talk to you about the special but
you do you're touring a whole new hour or.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
So, uh yeah, no, I mean it does. I like
talking about these jokes, so yeah, I do have a
brand new hour that I'm doing and uh so, uh
you know, but yeah, like that this is the stuff
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
We talk about the old jokes, and you know, I
like these jokes. Some of them I'm bummed.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
That I can't tell anymore because this specials out, and
others I'm happy to be done telling. So yeah, but
you know, it's a bummer with some of it. Like
I'd like to tell wet Heat every show I do
from now on. That's a fun joke to tell. But
I love talking about the weather. But you know, you
(08:19):
got to be done with them.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And by the way, when I say you're out doing
a new hour, aren't you doing like so like like
you said, like you're not doing clubs anymore. You're doing
like halls and theaters and stuff. Aren't you doing like
an hour and a half an hour forty?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Now? Well, I'm doing about an hour and twenty every show.
Some shows I do an hour and a half. And
I think my goal eventually.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Is to that.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I would do a two hour show and just have
an opener do about ten minutes, and then I do
two hours.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's my goal in the end.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I don't know if that's what people want, we'll find out,
but I think that's my goal in the end.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I saw you I can't remember who it was, but
I was watching.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
One of the Nateland podcasts and they were like, oh,
I'll do I'll be the opener for five minutes and
then I am gone enjoy your two hours see you
later people.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just
think that's what I want to do.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I mean it's like, you know, I put out a
special working Man and then.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You know, a little over a year later.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I put out another special wet heat, and I'm just like,
you know, is that really the way I like putting
stuff out? But is that really the way I could
build towards just a bigger, longer live show and really
make the live show.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The special thing. Cause live comedies where it's at.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh, I love you know, I love it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I mean it's like, I don't know, I just feel
like the media landscape is changing a little bit. I
don't know what's going to happen, but there are so
many specials out there. Everybody can, every every comedian or
even person that's attempted comedy can film, you know, a
one minute reel and put on Instagram and build up
(10:09):
a fan base, but not everybody can do a full
hour plus comedy set.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I think that's that's the special thing.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
So that's that's what I want to make sure that
people know when they come see me live, they're gonna
get a good long show.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Hey, Dossey, can I can I ask you a nerdy
comedy question if you don't mind?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Sure? Hey?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So I saw I saw you were talking about like
starting to push to get to two hours, and you
were talking about it, and I like this part where
it was very historical where you were talking about like
comics back in the day, whether it was I think
you mentioned Carlin and you mentioned somebody else where. It
was like they would do two hours, like they would
they would get up there and they would just go.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
But the nerdy thing.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I wanted to ask you is you said that you
said something around like starting the show is hard. Once
you're going, it's fine. Why is starting the show so hard?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I think it's because you know, you're meeting a new audience,
all right, Every audience is new, and so you know,
you go out and you're just like, it's this balance
of I don't want to waste too much time at
the beginning of the show talking or or you know.
But I also I don't like to walk right out
and just start doing material.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I like to give it a beat and uh, you know,
just try to you know, introduce the audience to me
get introduced to the audience. But you know, you don't
I don't like to just go right out and do
a bit, you know. Right, So if there's something about
the city that I'm in that I can joke about,
or if something fun happened that day, I'll talk about that,
(11:50):
but if to me, I know comments that do it,
But to me, it feels inauthentic to say, oh, this
just happened to me today on the way here. It
didn't happen right on the way there, you know what
I mean. So I'm like, if something happened that day,
I can talk about that, and that's a nice intro
into the show.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
To me, I feel like it's the hardest part getting
the show going. But once it's going, you know, then
you can roll.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Then you're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dostee, how far back does the alphabet story go for you?
It's like it's over ten years, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I mean I put it on an album ten years
ago called Making That Fudge, and eleven years ago actually probably,
but it's I was doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'd say probably around twenty ten. I probably started doing
it and it grew a little bit here and there.
But it's you know, it's a hard joke to tell
because if the audience is into it, it's really great.
But they're not always into that sort of joke. So
I'd never wanted to tell the joke again.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So that's why.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
But I wanted more people to see it, so that's
why I decided to find a guy to animate it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's the animation's great, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, I thought he did
a really great job.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I'm hoping that the video does well enough to encourage
me to do more of that because I got other
bits that that I actually have videos for, but I
got other bits that I think it would be fun
to see them animated.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Uh, And I like that. I just like doing different
kind of artsy stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's like, like I.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Say, it's easy these days for people to just get
up on stage, record themselves doing a bit and post
it online. And even crowd work has become easy because
you know, crowd work live is hard, but crowd work
for a video. You know, there's there's ways that comics
can do called like like clip farming, where they just
(13:49):
ask the audience questions. They do a Q and a
sure and then the and then the audience, so it
seems like they're doing crowd work, but really they're like
manufacturing crowd work.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You know, I got you and they saw these tricks.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So I'm like, let's, you know, let's just find something
a different way to get people content that's fun and funny,
and so that's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So I was listening to the latest Nateland podcast that
obviously you're a part of.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Two things.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Number One, I love what everybody was talking about their weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And I don't remember who it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Was was talking about, like, oh, I was playing a
club in Mississippi and the air conditioning was out and
it sucked. And then somebody else was like, oh, I
was also in Mississippi, And then I like Aaron, who goes, oh,
I played a ball arena. I was opening for Nate
two sold out shows. It was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, but you know what was great listening to to
j Flake and him talk about also being a referee
and refereeing sports.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Dude. I could have listened to him tell stories forever.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean I don't know anything
about that world.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, my mom was an umpire.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
When I was a kid for sawt ball, but I
was off, you know, playing cutball with the.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Other bad kids. There you go, So but yeah, I
mean it's fun.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I mean I saw a video yesterday where it looked
like the Detroit Tigers intentionally hit the umpire with the
ball with a pitch right, and I thought that was
pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I never really liked the reference.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I like Jay Flake, and I hope that doesn't happen
at him, but I never really liked referees.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So I was looking at your schedule October eighteenth, you'll
be at the Carpenter Theater at Dominion Energy Center in Richmond.
November fifteenth, Capital One Hall here in Tyson's. But then
I was looking a little bit forward at the Nateland
at Sea. That'll be the cruise that you guys are
all doing with Nate Barghetti and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Dude, are you a big cruise guy.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I haven't been on a cruise since two thousand and eight,
and I haven't been on a cruise since I have
developed this vertigo motion sickness.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So I don't even know that I'm gonna enjoy that.
My agent.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
My agent said to me, she said, everybody else from
Nateland is.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You're not gonna want to miss it, And I go, Okay,
let's do it. I like those guys, but I just
don't know that I'm a cruise guy.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, the good news is the entire cruise is sold out,
so if you end up.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Losing it, the entire cruise will know.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I don't even really like small boats, to be honest
with you, I got control issues and I don't like
being told I can't just go home whenever I want,
you know.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
October eighteenth, the Carpenter Theater at Dominion Energy Center in Richmond.
November fifteenth, Capitol One Hall in Tyson's Wet Heat is.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Out and streaming now on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Dusty the Specialist fantastic good talking to him, my friend, Well,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You got it. Thanks Dusting
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