Name: Dusty Slay | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #601
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Dusty Slay | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #601

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Today's guest is a comedian from Opelika, Alabama.
He has a new special out on Netflix called Wet Heat.
Wet Heat.
He has his own podcast called We Are Having a Good Time.
I'm very thankful to spend time today with Mr. Dusty Slay.
Shine on me
And I will find a song
I've been singing just before
I see the hat as a Cole Wetzel hat.
That's a Cole, yeah.
Well, what's the lightning bolt?
I don't know.
It's probably weather.
I mean, they're doing all that weather seeding now.
Yeah.
That cloud seeding.
Yeah, that's true.
Maybe he's involved in that shit.
Maybe he is.
He could be.
I wouldn't be surprised.
That's how they get the record deal now.
He looks like he definitely...
He looks a little humid sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
I do know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you look great, man.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, good to see you.
Congrats on the new special.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm pumped.
I mean, it feels good.
I'm...
It's your third one.
It's kind of your third one.
Kind of.
Yeah, I got a half hour.
But these are, yeah, both self-produced, Wet Heat and Working Man.
So it's fun to...
You know, Netflix is not like, hey, we're going to give you a special.
I have to film it and then sell it to them.
Yeah.
So it feels good that they're buying it.
And you do the work, man.
Yeah.
I saw you were trending yesterday or the day before on Netflix.
That had to feel good.
Yeah, it felt good.
I hit seven.
That was, you know, last time I think I hit two.
No way.
But seven is still good, though.
I like seven.
Well, a lot of people are still really stuck in that missing woman off the
cruise ship.
Oh, okay.
And it's hard to go up against that.
Yeah, because they put a special up against TV.
So if you watch a full season of a show, then that's like, you know, each
episode is a watch.
But you have to watch a special over and over again to get that kind of...
You're lying.
I think that's how it works.
Yeah.
Like if you're watching Seinfeld, every episode is a watch.
Yeah.
And most people watch a comedy special one time.
Oh, if someone's watching it more than one time, they're not...
Yeah, I think they're probably kidnapped or whatever.
They're not doing that.
They're locked in my basement.
Yeah, that's a great point, dude.
And they're also called my wife.
That's another person, dude.
Dude, you know what I was thinking yesterday?
Dude, they don't have any more...
There's not a lot of cross-eyed people anymore.
Yeah, you don't see it a lot.
Maybe glasses are fixing it, but yeah, you don't see it.
Were you part of like that cross-eyed realm or whatever?
No, no, I mean, I don't think I was ever cross-eyed.
I might have been in the realm.
Yeah.
Because I remember people with an eye, you know.
Now, I got some land out in McMinnville, and I went into a...
I thought it was a thrift store.
It turned out to be a museum.
And the guy had a bad eye.
You know, I think he had a glass eye.
And I think he was excited I was in there.
Oh, yeah.
Because he didn't have anybody to tell stories to.
And he talked to me for a long time.
That's beautiful.
So, they are still out there.
They're just in...
They're hidden away.
And that's McMinnville, Tennessee?
Yeah, McMinnville, Tennessee.
I haven't been there.
Is that a nice community?
It is nice.
I got a little land there.
I got a little cabin where I'm trying to build an orchard.
But McMinnville feels real tucked away.
It's a good bit off the interstate.
Wow, that's beautiful looking.
Yeah, mountain town.
Got a lot of kayaking, a lot of...
Really?
Yeah, that's the nursery capital of the world, they say.
Because of what?
Just birth rate or whatever?
No, like trees, like plant nursery.
Oh, damn.
Brother, hell yeah.
No, I'm from Opelika, Alabama.
Oh, okay.
Sorry, you're from Alabama.
But I got, you know, I just, during COVID, I was, I don't know what was
happening.
I had a little money.
So, I bought 10 acres of land.
Oh, yeah, God.
And I was like, if we never get to go back out to stores again, I want to walk
around some
pasture land.
Yeah.
You know, and McMinnville, I mean, I walked into a restaurant there with a mask
on and
that place was packed and I don't think they'd ever seen a mask.
And I was like, well, that's what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
I ripped it off.
I mean, I was like, this is, this is freedom out here.
Yeah.
Oh, you got to yell it right when you pull it off, you know, just to let people
know,
oh, he didn't mean the mask.
Exactly.
Like, he may, he may have gotten the shot, but they'll never get the homophobia
out of
him.
Yeah.
Right.
They'll never shake that.
Yeah.
I mean, he may end up cross-eyed again.
Oh, dude.
Yeah.
Because someone's a cross-eyed guy looks like somebody that wants to yell a
racial slur,
but just won't let it out.
Like, if he did, it would just fix his fucking sight.
Yeah.
I mean, then you don't know who he's looking at when he says it.
That's true, dude.
So, it could be aimed at anybody.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's beautiful.
But, yeah, you don't see it anymore.
I just remember when I was a kid, you would see more of that.
Didn't you think you saw more of that?
Yeah.
I felt like there was, like, always, like, a slower class when I was in high
school where
you would see them come through the hallway.
And you sometimes, some of them, you were like, I don't know why they were in
there.
And others, you could clearly see why they were in there.
Oh, yeah.
And I feel like there would be a guy with real thick glasses, and you would not
know what
he's looking at.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Just, like, he almost, like, he should have worked for a submarine, but they
discontinued
him when they, like, made the technology or whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, oh, he should be the one on top of the sub holding his breath.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, dude, totally.
Bro, the first wigger they ever had in our town, they put in Learning Disabled,
man.
And I've talked about, I've actually talked about that on stage, but, and shout
out Brian
Purvis, that has put some money on his books, actually.
He's, he didn't do it.
He might have done it, but he's, he's in, I think he's in jail now.
But they'd never seen a white kid that wanted to be black, and they threw him
in there.
Oh, yeah.
That's too bad.
The guy just had some style and some flair about him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But he would just be in the hall, like, doing, like, invisible crossovers on
all the other
hands.
Oh, yeah.
So he was just, like, playing, like, just full court offense against the rest
of the.
He probably liked that he was in there.
He's like, this is easy.
This is a dream for me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He probably did, man.
So far to get to the back of the bus.
Yeah, yeah, true, dude.
Yeah, man, I just, there was times I remember you see that.
Like, I just remember there used to be more disabilities that were normal, I
felt like.
Normalized.
Yeah, you know, like, maybe they just didn't know where to put people, right?
So they were just wandering around, and, you know, I grew up in a trailer park,
so I felt
like there was a little bit of that in the trailer park, you know?
Oh, yeah.
You never knew if somebody was just, like, you know, real redneck, real country,
or if
they're just, you know, they got a speech impediment.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, well, dude, even the name Dusty, I mean, I remember there were names that
were kind of,
I don't want to say weather-related, but off, like, sunny.
Like a windy.
Yes, sunny, windy, dusty.
Drizzle got into, like, the black kind of country group.
Yeah, drizzle, yeah, yeah.
But there was other ones, it was like, uh...
Misty, did we say Misty?
No, we didn't.
Yeah.
That was a big one.
Misty was very popular.
Misty felt like, I know some Mistys, so I don't want to talk traction, but it
felt like,
yeah, it was like they were attractive, but a little loose with it sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Like, they'd put their bra on, but wouldn't snap it together in the back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They wanted people to see it.
Yeah.
Oh, dude, Mistys were usually pretty cute, weren't they?
I think so.
I can't think of an unattractive Misty ever.
Yeah.
I knew a few Mistys.
That was kind of country hot, man.
Yeah.
That was kind of country hot.
Yeah, and you get, maybe you get a little Misty-eyed around them.
Mm, maybe that's why they named them that.
Yeah, I'm trying to think, uh, yeah, sunny, dusty, Misty.
Oh, there was one more, we had a girl, her, Stormy.
Oh, Stormy, yeah, yeah.
We had a girl named Stormy Bernard that used to play, uh, volleyball in our
town, and they
didn't even have volleyball, but she told her, but she played it or whatever.
Oh, okay, yeah, she had good legs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you have good legs, it's believable that you play volleyball or softball.
Yeah.
That's believable.
Girls with good legs and just a stoutness about them.
Mm-hmm.
Like an attractive stoutness.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's nice.
Yeah, dude, I loved, I loved that about growing up, like, in a kind of a rural
area.
Because we weren't in a trailer park, we were just kind of, like, in a white,
just, like,
it wasn't a super redneck bus, it was just, like, kind of trashy.
Yeah.
And no judgment, shout out to everybody from, um, McGee Street, but it just was
what it
was, you know?
They know it, nobody was fucking, nobody was pretending what was going on.
Yeah, we had a trailer park.
Our trailer park was, like, half Asian.
We had a lot of Laotian people in Opelika, so.
Really?
Yeah, so our bus stop was, you know, me and the Asian kids.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Yeah, it was fun.
Dude, y'all should have made a music video or something, that's beautiful.
Yeah, it did seem exotic, you know, as I got older, I felt like when I was
getting off
the bus with the Asian kids, it made me, it's like, it felt like, because you
feel insecure
about getting off in a trailer park, but when it's with the other Asian kids,
you feel like,
well, you know, we got something going on here.
Right, it's almost like, look, I'm here supporting them.
It gives you that thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got, you know, I got a vibe.
Yeah.
You know.
God, we're doing something, you wouldn't even understand it.
Yeah, you don't get what we got going on.
Yeah.
Oh, dude, yeah.
If you'd have got off the bus with a bunch of Asian people, literally people
would have
thought, on my street, people would have thought that bus came from outer space.
Oh, yeah.
Like, they just didn't even, I'm sure it had to be like that by you.
Like, did you have Laotian friends there?
Yeah, I mean, they were at my age.
Yeah, we were friends.
We hung out.
One guy named Enoi, we used to hang out.
Enoi?
Enoi, yeah.
Yeah.
And we used to hang out.
We were, we were, and there was others.
You know, there was a guy named Chukiot.
He was a little older than me, and then there was Hook, and then they had a
sister named
Sherry.
Ooh, Sherry's pretty hot.
Yeah, Sherry was hot.
Sherry was hot.
I had, I actually found some pictures of Sherry that she gave me when she was,
when I was a
senior.
It's probably like her junior pictures.
Yeah.
I found them in a notebook.
Did you?
I was like, wow, I still got these pictures of Sherry.
That's nice, dude.
Yeah.
God, she sounds hot, dude.
I, um.
Namburi.
Namburi was the last name.
Namburi?
Yeah.
Sherry Namburi?
Sherry Namburi, yeah.
God, sign me up.
Yeah.
We had a girl named Treasure in our neighborhood, too, and she was hot.
That feels oddly weather-related, like pirate ship, like you're out on the
waters, finding
some treasure.
Yeah, stormy, dusty, treasure, all those are kind of-
Rain, I didn't have any rains, but that's a name.
Oh, yeah.
That's a name.
I know a country-ass rain lady that lives here.
Oh, yeah?
I know, like, a real country lady named Rai