Name: Theo and Dusty Slay Talk About Their Colorful Childhoods
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Dusty Slay Talk About Their Colorful Childhoods' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-01. Transcript available.

Theo and Dusty Slay Talk About Their Colorful Childhoods

You know, I grew up in a trailer park, so I felt like there was a little bit of
that in the trailer park.
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.
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 trash.
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, 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.
I know a few Mistys.
That was kind of country hot, man.
Yeah.
That was kind of country hot.
Yeah, and you get, maybe get a little Misty-eyed around them.
Maybe that's why they named them that.
Yeah, I'm trying to think.
Yeah, Sunny, Dusty, Misty.
Oh, there was one more.
We had a girl, Stormy.
Oh, Stormy, yeah, yeah.
We had a girl named Stormy Bernard that used to play volleyball in our town.
And they didn't even have volleyball, but she told her, but she played it or
whatever.
Okay, yeah.
She had good legs.
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.
Like an attractive stoutness.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's nice.
Yeah, dude, 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 super redneck bus.
It was just like kind of trashy.
Yeah.
And no judgment.
Shout out to everybody from 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.
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 in a way.
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 at 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.
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.
You 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 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.
Yeah.
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 Rain.
What, um, what was that trailer park like, man?
How was the vibes over there?
Was it pretty cool?
It was awesome.
I mean, I loved it.
We had, it was like on a dirt road, about 20 trailers probably, some tucked
away a little
bit in the woods.
And then on the front, like on the main street was houses.
So we had some brick houses.
Then behind those was some trailer.
And then on the end, two double wides.
Ooh.
We had a, uh, Enoi lived in one double wide.
And then a guy, uh, he went to a different school, nicknamed Squirrel.
Uh, and, uh, that was my friend.
He had an above ground pool.
Oh.
Yeah.
So Squirrel had it going on.
I mean, his parents were fighting all the time.
Yeah.
But they were, you know, he had a stepdad named Sid and Sid was always yelling
at him.
But you could fight all you want when you're able to cool off in a damn above
ground pool.
Exactly.
Fucking heat things up.
Yeah.
We would pull out the tarp and we had a slip and slide going, some Dawn dish
detergent,
huge tarp in his backyard.
I mean, that was where it's at.
Squirrel had it going on.
Oh, well, it sounds like he was doing well.
In our neighborhood, they had some dudes were over there smoking and getting BJs
or whatever
in an abandoned above ground.
Oh, yeah.
So something had happened.
There'd been, I don't know what had happened, but something had happened.
It could have been a gravity thing.
It could have been domestic dispute.
Somebody knifed it out or whatever.
But the above ground, the water came out of it.
Oh, yeah.
And then over time or whatever, uh, like men would hide from their wives over
there and
smoke a little weed or something at night or whatever, you know?
I always heard about that kind of stuff, like these kinds of things going on.
I never could get involved in that as a kid.
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, I felt like I was like, you know, I was like a good kid.
I never could get involved in that, uh, BJs in the above ground pool situation.
Damn, brother.
And maybe that's for the best, you know?
I think it is.
It turned out, you know, because the, the cool kids in the trailer park life,
they go to jail.
They end up in jail.
Yeah, you're right.
You know what I mean?
Because they got, you know, they're, they're, they're getting into trouble and
it seems cool,
but the trouble shirt on their tattooing each other.
Yeah.
But then they end up in jail and you're like, oh, I'm glad I wasn't like as
cool.
Now I was cool, but I was, you know, cool in the not getting in trouble way.
Yeah.
You were like a Laotian hero.
Yeah.
Cause the Laotian parents weren't letting that go down.
They weren't involved in that either.
I don't even know that they liked them hanging out with me to be honest.
Wow.
Just because you were like, you were close enough adjacent to the other group.
They didn't want you to be a gateway drug to.
Yeah.
And I was wearing bandanas and stuff, you know, I was like, you know,
camouflage bandanas,
not red or, or, or blue.
Yeah.
Like Willie Robinson or whatever.
Yeah.
Is it Robertson?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
More like that.
Yeah.
I did.
I do remember in a neighborhood and like in our neighborhood, like if you got
good grades,
like that kind of shit wasn't cool.
Really?
You didn't want to be like too smart.
You didn't want, you know, you kind of just had to play the game of like
fitting in, but
not fitting too in.
Yeah.
You know, my dad would make fun of me for reading, but also wanted me to make
good grades.
And I was like, I got, it's one or the other here.
You can't make fun of me for doing the homework and go, why are you not passing?
Oh, you can't have your C-A-K-E and eat it too.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
If you spell in front of him, he wouldn't get it.
Oh God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He would make, my dad has said, I've heard my dad say, I ain't never read a
book.
He likes that.
It's a brag for him.
Yeah.
And I'm not a big reader, but I've read a book, you know?
Yeah, dude.
Oh, in our neighborhood, it was like, if somebody could whistle really good,
they had fucking
clout, you know?
Oh yeah.
Like, oh, fucking get Donnie over here.
Oh, you can fucking hear.
Get him over here.
And you, somebody would go get Donnie and he'd come down on his bike and he'd,
you know,
he's an adult with a bike, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
But he'd get there and he'd pull up and he'd fucking have half a can of beer
and then he'd
whistle, you know?
It's the weird talents.
Yeah.
It's like, you got it.
You got a little something.
Yeah.
There was just something like, but I think it was just like what it was like.
That was just the energy around, you know?
It was just kind of calm people doing stuff.
It was just pretty basic back then.
Yeah.
Like even just having, like Squirrel had LaserDisc and I remember that.
My mom worked at a plant that made VHS tapes.
Oh God.
So I told my mom that Squirrel had LaserDisc and she got real mad at me because
I guess
I came home bragging about the stuff that Squirrel had at his house and LaserDisc
was
a potential threat to her income.
To your family?
Yeah.
You're down there in the other double wad.
Yeah.
Look, swimming in an above ground pool, watching LaserDisc.
Living high on the hog.
Yeah.
God.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, my mom wasn't yelling at me like Squirrel's mom was, but I'm like,
these things
seem cool.
Yeah.
I could take a little yelling for a few perks.
Oh yeah, for sure, dude.
Oh, my big thing was peeing on the floor in my room.
I remember when I was a kid, that was like one of my big tricks or whatever.
Like I never could whistle.
And then I'm trying to think of what else happened.
Oh.
What would peeing on the floor give you?
Just fucking.
Being like, I can do whatever I want.
Yeah.
Like my mom can't do nothing.
I'll pee on the floor if I want.
Okay.
We'll show them.
You can't be in the floor at your trailer or your house, but I can.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, dude, I think there was a part of me that thought like one day I'm going to
have my
whole room fucking collapse right into the fucking living room.
I'll show all these motherfuckers.
Oh, yeah.
Like an alien spaceship just landing, you know?
Oh, yeah.
What else?
Yeah.
Oh, I remember my buddy's dad got his wife.
So my buddy's mom got her a window, like their window had been out for a while,
and he got
him a window, and he put it in upside down, right?
So it was like, fuck.
But it wasn't coming out.
He just let it down like that.
He let it down like it's a car.
Yeah.
So it was just, yeah.
It wasn't bad, but it was just.
He might be sitting out there with his arm propped up on it like he's riding in
the truck.
Yeah.
He just leans into the house like, how you doing, baby?
Misty's out in the yard.
He's letting it down.
Yeah, dude.
Shit like that.
Just regular shit.
I've just been in here peeing in the floor.
Yeah, yeah.
Hold on.
Let me put a cork in my wiener, and I'll come out there and take a look at that
new.
That's fucking damn.
That thing works with gravity at window, huh?
That's different.
Yeah.
That's the way.
It really is.
Yeah.
Because the old way where you push the window up, you're defying gravity.
Yeah.
That's damn wizardry.
Yeah, man.
There was just stuff like that about growing up.
Was it real poor by you, or did it feel organized?
Did anybody have that trailer with the latticework around the bottom of it?
Well, I think we all had 10.
I mean, I got to think somebody had lattice.
But, you know, our trailer, we had 10 ar