This is the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak right, here's
the deal here we got comedian man Dusty slay Hong in a couple of minutes.
Do you know that Friday, whether you're a golf fan or not,
you can all come together at the PGA Frisco. Uh, it's the monument
Realty PGA District in Frisco. Ben's gets you on the speakeasy Friday ten am
to six pm. Let's uh, it's a freaking the weekend. It's all
going down. It's gonna be bus They're gonna be that top golf lounge,
which is cool. I have simulators where we can play basketball, football,
baseball, soccer, hockey. I saw some kids playing that. Yeah,
that's so cool. Like the other sports, Yeah, like football, and
there's like moving targets you have to Yeah, it's not just hitting golf balls.
You can play all kinds of stuff, dodgeball. But I feel like
there's a huge putting green if you want to bring your putter and just put
it around, and a massive big screen overlooking the putting green you can go
watch Friday. I've said we weren't gonna talk golf for an hour and eleven
minute minutes and I made it nine minutes. Well, it's fine. We're
promoting. We're promoting what we're talking. You're not talking to masters, I'm
sorry. Difference than talking golf twenty twenty four masters, the masters, you're
not talking that. No. I imagine if you're a golfer in this area,
you've already been up and seen the PGA. 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 balls and you have like a They don't have
it cranked up to a twelve on the stint meter, but it's essentially like
a PGA quality green, a little slower, big screen with audio or music
playing and food drinks galore. It's and it's golf heaven that they just built.
And let me tell you to you it's being out there. First of
all, it's a new place in the metroplex that you should check out if
you care about the city or the town. You know, like if you
care about your area that you live in. There's a new attraction in town.
But it's not stuffy. You know, you're not gonna like if you
go out there, you're gonna votes golf and no, there's shops, there's
ice cream parlors. Yes, And if you kids are at school and you
just want to go have a drink and have some food, you know that's
the way to go. I love it. I love it. So okay,
we'll do a little MAVs at eight twenty. But joining us now on
the free cotline. It is our new friend, comedian Dusty Sleigh. Good
morning, Dusty. How are you friend? All right, we're having a
good time. I'm pumped to be here. Hell yeah, Dusty, Well
you wouldn't. Why'd you call his friends? 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 if he was on guard or anything. Yeah,
he puts down his guns and goes. You know what, I might
like these guys. Do you have any weapons on you? Dusty? Uh
no, not. Well I'm at home, so yeah I have some.
But but yeah, I mean we're friends. Okay, Well there you go.
I love it now right now we started being friends. If the clock
is ticking Mike paternship always starts for me. I walk up to someone and
I go, we're friends. I love it, So Dusty, let me
ask you this, And I don't want to be the dude that on the
morning wacky radio show that asked you the same question you've been asked a million
times. But for those folks that may not know your name as well as
we do around these parts that are listening right now, give us a little
bit about your background and how you got started in the business and where you
are in the world of comedy. Now if you don't mind, well,
I'm the greatest comic and I'm very funny. I have a show. I'm
doing two shows in Dallas coming up at the Texas Theater and it's so great.
But yeah, I grew up in a trailer park in Alabama. We
you know, I like to say, you know, we were pretty poor,
but I mainly think we just didn't know how to spend our money.
Like, you know, we probably could have had a mortgage, but instead
we wanted to go see NASCAR races and buy WWF pay per view and you
know, stuff like that. We wanted to live a life rather than have
a home on a Sturby foundation, you know, and and my parents divorced.
I don't even it's a miracle that they even ended up married to each
other. They did get married before they had got pregnant with me. It
wasn't one of those situations. But I don't know how they ended up married.
I could never see them married to each other, but somehow they did
for just a short time, long enough to bring me into the world.
And then divorce and go, you figure it out. And now now they
were very nice people, so still are 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'm in this city. Now that's a very
arts and cultured city with a lot of old money. And I didn't fit
in very well. So I was drinking a lot. I was doing improv,
hanging out with real silly people, and I was drinking a lot trying
to keep up with them, but really it would just bring out the real
redneck side of me, and I would want to fight people. And then
after years of doing that, I quit drinking, and I got better at
comedy and I won a competition, and then I thought well, maybe I
could make money at this and stop being a pesticide salesman. And then that's
what I did. When you were growing up living the trailer park life,
now, did you were you ever in a place long enough to where you
actually had the luxury of tying down your trailer or were you like me that
My dad looked at the trailer house and looked at it and said, you
know, the wheels are on there for a reason. And we ended up
moving every three months. You know, fortunately for me, we did.
We were very stable. We moved there when I was about three years old,
and we moved out when when I was fourteen, and we moved into
a house. We never moved the trailer. Now, when I was nineteen,
I bought the trailer back from my sister. My mom gave it to
my sister, and my sister traded it in to another trailer company for a
new trailer, and I bought that from that company for one thousand bucks.
And so for two years I lived back in the trailer on my own as
an adult, and I really turned it into a party house and it was
a lot of fun. This is comedian Dusty Slay, who is going to
be at the Texas Theater for two shows Saturday, May eighteenth. You get
tickets at dustyslay dot com. That's Slay Dusty. You you spent a lot
of time in Texas well. I've been to Texas a bunch, you know.
For years and years, I could never get a gig in Texas.
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 that was her name, that was her nickname.
My grandmother's nickname was Boozy and she didn't even drink that I'm aware of.
I don't know where that nickname came from. But yeah, but I
could not get a gig in Texas forever. But since about twenty eighteen,
I think that's where the first time I came to the Addison Improv just north
of Dallas. There where I've been a bunch since that time. I've been
coming there all the time. I love Texas. I'm a big fan.
Texas was the first place I got to come after covid Man. That's amazing
that you went from Addison improv and then basically five years later you've got two
shows at the Texas Theater. I think, what was that thing hold?
Like five hundred people. It's bigger, It's huge, right, Yeah,
Texas Theater's great. You're gonna love it. Oh my god, his story.
I'm so pumped. Yeah, I mean it is amazing. You know.
It's like, uh, you know, considering where I came from doing
comedy, Charleston, which is not really a comedy city. I mean,
the whole thing is really not taken that long. I mean I've been at
this for about ten years, and you know, compared to a lot of
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 I just 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? Are you you have you seen Daves of Thunder?
I have seen David, you know, honestly, not that long ago.
I watched David Thunder for the first time. I think I watched it
as a kid, but as an adult I wanted to rewatch it. If
you could have one celebrity be your crew chief, who would it be.
Well, I well, I don't know if he was the crew chief,
but Robert de Ball in the movie. I mean, I'd love to have
that guy working with me. Yeah, he was fantastic. Give me Robert
de Ball, give me a Gene Hackman. I've been seeing pictures of Gene
Hackman circulating. It's almost I could trying to be like, look how sad
he looks. I mean, he got 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 could do that now, I'd be happy.
Yeah. New York Post is ripping Gene Hackman for wearing the same outfit
like twice in two weeks. Have the Post come sitting on this show for
a week. Yeah, Danny had the same Muhammad Ali sweater on for four
months. Yeah, I mean I wear 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 you Okay, So I've watched quite a
bit of your stand up, and from what I can tell, would you
consider yourself a clean comic? Yeah, this, I like to say that,
I'm glad you brought that up. I like to say that I'm a
relatively clean comic. I don't like to advertise myself as clean, but I
i'd like to say that I'm the kind of comment that if you're if you're
like, if you're an adult who has grown kids, you can bring those
kids to my show and you're both gonna have fun. If you're like a
grown kid and you want to bring your 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 can enjoy the show. And if I didn't
tell you I was clean, you probably wouldn't even know it. Yeah,
that's kind of how I felt about it, because I've watched a lot of
stuff. It's like, I kind of thinking back, It's like, man,
this dude doesn't really cuss, And I was curious what was the impetus
of that? Was that just kind of a natural thing that you wanted to
do. Was it by design or were you maybe influenced by guys like Brian
Reagan or Jim Gaffigan or some of the 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
know, it just seems over the top. It's just like, this is
my theory is that at some point, you know, comedy was clean.
This is my theory. I don't know if this is true. You're right,
you just weren't like allowed to say certain things. And then all of
a sudden, a couple of people came out and they started saying the things
you weren't allowed to say, and it was real edgy. Everybody was like,
ooh, this is cool, this is edgy. But now we've got
to a place where it's like you've said, everybody said everything. There's nothing
new to be said. It's comedy is so like so dirty that I feel
like raining it in being a little more clean, a little more creative,
is the new way. Do you do you like golf? I'm not a
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 alone a little bit. And that's that's about
it. Who would be your celebrity head coach of your favorite college football team?
Like a celebrity or an actual coach? Like any Yeah, any celebrity.
Yeah, I guess some of them are. Oh Man, Robert v
I know I've already said him, but yeah, I mean Robert Davault,
Gene Hackman. I mean, come on the replacement? Yeah? Oh hell
yeah, me a Dinzel Washington, you know throw uh remember the Titans.
I'll take it. Don Johnson maybe no, Don Johnson, Yeah, I
don't know. He would be way down on the list. Kevin, our
friend here, is obsessed with celebrities. That's why keeps bringing him up.
Do you want to just do your impression Kevin for him? Go ahead,
Kevin. He brings up Days of Thunder to every guest we've ever had on
the show because he does a terrible Robert Duvall impression. But he'd like one
line, he'd like, it's only one line, but he'd like to do
it from you. Is that okay, Dusty, I'd love to hear it.
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 think that's great? I love that you
know the scenes, say that, Dusty, Dusty, you know what happened
to the Texas Theater the place you're going to be performing out here pretty soon.
Yeah, this is where where James Earl Ray that's the guy on the
right track. That'd be Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey. I knew that there
was two guys that assassinated Martin Luther King and JFK. And they both had
three names. Yep, we're back in the sixties, as Dallas sites would
say. That's where they rested that fellow that killed that Kennedy boy. Oh
yeah, yeah, I could hear that. Yeah, Dusty, thanks for
the time. Hope you enjoy your time 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,
Dusty sleigh bump bum. I could have talk to him about the whole
clean comic angle for a few more questions. 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
jokes for the Texas Theater performing used Mike wants him to come in and do
their act to them. I mean I talked too though. Look, that's
why podcast funny kind of thankfully we had the wild comedy impressions of Kevin Turner.
Yeah, to bring a little mirth to the view. You were the
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 take the foot off the gas a little bit
to save fuel when looking I was off in the first quarter like that,
and Mark Followell starts shouting out all the affiliates to other ABC channels at your
carry of the game and shouting out where 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 outs all across Texas. It's such a good
bit. I don't think they want him to do that. Maybe that's a
part of the deal if you're going to 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 friends and he does this thing he always does
when Luca's about to go off. But when the Luca first quarter heat check
is just so fun and there's a play. I took a video of it
where it was that they were playing handball when he threw it and Derek Jones
Junior saved it from going out of bounds on the baseline, threw it back
out the half court. Luca has to keep both beat in so it's not
a backcourt violation. Throws it over to Kyrie. Then Luca cuts to the
basket. Kyrie hits him on the give and go. I was like,
they just created a new sport on the fly. God, they're fun and
Charlotte's sucks. Yeah, but last year Charlotte sucked and they beat us.
What back to back games they killed us. Yeah, and this year we
still handled up on them nice to ensure right that they are not in the
play in Then with the Sun's loss last night, didn't that lock them into
Yes, okay, into the top six? Yes, we're good. They're
either gonna be five or five or six. Do you do you, guys?
Okay? When you when you watch a team that uh that has players
that have either played with you in the previous season or guys that you traded
at the deadline, it was weird to see uh Grant Williams and uh Davis
Bretons, do you ever wonder and they 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 the Mavericks trade somebody and send them to just
like a really great team and you play them, you always play them in
their link. Oh, they're gonna be lucky to get twenty wins this year.
Do you ever feel bad for them or wonder what they're doing? Wonder
what they're thinking? When when Grant Williams is out there getting you know,
housed by thirty and just trying and Burton's is trying to dunk and make threes,
just knowing how this this damn date's gonna 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 getting fifteen rebounds, and Luca and Kyrie are
BFFs. Are they looking over there just going, oh my god, where
am I? I used to be on 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 Williams when you watch him try to do something
offensively and then you see PJ. Washington who had a off night last night.
He was off, but when you just 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 guy can 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 that was a that was big. They wiped
him away and Luca just nuts. Yeah, it seems like they've gotten over
that little that that scary dynamic which was 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 can sleep walk through and the end up getting
bit that I don't think that's gonna happen with this team. It's starting to
make me insane that Lucas probably not gonna win the MVP. We may do
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 at this point. I think he's done enough.
Yeah, but now that they're continuing to move up their seed in the
West, Yeah, it's making me nuts. All right. Morning News,
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