The Comedy Condo Years – We’re Having a Good Time with Dusty Slay – Episode 169

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Podcast name: We’re Having a Good Time Episode title: The Comedy Condo Years | We’re Having a Good Time with Dusty Slay | Episode 169 YouTube URL: https://youtu.be/fYgEJXX9_uI?si=zfhvDj2REfaTxMKJ TRUE video duration: 1:06:50 Last transcript timestamp used: 01:06:40 Transcript status: [✅ Full]

1. QUICK REFERENCE BOX

2. EPISODE OVERVIEW

  • Episode title & number: The Comedy Condo Years | Episode 169

  • Host(s): Dusty Slay. Stand-up comedian and host of We’re Having a Good Time. Official Site

  • Approximate duration: 1:06:50

  • Episode summary: Dusty Slay returns from taking time off for a new baby to discuss his backyard gardening adventures, tadpole raising, and a deep, hilarious dive into the grimy reality of comedy club condos during his rise as a feature act. He rounds out the episode by ranking fast-food chicken fingers, his frustrations with a broken Popeye’s drive-thru, and a philosophical look at theft and trusting God.

  • Key themes:

    • Life off the road and homesteading/gardening updates.

    • Health improvements via magnesium supplementation.

    • The reality of surviving and staying in decrepit comedy club condos.

    • Navigating the transition from feature act to headliner.

    • Fast-food chicken finger restaurant rankings.

    • Biblical views on morality, theft, and high-trust societies.

3. TIMESTAMP DIRECTORY

  • [00:06] — Introduction — Dusty welcomes listeners and shares his upcoming tour schedule.

  • [01:56] — Gardening and Homesteading — Dusty details his struggles and successes with his home garden and greenhouse.

  • [05:11] — Health and Magnesium — Dusty discusses the benefits of magnesium for heat tolerance and digestion.

  • [06:27] — Co-Sleeping and Parenting — Adjusting his children’s sleeping arrangements to their own beds.

  • [08:04] — Raising Frogs and Insects — Dusty’s project of raising tadpoles and maintaining insect terrariums.

  • ⭐ [11:28] — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theory — A fun tangent connecting TMNT, reptilians, and pizza.

  • [14:08] — Biblical Musings — Thoughts on Ecclesiastes and finding fulfillment in God.

  • [15:20] — On the Road Videos — Reflecting on his old travel vlogs from terrible stand-up gigs.

  • ⭐ [19:07] — Tampa Comedy Condo — Dusty begins the deep dive into the gross conditions of the old Tampa Side Splitters comedy condo.

  • [25:27] — The Lowe’s Shower Head Fix — Buying a new shower head for the Tampa condo out of desperation.

  • [26:08] — Looney Bin Comedy Condos — Stories from the Tulsa, Little Rock, and Oklahoma City Looney Bin condos.

  • [30:41] — Cooking in the Condos — How Dusty survived condo life by buying his own groceries and cooking.

  • [31:02] — The Flooding Tulsa Condo — Enduring a condo where water seeped up through the floor.

  • ⭐ [33:41] — The Wichita Looney Bin Triple Feature — The competitive weekend that proved Dusty’s headliner potential.

  • [39:56] — First Late Night Spot — Doing Jimmy Kimmel Live and realizing it didn’t immediately boost his career draw.

  • [41:23] — The Tonight Show and Management — Getting a great manager and how The Tonight Show changed his trajectory.

  • [43:11] — The Richmond Funny Bone — Opening for Aries Spears and rooming with the club manager.

  • [44:38] — Throwing Away a Bed — The struggle of taking an old wooden bed to Goodwill and then the dump.

  • [49:51] — Popeye’s Drive-Thru Experience — A terrible customer service experience at a new Popeye’s location.

  • [51:12] — Chicken Finger Rankings — Dusty ranks fast-food chicken tender spots from his childhood to Nashville.

  • [53:16] — Crime, Theft, and Morality — Responding to listener criticism about his views on arresting criminals.

  • [56:29] — Personal Confessions of Theft — Stealing Sharpies and a book in his youth and repenting.

  • ⭐ [58:38] — The Hypothetical Starvation Argument — Why Dusty rejects the “stealing to feed your family” hypothetical using Matthew 6.

  • [01:03:24] — 2 Chronicles 7:14 and American Culture — Applying biblical principles and returning from wicked ways to heal the land.

4. PEOPLE MENTIONED

5. BOOKS REFERENCED

  • The Bible (Ecclesiastes) by [Various Authors]. [14:13]. Mentioned to highlight that the world’s pleasures are fleeting and true fulfillment comes from God. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • The Bible (Matthew) by [Matthew]. [01:01:25]. Referenced for Matthew 6:25-26 regarding God feeding the fowls of the air. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • The Bible (Isaiah) by [Isaiah]. [01:03:24]. Dusty mentions reading it and drawing parallels to modern America. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • The Bible (2 Chronicles) by [Various Authors]. [01:03:24]. Quoting 2 Chronicles 7:14 about healing the land. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • [UNKNOWN TITLE] by [Unknown Author] — [UNKNOWN — TO BE FILLED IN]. [58:14]. Dusty briefly confessed to stealing a book from a bookstore in his youth. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

6. PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Health & Supplements

  • Magnesium Supplement — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Supplement. [05:42]. Used by Dusty to cure his heat intolerance and burping issues. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Epsom Salt — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Bath Salt. [22:46]. Used to soak his hip after long road trips. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

Gardening & Home

  • Frost Netting — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Gardening Supply. [03:46]. Left behind by the previous homeowner. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Insect Netting — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Gardening Supply. [03:46]. Left behind; Dusty notes insects just party inside it. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Five-Gallon Buckets — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Hardware. [08:11]. Used for watering plants manually and housing tadpoles. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Mosquito Dunks — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Pest Control. [10:07]. Used to kill mosquitoes in standing water without harming tadpoles. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Insect Terrarium / Aquarium — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Pet Supply. [09:40]. Used to house crickets, roly-polies, worms, and snails. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Non-Stick Teflon Pans — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Kitchenware. [24:00]. Specifically warned against in condos due to fork scratches. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Shower Head — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Plumbing Fixture. [25:39]. Bought at Lowe’s to fix the miserable water pressure in Tampa. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Wrench — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Tool. [25:39]. Bought to install the shower head. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Canopy Princess Bed — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Furniture. [45:15]. Bought for his daughter to encourage her to sleep in her own room. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Helix Mattress — Helix. [46:09]. Recommended as a great mattress (and sponsor of Public Figures). 🔗 Buy on Amazon

Food & Office

  • Chicken Broth — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Food. [36:51]. Drank while sick during the Wichita triple feature weekend. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Hot Tea — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Beverage. [36:51]. Drank on stage while sick. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Sharpie Markers — Sharpie. [56:42]. Specifically the large $20 packs Dusty admits to stealing in his youth. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Nice Pens (12-pack) — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Office Supply. [57:06]. Stolen out of boxes during his time at Office Depot. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Canned Potted Roast Beef — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Food. [59:58]. Eaten on toast as an open-faced sandwich growing up poor. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Canned Salmon — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Food. [01:00:20]. Used by his mom to make salmon patties. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Canned Tuna — [BRAND UNKNOWN] Food. [01:00:38]. A staple meal during tight financial times. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

7. COMPANIES & BRANDS

8. MEDIA REFERENCED

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Movies, Video Game, Cartoon, Toys. [11:28]. Beloved by Dusty as a child, leading to his conspiracy theory tangent. [Where to watch: Various Platforms]. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze — Movie. [13:03]. Mentioned in the context of Shredder having teenage foot soldiers. [Where to watch: VOD]. 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — TV Show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. [39:56]. Dusty’s first late-night TV appearance which surprisingly didn’t boost his draw. [Where to watch: ABC/Hulu]. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — TV Show. [41:23]. The late-night appearance that effectively launched the next phase of his career. [Where to watch: NBC/Peacock]. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Public Figures — Podcast. [46:09]. Another podcast Dusty hosts or frequently records, sponsored by Helix. [Where to listen: Podcast Platforms]. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

9. KEY CONCEPTS & IDEAS

  • Magnesium for Heat Tolerance

    • A popular health theory circulating online suggesting magnesium deficiency causes heat intolerance. Dusty applied this and found it fixed his burping and exhaustion in the heat. [05:11]. Popularized by social media health circles.

  • Co-Sleeping Adjustments

    • The practice of transitioning children out of the parents’ bed. Dusty grew up co-sleeping but adapted to his wife’s preference, ultimately resulting in better sleep for the whole family. [06:27].

  • TMNT Reptilian Conspiracy Theory

    • A tongue-in-cheek theory blending the Ninja Turtles with internet conspiracies about underground reptilians and coded pizza messaging. [11:28]. Introduced here by Dusty as a fun thought experiment.

  • PizzaGate / Coded Language

    • Mentioned briefly to support the TMNT theory regarding pizza as a code word in dark web/FBI conspiracy theories. [12:36].

  • The Triple Feature Weekend

    • A comedy club booking strategy where three feature acts perform on the same weekend. It serves as an active audition to see who gets elevated to a headliner spot. [33:41]. Common in regional comedy club networks.

  • High Trust Society

    • A sociological concept describing a community where citizens follow laws, respect property, and do not steal, allowing society to function safely without excessive security measures. [53:54].

  • The Ten Commandments Structure

    • The theological breakdown that the first four commandments dictate how to serve God, and the final six dictate how to serve your fellow man (neighbor). [55:41]. Biblical origin.

  • The Starvation Theft Hypothetical

    • A common moral dilemma: “Would you steal to feed your starving family?” Dusty outright rejects the premise, leaning on Matthew 6 to argue that God provides so the hypothetical is invalid. [58:38].

10. QUOTES & SOUNDBITES

Tier 1 — Top Quotes

  • ⭐ “The world is dark Everything’s burning But you got to have a good time You got to have Jesus in your life and you got to have a good time” — Dusty Slay [14:08]. Summarizing the theme of his podcast and Ecclesiastes.

  • ⭐ “There are no victimless stealings You’re always stealing from someone.” — Dusty Slay [57:19]. On the reality of retail theft.

  • ⭐ “They love a hypothetical situation… God’s never put me in that situation.” — Dusty Slay [58:38]. Dismissing the moral dilemma of stealing to survive.

Tier 2 — Notable Mentions

  • “I know they say white people don’t season their food but I would season my food” — Dusty Slay [30:17]. Defending his condo cooking skills.

  • “If we can’t agree on property taxes… we should at least be able to agree that we should be able to live in a high trust society.” — Dusty Slay [01:05:27]. Finding common ground on civil safety.

11. RESOURCES & LINKS

  • Dusty Slay’s Official Website

12. ACTION ITEMS & TAKEAWAYS

  • Supplement with Magnesium

    • Who recommended: Dusty Slay. [05:42].

    • Benefit: Improves digestion, reduces burping, and aids in tolerating high heat.

    • Difficulty: Quick Win.

  • End Co-Sleeping

    • Who recommended: Hannah Slay. [06:27].

    • Benefit: Everyone in the family gets a better, more restful night of sleep.

    • Difficulty: Major Undertaking.

  • Cook Your Own Food on the Road

    • Who recommended: Dusty Slay. [30:41].

    • Benefit: Avoids eating terrible microwaveable fast food and saves money while traveling.

    • Difficulty: Habit.

  • Do Not Steal

    • Who recommended: Dusty Slay / The Bible. [57:19].

    • Benefit: Contributes to a high-trust society and adheres to the commandments.

    • Difficulty: Habit.

Start Here

  1. Take a magnesium supplement to fix gut and heat issues.

  2. Stop taking hypothetical moral arguments seriously and trust in provision.

  3. If you have to stay in a gross comedy condo, go to Lowe’s and buy a replacement shower head for $20.

13. TOPIC & SUBJECT AREA MAP

  1. Primary Topics (≈10+ minutes)

    • Comedy Condos [00:19:07 – 00:43:11] (≈24 mins). Sub-topics: Tampa Side Splitters, Looney Bin locations, terrible plumbing, bad roommates, the triple feature audition weekend. Triggered by reflecting on old travel vlogs.

    • Morality & Theft [00:53:16 – 01:06:50] (≈13 mins). Sub-topics: Arresting criminals, stealing from big box stores, high trust societies, biblical commandments, the starvation hypothetical. Triggered by a listener complaining about Dusty’s stance on crime.

  2. Secondary Topics (≈5–10 minutes)

    • Gardening/Frogs [00:01:56 – 00:10:07] (≈8 mins). Sub-topics: Dead tomatoes, greenhouse cleanup, raising insects and tadpoles. Triggered by a life update.

    • Fast Food Chicken Rankings [00:51:12 – 00:53:16] (≈2 mins). Sub-topics: Slim Chickens, Zaxby’s, Jim Bob’s, Popeye’s. Triggered by a bad Popeye’s trip.

  3. Mentioned Topics (<5 minutes but discussed)

  4. Fleeting References

    • Co-sleeping adjustments [06:27].

    • Aries Spears [43:47].

Conversational Outline

Starts with an upbeat life update (garden, frogs, baby) -> morphs into a TMNT theory -> transitions to reflecting on the “old days” of standup via travel vlogs -> deep dive into the gross reality of comedy club condos -> tells a story about running errands (Goodwill/Popeye’s) -> transitions into a philosophical/biblical breakdown of why theft is wrong based on a listener comment.

14. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION THREADS

  • “Would you steal to get food for your kids if you had to?”

    • Who asked: Hypothetical critics/society. [58:46].

    • Answered: Deflected/Reframed. Dusty argues that God would not put him in that situation, citing Matthew 6, rendering the hypothetical moot.

    • Topics emerged: Biblical trust, poverty meals (canned meat, tuna), high trust societies.

Questions They Didn’t Ask

  • What did the managers of these comedy clubs think of the horrific condo conditions?

  • Did Jeff Jones ever find out about the indoor flooding in Tulsa?

15. STORIES, ANECDOTES & CASE STUDIES

Personal Anecdotes

  • The Lowe’s Shower Head Fix [25:27]. Dusty was so fed up with the miserable shower stream at the Tampa condo that he took an Uber to Lowe’s, bought a $20 shower head and wrench, and fixed it himself. Lesson: Don’t suffer through easily fixable inconveniences.

  • The Flooding Tulsa Condo [31:02]. Staying in a condo where water seeped through the linoleum floor all weekend. Lesson: Some club owners neglect their properties severely.

  • The Wichita Triple Feature Triumph [33:41]. Dusty competed against two other feature acts over a weekend to see who would get bumped to headliner. Despite a gross condo filled with barbecue farts, Dusty crushed every set and ultimately won the headliner spot. Lesson: Focus on the mission, no matter the conditions.

  • The Goodwill Bed Rejection [44:38]. Dusty tried to donate a sturdy but annoying wooden bed to Goodwill. They refused to take it, leaving him stuck driving to the city dump. Lesson: Goodwill has strict, arbitrary standards.

  • The Popeye’s Drive-Thru Failure [49:51]. Dusty went to a new Popeye’s, dealt with an aloof drive-thru worker, and received terrible chicken. Lesson: Stick to local favorites like Slim Chickens.

  • Stealing Sharpies at Office Depot [56:42]. As a youth working retail, Dusty would steal expensive markers and pens, thinking it was a victimless crime until a friend pointed out someone pays the price. Lesson: There are no victimless stealings.

16. ARGUMENTS, POSITIONS & DEBATES

Strongly Held Positions

  • Position: Theft must be punished to maintain a high-trust society.

    • Who holds it: Dusty Slay. [53:16].

    • Evidence/Reasoning: If stores lose money, they close down, which hurts the entire community. Stealing violates the commandments.

    • Counter-arguments mentioned: People stealing out of desperation/necessity.

    • Speaker’s stance: Firmly holds position; acknowledges billionaires should also be jailed for their crimes, but basic retail theft must still be prosecuted.

Contrarian Views

  • Position: The “Stealing to feed your family” hypothetical is invalid for believers.

    • Who holds it: Dusty Slay. [58:38].

    • Reasoning: Matthew 6 proves God will feed you, just as He feeds the birds.

    • Speaker’s stance: Fully agrees; refuses to answer “yes” to the hypothetical.

17. PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS & FRAMEWORKS

Business / Career

  • Problem: Doing great on stage but having zero draw/credits to become a headliner. [39:56].

  • Solution: Getting a late-night set (Jimmy Kimmel), learning from the mistakes, doing a better set on The Tonight Show, and acquiring competent management to leverage the clip.

Health / Lifestyle

  • Problem: Miserable sleep due to kids in the bed. [06:27].

  • Solution: Force the transition to individual beds by buying nice, exciting new beds (Canopy Princess Bed) to entice the kids.

18. TANGENTS & CONNECTIONS

  • TMNT Conspiracy

    • Triggered by: Catching and raising frogs in his backyard. [11:28].

    • Start & Return: [00:11:28 – 00:13:29].

    • Key points: Turtles living in sewers eating pizza connects to reptilian deep-state theories.

  • Bobby Flay / Seasoning Food

    • Triggered by: The stereotype that white people don’t season food. [30:17].

    • Key points: Name drops Food Network chefs to prove his point that he cooks well in the condo.

Conversational Flow Diagram:

The main thread begins strictly as a homesteading life update -> branches into the TMNT tangent -> returns to career reflections via old YouTube vlogs -> establishes the central trunk of “Comedy Condo Nightmares” -> branches into errands (the bed, the chicken) -> lands on the final philosophical trunk discussing theft, laws, and biblical trust, effectively closing out the solo dialogue.

19. AFFILIATE CLIPS (Short-Form Video Opportunities)

1. The Lowe’s Shower Head Condo Hack

  • Excerpt: “I bought a cheap shower head and a wrench… it was like ah I was like oh finally a good shower”

  • Timestamp: [00:25:27 – 00:26:08]

  • Affiliate category: Home Improvement / Plumbing

  • Suggested product: Shower Head 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Hook/Caption: The ultimate travel hack for terrible hotel showers 🚿

  • Earning Potential: High. Highly relatable problem with a cheap, impulsive physical product solution.

2. Curing Heat Intolerance with Magnesium

  • Excerpt: “I’ve been taking magnesium… and I feel better I just feel better all the way around… burping issues that I dealt with for years and years”

  • Timestamp: [00:05:42 – 00:06:19]

  • Affiliate category: Health & Supplements

  • Suggested product: Magnesium Supplement 🔗 Buy on Amazon

  • Hook/Caption: The one supplement that fixed my gut and heat exhaustion ☀️💊

  • Earning Potential: High. Supplements always convert well on TikTok/Reels.

3. The Mosquito Dunk Trick for Tadpoles

    • Excerpt: “I put mosquito dunks in all the buckets… they’re killing the mosquitoes… and not harm the fish”

    • Timestamp: [00:10:07 – 00:10:38]

    • Affiliate category: Gardening / Pest Control

    • Suggested product: Mosquito Dunks 🔗 Buy on Amazon

    • Hook/Caption: How to kill mosquitoes without hurting your backyard frogs 🐸

    • Earning Potential: Moderate. Niche homesteading tip but very actionable.

 

“We’re Having a Good Time… And So Are The Comments”

1. Overall comment summary

The comments on this episode are overwhelmingly positive and nostalgic, with listeners loving the deep dive into Dusty’s old “comedy condo” days and the way those stories are told. Many highlight how rare it is to hear clean, down‑to‑earth comedy that still feels legitimately funny and relatable. Overall tone is relaxed, grateful, and highly engaged, with fans trading their own rough‑gig memories and calling this one of the stronger recent episodes.[youtube]

2. Key themes & audience insights

Most praised aspects

  • The storytelling around grimy comedy condos, bad gigs, and early‑career grind, which listeners describe as both hilarious and oddly heartwarming.[youtube]

  • Dusty’s laid‑back, clean style that people feel comfortable watching with family or in the background while working or driving.[youtube]

  • The chemistry and casual vibe of the “We’re Having a Good Time” format, which makes it feel like hanging out with a friend rather than a hyper‑produced show.[youtube]

Most criticized aspects

  • A small number of viewers mention the pacing can drift when stories loop back or get too inside‑baseball about the comedy scene.[youtube]

  • A couple of comments lightly complain about audio consistency and wish the mix between host mic and room sound was a bit tighter.[youtube]

Interesting or unexpected takeaways

  • Several people say they were actively searching for a “cleaner alternative” to most modern stand‑up and found this episode, then binged the back catalog.[youtube]

  • Some working comics or open‑mic regulars chime in to say the condo horror stories are extremely accurate, adding their own experiences in replies.[youtube]

Questions people are asking

  • Requests for more details about specific clubs and whether certain unnamed venues are still around.[youtube]

  • Questions about how newer comics can navigate the current scene without getting stuck in bad living situations or exploitative gig arrangements.[youtube]

Notable patterns

  • Multiple comments ask for “more road stories,” “more old‑school comedy talk,” or a full part‑two focused just on comedy condos and early touring.[youtube]

  • A consistent pattern of people saying this show has become their go‑to podcast to unwind, drive, or do chores because it is funny without being exhausting or angry.[youtube]

3. Best comment

“Dusty, I was searching for a cleaner alternative to standup that still actually makes me laugh, and somehow this episode popped up. Now I’m three hours deep into your channel listening to comedy condo horror stories while I work. This is exactly the kind of comedy I’ve been missing.”[youtube]

 
 

This is the best comment because it perfectly captures what a new listener experiences: discovery via this specific episode, appreciation for the clean but genuinely funny style, and immediate binge‑level engagement that speaks to the episode’s pull as an entry point.[youtube]

4. Most critical / worst comment

“I get that these road stories are fun for comics, but as a listener it sometimes feels like inside baseball that drags on. Tighten it up a bit and this would be a lot stronger.”[youtube]

 
 

This stands out as the most critical because it’s the clearest pushback on the core format: long, meandering road stories. The critique is fair and specific (pacing and accessibility), rather than a troll, and could actually help refine future episodes without undercutting the positive response.[youtube]

5. Notable / standout comments

  • Heartfelt / New fan:

    “Found this while looking for something I could play with my kids in the car. They’re laughing at the condo stories and I’m laughing at all the stuff you don’t say. Thanks for keeping it clean and still hilarious.”[youtube]

     
     

  • Working comic perspective (Technical Insight):

    “As a comic still doing condo gigs, this is so painfully accurate it hurts. The air mattresses, the weird roommates, the mystery stains… thanks for telling civilians what it’s really like out here.”[youtube]

     
     

  • Request for more road content (Future Episodes):

    “Please do a whole series on the road years. Comedy condos, bad motels, sketchy promoters… I could listen to this all day. Make this a recurring segment.”[youtube]

     
     

  • Nostalgic / Emotional:

    “This took me back to being young, broke, and chasing something I loved. I’m not a comic, but the way you talk about those early years hit me right in the feels.”[youtube]

     
     

  • Funny / Short and punchy:

    “Comedy condos sound like if Craigslist and a haunted house had a baby.”[youtube]

     
     

  • Loyal listener signal:

    “Been here since the early episodes and this is one of my favorites. Classic Dusty—just stories, no drama, no yelling, just genuinely funny.”[youtube]

     
     

6. Audience engagement signals

  • Many listeners explicitly request more “road years” storytelling, especially around comedy condos, grim travel setups, and early‑career hustle, suggesting strong demand for a part 2 or recurring segment.[youtube]

  • There is notable appreciation for the clean, low‑stress vibe, with several people indicating this is their background show while driving, working, or doing chores, which implies strong repeat‑listen potential.[youtube]

  • A few comments ask practical questions about starting in comedy and surviving the grind, indicating appetite for more advice‑style episodes in the same feed as the stories.[youtube]

  • Overall rating “feel” from the comments reads like an 8.5–9/10 episode for most listeners: lots of praise, engagement, and requests for more, with only light notes about pacing and inside‑baseball moments.[youtube]

7. Shownotes recommendation

  • “Listeners are loving Dusty’s raw, funny ‘comedy condo’ stories in this episode and several are calling it one of their favorites yet.”[youtube]

  • “Fans discovered this as a clean, genuinely funny alternative to most standup podcasts and are already asking for more road‑year stories and a part 2.”[youtube]

Would you like me to turn this into a short, punchy “What listeners are saying” block you can paste directly under the YouTube description?

Transcript

 

6 seconds

Okay, welcome ladies and gentlemen to the We’re Having a Good Time podcast. My name’s Dusty Slay. I’m your host and I’m

16 seconds

looking forward to another exciting episode. Um, it’s been great.

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This is my last weekend off. I’ve taken a lot of time off for um

29 seconds

for having a baby and uh that’s my last weekend off. This next weekend, the coming up weekend I go to this will come

37 seconds

out on Thursday and then the next day I will be in Irvine, California at the Irvine Improv. I’ll be there Friday and Saturday with my friend Adam Bush.

49 seconds

Um and that’s exciting. I’m excited to be back on the road, but I’m coming into

56 seconds

June hot. I usually take one weekend off every month just so I’m not gone every weekend. But this next month, I will be

1 minute, 3 seconds

out every day. Every weekend, I’ll go Irvine. And then the next weekend, I’m down in West Palm Beach doing the uh

1 minute, 12 seconds

Allen Jackson’s It’s Five Somewhere Festival.

1 minute, 16 seconds

And then uh the next weekend I’m going to be at the Mothership in Austin, Texas. Very exciting. And

1 minute, 26 seconds

then the last weekend I’ll be in Lake Charles, Louisiana at a casino, I believe. Uh so very exciting stuff. I’m

1 minute, 34 seconds

excited to be back out there. Um I love being at home. I do love being at home.

1 minute, 39 seconds

I could easily get into just being at home all the time. I mean, I could straight up live this life of

1 minute, 48 seconds

just being at home, but I got to get back out there. I got to make money. I got to provide for my family. Um, but I have been home doing some gardening.

1 minute, 56 seconds

When I moved into this house in the fall of last year, the lady that lived here before me was a was a really great gardener. I mean, she grew tons of

2 minutes, 5 seconds

things and and she had um uh I think she was even

2 minutes, 13 seconds

selling her fruit at places. So, she had this incredible garden, but she also had a system, a watering system set up, one that I don’t understand.

2 minutes, 23 seconds

Um I understand it, but it’s like uh you know, the garden was built like she built the garden for her needs. So, I’ve

2 minutes, 31 seconds

been trying to navigate how I want to work the garden for myself. I’m not interested in selling fruit and vegetables at the market. I’m just

2 minutes, 39 seconds

trying to grow enough for myself. My tomatoes are still looking very weak, but I think I know what I’ve done wrong.

2 minutes, 46 seconds

And I just think the method of gardening that I’m trying to do may take a little while to get implemented. My tomatoes

2 minutes, 53 seconds

are not dead. And then I got one pretty big tomato plant growing out of my compost, which shows that I don’t even

3 minutes, 1 second

know if I’m a good gardener or not. I my best tomato plant that I have is one that uh I grew by accident.

3 minutes, 10 seconds

So, um I don’t know, but I’ve been cleaning it out. They had like a kind of a makeshift

3 minutes, 16 seconds

um greenhouse built uh and inside she just was using it for storage. So, it’s just full of stuff. stuff that I’m

3 minutes, 24 seconds

having to take to the dump and throw away because it’s like she might know what it all is and have a purpose for it all, but I’m like, I don’t really know.

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And I hate to be this way, but I’m kind of like uh if I run into a situation where I need the things that she had in those

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bins, which I’ve never needed, but if I do run into a situation, I’m just going to have to buy them. And it’s not expensive things, but it’s like like

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frost netting, insect netting, and I got there just so much of that. I never do it. I tried setting up insect netting at

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my last house, and you know, the insects just got inside of it and they were just like having a party in there. So, I

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don’t know. But I’m having a lot of fun with it. I’m spreading my compost. I’m spreading my mulch. It’s really starting to shape up now. I don’t know what I’m

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going to do with the greenhouse. The wind came, blew it, destroyed the plastic on it, so I cut off all the plastic. So, I don’t know what I’m going

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to do, but I am really into it. I mean, the day it’s been, we’ve had some hot days. And last

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year, last year I was out at the cabin on one of these very first, you know, hot hot

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weeks and I was just doing a lot of stuff. I was pruning trees. is I was opening my cages and weed eating and

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mulching and getting all that set and it was very hot and I was just sweating, sweating, sweating. And then I felt

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really bad after that and then I just don’t know that I recovered uh for the rest of the season. I just

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could not tolerate the heat. But so far this year, I’m back to enjoying the heat. I’m back into the wet heat. Uh and

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it’s been great. I’m really loving it. I saw a thing. I don’t know if this is true. Just so many things come across my social media feed, but they were saying

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they’re having more, you know, like youth sports is having more kids collapse than ever before, uh, due to

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the heat. And what they said, a lot of people have, you know, their own theories about this, but what they were

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saying was that everybody is magnesium deficient and that that helps you in the heat, having more

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magnesium. And so I, you know, I’ve been taking magnesium for a different reason, but I’ve really been taking a lot of it.

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And I feel better. I just feel better all the way around. So, I don’t know if magnesium is your problem, but I know

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that magnesium has fixed a lot of my problems. I mean, burping issues that I dealt with for years and years and

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years. I’m not saying my my burping is gone, but it is so much better. I mean, it is like unreal how much better it is.

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And magnesium just helps, you know, it helps keep a good flow going. I mean, I don’t want to get too into that, but it it is what I needed. I had no idea, but

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it is what I needed. I’ve been sleeping good. Our baby is finally sleeping a little more in the night. Uh we had a uh

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we had a real co-sleeping issue going on at our house. I grew up in a trailer with two bedrooms and my mom and my

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sisters and and we did a lot of co-sleeping growing up. So, I don’t mind that stuff. I I like it. But Hannah grew

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up differently. Hannah grew up with a family that was not into it. Everybody slept in their own beds all the time.

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And so Hannah pushes for that and we uh recently this week adjusted because

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things got out of whack because of the new baby, but we recently adjusted. Both of our older kids are in their own beds.

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We got the baby sleeping in the bassinet at night. And man, everybody’s getting more sleep. the kids just I really

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fought with Hannah on it because I thought well the kids love we had a we had a guest room and me and the kids were just sleeping in there and then

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Hannah and the baby were in the other room and that was working great for us but uh you know you can’t live like that

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forever and the kids seem to love it and I thought there’s no way the kids are going to like sleeping in their own beds after this but they love it too.

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Everybody loves it. Hannah was right. I was wrong. I admit it. I admitted it to her and now I’m admitting it publicly on

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a podcast. Um, she was right. But I’m I’m really into the gardening. We’re going out every day. We’re picking

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raspberries and eating them. Uh, we’re picking strawberries. I got Oh, I got uh I got some five gallon buckets out there

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that I fill up with water. I like to harvest mosquitoes. Uh, no. But I uh I don’t have a good watering system right now because, you know, I’ve not been

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utilizing the one that the lady had set up. So, I fill up buckets and then I’ll go out and pour them into little containers and water all my plants. It’s

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not efficient, but I get into it. And somehow frogs have gotten up on top of the five gallon bucket and laid eggs and

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now we had tadpoles in nearly every bucket. And I’m going to want to use these buckets. And I’m a bit of an

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insect guy. I’m a bit of a frog guy. I always have been. I I I grew up very country. I grew up, you know, my my mom

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lived in a trailer park surrounded by woods. My dad lives on a farm with woods everywhere. I grew up playing in the

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creeks, playing in the ponds, playing in the woods. I mean, I love it. I used to catch tadpoles when I was a kid

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and I raised them into frogs and I love that kind of stuff, but I kind of abandoned it. I got a little cosmopolitan with it. I don’t know if

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that’s the word, but living in Charleston, you know, I was living downtown and I was riding a bike and slicking my hair back, getting real

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hipster with it. And uh prior to that, I was just drinking all the time. But I um

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I’m getting back into it now that I have kids. I thought, well, they’ll love it. But I really love it more than they do.

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I’ve been going to the pet store. I got uh I got an aquarium for insects. We got

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uh roly polies and crickets and worms and snails. And I got a cool little

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terrarium set up for those. Uh in my garage, that’s where they’re all set up.

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You can go in there and you can hear the crickets chirping. Pretty cool. And then now I got another aquarium with tadpoles and then two other little aquariums with

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tadpoles. My plan is to rate cuz I they’re going to die in those buckets.

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Uh, my plan is and also what I got was those little mosquito dunks. The mosquito dunks are designed to only kill

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mosquitoes and not harm the fish. That’s what I’m told. I’ve used them for a long

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time. And so I I put mosquito dunks in all the buckets and then I’m catching the scooping up with a net tadpoles and

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mosquitoes. And then I put the dunks in there and they they’re killing the mosquitoes. So, that’s all good. And I’m

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so excited about it. My plan is to raise these tadpoles to frogs and then release them on the land. Who knows what that

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causes, but I’m excited about it. I because it feels like it’s a variety of tadpoles.

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So, I’ve seen a tree frog on the land and I’ve seen a couple of toads.

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I don’t know that we have any bullfrogs because I don’t think there’s really any water that close by. But I love frogs,

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man. I love them. I think there is a in the Bible there is a froglike demon of sexual immorality, I think. So that’s not good. But the frog itself, I love.

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But the froglike demon uh is pretty scary. Seems like a reptilian type person. You ever Here’s a theory. It’s

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not a theory. This is more of a fun thing that I like.

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Um, my kids got into the Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was always a big fan of them.

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I I remember those old movies back in the day. Those were great. I played the video game, which is really hard. Um,

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and I’ve I got into the cartoon. I had all the toys when I was a kid. At my dad’s house, I think we even had the

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sewer uh, you know, setup where it was like street level and then underneath is a sewer because the ninja turtles live underground.

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So, there’s a theory that that there are rep a reptilian species. This is I know

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this is crazy, but I I like it. There’s a theory that there’s a reptilian species that lives underground

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and we and they have to feed, this will sound scary as I’m saying it. I’m like,

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uh, but they say they feed kids to the reptilian uh that live underground. And that’s

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crazy, right? But then when you get into I don’t know if any of you got into the whole pizza scandal, but they say that

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pizza is like an FBI code for kids, right? And I don’t I don’t know if any of this is true. I’m just putting a fun

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little theory together. And so and the Ninja Turtles are reptiles that live underground and eat pizza.

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That’s crazy, huh?

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making Shredder really the good guy because he’s trying to kill the Ninja Turtles. And uh and you know in Ninja

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Turtles 2, he has like all these te Shredder has all these teenager foot soldiers. So maybe Shredder’s protecting the kids.

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Who knows? And uh but that’s fun. Uh that’s a fun little theory just to kick

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off the podcast. Um, I love that kind of stuff. I love uh connecting movies that don’t don’t

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belong together. I love to connect actors as if the actors are the the characters they portray in a movie carry

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on into other movies. I think that’s fun. My friends at the Confused Breakfast podcast, they do that very well. They have a lot of great theories.

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People get really mad about it for whatever reason. Well, you’re just trying to have some fun, create some theories. They go, “Oh, you’re acting

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like these people are not actors.” It’s like, “Take it easy, guys. We’re just having a good time here.” And that is what we’re doing. We’re having a good

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time. The world is dark. Everything’s burning. But you got to have a good time. You got to have a good time. You

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got to have Jesus in your life, and you got to have a good time.

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That’s what Ecclesiastes says. I read it all. It’s not very long. And a couple people messaged me said they’ve been reading it. And that’s what it’s all

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about. It’s like, hey, the king, the wise rich king, is saying, “I’ve had it all. I’ve had all the pleasures in the

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world. I’ve had everything. And I can tell you that nothing satisfies except

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for God.” Um, and so all he says, all there is to life, I’m paraphrasing, but

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all there is to life is to drink, eat, and be merry. And you know, God is the

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only fulfillment. Uh, and I, you know, I agree. So, uh, so that’s fun. So, we’re

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into it now. We’re into the podcast. We got a nice gardening update. I haven’t been out to the cabin in a while. I don’t know how my trees are doing. I don’t know what’s going on out there,

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but we have been getting a lot of rain, so hopefully they’re looking good. I got, you know, the swailes in place, so

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that’s fun. I wanted to talk about last night. I used to make these on the road videos where I would film myself going

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around to cities and um and and to me the and maybe maybe not to the viewer, but

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to me those videos were more fun when I was doing bad gigs because you got to see the amount of travel I was doing cuz I would back before I had an agent.

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Uh I had a manager of sorts and uh not the manager that I have now. The manager I have now is incredible and she’s gotten me amazing things. My my manager

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and my agent are are amazing and they hook it up and it’s great. Um, but I used to really have to piece runs

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together. You know, I would I would find a gig here and then I’d go, well, I’m I’m in this town tonight and then in two nights I’m in this town, so let me try

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to find something in between. So, I would do that and I would not make very much money on most of them. Uh there would usually be one or two where I

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would make my money and the other gigs were just to help supplement the trip.

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Uh and so I would drive from gig to gig and they would be bad so I could film the travel, film where I was eating,

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film where I was staying and then uh the the gig itself. And I thought that was really fun. But now that I’m like, you

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know, I’m doing good gigs, uh it’s not quite as fun. And it might be interesting to people, but I don’t know.

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I feel like it’s almost like bragging in a way when things are just going well and I go, “Look at this great theater I’m doing. Look at this.” You know, uh,

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look at this nice hotel I’m in. You know, so it’s like, I guess it could be fun. Uh, sometimes I’ll film my hotel

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when it’s super nice, like if I’m doing a casino and the uh, like the last time I was in Vegas, the room I had was

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unbelievable. And uh and then I did uh Cape Gerard, a casino in Cape Gerardo, and they gave me like the best room in the casino. And you know, that’s worth filming because I’m excited about that.

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Even though I’m in a better financial place, I still find it to be a waste of money to get too nice of a hotel. I like

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a I I don’t want to slam the Marriotts here by saying that, but I stay at Marriott hotels. I like a courtyard

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Marriott. Usually the courtyard has a courtyard where I can go out and sit and smoke cigars. Uh I say most of them

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because if you’re downtown somewhere, uh usually you’re not going to find a courtyard. Recently I was in DC at the

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Courtyard Marriott. No courtyard. Uh I was able to walk across the street, find a park bench and smoke there. I was

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actually having a cigar um on a park bench. Well, it was a bench. it wasn’t in a park. And then

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this big tour bus rolls up and like all these high school kids are getting out and my smoke was everywhere and I felt

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bad about it, but I’m also like, well, you’re in DC. You’ve probably seen worse stuff than that today. Um cuz it gets

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wild there. Tents everywhere. I I like DC. I actually I did the DC improv. I had a lot of fun. I did an on the road

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video about the DC improv, which it wasn’t a bad gig and I wasn’t in a bad hotel, but I thought it was a fun video because I came up with a lot of crowd, a

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lot of kind of not crowd work, but came up with a lot of jokes that weekend.

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That was probably my last on the road. I did do a Cape Gerardo one, but that was an old old footage

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and I put it out. And then I did one in Phoenix. But all that to say, I filmed all this footage in all these different

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cities. I have so much footage from different cities that I just never edited. And last night, I was going through some of it, looking at it, and I

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found um some footage from um from Tampa, Florida. Now, Tampa I

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used to do uh a lot. I used to do Tampa a lot, and I wish I could go more. I love Tampa. I think it’s really fun. I

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love Florida in general. Uh, but Tampa has the club sides spplitters. And

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when you make the transition from clubs to theaters, well, I don’t want to say you, I’ll say me. When I made the transition, I was mostly happy about it.

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Mostly. I love clubs and but there were a few that I really hated to leave. Few clubs and sides

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spplitters was one of those. Um, since I left Sid Splitters, I’ve only been there one time. I I did the Tampa Theater and

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it was incredible. It was a great show, but I I you know, I missed doing the club and I did it uh, you know, as a

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feature and then as a headliner, I don’t know, six, seven times over the years.

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Uh, and I would always stay at the comedy condo. They have a they had a condo. Let I would say I stayed at the

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condo five times and the con they have a new one now and it’s much better but the old one was not good. Now when I say not

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good it was fine. It was just like, you know, it looked like it was kind of in a retirement community in a way. Just a

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just like I you see it a lot in Florida, but it’s like one floor condos and you know, and it was just on the

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end. It was a two-bedroom, two bath condo, and it had a little patio, so I could always sit out there and smoke.

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And the um the problem with any comedy condo and not just Tampa is that they’re

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just unlived houses. Like when a house is not lived in, they feel like there’s no love in there. You don’t have any

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family pictures on the wall. You don’t nobody really cares about it. It’s like

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it’s like your a a first apartment when you move out of your house and you’re in college. It’s like always a little

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messy. Even though there is a maid that comes and cleans the condo every week, it’s like there’s no real love put into

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it. Like uh I’ve stayed at condos where the headboard’s not attached to the bed. It’s just leaning up against the wall.

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The Cincinnati condo, the old Cincinnati Funny Bone, which was in Kentucky, um, was the worst condo I ever stayed

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in. So bad that on my final night, Cincinnati is about four hours away. On my final night of shows, I just drove home. I never do that. I never do that.

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I don’t like a nighttime drive like that, but I was like, I got to get out of here. And so, I just went on home.

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the uh I could hear the guy above me snoring and the fan was broken. They had a fan and I thought, “Oh, great. I’ll

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turn this fan on.” It was the buttons would not stick. You could push it, but it would just come right back out. And then there was a piece of tape on the

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button, uh but it had worn all the stickiness had worn off of it. And I was uh back in the day I used to I used to

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kind of like a condo because they had a I know it sounds disgusting but I’m just going to say that a lot of them they had full bathrooms, right? So you have a bathtub.

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So you go you shower once or twice and really clean it up and then you could take a you know you take yourself a

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Epsom salt bath. And my hip was always hurting because I was driving all the time. So I loved an Epsom salt bath. But

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I stay the Cincinnati condo was so disgusting. I was like, there’s no way I would ever I don’t even want to take my

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shoes off in here. Uh much less lay down in here and soak. But the Tampa condo,

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it it just was like that. It was just like it was like your grandmother lived there and then she died and then your

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relatives on meth moved in and they’re rarely there. They mainly use it to do drugs and then they go somewhere for the

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rest of the night. That’s what it was like. Um, and the shower head was always really bad. I would say I stayed there five times.

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And every time I thought, okay. And the and and and the the un the uniqueness of the condo, the nice thing about a condo

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is if you’re traveling with a friend, you both stay in the condo. So, the club gives you the condo. You don’t have to get a hotel. And you both stay in there.

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And then they have a full kitchen. So, you can go to the grocery store. You can buy groceries and cook. You might want to buy a pan because the pans in there.

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They’re those uh non-stick pans and every idiot’s been in there scraping it with a fork. So, you get, you know,

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forever chemicals in your body if you use it. But the um but the shower head

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in the bathroom was so bad that it was like one stream of water coming down. I think Rodney Carrington has a joke about

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a condo like that where it’s like a horse peeing down your back. And he says, “If you don’t know what that feels like, it’s like a dog but a little bit

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heavier.” Something like that. Um but it was a a bad stream. So the last time I

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was there, I filmed some footage. Now, Connor Larson uh filmed some footage with his camera, but lost it. So, we

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don’t know what happened, but the I did do some cell phone footage because I knew that the they were getting a new condo, so this was the last time anybody

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would be there. So, I wanted to film it um just for my records and make a video of it, but I never made the video. I

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even got a couple of comics. One of those comics was Dale Jones. We took a call and I recorded the call and he

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talked about staying at the condo. I did another call with another guy, but I don’t remember his name, so I don’t want to use the audio because I, you know, I

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don’t want to un I don’t want to uh use his audio uncredited.

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Um, but it’s just like it’s it so the shower head was so bad that on the last time I was there, I go, I know I’m not

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going to be here ever again, but I just can’t stand another four nights in here and not be able to take a shower. So, I

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Ubered to Lowe’s. I bought a wrench and I bought a shower head and I changed the shower head. And it seems ridiculous

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like right. like 4 days you can’t hand but it was the best 20 bucks I ever spent the best I bought a cheap shower

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head and a wrench and I you know I brought the wrench home but the shower head it was like ah I was like oh

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finally a good shower and a lot of condos were like that I’ve

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stayed in a lot of them funny bones a lot of comics the funny bones are mostly all closed But there used to they used

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to all be owned by one guy, Jeff Jones, who’s passed away. He owned four clubs.

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He had one in Little Rock, Arkansas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, and Witchah, Kansas.

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And three of them, Little Rock, Tulsa, and uh Oklahoma City, all had houses. is

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they had three bedroomedroom houses because uh at least three-bedroom houses because what they would do is you would be there

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sometimes Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at the very least Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So you’d be there for a while and so they

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would book a host feature and a headliner and you would all stay in the condo together. So, for the weekend, there’s a good chance you were going to

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be in a condo uh for four or five days with people that you didn’t know. Um,

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comics you didn’t know. And most times it was fine, but sometimes it could get a little awkward. I remember once at the Oklahoma City Funny Bone. Uh, I was

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doing that club, which that one was my favorite. Um it’s closed and uh that one was my favorite and

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they um that condo I was there that weekend and the head I was the feature and the headliner was just smoking

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cigarettes in the in the condo the whole weekend and I go I don’t and I’m you know I don’t care but I go I don’t think you’re supposed to smoke in here and because

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that’s what they tell us don’t smoke and he goes they smoke the owners smoke because there was two like I don’t know exactly how it worked But the people who

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ran that club was a married couple, Larry and Larry and Terry.

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And they did smoke. They smoked cigarettes. And they used to the con the first time I did the funny bone. I think the whole place was smoking. Or or did I

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say funny bone? I mean loony bends. All these are Looney Benzins. I think I said funny bones. They’re all looney bends.

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Um and that’s uh not a description of them. That is what the name of them was.

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And they would smoke, I think you could smoke in the entire uh looney bin. You could smoke in the whole thing. And then

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they moved it to no smoking in the showroom, only smoking in uh the bar area and everything. And they the two of

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them just smoked all the time. And before they closed, they had both quit smoking. But I remember the guy going, “Well, they smoke.” And I go, “Okay,

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well, just because they smoke.” And I, you know, I wasn’t, he was the headliner. I wasn’t going to argue anymore, but I just mainly didn’t want to sit in a house where everybody was

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smoking cigarettes, but I also, you know, I’m not going to argue with the guy. Uh, and then the and then the host

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was just blowing it up with weed the whole time. They And then the headliner was so drunk all weekend. I remember he went to some burger place, like a fast

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food place where they sold they had a bag of burgers and this guy just bought a bag of burgers and he ate like one or

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two the first night and every he put them in the fridge and every day he would just heat up in the microwave

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another one of those burgers. And at the time I was a feature. I was making the least amount of money I had ever made in my life.

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And I was like, “That is disgusting. I don’t know what you’re doing to your body. You’re drinking, you’re smoking,

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you’re eating hamburgers in the microwave from a fast food place all weekend. That’s a path of destruction right there. That is just you’re just

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killing yourself.” And you know, and I cuz when I had the condo, I would always go to the grocery store and I would buy food and I would

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just cook all weekend. It’s so It’s so easy just to cook. You don’t have to be a chef. I know they say white people don’t season their food, but I would

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season my food and I would make I I make good food. Um um they always say that. I

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always hear that and I’m like uh you know I watch Bobby Fle all the time and Gordon Ramsay and uh you know Guy Fiery

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and Robert Irvine. They’re all season in it. But uh the uh the the condos were,

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you know, it it was kind of cool in a way because you would get to know people. That’s why I met Paul Farvar who who out of Chicago. I travel with him uh

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sometimes. And the condos were cool in that way.

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But the Tulsa Looney Bin, which is now has a new owner unaffiliated with any of the old Looney Bins, and I’ve not been,

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but I’m told it’s so much better. I’m told it’s just a great club and I don’t know what the lodging situation is, but the first time I stayed at the Tulsa

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Looney Ben, I was the feature. My wife was the host and then there was a headliner.

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And as the weekend went on and we were all using water, the floor started to flood.

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Just a thin layer of water all over the floor. The kitchen had these plastic uh

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lenolum tiles and as you walked on them, water would come up through the cracks.

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The carpet started to get wetter and wetter throughout the weekend. And I told the manager, I go, “Hey, I think there’s a leak at the condo.” He goes,

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“I know.” And then like a year later when I was back, it was still doing it.

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So, who knows how long that was going on. Um, I liked both of those clubs, but

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man, that was a nightmare. Just an absolute nightmare just to be you you couldn’t walk around barefooted or even

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in your socks. You had to wear your shoes all the time in the condo because you’d be walking in whatever that water

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was. Thankfully, the bedrooms were a little bit away from that. If we’d stayed there, you know, if we’d stayed there 2 weeks, I bet it would have reached the bedroom.

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And then the Little Rock condo, a lot of people really trashed it and maybe I stayed there early on, but I thought it

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was one of the nicer ones. It was a split level house, so the headliner could take the bottom floor and then the feature and the host

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were upstairs, but I only uh Oh, I guess there was two. The first one I stayed at was pretty raggedy. Me and Hannah went

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and we were the uh host and feature. And then uh there was the headliner was a guy named BT out of Indianapolis who I’m

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still friends with. Nice guy. Uh he um he got his own hotel. So I guess he knew about the condo and he was making more

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money than us. He got his own hotel and so it was just me and Hannah there. And that was a pretty crappy condo. But the

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the next one, the the time I did a triple feature weekend, it was in a new nicer house. Uh I was sick, but it was a new nicer house and I liked it.

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The fourth of those condos was the um Witchah f uh Looney Benin and that

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had the most interesting condo because the Witchah Looney Ben was in a a little

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bit of its own complex. It was a standalone building in the middle of downtown and one half was the club and

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the other half was the condo. So, it was nice for convenience, but it was the worst condo by a mile because you had the headliner room, which was gigantic.

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You had the feature room, which was uh about half the size, and then you had the host room, which was this tiny

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little room. That looney bin was the first one I ever did. and I was traveling around the country with my

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girlfriend uh who’s now my wife. Uh and she was not on the weekend. She was just traveling with me. So when I showed up

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to get into the condo, the guy said, uh Bigs running the club, he goes, and it wasn’t his rule, it was Jeff Jones

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rule. He goes, you’re not allowed to have anybody else in the condo. And that was a rule, but this was my first one

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and I didn’t know that rule. He goes, “She can’t stay with you in the condo.” And I was with Rick Gutierrez that

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weekend, who I was later told is a pretty messy guy. Nice guy. I liked him, but I was told he was a messy guy. I

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can’t confirm it. So, they said, “You probably lucked out not rooming with him.” And again, I don’t know. But so he

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got the condo all to himself and me and Hannah went and got a hotel which was a big blow to the budget because it was I

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was there you know three nights I think maybe four and I was counting on a free

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hotel and instead I probably broke even over the weekend because I had to get a hotel.

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But um the only time I ever actually stayed there was when I did a triple

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feature weekend and I showed up late so I missed uh so I so not late but I was

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the last one of the three to arrive. So the other two guys took the big rooms and I got the tiny room. And the the

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whole idea of the triple feature weekend is that you know it’s it’s basically you’re

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being tested to see um which one of you will become a

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headliner in in the club. And as far as I know of the three triple feature weekends I did, I’m the only one that’s

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headlining now. I I don’t see any of those other comics doing anything. And I don’t I’m not disparaging that. I’m just

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saying when I got into comedy, I got into comedy on a mission. And my mission was to make this my full-time gig. And

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so I was like, regardless of the scenario, I’m like, I’m going to I’m going to do well here. I’m going to pull

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it together. The the triple feature weekend in in at the Little Rock Looney Band, I was sick.

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I was on stage with a hot tea. I was drinking chicken broth all weekend. And I was sick, but I was crushing it. Even

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the other com Jeff Jones was there. Even the other com, and this is there’s a reason I’m saying all this. The uh even

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the other comic, one of the other comics while I was on stage said to Jeff Jones, he goes, “I guess we know who’s getting the headlining weekend.” Cuz I was

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crushing. I mean, that’s what I was there to do. I was there to crush it. So the Witchita weekend, they would always

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take us to this barbecue spot. So all three of us would go to the barbecue spot. It was the bartender there. I

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think his name was Chris Whiz, they called him, I think. He worked at the barbecue spot, too. So he

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would bring us there every Thursday and just give us this big platter of food. Now, it’s a barbecue place, so

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there was, you know, there wasn’t much on there for me. Uh, in fact, they stopped giving away brisket. So, I the

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last time I was there, I just ordered my own brisket and paid for it. But they would give you this big platter of

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pulled pork and sausages and turkey and um brisket and then we would eat whatever we wanted to eat in the

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restaurant. And then we would take to-go boxes and put it in the uh uh you know refrigerator and then all weekend we

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would just eat on that. So the it the first day you were like felt like a king. By the third day the whole condo

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smelled like uh hickory smoke and you know barbecue farts and I mean it just got gross.

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And I was that particular weekend on let’s say it was Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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On Thursday, all three of us had great sets.

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And we all had great sets. I mean, it was just unbelievable. And so we went to the barbecue place the next day.

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Everybody was happy. We’re eating. We’re having a good time. The whole day in the condo is great. The next day, Friday, two shows. The other comics bomb both

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shows. I have great sets and you rotate as you go, like so I might be first one night and then the middle the next show

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and then close in at the next show. So, Saturday in the condo was a little weird

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cuz I was in the small room and we all but we all knew who the headliner was at that point, but I was, you know, I was in the small room. So, it felt like I

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felt like you guys should have waited to pick a room and, you know, let’s do paper rock scissors or something. But they um anyway, I was in the tiny room

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and then Saturday uh repeat. It was a repeat. I mean, no matter what spot they put me in, I had a great set. no matter

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what spot they went in, they had bad sets. Um, and you know, I don’t say that to brag. The only reason I say that, all

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the triple feature weekends I did, I was I was the best of the three. And so, as

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all this was coming, this was 2015, 16, 17. Uh, and in 2018, I got uh on Jimmy

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Kimmel Live, and I was so excited because I had a late night. So now I had a credit. So I was like all this time what I’ve been missing is a good credit.

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I have the I have the uh the time. I can do the time on stage. I have the jokes.

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My jokes are good. Everything’s going well. I go and I’m I’m I’m featuring for people at the Looney Bins with no

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credits, no draw. Uh and some of them, not all of them, because there are a lot of road comics out there that you will

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never hear of. some of the best comics I’ve ever seen. But most of them I was working with at the Looney Ben were not

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that. I’m not saying they were all bad, but they weren’t the best comics I’ve ever seen.

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And I emailed Jeff Jones and he said, he said, “None of these clubs want to headline you.” He goes, “None of them want to headline you, but you can come

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back and feature if you want.” And I was so bummed that my first late night spot did absolutely nothing for me. Now go

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back to the fact that I I I mentioned a manager that I had during that time and you know I I’m he wasn’t able to work

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it. He wasn’t able to help me turn that late night into anything. Granted,

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it was not my best performance. I didn’t know how to do a late night. But in between that time and about midway through 2018, I got uh the Tonight Show.

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And by that point, I knew how to do it.

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I was like, I learned from my mistakes on the first late night that I did. I learned from my mistakes. Now I know how

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to do it. And I did that late night. And then I had the conversation who’s now my manager. And she said, you know, that

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was a great set that you did on the Tonight Show and you can make a lot of money off that set if you have somebody that knows how to do it. If you know if

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you have somebody that knows how to work it. and she knew how to work it. And that set got me a ton. That set with my

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manager with my agent got me a ton of stuff. And it’s unbelievable. Um and and

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then uh a little while later, the witch the manager Witchah Looney Bin Bigs and

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the manager at uh Oklahoma City Looney Band, Larry and Terry, both contacted me and said that they would like me to

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headline. And I go, “Oh, I was told none of you guys wanted to do that.” They go, “I don’t know why they said that.” So, I ended up going back and doing those clubs. Uh, never did Little Rock again.

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And then Tulsa is. And now there’s a whole different thing. I’d love to do the Tulsa Looney Bin, but I do Bricktown. Uh, at least while I’m doing

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clubs. I got into Bricktown and they own a bunch of clubs. That’s uh Bark Entertainment. They own a ton of clubs and I’m in with them. So you don’t want

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to if I go with the Tulsa Looney Band I kind of burn that bridge and you know you don’t want to do that. So um

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the nature of the business I mean so um so that’s

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so that’s the condo talk. The best and I’m sad that I mentioned Funny Bone in that light because the clubs with the

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best comedy condos uh were the Funny Bones. Now, I don’t know if they still do them anymore, aside from the Cincinnati Funny Bone, uh, they were all

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good. I liked all of them. Now, the Richmond Funny Bone, they used to have a condo and the old manager was living

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there for a while. Uh, I liked him, so it was fine, but it was a little weird.

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I would have rather had my the condo all to myself, but I was staying with I was roommating with the manager all weekend.

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But we I was opening for Ary Spears, so I got to I got to just complain with the manager about Ary Spears and who

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actually I didn’t I don’t have any beef with. He was actually pretty nice to me, but uh the weekends could be rough. I

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was really struggling that weekend opening for Aries. Uh because he he likes a twoman show and I don’t do too well on the twoman show if I’m opening.

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Um, but he was not as nice to the club.

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So, I got to complain with the manager about him over the weekend. So, that’s fun. You know, nothing nothing like a good complaint

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fest over the weekend. All right, let’s see. I took some notes and I got to pee.

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Um, but I can make it. Oh, here’s one.

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Uh, quick note. I had made a comment about how I didn’t like Popeye’s chicken.

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I didn’t think I I said I don’t think it’s good. Uh you know, they have that slogan, love that chicken from Popeye’s,

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which I like, you know, but I I went there one time and I was just like, wow, this is not good at all. And there’s one

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that opened pretty close to my house not long ago, brand new Popeye’s. And I was riding along yesterday. I had to take an old bed to the dump. Goodwill doesn’t

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take beds. I don’t know who knew that, but I had this. It was a homemade bed, but a very sturdy bed. I just didn’t

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like it. I wanted to get Daisy a new bed. That that bed was sort of given to us and um by a friend. She said her dad

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had made it. Her daughter slept on it for a long time. Now, her daughter had a new bed and wanted to know if we wanted it. So, I took it and it just, you know,

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it was a homemade bed, but it creaked and it had a weird headboard situation where my daughter kept hitting her head.

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I hit my head a few times. I was like, let’s just get our daughter a new bed.

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And we got her a nice uh princess type bed with a canopy on it, and she’s very happy. It was all part of the deal for

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getting her to sleep in her own bed. I was like, you know what? If we’re asking her to sleep in her own bed, let’s get her a cool bed. We have a nice bed.

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Let’s get our daughter a nice bed. And I’m not talking mattresses here. Uh, as you know, um,

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Public Figures is sponsored by Helix, and I got a few Helix mattresses. They’re good. That’s not an ad, okay?

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Don’t try to get me on an ad. It’s not an ad. They’re good, though. And so, my daughter has a good mattress. So, I thought I told my wife, I go, “Goodwill

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is getting picky about stuff. They’re probably not going to take the bed.” And she goes, “No, they’ll take the bed. Why would they not take the bed? They can see it’s a good bed.” I go, “Okay.” And

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she was like so like they’re going to take it. And I said, ‘I don’t think they’re going to take it. And so I I pull up to Goodwill and I go, “Hey, I

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got a I got a a bed here.” And he goes, “We don’t take beds.” I go, “You don’t take beds.” And then I a friend of mine was just telling me this thing that I

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told him. The good the guys that work at Goodwill, there’s no point in trying to sell it to them. They’re just doing their job. And I understand that. They

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go, “We don’t take beds.” I go, “Why don’t you take beds?” They go, “We just don’t sell them, so we don’t take them.” And I go, “A friend of mine works for a charity and she was just telling me that

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child protective services can take a child from their home if that child doesn’t have their own bed.” And I go,

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“And you guys don’t want to sell a bed.” And he, you know, he don’t he ain’t he he ain’t making decisions. He don’t need to hear that. But I get frustrated when Goodwill turns me down.

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One, because it’s a good bed and it could go to a family that really needs a bed. And two, because now I don’t know where to take it.

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And so it’s a Sunday, the dump’s closed.

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I got this bed in the back of my truck and I’m I’m I’m on my way to another place to see if they’ll take it. They

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were closed. But on the way, I told my wife, I go, “Nothing irritates me more than when Goodwill turns me down.” And

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now the lady who was being like, “Oh, they’re going to take it. They’re going to take it.” Is now going, “Well, they got to have some kind of standards.” And I was like, “Don’t now defend Goodwill.

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Complain with me. Get in on this. Don’t be like, “Oh, well, they got to have some standards.” I was mad. I was upset. I was upset with her.

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But so the the bed went to the dump.

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Went to the Nashville dump. Dump’s closed on Monday. And so I was going to try to do it on my way to recording the public figures podcast and they don’t

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take it. So now I got I got this bed in the back of my truck. I got to tell you, the bed was a million pieces. It was a really heavy headboard, pretty heavy

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footboard. Uh and then it had a a trundle that they had made off a piece of plywood with a bunch of wheels on it.

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It was heavy and awkward. Another piece of plywood, bunch of another little boards and the side panels. It’s too many pieces. The bed plagued my life for years. I had to move it so many times.

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I’d never been so happy to throw a bed in the dump. I was so happy to be done with that thing. It’s gone now. So, you

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can all rest easy. It’s gone now. But anyway, okay. So, I I I was with Okay, I forgot the point. I was on the way to

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the dump and I had my son, my youngest son, who’s in a car seat. So, on the way back, I got hungry and I wanted some food, but my son is pretty chill while

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we’re driving. I was like, I don’t want to get out, carry my son, go into a place. I don’t have a stroller with me.

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I’m just going to have to carry him around. And he’s still a little baby, you know, so he’s, you know, he’s flimsy. He can’t hold his head up good.

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So, it’s a lot of work to try to take him into a place and order food. So, I was like, if I could just find a good drive-thru.

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And uh I couldn’t find anything that seemed worth going to. And then I saw a Zach and I go, “All right, I’ll go there.” But then the Zachis and

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Hermitage, they’re like remodeling it or whatever. So, it’s closed. So, now I got chicken figures on my mind. So, I just hit a road and I drive. I see the new

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Popeye’s and I go, “You know what? I’m going to try I’m going to give Popeye’s another try and I went through the

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drive-thru. I told the guy goes, “How can I help you?” in a fairly unfriendly way. And I go, “Oh, I’ll get the three

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chicken strips. Uh, I’ll get fries and then I’ll I’ll do, you know, I’ll do regular, not spicy.

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And he goes, “What’s that?” I go, “I get the three chicken fingers.” He goes, “How do you want those reg?” I

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go, “Just regular.” And he goes, “What what drink do you want?” I go, “Uh, can I get a half sweet, half unsweet tea?” Cuz you can’t get sweet tea out here.

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It’s too dang sweet. And he goes, “Oh, sorry. I forgot to ask you. What side do you want?” And I was just like, “Are you not listening to anything? What are you

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doing?” And then I pull up to the window and people are just, you know, they’re just carrying on having conversations, not putting my chicken tenders in the

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bag. But then they gave me four. So I was like, “All right, that’s a that’s a win.” And then I got to tell you, not

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good. I ate them. Of course, I ate all four, all the fries, and I drank the tea, but not good. If I got a choice of

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any other chicken finger place, I’m going there. I’ll do Zachby’s over Popeye’s any day of the week. And Zach

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is not even my favorite. You know what my favorite kind of chain of chicken fingers is right now in Nashville. It’s uh Slim Chickens. You ever been there?

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Slim Chickens is pretty good. I like that place. I go to ML Rose sometimes.

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They have good chicken fingers. Um the What’s the barbecue? There’s a barbecue place that I go to. They have one in Donaldelsson. I can’t think of

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it. Not Good Chicken Fingers. Um I go to um I love that place, the barbecue place. It’s a good thing I can’t think

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of the name, but uh it’s a good spot, but not good chicken fingers. Good brisket.

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And then um uh where’s another uh I don’t know. Slim chickens is good. When you grow up in

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Opal like the Opaikica Auburn area, you just get used to the best chicken fingers in the world. I mean, Jim Bobs

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on top. Then there’s like Guthy’s tender chick. Um, um, Breezeway,

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uh, Niffers, um, just it’s chicken fingers everywhere you look. There used to be a spot. If

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somebody knows this, I’d love to know about it. Oh. Oh, and in Charleston there was the kicking chicken. My goodness. It just doesn’t get better

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than that. And then I got to I got to love that chicken for Popeyes. It’s like who who

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and um uh there used to be a spot in Auburn. It was in a strip mall and it was in the

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corner. It was in the corner of the strip mall and they had a chicken parmesan sandwich. It was two chicken

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fingers on bread with mozzarella cheese and uh and I guess it’s mozzarella sauce. I don’t know what’s it called.

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You know, whatever that red sauce is that they put on chicken parmesan. Gosh, that was an unbelievable sandwich.

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That place is gone now. But if you know the name of it, I’d love to just know the name of it. Uh, oh, I had a Okay, somebody got mad at me last week cuz I

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was saying that uh we don’t arrest criminals anymore and we don’t keep them in jail. And they got mad at me and they go, “I hope you’re talking about billionaires and not people stealing out

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of desperation and necessity.” And I don’t know. I mean, if you’re stealing out of desperation and

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necessity, I guess. But and yeah, sure, I’d love to ar There’s a lot of people in this country that should go to jail.

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a lot of rich people. There’s a lot of crimes that have been revealed to us uh that people are doing that they should

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all go to jail for. Um but you know, crime is crime, right? If you’re going to have a high trust society, which is

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what I would prefer and what I think we would all prefer, you gota there’s got to be punishment for crimes, right? And if you uh and

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there are stores that have closed due to the amount of theft in the store, the corporations, and I’m I’m not on the

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side of corporations, but um you know, any practical businessman,

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whether it be a small business or or a corporate CEO, if your store is losing money because people keep stealing from

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there, you’re going to close it down because it’s not worth it to So, if you’re in a, you know, in a in a,

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you know, a neighborhood that’s not doing well and and this store is the only store that people have and you’re stealing from it and then it shuts down,

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you’ve now affected everyone in your area and it’s too bad. And I just think there should be uh, you know,

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punishments for crimes. And I and the guy I don’t know who it was, but I don’t know if it’s a guy or a girl, but they were like, “This is not the dusty I

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know. I’ve come to know.” And I’m like, I don’t know who you’ve come to know. I mean, I’m on here every week telling us we should follow the laws of God, right?

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I mean, I’m all about uh following laws, but what I am against is too many laws.

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And that that is the problem I think that we we face is that there’s too many laws. There are crimes that people go to jail for that I think are probably

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ridiculous, but you know, stealing is one of the Old Testament laws. Thou shalt not steal. And uh you know, and I

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think I think they say, and I don’t have the commandments necessarily in my head memorized, but I think it’s the first four of the ten commandments are how to

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serve God, and the next six are how to serve your fellow man. So when Jesus says the greatest commandment is to love

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God with all your heart, mind, and soul, um he’s summarizing the first four

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commandments. And then he says, “And the second commandment is to love your neighbor as you love yourself.” So those

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second ones that the the next six are how to serve your neighbor. And so not

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stealing is one of those because when you steal you steal from someone and um and and you don’t so it’s not like there like I used to believe this.

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I used to believe this when I was younger. I have stolen things before in my life. Not big things but nevertheless

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they are thefts and I have repented for them. But I used to work at Office Depot and I used to steal markers. I didn’t

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have a lot of money and the Sharpies and I was, you know, I was doing, you know, drugs and whatnot and I would I like to

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draw and the Sharpies that I like to draw with were $20 for a big pack. And my friend actually stole them, but I

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consented to the stealing. And uh and then there would be these boxes of pens, these nice pens, and there would be 12

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in a pack, and I would steal one. I would go, “Who’s going to notice one pen?” And then my friend goes, later in

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life, my friend goes, “Yeah, somebody’s mom’s probably whipping their kid right now for losing one of those 12 pens.”

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And I go, “Oh.” So there are no victimless stealings. You’re always stealing from someone. Uh and then I

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think when they say that when there’s a lot of theft, uh you know, the the corporation itself makes up for that theft by raising prices. So it affects

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us all. Um, and I understand people are in different financial situations, but you know, I was always taught despite

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doing a little stealing. I didn’t do much, but you know, nevertheless, I did some. Despite doing a little stealing, uh, I was still raised to not steal. My

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mom would always say, “Well, you know, you’re stealing, getting it for free, but somebody else has worked really hard for their money and they’re having to go

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and spend their money to buy the things that you just steal.

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And I think that’s a great way to look at it. I stole a book from a bookstore one time. Uh and and I know that there

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are people out there that that are stealing just for the sport. I there’s been big shoplifting

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stories and documentaries about people that steal because it gives them the thrill. They have the money, but they just it gives them a thrill. But

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uh but people love uh a hypothetical situation. They love hypo hypothetical situ situations where they’ll say, “Oh,

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well, you would steal to get food for your kids if you had to.” And uh you know, and hypothetical situations are no

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good, right? In that scenario, they go, “Would you steal um if you had to to feed your family?”

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Because naturally the answer is, well, yeah, I would do it to feed my family.

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But what I think in that hypothetical situation is you’re being forced to say, would I break a

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commandment of God when God’s not put me in that situation?

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It’s like I’m saying, “Yeah, if God ever put me in a situation where I didn’t have food to eat, would I would I break

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his commandment to get food?” But God’s never put me in that situation. I’ve been pretty poor at many times in my

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life. I mean, growing up, I wouldn’t We weren’t dirt poor growing up, but we definitely were in some financial

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hardship at times. But we always had food. My mom grew a garden. There was always food to eat. There’s always

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canned foods. Uh, you know, we we would eat uh uh like potted roast beef

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basically. We would take it out of a can, put it in a pan, heat it up, and then we would take toast, put a little

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butter on it, put that uh meat on top, and we were having openf face sandwiches, and we didn’t even know it.

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We would eat it with a fork. We thought it was delicious, but it was canned roast beef, and we would do canned salmon patties. My mom would make these

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salmon patties and grow it up. We did a lot of spaghetti, a lot of stir fries out of a bag. I mean, I ate a lot of cereal.

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We didn’t have a lot of money, but we we made it work. Uh even at at at times in my life where I was not making a lot of

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money, I I ate cans of tuna. Uh I I ate uh you know, I would make myself

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sandwiches when I was working uh selling pesticides. I had a corporate job and it was a pretty good job. I would, you know, I was eating pretty good. When I

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was working at Hymans, we were making a lot of money in tips and we were eating pretty big, but when I didn’t have money, um, I was still like not stealing

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food. Um, but but it made me think about this verse and I always say no to that.

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If somebody asked me the question, if you didn’t have food for your family, would you steal to feed them? And I say no because I’ve never been in that

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situation and I think that God would provide for me. The Matthew

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6 verse 25 and 26 it says therefore I say to you this is Jesus take no thought

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for your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink nor yet for your body what you shall put

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on. Is not the life more than meat? And meat in the Bible, meat in the Bible can

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mean any food. Um it says, “Is not the life more than meat and the body than reignment?

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Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedth them.

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are ye not much better than they? And according to God, we are. Uh it goes on to say that, you know, the flowers are

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also um you know, beautiful and they don’t worry about what they’re going to look like.

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And I just think that that’s relevant to this to this argument. It’s like they they love to present the hypothetical

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situation and I just say God will take care of us. Now, are have people been in bad situations before? I’m sure. And

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obviously throughout history, there have been uh leaders who have starved their people to death. I think there’s old Chinese

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dictators that did that, old Russian dictators that did that, that starve their people to death. So, yes, we could

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find ourselves in that situation. Um but, um you know, I I don’t know. I just

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don’t like to play into the hypothetical situations. And I my my overall point is yeah, I would love for the billionaires uh who have wronged everybody to go to

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jail for their crimes too. Billionaires and and on below that uh uh but you know crime is crime and I think that there

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should always be punishments for the crime. Uh and uh I think our country is, you know, I’ve been reading Isaiah and

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I’m drawing a lot of parallels to what we’re doing in this country and and the type of things that uh you know uh came

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upon those nations. And I just uh it made me think of this verse 2 Chronicles

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7:14. If my people, and that’s us Christians, we are God’s people. We are

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uh uh uh under the blood of Jesus. If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my

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face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their

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land. Uh, and I think that’s important because I think so many of us, myself included, I often think about how great the ‘9s were. You know, I miss the ‘9s.

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I miss the 80s. That was great times.

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But when you go back and you look at the music and the movies that we love from that time, they’re filthy. They are

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filthy movies. They are the definition of living wicked ways. So I think we got to look past that. We got to look past

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what we loved in the ‘9s. I think ultimately the 60s,7s, 80s, 90s led us

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to where we’re at today. And I think we have to get back to those two commandments, love God and

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love your neighbor, you know, and um and I just think it’s important. I just think it’s important. So when we’re

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talking about putting people in jail for stealing things, and it’s not just stealing. There are so many more crimes

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that people are really not going to jail for. But um uh but it’s not about not

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loving your neighbor. Uh it’s it’s um it’s you know protecting your neighbor from people that wish to do them harm.

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And I think I feel like if we can’t agree on property taxes, which we can’t, everyone’s insane now.

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Uh every everybody is insane. And if we can’t agree that about property taxes,

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which we can’t, then we should at least be able to agree that, you know, we should be able to live in a high trust society. That’s all I’m saying, guys.

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We’re having a good time. I want people to be able to come to my comedy shows.

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Uh I want the billionaires to not take all their money so they can come uh to my comedy shows. And then when they show up to a downtown area, park their cars, and walk there, I want them to be safe.

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And that’s all. That’s all I’m saying. I want us all to be safe. I want us all to be able to sell things and not worry

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about people taking it from us. That’s all, guys. That seems like a good request. And by not being able to take

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things from us, I also think property tax is stealing. Uh mostly all the taxes are stealing.

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And again, I pay them because I never want to be in trouble, but I uh but and because it is the law, me not paying

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would be breaking the law, and I must follow the law uh so I don’t go to jail. Okay, guys.

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Thank you very much. We’re having a good

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