19: #19 | What Happened in the Year 2002?
Public Figures
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4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
This week, Brian attends a Catholic wedding, Aaron goes back to Notre Dame, and the guys debate where they'd go if they could travel back in time. Then they delve into the year 2002 by examining important topics like Aaron's sports injuries, Brian getting a girlfriend, and Dusty getting a raise at Office Depot.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of the Public Figures podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:18.3 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:19.3 | Good evening. |
| 0:20.1 | Good night. |
| 0:20.5 | Whenever you're listening to them, we're happy you're here. We've got another fantastic episode right of ahead of us. But before we get into it, I'd like you to introduce to you to my co-host here, right at the table. To my right is Brian Bates. |
| 0:32.2 | Okay. And then I got Dusty Slay to my left here. All right. And we are the public figures, three Nashville-based professional stand-up comedians getting |
| 0:43.5 | into it, the nitty-gritty tackling the world's important issues, solving things one |
| 0:48.8 | step at a time. |
| 0:50.6 | It's good to see you guys. |
| 0:52.4 | It's been a while. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm going to be in Topeka, Kansas, this Thursday. |
| 0:56.1 | Topeka, huh? |
| 0:56.9 | At the Beacon, and then Friday and Saturday, I'm going to be in Lowell, Arkansas, |
| 1:01.3 | first time ever at the Grove Comedy Club. |
| 1:03.5 | That's a big one. |
| 1:04.1 | Very excited. |
| 1:05.0 | Take my buddy Adam Bush with me all the shows. |
| 1:07.0 | Great club, terrible owner. |
| 1:09.9 | You know, Bill, what a wreck of a guy. |
| 1:15.1 | We're a lot about Bill. |
| 1:16.2 | We were texting Bill this weekend and he said any time he's mentioned on the podcast, somebody will send it to him. |
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