Public figure. You are going to allow the public. Some people know who I am. Public figures. Public figure. Public figures. I think it's America. It's the public figures of America. Yeah. When you're a public figure, this is what happens. Good evening. Welcome in. Grab a seat. Pull yourself up to the table. belly up. Here we are. And we're doing it, and that's the way it's going to go.

Welcome into the Public Figures Podcast. I'm Aaron Weber alongside two very funny comedians,

two good friends, two excellent people, Brian Bates, and Dusty Slay.

Okay. As seen on Netflix, he's got two specials out. Brian's got multiple specials. He's headlining clubs all over the country. Dusty's doing theaters. I'm hanging out. We're doing it, baby. Three professional comedians, three public figures. And we've got a very exciting episode ahead of us right now.

Very good.

I'm looking forward to getting into it. Brian, how are things been going? Good. I'm going to be at Arlington Draft House in Arlington, Virginia, February 22nd. How about that? This has been a strong intro, I think. Hey, thanks. Yeah. I actually felt good about it. So just now. No, it's been a strong intro.

Arlington Draft House, great club.

Have you been there before?

Okay.

Yeah, I mentioned last week how I set the record for myself for most time on a show. Yes, rates it an hour and 20 minutes. And you also, I think you said last time that you plan to beat that record this time around. Not only beat it, I plan on beating Dusty's record. Oh, and that's about an hour and 31 minutes. I do not plan on beating Dusty's record. No, I hope. I don't know if anybody wants you to chase that right now. No, they're asking for less, not more. But come see me Arlington Draft House. You're not asking. February 22nd.

Brian,

the show was great. We wanted a little less, I think. Yeah, it went about 30 minutes too long. They go. Loved it. Loved it. But, yeah, about 15 minutes at the end. I'll be like, well, I only did 45. And we're like, yeah, you should have featured. now I keep underselling myself sorry

it's a great show

it's a hot show

go see Brian at the Arlington Draft House. A great club, a great comedian. I'm sure it'll be a great night of comedy, one that you'll remember for years to come. I and myself, I'm going to be in Texas soon. I'm going to be in Houston. It's a Houston improv. And then all weekend, my first full

weekend at the Addison Improv in Dallas, which I'm pretty excited about. So coming out and see me,

Texas, in Houston and Dallas.

Reach out to the Webbers. They're friends of mine and they saw me in Addison.

You can get them to come to the show? I tell telling to come. How about that? Austin and Jane.

Diane. Diane. Sorry. That's pretty good guess. Pretty good guess. Come out and see me in Texas. Dusty, where are you going to be? February 20th and 21st. I'm going to be in Traverse City, Michigan and Saginaw, Michigan. Whoa. there's a country song about saginaw, Michigan, so I'm pretty excited to go. I've been to Traverse City with you. Saginaw Michigan. You have been to Traverse City. Yeah, that was bad. We did a bar there. We did a bar. This time it'll be a theater. Yeah, this time it'll be a little different. But we did a bar, and it was just a show that we got a video of it. It's on, you know, I got a couple of travel videos out there. This is maybe the first one I ever did. Me and you traveling around Upper

Peninsula of Michigan, but we did a thing in a Traverse City, and there was a handful of people in

the audience.

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