Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night.

Whenever you're listening, we appreciate the fact that

you're listening. Welcome to the public figures podcast, three Nashville based stand-up comedians,

three just dudes, and three public figures. I'm Aaron Weber, alongside my co-host, Brian Bates,

and Dusty Slay. All right.

I finally get my own intro back.

Yeah.

That feels good.

Where can people see you this weekend, Dusty?

Oh, this weekend.

I'm in Paducah, Kentucky, and in St. Louis, Missouri.

Both shows almost sold out, so get yourself some tickets.

All right.

What about you, Brian?

This is Saturday. I'm at the Grand Ole Opry. It's been a while. A few months since I've been there. Sunday. It's been like over a year, right? I mean, I haven't been there forever. I was there. No, I think last summer, fall. Okay. Yeah, a year ago. you said it's been over a year and that's been like six to nine months. Last year. I meant that's last year though, right? Yeah, I was there in December. It's been three months. Yeah, it was 2025. Okay. Yeah. But not a full year. We're like almost done with 226 already. Yeah. It's been a long time, man. uh. Charnacally has a residency there or something. It's been a minute. It has. Did I start by saying it's been a while? And then you said, yeah, it's been over a year. He took it too far to where you're like. Not that far. I said it's been like a year, man. It was 20, 25 when you were there. Okay. I guess I misheard you. And then Sunday, Brian Bates and Friends here at Zanies. I just said my last name kind of wrong, but Brian Bates and friends here at Zanies at the lab. And tickets, not many tickets left, guys. It could be sold out by the time this comes out. I love it. That's my tune-up for Monday, my special. The big special, man. So I'm excited about that. So that's what I got. How you feel about things? Does you feel good about it? Feeling, yeah, can we get into our weekend? Yeah, I'm also going to be somewhere this weekend. Oh, I'm going to be in... I thought you see you were taking 2026 off the whole year.

I'm going to be in Minneapolis this weekend.

This is Aaron Weber speaking.

I'll be the Sisyphus Brewing Company.

I've never done Minneapolis.

I've done St. Paul.

I've been across the river.

This is my first time headlining somewhere in Minneapolis. So we got two shows are sold out. There's two that are not. So come to one of those shows if you're in the Minneapolis area. Brian, let's get

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