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Dusty Slay

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51K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Stand-up comedian Dusty Slay joins the podcast to talk about his appearance on newest season of Netflix's 'The Standups,' growing up in a trailer park, the comedy scene in Nashville, his comedy heroes, bombing on stage, looking like the Walmart Billy Ray Cyrus, and more.

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0:00.0

All right, we got Dusty Slay, our first comedian, who's ever been on the podcast, so we appreciate

0:19.4

that.

0:20.4

You're on Netflix, you're on Jimmy Fallon, you're all these cool things.

0:25.4

As a comic, though, I want to ask you a little bit about maybe your background a little

0:30.6

bit, because we read it, we know it.

0:32.5

But for the listeners here, growing up in Alabama, kind of how you got your start.

0:37.5

And I always wondered with a comic, when do you realize you're funny?

0:41.6

Is it family telling you, was it something else, was it friends, and kind of how that whole

0:46.3

process played out for you?

0:48.7

Well, I appreciate being the first comic, that's amazing.

0:52.6

But I grew up in Alabama, my parents got divorced when I was two.

0:56.2

I always say there was a custody battle, my mom lost, so I had to go live with her.

1:01.4

And we lived in a trailer park, and my dad lives on a farm, and my mom lived in a trailer.

1:07.0

And I grew up in a town called Opalika, Alabama.

1:11.5

And I just spent, it was about 14, we moved out of the trailer, and we lived until like

1:18.5

a cabin, where I partied a bunch.

1:21.0

And then at 18, I moved back into the trailer that I grew up in, I bought it for $1,000,

1:27.6

and I moved back into it.

1:29.8

And then I partied there, tells about 21, and I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and

1:34.8

that's where I started comedy.

1:36.3

But I was always very funny, even if other people want it meant that I was.

1:42.0

I was always making people laugh at school, I was really into it.

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