Funny You Should Mention: Dusty Slay
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Dusty Slay drops by with "Wet Heat" fresh on Netflix to talk Opelika lore (a.k.a. Snopalika), becoming parade Grand Marshal, and how a onetime pesticide salesman turned country-music linguist builds jokes from tiny word quirks. We get into his love of language (Carlin vibes), song-lyric autopsies ("It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," Brooks & Dunn's "Hard Workin' Man"), the origin of "We're having a good time," Comedy Cellar war stories, Opry nights, accent drift, trailer-park childhood, and why he's plotting an ASMR sleep-comedy album. Also: milk, hand-washing, and the eternal mystery of gas stations named "Kum & Go."
Produced by Corey Wara
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, November 7th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:07.4 | It's the gist. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:09.4 | And this is funny you should mention. |
| 0:11.8 | And this is Mr. Dusty Sleigh. |
| 0:14.3 | He has a new special out, a relatively new special. |
| 0:17.3 | Let's put it this way. |
| 0:18.1 | You could get it if you subscribe to Netflix. |
| 0:20.5 | And I've seen the subscription numbers. You probably do. It's called it this way. You could get it if you subscribe to Netflix. And I've seen the |
| 0:21.4 | subscription numbers, you probably do. It's called Wet Heat. He also had a special called |
| 0:27.2 | Working Man about a year ago, so special year. He's really cranking them out. And he's a, |
| 0:32.7 | hilarious guy and an interesting guy. You know, one of the joys of funny you should mention is you just |
| 0:38.4 | meet people from Alabama or Kentucky, and they're funny, and they reflect on where they're from, |
| 0:43.7 | and they reflect where they're from. I've had many a Southern comedian. I guess I'm in a Southern |
| 0:49.0 | mood on Funny You Should Mention, and Dusty, he was, well, you'll hear. |
| 0:54.6 | He was the, what do they call it? |
| 0:56.9 | The Snow King. |
| 0:59.0 | He was fetid and honored in his Alabama hometown. |
| 1:03.3 | They have this very bizarre snow festival, so why not have Dusty Slay, a kind and welcoming, but in his own way, very bizarre person, |
| 1:14.9 | oversee it. As always, there is an excellent video of this on the GIST's YouTube channel, |
| 1:20.3 | a standalone feed. We're going to have to put up with my introduction of the topic right there. |
| 1:26.3 | Just subscribe to funny you should mention should you wish to |
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