Chapter 1: What insights does Dusty Slay share about his early comedy experiences?
I had a comic say something to me one time back in the day. He was not religious at all, but he said something that really struck me. I was doing comedy one night, and I had people from my church coming, and I was saying, I go, I can't do this joke or this joke tonight. I got people from my church coming.
And he goes, it's interesting that you care about what people from your church says, but you don't mind doing those jokes in front of God. And I go, oh, that really hit me in a weird way. Yeah.
The history of our Earth is so different from what we can imagine. The Smithsonian, if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere, was to go get it. I'm going to assume at least one person is right, because if one person's right, it busts the paradigm. It all goes back to the fallen church. And the problem with the modern-day church, they have a very truncated view of the supernatural.
This backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount Hermon event.
Welcome to the glory of Jesus.
And this guy defects from the kingdom. That's a big deal. Welcome back to Blurry Creatures. We're excited. We're back in the basement. And we've got Dusty Slay, comedian Dusty Slay in the house.
Okay.
All right. Thank you. Thanks for coming. You're a podcaster, comedian, obviously. And you're going to be an author?
Or is the book out? Oh, the book's not out. You know what? I should have brought a book. Yeah. Maybe I could send you a graphic and you can post it. There we go. But you have a book called We're Having a Good Time. It's out in November. Let's go. I think the... I don't think people are reading as much as they used to. And I think the idea is to try to get those pre-sale numbers. Exactly.
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Chapter 2: How does Dusty Slay view the relationship between comedy and faith?
You're just trying to stay alive.
Yeah. Well, plus it's really interesting. If you ever looked at where the people live in Canada, it's like they live like right along the border of the United States, right? Yeah. So there's just all these Northern territories and Northern territory and all those places that sort of just no one lives except for like the Inuit and maybe some like old fur trappers and stuff. Yeah.
And my wife is from Peterborough, which is, you know, it's not way out there, but it's north of Toronto. And if you drive up like at night, once you get out of Toronto, it's dark. The interstate is dark. Yeah, it's creepy up there. It's not like America where it's, you know, there's giant signs for McDonald's and it's dark.
There's no flying Js.
There's a lot of Timmy Ho's, a lot of Tim Hortons up there.
We should have just jumped the fence and said, how do you think Bigfoot's doing out there, Dusty? How do you think he's doing?
I think just great, right? It's gotta be. Right, I mean, just live, like, I don't know. You know, it's like, what kind of creature is Bigfoot? Is Bigfoot a conscious, like, does he have consciousness like us? Or is he just an animal? Does he know we're looking for him?
Well, that's when I think that we started the podcast because if you go into those stories for too long, Bigfoot starts talking to you in your mind. They have sort of this telepathic thing that they do with a lot of encounters. And there's the whole animal camp that won't accept the weird and the woo of Bigfoot. So it's funny. You have to have an open mind with Sasquatch.
But there's a lot of people who just are Puritans, I guess, with this idea that it's just a... an ape of some kind. And I don't, it doesn't last very long if you get into it.
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Chapter 3: What are Dusty Slay's thoughts on Bigfoot and paranormal experiences?
Like there were legends of these giant apes out in the Congo. Yeah, they didn't discover the giant panda until like the 40s. Which is amazing because those things don't really do a whole lot except like roll around and eat bamboo. But all the locals knew it was a thing. So they'd go out and they would come back and be like, oh, I saw a giant panda. And it was like, everyone knew they existed.
But science didn't say it existed.
I think some people think pandas are fake.
There's a theory. This is a new theory.
Yeah, that they don't exist, that they're not real, that it's all like costumes and animatronics.
Who thinks that?
Well, people actually. I never like to talk about the people that I watch or the podcast I listen to or videos that I watch because... Nowadays, if you're like, oh, I was watching this guy and he was talking about this, people go and they find that guy saying something else that I don't believe. And then they go, oh, you believe this too. And I go, I don't believe any of it.
I was just watching it.
Guilty by association.
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Chapter 4: How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact Dusty Slay's comedy career?
And I'm really now talking to you about it. Yeah, we're into this. Yeah.
We're actually getting into it. Dusty, what about, we were talking pre-roll. You said you quit drinking and- Yeah. What about your faith? Where's your faith at in this journey? Because I know we talk pre-roll, and people that are listening now aren't privy to that, but you're talking about your podcast and what you do, and you're like, man, it's just about people... you know, encountering Jesus.
And there's not many comedians who've read Dr. Michael Heiser.
Yeah, dude. Yeah.
So, I mean, how does, how does that?
Well, I've, you know, I said this one time and people said, well, that can't be true, but I'm, I've always been Christian. And they said, well, you can't always be Christian, I guess. But I'm like, yeah, I mean, I, my parents were divorced and not necessarily, we weren't necessarily going to church every week, but it's just kind of always been my belief that,
But I would, you know, I'd always, I would read this book here and there, you know, but I would read some religious book and I'd be going to church. I went to church hungover a lot, you know, because I don't know, it just like, it seemed like drinking was socially acceptable and I was Christian. And so I was like, I don't know, I was just doing both.
Yeah.
Even though that's not okay. In my eyes now, it's like not okay to be as drunk as I was all the time. But I would, you know, I would go home and I would pray drunk. And I was kind of always trying to escape this drinking lifestyle that I was in. Yeah. Even though I don't know if it was dark, like that sounds dark. Like if you're drinking and then you're like praying to get out of it.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of cancel culture on comedians?
Like, because they couldn't, you can't cancel. Comedians should have carte blanche to talk about everything, right? And they were trying to cancel everybody. Well, that's a big part. That's a big thing going on.
Yeah.
Cancel culture and you guys like-
Yeah, I mean, you know, and which is why, you know, I don't really talk about a lot of stuff. But, you know, on podcasts and stuff, I try to, in a jokey way, get some of these things out there. But I find that I feel like if I believed in conspiracies like I do, and I wasn't Christian, it would be the most depressing thing ever. But I just find that Christianity, I go, all right, well.
Why do you think that is? Well, I feel like the Bible kind of tells us a lot of these things are going to be happening. People are going to be trying to do bad things to us. Yeah. So you don't necessarily expect, because some people think, like there's that Luke Bryan song, I believe most people are good. Yeah. And I go, oh, I don't know why you believe that. Yeah.
Most people are terrible, and there are some good people. But I feel like the Bible lets us know everyone's bad, and we strive to be good through Jesus, but everyone's bad in some way.
Well, there's a spiritual realm, and it really affects... our realm, you know, there's a, or at least there's another, people call it a dimension or spiritual realm, unseen realm, all the, we don't really understand it, but we know that, oh, there is something above, like you were saying earlier, that's kind of affecting us. And I was thinking about like a writing comedy, do you visualize a set?
Do you visualize how it goes and how do you deal with like negative self-talk? Cause if you don't, if the jokes don't perform or people say negative things to you, how do you process that? How do comedians like work through that? So like comedian support groups that like you guys meet secretly places?
Well, we do talk. I mean, green rooms are those secret spots. If you do a showcase, I think if you're in New York or LA, you have more of these showcases. So you will be on more shows. with, you know, colleagues and, because it's like, you know, in Nashville, we actually have a pretty good scene.
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Chapter 6: How does faith influence Dusty Slay's comedy?
We have a lot of headliners that live here. And that's nice because we're, you know, we're out dealing with our own things on the road. We're not together on the road, but we come back and we go to Zany's and we're in a green room together. We get to talk. But I find that online, as long as there's more positive talk than negative talk, I'm fine, right?
But it's like you could read a million positive comments and one negative comment can really get you. This one guy goes, he goes about me, he goes, yeah, I saw this guy in Phoenix and he was just a regular boring comic or something like that. And I just thought, oh, so boring that you had to come watch another video. Yeah. But it stuck with me. It stuck with me that like, am I boring?
But I'm like, I think I'm boring if you're stupid. I think if you're a stupid person who doesn't know how to get the jokes, it might be boring to you. Yeah. But I mean. Because I'm not jumping around on stage. I'm not humping the stool, you know. You're not going for it. Yeah.
I mean, I think it's just an interesting thing to put yourself out in the world, but actually have, you almost have to have two people. You have to have this guy that's like, I'll just, I don't care. I'm going to just do me. But then there's this real person that kind of comes back and goes, that hurt. That things you say.
And then, and it's like, you need that to hone your craft, to get better at what you do. You do need some negative, right?
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Chapter 7: What is the relationship between humor and scripture?
So how does that- For sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I think for me, I like to come at people in the comments when they, when they comment, I like to go at them, but I, I like to try to do it in a way that I don't embarrass myself. I like to try to still be jokey with them, you know, but some people can't do it. And then I just block them. But like some people get, they try to get real personal with you.
And I, and it makes me think, are you a person that I know in my life? And you're like, you're like trying to come and do personal attacks, right? Like people try to, some people try to attack me about, somebody was trying to attack me about being religious and they go, oh, it's weird because I pretty sure used to be a druggie and an alky. And I go, do you not know religious people?
I mean, this is what a lot of religious people are. They were alcoholics or they were drug addicts and then they found the Lord and changed their lives. And Christ transforms your life. That's the whole story for everybody.
I think every single person God uses struggle with like what I would categorize as sins of the flesh. Like when he runs up to people with sins of the spirit, when they're super prideful that they won't listen to anything he has to say, it seems like those aren't the people that get used in the story.
But like, you know, David and Moses, these guys were drinkers and they liked women and blah, blah, blah. They were normal people who struggled with things, right? But they didn't have so much pride to where they couldn't go, maybe I shouldn't do that. But they did. And then they self-regulated, they figured out, and then they come back humbled and they try again.
And I think that you're not allowed to be a human in the church for the most part.
Oh yeah.
You're not allowed to be real.
I feel like, yeah, I mean, as much as I talk about Christianity, I feel like a lot of religious people are who come at me the most about stuff. Yeah. Like I say, geez, a lot. I go, geez. And some people talk to me about saying that's short for Jesus. And that's what you're saying. And I go, well, I'm not really saying his name. But I started to get convicted about it.
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Chapter 8: How does Dusty approach writing and performing comedy?
It's fascinating. And we've talked a few times on the show about just how sometimes, unfortunately, Christians are the worst people to other Christians. Yeah. And it's sad, man. Because you know what? Everybody's on their own journey. And as you said, no one shows up. You know, clean, you know, in a white robe. I've always been this way, except for Christ. We all need that transformation, right?
And even if people think they are... That's the problem, yes. Yeah, you're not.
You know, it's like you got something going on. Yeah. People say truth is stranger than fiction. And I feel like what we talk... We're truth seekers, right? Looking for the truth. But comedy... it's like when you tell the truth, it's the most funny. It's super funny. And how do you, why do you think that is?
Why do you think like when some of the best comedians, they can just say something that we all know, but for some reason that guy put it into words And it's hilarious because it's like, yeah, we all do that, right?
Well, I think that's why, right? Because we all relate to it and we all go, ooh, I wish I had thought of that. Yeah. You know, and I feel like- You're telling the truth. Yeah. I feel like some of that's gone because- we're all on our own algorithms now, right? We're on the internet.
The internet is our shared experience, but now there's like something for everyone to find your own little niche to where it's like, used to be, we all watched the same TV shows. We all read the same magazines. We all watched, like we knew the same actors in the same movies. It's a shared culture, yeah. Yeah, it's like, who would we even do impressions of if we were doing them now? Yeah.
Like, who's the... Wrestlers. Yeah. The 80s. It was a moment, yeah.
That's interesting, though, because to the point, like, people... When you do these impressions, it has to be something older because it's a shared... It'd be a shared cultural experience, people that went through it, right? Like, I love watching, like, macho man impressions, right? Because I just think they're so funny. Oh, yeah.
But, like, it's this... It's a shared culture of people that grew up in... I was telling Nate on the way into the studio this morning, I was like, I think... that like 80s and 90s wrestling has like hacked my ticket of algorithms. It's all I get is like macho man promos. But somewhere along the truth became offensive. Like South Park used to be able to like make fun of everybody.
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