Eden and Amadeus
99.9 Gator Country morning show hosts Eden Kendall and Amadeus share stories that they did not have time to cover on the air, and they take a deeper dive into those that did make the cut. Fans of Your Hometown Morning Show will enjoy a more behind the scenes look at what goes into the making of a country radio morning show. Listen daily for this PG-13 version of the top stories making pop culture headlines, artist interviews, and much , much more.
Eden and Amadeus
DUSTY SLAY!!! WE LOVE THE GUY!
This time, AI gets it:
Get ready to crack a smile and let out a hearty laugh as we welcome the man of the hour, Dusty Slay, to our show! His one-hour Netflix special has everyone talking, and for good reason—it's sitting pretty at number two on the charts. Dusty gives us the lowdown on the whirlwind of success and the barrage of praise from fans and peers, all while keeping his feet firmly on the ground. We explore the nitty-gritty of making a splash in the overflowing pool of media content, and Dusty spills the beans on his social media strategy, his pick of stand-up antics that make the cut, and his endearing tales from the past, including a lesson in the lost art of siphoning gas.
But the fun doesn't stop at streaming—our local comedy scene is buzzing with anticipation for Dusty's live performances, and you bet your bottom dollar I've got my ticket in hand! Whether you're in Jacksonville or joining the laughter online, Dusty's humor transcends zip codes and screens. As we close out, we celebrate the strength and support of our podcast community, and extend an open invitation to catch our weekday morning shows. Dusty's journey from the stage to our speakers is a story of humor, humanity, and how a good laugh can weave us all together. So tune in, laugh along, and maybe, just maybe, you'll find a piece of his story resonating with your own.
Welcome to Eden and Amadeus. The podcast.
Speaker 2:Today we're going to be talking to comedian Dusty Slay, who not only just launched his Netflix special you're going to hear how recently that happened but, Dusty, you're coming to town too.
Speaker 3:That is true. That is true. I may mess up the name, but Pontavidra Florida.
Speaker 2:You did not mess it up. Pontavidra Beach.
Speaker 1:Florida, that was perfect, all right, well good.
Speaker 2:Well, good, well, we're happy to have you.
Speaker 1:It's fun to be talking to you this morning because your first one hour Netflix special dropped just last night.
Speaker 3:That's true and I'm told I don't know how to know these things, but I'm told I'm trending number two in Netflix overall right now. Congratulations. Yeah, so it's going well. I'm pumped about it.
Speaker 1:How are you feeling this morning? I feel like it's like the day after a prize fight.
Speaker 3:Well, I feel great, you know, because what happens is it comes out about midnight, depending on where you're at in the country, on Tuesday, right. So yesterday all day I was kind of like, well, nothing really seems to be happening. I'm getting some nice messages here and there, but that feels like last night was actually when people started to watch it, and so then I started getting some real messages and I'm like, all right, here we go. Now we're having a good time, you know.
Speaker 2:What was the biggest surprise message you received?
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I just got. I just saw that Neil Brennan, the, you know, co-creator of the Chappelle show, posted on Instagram that he was a big Dusty Slay fan.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:And shared about the special. So that was very nice.
Speaker 1:That is very, very cool. I love that. Can we go back a bit? I know you were part of the season three of the stand-ups on Netflix, right? Yes, did that change some things for you? Did you see more fans coming from that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it did. I mean, you know, all of this stuff these days is just a real combination of things. There's never one thing in particular that really changes it. It's like you just keep building, you keep adding to and that's where finally somebody like now see, I have the Netflix special out and people go and watch it, and then they can look back and see that I have all of these things that I've been doing. And I have gotten some messages from people that are like hey, I just found out about you?
Speaker 3:How have I never heard of you before? You know, and I'm like I don't know. I've done several late nights. I got a half hour on Netflix, you know. I got a couple of albums out there. I'm on the the Nate Land podcast. I mean, I'm all over the place.
Speaker 1:Nate Land is so huge. Actually, I think we spoke with someone a few months ago that was also on the podcast and then, I think, two weeks later, nate was on SNL and we kind of got to rediscover how great he is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean you know. So it's like, yeah, you just, you just on all these things, but there's so much media to consume now that I think that you can be all over the place, but if you're not, if somebody's not tapped into your algorithm, they might not see you at all.
Speaker 2:Do you pay attention to your own social media? In other words, are you like thinking also sometimes when you're doing jokes like in terms of this is going to be a good clip, or do you someone else run your socials? I mean, obviously you don't have to tell us, but do you pay attention? Is what I'm asking.
Speaker 3:Well, I do have a social media team just to help me keep up with, because you want to be posting constant material, but I don't really. When I do stand out a lot of times my own personal podcast that we're having a good time podcast, I'll just share clips of that, you know, just for social media, but for my stand up I'm like I don't know, I'm not really doing that Really. What I kind of do is I'll record every set that I ever do and then six months later or so I'll start watching some of those old sets and then I'll go oh, I'm not really doing that joke anymore, or that's a pretty funny moment that I forgot happened. And then I'll cut those clips up and that's what I'll post.
Speaker 1:I'm lucky I have my own social media team and her name is Eden Kendall.
Speaker 2:That's me All right.
Speaker 3:Eden takes care of all that stuff for us.
Speaker 1:So I am. I'm so behind on on what to do, but there was one bit that I saw of yours that I instantly related with you on because, just like you, I once swallowed gas from a garden hose.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:When I was younger, my dad was teaching me how to siphon gas and he's like this is something you have to know as a man. And there it goes, right down my throat.
Speaker 3:Wow, I love that your dad was showing that when I was doing it we were kind of stealing from my dad.
Speaker 1:My dad was teaching me how to steal from others.
Speaker 2:Was he real Like? Why was he really showing you he?
Speaker 1:was really showing me how to siphon gas, because sometimes you have to do that.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, see, I'm a city girl.
Speaker 3:You know you got to have some skills out here. You know, you never know. And hey, with gas prices rising, that may come in handy.
Speaker 1:Hey, speaking of Saturday Night Live before the night, I know you worked with Melissa Villasenor right. Yeah, with a half hour, yeah. And then also you've worked with John Lovitz and Kevin Nieland. Do you have any aspirations to be on SNL? I'm just such a huge fan. I would love to see you there. I feel like you would blow up from that.
Speaker 3:Well, I will say watching Nate on there was very exciting. I don't watch a lot of SNL these days. I am the people you named. I mean I've been able to work with David Spade as well. That's my era of SNL that I really loved. All those guys Mike Myers, chris Barley, same same with us and it's like that's my era and I love that and it's like I just have kind of lost touch with it these days. But yeah, I mean, I think just for that aspect, it would be really fun to do SNL just to, you know, kind of be in some small way a part of that, that whole world.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think and I'm probably much older than you I'm with the same generation of SNL cast members that you are, but I stay with it today because I feel like it still has its finger on the pulse of what's happening. So I like to watch the new artist and things like that.
Speaker 3:And these new guys the please don't destroy video guys, are just like so cutting edge, oh yeah, Well see, I don't even know if I know who that is, but, like I say, watching it with Nate on there, I was like wow, this is really great. I've not watched it in a while and I'm like this is really funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, I think. Well, he first of all brought a lot of funny to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:One thing also that we really related with, that resonates with us, is the telling people they're having a good time instead of asking them, because we, you know, we've been in radio a really long time and we were told you just got to tell people we play more music, you don't have to add more music.
Speaker 3:You got to tell them that we're playing more and you just got to tell people yeah Well, I believe in that too. It's like you know, if you're, you know if you're on a date you don't want to be like are we having a good time or you having fun, or you having fun, you know, you just got to. You know you got to make the fun happen. You know, and that's what I'm out here to do. I'm not coming out on stage being like, oh, you guys having fun, or what I'm like, let's get into it.
Speaker 1:We are having fun period.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm like get it Sometimes if I'm doing shows and it's not really going that well, and then I finally get a laugh. I'll say to the audience, I'll go yeah, these are good jokes, get into it.
Speaker 2:Do you? Is it a problem to be touring at the same time as your Netflix special? Or is it amazing, like because don't don't you have to make sure there's not overlap of, or do you just have that much material?
Speaker 3:Well, I've not yet gone out and done a show since the Netflix has been released, but I recorded this in May and I've already. I got a whole new hour now, so I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3:I mean the moment. To be honest, by the time I recorded this special, I was pretty sick of all those jokes. So I'm like, all right, let's do this, and then let's get right into creating new stuff. And and yeah, so I got a whole new hour. Now I don't know that I can ever stop saying we're having a good time or doing my wave joke, but other than that it'll be all new.
Speaker 1:So that Netflix special now becomes the appetizer and when people go out to the working man tour they're going to see like the entree, all new stuff.
Speaker 3:That's right, yeah, I mean. Yeah, I mean I got all new stuff. I got. You know, I got another hour. That's on YouTube. That's an older hour. I mean I got, I got two albums out there. I got lots of material, so you know, so I just want to keep creating it. I mean that that's how you stay fresh and that you know. And it's like I used to think I have a joke and I go well, this is the best joke I've ever wrote.
Speaker 3:I'm never going to write a better joke than this. And then the next joke you write is suddenly like your best joke, and I think just being in the practice of always writing new material makes you better.
Speaker 1:You sound like you're talking. Artists like a, like a songwriter like you, just get better and better with the material that you write.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, you know, there's jokes I got right now that I would say well, that joke is not as good as some of my old stuff. But then I got other jokes where I'm like wow, like I got a story that I'm telling about getting food poisoning in the car that I've been trying to tell for years and years and I never could make it funny. And then just one day I tapped into something and I'm like this is it.
Speaker 3:This is how I've been looking to tell the story, and now I feel like it's one of my best stories that I've told. I really love it right now. Okay.
Speaker 2:Does one listen to? Does one go to your show for that joke, or your Netflix Because I got to know how in the world that could ever be funny.
Speaker 3:Well, that's, it's at my show, it's at my show All right. Current joke I'm doing.
Speaker 2:Consider me hooked. You caught fish.
Speaker 3:So when I'm in Pond of Hydra in March 29th.
Speaker 1:you can see that joke there as it just so happens, Eden lives in Pond of Hydra In walking distance from the venue.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It's working out.
Speaker 2:Do you? You might see me walking there on your way, driving there.
Speaker 3:All right, I love that. Who knows, I might be walking too. I love to walk.
Speaker 1:And the weather's going to be great for sure, that's the thing about me.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you know that, but when I get to Florida, I take my shirt off and I start walking outside. I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something with your head and your you will blend you will blend.
Speaker 3:It feels natural when you're in Florida. I don't, I'm not even making a joke. I'm like it feels good when I'm in there, the sun coming down on you. I'm like why am I wearing a shirt, right?
Speaker 1:now We've had the coldest day in a year this morning and I left my house with my cargo shorts and a T-shirt, because that's how I am 24 seven in Florida, I love that I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you might be out there, someone else and someone in Pond of Hydra. Someone will absolutely offer you a sandwich, so don't worry about that when you're out there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what I want. I'm walking around my shirt off. I need a sandwich from a stranger.
Speaker 1:That's what you won't get sick in your car. We're honored to be.
Speaker 2:We are honored to be among the first to have spoken with you since the Netflix shot up to number two, soon to be number one on Netflix too, and we're going to encourage everybody to come out and see you in Pond of Hydra. We'll be among them.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you very much. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1:That is going to be a great show. It's going to be in Jacksonville Pond of Hydra March 29th, if you're free, if you have the night available. Eden, you live right there in the neighborhood. I do.
Speaker 2:I planned to go because he is so funny. Also, anywhere else you're living, just go on his site. It's easy to Google, find out where he's playing near you. Well worth it. And, of course, you can check out his most recent special on Netflix. And you can do us a big, huge solid by maybe giving us some reviews or whatever you do, give us a bad review or share our podcast. You know all the things people who know what they're doing tell you to do at the end of a podcast. Do those things In the meantime. Thanks so much for listening and you can catch us a weekday mornings in Jacksonville or online at 999gatercountrycom.