The Funky Panther
The Funky Panther podcast: Chad, Javier, and Tim deliver high-energy, hilarious banter with random commentary, raunchy humor, and featured guests. Join the fun for an hour-long show that takes you on a refreshing, informative journey through the colorful world of music, news, arts, and entertainment.
The Funky Panther
Behind the Music with Fort Worth's Own, Dustin Massey
As the curtain rises once again for the enigmatic maestro Dustin Massey, we're reminded that every chord tells a story. Our latest jam session is studded with laughter, candid anecdotes, and the melodic journey of a man who's heart beats in sync with his guitar strings. From the hazy memories post-COVID to the thrill of sharing stages with music stalwarts like Wade Bowen, Koe Wetzel, and the Quaker City Nighthawks, Dustin's third visit is a symphony of tales that resonate with the soul of every music lover.
Kicking back with Dustin is like flipping through a scrapbook of musical milestones; each page a snapshot of life's highs and lows. This episode goes beyond the tracks, giving you a front-row seat to the buzzing festival crowds, the reflective pause before a poignant performance with his father, and the acoustic charm that sometimes outshines the roar of electric guitars. We navigate the streaming era's waves together, discussing Dustin's summer anthem hopes for his new single and the close-to-heart moments when music and family life intertwine, each note a testament to love and legacy.
Wrap up your day with a dose of reality as we talk about the quirky side of the music biz, like impromptu gigs that lead to long-lasting memories. Dustin's European escapades and our sports chat remind us that life's a wild ride, best enjoyed with friends and a soundtrack that speaks to your journey. The raw emotion of an acoustic EP, the buzz of viral TikTok fame, and the debate over AI in sports officiating – it's all here, in an episode that hits every note, from heartfelt to hilarious. Join us for a conversation that's as unpredictable as a live performance, but twice as entertaining.
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In the heart of Fort Worth, where the legends are made, there's a tall athlete and a man with the culture. I parade Long hair for a while with a porn stash to make you grin. Dusty masses, here let the music begin. Oh, dustin Massey, with your rock and roll soul Caught your roots deep, making every story whole From the stage to the stars. You're a forward pride, saying tales of life when the wild ones ride. He's got the rhythm, he's got the groove, just as his music makes you want to move. A legend in the making, with a heart of gold. Four nights, stories are told.
:Before a man's story's told. Start the show. Oh, hello everyone, and welcome to the Funkiest of Panthers. We have got an Hooray, oh there it is. We have got our buddy, dustin Massey, in the building. You want to say hey, hey guys, this is our third time with Dustin. It's been a while, but we're so glad that you're back. So sit back, relax, enjoy, let's get into it. I'm Chad.
:And I'm Tim.
:And I'm not Javier, but I'm Dustin and we are the Funky Panther. It was rough, but we'll give it to you.
:He didn't know, he didn't know. We both looked at me like, oh shit, what am I doing?
:He didn't know. I remembered Javier's part. Yeah, yeah, well, I mean to be fair.
:Javier did get up right before Dustin went on at Lola's.
:Yeah, that was Mags or Mags.
:Yeah, I remember that and inadvertently, Dustin had no idea that was happening.
:No.
:And Javier was going to do stand-up.
:Did you even know when you came on stage?
:So we kind of did the shows over. We walked out the side, right yeah, and we're hanging out out there and he's like who's on stage? And we look and Javi's up there with the mic and I'm like I don't know what's happening right now. We shouldn't go back in yet. Maybe he's trying to get them to yell for an encore, which they did, and it was cool and we had to yeah and collected and was on a mission.
:Yeah, that was such a good night and it was such a good show. And we brought our friend Jordan. It was like she was celebrating her birthday my birthday is right around that same time and she got to listen to you for the first time. She's a huge fan now and it was such a good night. It was a great night.
:I wish I had. Oh what a night. You know, oh what a night. And just drop that and then that's it.
:So if you're listening, you probably don't know that Dustin does a really good Javier impression and if you're watching us on YouTube or have been watching for the first 30, like some have already been doing, thank you for hanging out with us. Javier's not with us tonight. Sorry about you. We love you, buddy, but he's not here. We have replaced him with a more beautiful long-haired man, dustin Massey. Hang on.
:I think Javier is here.
:Oh is he.
Dustin's Theme Song by The Funky Panther:Sometimes you have to just bend over and let life fuck you in the ass.
:Whoa, whoa. Javier Come on Time out.
:Okay, you just barely show up and you drop that. Come on, that's ridiculous. Let me see that pink little penis.
:Oh, whoa buddy buddy, you gotta calm up. Oh my goodness so it has been what? Two a year and a half. Two years, it's been three years. It has not been three years. Three years to the month since I've been on. Wow, it was 2021. We were about to release. We either just released Bad Love or we're about to.
:This is your third time on, though, yep, so I guess you came on twice within that first year. Yeah.
:Yeah, so I did it like before, like at the beginning of 2021, when I was like, oh, we're going to release Pretty Okay, which was the first single, and then we were getting ready to release Bad Love, and be like, hey, I'm about to get rock and roll on. Y'all Came back on and hung out and it was great. And then a lot of life has happened in three years. I was on the treadmill today and I was like man, I need to get my thoughts out of what has happened since the last time I've been there. I was like I need to make a timeline for myself, for my own records, and be like what has happened, because a lot of life has happened that hit me. That's been three years, like to the month.
:Do you feel like and I was having this conversation with my girlfriend the other day the past four years mostly three, but four years have just been all over the place Like I can't feel, like I got, I can't get my memory right, like things happened around COVID and I was like 2020, I know what happened then, but then the three years after everything, I'm like, well, was that a year ago?
:Was that five years ago? They call that COVID brain. Is it really? What did they call it before? Covid, because I had it then too, I think, stupidity.
:Old people?
:I don't know what that is.
:Somebody's, like you know, the COVID brain fog.
:And.
:I'm like yeah, okay, so before COVID, what was my excuse? What was my brain not working then?
:Yeah, I feel like I did the same thing. I started writing things down and started like putting them in chronological order so I could figure out what happened in my life, like it's crazy, but you've had a ton of things, so are we going to go? Are we going to go?
:through those things, sure, sure, like we were. Let's see. So, three years ago we were here getting ready to release Bad Love, which is really cool, so I would have just had like two singles out then. We had had like two singles out, then, um, we had the album release that was like end of august 2021 which we're talking about when javier's uh debut for stand-up and mags then uh yeah, the old mags, old mags, old mags, rp.
:Um, it was just kind of like a tear for that next year. It's kind of wild. So, um, at the end of the summer, right before the the album came out, I released a song Wannabe and it was really cool. It got playlisted with I think it was called, like Nashville's Fresh Fines, maybe it was a pretty large playlist.
:I don't know 30, 40, 50,000 monthly listeners or something on that. So the numbers started jumping up a little bit. It was like, oh, this is really cool. It went from a couple thousand monthly listeners like 10,000 monthly listeners or 5,000 monthly listeners, whatever it was. And then right after that we dropped the album and I released it through. 1rpm was distributing it out of Nashville, and we had a cool relationship then and they were like we're gonna pitch the album to like the, the, the playlisters the people who decide what goes on, like a spotify editorial and stuff like that.
:And um, I I released wannabe because I was like I at least want to put it out. It was kind of a song like the. Uh, the cover art for the single was like a picture of me and my dad and I'm like one I don't know and I'm like in front of like a little yamaha keyboard my dad's next to me and I just took the Yamaha off and edited it. On Wannabe, I was like I've got to release this for my dad. That'll be really cool.
:And that's the song that was picked by the people at Spotify or whatever that do the playlists, and Wannabe got on the Texas Now or Texas Country Now playlist and has like 500,000 monthly listeners or something so over the next, like around the time the album dropped to the end of the year, like you know, monthly listeners went from you know, a thousand or two thousand to like twenty five, thirty thousand, yeah, which was really cool because all of a sudden it got way easier to get booked so it was like coolest show ever at mags, packed out, sold out night just. I mean, I remember most of it, but we had a party that night it was amazing and that was kind of like my.
:It was weird, that was like my dream. That was kind of like my goal I had set out initially. It was like I want to open for somebody awesome at mags. And you know, like before covid, we opened for grady spencer very early on on like a stock show night. It was sold out, it was huge. We're like, okay, that's really cool. Second goal is like release an album.
:Third, I want to like play a pack tonight at mags because max was mags was just like the spot yeah, right yeah, I saw so many of the like the people coming up william, clark, green, mike ryan, a lot of people that everybody knows from around here um, that really hit it off and um, that happened and it was just like. Um, that happened quicker than I expected A lot of. It was just a ton of full worth and community support, from family to friends to people like y'all. There's a whole lot of people doing that. That had way bigger numbers than me. I just feel like I've been a part of this community. That's been super cool.
:Boom, this thing happened. It was like I know that there's nothing like crazy happening right now. It's just like a lot of support and a lot of people part of this thing wanted to see some of my dreams happen right. But then after that it was just like all right, we hadn't really like set a new goal or anything. So the next couple years were just kind of like crazy, just like going with the wave of whatever was happening. You know.
:Yeah, yeah, you were constantly gone. Like you were always doing things right, like how many shows were you performing, like where all did you go?
:Man all over Texas. And then we, you know Oklahoma, kansas, new Mexico, colorado, idaho, montana.
:Yeah.
:And all over texas like a a lot of fun but a lot of nights driving back at like four or five am and I'm like I'm driving back from san antonio and I've got like band sleeping in the back or like my wife riding shotgun and I'm just like man you gotta keep me awake yeah, yeah, we would stay awake and, uh, pound red bulls all night and then I would fall asleep a lot of times at like five or six in the morning, getting home and just like it's sunday and it would reset, but I'm still like working during the week, right, you know.
:So it's like I'd have like sunday to kind of reset and be like okay, um, gotta get back.
:So you were doing all this while still like maintaining a regular job.
:Well, I, wouldn't call it like a regular job, but like I worked with uh, worked with my family and my dad and so, like, during covid, I got, um, I got my real estate license and so I started doing that on the side but also, uh, doing property management. We had like a little company with some rentals and stuff and um, it's like taking care of that stuff and then playing music and, um, maintaining a relationship with my now wife, who had a regular schedule She'd be getting up at like 4.30 in the morning to hit the train to go to Dallas and be, a nurse practitioner.
:Congratulations to y'all. Yeah, yeah, since last time, right, because I remember you talking about it to us after the show and y'all got married, yeah.
:Yeah, I feel like every time I did like a show or like played a show or anything, and afterwards anybody listening would be like, hey, I'm going to like marry this girl.
:Yeah, 100%. Like she understands that. You told everybody, everyone knew but her. I spoke that into existence.
:Like I'm, definitely going to marry her soon. They're like, didn't you? It's like doesn't matter.
:It's going to happen Once I meet her dad?
:totally going to ask him. Anyways, she's six months pregnant now and we've been married, it'll be two-year anniversary, june 4th, coming up. That deserves the kids Congratulations to both of you that deserves the kids.
:So, yeah, so 2021's finishing out. That was crazy. We played a lot of really cool shows Like heroes of mine, like, uh, wade bowen. That was one of. We played wade bowen a couple times and I was like man, this is so cool. Yeah, I grew up just loving wade bowen, um, but you know tons of other really awesome artists that we opened up for. Which was always the most fun to me is like supporting, really.
:You know guys who are going to sell a ton of tickets and I got to show up and just like do my job well and the best thing about that is like the, the exposure to like new people that never heard your music right yeah because I mean, I go I've ramped up going to a lot of concerts here lately and I'll look, and okay, I don't know, I know the headliner, but I don't know these other people so I immediately start listening to them and you start discovering so much good music that way, and so, by you being in that place, I can only imagine all the positive exposure you got.
:Yeah, it was awesome, man. It was just like one thing after another kind of just was happening. We got on some cool shows that I didn't think I had been doing it long enough to get on those shows, but I definitely wasn't saying no and, like I said, getting on some of those playlists really helped.
:Does that really help? Like are there so much because?
:I remember prior like let me see your numbers first. Not like that, but it'd be more like the bigger artist, booking agents or their management I got you. Nobody would ever be like we don't think you're good, we don't want you to do this, you know they. Usually people would be like, hey man, like we'd love to give you a shot, but you need to keep working your socials. I've never been great at the socials. I go through seasons of trying. I don't love it, but you've got to do it.
:You've had a lot recently. That was all really really good. Thanks, man. Just by the way, I know we'll get to that.
:I've been very committed to trying to do the things.
:I need to do.
:I love. Um, yeah, getting on the playlist was awesome then and we were on them for about a year. Um, so hitting like spring 22,. We, we played uh, this is closer to home, but Texas live. Um, put the big stage inside with Fort Worth legends, quaker city nighthawks.
:Oh, that's awesome dude.
:That was so cool and you know, we've got like pictures of like us playing and like the big jumbotron screen like behind us, like man. This is, you know, if you crop it right, it looks like we were like some big deals. We're in an arena right now yeah, you just gotta crop the photos, right right um, maybe use some ai to just like keep my family members that are right up front and you could say you played at the ballpark.
:You know, yeah, technically, but, um, man, there's, there was just a ton of other awesome shows, but you kind of um fast forward, we got to go out, so I got married in june 2022.
:Yep, that's right you're not even using notes. I'm pretty, um pretty impressed got married.
:We got married out in colorado and we were planning to um. I knew that later that june um, we were playing highway 30 music fest out in idaho gordy schroeder's highway 30 music fest out in Idaho, gordy Schroeder's highway 30 music fest and um been looking forward to that for like a year, because the previous summer it was just like a camera. If I told this. I don't, I can't remember if this happened after the last time I was here, but like I just had like this random we're driving on I-20 headed home.
:The girl who was helping manage me at the time like calls. I was like hey, can you be on a flight in three hours? And I was like what? And just long story short, she was like you're getting on a flight, you're going to idaho and you're playing this guy who owns a music festival's birthday bash that's to raise all this money. Whoever, like people have dropped out because of certain things and somehow we're far enough down the um the hierarchy that we're to you. So you're going and we I went, it was awesome, had a great time and it was kind of like a hey, thanks for coming out or whatever.
:Um, y'all wanted to play the music festival and everybody cheered and it was like super connections a year later we had been like really anticipating like that's gonna be an awesome thing, already riding high, I'm getting married and like it was like our dream wedding in Colorado, like on a mountain side. There was like 20 people there. It was amazing and I get done. Um, we get done with the wedding. I can't remember if it was the, I think it was the day before actually like we had done the um, you know, like the rehearsal dinner and everything.
:No phone service where we're at, you had to connect to wifi and the wifi was like really spotty it. It would come on for like like an hour or two and be gone for like six or eight hours. Yeah, which is kind of cool, just disconnect. So my phone connects to wi-fi and it is like exploding and it's like my band and manager and people trying to get a hold of me because, um, I got asked to play some more shows, uh, on the way up to idaho and some of them were in um washington and we couldn't make it line up to Idaho and some of them were in Washington and we couldn't make it line up to work. But we played Highway 30 the same day as a guy, coe Wetzel A lot of people know who he is.
:I've heard. I've heard. Yeah, I think he's got a bar here. Maybe I don't know.
:Yeah, and then we were leaving Highway 30. They were asking if you would route to montana and go play in bozeman with him and open up for him. And it was like the coolest music experience ever is like highway 30 in idaho. And then they go to bozeman and play with co and I know a handful of guys in his band, so it was super cool. Um grew up with him and um, it's just like I'm about to marry. Marry my dream girl and like on our like second or third time ever out, she came to a show in Dallas. She was like I won't be the girl who's chasing you around in a van and you fast forward.
:And it's like days after our wedding and we're in like not even a van. We were using my Shane the other guitar player, his dad's King Ranch with a tarp over the back with all the gear like they're, they're driving that, we're in a rental car because we're like meeting up and they drove it all the way. They met us in idaho and they drove it up and then we ended up going to montana. Playing with them was incredible and then the rest of the summer played a bunch of really cool shows damn um, so that year was just like it was pretty dope.
:I just remember following on social media and being like God damn, he is everywhere, and then I would see things like Coessel and everything popping up. I'm like holy shit, like this thing is just taking off, because it seems like you were doing like one show that propelled the next show and it just sounds like it's about right, because listen to what you're talking about.
:Right, just like I don't know you're talking about, right, just like I don't know. It's crazy to watch from a distance. It really was. I outkicked my coverage a lot that year, honestly, um, but yeah, the summertime was, uh, still great. We, I think we came back and we played a cool show in footworth with cody west love those guys, um, and then we were hitting about the one year mark of the album coming out and then, um, I would say it was like probably like week 56 or something, wannabe dropped off of that texas music, texas country now playlist and it's crazy to watch how just that happening it was. Like every week my monthly listeners would go from like 25 000, 23 000, 21 000 and I would like check it every monday, like, okay, maybe it's only going down a couple hundred, and every week it was just going down, going down, going down because you were exposed to so many people.
:So it was like a lot of really cool things happened.
:Did you see a spike in the rest of your songs too? Were people curious?
:to be like Some of them. Some of them, yeah, it was cool to be like some of them. Some of them, yeah, it was cool like some songs that there, what was tough was like some songs that I initially I didn't think wannabe was going to be anything. Yeah, you know, um, I thought songs like like black hearted woman, like ones that I really liked playing.
:We're gonna like blood, but I think black hearted woman has like not many streams. The acoustic version has more streams, really, you know. But then, pretty, okay, and woman like you, woman like you ended up being one up there. You know, um, which is cool for chelsea because I wrote it about her but, um, yeah, once it dropped off, the numbers started coming down and that was. That was tough, but it was like, you know, just the same as in covid, like everything stopped for a while and then, like everything's felt like it sped up. Well, it's kind of like for what we were doing in music, kind of felt like we got like slingshotted out of covid into moving a lot faster than we probably should have been moving. Right, it was really cool. Um, I don't think we like got ahead of ourselves or anything, we're just like rolling with it, like we'll figure this out later. And then, um, you know, got dropped from that playlist and the number started coming down. It got a little tougher to book.
:But that fall so it had been fall 22 in October we were playing a show in Arlington at the Leavitt Pavilion. It was really cool, with Cody West actually, and my folks came out and dude, it was just such a great night. There was a ton of people out and it's like a big stage. It had the big screens on the side or whatever they actually um, the whole show is like still up on youtube, so it's really cool. And uh hadn't seen my folks in a while.
:Dad comes out to the show, really dope, and we like finished the set with wannabe and I don't know why simulation maybe but um, I like gave a spill about why I wrote that song. I like dedicated it to my dad, yeah, and like I sing it like right at him and it was just really cool. And after the show was over with uh like called him backstage or whatever, gave him a big hug and told him I loved him. He said I love you and he was like man, this is one of my favorite shows I've ever seen. You play the way it was set up.
:He had bad tinnitus from working on trains his whole life yeah and he was like you know, the sound didn't bother me here, I didn't even have to wear my earplugs. I'll never forget him saying that, because he always wore earplugs if he was at mags or something right, and um gave him a hug and asked him to walk chelsea to her car and wave bye, and then he passed a couple days later. Oh shit, um, and so that was tough, obviously yeah, um kind of put things.
:I I say they put things on the hold. I wasn't like consciously putting things on a hold, but just like all of life kind of just was just weird for a while still is to a degree, but like there was a few months they were just like do I want to keep playing music? I played a couple shows but um, yeah, no time just kind of stops yeah time just kind of stops.
:Yeah, time did kind of stop and and months would stack up, but it's still. It would be like man. It feels like it's been forever. Also feels like it was like yesterday.
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:You know. So it's weird how, like I look back at it now and I'm like man, how lucky am I that I had that show, that moment with him, yeah, that I had that show that moment with him. He got to see that year prior he was at my album release. It was just so cool.
:He was such a big cheerleader for you. That was the thing I remember seeing him at your album release and just how your whole family was just enamored essentially. And so to have that moment, that had to be a driving force to get you back into it, like looking back at like I did this. My dad loved it, didn't have to wear his earplugs, you can really play it replaying all that stuff You're like I got it. That's what he wants me to do. Get back in music.
:Yeah, it had to general, like like shaking things or throw like slow down a little bit and just be like all right, you know, it's so easy to constantly be like what's the next, like finish line I can put out there to chase after, and you gotta have goals and stuff, but also, just like you know, f it like like let's live and soak some things in right, so I kind of made it, um, kind of made it a point.
:Once things caught up a little bit after the holidays and stuff and it kind of sunk in that dad was gone. Really, uh thought about how much support I had from him and my family, my mom, she's, she's amazing and they just like always supported me like chasing the music thing. In fact I was more the one like nah, that's, that's silly, I need to be more focused on this other thing. I mean, I went to school for so long, yeah, I was just like I need to be not doing the arts thing.
:But that's not a whole imposter syndrome that you mentioned the first time you were on. You know what I mean.
:Yeah, I fought it forever and uh um.
:Maybe I don't have it as much anymore, because I just don't even think about it as much. I'm more just like thinking about the experiences and what's happening. It also helped in a lot of ways to get over kind of the coming down a little from the high of like oh, the numbers are up and these things are really cool, and putting it all kind of in perspective. And so when 2023 was hitting, it was kind of like I knew I wanted to record some new music and we did, and I wanted to like experience anything and everything, right, like. So, like, slow down with my wife, let's go. What do we want to do? We planned like, uh, the honeymoon. We never got to do.
:Yeah.
:So uh, didn't play much music in 2023. Like we, we played a handful of shows. One of the cool ones we played in fort worth was the one you came out to lola's man. That was so much fun. Well, we kind of did the um, the the rocky comeback promo I was telling tim it's like I had so many people.
:Uh, it's the first time I like kind of tick-tocked a little bit and started doing the reels and I really hadn't done any music promo in like six months. I just kind of like went dark. You know, yeah and um, I popped back with like this gray nasty beard and people like how old are you, dude? I thought you were 25 are you?
:48. I'm like man, I've had like a lot of gray since college. Leave me alone. But I'm in my 30s now. But uh, um, we like everybody came out. I was like blown away, like I was emotional after the the lola show because I was like damn man, people still like give a shit, dude, it was packed too and it's it's in my opinion.
:I've been to a few lola shows and it's hard to pack that place out now, I feel like, because it's just you got inside and outside and it's just a big area. Yeah, there's a lot of fucking people there man the same night.
:Uh, co wetzel, who we? It's funny that was who we're talking about. He was at dickies arena that night yeah sold out. Yeah, like I don't know, like 14 000 people or something so half of fort worth was at dickies. Yeah, I just remember like finding that out the week of and I was like you gotta be fucking kidding me shit like this is gonna, there's going to be eight people at this show and it was packed and I was just like blown away.
:Um, it was really cool there, even though there was a photographer who came out and he was like hey, I was supposed to photograph the co-show and for some reason they wouldn't take my credentials and let me in, so like, can I just photograph yours? And we got like killer photos from that night.
:Things still align. That was really cool. Did y'all have like drink specials or something like that night? Right when they're like yeah, that shots.
:I don't remember what they were yeah, I don't either, but I remember I took all of them I drank whatever was on the menu a buddy of mine was helping promote it um at pearl snapped on instagram yeah, shout out steven, um, and he, uh, he helped promote it that night and like helped me put together the poster with, uh, my really good friend and now manager, ryan. Uh and um, we did like we took the picture outside of, like the bar across the street from my house and I just had like a fist in the air with my guitar and a beanie and I tried to have like rocky vibes with the hoodie on, like sweating out in the people like why is this guy in sweats?
:it is june in texas. Yeah, come on, buddy, um. But yeah, that was like a ton of fun and I can't even I'm trying to think. I played a handful of shows um to finish out the year.
:Yeah, rusty Nickel, there was one at Rusty Nickel.
:Yeah, I actually played the anniversary of my dad passing. Uh, we were like we got to do something fun and it was like last minute through that together. I actually booked that while we were in Europe, cause I booked I had like this really cool um event at tulips in town but I didn't have a lot of music booked throughout the rest of the year. I was kind of telling everybody no, um, being very selective, and so rusty nickels, amazing, like we love, love those guys over there you liked it.
:You told us about smokestack back.
:Yeah, yeah, yeah well, we've, we've done so much of it. We had our our like wedding reception. That was like months later after we got married. We had it there, much of it. We had our our like wedding reception. That was like months later after we got married. We had it there, so like we love it over there, um, but yeah, so when we're in europe, we were on like I want to say I think we're still in rome actually and we were like pretty wine drunk and we were up like there's like a lookout spot, like where there's like a wall I can't remember what it's called but like there's a lot of people like making out and stuff.
:I was like this is obviously like a place people go to be like romantic, um, and uh, we like I, I there was like a dj and my wife went to the bathroom and I like tipped her, like tipped the dj like 10, 10 euros or something. I was like, hey, can you like play a song? And I had him play, woman like you, yeah. Um. So she came back out and we like slow dance and everybody's like oh, and like they were like freaking out, like we were like two-stepping and like clapping for stuff. Really sweet moment.
:But anyways, I thought of that because, uh, I was like wine drunk and I was like messaging the girl who books at rusty nickel. I was like, listen, I know this isn't like a month, but I have to play a show and there's somebody on it. If I can get them to be willing to open for us and let us like play it and make it a free show, like would you be into it? And they were like so cool. They like, hey, if you can pull it off and the artist who's booked is down, we'll make it happen. And uh, um, it all worked out. So that was really cool.
:I got to introduce my parents to your music that night. They loved it.
:They were super into it that was awesome man, so that was a fun night. But yeah, it was crazy that happened. But yeah, going to Europe before that I mentioned that that was part of the just go live it. I remember looking at the flights and the planning was starting to rack up because we didn't use a travel agency. We're like we'll figure this out.
:Good on you.
:And we stayed in nine cities over 21 days and it was like, um, you know it's not cheap. Yeah, we did it like probably really cost effective, but you know, I just remember being like dad would just be like screw it, just go. Yeah, just go do it, just go do the thing. And actually we did a lot of traveling, even more than just going to Europe. We flew to Arizona just to play golf and see a John Mayer concert like last. April Just doing fun stuff man.
:We went everywhere Boston, portland, we went all over, like you were saying, yeah, just living it up, and so not as much traveling for music last year, uh, as opposed to the year prior.
:You gotta live some life we were living a lot and then hitting 2024 with like a an ep in the pocket and looking forward to playing more shows. And you got the single that just dropped. Yeah, yeah, just dropped. Um, always been this way and man, I just the timing worked out really well on that, like I wanted to uh, you know, make it like song of the summer type of vibes, you know it's like an upbeat song and felt like it would be really cool for, like, hitting summer.
:It's fun, I like it a lot, it's great and the response has been cool and we'll see if it gets playlisted or whatever. But I've kind of made top 10 playlist for something like that BMI, fresh Finds or something, some BMI playlist. Bmi is pretty cool because they know everybody in music. That was cool.
:Did it drop two weeks ago.
:What day is it? No, it dropped, it was Friday. It was Friday. Friday at midnight. I'm going to stop doing the midnight thing. I'm going to be like Thursday at 6 p. Okay, it was Friday. Okay, Friday at midnight. I'm going to start. I'm going to stop doing the midnight thing. I'm going to be like like like Thursday at six.
:Like. I just like here's like why does?
:everybody do. Like you know it's dropping on this date and it like means midnight, like as soon as it's like you know it was dropping, I guess. Uh, what was it Like the 19th or something of the date now?
:It's just what people do. It's like Thursday night and midnight. What they do is like why can't?
:I'm gonna. No, I'm gray beard, I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start dropping the song at like 3 pm on a Sunday, like when, when you're eating dinner.
:Gus is rebranding himself as gray beard, now Gray beard.
:Welcome to gray beard.
:Yeah, really proud of that song being out and looking forward to whatever it does. But just, it was a really cool process making it and we cut it. Like more than a year ago we did it with Josh Serrato. He plays for Coe Wetzel. He used to play for William Clark Green for a number of years. Josh is incredible. He's got a studio, melody Mountain Studios out.
:It's where they have Larry Joe Taylor.
:Festivallor festival. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's so cool. You like drive out to this pasture and you're like where am I? And then you roll up and there's just like this amazing studio inside and um used my guys, like um, the guys you've seen me play live with yeah, um nathan on drums, like he was killer. Um, he got he's got to do some brag on him. He got to do some really cool things, uh, in this last year. So that was playing a little less. He's played more with um some other artists and one of them, uh got to open for cody jinx at red rocks oh wow, that's pretty cool so he um.
:I now introduce him as nathan the red rocker zine.
Dustin's Theme Song by The Funky Panther:I don't do that, yeah yeah, if you ever really roll off the tongue. If he ever listens to this, he'll be really glad I did.
:I did that, so I don't have to pay him more, since he played Red Rocks.
:Good call, good call.
:Yeah, and then Cam bass player. He's like he got like an incredible job, like he's. He like has been a full musician forever and now he's like a manager of a bank in Dallas, out of nowhere, just like actually he got this job.
:He got like a job as like a teller, like the week we had album release and I remember him being like stressed out because we were like rehearsing stuff and everything like this, but he was like getting ready for these interviews. And now it's like, however, two and a half years later or whatever it's been, and he's like a manager of a bank and then he'll just like his. All the people from like origin bank will like come out to shows when we play, like we played a um, I'm trying to think like we would play like a hanks and mckinney or something, yeah, and like his co-workers would show up and I'm like this is like batman, changing really quickly he would like roll up for soundcheck like in a suit yeah and he's like I've got his stuff set up and he's like sweating and like just changing, like superman or whatever, getting ready to jump on stage, miss soundcheck.
:Sometimes just jump on stage and slay it. Um, so that was really cool. And then, uh, shane, who played lead guitar for me forever uh, he's incredible.
:And I was taking time off and there's a guy named canaan bryce and who was like um, he's on the road with a lot of these bands. They've been on the road a lot with a band called Pecos and the Rooftops and I don't know what happened. But he posted and was like hey, I'm looking for a lead guitar player. You've got to be a pro, blah, blah, blah. And I just immediately DMed him. I was like, dude, you're going to think this is a joke, but you should take Shane and go play with him, because he's too good to not be playing, because I'm not playing right now.
:And so shane's been playing shane's incredible shane, just they just got off the road they were in like north carolina, south carolina, like opening for picks on the rooftops and like kick ass shows. So they're doing that and it's um but it's his guitar on the ep. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and it was really cool this go around. Uh, on the album I didn't write a whole lot of lead guitar stuff, but on this go-around we didn't use AI.
:Look, I'm just saying if you need somebody to get you some AI music, I got you. It's going to get cheap in the studio.
:I'm just going to be like AI Jimi Hendrix, but no so. Shane was super cool. It was like a growth thing for us in the studio. I wanted to be really more involved in the guitar stuff and I'm an okay guitar player but, like you know, it's like when Shane's sitting next to you it's really hard to want to be like I'm gonna be the guy play the guitar. He's incredible.
:So I like sang the parts, I like would write the parts and I'd use my guitar and I like come up with these melodies. Some of those like solos are him right, but um on always been this way. It's like has like these na-na's, like these gang outros, yeah, and I wanted that to. Basically, we came up with that after I came up with the uh, the lead guitar part, but like the, it's just like na na, na, na na, and it was like singing these parts to him and he would play it and be like, okay, that's cool, and he'd mess with the tone and whatnot and and we have these like really cool videos I think it's in one of my reels or TikToks or whatever I posted and it ends with him like playing a lick and looks at the producer and the producer's like yeah, it was that moment he was like yeah, that was the take and I'm like sitting there singing to him.
:He's playing it, it's being recorded, you know, and tracked by the producer. It was a cool experience because I just felt way more involved with that. I'm very proud of it. But yeah, when we cut this EP got more songs coming out obviously in just a few days, but it was like the beginning of 2023. Just kind of sat on it.
:It was like when's it going to be the right time? So I may or may not have gotten a link from someone that I know to listen to some of the songs.
:And he may or may not have linked it to me.
:And I noticed that the upload on those were like eight or nine months ago.
:And I was like oh, shit, he's been sitting on this. Did y'all listen to them? Oh yeah.
:Yeah, my favorite's the little bit slower. I can't remember, yeah, yeah man I want to sit outside in the pouring rain and just cry like I like if I'm in a hurting mood. Yeah, just sit me outside in the middle of the field with the rain.
:You know that's a music video right there man, uh, you might get to be the star.
:We just like pop open a little bird, if you pull the funky pan Panther in a music video, we're going to love you forever.
:We might have to do that actually. That would actually be great.
:I'll grow my beard out, I'll look all disheveled.
:Man. That's Heart with a Hole's the next single release. Okay, it's good. It's definitely sad we're going to release that one. I'm just going to lay it all out. I haven't told anybody, this just dropped. Always Been this Way. We're going to release Heart With A Hole next month and then we're going to release Swimmer Sink, which is the other song these are big sounds.
:I'm really proud of it. And then we're working on. It's not done yet but it'll be whether it's all together or we'll do a separate like. There's these three tracks for the EP and I'm doing them again like stripped down, like acoustic piano fiddle, like that's like violin fiddle violin.
:I don't know how to distinguish Kind of like that up in Nashville. Yeah, I don't. I don't know how to distinguish kind of like that. Um, up in nashville, yeah, yeah, whenever you did that.
:Yeah, yeah yeah, so that was that was cut, just live. That was just me and a guitar live on three songs, but similar to that this will be. I don't think I'm gonna cut these live because, um, uh, I won't say who it is yet, but like like, I've got some like beasts sure yeah, be working on this, yeah that I'm really excited about, um. So yeah, I think it'll be cool, because these songs are like big and rocking and they're ready for radio swim or sink the guitar and that one is fantastic.
:Love that one. And then I love the. I'm gonna butcher the lyric but essentially like I don't know if I'm living or just dying slow yeah, such a that's.
:It is that it yeah a Is this living or just dying slow, I love that Can I shake the feeling in my bones.
:That just stuck with me. I was like God damn, that's good.
:Yeah, thanks. Well, all of those songs were gradually written over the last few years. There's different parts. You know what's funny when we got called back up after Javier's brief um stand up. Yeah, so we actually didn't have an encore planned that night and we're just like, what are we going to do? And I had started writing this song called always been this way, which we just released it. It was completely different than it is now. There was a lot of the same. You know, I'd say like 50 of the lyrics are the same, maybe, maybe less, but the music was probably like 30 the same. And I remember going up there and, like we hadn't rehearsed that for the show or anything, we were just like. We were like in a powwow. I was like what the fuck is Javier doing? God?
:damn it, Javier.
:He's buying us some time. What are we going to play? Shane, of course, is like let's just play Little Wing for like eight minutes. That's an idea.
Dustin's Theme Song by The Funky Panther:That's an option.
:We got to go up there and do something and we played Always Been this Way and I think we played a cool version of whatever we did, but we hadn't ever rehearsed it and got it ready for that.
:So it's funny that that's I remember it being good, I remember not knowing that song I was like this must be new.
:I think we did that, and then we did a Lenny Kravitz cover right after that. I think that's what we did. I think we did a Lenny Kravitz cover, yeah, but I mean.
:Shane wasn't wrong. You'd always do Little Wing, you'd always jump in the Freebird. I mean, there's always some staples that you could just Purple Rain. If you want to do a rendition of that, it's just funny.
:The guitar player will always be like Any suggestion hey, what should we do?
:Let's play do it.
:Y'all just hold it down. I got this and he does, but anyways, yeah, so Always Been this Way had been. I started writing that around the time the album came out and it just kind of, you know, had a whole batch of songs ready to record and pick from. But these days, like you know, it's like the problem with some of the songs on the album that I wanted to get a little more attention.
:It's a single-driven music era, which is wild. We've heard this from several musicians. Now, where it's in management groups, it's like you just got to pump those singles EP. Pump a few singles out, put an EP out. I blame TikTok, honestly.
:It's a short-form media. I want it honestly.
:It's a short form media. I want it right there. However, man, there are some artists that are getting some serious exposure blowing up Dexter to Moon Rocks, I don't know.
:Yeah.
:His social media. He's a drummer. Yeah, Started doing the whole like hot goth girl liking ourselves and started doing it. Just blew up like that and then sold you know sound out shows and stuff yeah, they're, they're, they're killing it.
:it's funny. I just uh, um, I I was chatting with the guys that were in the studio that like did their first record or whatever, and they were kind of talking about, like they, when they did it, I don't know that they knew like what sound they kind of wanted to have and they hadn't blown up yet. And now they're blowing up and I think we did that on purpose. That is our sound. We knew what we were doing.
:That's exactly what we were aiming for, but they're super unique.
:They have their own thing.
:They coin it as sad like Nirvana cowboy.
:Yeah.
:If you haven't checked them out they're.
:They're worth listening to they're good.
:Yeah, yes, I actually reached out to uh ryan, um, just kind of as they're starting to get up there, and he's like hey, you're coming through town because they're different, I think, abilene, and it's like you're coming through town, swing by, let's have you on or let me catch a, you know, short interview with you, whatever. And he hit hey, you got to run it through my manager. I was like oh man. And I get that If you end up seeing this.
Dustin's Theme Song by The Funky Panther:I'm sorry, he's a Fort Worth guy.
:Yeah, he lives here in Fort Worth. Okay, yeah, I have to reach back out to him. Ran into him at. Last time I saw him was at Nickel City After Joe P concert.
:I concert. I don't know if you ever heard of joe p. He's another guy who kind of blew up on tiktok, uh, towards the end of covid, like producing his own music. He was great, but anyways, yeah, he does the um, he does all the videos where it's just him like on the guitar, like in his yard.
:Yeah, um, I I stole the idea and slightly changed it for the stuff we're doing. I was like man, this is, this is really cool. He kind of always does the same thing he kicks a rug out, just walks up to the mic and starts playing, but it's usually always overdubbed right, he's just like he's actually doing it, but then he just puts the song right over it. So when I was like man, how am I going to start doing these like TikToks and reels for the single release Chelsea's my producer.
:She's holding the camera, but it's funny. She. She's holding the camera, but it's funny. She Amazoned in a Amazon, primed me a ring light stand and she was just like you need this Stepping up your production there. You need this you weren't going to order this for yourself, but big time production over there. But yeah, we just like Fancy. One day we were like, let's just go there across the street and just set it there.
:And I just walk up to the mic and just start playing. It like turned out kind of cool. Um, I don't have like a huge social media following, but if I did, man, I bet it would have blown. But that's the thing. It's like consistency.
:It's consistency, and in in one song, you know, yeah, and then all it takes is that one song for people to start picking up and start using it in their, you know, instagram or whatever, or their tiktoks, and then you just just like fuel to the fire at that point yeah, right, it's super cool because even if, uh, you know there's been a few that have you know a few thousand views or whatever, but, um, and some of them only have a few hundred, but every time I post something like there'll be somebody new, even if it's just one person that'll like message something or comment something, and they're like, hey, this is dope, I somebody today. Uh, I got like reposted by this guy. Really cool, follow uh country versus metal and he's like a metal guitar player yeah who dude?
:he? I think he has like four or five hundred thousand followers on tiktok. He's like maybe three or four thousand on um instagram, but he just does um like first reaction to songs and he'll just be like this song by Cody Jinks, this song by Zach Bryan, this song by Whiskey Myers. And he's done a handful of mine. I think the first one he did was Hard Times, my song, hard Times, and I think it's the reason why the streams went up on it was because he reviewed it.
Dustin's Theme Song by The Funky Panther:Oh shit, oh, I remember seeing that.
:He just does a verse and a chorus and he's like oh yeah, I really like this guitar lick or whatever he's doing. He's a metal guy listening to Texas music, texas country scene that's really cool. But there's people who message me I would have never found this if it wasn't for that. Really dig your music. Somebody the other day was like oh man, I just saw your sponsored. I always wonder about that. Some of the posts that I posted recently I'll put like what was it Pendleton? Well, there was that one. Yeah, that's a funny story. But yeah, like I'll throw like 10 bucks on a boost or something. Yeah, just like, all right, I'll just boost this for the next three or four days. So like it makes sure to get out there. I don't know how the algorithm works for a blue checkmark yet, so I think you have to pay for those now.
:Yeah, you do. Chad's got one.
:I got rid of it. I got laid off and I got rid of it. Doesn't it help, though I'm not official?
:anymore. It did. I got quite a few followers.
:You're going to get more in the algorithm, yeah.
:You're just going to. You are, and so sometimes I'm like maybe I the blue check mark it makes better business sense. It actually really right off, bro, it really does you're almost to the point where you should be getting one by yourself anyway. Right, like all you need. I think that it used to be. Anyway, as long as there were some people trying to act like they were you, you could. So all you need is a little couple of dummy okay, so mustin.
:So assy, y'all gonna make some and yeah so what you're saying? Dustin massey. Not official, that's going to be mine.
:I'm going to go Mustin Dassey and then just make it all him with your face. That's fine, I'll report y'all.
Dustin's Theme Song by The Funky Panther:That's what it takes. It's going to be me with a wig.
:Save me $16 a month on a blue check mark, you're welcome I appreciate
:that.
:I have to bring y'all some steak sandwiches as a thank you.
:I copied Joe P and just trying to do the same thing over and over again and it's been cool, got more stuff planned and I think I'm going to make. I was telling my wife the other day I was like we should just make my own music video With reelsels. Yeah, you should like. Like, like the um always been this way starts. It's like lying in bed, hardly sleeping, staring a hole through the ceiling, and it's like me in bed holding the phone face on myself, like singing it, looking up at the ceiling, and I just flip it around and like have a gif or a sticker or whatever, just go across with like a shooting star, hell yeah, and just like. It's like obviously, um, it's like funny because of how poorly made it is right, but it still would all be overdubbed dude, you could do like just 15 second or whatever bits and put those each out as a tiktok and then combine them into that's what you're saying like that's genius, because then you got.
:You just put twofold each one out and then put the whole thing out right, and then maybe just put the ones that did well out again.
:Right yeah.
:TikTok rules the world now man.
:Yeah.
:For like another year until they ban it. We'll see what happens. Yeah, yeah, crazy. I've seen Dune 2. I know how this works out.
:Is that what happens when we get rid of TikTok? When you get rid of TikTok, I actually think it's.
:Dune 1. Right. I mean, yeah, they correlate.
:That's what's coming, nice man, I was trying to find this band real quick, because you talk about releasing your own music video through Reels. I mean, that's kind of what. There was this band that did a song called who's Laughing Now and for the life of me I cannot remember and I hate that I can't remember it, but it was a brother and during COVID they needed something to do and they kind of started doing their own music.
:Yeah, Just drums and guitar right Drums and guitar.
:And um he they, they literally threw up a yellow back like piece of paper that went down and filmed in their garage. And they it was back when Tik TOK was doing the short form media more and not so much long, and so it was just like snippets of that music video and it I mean it just blew up, so all it takes man, I feel like I know who you're talking about.
:I can't think of them either dirt, dirt, dirty. Yes, yes, yes, yeah yeah, he's like a kind of uh like a bigger dude bigger dude, almost like a mullet glasses.
:Yeah, yeah, they're great, yeah yeah, awesome, yeah, but again. All it took was just that kind of like that vision and and it was a very short snippet, but it got. It had the hook and people got into it and started.
:That's all it takes man.
:Yeah, that consistency. And you start I say, do it, I just got to keep, just do it.
:You have to. I'll look at some of my friends who've like, started really blowing up and growing on it and, dude, they post like three to five times a day.
:That's a lot, and it is a lot, but like it gets so lost in the algorithm that I feel like you're not, like I'll see one and I'll be like this is from two weeks ago, you know. And then I go look and it's like you know, this was from nine days ago. Nine days ago, nine days ago, nine days ago in a row, days ago, nine days ago, nine days ago, nine days ago in a row, but I didn't see any of them. So I don't, I don't know the algorithm just show if you post three or four times a day. I don't think the algorithm just shoves all of those in a row.
:Well, to you in. Well, lou says lou we. I asked lou about that, lou charles, and he was like just once a day.
:Yeah, that's what he said just once a day yeah, but if I mean they're just going out there yeah and as soon as. Again, it's the algorithm. So you might like a certain video, so they're pushing one thing to you. Tim likes other shit that one might come to him. So the good thing about putting out three or four a day or whatever, is you're setting out just a wider net, is all you're doing.
:It's a lot more work.
:And your friends and your family and your actual fans might not see all of them, but you're setting out a wider net for more people to kind of get you on the radar.
:Yeah, but it's a, that's a lot. I believe the algorithm works similar to south park, where they uh I don't know if you remember, but it was I think it was like the. Uh, they had, um, the, the censorship or whatever. It's like the manatees picking, then they pick the ball and that's what gets, yeah there's some hamsters somewhere that are wandering through a maze, and that's how things work, obviously.
:Well, man, it's good to have you on, it's good to kind of catch up. We didn't even really talk about sports or anything like that, oh my gosh dude.
:We've got some big ball games coming up. Can we just?
:take the last few minutes and just hit up the highlights on what's going on with sports right now in the DFW area and how amazing it is right now.
:Yeah.
:I think we should do that.
:Yeah.
:But you just got to give me one second because I don't use the sports sound anymore and I've got it here. Sorry, javier, we're going to butcher your segment. And now Action Sports with Dustin and and chad hey, it's me chad.
:Hey, it's me dustin, and we're gonna talk about sports a little bit. So we have got two of our local teams here in the dfw area that are just absolutely fucking killing it, and I don't know about you, but I feel like they're feeding off each other's energy. Have you feel that too? Oh yeah, because it's like I'm one and two, I'm one and two, I'm two, and it's just like going back and forth. It's crazy. Um, have you been watching the entire series? Let's start with the stars. What?
:are your thoughts? I've been watching all of it okay, so let's start with the stars. Then, dude, hot has been killing it insane.
:You gotta be kidding me, man yeah it's been insane and uh to see uh deshane um at the end like win it yeah the other night was incredible after everybody was kind of pissed at him right, right, I was pissed overall, just because I mean, obviously it was a goal I, I pulled up social media and was like that was a goal, that was a goal and they didn't give it to us. And then you know, the last goal to close it out, in overtime too, that man, those guys were so exhausted, but they were pushing right.
:I was thinking about how they're used to every line being out there for a minute and a half or however long they're out there, but they were on their way to playing two games.
:Essentially.
:Also I called him DeShane and DeShane is my guitar player, deshane DeShane.
:DeShane guitar player. So I was out, uh, on may 5th I was at a concert. Yeah, uh, I'm in the factory in in dallas, or used to be the bomb factory. Stars are playing, playing against the uh golden, uh knights right, yeah, vegas golden nuggets golden nuggets anyways, yeah, nice, yeah.
:so they're playing that and I'm there's people in stars jerseys there, they've got the game kind of playing, but there's this concert going and we're I'm in the pit. They've got the game kind of playing, but there's this concert going and I'm in the pit. I've got my phone and I'm literally sitting there watching on YouTube TV watching the game, and there were several other people watching that last bit. I was like cool, all we've got to do is just win All we've got to do is just win.
:And then we win. I'm like game off.
:I can enjoy the concert now. Yeah, that kind of happened on the last game with the mavs on saturday, uh, so it's been kind of crazy because a lot of times the stars and the mavs are playing the same night and then you're kind of going back and forth looking forward to this next bit, because it's gonna be every single night back and forth we're gonna have from tomorrow.
:For the next two weeks we're just gonna have non-stop sports. But we were watching our buddy zeus play over at hop fusion and of course we're listening to him. But I'm also just staring at the TV because I think at one point we were like down by like I don't know 19 17, 17.
:Yeah, it was a lot and uh to come back.
:Man, it was crazy. What do you think about that? The last call, that?
:that is controversial man, so that was a foul come right, that was a foul fucking foul they like they paused it and the ball's still in his hand, but he's in the shooting motion. Yeah, you think about the NBA and the continuation. You get the dude's in the air shooting After he gets all ball. Then he's holding onto his forearm on the way down. I think even SGA was just like yeah, it sucks. It sucks is what it is, but it's hilarious that it ended on him fouling somebody. After all of those fouls, I mean, Luka complains a ton and it can get annoying, Of course, but also he's very justified a lot Like it's warranted.
:I think he's 6'8", like 250. It's just like these guys are bouncing off of him. You know he's like the guard version of Shaq.
:He's just so much bigger than them that he's not getting the calls and I I get it.
:He gets pissed, sometimes he flops and sometimes he's uh, he's just being a, you know, a new era complainer, right um you know you know, in the baseball world they're talking about, uh, bringing in ai and getting rid of umps.
:We heard have you heard that? I heard this because of how bad, like so, angel.
:Hernandez yeah, oh my gosh.
:So I've gotten onto somehow I got onto baseball bad ump calls on TikTok and some of the calls that happened, especially him, have been outrageous, and so they are actually looking into an AI. There'll be umps still, obviously right, but AI's tracking the ball and determining where the strike zone is and all that stuff.
:I don't know how I feel about that. I don't either. I like the idea of it being correct right. But I also like the human error sometimes when it works for you. Yeah.
:So what if, let's say, you know AI has been out for two years and it's like AI gets 98% of all calls right all the time. Are you like I like this? I don't know, if you knew it was going to be right all the time, I wouldn't know what the ratio is now I would want it to be more like 90 to 95 percent I think I'd be okay.
:But when you get up to like 98 100, it's like man. You take no human error, like everything is exactly what you see.
:I feel like that takes some of the enjoyment out of the game and it would also make it not necessarily make it easier to bet on, but I mean it would actually.
Dustin's Theme Song by The Funky Panther:Yeah.
:Because now you know, like this player's excellent, they're going to hit every time. There's not going to be this, you know. Whatever.
:Right, there starts to be some kind of coding bias of the AI.
:Oh shit, someone gets hacked and all of a sudden damn.
:You can't blame, you can't blame. We're going to be like blaming the AI, like we blame the zebras. I don't know man, but golly dude, the Stars Mavs. I think they're both taking the next round. They're going to be in the championship. You're not going to believe me. We'll look at it, I'll take it off and you can see it. This right here is my Lucky Dirt jersey. Yeah. No shit and I'm wearing it. It's got the tag on it You've talked about this jersey. It's on the back.
:It's very faint, but you'll see it when I'm done. And you mentioned that you wore it like a fool I'm just dumb. I've only worn it.
:This is only maybe the third time I've ever worn it. Yeah, but it sat in my dad's closet forever and he never put it in a case or anything. And when we move I'm framing it, I'm putting it. It's not getting worn anymore, but tonight I was like I'll wear it. I don't know if you've noticed.
:I haven't been leaning back in my chair a lot because I don't want to lean up against the censor. Smart, smart, those that are listening to us and those that end up catching this on YouTube. If you have any pull and can talk to Dirk, let's make that happen.
:so our boy Dustin, re-signed and Chad's got some rookie cards of Dirk that he'd like to get signed as well. Just FYI. You know, That'd be great. I mean, this is about you, but also about me, I think no, it's about all of us.
:We got Rangers World Series champs, we got Stars and we got Mavs Conference finals. We're going to go to the championship.
:Can you imagine the trifecta there and then and I'm just going to say, if we could get the Cowboys on board well, I made a deal with the Devil Guys last fall.
:Is that why we got Zeke?
:I remember telling them but it was like I would sacrifice the Cowboys We'll go another 30 years with no conference championships if the other three just can succeed. And it's happening. I'm like the simulation heard me Wow.
:Wow, this is your fault. Actually, I'm with you, though. Actually I'm with you. Though I'm with you, I'm okay with it. Three out of four ain't bad. Let Jerry suffer.
:Yeah, he's got it like. And then you got all the other squads. The Wings are good.
:Yes, the Wings are fantastic, the Renegades, I mean. Yeah, come on, women's basketball is just booming. It's getting crazy. It is Airlines, because it's just getting obnoxious.
:Yeah, we got to hit up Zach soon and see if we can. Let's make it happen. Let's meet some players.
:It's a great time to be from DFW. Oh yeah, and it's always great to be from Fort Worth.
:You're goddamn right. I think that's how we close it out.
:And that was Action Sports with Dustin and Chad.
:That is correct. Well, Dustin, where can people find you on all the social medias and all the things?
:At Dustin Massey, on all the things At DustinMasseyMusiccom and, yeah, check me out on Spotify and Apple Music and all that good stuff. The new song, new song. Always Been this Way. It's out there. Go play it on your playlist. Go stream it for me. I need that mailbox money because I got a baby coming.
:Hell yeah, let's make it happen. Well, thank you all for hanging out. Dustin, thanks for hanging out with us man Love you guys we appreciate you. Shout out to MQ Kitchens again. I cannot wait to dive in to the other half of this. I ate all mine. Yeah, I was not because I was talking, you were just being quiet, I was eating.
:Well, you can follow us on all things social media at the Funky Panther. You can find us at thefunkypanthercom. You can call text. Thank you, corey, for texting us 817-677-0408. He shouted out to you for your food recommendation last time with Michael Shit. What was the place? I already forgot the place. It was an Asian food place, asian nights. No, it was another one. Hold on, please hold, please hold Bangkok.
:House, oh, bangkok House. Yeah, that place is awesome. He loves that place. I ate that today.
:Thanks for the text, corey. Stay good everybody. I'm Chad.
:I'm Tim and I'm not Javier. I'm Dustin and we are.
:The Funky Panther.
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