Newborn Nights & ChatGPT Fights — We’re Having a Good Time Ep 163

• 0:00 Dad’s visit, getting him on the podcast, and why he keeps doing spots at Zanies.
• 4:00 Newborn nights, feeling useless with the baby, and hiring help.
• 6:00 Daisy says “let’s ask ChatGPT,” and 40 years without AI.
• 10:20 Making songs on Suno: Old Bill Jones and a bathroom ballad.
• 15:20 Rick Rubin’s floating ideas, joke stealing, and John Henry.
• 20:00 A Jack and Diane bit, the Michael J. Fox charity show, and Fox’s Instagram reply.
• 23:00 The Busboys premiere with David Spade and Theo Von, and old Spade movies.
• 26:50 Chuck E. Cheese food, trampoline parks, beef pepperoni and homemade pizza.
• 31:40 A $25 Wendy’s run the night the baby came, Five Guys and ML Rose.
• 36:00 A storm-wrecked garden, pawpaws, wisteria, and taking listener advice.
• 42:40 Paying a 15-year-old to shovel mulch, and a one-day skeet-throwing job.
• 52:50 A listener’s Leviticus 19 email, pulling the pears, the acorn mouse, and May dates.

ChatGPT — Used for an oak tree’s age and insect IDs, and now Daisy wants to ask it about storms. Official site 7:40

Suno — Where he’s been turning Old Bill Jones and an old bathroom poem into full songs. Official site 10:30

Wet Heat (Netflix special) — Where his Lowe’s and Home Depot bathroom jokes live. Netflix 13:20

The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin) — He bought it and Hannah read it. Amazon 15:30

American Fool (John Mellencamp) — The album with Jack and Diane. Amazon 20:00

Doc Hollywood (DVD) — He watched it at his dad’s house growing up and still loves it. Amazon 22:10

Back to the Future trilogy (Blu-ray) — The other Michael J. Fox classic. Amazon 22:35

Family Ties: The Complete Series — “Family Ties is great.” Amazon 22:40

Busboys (2026) — He hated the trailer and loved the movie: a dirty, joke-heavy ’90s-style comedy. Official site · Wikipedia 23:00

The Breadwinner (2026) — Nate’s movie, due the next month. Wikipedia 25:00

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Blu-ray) — His bar for a great comedy. Amazon 25:25

Tommy Boy (Blu-ray) — The other one Busboys isn’t, and that’s fine. Amazon 25:30

Joe Dirt (DVD) — He was a big fan. Amazon 25:50

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (DVD) — He thinks it’s really good. Amazon 25:55

The Benchwarmers (DVD) — He saw it in the theater with his mom. Amazon 26:00

Blurry Creatures podcast — Dusty was a guest; the episode is on YouTube. Official site 38:40

The Compost Company — The Nashville compost outfit that brought him compost and broken-down mulch. Not a paid plug. Official site 39:40

Getting his dad on the podcast — Not an interview, just a few stories from a retired insurance salesman. 1:00

Doing spots on a break — So the nerves don’t come back before a corporate gig. 2:40

Life before AI — Libraries, encyclopedias, and not always finding the answer. 9:20

Ideas are floating around — Grab one or someone else will, and why phone-only living makes everyone’s jokes the same. 16:20

John Henry and the steam engine — He beat the machine, then died, and the machine won. 18:50

Chuck E. Cheese food — Daisy told the sitter her dad says it’s garbage, and he did. 27:00

Beef pepperoni — He questioned a Hermitage pizza place more than once; they say there’s no pork in the building. 29:00

Making his own pizza dough — With his own tomatoes, basil, oregano, thyme and maybe rosemary in the crust. 30:10

Fast food prices — Two meals at Wendy’s for about $25, and he liked the burger. 32:20

Knowing he was getting better — After his ruptured appendix, when he started caring how he looked in front of the nurses. 35:00

Fresh versus broken-down mulch — A listener warned him off fresh-ground wood chips near the trees. 40:00

What to pay a 15-year-old — He worked it out from his old wages and settled on $20 an hour. 45:40

Skeet or clay pigeons — He still calls it skeet. 49:40

Leviticus 19 and young fruit trees — A listener’s email on not eating the first three years’ fruit. 53:00

Burying the acorn mouse — Back into a pot so it feeds the acorns it ate. 1:01:20

Buying tickets the right way — Use his site or the club’s, not resellers. 1:04:20

Zanies, Nashville (Official site) — spots during his time off, and cigars in the parking lot. 2:05

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — where the baby came, and where he had his appendix surgery. 31:50

Opelika, Alabama — no Chuck E. Cheese growing up, but Mr. Gatti’s and CiCi’s. 27:55

Hermitage, Tennessee — the beef-pepperoni pizza place. 29:35

Mount Juliet, Tennessee — ML Rose, where picky Daisy eats the whole burger. 33:25

Dallas — theater date May 1. 1:02:25

Houston — theater date May 2. 1:02:27

Los Angeles — May 4. 1:02:29

• No sponsor reads (0:00) — Dusty calls this an ad-free podcast; there are no third-party sponsor reads in the episode or the description.
• Tour dates (house plug) (1:02:20) — Dates read on air in April 2026, now past: Dallas May 1, Houston May 2, LA May 4. For current dates, use his ticket link. dustyslay.com/tour-dates · no code.