Farm Life & Cashless Society — We’re Having a Good Time Ep 157

• 0:00 Colorado base dates, and back from McMinnville: tree cages, cardboard and salamanders.
• 4:20 Watering bags, swales, and the frost that usually comes.
• 6:20 Neighbor Donald, Wilford Brimley, Columbo and Westerns, and old-timer knowledge.
• 10:00 A cashless sign in California, the mark of the beast, and property taxes.
• 15:40 Dark times, “this is our Super Bowl,” and not trusting the monetary system.
• 18:00 Collins River BBQ, the tall waiter, and Connor Larsen.
• 22:50 Juicy’s, Begonia’s, the Waffle House rule, and being a control freak.
• 27:40 The Coffee Cat, the Tammy’s sign, and a lost raw milk map.
• 29:20 Raw milk, Farmageddon and Food, Inc., and not trusting documentaries.
• 34:00 Billings: a stranded opener, a polar bear story, and a 90-minute set.
• 39:40 Livingston’s egg waffle, “Dusty Lay,” and a sold-out Mother Lode in Butte.
• 46:20 A listener’s novel: how headliners pick openers, clips, Kill Tony and Fiona Cauley.

Tree watering bags — Closest match to the slow-release bags he’s trying on trees that aren’t on the swales. Amazon 4:30

Columbo: The Complete Series — He’s been watching a lot of Columbo. Amazon 7:00

Farmageddon (documentary) — About how hard the government fights raw milk. “Worth looking at.” Wikipedia 31:30

Food, Inc. (DVD) — The other documentary that was big for him. Amazon 31:45

Collins River BBQ, McMinnville — His first McMinnville restaurant. He gets the chicken fingers. Official site 18:10

YouTube Premium — His answer to people who complain about ads on the video podcast. Wikipedia 55:00

Cardboard under tree cages — To block weeds now and build soil later. 2:10

Salamander habitat — If he found salamanders under a log, he put the log back. 3:40

The last generation that knows — Old-timers’ remedies and robins in spring, before everyone just asks ChatGPT. 8:00

Going cashless — Less robbery, but every purchase can be tracked and taxed. 10:40

Rising property taxes — Hard on someone on a fixed income with a paid-off house. 13:00

Hard times create strong men — And where he thinks we are in that cycle. 16:50

A barbecue place for a non-pork eater — Brisket, a smoked burger, or chicken fingers. 20:00

Fingers in the cups — The Waffle House story: no amount of training fixes that. 25:00

Doing it himself — Why he’s bad at delegating, even to his kids in the garden. 26:10

Raw milk — Nobody warns you about McDonald’s, but everybody warns you about raw milk. 29:20

Dusty Lay — A cowboy in Livingston got his name almost right. 42:20

Humid summers, dry cold winters — The weather he’s all about, like Butte at 30 degrees. 45:50

Electroculture — Copper wire in the garden. He may still do it. 45:20

How headliners pick openers — Do well, match his energy, keep politics and anti-religion bits out, and hang after the show. 49:10

Clips are gold — Film the headliner’s set and your own, write constantly, and post. 1:01:00

Losing the next class of comics — When comics open for comics, nobody learns in front of a cold crowd. 1:03:00

Wisteria out, figs in — He dug it up and potted it. 1:07:50

McMinnville, Tennessee — his farm. His top three are Begonia’s, Collins River and Juicy’s, plus the Coffee Cat and Tammy’s. 1:20

Opelika–Auburn — his hometown area, with no good juice place. 23:20

Billings, Montana — a 90-minute set, one of his best in a long time. 34:10

Livingston, Montana — where real cowboys are, Will told him. There’s a coffee shop with an egg waffle. 39:50

Mother Lode Theatre, Butte — a 100-year-old theater, sold out, and photos on the roof. 44:20

Butte, Montana — one of his favorite spots: an old copper-mining town. 43:10

Zanies, Nashville (Official site) — where he first met Fiona Cauley. 1:04:20

• 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.
• Colorado dates (house plug) (1:00) — Read on air in March 2026, now past: Air Force base shows in Colorado Springs and Aurora. For current dates, see dustyslay.com/tour-dates · no code.
• The book (house plug) (47:20) — We’re Having a Good Time, due in November. Amazon · no code.