TSA PreCheck & Trusting Nobody — We’re Having a Good Time Ep 156

• 0:00 No cigar today, and where enjoying something ends and addiction begins.
• 2:50 A heroin-weekend story from LA, the crack joke in Wet Heat, and Mitch Hedberg.
• 5:50 Spelling words around the kids, praying through the drinking years, and Paul on the flesh.
• 10:20 Saying “geez” less, and the pork comments.
• 15:00 Why they left the old house: the cul-de-sac, the cat guy, and a revolving door of neighbors.
• 20:50 An expensive cleaning bill, and a TikTok comment from someone who cleaned the house.
• 25:00 CLEAR versus TSA PreCheck on Public Figures, and signing up for CLEAR at Clusterfest.
• 32:20 Privacy and the machine, Real ID, and paying to skip the line.
• 38:00 Admirals Club attitude, Southwest directs, and Montana this weekend.
• 40:40 Wired headphones, Bluetooth and vertigo, and the village comedian dream.
• 47:40 Biscuits and “bondage,” then Poughkeepsie, the Cigar Vault, Saugerties and the Egg.
• 55:40 The robe, seed pods, wisteria, AC’s in Charleston, rednecks, and the Opry.

Wet Heat (Netflix special) — Where his crack joke is. Netflix 4:30

CLEAR — He signed up at the San Francisco airport to make a flight, never cancelled, and now pays for it. Official site 26:00

TSA PreCheck — “A real game changer” if you fly every week. Official site 27:00

Beats noise-canceling headphones — Closest match to the Beats he uses, always with the wire plugged in. Amazon 46:15

Seed starter pods — He’s been getting his little seed pods ready and planted lettuce and corn in them that day. Closest match; he doesn’t name a brand. Amazon 56:40

Aces (Suzy Bogguss) — The album with Someday Soon. “That whole album’s really good.” Amazon 1:03:10

Nolan’s Cigar Bar, Traverse City — The Traverse City cigar bar he got the name wrong on last week. “Really great place.” Official site 51:35

Enjoyment versus addiction — If your life is falling apart and you keep doing it, that’s addiction. 1:20

Spelling words in front of the kids — Now he does it everywhere. 5:50

Paul on the flesh and the spirit — Knowing what you should do and not doing it. 8:20

Saying “geez” less — Not swapping in another word, just reacting less. 10:20

Pork and the New Testament — Welcome to the new listeners who just found out he doesn’t eat it. 13:10

Watching a neighbor’s cats — No: cats kill the birds and the rabbits. 16:30

A revolving door of neighbors — Why the old neighborhood stopped feeling like home. 18:30

Why he doesn’t trust anyone — A former cleaner commenting on his house on TikTok. 22:50

Minimal airport security — A metal detector and that’s it. 26:10

Opting out of the scanner — They make a big show of it, so you just go along. 28:20

The third party on privacy — He doesn’t like it, but the machine is already in motion, so he picks his battles. 32:20

Paying to skip the line — First class, hotel status, rental upgrades: that’s life in America. 37:00

A coworker who reported back — The pesticide-sales rep who got him to complain about the boss, then told the boss. 41:30

Bluetooth and vertigo — Twice with Bluetooth earbuds, and none since he switched to wired. 44:50

A village comedian — Horse and buggy, a clean stream, jokes around the campfire. 47:00

Biscuits cooked in lard — Skipping them isn’t bondage. 47:50

Announcing the cigar hang from stage — About 20 people came. Next time, mid-show. 50:40

Just a well-known guy — “Dusty?” “Yeah.” “All right.” 53:20

Real rednecks versus rich rednecks — A four-door Pontiac with a smashed headlight, versus a jacked-up Silverado. 1:00:40

Taking Daisy to the Opry — So she actually watches him this time. 1:03:40

San Francisco — Clusterfest in 2019, and signing up for CLEAR at the airport. 30:00

Salt Lake City — where he got vertigo the first time. 45:10

Poughkeepsie, New York — his first show there, then a hang with about 20 people at the Cigar Vault in Eastdale. 49:40

Saugerties, New York — the Starway diner, where a stranger at the bar knew him. 52:10

The Egg, Albany — a very cool show with Derek Humphrey and Ian Fidance. 55:20

Charleston, South Carolina — AC’s Bar and Grill for a late burger, plus the Upper Deck and Cumberland’s. 57:50

Grand Ole Opry — his spot that night with Suzy Bogguss and T. G. Sheppard. 1:02:50

• 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.
• Montana dates (house plug) (40:20) — Read on air in March 2026, now past: Billings on Friday and Butte (likely sold out) on Saturday. For current dates, see dustyslay.com/tour-dates · no code.
• The book (house plug) (52:40) — His book, We’re Having a Good Time, is on pre-sale. Amazon · no code.