You’re Not Who You Used to Be — We’re Having a Good Time Ep 191

• 0:00 Cold open on election day: technology advanced, integrity didn’t.
• 2:00 Casinos are stacked against you, and he still loves them.
• 3:00 Sinuses are better, cigars keep pouring in, and he still hasn’t lit one.
• 4:00 Sleep is healing him just in time for the road.
• 5:00 Oklahoma City: two theater shows (venue not named); Bricktown Comedy Club and the Looney Bin are past clubs he’s played.
• 7:00 Phoenix, and the long early drives out west.
• 7:20 The Low Country Comedy Tour with Vince Fabra and Evan Burke.
• 8:00 Jordan Jensen, Danny Green, Derek Humphrey and Hannah on that tour.
• 8:20 Seaside Repertory Theater on 30A, and Taylor Gates’ wealthy aunt and uncle.
• 10:00 First real road gigs, Christmas with Danny, and $30 tickets nobody bought.
• 11:40 Rain, cards, Grand Theft Auto, weed and cigars with the actors.
• 12:00 Montgomery morning news and the West Point Perot hat that brought him to life.
• 14:00 First time wearing the hat on stage at Crackers in Indianapolis.
• 14:20 Tulsa’s Sound Pony, then Springfield’s Blue Room with Christopher Michael Ray.
• 16:20 Bark Entertainment owns Springfield Comedy Club now.
• 16:40 Mescalero’s Inn of the Mountain Gods, then opening for two Super Troopers guys.
• 17:20 Phoenix Stand Up Live opening for the Dan Band, burned CDs and hat photos.
• 18:00 Tempe Improv and Desert Ridge Improv; Phoenix jokes about heat and time zones.
• 18:40 A fan at the Columbus Funny Bone gave Dusty the fish-hook hat off his head.
• 19:00 A plumber for a small main-line leak, and mold worries.
• 19:40 Book excerpt from page 27: stabbed with a number-two pencil on Halloween.
• 21:00 Weird press-tour week, and the Parnassus book show.
• 23:20 Hartford with Derek Humphrey, then Hershey with Cho, Nickerson and Crist.
• 24:20 Fort Lauderdale and Key West: toes in the sand.
• 25:00 Barnes & Noble on the pesticide clock, white chocolate mocha, hoping to meet women.
• 25:40 The Theater 99 date with Todd Barry, then Joe Dirt energy.
• 27:00 Years later she’s married with a kid; he’s still the same.
• 28:00 Sweating out a hangover with fertilizer bags, then a bookstore.
• 29:40 The blackout drive: Jeans Hopper, John Brennan, a Lithuanian woman and a bottle of wine.
• 31:20 Waking up on the way back from James Island, hitting the median.
• 32:20 Triple A changes the tire; the guy says he’s really drunk.
• 34:00 Gerald’s Tires: bent rim, two new tires, and a ‘woo, having fun’ slogan.
• 35:00 He stood his buddy up — except he didn’t: mud, ‘woo,’ and mom was there.
• 36:00 He’d kill 2010 Dusty and fade out like Back to the Future.
• 37:00 Fell flat on the wet porch, ran to the car, more mud on everyone.
• 38:20 Female firefighter sucker-punched him at Jeans; free bar tab.
• 39:20 Theo Von podcast retelling, and Rob’s version of the fire-starter joke.
• 41:20 Waffle House and Shoney’s with Stu Barber, who played for the Bills.
• 42:20 Stu booked Clapton and the Stones, managed the stadium under OJ and Jack Kemp.
• 44:00 ‘All right, tell me something’ — conversation practice with a grown man.
• 45:00 After Stu retired, Dusty wrote jokes over coffee and cigarettes at Waffle House.
• 46:00 IHOP in Mount Pleasant, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers and Wes Anderson.
• 47:40 Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums: the movie he never wrote.
• 48:40 Adaptation, About Schmidt, and eight years of drinking before comedy.
• 49:20 Halloween as All Hallows’ Eve, and why Old Testament feasts keep it simple.
• 51:20 Thanksgiving and Sukkot, Facebook page hacked, and ‘my own theology’ pushback.
• 53:00 Judaism and Christianity are different; he is not combining them.
• 54:00 The six biblical feasts, and Passover as communion.
• 56:20 Kids don’t dress up for Halloween; they move on.
• 58:00 Non-denominational church friends who mentored him, then backed away.
• 59:00 Jeremiah and the Christmas tree: cut, fastened, silver and gold.
• 1:00:20 The Trinity term: respectful emails, and God at the top.
• 1:02:00 Samson in Judges 13: don’t eat unclean things, and don’t sacrifice to the angel.
• 1:04:00 Human writers are just people; question everything.
• 1:05:00 Dusty thinks a recent plane crash “looks weird” and ties it to talk of 90 days without power (his theory; unverified).
• 1:06:20 Stock rice, beans, canned meat, water buckets from Lowe’s.
• 1:08:00 God’s mark is following the commandments.
• 1:09:20 Bass Pro Shop sleeping bags rated below zero.
• 1:10:20 Grain, a hand crank, unleavened bread over a flame.
• 1:12:00 Don’t let TikTok scare you; he may record another before the road week.
• 1:12:40 Lonesome Dove DVDs for the travel days, and sign-off.

• 5:00 Oklahoma City and Phoenix — Years of club history behind both cities.
• 7:20 The hat and the Low Country tour — Seaside shows with Vince, Evan, Jordan Jensen and company, and the Perot hat that became the bit.
• 29:40 A blackout Sunday in Charleston — Jeans Hopper, James Island, a bent rim at Gerald’s Tires, and mud all over his friend’s driveway.
• 41:20 Stu Barber — The old pesticide boss who played for the Bills, booked Clapton and made him talk over breakfast.
• 46:00 Art-house movies he never made — Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.
• 49:20 Halloween, feasts and the Trinity — Old Testament holidays instead of Halloween, and why he pushes back on the word Trinity.
• 1:05:00 Be prepared, not paranoid — Canned food, water, sleeping bags and grain, after a week of 90-days-without-power talk.

Making That Fudge and Son of a Ditch (his early albums) — Burned CDs he sold at Stand Up Live Phoenix with the Montgomery hat photo. dustyslay.com 17:36

We’re Having a Good Time: (And Other Stories…) (hardcover) — Dusty’s book with Shane Evans, out November 10. He reads a pencil-stab excerpt from page 27. Amazon 19:40

Wet Heat (Netflix special) — Dusty isn’t sure if he told the blackout-driving story on Wet Heat or Workin’ Man. Netflix 29:40

Workin’ Man (special) — His other hour; the full special is on YouTube. YouTube 29:40

Coffee and Cigarettes (DVD) (rec) — Jim Jarmusch’s film he loved while writing at IHOP. Amazon · Wikipedia 46:00

Broken Flowers (Blu-ray) (rec) — Another Jarmusch favorite from that era, with Bill Murray. Amazon · Wikipedia 46:20

Bottle Rocket (Criterion Blu-ray) (rec) — Early Wes Anderson, one of three he names. Amazon · Wikipedia 47:40

Rushmore (Criterion Blu-ray) (rec) — The second of the three. Amazon · Wikipedia 47:40

The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion Blu-ray) (rec) — The third. Amazon · Wikipedia 47:40

Adaptation (Blu-ray) (rec) — Closest match to the Nicolas Cage twin / plant-cover movie he remembers. Amazon · Wikipedia 48:40

About Schmidt (DVD) (rec) — The Jack Nicholson movie he loved. Amazon · Wikipedia 49:00

Below-zero sleeping bag (brand not named) — Like the ones he bought at Bass Pro Shop. Amazon 1:09:20

MREs (brand not named) — Part of the pantry he recommends alongside rice, beans and canned meat. Amazon 1:10:00

Lonesome Dove: The Ultimate Collection (watching now) — The DVD set he’s finishing on the road. Amazon · Wikipedia 1:12:59

Super Troopers (rec) — “I still like the Super Troopers movies.” Wikipedia 16:54

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (mention) — Came out after the three Wes Anderson films he names. Wikipedia 47:52

Low Country Comedy Tour — His early road package with Vince Fabra, Evan Burke and others, centered on Seaside, Florida. 7:20

Grand Theft Auto — What they played with the Seaside actors when it rained all week. Wikipedia 11:40

Joe Dirt — Taking a date back to the place she first saw him. Wikipedia 26:00

Back to the Future — Killing 2010 Dusty and watching himself fade. Wikipedia 36:00

Halloween — All Hallows’ Eve debates, and why his kids don’t dress up. Wikipedia 49:40

Sukkot — Dusty thinks the Feast of Tabernacles could tie in with Thanksgiving. Wikipedia 51:40

Trinity — Why he pushes back on the term while still affirming Jesus is God. Wikipedia 1:00:20

Samson — Judges 13: no unclean food, and sacrifices go to God, not the angel. Wikipedia 1:02:00

Meal, Ready-to-Eat — Shelf-stable food for a long outage. Wikipedia 1:10:00

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — Two theater shows (venue not named). Past clubs he’s played: Bricktown Comedy Club and the Looney Bin. Wikipedia · Bricktown Comedy Club (Official site) 5:00

The Sound Pony, Tulsa — Shows on early road trips. (Official site) 16:28

Phoenix, Arizona — Years of Stand Up Live, Tempe and Desert Ridge. Wikipedia 7:00

Seaside Repertory Theatre, Seaside, Florida — 30A home of the early Low Country Comedy Tour. (Official site) 8:31

Montgomery, Alabama — Morning news in the Perot hat, and the black-and-white promo photos. Wikipedia 12:00

Crackers Comedy Club, Indianapolis — First night wearing the hat on stage. (Official site) 13:51

Springfield, Missouri — Blue Room Comedy Club with Christopher Michael Ray; now Springfield Comedy Club. (Official site) 14:40

Mescalero, New Mexico — Opened at Inn of the Mountain Gods. (Official site) 16:40

Albuquerque, New Mexico — Opened for two Super Troopers cast members. Wikipedia 17:00

Stand Up Live, Phoenix — Where he opened for the Dan Band and sold burned CDs. (Official site) 17:20

Tempe Improv — Another Phoenix-area room that treated him well. (Official site) 18:00

Desert Ridge Improv — Also on that Phoenix run. (Official site) 18:00

Funny Bone, Columbus, Ohio — A fan at the Columbus Funny Bone gave Dusty the fish-hook hat off his head. (Official site) 18:40

Opelika, Alabama — His hometown. Wikipedia 21:20

Parnassus Books, Nashville — Book show on November 12. (Official site) 23:00

Belding Theater, Hartford, Connecticut — Nov 13: a theater show with Derek Humphrey. (Official site) 23:54

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — Barnes & Noble and the IHOP where he wrote movie dialogue. Wikipedia 23:40

Giant Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania — November 14 with John Crist, Henry Cho and Dustin Nickerson. (Official site) 24:00

Parker Playhouse, Fort Lauderdale, Florida — Nov 19, before Key West. (Official site) 24:20

Key West Theater, Key West, Florida — Fri–Sat, Nov 20–21: toes in the sand. (Official site) 24:20

North Charleston, South Carolina — Barnes & Noble and Waffle House on the pesticide clock. Wikipedia 25:00

Theater 99, Charleston — Where he took a bookstore date to see Todd Barry. (Official site) 25:40

Goose Creek, South Carolina — The ice cream shop where she worked. Wikipedia 26:20

James Island, South Carolina — Blackout drive, Earth Fare parking lot, and where he lived. Wikipedia 31:20

Summerville, South Carolina — Shoney’s with Stu. Wikipedia 43:00

The Bottling Plant Event Center, Opelika — The old Coca-Cola plant where he’s done shows (he calls it the Bottling Company Event Center). (Official site) 21:20

None this episode.

• 0:00 Dusty Slay — His profile page, all the We’re Having a Good Time notes, and his tour dates. The Comedian List: Dusty Slay · All We’re Having a Good Time notes · Tour dates
• 7:20 The Low Country Comedy Tour — Early road shows out of Seaside, Florida. Seaside, Florida on Wikipedia
• 17:20 Stand Up Live Phoenix — The room where he opened for the Dan Band. Stand Up Live Phoenix
• 26:00 Todd Barry — The Theater 99 headliner on that bookstore date. The Comedian List: Todd Barry
• 46:00 Jim Jarmusch and Wes Anderson — The art-house movies he wanted to write like. Jim Jarmusch on Wikipedia · Wes Anderson on Wikipedia
• 49:20 Biblical feasts — Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. Jewish holidays on Wikipedia
• 1:02:00 Samson — Judges 13 and the angel who refused worship. Samson on Wikipedia
• 1:09:20 Emergency preparedness — Rice, beans, water and cold-weather sleeping bags. MRE on Wikipedia
• 1:12:40 Lonesome Dove — The miniseries he’s finishing on the road. Lonesome Dove on Wikipedia