Where’s Dusty? Connor Larsen Fills In — WHAGT Ep 160

• 0:00 Connor fills in while Dusty has his third baby, plus the Dusty and Connor React show.
• 1:20 Spring in Tennessee: raised beds, drip lines, and a mower for a wedding gift.
• 3:00 Needham’s Nursery, native edibles, poison ivy, blueberries and the deer.
• 7:10 A garden path, and sending in your garden videos.
• 9:00 Dusty and Aaron Weber helped him start, and his first road gigs in Missouri and Kansas.
• 13:00 Opening in Dallas and Houston, and three tries at landing in Beaumont.
• 15:20 No black coffee, a very slow food truck, and why brunch is the worst.
• 20:30 Road playlists, Don Williams’ Cellar Tapes, JJ Cale and The Band.
• 27:20 Ringo’s country album, Tennessee Whiskey going double diamond, and Spotify rankings.
• 30:20 No cigar in subzero Dayton, Naples in December, and four seasons in Tennessee.
• 37:40 Rodney Carrington chasing the weather, Rome, New York, and the tomato man.
• 41:40 Local shops over big-box stores, airport prices, Southwest group C, and low expectations.

Epilogue: The Cellar Tapes (Don Williams) — Unreleased recordings found in his Tennessee home. Connor wants to surprise Dusty with it on a drive. Amazon 20:45

Red Headed Stranger (Willie Nelson) — One of the few country records Connor grew up with. Amazon 21:15

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks — “A real strange band, but they’re real cool.” Wikipedia 21:25

The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) — The old Dylan and The Band demos he brings up, which aren’t studio quality. Amazon 26:20

Look Up (Ringo Starr) — Ringo’s country album. Amazon 27:20

Traveller (Chris Stapleton) — The album with Tennessee Whiskey. Amazon 28:10

The Dusty and Connor React show — Their YouTube side show. Send in your garden videos and they’ll react. 0:30

Raised beds and drip lines — Year two, after getting his butt kicked in year one. 1:40

Mowing an acre with a push mower — Until his in-laws bought him a real mower instead of a wedding. 2:20

Native edibles — Pawpaws, ground cherries and blackberries. “I would love to have too many blackberries.” 3:50

Poison ivy is a chemical burn — A little bit, anyway. 4:50

Blueberries are divas — Acidic soil, peat moss, mounded for drainage. 6:00

Deer that bite every tomato once — So this year there’s a fence. 6:20

Don’t notice how much work it is — Until you’re 30% in and can’t stop. 7:30

Reps and being a decent hang — What a headliner wants from a new opener. 11:40

Brunch — The worst of both worlds. 19:30

Showing someone a song they don’t know — The best part of DJing on a long drive. 22:20

Live oaks — Beautiful, but about 200 years to grow a good one. 23:20

Sleeps, creeps, leaps — The garden saying, so maybe year three is the one. 24:50

Weather is just nature — So why is talking about it boring? 35:50

The tomato man — A neighbor who brings everyone bags of tomatoes because he has too many. 39:30

Set your expectations low — Then the airport can only surprise you. 46:20

Needham’s Nursery, Mount Juliet — his go-to nursery. “They’re good people.” 3:10

Springfield, Missouri — one of his first road gigs with Dusty, around 2017. 10:10

Beaumont, Texas — the windy landing that took three tries. 13:40

Dayton, Ohio — a beautiful theater right after the ice storm, at -3°. 30:40

Naples, Florida — a December show near where he grew up. 32:20

Toronto — family, and rough winters. 35:00

Rome, New York — “I went there once and it was tough.” 38:40

Reno, Nevada — a Thanksgiving casino show while opening for Rodney Carrington. 45:40

• 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.
• Dallas and Houston (house plug) (13:00) — Read on air in April 2026, now past: Connor opening for Dusty in Dallas and Houston, May 1–2. For current dates, see dustyslay.com/tour-dates · no code.
• Nashville Comedy Festival (house plug) (30:25) — Dusty has a show during the festival. Official site · no code.