We Had a Baby! — We’re Having a Good Time Ep 161

• 0:00 We had a baby, thanks to Connor Larsen, and a solo drive with cigars and country music.
• 1:40 Induced two weeks early: Sonny Ray, and now Daisy, Sammy and Sonny.
• 4:10 Walmart with three kids, the Ampex hat, WestPoint Pepperell, and Chuck’s Bar-B-Que.
• 8:40 Too much technology in the womb, the podcast as community, and cigars.
• 11:40 Backyard wildlife, then sellouts in Paducah and at the Factory in St. Louis.
• 14:50 Helium, the Funny Bone, and the St. Louis trip where his appendix started to go.
• 19:10 Nashville Severe Weather’s apology hats, hundreds of acorns, and a St. Louis cigar hang.
• 23:40 Seeds, compost, Back to Eden, and painting a picnic table with Daisy.
• 26:00 Artemis II launching on Passover, and Mars fantasies.
• 35:40 Passover, communion, and a new baby during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
• 41:30 Stars through a telescope, Five Card Stud, and ripping DVDs for flights.
• 49:00 Rogan and Theo on Nashville versus Austin, the clean scene, and moved club dates.

Back to Eden (documentary) — The compost-then-mulch, no-dig method he’s trying. Amazon · Official site 24:20

Five Card Stud (1968, DVD) — The first Western he’s watched that he says “sucks.” Amazon 45:40

Wired noise-canceling headphones — Closest match to what he uses on planes: plug in, no Bluetooth. Amazon 48:00

Bluebird house — Closest match to the eastern bluebird box where chickadees just nested. Amazon 12:05

Nashville Severe Weather — Sent apology hats and stickers after their spat over the ice storm. He says they’re worth a follow. Official site 19:20

Driving alone with a cigar — Country music on the backroads, and it doesn’t get better. 1:20

Too much technology in the womb — Enough to see inside, not enough to know what to do with it. 9:00

Am I doing too many cigars? — Maybe. Now that his digestion’s fixed, he can’t blame them anymore. 10:40

A Factory sellout plaque — The venue says it’s his second sellout. He didn’t know about the first. 14:00

A ruptured appendix that healed wrong — It healed itself, then attached to his colon and small intestine. 18:20

Oak bonsai — Hundreds of acorns in pots and boxes, and a plan to try bonsai. 21:40

Artemis II on Passover — Why he isn’t buying it, and why he wants video. 27:00

Andrew Millison’s videos — Reforesting deserts in India and Africa, in place of Mars. 31:50

Passover instead of Easter — The lamb, the bread and the wine, once a year. 35:40

Having a baby during the Feast of Unleavened Bread — Everyone brings you bread. 39:40

Stars through a telescope — Zoomed-in star videos that look alive. 41:40

Rip, don’t burn — Loading DVDs onto a hard drive for flights, so there are no announcements and no failed downloads. 46:30

Nashville’s clean comedy scene — Green rooms where everyone’s nice to each other, and a good night for the audience. 53:40

Famous enough to sell tickets — He’s where he wants to be. 55:40

Three kids, at least — His case for big families. 59:20

Paducah, Kentucky — a near or full sellout, then a downtown cigar bar that stayed open late. 12:40

Cairo, Illinois — on the backroads to St. Louis, “scary as ever.” 13:30

The Factory — in Chesterfield outside St. Louis: his second sellout, over 2,000 seats. 13:50

Helium Comedy Club, St. Louis (Official site) — his open mic around 2016. 15:05

St. Louis Funny Bone (Official site) — late 2020, the weekend his appendix started to go. 15:10

Opelika, Alabama — the old-school Walmart, his mom’s Ampex job, and Chuck’s Bar-B-Que. 4:30

Comedy Mothership, Austin (Official site) — Rogan’s club, where Dusty sold out a weekend. 55:10

Zanies, Nashville (Official site) — Nashville’s only club, with two rooms. Dusty has a show there April 14. 52:30

Third Coast Comedy, Nashville (Official site) — mostly improv. He heard they moved. 52:45

The East Room, Nashville — a good open mic that’s been around a long time. 52:50

Magooby’s Joke House, Baltimore (Official site) — one of the club dates being moved. 1:03:30

The Comedy Zone, Greensboro (Official site) — also being moved. 1:03:35

• 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.
• Upcoming dates (house plug) (1:01:40) — Dates read on air in April 2026, now past: Zanies Nashville April 14, the Michael J. Fox fundraiser April 13–14, Dallas May 1, Houston May 2. For current dates, see dustyslay.com/tour-dates · no code.
• Moved club dates (house note) (1:03:10) — Syracuse, Toledo, Magooby’s in Baltimore and the Greensboro Comedy Zone are being moved, and two may be cancelled. Refunds come through the original seller.