Everything Comes Back Around — We’re Having a Good Time Ep 168

• 0:00 Views doubled last week, the plaque on the wall, and why he pays for YouTube Premium.
• 4:00 The book on pre-sale, Workin’ Man back from Netflix and up on YouTube, and Wet Heat’s lease.
• 6:20 Hosting the Monday open mic at the Upper Deck on King Street in Charleston.
• 12:20 Business cards with show dates, the night Aziz Ansari did the open mic, and real comedy fans.
• 17:20 How the podcast began in 2018 with his wife, talking faith on the show, and his TV sets.
• 23:40 The rat house, a chapel wedding, and stolen packages in Hendersonville.
• 27:00 The Sergeant Jasper, Folly Beach, and the best friend you drift away from.
• 31:20 Why he started the podcast, West 46, buying a house in Hermitage, and just being nice.
• 39:00 Property taxes and Nashville mayors.
• 42:00 Finishing Ecclesiastes: fear God and keep his commandments.
• 48:20 Jacob, Esau and the lentils, trading tomorrow for today, and rethinking “no regrets.”
• 1:01:00 The Spindrift episode, reading the comments, and the sign-off.

YouTube Premium — Not a paid plug: it’s just the only way he watches YouTube now. Official site 1:00

Dusty Slay: Wet Heat — His second Netflix special. The two-year deal is up in July, and it may come to YouTube too. Netflix 5:00

Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series (DVD) — Aziz Ansari wasn’t on it yet when he did the Upper Deck. Amazon 13:20

Lights Out with David Spade — One of the TV sets he lists. Wikipedia 22:40

Apple AirTag — His idea at the apartment meeting: hide one in a box and catch the package thief. Amazon 25:20

Clerks (15th Anniversary, Blu-ray) — The Sergeant Jasper’s little convenience store felt like Clerks. Amazon 27:40

KJV Pew Bible, Large Print — He just finished Ecclesiastes and reads 12:13–14 in the King James. Amazon 43:00

Business cards with show dates — A friend’s tip: dates make you hand them out instead of hoarding them. 12:20

Suno songs — Writing AI songs on the road after shows, and why his creativity for them has dried up. 19:40

Just be nice to people — Make friends at the front desk; don’t give in order to get. 36:00

Property taxes — His case that nobody should pay them, and cities shouldn’t hand big stores tax breaks. 41:00

Bible like Netflix — Too many books to choose from, so just pick one: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Matthew or First John. 43:20

Jacob and Esau — Selling a birthright for lentils, and how we trade tomorrow’s blessing for today. 48:20

“No regrets” — Why he now thinks that line leaves God out of the picture. 55:20

Charleston, South Carolina — the Upper Deck on King Street, where he hosted the Monday open mic around 2008–2009. 6:20

Theatre 99, Charleston (Official site) — the improv theater; his business cards plugged a show there. 12:40

Hendersonville, Tennessee — the first apartment after the wedding, where packages kept getting stolen. 25:00

Folly Beach, South Carolina — the year that changed him, for the worse. 27:20

James Island, South Carolina — moving in with Mike and Will after Folly. 30:00

Springfield, Missouri — the meet and greet where he decided to start a podcast. 31:40

Hermitage, Tennessee — the house that cost less a month than West 46. 35:20

Nashville, Tennessee — the property-tax rant and the mayors. 39:30

• 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.
• Dusty’s book, We’re Having a Good Time (house plug) (4:00) — Pre-sale. Amazon · no code.
• Workin’ Man special on YouTube (house plug) (4:20) — Back from Netflix and now on his channel. YouTube · no code.
• Workin’ Man (sign-off plug) (1:03:20) — “Go watch my special Working Man, now on YouTube.” YouTube