The Connor Larsen Show

I knew nothing about "land reclamation" two weeks ago. Turns out we've been quietly MAKING land — out of swamps, mudflats, and open ocean — for centuries. The Lincoln Memorial, Ellis Island, LaGuardia, and roughly a third of Manhattan are all built on filled-in muck. This week i kept going down this rabbit hole to find out how the Mississippi built Louisiana and how we broke it, why...

This weeks episode is the 2nd half of what im growing in the garden, how europeans were terrified of tomatoes, the three sister, seed saver exchanges, why the intentionally make food taste worse for the supermarket and how its not as crazy you think. Also i talk about doing comedy at the comedy mothership, austin, rabbits, some other fun stuff.  Check it out The Connor Larsen Show  🌐 ComedianConn...

It's mid-June in Nashville, my garden is finally cashing in on all the spring prep — this week i did a deep dive on everything I'm currently growing. A lot of fun stuff in here. Flowers people look down on for being too easy. The strawberry that didn't exist 300 years ago until a French spy smuggled one across the ocean. How watermelons used to be pale and were getting stolen all th...

I love mowing the lawn but I also think the lawn is completely insane so i did some research and its actually way crazier. The lawn we know started as a rich-guy flex then became a great place for bio warfare chemicals to have second acts plus allow HOA's to fine or jail people for growing vegetables. Craziness, i had fun researching this though.  Thanks for watching! Here's where to fin...

I tried to dig out all the big old shrubs and stumps in my backyard, got poison ivy, and spent two full days using the wrong shovel before a friend handed me a pick and changed my life. Which got me thinking: I can't be the first guy to stand in a hole and go, "there has to be a better way to do this." This week i deep dived moving dirt, we go down the rabbit hole on the history of...

I taped my special this week and didnt have time for a proper deep dive but i got some good ones coming up! Instead of a deep dive im doing more yapping about comedy and how crazy but also great it is. A lot of fun stuff in this one, casino gigs on thanksgiving, german tourist audiences, david copperfield's crazy theatre. i hope you like it, i'll see yall next week! 🎟️ Catch me live: I&a...

When i started comedy i lived on a 16-foot sailboat in Toronto with a pee bucket and a spider problem, trying to figure out how to do stand-up. This month is very hectic so no deep dive this wee — just fun stories from my 10 years doing comedy. I'll be back with a deep dive next week. Thanks for listening. 00:00 Why this week is different  01:17 Comedy is like going to prison  04:58 Moving to...

HERE IS THE CORRECT EPISODE 6 AUDIO LINK. I accidentally uploaded episode 5. Thank you Nick for noticing and sending me a DM. thanks everybody for listening Connor's favorite website on the internet is Craigslist — it's ugly, it's been the same since 1996, and it's run by a 42-year-old dork named Craig who turned down billions to keep it that way. This week, Connor digs into wh...

Bees good, wasps bad — that was genuinely all Connor knew going in. What he found was that every civilization in history, independently and without talking to each other has been obsessed with these little creatures. The Egyptians. The Romans. The Celts. The Mormons. Napoleon. DARPA. All of them are obsessed with bees and the fact that we aren't might be part of a larger problem.  Thanks for...

This week Connor digs into the invasive plants, especially the ones in Tennessee — and how almost every one of them got here because some guy went "this'll be great" and the government paid for it. In this episode: - Why kudzu is the Kardashian of invasive species (famous, but not actually the worst) - The tree in Connor's backyard the USDA officially describes as smelling like...

I charred a garden bed i built for my wife with a Japanese technique called yakisugi. This episode i got very into old preservation techniques and learned cool stuff about ancient Tokyo's firesfighters, an 800 year old korean book, Venice's wooden foundations, and 1,400-year-old earthquake-proof temples. Old people figured out a lot of stuff.  Thanks for watching! Here's where to fi...

In 1992, Neal Stephenson wrote a novel about a broke pizza delivery guy living in a storage unit inside a world run by corporations — and Silicon valley was like awesome lets do that. This episode is about the book Snow Crash and how it predicted the metaverse, corporations becoming bigger than nations, meme warfare, and the gig economy. plus a insane but real corporate city in Honduras. Incredibl...

I got treepilled when i turned 30, hear me talk about how and all the things im trying to grow this year plus why TN rules for gardening. Thanks for watching! Here's where to find more of Connor: 🎤 Website for live dates — ComedianConnorLarsen.com  📸 Instagram — instagram.com/connorlarsencomedy  🎵 TikTok — tiktok.com/@connorlarsencomedy  📺 Watch "Dusty and Connor React" with Dus...