Hot Springs regulates between tourist-economy dependence and Garland County community. Central Avenue rooms fill with visitors chasing bathhouse nostalgia, while West Mountain hosts the locals who live here year-round. Bathhouse Row draws the history seekers. Park Avenue keeps the neighborhood energy. The comedy here navigates the tension between serving the visitors and honoring the permanent. Open mics become the space where both economies sit together. The comics who honor Hot Springs' dual identity find audiences grateful someone saw the working town behind the resort—the one that stays when the tourists leave.