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Nov 01, 2023•23 min•Season 2023Ep. 59
To Hear Me Tell It
Travel back in times with Jerry Daniels, as he shares his stories (To Hear Him Tell It), of being raised in Butler GA as the son of a small town Grocery Man. He up and runs off to enlist in the Navy, where he serves some 26 years before moving back to America with his wife of 35 years and children. Jerry flavors his stories with a bit of Lewis Grizzard and Jeff Foxworthy, but tell his stories in such a way that will make you have flashbacks and leave you laughing and shaking your head.
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Insurance is a Scam
Send us a text Insurance and Lawyers are worthless until you need them. And the Insurance Industry is the only entity that can openly discriminate based on statistical data, whether it be age, sex, life-style, race, etc., they can adjust and/or base the premium solely based upon predictable outcomes. Why the hell has my premiums (auto) gone up again? Damn 26.75% increase with zero explanation. Something has got to change....
Oct 25, 2023•30 min•Season 2023Ep. 58
McRae Georgia, was but a blink
Send us a text I regret not talking more to Mama and Daddy about our past. The why's and why not's? How come, and when? The details of our family past which are now spotted with blanks and gaps I'll never be able to fill in. In our family past, there was a brief period of time when we lived in McRae Ga, and Daddy either owned or just operated the Cook's Superette. It was here that I attended part of the 1st grade and all of the 2nd grade before we moved back to Butler Ga. A lot happened in just ...
Oct 18, 2023•31 min•Season 2023Ep. 57
Machine Guards are in place for a reason
Send us a text Mama used to say: "if fifty youngons was playing, you're gonna be the one get hurt." She was right most of the time, on account I took a lot of risk, as trial and error was a good classroom and a very effective way of learning. Looking back now, I bet Mr. and Mrs. Brown felt bad. Poor Mama got all banged up running up the sidewalk (for reasons she never could explain). Daddy found out just how fast that Chevy Impala would go, and we met the infamous Doctor Dickie in Columbus Georg...
Oct 11, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 56
All Teachers Make an Impression
Send us a text Growing up, we spent more time with school teachers than we did with our parents. And the fact of the matter is: Teachers are in the position to make an impression upon what is a "captive audience." Believe me when I tell you, a many of teachers most certainly make an impression upon me. The world needs more Dwight Harris' Jack McGlaun's, Everett Byrd's, Vicki Russell Yoe, Verna Griggs, Betty Allen's, Albert Obyant's, Georgia Woodall, Anna Gerald, Linda J. Green's, and Clarence Ma...
Oct 04, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 55
Quick Don't Mean It's Good
Send us a text The 60's and 70's brought us many things. Elvis, Tom Jones, long hair, platform shoes, bell-bottoms and some other really really bad fashion movements the nation has known. But we sure as hell didn't wear our pants down past our ass-checks. Food Service Industry was moving at a rapid pace, and the engineering advancements with flash-freezing and freeze drying open the gates to making time in the kitchen shorter with quicker food preparation efforts. Yes sir, I will never forget th...
Sep 27, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 54
My newest hobby is a real stinger
Send us a text I have a laundry list of hobbies I've tried my hand at. From building model cars and airplanes, to woodworking, to even getting my pilot's license. Yep, I even went to get my HVAC Certification, and dabbled in troubleshooting and repairing Refrigerators, Freezers and home and automobile air conditioners. Hell, I continue to make the effort of growing vegetables, and with God and good luck, I find a way to muster a bountiful mess of fresh veggies each year. However, I've come to re...
Sep 20, 2023•44 min•Season 2023Ep. 53
Learning to Speak Navy Talk
Send us a text The language and phrases, the terms, and terminology used by the US Navy stems from a host of other Navies. Whether it be British, Spanish, Portuguese or German, the US Navy is packed with a language of its own. From Chit, Bootlegger, Coxswain or Boatswain, Belay or Avast, a Fathom or a Bitter End, or going to Davy Jones' Locker for stepping on someone's Brightwork, these are but a few of the many terms us by Navies abroad. And my first 96 hours in the US Navy was clouded by me be...
Sep 13, 2023•24 min•Season 2023Ep. 52
A few things every young person should know
Send us a text Daddy wasn't much in the way of teaching me life skills that I found myself having to learn. A many of what I consider "basic" DIY stuff; e.g. putting air in or changing a tire on an automobile. How to check and refill basic fluids such as Oil, Water, Washer Fluid, or Transmission / Brake fluids. Replacing a car battery. Repairing or replacing a toilet, fixing a dripping faucet. How to use an electrical meter, or replace a light switch or receptacle. Why it's important to drain th...
Sep 06, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 51
Them Boys in Maine don't fish like us
Send us a text Fish stories and tells can become exaggerated over time. But this one is truly a "no-shitter." My great friend Timmy Dowd from the US Navy took me and another fella Ice Fishing in the winter of 1985, and what a lesson I learned. Didn't need all the warm clothes like I figured. Didn't bring enough food or the right food, beer would have been better than whiskey, blood worms do in fact bite, and them local boys in Maine are crazy. Timmy Dowd was indeed a great American. I miss my Sh...
Aug 30, 2023•24 min
Yes, I was a Sailor to the Core
Send us a text For the most part, I'm proud of my Navy Career. I was blessed to have had the privilege to serve along side the best our Nation has to offer in the way of brave men and women who served with honor. However, there are parts of my past I'm not so proud of, but do make for a good story looking back. Yes sir, I was indeed a Sailor to the core, and when it came to drinking and chasing skirts,..... I could do so with the best of them. Some folks may call it sewing oats, others may call ...
Aug 23, 2023•35 min
Be Poor on Purpose - Don't be Broke
Send us a text Mama and Daddy raised us poor, but we were never broke to speak of. Yes, there is a fundamental difference between being poor verses being broke. And part of being raised poor meant "Hand-Me Downs." Truth be told, I looked forward to getting clothes from bigger and older cousins. Back then, a part of the Family Reunion was a gathering of Mamas at the car trunks, or as Daddy would call it: "The Boot." Never understood why Daddy called it the Boot. And he called the Glove Box, "The ...
Aug 16, 2023•36 min
Lunch Boxes and Book Satchels were fashionable
Send us a text Making preparations for the new school year meant many things. It meant many different things to many people, and some may have regretted it, and some may have looked forward to it. Whatever the case be, I always looked forward to the trip to Macon GA to buy a new Lunch Box and a new Book Satchel. Lunch boxes and book satchels were fashionable, and even back then the drive and demands of a materialist market driven consumer was powerful. That said, it was what Mama put in my lunch...
Aug 09, 2023•27 min•Season 2023Ep. 47
Purple Passion, a blast from the past
Send us a text Sometimes it takes a ole' friend to open the door to a memory I'd done forgot, and thanks to Mike Posey, I had for the most part forgotten about the 70's soda pop Purple Passion. But, it wasn't necessarily the taste that delivered the fun and great memories, but the joy and hours of entertainment it brought after being laid in the hot sun for hours, then throwed against a large brick wall. Yes sir, in the 70's we made our own fun for pastime, and thanks to Mike Posey for reminding...
Aug 02, 2023•20 min•Season 2023Ep. 46
Multiple burnt pots in the yard are a sign
Send us a text One of the many pit-falls of being young is, the lack of life experiences. Being raised in rural America sheltered from city life and cultures I ain't never seen before. Having zero guidance and coaching for the first time I ever rented an Apartment or rather a Townhouse. Hell, I didn't even know what a Townhouse was, much less a what a bagel was. Yes sir, young and stupid I was. Too stupid and too motivated to get out of the US Navy Barracks gave way to me overlooking and/or not ...
Jul 26, 2023•30 min•Season 2023Ep. 45
It was great leaders that changed my life
Send us a text Call what you may, but I believe God puts us in positions to cross paths with great leaders. People who have the ability to alter our paths. To impact us in ways that can change our lives forever. I'm grateful for the many of folk who truly blessed me in such ways that looking back I now see just how much of an impact and influence they were on me. Some were family while growing up, some were teachers in school, and for me most were men who's paths I crossed while in the US Navy. ...
Jul 19, 2023•32 min•Season 2023Ep. 44
I always thought it was called the POT Festival
Send us a text What was Daddy thinking, and what did Mama say? Yep, for whatever reason and I'm sure that was an intended teaching moment in there, Bob Daniels decides to take me along for the ride to go see the Hippies what was attending the 2nd Annual Atlanta POP Festival, which was actually held in Byron Georgia adjacent to the old Byron Raceway. The Festival was held 3-6 July 1970. Like I said, I'm sure Daddy had good reason to take me along, but all I remember thinking was: "Them sure all s...
Jul 12, 2023•20 min•Season 2023Ep. 43
Freedom Comes at a Price
Send us a text Do we really fully understand why we celebrate the 4th of July? Do we know the years of oppression imposed upon the Colonists by Britain? What had the Colonists endured the years leading up to the drafting and submission of the Declaration of Independence? Freedom comes at a price, and our youth today has very little idea what it's all about.
Jul 05, 2023•54 min•Season 2023Ep. 42
All we needed was a patch of good wild weeds
Send us a text Growing up in the South offered many things to keep a young boy busy and supposedly out of trouble. Back then, we had no electronic stuff to distract us from what God had placed in our reaches to make all the fun and entertainment we needed. Yes sir, living in the rural South where wild weeds grew in abundance, a young fella had all he needed. Begga-Lice, Buckhorn (popgun), Milk Weed, May-Pops, Honey Suckles, Indian Arrowheads, or Cockleburs, they all made for hours of fun. It sad...
Jun 28, 2023•26 min•Season 2023Ep. 41
I'll just keep plucking
Send us a text Yes, there are indeed only two genders. I can contest to this, as having been a young boy that experienced that weird awkward stage of life, that of making the physical transition from a boy to a young man. Lots of thing happen. Our body begins changing, and some of it we didn't won't, and some of it ain't happening fast enough. At that age, we're wanting to be taller, bigger (muscles), to have a man-voice and hair on parts of our body. We're fully convinced that these are the thi...
Jun 21, 2023•30 min•Season 2023Ep. 40
Fine Dining in Butler GA
Send us a text Growing up in Butler GA in the late 60's and throughout the 70's gave me a many of found memories. And the selection of where to eat, the food, and the ambience that each place gave was just the icing on the cake. Yes sir, lots of great memories indeed.
Jun 14, 2023•29 min•Season 2023Ep. 39
Alcohol ain't all that and a bag of chips
Send us a text The good Lord has blessed me with not developing an addiction to alcohol: however, I honestly had every opportunity to get hooked. The Lord has blessed me in many ways, and His Grace has saved me on a many occasions and for that I'm grateful. I have indeed done some really stupid stuff as an young adult, and looking back I see that alcohol was involved in damn near every event. I am lucky beyond words, and it saddens me to say some are not so fortunate. Thank you Mama and Daddy fo...
Jun 07, 2023•41 min•Season 2023Ep. 38
That's not how I envisioned this to end
Send us a text Looking back on the many things I've done, I see a great many of the experiences that seemingly carry a common trend. A trend of that: "that's not how I envisioned this to end." I did a lot of stuff resulting in outcomes I never saw coming. On a cold December night in Butler GA, me and my buddies had a plan, and the outcome was to be a photo-op in front of the Taylor County High School with some Christmas Cheer worthy of being put in our Senior Year Book. Well, it didn't turn out ...
May 31, 2023•19 min•Season 2023Ep. 37
The P3 Navy was a different Navy
Send us a text Going from a US Navy Enlistedman in Fighters to a totally different Navy that I was not accustomed to was a major change for me. Yes sir, the P3 Navy was a completely different branch of the US Navy, a branch I didn't know existed, and had no idea of how the Officers and Enlisted interacted. It was unlike anything I had experienced up to this point in my career. Listed to this episode of how a bunch of enlisted Side boys used tube socks to make the day of some Commodore's wife at ...
May 24, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 36
You can fix anything but bad neighbors
Send us a text The quote Ralph Fitts: "you can fix anything but bad neighbors." So very true indeed, as on more than one occasion have found myself having to deal with bad neighbors. Yes, there are indeed folks out there who don't give a damn about what or how they do things much less the impact it has on their neighbors. Loud music, barking dogs, broken down cars and trash in the yards, parties to early AM hours, all make for stressful and tease neighbors. I've learned that when someone moves i...
May 17, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 35
When they said: "stop on by sometimes," means to stop on by.
Send us a text All I can say is that when times are hard, and she ain't taking kindly to me, desperate matters required a desperate act. An act with was both tactical and strategic. I had a plan, and God was understanding, and I to this day believe He played a hand on the whole timing of things. What are the odds, that on the day I decided to take up the offer of: "if you're ever down this way, stop by." Well hell, that's a dang open-invite from where I'm from. Well, as fate would have it, that ...
May 10, 2023•27 min•Season 2023Ep. 34
John Brown-It! I'm sorry Mr. Mac
Send us a text As a young knuckle-head, I made a many mistakes. And I'd say 100% of the undesirable outcome was on account of me not thinking things through. Not knowing how to apply critical thinking, use logic, which really equates to me have little wisdom or experience at being an adult. In other words, me unaware of "cause and effect." The laws of unintended consequences. Me not asking; "what could possibly go wrong." That sort of stuff. Well sure nough, I made the tactical error of what was...
May 02, 2023•23 min•Season 2023Ep. 33
Blood Money Can Buy Smokes
Send us a text Being a young new Sailor, and being from Butler GA meant I had to experience a learning curve often a common course of a naïve country boy. As we were raised to believe most folks are good and honest, and stealing was equal to having sex with your sister,.....you just don't do that. Well, I learned a great deal those first few months in the Navy attending school at Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC), Millington TN. I learned that there were indeed thieving scumbags that w...
Apr 26, 2023•22 min•Season 2023Ep. 32
Things I Miss
Send us a text I miss many things. I miss being young, carefree, and the unaware feeling of not knowing and not caring about stuff that didn't matter. The days of utter freedom of just being a boy, a kid, and learning by the school of hard knocks. Playgrounds, and backyards. Hours upon hours of just me and my BB Gun in the woods. I recall watching a movie about this man traveling across states by riding a small lawn mower towing a trailer to go see his brother that was dying. And at some point d...
Apr 19, 2023•23 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Sometimes sewing oats yields nothing but weeds and heartaches.
Send us a text Again, me being young and stupid is indeed a major part of my past. I've done a many of things I regret, and saying sorry doesn't begin to repair the damage. I can't explain what it feels like to sew oats if you will, but the hormones of a young fella are powerful, and can cause one to lose all good sense. Yes sir, I went off and did the unthinkable and cause pain that I'm now ashamed of. I don't know which was worse, Mama's wrath or the butt chewing that Mrs. Sarah gave me at the...
Apr 05, 2023•20 min•Season 2023Ep. 30
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