Too True To Lie: Recent Episodes
Harry Day
Southern cultural stories from artist/writer/hunter and former surfer, native Mississippian - Harry Day
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We start out talking about steak and its benefits but tangent into talking about depression.
One of my most listened episodes that was taken off air by censors for copyright infringement, now fixed and available. About the real dirty dozen from movie fame.
A real wreck of an episode, started out with bad obituaries, went to last words and ended with just recollection.
The black American entertainment (music and comedy) circuit of venues from New York City to the Gulf of Mexico states to the far reaches of Texas during the era of segregation.
Another installment of the Darwin Awards. People who inadvertently take themselves out of the gene pool.
The Kent State riots of 1970 where 4 students were shot dead by the National Guard, but did you know of the instigation, rioting and arson before the shooting?
A small Mississippi town in the Delta was obliterated by a tornado. Please find a way to donate.
Addiction stats and information from 2019-2020 and the senseless devastation caused by it.
The heavily unbalanced (and accurate) comparison of the 2020 riots and the January 6 incident.
Walt Disney would be nowhere if it weren't for the German folktales of the Grimm Brothers.
Another installment of the Darwin Awards given to those who took themselves out of the gene pool.
Altho baseball was being played here and there when the Civil War started, the war and its participants spread the game from north to south and then west, growing ever more popular every day.
Ramble thru Ukraine into talking about the happy window openings of life and then brief synopsis of my latest novel based around a dildo..
Video is showing the world Russia's indiscriminate killing, could it be fueled by their own horrible losses?
Animals, plants and sea life that has survived and evolved for hundreds of millions of years.
The often argued coincidental yet poignant and evident story of musicians of fame dying at the age of 27.
A long infomercial on the occurrences of October 31 throughout time, plus some ramblings.
Known as the 1900 Storm and the Galveston Hurricane, this surprise storm reeked havoc on the booming island town and forever changed it.
The decades I dealt with recurring depression and how I maintain my sanity and beat depression.
The pre-flood Patriarchs lived appx. 900 years, then the Flood and the drop in life expectancy.
What started out as weirdest foods per state ended as mostly overindulgent foods per state, but some are strange.
Japanese kamikazes were not all alike but were very deadly... and my local bank in crazy.
Highlights of the previous 6 episode series of my '99 surf trip throughout mainland Mexico.
What started out as protest music morphed into a movement that lost its way over the decades so far that it protests for what It once protested against.
Trying to make a podcast with no power or water in the house during the big freeze in the Deep South.
Also first Viocast (video podcast) transferred from video to audio only.
Things you might want to learn if you are new to the countryside and Ruby the screaming red mule.
Early influential so gs of mine, the hurricane surge under a friends house and the upcoming recession.
The ancient Kamasutra was much more than the bastardized 19th century one we know of today.
A short list of people who fell out of airplanes for various reason, from great heights, and survived. Plus a little dove hunting.
On a cold November night in 1833 the greatest meteor shower ever witnessed sent people into a craze thinking the world was coming to an end or that judgement day had arrived.
The year 2020 is a butt kicker, divorce, covid, riots and my father passed away... and it’s only July.
My neighbor's jackass... and protestors take over the city ceded city hall district, rename it CHAZ and release a list of demands.
After eight days of riot hijacked protests, policemen are being killed, shot, injured, as well as protestors and business owners. Was it worth it? No.
Watching the police finally squelch the urban riots and the basic dissection of the typical rioter.
What started as the George Floyd murder protests has turned into urban center riots across the United States, but why? (It gets political)(audio difference from voice to music, sorry)
Known to be the rush of adrenaline enabling a person to lift heavy objects normally not capable of doing. Mostly lifting cars off of people but also other examples.
Getting well known (and skewed) events of the war straight, interesting facts and statistics.
In the late 90's, three friends and I get sucked out to sea and have to swim for our lives, literally.
A rolling soliloquy of my dad's age, first responders and their take on Madison, MS... and frog gigging.
Mack Banks and the infamous Mack's Supper Club in Crawford, Mississippi, and some awful stories to boot.
the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles caused by fabric rationing but really the flaunting of over fabric made suits.
I found a list of mind blowing facts that turns out are maybe 1/3 mind blowing, and other observations.
The history of toilet paper and tbe mystery of why everyone is buying it up during the coronavirus pandemic
History of the fan cult Deadheads of the Grateful Dead, their fans and Walter Cronkite in Vietnam.
Thanks to my listeners around the world, a little about the show and a little more about me.
We delve into the worst of the explicit terminology of the infamous Urban Dictionary of the internet. I cannot express wnough how much foul language and filthy imagery is related in the episode.
George (Babe) Ruth Jr. as a youth, climbing into baseball and his off field habits. (audio pops and crinkles, sorry)
Dedicated to the passing of Paul English (Willie Nelson's drummer) and Lecille Harris (famed rodeo clown) and their story.
Dan Akroid creates the Blues Brothers with John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, cuts albums, tours, makes a movie and launch to fame.
The Death Zone of Mt. Everest has claimed 305 lives over the decades, most still reside above 26,000 feet.
Lions, tigers and bears oh my... and the other animals that hunt, kill and eat human life.
Behind the movie, stories of the making of Blazing Saddles and little known info of a movie that was almost not released.
Harken back to the college days of hopping freight trains from town to town in Mississippi, and a brief mention of American West's Stilwell brothers.
The jawless doe, the black squirrel, the blind goose. Not for non hunting, animal lovers, be warned.
Going to the Blind Melon show that never happened, Mardi Gras with Todd Magee and New Year's Eve with the school paper staff.
The notorious Darwin Awards, examples of fools taking themselves out of the gene pool... and pigs.
Words made up by Shakespeare, slang terms and phrases from the 1950's and 60's and how I tore my ACL dirt boarding in California.
In a new form of episode, Did You Know, we bring you little known facts of Billy the Kid and corrections to movie inaccuracies.
The history of the Golden Egg Trophy and the Egg Bowl as played yearly by Ole Miss and Mississippi State.
The theory that a rogue planet the size of Mars crashed into early Earth, possibly bringing water and creating the moon and a run-on garble of trying to tie the episode together, poorly. Not the best episode.
From 1998 to 2006, I had numerous pieces of art stolen from me or from a customer of mine. Some were found, most were not.
still in Acapulco, the Verde River Jetty surf break, a wildfire and the cheerleaders of Walmart.
In 1999, four surfers, two vans, seven surf boards and a ton of nerve drove around the coastline of mainland Mexico in search of surf and adventure.
When cars were first introduced, there were few laws, regulations, improvements or standards to road use and the problems derived then can still be seen today.
Factoids of 1876 in the United States, from railroads to Indians to the telephone, the Harvard Lampoon and ketchup and more.
My home state of Mississippi aka the Landmass Between NOLA and Mobile, the founding of that nickname and the Mississippi Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina forward.
Harry moves to California, surfs San Onofre, Suck Outs, La Jolla and Blacks Beach (nude beach) and other surf stories.
Little known facts about movies such as the John Wayne bomb, Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor and many more.
How I broke my jaw on an innocent ski trip to north Georgie during my college years. Worth the listen!
Little known facts about a variety of music from Otis Redding to Mel Brooks and others.
In 1996, Harry moves to Folly Beach, South Carolina and learns to surf and also relates surfing injuries and hijinx.
Harry moves to Oregon in 1995, becomes a wildfire fighter, tours California with some wild locals and gets robbed over and over.
The day Harry saved his dog's life when he tried to kick another dog, missed and pushed his knee backwards.
Part 1 - 5th grade football is in full swing in Mississippi and so are the snakes. Part 2 - The eve of 9/11.
Mississippi artist/writer Harry Day's new podcast Too True To Lie unfolds the vast wrinkled fabric of Harry's life traveling, surfing, hunting, gardening, husband, father, welder, tractor driver, meat grinder, injured/healed, extrovert, optimist and litany of stories brought to you from Big Black River Studios.