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Join us as Daryl talks positively about family, friends and the interesting people and places that have shaped his life. He does so with a gentle hand and a quirky sense of humor, drawing on the simple, joy-filled experiences of everyday living. He is interested in personal snapshots, not grand panoramas, although he’s not shy about trying to pass along a few insights into the human condition whenever the opportunity presents itself. All in less than five minutes each, from the perspective and pen of California Newspaper Publishers Association Gold Medal winning journalist and writer Daryl Fisher.
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“My Sunday was right out of a Dickens’ novel,” said my friend. “You know, the best of times, and the worst of times. It started out so nice, with my friend Lynn and I taking a fantastic hike out in nature on trails that my father used to love."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “How Often Do You Think About Sex? ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"A friend of mine who apparently thinks I am interested in such things recently emailed me an article about how research scientists at Duke University have found out that it’s really not true that men think about sex every seven seconds of every single waking day."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Deaf, Blind and Driving”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Almost two winters ago, with the help of a nameless friend with an extremely poor sense of direction, my poor little 21-year-old Toyota pickup truck found itself (with me at the wheel) up to our elbows on a flooded road off of Highway 99."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Writing a Romance Novel”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"It says here that a lot of writers are getting rich these days," she said, pointing to the article she was reading. "Do you want to know how they're doing it?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Eddie the Handyman Strikes Again”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well, to make a long story short, I got Eddie to drive up the next morning and get started on the repairs, only to be called a few hours later at work by my youngest son who said, “Dad, it looks like Eddie hit a main pipe or something with his pickaxe and we’ve got “Old Faithful” going off in our front yard.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “We Need to Bring Back Full-service Gas Stations”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“Did you know that New Jerseyans – and I think Oregonians, too – are the only Americans living in states that are enlightened enough to make it illegal for gas station customers to pump their own gas?”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “What Kind of Garbage do You Have in Your Head?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“Well,” I said, “to tell you the truth, it’s pretty much all garbage up there nowadays, but I think the worst of it has to do with old quotes and sayings. I can’t even remember who most of them belong to anymore, or if I have added or detracted from some of them, but there’s more of them than I care to count.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Findeth Yourself a Good Wife”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"The play begins in the 1920's and is set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As it starts to unfold, the audience learns that Aram's whole family has been slaughtered by the heartless Turks and that Seta, his new mail-order bride, has also been orphaned by the genocide."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Church Retreat from Hell”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“Worst of all,” she continued, “was that the big celebration room had very poor air conditioning, and it was so hot and stuffy when all 200 of us were in there trying to breathe the same air that even a couple of ceiling fans didn’t help."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Just a Little Dab Will do You”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“For some reason,” she explained, “I just always thought that when I got married and had children, they would be girls. In fact, it never really entered my mind that they wouldn’t be girls until the doctor showed me ultrasound photos both times proving that they were indeed going to be boys."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “They're Ruining the Game I Love”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Umpires, and the human element that they bring to the game, have always played a vital role in the sport, and like the players that they share the field with, they make errors from time-to-time. “Kill the umpire!” is a cry that wasn’t all that uncommon down through the ages."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Kit Carson Scout, Chin Nguyen”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"All my relatives call me traitor," he once told me. "My brother shoot me dead if I go home."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Women Talk Twice as Much as Men Do”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I was talking to a very verbal work friend of mine the other day who often drives me crazy with all of her chit-chat and I decided to mention that women talk twice as much as men. 24,000 words a day, to 12,000 words a day, to be more specific. "
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The 'Minor" Discomforts of Pregnancy”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"It started off harmlessly enough, suggesting that pregnant women need to give up such things as weight-lifting, scuba diving, waterskiing, and of course, all racquet sports."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Get in Touch with Your Feminine Side”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I guess I just have never quite understood the attraction of sitting around quietly for hours on end in an uncomfortable boat or on a hot, dusty riverbank pitting one’s mentality against that of a fish."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Horrors of Dating”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"First, there was the terror of actually asking a girl out (and why was it that back in the 60s and 70s, the guys always had to ask the girl out? And why did that all suddenly change about a week or so after I got married?)."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Toi Nguyen, Father of Four". Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Toi's love of country, family and freedom consumed his every thought, and unlike me and most every other American in-country, he was fighting to win. To him, the war was a life and death struggle. "
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Men are Scum”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“And when they aren’t busy thinking up new lies to tell us,” said Carrie obviously warming to the subject, “they’re out there somewhere trying to build up their poor little male egos by flirting with other girls behind our back.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Keeping a Promise”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Bolts of bright-white lightning began shooting down from the now black-as-night sky, and not only were they striking the ground, but they were doing so on both sides of the road I was traveling, some not more than a football field or so away from me. And then, when I was sure the weather couldn’t possibly get any worse, the hail started."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Cockroaches Can Get into Your Ears”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“Well, our stupid dog found a few cockroaches in one of our back bedrooms a few weeks ago and nothing freaks me out more than cockroaches. Nothing!”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Should Women be Allowed to Fight in a War?". Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“A lot of female soldiers were killed in Iraq, and I think that is simply awful! A great country like ours doesn’t need to be giving their women rifles and sending them off to fight in a war.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “If All Else Fails Buy Her Shoes”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"My daughter wants me to buy her `big and clunky shoes' this year for Christmas. Now how can any man be expected to know what in the world that means?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Christmas During the Great Depression”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I sat there and tried to picture the looks on my kid's faces if they to were to tear into their Christmas packages this year and find oranges, apples and bananas."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Goal is to Meet, Love, and Disappoint Only Exceptional Beings”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I don't know, Dad. Sometimes I think it would be better if I just avoided relationships altogether."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Like Father, Like Son”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well, after a few beers, we both thought we were a lot braver than we actually were.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Walter - World War I Veteran”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I bet you think that everyone in their right mind hates war, don't you, Sonny? Well, you're wrong. If everyone hated it, then we'd stop having them, wouldn't we?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Halloween Has Changed Forever”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"So, is everyone at this party going to look like they want to tear limbs, or slice them, off of human bodies?”
"Pretty much."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Do Pickup Lines Actually Work?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“I haven’t been in a bar for more years than I care to count,” wrote my friend, “and the people I went with kept buying me free drinks, and like the idiot I am, I kept drinking them, and before I knew it, I guess I was making a complete fool of myself."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Poopers”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well, I'm afraid it's been my experience that when it comes to really gross stuff, you've still got another couple of years to go. Thirteen seems to be the magic number, although you won't see any dramatic improvement in the hygiene area until they actually get a girlfriend."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Few Thoughts on the Passing of Another Labor Day". Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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" The history of the labor movement in this country is a long and complicated story, going all the way back to a time when organizing a union could be a life and death struggle. "
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “One Man’s Answer to Improving His Love Life”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“Well, to tell you the truth, the goal is to make this place big enough for lots of good-looking women to come visit me, but not big enough for any of them to want to stay, if you know what I mean.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Fang, the Tire-Eating Dog”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"The dog, who I’ll call Fang, growled and barked even louder, energetically slimed the side of my just washed truck, and then decided to turn his attention to my front left tire."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Worst “Bad Hair Day” Ever”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"The terror in her voice made me leap out of my chair and hurry to her side. “What’s the matter?” I asked with concern as she stood next to the shower with a towel wrapped around her head, staring down with disbelief into the bathtub."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Truth”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well," he said, looking directly at me, almost through me, "when I look up into the sky on an incredible night like this, I think about how everything we believe in is usually 180 degrees from what it seems."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “My First Haircut from Jana ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Much to my horror, the first thing I noticed was that all the barbers were women. I quickly turned to leave, but a friendly voice called out, "May I help you?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering a Good and Decent Man on Father’s Day ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"My mother called me around 5 a.m. When my home phone rings at that hour, the first thought that always goes through my head is, “Are the kids all safely home and in their beds.” But my dad’s health had been failing for quite awhile, and in the back of my mind, I knew what the phone call was about."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Helping My Mother Quit Smoking”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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. “Once we get her nice and comfortable in her bed after the surgery, we’ll collect up all her cigarettes, take them all with us when we go home, and then she’ll have to quit whether she wants to or not.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Are Americans and Europeans Really all that Different?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Americans seem to be much more conservative than Europeans, especially when it comes to nudity and sexual attitudes."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “No One Really Likes to Exercise all by Themselves”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I had this incredible, crazy dream last night that is still messing with my head, and I need someone to help me figure it out.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Given a Choice, When Would You Have Liked to Have Been Alive?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"You can definitely count me out when it comes to being alive during the Middle Ages."
"How come?" I asked with interest.
"No hot showers, no deodorant, no hair conditioner," came the reply."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Are You a Packrat, too?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"In Vietnam, I was the only guy I knew in the entire First Infantry Division who carried his old high school baseball glove with him on every mission. It probably would have been of little help to me in an extended fire fight, but it somehow made me feel a little bit safer and closer to home. "
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Have You Ever Dreamed About Being Rich?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"As the years went by with you reporting a terrifying dream almost every morning of your adolescent life, it finally dawned on me that the unconscious you is best left not discussed in too much detail, if at all!”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “What Kind of Sense of Humor do You Have? ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I found myself wondering about why it is that people living in different parts of the world often have very different senses of humor. "
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “My Son Gets a Ticket for Being a “smartass””. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“You have a recording of the officer saying he had come back to give you a ticket because of something you had said to him 30 minutes earlier?”
“I sure do. His exact words were that he was giving me a ticket `Because of your smartass remarks’ when he gave me the warning.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Me and My Shadow". Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"One night my friend came home from work and found an obese black Labrador retriever (I'll call him Lucky) sound asleep on the front porch. Noticing that Lucky had a big smile on his face and suspecting the worst, she yelled and screamed until Lucky finally staggered to his feet and waddled off into the night."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Some Things Never Really Change" . Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I had always thought that the most war-like Indians who had ever inhabited the North American Continent were the Apaches and the Sioux and even the Blackfeet, but according to Gwynne, “It was the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West finally opened up."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Origins of Old Sayings”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“I mean, do you think there was once a bunch of Indians sitting around a campfire really enjoying some great weather late in the year and they just decided to name it after them?”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “You Don’t Need Viagra; You Need Theater Tickets”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Viagra may help millions of men, and even some women, but it is not a sexual cure-all. It is not an aphrodisiac; it will not work in the absence of desire. In fact, there are some risks involved in taking Viagra that everyone should consider before rushing to the pharmacy."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Professional Trackers Need to Watch Where They Step”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Up ahead, our point squad leader suddenly thrust a clinched fist high into the air, mercifully bringing our 30-man Aero Rifle Platoon to an unexpected halt. He and his gangly friend and radio carrier were a good 15 yards in front of me, obviously worried about something they had seen."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ A Quick Way to Get Over Pneumonia”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"They always had us running around outside in that awful weather, doing endless physical fitness drills, and marching from one place to another, not to mention the really long hikes and overnight campouts in drafty pup tents."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Good Work Ethic is a Cherished Possession ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Every piece of linen she washed sparkled like polished silver. Every piece was also neatly ironed, yet she charged no more than the others. And laundering was not easy in those days."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Television Commercials for Guys”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Every time I turn on the television, especially if it’s a sporting event I want to watch, there’s nothing but wall-to-wall Viagra and Cialis ads, you know, the ones where some not quite over-the-hill couple with romantic music playing in the background, and both of them looking all googly-eyed at each other, are trying everything they can to put the sex back into their relationship. "
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Do You Remember Your First Kiss?”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“Well, as I understand it, a little girl in his class more or less made Riley her boyfriend, although he was apparently a very willing conquest.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Candy Crime”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Two burly men in black suits grabbed us and unceremoniously yanked us back into the store. Then they rushed us up a flight of stairs and deposited us in chairs in a little tiny room where they had apparently been watching our every move through big sheets of two-way glass. They made us empty our pockets, which took a while, and admit that we were low-life potential gangsters."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Real Travelers Go to Victorville”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“Well, when I was about your age, the U.S. Army sent me halfway around the world to visit Vietnam for a year. Does that count?”
“Sure, it does.”
“I don’t know,” I said, thinking back to the newspaper article, “but if you ask me, I think National Geographic left some really important places off that list of theirs.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Men Aren’t All That Helpful During the Christmas Season”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Later that evening, as I sat comfortably in my rocking chair admiring all the beautiful Christmas cards hanging on the back of my front door, I noticed that my wife was frantically scribbling away on a piece of paper at the dining room table."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Books are Always a Great Christmas Gift ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"As the years have gone by, I have counted my blessings and quietly resigned myself to receiving socks, ties, shirts, and other kinds of “clothes” for Christmas."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Maybe Sisyphus Has Something to Teach Us All". Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Sisyphus, however, finally got in a little over his head when he tried to stop Zeus from kidnapping a woman he was celestially interested in, and Zeus immediately sent Death to punish him."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Beauty of Childbirth”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I nodded my head in agreement, but silently thanked God for putting women in charge of giving birth, and men in charge of such things as changing the oil in the car or cleaning out the rabbit cage."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Prostitute Pedicure”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“That doesn’t look like a prostitute to me,” said my editor with surprising conviction.
“And since when do you know what a prostitute looks like?” I asked with a smile.
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Sergeant Jim Gratton ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I tried to tell Jim how much I appreciated all he had done for me while I was in his squad, but he would have none of it. Like any combat soldier who has seen war for what it really is, he knows that heroes aren’t made in heaven, they are simply cornered somewhere on earth."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “What a Real Winter is Like!” Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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“You know,” I said, “where I live here in West Sacramento, about the only thing I really do for winter is start closing the front door during the day instead of just using the screen door.”
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"So, is everyone at this party going to look like they want to tear limbs, or slice them, off of human bodies?”
"Pretty much."
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“So,” said my friend, already smiling “this recently divorced lady with young kids decided it was about time for her to stop moping around the house and start doing some dating. So, she joined one of those social networking sites and soon had a date all lined up for a Friday night."
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“My purse has actually evolved into more of a suitcase,” the nice lady explained to me over the phone, “and would you like to hear just some of the things I carry in it?”
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"I soon discovered that what today's teenagers want most in the entire world, other than electronic gadgets, cool clothes and junk food, is extra spending money. However, very few of them actually want to get a job or do chores around the house to earn it."
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"Now marriage vacations wouldn't just be for husbands," Eddie quickly explained. "No, I don't think that would ever fly. Wives would have to be able to qualify for one, too."
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“Don’t men ever figure out how much women hate it when you leer at us? And it starts out really early in our lives, too. In fact, when I first got my boobs in high school, I spent four long years walking around carrying books in front of my chest that I didn’t even need to read.”
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" The history of the labor movement in this country is a long and complicated story, going all the way back to a time when organizing a union could be a life and death struggle. "
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"Marriage has a beneficial effect for both men and women, but the effect is much, much stronger for men. In fact, a good marriage is almost like a wonder drug for men."
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"Research in Britain has shown that many young people actually prefer meeting members of the opposite sex in supermarkets than in nightclubs. Now don’t get me wrong, nightclubs are still very popular especially for hooking up for a one-night stand, but women who want more than that often find it in their grocery aisles.”
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"So, I tell him I can only meet him for lunch since I don’t have anyone who can watch my dogs at night. I know that was a pretty lame excuse, but he seemed to buy it and I told him I would leave all the lunch date details up to him. So, guess what he goes and does?”
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"The monarch decided to mercifully offer Arthur his freedom, but only if he could answer a very hard question. And because of the question’s great difficulty, he told Arthur he would give him a whole year to come up with a reply, but if after that period of time he still had no answer, then he would be forced to put Arthur to death."
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"So, for more weeks than I care to admit, I have been eagerly waiting to hand my children back over to the overworked and underpaid teachers of our local schools. Each year, almost miraculously, they somehow manage to get all four of them back on track and interested in activities that won’t cut another year or two off my life."
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"The job of a wartime medic is inherently dangerous because they are called upon to go to the aid of a wounded soldier who is usually lying in a kill zone, meaning that whoever or whatever tried to kill the wounded soldier now has the medic in his sights, too."
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"So, knowing of Jane’s somewhat less-than-lofty opinion of men, when I come across something that just might jerk her chain a little on that subject, I can’t help giving her a call,."
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"Whenever Jack would see someone, be they a few feet away or way across the street, he would find a way (with a big smile on his face) to pass along a compliment, or just say something nice that, thinking back on it after it had happened to you, would make your day."
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"When I was a young boy of about nine or so, my father decided it was time that I begin getting a little taste of what the real world was like, especially in terms of work. "
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"After I had assured her father (who didn’t look the least bit happy to see me) that I would have his only daughter safely back in less than three hours, we silently climbed into the backseat of my dad’s station wagon and spent the next fifteen minutes clinging to our respective doors and listening to my poor mother try to make small talk while looking at us with one of those “aren’t they so cute” smiles in the rearview mirror."
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"The plan was simple. I would just pull into the rest area, turn off the lights and the engine, sprawl out in the front seat of my truck, and call it a night. It only took me a few minutes, however, to realize that my little plan would have to undergo a few much-needed upgrades."
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"Knowing John as I do, I was pretty sure he could actually handle the whole thing all by himself and that he was just trying to include me in a little river outing on a beautiful fall morning, but what he didn't know was that ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to get behind the wheel of a tugboat."
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"When I opened up my screen door to see if I could be of any help to him, he hissed at me and backed up just far enough to stay out of my reach. When I bent down and began to assure him that I was of no danger to him, he was having none of it. My every attempt to get close enough to pet him was meant with more hissing and retreating."
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"The Kiss was published way back in 1887 and its hero is a young army officer named Ryabovich (which means pock-marked or pitted complexion in Russian). Not only is Ryabovich unattractive to women, he is also painfully shy and not very clever."
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“I think the real heroes in our lives live much closer to home, and maybe all we really need to do is just spend some time now and then appreciating our loved ones and all the other ordinary people around us who give our lives meaning and purpose.”
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“You’re saying that the guys who skate through life, the people who don’t do much suffering, the ones who don’t have to die young in a stupid war, the ones who seem to live forever without contributing much of anything to anyone, those aren’t actually the lucky ones?”
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"The more I read, the more I began to realize that peoples’ opinions about which dogs are the most aggressive depend almost entirely on their own personal experiences with breeds they have either owned or been in contact with."
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"On the final day of Hell Weekend, all of us pledges, and there were about twelve of us, were required to go out into this huge backyard at the fraternity house and stand next to each other in a straight line. Then one of the brothers walked over to us, handed us each one of those big jumbo marshmallows, and ordered us to put it down in front of our feet. "
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"Mikey's bathing routine is always the same. To begin with, he somehow knows when it’s bath time, and he immediately goes off and hides. If he hears me say the word bath’, his eyes grow wide with fear, so I’ve taken to spelling out the letters, rather than using theB’ word in his presence."
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"It would seem that for as long as there has been recorded history, old people (even wise ones) have been convinced that young people were going to screw up the world as they knew it. Yet, for better or worse, the human race is still here, so young people must be doing something right."
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"No more will they be spending their noon hour in an over-crowded quad or a socially segregated school cafeteria where the cheerleaders, athletes, pseudo-intellectuals, and even the wannabe hoodlums all had their special little set-aside areas where they gathered to eat and talk over their common problems and experiences."
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"Like most fathers and sons, my dad and I didn’t spend all our days together on the same page, but he was always there when I needed him, made sure I had everything all the other kids in the neighborhood had, and he hugged me tighter than anyone else when I left for Vietnam."
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"If it's not my mailbox being stuffed with political flyers," said my friend, "it's my telephone ringing off the bloody hook with some phone bank message asking for me to vote for this or that proposition. Plus, it seems like every other ad on television, or the radio is a political one and most of them are so misleading and dishonest that it's almost funny if it wasn't so sad."
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"So, as any sane person should finally get around to asking, why in the hell is such a weapon allowed to be in the hands of any American other than a soldier or police officer? Well, apparently it has something to do with the American gun culture, which now has our nation afloat in somewhere between 270 and 350 million guns."
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"If you had an upset stomach, then Granny would immediately boil up a pot of sassafras roots and make you a cup of hot sassafras tea. Actually, this was one of Granny’s few home remedies which didn’t taste or smell like death itself."
Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “An Update From Ukraine”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes. Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com
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"It’s almost like we are living in a never-ending movie that resembles a thriller, horror film, and disaster movie all combined into one. It produces terrible new scenes every single day, where all the Ukrainian people are actors, with the script being re-written every minute, spontaneously and unpredictably. "
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"When I was finally allowed to get off the bus, I soon found myself among a dozen or so of the more vocal demonstrators. They were carrying assorted signs and chanting, among other things, "Hell no, we won't go!" As I tried my best to push and shove my way into the building, the guy in front of me suddenly took a swipe at one of the demonstrators and shouted a number of unprintable words at her."
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"I came to understand that the real reason almost every new generation goes off to fight in some war far away from home is because many people, men in particular, actually like it. By that I mean that for many men throughout the centuries, starting a war or going off to fight in one was the biggest adventure of their entire lives. "
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"If you go down to Southern California there are a bunch of Forest Lawn cemeteries that are the final resting place of lots of famous people like Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Ricky Nelson, and the list goes on and on. "
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"Just when I had convinced myself that I wasn't dead and everything was probably going to be okay, my whole lower back went on fire, as if someone was branding me with a red-hot metal poker. I reached around and desperately tried to pound out the flame. When I brought my hand back up in front of my eyes, the sight of my own bright red blood terrified me."
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“I think most of us parents think we have a whole lot more to do with how our children turn out than we actually do, especially when it comes to their personalities.”
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"It dawned on me that when children reflect back on the lives of their parents, the time frame that comes into play usually begins with their own birth, and more or less covers their years of growing up in their parents’ house. In other words, we really do think of our parents “as parents”, and often forget that they were young once, too."
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"Awhile back I was trying to figure out which online news story I wanted to click on first when off on the far right-hand side of the screen I happened to notice the words, “AOL Love and Sex Coach.” And when I glanced down below that rather provocative title, there was another very interesting sentence which read, “Great sex every time.”
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"If you really think back on it, whether your child turned out to be loud or quiet, funny or serious, out-going or introspective, a great joy to be around or a pain in the butt, he or she was pretty much born that way, and our abundance of parenting skills, or complete lack of them, didn’t really have all that much to do with it. "
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"I'm like Diane Keaton in that old Woody Allen movie where she called him in the middle of the night to come over to her apartment and kill a spider," explained my friend. "You know, where Woody had to get out a tennis racket to go after the spider because he said it was as big as a Buick."
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Wanna guess what Bryan has gone and done now?” my brother asked me the other night over the telephone.
“What?” I asked with interest, sure that whatever it was, I would end up laughing.
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"To tell you the truth," I said, "if I actually knew all the things my kids were up to, I'd probably have a stroke. Mercifully, most of the time, all four of them manage to keep me pretty much in the dark."
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“Hey, California boy,” said Buzzy late one evening, sticking his oversized head into my hootch, “you interested in an advanced showing?”
“Advanced showing of what?” I asked him with suspicion.
“Come on,” he said, grinning like he always did when he was up to no good, “it’ll only take a few minutes. I want your opinion on something.”
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"Jake harangued me with his intolerance for just about every minority group imaginable for about a week, but he always saved his most venomous words for gays, especially gays in the military."
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“You were more or less a Nazi,” explained my middle son when he recently described my driver training techniques.
“But you’ve never been in an accident, have you?” I reminded him.
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“Back when I was young, if you took a package or something over to a white person’s house, you always had to be sure to go to the back door. If you forgot and went to the front door, you were liable to get hit – and by white people you had known all your life. "
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"Excuse me, Sergeant," I finally said as politely as I could, worried that if I wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom soon my first act as a soldier was going to be a pretty disgusting one, "how much longer do you think we're going to have to stand around out here in the snow? "
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“For a woman, a car is only a means for getting from point A to point B. It’s a machine, like a washer or lawn mower, nothing more. We are not fanatical about keeping them clean and polished and have absolutely no interest whatsoever in what goes on under the bonnet, as long as it doesn’t make strange or scary noises under there. “
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" I’m afraid I have this long history of getting lost. Once, when I was walking point in Vietnam, I got a whole platoon lost in a bunch of triple-canopy jungle and some of the guys were sure we had marched all the way to Cambodia and back before I finally figured out where we were. So being lost in Oakland didn’t seem like all that much of a big deal, except for all the funny looks I was starting to get.”
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“But maybe the most important lessons of all were the ones I learned as a Sacramento Bee Boy, which was my first real job from the ages of about 10-13. Back then there was no more sought-after part-time job than being a Bee Boy, and lucky for me, a neighbor's son who had grown too old for the job decided to give me his route.“
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“I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.”
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"I want you to look down there and tell me what you see," said Lippy with a devilish smile, pointing down below the car radio. "Go on. Check it out."
"I don't see anything," I said, after a quick glance down at where he was pointing.
"Excellent," said Lippy proudly. "Now bend on down there and take yourself a really good look."
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"What? A woman stole my truck?"
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“I could hardly wait each week to hear the words, "Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the star ship Enterprise, its mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has ever gone before!"
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“I, of course, made every effort not to eavesdrop on them, but unfortunately, my ears refused to tune them out. In fact, I tried so hard not to hear them that I suffered from ear strain for days afterwards.”Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website at https://darylsbackpages.com
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"You have to be careful about what you wish for in this life, because you just may get it."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “It’s All a Matter of Perspective”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"We're living in the best times that ever were. We've got more books than any one man could ever read, medicines that keep us alive forever, and we're free to do as we damn well please."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Determined to Live Free”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Air raid sirens are going off day and night in Kiev. Most of the women and children have already left and I have my suitcase is packed with food and the other necessities of life. But our brave soldiers and civilians fight on and we will create hell for the Russian army."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Are You a Dog Person, or a Cat Person”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Cats are more complicated than dogs, and a cat owner has to expend a lot more mental and emotional energy to successfully cohabitate with them."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “There is Nothing Quite Like Pee-wee Baseball”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"To be a good pee-wee coach, you have to be really good at finding things. Pee-wees lose their hats, their bats, their gloves, their snack bar money, and even their parents from time-to- time."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Like Father, Like Son”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well, after a few beers, we both thought we were a lot braver than we actually were.”
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Purpose Dating”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"In fact, I don't think there are any great lovers out there, just a few delusional men who happen to think they are."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Are You Suffering from Poor Body Image”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"My point is that when women look at their bodies in a mirror, they absolutely insist on seeing the whole package, and if just one little thing is screwed up, they hate their whole body."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Truth About Gambling”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"But for anyone who visits a casino regularly, and by that I mean a couple of times a week, at the end of the year, they are all losers, each and every one of them."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Why Everyone Should Care About Ukraine”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Putin cannot accept the fact the the old Soviet Union is no more and he wants to return things to the way they once were under communism, with him totally in charge, of course."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Mikey”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Once he started feeling better, Mikey eagerly began his life's work, raising my four children."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Andy and Barney”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I'm afraid those days are over, Dad. Real sheriffs wear guns, real deputies don't carry their bullets around in their shirt pocket, and no one hangs out in a barbershop any longer than they have to nowadays."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “You Might Want to Think Twice Before Taking that European Vacation”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well," explained Dotty, "you have to understand that Italy is a man's country. Women are supposed to get married, stay at home with the children, shop daily for fresh food and prepare wonderful meals with it, and most important of all, not cause their men any trouble or grief."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Few Thoughts About Valentine’s Day”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Oh great, that's all I need, a big box of Valentine's Day candy sitting around the house. Doesn't he have a clue that I'm still trying to exercise away the ten extra pounds I gained over the Christmas holidays?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Sooner or Later, You Just Have to Quit”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"And not only did I religiously work on my inhaling, but I also spent countless hours improving my ability to blow smoke out of my nose, as well as refining my Humphrey Bogart lip-hanging cigarette technique."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Diversity is to be Celebrated, Not Feared”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"That struggle, made necessary in me because there were so many qualities in Jim Garcia to which I aspired, forced me to confront early in life the absurd premise upon which racism is based."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “A Few Hints on Avoiding ‘the Bowels of Hell’ ”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well," I said in Don Juan's defense, "maybe the poor guy just never bumped into the right woman?"
"Daryl, the man bumped into just about every woman in Spain!"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Want to be Popular with Women? Learn How to Dance”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"My point is that butt-ugly Fred Astaire was always floating over dance floors with Ginger Rogers and lots of other gorgeous women in his arms. In other words, if you want pretty girls hanging all over you, just learn how to dance!"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “You Might Want to Think Twice Before Becoming a Cowboy”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I mean, how can any respectable red-blooded young cowboy be expected to jump up on his horse and yell at the top of his lungs, 'Heigh-ho Doughnut, and away?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Dance Chaperone”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"The problem is that you're my father! I can't go to the dance if you're going to be there!"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Blanket Dummies”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Well," I said, "any good ideas on how I should punish you for this one?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Bad Sex Can Make for a Really Great Grocery List”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"So, you're telling me that you can be making love and thinking about fruits and vegetables and canned goods and boxes of cereal at the same time? I don't believe you!"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Joy of a Clean Car - Inside and Out”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I think my approach to car washing is much healthier than yours, Dad. I simply wait for rain!"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “School is not a Crock”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Good grades don't tell me you're smart, Son. Real smarts is something which life will beat into you as you grow older."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Granny”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Granny," I cried out, "you gotta stop killing things!"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Truth is Rarely Where We Think We Will Find It”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"The truth is almost always about 180 degrees from where we think we will find it. Now you think about that when you have some free time. It's a great thing to learn at an early age."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “New Years Resolutions”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I'm going to stop suffering fools gladly, even if I'm related to them."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Country Western Romance”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"Ma'am, if I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The End is Coming”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"For two people seemingly convinced that the world was about to end, they sure seemed to be in good spirits."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Goal is to Meet, Love, and Disappoint Only Exceptional Beings”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I don't know, Dad. Sometimes I think it would be better if I just avoided relationships altogether."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “If All Else Fails Buy Her Shoes”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"My daughter wants me to buy her `big and clunky shoes' this year for Christmas. Now how can any man be expected to know what in the world that means?"
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Christmas During the Great Depression”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I sat there and tried to picture the looks on my kid's faces if they to were to tear into their Christmas packages this year and find oranges, apples and bananas."
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Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Walter - World War I Veteran”. Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.
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"I bet you think that everyone in their right mind hates war, don't you, Sonny? Well, you're wrong. If everyone hated it, then we'd stop having them, wouldn't we?"
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