The Reckon Yard Podcast

Jerry Wayne Longmire

20 year Standup Comedian and creator of Truck Astrology, ShopTalk, and devotee of the Church of Internal Combustion, Jerry Wayne Longmire delves into his own history with automobiles to find the catalysts that led him to be a lifelong lover of fine machines.

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S4 · E114
Wednesday · 1 hr 29 min
Niamey to Miami
JW treks across Florida chasing shows and a real diner. He reunites with comedian Lisa Corrao in Miami and sits down to shoot the shit with her about chasing laughs and a trip to Africa to entertain the troops.
S4 · E113
September 17 · 1 hr 37 min
Unseasoned
JW is back home for a day and decided to invite a couple close buddies over to swap lies and burn an afternoon.
S4 · E112
September 10 · 1 hr 27 min
Outlaws and Gents
JW visits Shayne Brown the founder of Outlaws and Gents to chop it up about cars and the business of taking care of people.
S4 · E111
September 2 · 1 hr 1 min
No time for dreaming
JW finishes out a lengthy run in the midwest while learning a little more about the why and what of things.
S4 · E110
August 26 · 1 hr 22 min
Karma gave me a Trailblazer
JW travels to Rockford, Illinois to pal around with his Editor who has become family and is also the Poet Laureate of Rockford and an accomplished writer. Adam Al Sirganay.
S4 · E109
August 19 · 56 min
The worst that could happen
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. A canceled show, a mind altering drive home, and a compliment from Miss Bonnie I’m not letting anybody talk me out of, this one’s about what fear actually sounds like and how to tell the difference between the kind that keeps you safe and the kind that’s lying to you. Give it a listen.
S4 · E108
August 11 · 52 min
No end in sight
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up at 7:30 pm cst. This one’s about meeting fans who’ve rewatched the whole show more than once, what it means to make something with no finish line in sight, and a fourteen-year mountain carving that never got seen by the man who started it. Give it a listen. In Duwali Bottoms Texas Two people. One truck. All the history in the world between them and neither one knowing the half of it yet. Plus a childhood nightmare that explains Matt Swindon without forgiving him a thing.
S4 · E107
August 5 · 56 min
Working Man
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s about what actually counts as real work, why we’re so quick to look down on somebody else’s labor, and a two hundred year old definition of work I think it’s time to argue with. Give it a listen. Back in Duwali Bottoms Texas. Things get hot for the McAfees, and we follow a walnut tree through generations, all the way to a shelf sitting in Tony’s kitchen right now. Grab a chair.
S4 · E106
July 27 · 59 min
Tulsa Time
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s got a broke down Avalanche, a Tulsa cemetery, a Volkswagen collection I stumbled into, and a lesson about spinning plates I’m still chewing on a year later. Give it a listen. Also, new chapter of Duwali Bottoms Texas is up. Sheriff Garza’s got a car worth talking about, an old friend running out of chances, and Tony’s about to find out Amber doesn’t scare easy. Grab a chair.
S4 · E105
July 19 · 1 hr 19 min
Showing up
I recall an eventful week in Southern California with lots of milestones and folks that show up.
S4 · E104
July 5 · 55 min
A Needle astray
I drove through tent city on the Fourth of July and couldn’t get it out of my head. The SoCal run, the anxiety, and what happens when you start doing the math on your own life at a red light. This week on Duwali Bottoms : A mother knows when to talk and when to just hold on. A father shows up with ribeyes and an agenda. Things are about to get complicated in Duwali Bottoms.
S4 · E103
June 28 · 53 min
Beneath the surface
I take you through the particular fury of modern travel, the quiet rage my father carried like a second engine, and what my wife accidentally revealed about the distance between the two men. Also: what Enya has to do with any of it. This week on duwali Bottoms Texas Three people. Three mornings. One small East Texas town that keeps drawing everybody back whether they mean to come or not. Season Two of Duwali Bottoms Texas is rolling, and the ground is shifting beneath all of it.
S4 · E102
June 21 · 59 min
Fathers Day
Join me in Denver while I recount an adventurous three days of travel with the family. I've also included bonus footage of one of the Fort Collins shows where I'm telling the Harry story on stage for my original Reckon Crew.
S4 · E101
June 14 · 1 hr 54 min
Charles Clifford Brooks III
I got the opportunity to interview Pulitzer nominated poet, author and publisher Charles Clifford Brooks III. It’s a lively conversation about writing and a short dive into the majesty of Faulkner. Back in Duwali Bottoms, Carl Sr. has a plan. Alana already knows about it. Two young men from Houston who came to Duwali Bottoms because a hurricane left them no choice are about to find out that sometimes the storm knows where you need to be.
S4 · E100
June 7 · 1 hr 2 min
Unlikely Teachers
A hundred episodes in and I’m still figuring it out in public. Tonight I talk about the way music finds you through a crack you didn’t know was open. Keep your receptors open. In Duwali Bottoms Texas, Sheriff Garza gets his first real look at what he inherited in Rusk County, Carl Sr. takes the boys fishing on Lake of the Pines, and Matt Swindon reminds everybody exactly who he is.
S4 · E99
May 31 · 1 hr 16 min
Monsters
History’s been lied about from both directions and I’m tired of it. Edison, Ford, and Diamond Jim Brady none of them are who you think. This week on Duwali Bottoms, Tony and Dusty get out of jail, Alana shows up, Dave Tilton pays the sheriff a visit, and somebody comes flying around a curve on the two lane who has no business being there.
S4 · E98
May 24 · 59 min
Ohm Ohm
This week, I talk about two days in a row when the world said no, and I kept going anyway, a flat tire in the rain, a camera on the concrete floor. I’ve been asking myself ever since whether the thing in me that always chooses the harder path is strength or scar tissue. I don’t have an answer, and I’m starting to think that might be the point.
S4 · E97
May 17 · 1 hr 1 min
Two Wolves
A hard call. The fella in me who ain’t a friend of reason wanted to hoist the black flag. The wiser part asked me to slow down and do right by the folks counting on me. This one’s about knowing when to swing and when to walk away clean. Two wolves. Both still in the room. Back in Duwali Bottoms, A fog-thick morning on the Bong Song plain, 1966. Carl Sr. hears something in an empty village he can’t unhear, and the choice he makes there will follow him into the dark. Back home, a jail cell, a swollen eye, and a Papaw with a foot of beard and a full head of steam.
S4 · E96
May 10 · 1 hr 36 min
Imaginary lines
Some lines get people killed. Some just keep us small. From the Driftless region of Minnesota to a joint that’s legal on one bank of the Mississippi and a criminal act on the other, JW walks through the imaginary lines men drew with rulers, and the smaller ones we draw inside ourselves. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas. Sixteen hours out of a flooded Houston, Tony and Dusty roll up on Duwali Bottoms in the dark, and the homecoming Tony spent a decade trying to aviod is waiting for him on a farm road.
May 3 · 1 hr 2 min
Sacred Kingdom
The five labors of growth are complete. But before we close the series out JW has one more thing to tell you — the part he hasn’t said yet. These tools won’t fix everything. The world is full of people stomping around in their meat suits leaving wreckage behind them and a subscription to dogmatic belief doesn’t insure their humanity. What the toolbox does is give you a foundation that doesn’t move when those people show up. And they will show up. A man on a plane between Wisconsin and Houston trying to use what he’s been building. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas. Hurricane Ike has had its say. The Heights is flooded, the generator is pinned under an oak tree, and the power won’t be back for weeks. Tony packs the Martin. He packs the napkin too. Duwali Bottoms is calling.

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