Too True To Lie

My awful analogies and serving jury duty.

Dead musicians and an example of how people get divorced for the littlest things.

Second installment of amazing facts and trivia and various ramblings.

River pirates, counterfeiters, and early American settlers.

A short list of people who fell out of airplanes for various reason, from great heights, and survived.  Plus a little dove hunting.

A brief history and evolution of clowns.

What really happened at Woodstock in 1969.

The origins of Godzilla and tasty information and facts.

Snake oil, origins, brands and modern elixirs.

A brief history of shark attacks from early records, World War 2 and more.

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.

Evolution and history of horses.

Wrecking my golf cart and then the tale of Reverend White.

The misadventures of online dating for six months.

The year 2020 is a butt kicker, divorce, covid, riots and my father passed away... and it’s only July.

The history of alcohol with a post subject ramble.

The rise and failure of socialism and communism.

My best duck hunting was in a full on driving rain lightning storm.

My neighbor's jackass... and protestors take over the city ceded city hall district, rename it CHAZ and release a list of demands.

In my surfing past, a rowdy kid took me on as a side kick and hilarity ensued.

Hopefully the last episode on the riots.

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)

The demolition masters of the 101st Airborne who inspired the movie the Dirty Dozen.

Growing up in the 70's with its freedoms and abuses in my life, but no regrets.

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.

The short musical career and long obscure slide of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett.

my surf bro Dave Rosco lived in San Diego on a shoe string budget and lived the life.

Getting well known (and skewed) events of the war straight, interesting facts and statistics.

Anal bleaching, anal sunbathing and the whole shebang.

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.

I was a medical test study subject in 1995, drinking at 9 am.

Millennial slang words and acronyms seen in everyday text or young conversation.

the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles caused by fabric rationing but really the flaunting of over fabric made suits.

The original Babylon, interpretations and modern cities.

I found a list of mind blowing facts that turns out are maybe 1/3 mind blowing, and other observations.

I thought I had coronavirus story and my favorite college prank story.

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.

Prostitution history, statistics and law.

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.

How I was fired from my golf caddy job at a top resort and other mischief.

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 origin of Christmas and various trivias of the age old holiday.

The notorious Darwin Awards, examples of fools taking themselves out of the gene pool... and pigs.

Jail, my misdemeanors and arrests and the notorious Todd Magee.

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.

Father of RnB, RocknRoll and Rap - Louis Jordan

A review of some of the more well known urban legends around the world.

Making a run for the border, getting severely ill and recouping in Arizona.

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.

Puerto Vallarta, surfing, the manta ray and an accident.

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.

cleaning up the when and where with help from my journals from the trip

still in Acapulco, the Verde River Jetty surf break, a wildfire and the cheerleaders of Walmart.

On the Pacific Coast, the fishing village, finally some surf and on to Acapulco.  

1999 surf trip, part 2

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.

Early alien abduction stories.

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.

The fun and folly of recreation at Lake Washington in the Mississippi Delta.

In 1996, Harry moves to Folly Beach, South Carolina and learns to surf and also relates surfing injuries and hijinx.  

The story of Harry's grandfather and his short life, World War 1 and making a family.

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.