...in which Rex and Paul talk about barbecue, Rien Fertel, the Arkansas Literary Festival, Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, the concept of whole hog barbecue, buffalo ribs (a form of fish), catfish (a slice of pork), attendant confusion about that, Craig's at DeValls Bluff, famous pie lady Mary Thomas, Lena's fried pies, the White Pig Inn, Caddo Valley, the Pig Pit, Mrs. Jack Frost, Burge's in Little Rock, Lewisville, Prescott, Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Maxine's, the White House in Camden, El Dorado, the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street program, the Lassis Inn in Little Rock, Central Fish Market in Pine Bluff, Greider Field, Saracen Lake, Ruby Jones, the Produce Shed, the Bulldog in Bald Knob, strawberry shortcake, Shane Broadway, Whole Hog Barbecue, the Dixie Pig in Blytheville, hot sauce, chicken livers, Doe's Eat Place, and Bill Bryson.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about railroads, Rex's first solo train ride, the Imboden station, Hoxie, Gurdon, the beauty of old train stations, Arkadelphia, Prescott, Mena, Little Rock, how the Imboden town marshall got around not having a car, Merle Haggard, hobo "hotels," how Paul scared himself while reading In Cold Blood, the Sloan family of Northeast Arkansas, Sloan-Hendrix Academy, the Imboden library's pancake breakfast, how Paul swiped fried pies at the pancake breakfast, the Lion's Club pancake breakfast in Arkadelphia, Des Arc, Paul's theory about the poor effects or air conditioning on small towns, Christ Church in Little Rock, Douglas MacArthur's baptism there, Rev. Rufus J. Womble, Richard Butler, Catholic Bishop Andrew McDonald, Will Stephens, Mr. Stephens's driver's habit of adding "Jesus wept" to the end of every prayer, former coach Ken Hatfield's use of Bible verses in his TV program about Razorback football, and the crushing effects of football losses on the Arkansas psyche.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about the Lesmeister Guest House in Pocahontas, Paul sets a new record for mentioning his hometown of Imboden early in the conversation (30 seconds), they go on to talk about dinner theater, Black River Technical College, the Rice-Uphsaw House, Looney Tavern, Old Davidsonville, the Dalton Store, the Bluebird Tea House, B and Bs in Eureka Springs and Hot Springs, El Dorado, Richard Mason, the Edwardian Inn in Helena, the Henderson House in Arkadelphia, Carnall Hall in Fayetteville, Elkhorn Tavern, Queen Wilhelmina State Park, Mount Magazine, Rich Mountain, the train ride from Van Buren to Winslow, April in Paris (Arkansas), the Kansas City-Southern Railroad, bears, deer, State Highway 10, chicken houses, Bob Cowie, wine production, Petit Jean State Park, Bud Cummins, and a budget-busting airplane ride when Rex worked in the Governor's office.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about the arrival of TV in certain parts of rural Arkansas, Paul's first trip to Memphis, radio stations in northeast Arkansas, the Ozark Journal, Times-Dispatch, Memphis Press-Scimitar, Commercial Appeal, Jonesboro Sun, Sentinel Record, Hot Springs New Era, Texarkana Gazette, Paul's paper route, Oaklawn, Pete's Newstand in Pocahontas, Red's and Woody's in Arkadelphia, drink boxes and questionable magazines at newstands, Jeff Root's discovery of a signed copy of the play Our Town at Woody's on its last day in business, Rex's performance in Our Town at Ouachita Baptist University, Paul's award-winning performance in Grandpa's Red Pajamas at the Lawrence County 4-H festival, Rex's taxing performance in Damn Yankees, Paul's disastrous experience playing the male lead in Our Miss Brooks at Sloan-Hendrix High School in Imboden, how Rex and Paul made it onscreen in Larry Foley's documentary First Boys of Spring, on spring training in Hot Springs, the Bulldog, Who Dats, and Kelly's in Bald Knob, strawberry shortcake, catfish, Trio's in Little Rock, and the proper base for strawberry shortcake (pie crust, not cake).

...in which Rex and Paul talk about Chafik Chamoun's Rest Haven in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the Klappenbach Bakery in Fordyce, the Sno-White Grill and Fino's in Pine Bluff, repeating oneself, Sunday afternoon drives, Baptist Training Union, Ravenden Springs, the Devil's Bathtub, the Needle's Eye, Crowley's Ridge, cemetery visits, Arkansas back roads, Des Arc, Carlisle, Lauratown, the collie who caught chickens so its owner could fry them, eating at boardinghouses, having the preacher over for Sunday lunch, a troublesome uncle who was afraid of mice, and the disaster that befell a visiting preacher when Rex's uncles tried to make wine in the attic in summer.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about Mount Magazine Lodge, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, Constitutional Amendment 75 and its effects on tourism in Arkansas, the transformation of Arkansas's Department of Parks and Tourism, Mountain View, the Little Red River, the need to pay attention to electrical power generators when fishing downstream from them, Village Creek State Park, peaches, Uncle John's at Crawfordsville, West Central Arkansas, Queen Wilhelmina Lodge, Rich Mountain, Mena, bears, once-frequent plane crashes on Rich Mountain, Oliver North, DeGray Lake, the Shangri La Resort, Mount Ida, Paul's Tom Sawyer experience featuring a run-in with a barge on the Mississippi River, Snow Lake, White River Refuge, Desha County, Imboden, crappie, smallmouth bass, Crooked Creek, fishing the White River before the dams were put in, Jerry McKinnis, Lake Chicot, De Valls Bluff, Pocahontas, the Current River, Stoby's in Conway, old-time breakfast places and political discussions, Wallace Grill in Little Rock, Thelma's in Imboden, the Grill in Walnut Ridge, Paul's initiation into the grown-up world of coffee breaks, Waffle House, the back booth at the Snow White in Pine Bluff, the round table in the corner of the caf� at the State Capitol, and the Pancake Shop in Hot Springs.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about Cherokee Village, the sales force at the Village and their sometimes-shady techniques involving Elvis and Jesus, an outstanding collection of shag carpet, the emergence of retirement communities, Paul's viewing of the moon landing in July 1969, John Cooper and his other developments at Bella Vista and Hot Springs Village, messing with salesmen, Horseshoe Bend, Holiday Island, the ferry at Norfork, the beginnings of tourism in North Arkansas, Imboden (a new record: Paul took seven minutes to mention his hometown), the great rivers and streams of Arkansas, fishing for smallmouth bass, the Eleven Point River, the Spring, the Strawberry, the Current, trout fishing in the cold water from Mammoth Spring to Hardy, Black Rock, the South Fork of the Spring, drum, perch, catfish, spring break on the Spring River, jon boats, the Many Islands, the use of hammers and electricity in catching and preparing fish, W.O. Prince's place on the Cache River, Murray's at De Valls Bluff, the Caddo River, Caddo Gap, how a longnose gar frightened a fellow from Virginia who thought it was a dinosaur, the Little Red River, and Lindsey's trout resort near Heber Springs.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about antique shops, Dutch ovens, Arkansas expert John Ragsdale and the possibility that sales of his several Dutch oven books to Boy Scouts have made him the best-selling author in the state's history, the care and usage of cast-iron cooking implements, scouting adventures and disasters, Troops 23, 24, and 64, the great egg fight at Paul's last Boy Scout campout, Camp Winnamocka, Camp Ozark, Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Baptist camps in New Mexico and North Carolina, Boy's Life magazine, FFA camp at Couchwood, Harvey Couch, Boys State and Girls State, Paul's expertise with parliamentary procedure, Camp Robinson, the Arkansas National Guard, former Sunday school teachers, the 1997 tornadoes, archaeology in Arkansas, the amazing and almost artistic lineup of abandoned cars and trucks outside of Biscoe, W.O.'s Arkansas caviar from the Lower White River, turtle eggs, and standing in line to get catfish steaks at the airport at Pine Bluff.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about Girl Scout and Boy Scout camps, Cedar Valley, Camp Tula, Camp Orr, the Buffalo River, Viola, the Baptist camp at Ravenden Springs, Siloam Springs, Methodist camp meetings, the Methodist camp at Davidson, kids and camp jokes about food - "This is Sue; she makes our stew" - the Cedar Glade camp, Baptist Royal Ambassadors, getting poison ivy and poison oak and chigger bites at the same time, hauling hay, BLTs, Vienna sausage, homemade chocolate rolls, the "rock crusher" near Imboden and the perils of working at a gravel pit, Bauxite, "alum teeth," the Alum Fork of the Saline River, Black Rock, Herschel Bryant, Paul's friend who rode his bike into a flooded gravel pit for a dollar, the Devil's Bathtub, the Needle's Eye, Watauga Springs, Cave City, people who get gallons of water at the public fountains in Hot Springs, the believed medicinal properties of the water at Heber Springs, eating Vicks VapoRub, Rex's grandfather's obsession with Alka-Seltzer, Paul's run-in with a lady who got him to take turpentine and sugar for a stomach malady, and using aspirin and Coca-Cola as a cure-all.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about mercantile stores that have become restaurants, Cypress Corner, the Caskey store at Des Arc, drinking Coke with peanuts in the bottle, Woodell's drug in Arkadelphia, "wiggling" as a method of determining who would pick up a lunch tab, the Pickens store near Dumas, Cherokee Village, Hardy, the Sitting Bull restaurant at Cherokee Village, developer John Cooper, Paul's attempts to disguise a disgusting odor in his car using Hai Karate cologne, and the existence of dancing at Cherokee Village and accompanying belief that it was a den of iniquity