Life’s Crazy

What was the Earth like in 1909?

life expectancy was only 47 years.  What would I do if I only had 47 years?

And only 14% of homes had bathtubs. What a stinky bunch of bastards we must have been.

This podcast is a tongue and cheek look at how things have changed.

The Foul Mouthed Bar Wench is a story about a woman whose mouth was a dumpster fire of cuss words. She sat in a crowded bar and screamed the C word, the N word and everything in between. Her words were so harsh, members of a motorcycle gang were wincing.

Flying is disgusting and exhausting and dangerous. Now it's Covid 19 air particles of mutation. But even in the past, it was Ebola and Swine Flu and rudeness and unexplainable delays.

Now add sitting next to the Southwest Lavatory and you've got yourself a flying Petri Dish of disgust.

This story documents a trip I took across the country with my family of 5. 

All I can say is, Ugh!

"What are you chicken?," the fat slob in the crowd screams at me.

I hate being called a chicken. 

So I climb the 150 foot tower and prepare to swan dive to my death, secured to life by nothing more than an untested rubber band.

Jail House Interviews are unpredictable. They can be mono-syllabic exercises in lies. They can be cathartic vomit sessions of ugly truth.

This interview was an exclusive. It was conducted with a 20 year old baby-thug who was street hardened, but also very intelligent.

He was charged in connection with a brutal armed robbery, high speed chase, and manhunt. 

He told me his truth, and through it all, I wondered if a guiding hand might have steered him to the light instead of the darkness.

FACEBOOK has a bad reputation of stealing my information and then selling it to the highest bidder. The social networking giant has been linked to stolen elections and Russian disinformation campaigns. 

The company says it is working hard to protect its customers, but many people have divorced themselves from FACEBOOK, turned off their site, and gone to a more analog existence when it comes to sharing information with friends and family.

This is a rant about that distrust and public perception.

When a truck driver smashes into a Nashville overpass, the internet explodes at the reporter who asked him; "What Happened?"

The Truck Driver vacuously stated, "The bridge is too low."

To which the reporter, honestly responded, "Do you think your truck is too high?"

The internet erupted in anger. 

This is the story you've never heard about a simple question that generated a million angry comments.

It's been 41 days covering the corona virus on the front lines with first responders. Cops, Nurses, Dispatchers, Fire fighters, drug agents. While many people work from home, we work from wherever the job takes us. It's a constant battle to get the story, but stay safe and socially distance.

This is the 3rd installment in a quickie debrief between a photographer and his reporter in Nashville Tennessee.

70 Years after a Chinese soldier stuck him in the gut with a bayonet, a soldier receives his purple heart. The life threatening injury happened when the soldier was but 16-years-old. He was too young to even be in that fox hole, in that battle, but there he was, fighting for his life. 

What happened? Why didn't he get recognized in 1950 when he was wounded?

This is the story of the old soldier getting his purple heart.