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Written by Shel Silverstein, Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" was recorded live at California's San Quentin State Prison on February 24, 1969. Cash also performed the song (with comical variations on the original performance) in December 1969 at Madison Square Garden. The live San Quentin version of the song became Cash's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his only top ten single there, spending three weeks at No. 2 in 1969, held out of the top spot by "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones. The track also topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Easy Listening charts that same year and was certified gold on August 14, 1969, by the RIAA.

Another dose of Uncle John recalling the days of yesteryear!

The WWE Hall of Famer was a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA Tag Team Champion with his brother Gerald Brisco.

Uncle John looks back at the interview that almost destroyed Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign.

The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9 megaton W-53 Nuclear Warhead had a liquid fuel explosion inside its silo. Launch Complex 374-7 was located in Bradley Township, Van Buren County farmland just 3.3 miles NNE of Damascus, and approximately 50 miles north of Little Rock.

The 26th of Conway Twitty's 55 No. 1 hits, "Tight Fittin' Jeans", released in June of 1981, stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of 10 weeks on the country chart.

The Arkansas-born Ash, who died on August 29 at the age of 76, found success not only as a wrestler but also as a bootmaker, whose clients included Hulk Hogan, Kerry Von Erich (who received a prosthetic boot following a motorcycle accident), even football stars Ed "Too Tall" Jones and William "Refrigerator" Perry.

Uncle John says goodbye to Kelson Foster, owner of The Pet Shop in Camden for 57 years. The business closed not long before Foster's death.

Uncle John looks back at 33 years since he joined the staff of Camden's Ouachita Electric Cooperative. He retired from the company in the summer of 2020.

Uncle John brings up two important events in the history of the Beatles that happened on August 29.