Homesteading. Living like your grandparents - or even great grandparents - did. Raising your own food, livestock, and making due with what the land and Lord provide. So, why do some choose to live this lifestyle, when most things are available and inexpensive? Bruce and Judy McDowell live in Missouri. They see it not as a lifestyle, but a way of life. Listen to this edition of the podcast. You may discover that homesteading is also for you.

John: "Steve, does everyone need a Life Coach?"

Steve: "Yes, I believe they do."

What is a Life Coach? In this edition of the John G. Moore Podcast, Texas-based Steve Strauss is the guest. He's been a life coach for many years, and helped people of all walks of life find their paths.

Pamula Pierce was in the second grade when her father put her in his first motion picture - The Legend of Boggy Creek. That was 1972. No one, including her father, had any idea that the film would sell out multiple showings at theaters across the country and generate millions. All on a budget of just $160,000. It still ranks as one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time. The artist who designed the movie poster later went on to design many of the main characters in George Lucas' Star Wars.

Boggy Creek hadn't been seen in its original format since 1975. All that remained were low-quality bootleg copies. But a few years ago after her father's death, Pamula felt called to save the movie. She didn't know whether a clean original copy existed; she didn't have the money for the project; or the know how to pull this off, but she jumped in with both feet. And now the movie is available on blue-ray and related merchandise is for sale at legendofboggycreek.com.

This is her story of what it took to preserve her father's legacy.

A man takes his daughter to a specialty hospital for treatment of her epilepsy. She asks if she can take her guitar with her while she's in the hospital. He says, yes. There, she meets a music therapist, who plays with her and shares the need for music with patients. From that, a nationwide ministry is born. Since 2013, Ken Chinn and his Chinn Guitar Project, have partnered with hospitals, schools, music stars and others, to distribute over 2,000 guitars to children who are in need or struggling physically or emotionally. 

On this edition of the podcast, we learn how one man's determination to help others with a simple, six-string instrument has changed the lives of many.

The town of Ashdown, Arkansas, has produced a number of accomplished people. Kent Wells makes that list. A master of many musical instruments from a young age, Kent succeeded where many have tried - making it in Nashville, Tennessee.

In this podcast, Kent talks about working with Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire, Keith Whitley, and dozens of others, as both a musician and their record producer.

Kent talked with us from his home studio in Brentwood, Tennessee, just prior to a recording session with Dolly. 

In the early 1970s, a band calling themselves "The Moving Sidewalk” darkened the door of Robin Hood Brians' recording studio in Tyler, Texas. It was there that they found their "sound."

Soon after, they changed their name to ZZ Top.

"That Little Old Band From Texas" recorded their first four albums with Robin.

On the podcast, Robin Hood (yes, that's his real name) talks about building a studio in his parents' back yard, having 5 of the the Top 100 Billboard hits on the charts at the same time, and, for the audio geeks in the audience, he gives a rundown of his studio equipment.

Some classic cars once sold in the six figures. Some still do, but the younger generations don't seem to have the same affinity for vehicles as the Baby Boomers. So, what's happening to the once-great pastime of collecting classic cars?

On the podcast, John and Robert Dodd, both longtime classic car collectors, talk about what may be the beginning of the end for what was once a distinctly American hobby.

Stay home? Go to work? Am I at risk? 

On this edition of the John G. Moore Podcast, we get the latest updates on the do's and don'ts related to the Corona Virus from the CEO of the Northeast Texas Public Health District, George Roberts.

You're in an accident and the first responder you see on the scene is a drone? It's not science fiction. It's close to becoming reality.

Phil Burks is head of the company First iZ, which is leading the way in making drones that can deliver crucial information to first responders so that the right personnel and equipment are sent as soon as possible.

What if you took the Ancestry DNA test and found out about another family you didn't even know you had? And another? And a niece? And more?

In this episode, John's school classmate, Mary Carter Douglas, discusses what happens when you take a DNA test and find out more than just where you ancestors came from.