DEC 02, 2025

🌌 A Childhood Under the Stars

The Secret to Life?

Note: This episode is a repost from The D-Minus Diaries, which aired on December 2, 2025. We’re sharing it again as we’ve expanded the show to all major podcast platforms.

In this episode, Jim takes you back to a quiet cow pasture and a childhood friendship with Dwayne Letterman, lying under the stars and wondering how big the universe really is. What started as a boyhood curiosity turns into a reflection on survival, wonder, and the razor-thin line that keeps us alive.

From desert skies to open oceans, Jim explores how fragile the human body really is and why life depends on maintaining a delicate balance. Along the way, he shares hard-earned lessons from the military, survival training, and real-world experience that remind us how quickly nature can decide our fate.

This episode asks a simple but profound question:Is the secret to life something grand… or something as small as 98.6 degrees?

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