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Two Wolves
Season 4 Episode 97
A hard call. The fella in me who ain’t a friend of reason wanted to hoist the black flag. The wiser part asked me to slow down and do right by the fo…
5 months ago
Imaginary lines
Season 4 Episode 96
Some lines get people killed. Some just keep us small. From the Driftless region of Minnesota to a joint that’s legal on one bank of the Mississippi …
5 months, 1 week ago
Sacred Kingdom
Season 4
The five labors of growth are complete. But before we close the series out JW has one more thing to tell you — the part he hasn’t said yet. These too…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Trust
Season 4 Episode 94
I charged into trust thinking I had it figured out. Confucius stopped me in my tracks. From Jesus to Hemingway to Epictetus a deep dive into what tru…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Humility
Season 4 Episode 93
Humility was supposed to be the easy episode. It wasn’t. JW traces the concept from Aristotle to Augustine to a back porch in East Texas, then takes …
6 months ago
Finding mercy
Season 4 Episode 92
Mercy is a word we think we understand until life puts us in a room where we have to actually practice it. JW explores what Jesus, the Stoics, Dostoe…
6 months, 1 week ago
Love and it's labor
Season 4 Episode 91
I was handed a broken blueprint for love early on. Spent a lot of years building damaged things with it. This episode is about the people and moments…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
An old soldier knows
There’s a woman from Laird Hill you haven’t met yet. Her husband spends his evenings covered in grease keeping their Cavalier running. She’s quiet. A…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
"Behind the Strings"
With the Reckon Yard Podcast on hiatus for a couple of weeks, Duwali Bottoms must go on,
1977. A stolen Pontiac. A state trooper on Sexton Road. A jai…
7 months ago
Pandora's Box
Season 3 Episode 90
JW closes out the season with stories about every time technology made his skills obsolete,the print shop, NDT, foundation repair, what he did about …
7 months, 1 week ago