Getting to Know You

Mr. Jim Fox approached me a while back about sitting down for an interview. We chat about my life and how things developed, my journey through college and into marriage, a busy, budding, expansive career, and my largest podcast project to date, "Between the Levees." Jim appeared a few times on that show over the years and we've kept in touch ever since. Hope you enjoy it. He made me say way too many words.

David Trahan, the horsepower behind NewOrleansMusicians.com, joins me again on the channel to talk through our respective podcasting journeys and his primary project and contributions to the local music scene. Among other things, we touch a bit on my podcast numbers and get his perspective on the efforts we've put forth.

The boys from the new Rimfire Radio Show join me to talk through the origins and development of the program, their respective introductions to their favorite hobbies, and the surprising following they've garnered in a short 9 weeks. Come meet the guys behind the glass!

In this episode, Shane, a family connection from days long past, joins me to tell about his early life in Ponchatoula, LA, grade school through college, challenges and opportunities found in life, leaps of faith, and his projects. At the time of this recording, he was an unemployed author writing daily to explore a nearly endless array of topics that include "content" as it is seen today, a developing theory of everything, consciousness studies, meditation, and a relentless examination of belief. He aspires in his writing "to eff the ineffable" and explore "The Big Blip."We may one day reconvene to chat through the evolution of consciousness and what's become of us.

Mr. Jimmy Arnett, my late father's best friend, hops on the show to tell about his family history from a few centuries ago to World War II, his birth a few years later in New Orleans, LA, his childhood moving to and from the Franklin, LA, area, his own father's untimely death, and a bond of friendship with my father and their friend group that began in the late 50s. He tells about his best friend's eating habits, the commanding presence my father maintained from the get-go, a car accident when they were young, food and football alongside Lake Pontchartrain while both students at LSU-NO, and a cascade of memories from the seven decades now behind him. We jump ahead to Mr. Jimmy's career and family, friends, music, and the last times we saw my father. We talk through Dad's fight with cancer, his death at 66, the wake and funeral that followed, and more memories of life with him.