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Jerry Wayne Longmire

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20 year Standup Comedian and creator of Truck Astrology, ShopTalk, and devotee of the Church of Internal Combustion, Jerry Wayne Longmire delves into his own history with automobiles to find the catalysts that led him to be a lifelong lover of fine machines.

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Monsters

History’s been lied about from both directions and I’m tired of it. Edison, Ford, and Diamond Jim Brady none of them are who you think. This week on Duwali Bottoms, Tony and Dusty get out of jail, Alana shows up, Dave Tilton pays the sheriff a visit, and somebody comes flying around a curve on the two lane who has no business being there.

S4E99 May 31, 2026 76 min 21 annotations

Ohm Ohm

This week, I talk about two days in a row when the world said no, and I kept going anyway, a flat tire in the rain, a camera on the concrete floor. I’ve been asking myself ever since whether the thing in me that always chooses the harder path is strength or scar tissue. I don’t have an answer, and I’m starting to think that might be the point.

S4E98 May 24, 2026 59 min 8 annotations

Two Wolves

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 folks counting on me. This one’s about knowing when to swing and when to walk away clean. Two wolves. Both still in the room.Back in Duwali Bottoms,A fog-thick morning on the Bong Song plain, 1966. Carl Sr. hears something in an empty village he can’t unhear, and the choice he makes there will follow him into the dark. Back home, a jail cell, a swollen eye, and a Papaw with a foot of beard and a full head of steam.

S4E97 May 17, 2026 61 min 6 annotations

Imaginary lines

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 and a criminal act on the other, JW walks through the imaginary lines men drew with rulers, and the smaller ones we draw inside ourselves. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas. Sixteen hours out of a flooded Houston, Tony and Dusty roll up on Duwali Bottoms in the dark, and the homecoming Tony spent a decade trying to aviod is waiting for him on a farm road.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

S4E96 May 10, 2026 96 min 16 annotations

Sacred Kingdom

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 tools won’t fix everything. The world is full of people stomping around in their meat suits leaving wreckage behind them and a subscription to dogmatic belief doesn’t insure their humanity. What the toolbox does is give you a foundation that doesn’t move when those people show up. And they will show up. A man on a plane between Wisconsin and Houston trying to use what he’s been building. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas.Hurricane Ike has had its say. The Heights is flooded, the generator is pinned under an oak tree, and the power won’t be back for weeks. Tony packs the Martin. He packs the napkin too. Duwali Bottoms is calling.

S4 May 03, 2026 62 min 19 annotations

Trust

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 trust actually is, what distrust actually costs, and why the wall you build to protect yourself might be the most expensive thing you own. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas.Hurricane Ike is hours from landfall. Tony rides out the storm in the Heights with Dusty and Tinker, a joint, a Weber grill, and the Martin. Eighteen floors above the city, Amber sends her friends home and listens to Blue October alone. Neither one knows the other is out there. The storm doesn’t care.

S4E94 Apr 26, 2026 77 min 41 annotations

Humility

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 his own road to Damascus in the middle of writing it. Two sides of the humble coin, some stories about getting knocked off the horse, and a hard look at the difference between real humility and the fear that’s been wearing its clothes. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas Season Two: as the storm draws closer, two displaced souls find themselves in the same Houston bar on the same restless night.

S4E93 Apr 19, 2026 91 min 41 annotations

Finding mercy

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, Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, and Twain had to say about mercy, then tells the story of a hospital room, a dying woman, and what happens when mercy gets corrupted into self-protection and called something else. The second labor of growth starts here.In Duwali Bottoms, a bloody nosed Tony Haines finds his way back to his papaw and an old man who knows that sometimes the most merciful thing you can do is let the big ones go.

S4E92 Apr 12, 2026 72 min

Love and it's labor

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 that handed me a better plan and why love isn’t a feeling you fall into, it’s a labor you pick up. Season Four starts here. We return to Duwali Bottoms just in time for season two, Hurricane Ike is still just a disturbance in the Atlantic, but the storm is already building closer to home.

S4E91 Apr 08, 2026 66 min 28 annotations

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 preacher’s wife. The kind of person you pass in a hardware store and don’t think twice about.She knows exactly where she’s going this morning.Danny Ware has been carrying something since Korea that most men never have to carry. He’s made his peace with most of it. An old soldier knows what he knows.Tom Levins is running out of road.And somewhere in Duwali Bottoms a lawyer named Dave Tilton has a briefcase full of things that are going to change everything for everyone still standing.Episode 13. An Old Soldier Knows.The season finale of Duwali Bottoms Texas. Thirteen episodes. One complete story.Some debts get paid in ways nobody sees coming.

Mar 29, 2026 10 min 13 annotations

"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 jail cell in Rusk County where two former best friends finally tell each other the truth. 1987. A phone call Tiffany wasn’t supposed to hear. A confession Danny was never supposed to get.

Mar 22, 2026 21 min 26 annotations

Pandora's Box

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 it. Plus a trip to Fredericksburg, the S10 Lot Legends video, a 4L60E update, a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas.

S3E90 Mar 15, 2026 81 min 33 annotations

Selling soap

Why JW makes fun of brands, the truth behind Dawn soap and the Exxon Valdez, and why you don’t need the right boots to be worthy. Plus a road trip, the Austin show, Avalanche updates, and a new Duwali Bottoms. All are welcome in the house of internal combustion.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

S3E89 Mar 08, 2026 76 min 26 annotations

Fired on Friday

JW talks friendships and the complexity of favors, the fear that pervades us all regardless of station or occupation.This week in Duwali Bottoms, healing does not always mean mending.As Carl Jr recovers and the Haines family tries to steady themselves after tragedy, old friendships strain under the weight of silence and distance. Around town, life carries on in the summer heat but something restless is beginning to move beneath the surface.

S3E88 Mar 01, 2026 66 min 30 annotations

Hated that guy

JW revisits a brief fling with a ’92 Toyota pickup and the chaos that surrounded it in the early 2000’s. Late nights and a hard look in the mirror at a version of himself he didn’t much like.This week in Duwali Bottoms, TX:After two boys end up dead and a case gets filed away, Red can’t shake the feeling something doesn’t add up. Danny refuses to sit still, Tom learns the noise is spreading, and the line between justice and vengeance starts to blur. In Duwali Bottoms, nobody waits forever.

S3E87 Feb 22, 2026 86 min 29 annotations

Great Expectations

This week on The Reckon Yard, JW remembers his first Valentine’s Day with Rachael, then reflects on his paternal grandfather’s life and the weight of expectations and how a man learns to carry them.Then we return to Duwali Bottoms, Texas. In the long heat of an East Texas summer, a single afternoon drifts along slow and easy… right up until it doesn’t, and the roads and pastures fill with the restless energy of youth, old grudges, and choices made a little too fast for good sense to keep up.

S3E86 Feb 16, 2026 96 min 5 annotations

Great Expectations

This week on The Reckon Yard, JW remembers his first Valentine’s Day with Rachael, then reflects on his paternal grandfather’s life and the weight of expectations and how a man learns to carry them.Then we return to Duwali Bottoms, Texas. In the long heat of an East Texas summer, a single afternoon drifts along slow and easy… right up until it doesn’t, and the roads and pastures fill with the restless energy of youth, old grudges, and choices made a little too fast for good sense to keep up.

S3E86 Feb 15, 2026 76 min 19 annotations

If I could only fly

There’s a beauty in knowing we’re all mostly trying to get home.Blaze Foley helped me stumble across a truth so deep it could only have been hiding in plain sight the whole time.Episode Six of Duwali Bottoms, Texas finds Carl Jr. trying to outrun a summer that’s already slipping away. Sometimes the people you thought you understood best are the ones you don’t recognize anymore.

S3E85 Feb 08, 2026 76 min 18 annotations

Never been to Spain

The Mazda has left the building while JW falls into a rabbit hole of Americana through the grace and talent of Hoyt Axton. In Duwali Bottoms episode five leans into atmosphere and character, living in the long pauses between decisions and the weight carried by men shaped by place, memory, and unfinished business. The story narrows, the silence grows louder, and Duwali Bottoms keeps moving forward.

S3E84 Feb 01, 2026 93 min 38 annotations

Sarajevo Ghost

What do Epictetus and Helge Meyer have in common? Who knows, but let's try to make the connection anyway. Also episode four of Duwali Bottoms Texas is a humdinger.

S3 Jan 25, 2026 74 min 23 annotations

Albatross Exit

This week is about the things we hold onto long after they stop serving us. From a stalled truck restoration to fallen empires and failed institutions, this episode asks when consistency turns into stubbornness. If you’ve ever stayed put just to avoid admitting the season ended, this one’s for you.

S3E82 Jan 18, 2026 79 min 8 annotations

Pulpwood Fiction

How much advice do you give on subjects you’re not knowledgeable about?I try like hell to avoid it.Trouble is, the waters are full of ignorant sharks.We return to Duwali Bottoms to learn a little more about the land, and what it asks of the people standing on it.

S3 Jan 11, 2026 69 min 3 annotations

Rotten Fruit

This week on TRYP, JW talks about the revenge mindset, and how living on borrowed anger can drain you dry. Plus, the debut episode of a new fictional series “Duwali Bottoms, Texas.”

S3E80 Jan 04, 2026 79 min 9 annotations

Christmas in Houston

JW recounts a quiet Christmas at home and getting the opportunity to spend some time in the service of others.

S3E79 Dec 28, 2025 81 min 14 annotations

The Tipping Point

A road weary JW tells a few tales behind his recent exploits on the Christmas tour before delving off into deep analysis of the precipice in his life.

S3E78 Dec 21, 2025 55 min 1 annotation
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