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  • Mad Mechanics: Hallelujah HorsepowerEpisode 12.5 — Holiday Choir Van SpecialWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #12012025-12032025)As narrated by: Waylon Waylon, Intro: “Well now, folks, settle in for a tale about the night when divine intervention met backwoods engineering, when a church van became a rolling miracle, and when the boys at Mad Mechanics discovered that sometimes the… Read more

  • ABRAM’S COVENANT WITH GOD (Genesis 15:1-21)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10232025) Faith believes when the math doesn’t work. —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   Genesis 15 is about what happens when you make the right choice and wait for God to show up.   In Genesis 14, Abram refused wealth from the King of Sodom. Said no… Read more

  • The Little Man Who Rode a Pig By: Emmitt Owens There once was a man no bigger than dew, who clung to a pig — what else could he do? A pig round and rosy, with confident grins, who dragged him through life by the fold of her skin. She loved the attention — the… Read more

  • Mad Mechanics: The Gospel According to GreaseEpisode 14.3Written by: Emmitt OwensAs narrated by: Waylon(Index #05172026) Waylon, Intro: “Well now, folks, let me tell you about the Sunday morning when a man of the cloth learned that sometimes the best sermons aren’t preached from pulpits … they’re delivered with socket wrenches and cigarette smoke, by men… Read more

  • “Jim and the Terrible Think-So Machine”(A whimsical caution, in a Seuss-ish scene) By: Emmitt Owens (Index #04062026) In a town not too far, not too loud, not too grim,Lived a Think-So Machine in the mind of young Jim.It whirred and it clicked, it assumed and it guessed,And it always told Jim that he knew what… Read more

  • THE POSSUM BRANCH SERIESEpisode 1: PILOT: The Squirrel SiegeBy: Emmitt Owens (Index #12012025)    They don’t train you in radio school for nights like these. Mostly because nobody goes to radio school anymore. You just show up, prove you can avoid dead air, and pray someone remembers to pay you.   I’m broadcasting from a shed… Read more

  • She Said She Was Hungry

    Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.    Early spring 2010. My future second wife was visiting for the weekend, and I wanted to show her how cooking together could be one of the best parts of building a relationship. There’s something about working in the kitchen as a team – the communication,… Read more

  • Russellville Alabama

    What do you love about where you live? I live in Russellville, Alabama. Population 10,855. It’s a small town in Franklin County that grew up around an old military road Andrew Jackson built after the War of 1812. We’re tucked into the foothills of the Appalachians – small mountains, canyons, creeks everywhere, caves and natural… Read more

  • Moving at the Right Speed

    What brings you peace? Peace, for me, finally feels like it’s moving at the right speed. Not slowing down or stopping, but finding that rhythm where everything inside aligns … I’m happy as hell because something fundamental has truly shifted. It’s both something I’ve found and something I’ve created – I’ve discovered this natural pace… Read more

  • Subject Change’s

    it’s tiring, isn’t it— trying to be enough in a world that keeps shifting the goalposts. they say: be driven, but don’t try too hard. be soft, but not too open. feel things, but don’t let it show. and i’m just here, trying to be honest without falling apart. trying to stay whole in a… Read more