Podcasts by Live Long*, Learn a Little, Laugh a Lot
A collection of memoirs from the life of Duane Hiatt meant to pass on life experiences and wisdom while hopefully inspiring others to do the same.
Further podcasts by Porter Griffiths
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Pining for the Boy Scouts from 2020-06-07T19:58:23
Pine: A species of evergreen tree. Wood: cellular material for building things. Derby: A style of hat, also a race, as in the Kentucky Derby. Combined, Pine, Wood, Derby is a Cub Scout activity ...
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Learning how to not dance from 2020-06-07T19:52:31
"Watch this," Mr. Olson beamed. He opened the wide little wooden door of the new table top record player. He slipped in one fo the 33 1/3 rpm long playing records which were just appearing on th...
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School of hard rocks (and puncture weeds) from 2020-06-07T19:46:33
Our school was named after Chief Peteetneet, leader of a Native American tribe who roamed the valley before the white settlers crowded them out. The teachers didn't tell us much about the chief,...
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My mother taught me from 2020-06-07T19:36:10
I smoked my first cigarette when I was 5 years old. It wasn't easy. It was wet from the rain. It took about half a box of matches that Max Reese snitched from their kitchen to keep it going. We ...
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There is a war on from 2020-06-07T19:29:53
You wouldn't believe what it takes to fight a war. Besides guns, tanks, ships, and airplanes, it takes cowboy boots, candy bars, baseball bats, fathers, ground up nuts, and handkerchiefs, lots o...
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I want to do that someday from 2020-06-07T01:51:07
The experience burned itself into my brain, and kept echoing through my youthful years, "I want to do that someday."
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Traveling Light from 2020-06-07T01:44:46
My brother on the front fender gripped the small sailing ship medallion on the hood that signified we were driving a Plymouth. The breeze began to blow his hair as we moved a bit faster into the...
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My Father's Footsteps from 2020-02-22T20:57:36
If some is good, more is better—or not, my father taught me.
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Beware of Old Swede from 2020-02-16T20:18:21
"In addition to our world-class playground, we had Saturday movies which included rustlers, fistfights, gunslingers and the ever-present danger of growing up."
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The World's Greatest Playground from 2020-02-16T20:14:16
"She was a woman of adventure from the big town, Salt Lake City. She visited several times a day, and she had a backyard any imaginative child would die for (and almost did as our parents someti...
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Being Born and Childhood Home from 2020-02-16T20:06:53
"Dad did the heavy lifting, Mom did the labor and my first view of the world was looking down at the parking lot passing before my eyes."
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Hereditary Health Conditions from 2020-02-16T20:00:05
"I began to whimper. Gordon looked back and consoled me. "Shut up." I shut up."
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The Wride Side from 2020-02-16T19:39:29
"The Wrides, my mother's family, were considerably better off than the Hiatt's, making Ferron's project of courting Gladys a bit of an uphill climb."
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The Golden Voice Wins the Gold from 2020-02-16T03:10:45
"With his athletic, social, and economic, life such a struggle, fortunately, my father could do one thing well. He could sing."
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Dad as Abraham Lincoln from 2020-02-16T03:06:14
"My father called it his "Abraham Lincoln suit." It came even complete with button shoes."
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My grandfather's hectic home from 2020-01-03T17:54:59
"My father grew up in an unhappy family bordering on dysfunctional as he described it."
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