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Real Help for Real Living — 190 episodes

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My Cardboard Boat Taught Me An Important Lesson

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They Stood Against All Odds For A Vision of What Could Be

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It Was The Worst Decision & the Best Decision

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There Are Some Things We Need to Remember

5

My Washing Machine Ate My Sock (Or Did It?)

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My Phone Is Working, But The Ringer Won’t Work

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I Screwed Up Fixing My Storm Door

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I Don’t Want to Become a Curmudgeon

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I Appeared in a Commercial for Insurance

10

I Made My First Grilled Cheese Sandwich; Ever

11

The Football Team Was Invisible In The Snow Storm

12

I Got a “D” in Geometry Class in High School

13

I Did Some House Cleaning On My Phone

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She Wasn’t Just Annoyed, She was Rude

15

It Started Innocently With A Vacuum Cleaner

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Oops, I Forgot To Take Off The Cap

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I Need You to Jot Down Three Things

18

They Never Saw It But It Was There Every Time

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Before There Was GPS, There Was…….

20

I Still Drive As If I Have Drum Brakes

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I Stayed for All the Wrong Reasons

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I was fired-As a volunteer-Before I got started

23

She Was Either A Good Actress or It Was Real

24

I Stopped Going the Wrong Way On The One Way Street

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Was Caleb an Angel?

26

Got to or Get to - Either Way It Doesn't Sound Like Fun

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It Sounds Really Bad; It Tastes Really Good

28

I’m Not Stubborn, I’m “Undeterred”

29

My Charging Cord Was Draining My Phone

30

Don’t put a Dental Brush in Your Phone’s Charging Jack

31

My Car Got Dizzy Trying to Follow the Lines

32

There Was An Easier Way To Get Around The Accident

33

The Longest Two Minutes of Your Life

34

Bury It In The Back Yard

35

I Lost the Battle of the Leaf Piles

36

We Lost our Joy

37

It Wasn’t What It Really Was

38

An early Thanksgiving gift for Liz

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It Wasn’t What We Were Expecting Part 2

40

It Wasn’t What We Were Expecting

41

Those are 30 Long Mississippi’s

42

I Was Nice. I Should Have Been Kind

43

Is Retirement in the Bible?

44

How Do You Buy A Battery

45

We Survived the Blue Screen of Death

46

They Had Great Pizza but Lousy Toilet Paper

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What does Jelly Roll and a Lightfoot Not Have in Common

48

A Special Song From Some Special People

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Just Because You Heard It Doesn't Make It Real

50

Find Out Who Your Friends Are!

51

What We Think is a Foe May Be a Friend

52

I Think I Am Finally Changing

53

I Was Stopped in the Grocery Store Aisle

54

I Just Don’t Understand

55

What are Those Famous Last Seven Words

56

We’re Having Uniform Inspection? Really?

57

It was Hot; very Hot

58

Is Love a Feeling?

59

Mouthwash Can Be Like Faith

60

Are You Ready to Bury the Hatchet?

61

Do You Have ANTS in Your House?

62

The Gift Was Just What I Needed

63

What in the World is Gasket Shellac?

64

Can You Really Make A Difference?

65

Is Addiction About Drinking?

66

I Wouldn't Give Up the Suit with the Holes

67

It Started With A Few Branches

68

When Overthinking is Not a Good Thing

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Can a Nail in a Tire Be a Good Thing?

70

Meet My Neighbor and His Chainsaw

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It's Not Right, It's Correct

72

I Finally Did a Chin-up Properly

73

They Thought I was Experiencing Homelessness

74

Someone Put 4000 Miles On My Car Overnight

75

How Do You See Yourself?

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Muscle Memory Can Be A Good Thing Or A Bad Thing

77

Why Are There Red and Green Lights on a Boat?

78

Love as Defined by Plastic Food Containers

79

It Wasn’t the Apple in the Garden, but the Strawberry Jelly on the Shelf That Got Me in Trouble

80

Is Ego a Sin?

81

I Don't Read Things

82

I Got Worked Up for Nothing

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I Spent an Hour Looking for Molasses Cookies at the Grocery Store

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If You Are Married, You Need to do This

85

I Can Finally Breathe

86

He Took Locker Number 285

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Don't try this with your morning breakfast shake

88

Johnny Cash warned us not to do this

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I'm learning to say "no"

90

Thanksgiving works when we live with our eyes wide open

91

Don't say "right", instead say "correct"

92

Should he have evacuated?

93

I got too close and it went whoosh

94

I didn't want her to cut the cord

95

I needed a teacher

96

Acme is more than a company the Road Runner buys from

97

My Alarm Clock Tricked Me

98

Sixty Years of Fishing Line

99

It was there. I just didn't see it.

100

A Perspective on Freeom

101

I Got This Right

102

I think I stopped singing the Mighty Mouse song

103

There May Not Be A Next Time.

104

A Little Parable for Mothers

105

A Level Five Leader

106

I kept calling in my marker

107

Paycheck Podcast 3/18

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Upset people speak from the brokenness of their life

109

A Spiritual Experience at the Dentist Office

110

Loving the Difficult People in Your Life

111

Finding the love of your life

112

My New Year’s Resolution – Finding my Happy Spot

113

My New Year’s Resolution Broke

114

My New Year's Wishes

115

Rescuing a stranded boat on the lake

116

When the temperature went to freezing, I went silent.

117

I Missed 29 and Found 95 And Added Something to My Gratitude List

118

I Said It Way Too Many Times

119

I was grateful to be able to lighten my load.

120

I went to the Auto Show – You Won’t Believe What Someone Gave Me

121

Buying your Corvette - Twice

122

What do you get when you cross purple hair and a smoke detector?

123

Why did I read the book I gave my wife as a Christmas gift?

124

Was it just a jar of roasted peppers or was it…

125

I have a phobia of toilet paper dispensers.

126

Paycheck Podcast, July 9

127

This is textbook addictive behavior.

128

You’re not going to believe what I found in the shed

129

I thought she loved me – she bought me jeans way too small

130

I have seen what “dry rot” does to a tire after 35 years.

131

I wrestled with the Bike Rack on the Trunk – Guess Who Won?

132

A Deal Based on the Reputation of Your Word

133

I forgot

134

This is what a flat blade shovel can do.

135

Love costs $6.99 plus tax

136

When was the last time you cleaned the coils on your refrigerator?

137

What is love? (part 3)

138

What is love? (Part 2)

139

What is love? (part 1)

140

Another way to restart the year

141

We've waited a long time for this day.

142

You knew I was having a tough day when…

143

What's the difference between sweet potato casserole and sweet potato pie?

144

What's in your "gratitude" wallet

145

Keeping Short Accounts With One Another

146

Rotary Four Way Test

147

I learned about the Bible through rock-n-roll

148

I thought I was MacGyver when the cell phone went dead

149

Where were you on 9/11?

150

The answer was right in front of me

151

I can't believe I said that

152

I gave him something better than $5, I gave him...

153

My new favorite place to pray is the pasta aisle at my grocery story

154

If you have control issues, go to a car wash

155

We were given a new commandment

156

I’m Taking Welding Classes and Haven’t Burned Down the School (Yet)

157

My scariest shelter-in-place honey do project

158

My 300 Day Re-Wiring Project

159

What COVID-19 showed me about myself

160

Sometimes I feel as if I’m in the movie Groundhog Day

161

I remember the toilet paper shortage of 1974

162

No one ever told me I had to trim crepe myrtle trees

163

I have two women in my life and neither one wants me

164

Character first, then chemistry

165

I can't believe the caller asked this question

166

I have an annual competition with my neighbors and it’s not Christmas lights

167

Last year’s Christmas gift is still in the box and I’m glad

168

Am I George Bailey?

169

My mother and Italian love knot cookies

170

The waitress didn't deserve a tip but got one anyway

171

They are not wine glasses, they are goblets

172

I stopped breathing when the bolt broke off in the engine

173

I actually followed instructions and it worked. Amazing!!!

174

The bird flew over my head and well...

175

Do you know how many gas filters are on your car?

176

NC and NY are not the same

177

My driveway wasn't sinking, it was rising

178

I wish I still had this book from my teens

179

This one I can't explain

180

My 6 minute speech went over the time limit

181

I said “NO” to my drug of choice

182

They didn't tell me the rules of wearing seer sucker suits

183

I survived being an HOA Board President

184

I ruined a perfectly good pair of jeans - part 2

185

They didn’t come to the party and I was disappointed!

186

I ruined a perfectly good pair of jeans and I'm glad I did

187

Someone has a great sense of humor

188

The conversation that changed my life - part 2

189

The conversation that changed my life

190

Why is it so easy to give love but so hard to accept it?