Don't Play With Things That Go Boom

Click on the audio player above or read the transcript below. Don’t play with things that go boom. Lessons from my days in olive drab by Clint Morey, Specialist 4th Class, retired. Well … not actually retired … it’s more like  I didn’t re-up. Episode 5: “The Sweetest Tasting Liquid in the World” Now that the Army had us looking like soldiers, they had another job.  And I have to admit, this job wa...

Click on the audio player at the top of this page or read the transcript below. “Don't play with things that go boom: lessons from my days in olive drab” by Clint Morey, Specialist 4th class retired.  Well, not actually retired.  It's more like I didn't re-up.  Episode 4: “I don't know, but I've been told …”  Now when the army said they didn't have room for us at Fort Ord, I actually wondered what...

Click on the audio player above to listen to the podcast or read the transcript below. Episode 3: May I borrow your pee? Please. I had an image in my mind of what my first day in the Army would be like. I imagined a drill instructor screaming at me and my fellow recruits as we got off the bus at some Army base. I’d seen that in the movies, so I was ready for my first day in the Army. I could handl...

TRANSCRIPT Episode two. “Bell bottoms? You can't be serious.” Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a faraway land there was this thing that everyone dreaded. It was called ... THE DRAFT. Okay, maybe that’s a little over dramatic. But many people today don’t realize the draft was something all young men of my era faced. When the Vietnam War began most people in America would have had trouble even f...

Click on the audio player above to hear the podcast or read the transcript below. Transcript Episode 1 “Baby Boomers Wanted” Growing up I used to think of myself as just a common, regular, ordinary guy. But as I got older I found out I was something special … very, very special. So special in fact that demographers – whatever they were – came up with a name to describe me. They called me a baby bo...

Episode 0 - Introduction to the podcast I’m moving my podcast “Don’t Play With Things That Go Boom” to this Substack account and hope you find it enjoyable. For those of you who have listened to the podcast on Anchor or one of the podcasts hosts (Apple, Spotify, etc.) I apologize for being a little less than regular on releasing episodes. I will try to be better in the future. I’m going to start b...