People Keep Telling Me I Look Like Jesus

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A phrase I’ve hated for years, despite allowing it to influence much of my life. After a few weeks away from the microphone, I’m catching up on life, the podcast, and an unexpected return to basketball. Along the way, I’m revisiting my professional journey, the things I’m proud of, the mistakes...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. I spent most of my life thinking about Noah’s Ark like a cartoon. Then I started wondering what might actually be underneath the story. Ancient flood accounts, a 515-foot formation in eastern Turkey, an investigation happening right now, and one question I can’t quite shake... Does knowing what happened even matter? A Cup & a Bowl #2....

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. It's Homecoming Week in Lexington, AL. Just felt like a good time throw together a few clips surrounding my own personal homecoming. Be safe & be well! 🤟🤟🤟 Shoutout to IG: @Joshuaspoetry for the poem on Mom. Check him out!

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. The first edition of A Cup & A Bowl goes straight into 9/11. I’m not here to give you a theory. I’m here to ask how much of the public record we actually know. From missed intelligence and unanswered questions to the 9/11 Commission, Saudi connections, strange details around the World Trade Center and the world we still live in because...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Justin “JP” Plott of Rightside Media joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about local politics, Charlie Kirk, college football, voter turnout, taking the jump when life calls for it, and plenty more. Question. Feel. Reach. 🤟

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. After a couple weeks away, I’m back behind the mic wondering what exactly makes us who we are. Survival, success, ego, authenticity, asking for help & a little Alan Watts along the way. Y R U, U?

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. 11 was my number long before it was my episode number... This one starts at the Lexington Truck & Tractor Pull with a few questions from an old friend I hadn’t seen in a while: What’s the plan? What do you enjoy? What do you actually want to do? For maybe the first time in my life, I just said, “I don’t know.” And I meant it. So this e...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Podscraps is the show inside the show... A collection of things I find that make me stop, think, feel, or look at something a little differently. Fresh off finishing Project Hail Mary , this one became a collection of thoughts about the strange little experience of being human. James McCrae’s Instructions Before Visiting Earth . Duncan Tru...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid from Lexington went to Huntsville looking for opportunity. Ten years later, he left looking for peace. In this solo episode, I trace the jobs, relationships, mistakes, ambition and insecurity that kept pulling me back to Huntsville. I also wrestle with the city itself: its growth, its manufactured sense of community, its relationship...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Welcome back to the show within the show. This episode began with a pastor talking about Shia LaBeouf and somehow led me through Rick & Morty , James Sexton, Dan Harmon, Theo Von, and one of the most beautiful reflections on grief I've ever heard. On the surface, they're completely different conversations. Underneath, they're all askin...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Listen in to Episode 7 as we catch up with my old friend CJ Newton (Newton Creative). CJ is based out of Knoxville and is well-known in the content game as one of the top producers in the region. Check out his work at his IG @newtoncrtv

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Podscraps is the show inside the show. Pieces of things I’ve heard and pieces of my own life, put together to see what they have to say to each other. This was supposed to be an episode about Dauphin Island, recorded on Dauphin Island. The wind and an approaching storm wouldn’t allow it. Then I planned to record that night at the Kate Shep...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Episode 5 took two attempts and two states before I finally got it out. This is my first real solo riff. No guest. No full script. Just something that happened this week that sent me into a much bigger conversation about love, dating, marriage, social media, sex, family, and the things we expect another person to fix in us. I come from a f...

Taylor McLendon joins the show from his studio at Lowe Mill for a conversation about art, identity, pain, process, and the things we carry until we are ready to let them go. Taylor’s work is visual, which made this episode immediately interesting for an audio-only podcast. How do you talk about art people normally experience with their eyes? How do you honor the scale, texture, and feeling of some...

Episode 3 is the first guest episode of People Keep Telling Me I Look Like Jesus , and Steph Cashin was the right person to set the tone. Steph is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, EMDR-certified therapist, founder of Huntsville Integrative Therapy, and the brains/face/voice behind @thehuntsvilletherapist. I walked into her office with microphones & therapy cynicism, and she let m...

Episode 2 is a love letter to Kipnuk, Alaska. (Qipneq) Not a travel story. Not an outsider explaining a village. Not a tragedy episode. A love letter. I went to Kipnuk for work, but I came home with something I’m still trying to carry correctly: gratitude, perspective, humility, and a different understanding of home. This episode is about the places that follow you home, the responsibility that co...

This first episode is a baseline. After years of hosting 94x50 Podcast and Sentinel Soundbytes Podcast, I’ve spent a lot of time being the mouthpiece for something bigger than myself. This show is different. This one starts and ends with me. Episode 1, appropriately titled, "The First One", is a re-introduction, a catch-up, and a first attempt at explaining why I’m moving home. It’s about leaving...