Daryl’s Back Pages

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Kit Carson Scout, Chin Nguyen ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:      "All my relatives call me traitor," he once told me.  "My brother shoot me dead if I go home."  Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platform or visit our website a...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Women Talk Twice as Much as Men Do”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "I was talking to a very verbal work friend of mine the other day who often drives me crazy with all of her chit-chat and I decided to mention that women talk twice as much as men. 24,000 wor...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The 'Minor" Discomforts of Pregnancy”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "It started off harmlessly enough, suggesting that pregnant women need to give up such things as weight-lifting, scuba diving, waterskiing, and of course, all racquet sports.&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Get in Touch with Your Feminine Side ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "I guess I just have never quite understood the attraction of sitting around quietly for hours on end in an uncomfortable boat or on a hot, dusty riverbank pitting one’s mentality against...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Horrors of Dating”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "First, there was the terror of actually asking a girl out (and why was it that back in the 60s and 70s, the guys always had to ask the girl out? And why did that all suddenly change about a week or so af...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Toi Nguyen, Father of Four" .   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   "Toi's love of country, family and freedom consumed his every thought, and unlike me and most every other American in-country, he was fighting to win. To him, the war was a life and deat...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Men are Scum”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview:   “And when they aren’t busy thinking up new lies to tell us,” said Carrie obviously warming to the subject, “they’re out there somewhere trying to build up their poor little male egos by flirting with other girls behi...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Keeping a Promise”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "Bolts of bright-white lightning began shooting down from the now black-as-night sky, and not only were they striking the ground, but they were doing so on both sides of the road I was traveling, some not mor...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Cockroaches Can Get into Your Ears ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   “Well, our stupid dog found a few cockroaches in one of our back bedrooms a few weeks ago and nothing freaks me out more than cockroaches. Nothing!”  Listen to all episodes on your favorite pod...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Should Women be Allowed to Fight in a War?" .   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: “A lot of female soldiers were killed in Iraq, and I think that is simply awful! A great country like ours doesn’t need to be giving their women rifles and sending them off to fight...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “If All Else Fails Buy Her Shoes”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview:   "My daughter wants me to buy her `big and clunky shoes' this year for Christmas. Now how can any man be expected to know what in the world that means?" Listen to all episodes on your fa...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Christmas During the Great Depression”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview:   "I sat there and tried to picture the looks on my kid's faces if they to were to tear into their Christmas packages this year and find oranges, apples and bananas." Listen to all...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Goal is to Meet, Love, and Disappoint Only Exceptional Beings”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview:   "I don't know, Dad. Sometimes I think it would be better if I just avoided relationships altogether." Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcas...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Remembering Walter - World War I Veteran”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.   Here’s a preview: "I bet you think that everyone in their right mind hates war, don't you, Sonny? Well, you're wrong. If everyone hated it, then we'd stop having them, wouldn't we?"...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Halloween Has Changed Forever ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   "So, is everyone at this party going to look like they want to tear limbs, or slice them, off of human bodies?”  "Pretty much."  Listen to all episodes on your favorite podcast platfo...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Do Pickup Lines Actually Work? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   “I haven’t been in a bar for more years than I care to count,” wrote my friend, “and the people I went with kept buying me free drinks, and like the idiot I am, I kept drinking them, and before I k...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “The Poopers”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview:   "Well, I'm afraid it's been my experience that when it comes to really gross stuff, you've still got another couple of years to go.  Thirteen seems to be the magic number, although you won't s...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ A Few Thoughts on the Passing of Another Labor Day" .   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "  The history of the labor movement in this country is a long and complicated story, going all the way back to a time when organizing a union could be a life and death...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ One Man’s Answer to Improving His Love Life ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   “Well, to tell you the truth, the goal is to make this place big enough for lots of good-looking women to come visit me, but not big enough for any of them to want to stay, if you know...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Fang, the Tire-Eating Dog ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview: "The dog, who I’ll call Fang, growled and barked even louder, energetically slimed the side of my just washed truck, and then decided to turn his attention to my front left tire."   Listen to al...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ The Worst “Bad Hair Day” Ever ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   "The terror in her voice made me leap out of my chair and hurry to her side. “What’s the matter?” I asked with concern as she stood next to the shower with a towel wrapped around her head, star...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ My First Haircut from Jana ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview:  "Much to my horror, the first thing I noticed was that all the barbers were women. I quickly turned to leave, but a friendly voice called out, "May I help you?"  Listen to all episodes o...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Remembering a Good and Decent Man on Father’s Day ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: "My mother called me around 5 a.m. When my home phone rings at that hour, the first thought that always goes through my head is, “Are the kids all safely home and in their be...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “Helping My Mother Quit Smoking”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.      Here’s a preview: . “Once we get her nice and comfortable in her bed after the surgery, we’ll collect up all her cigarettes, take them all with us when we go home, and then she’ll have to quit whether she wants to  or...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for another episode of Daryl’s Back Pages, “ Are Americans and Europeans Really all that Different? ”.   Podcasts with thought-provoking insights about life in around 5 minutes.     Here’s a preview:   "Americans seem to be much more conservative than Europeans, especially when it comes to nudity and sexual attitudes."   Listen to all episodes on your favorite po...