Growing Up With Papaw

Evangelist Cade Posey joins me as we discuss the awesome new venue and amazing experience of Camp Apex 2023.

Straight from youth camps to "the camp", Big John and Papaw cover an eventful weekend with real-time audio inserted of the live events. Mamaw was even on board with spotlight in hand, keeping us pointed away from the alligators and snags. We dive deep to pick up massive piles of huge mussels and even deeper to see what caused Isaiah to hide his face and the single bullfrog to unashamedly...

Here's an episode that I wish every podcaster would create...I spent this show telling you about the podcasts that I listen to and think are share-worthy. Oh, and we have a brand new intro clip!

Talk about multitasking! Recorded this puppy on the way home from work! Listen to some of the life-changing events we experienced at the Southern California Junior Youth Camp and find out who the real superstar is!

This episode teaches us a life lesson from the actions of a mighty man who did the right thing when he saw weakness in his leader.

Live from the camp! Papaw and Baby Bandit recap the world travels and professional performances that caused them to miss the production of the previous podcast weekly periodical! Listen in for a scary hair in the biscuit with water exploding beaver tails and a blind trotline full of catfish, and an amazingly interesting horse feed about an accent that was obtained in a very unconventional manner!

Here's a tardy episode full of everything from a wild west, fist-blowing showdown with Grandpa Gates, a hilarious hair in the biscuit that involves a kid with his head tangled in a tambourine, and a sobering story about an unimaginable, life-lesson experience that could've been horrible.

After lending an ear to this 15 minute life-changing event, you'll wish for a Momma like mine and hope you'll never have a Momma like Junior's hungry Samarian meat eating Mother!

Listen to Isaac tell about catching the FIRE out of some fish, drop in on Abigail telling about her trapping expertise, listen to Trapper Myles foretell his rich and famous future and be flabbergasted by some awkward and unconventional methods of obtaining eyesight in the early church and the early 1900's.

This episode will have you buzzing with excitement and interrupting your daily routine to include some healthy competition between you and yourself.

What'll it take to get a rating and review from you? How about a hilarious hair in the biscuit with an underlying message that you'll have to squint to see? Maybe another awesome Rubber Bandit lesson with special guest Momma Bandit? Perhaps the oration of a published paper portraying your important part in rearing children? How about a homemade song with some fancy fingerpicking on a Marti...

Don't listen if you're not prepared to be a coon skinning, world changing, bus driving, gobble hopper with a lucky dog hat.

After a nudge from my family-oriented barber with a rich wife, two boys and a baby girl, I decided to go "Rubber Bandit heavy" in this episode. For the smooth haircuts and inspiring conversations, I plugged in a few namesake characters for Stuart and his boys. I think the Rubber Bandit can teach us all a hard-to-swallow lesson if we'll listen between the lines to Uh-Fences!

This episode is special in so many ways! First time podcaster and big time Papaw's Princess Abigail Phillips joins us with some extraordinary information and unique lyrics! We dive deep into the purple words of the Jerusalem Church ledger and learn some fun facts about those 19th century country Christians. You'll be proud of your padded pew and permissive pastor. As a bonus, you'll le...

Join Sleepy Isaac and Mighty Mouse Myles off location as this trapping game takes a communist twist! We reveal the truth about the traps of our enemy and how much Myles can eat.

This episode is a must-listen for every adult on earth!  Bro Posey gives us a new perspective on the gates of hell that Jesus talks about.  You will learn and be inspired by this anointed and crucially needed discussion!

This is sure to be a favorite episode!  Join Big John and the future famous Aaleah as they drop tater eyes and search for lost loot while they learn what makes treasure valuable.  

Join Big John and Papaw as they learn from a mighty oak that once was.  

The boys anticipatorily prepare for youth duck hunt with Tristen showing some calling techniques and yearning to harvest a banded duck.  Well, God smiles on him the next day and Papaw is able to capture some of the excitement and paste it in the episode later.  Hair in the biscuit shares a hilarious story about Tristen as a young outlaw!  We reminisce about duck hunts gone by and le...

Papaw proves that the easiest way is usually not the right way as he tackles the saw briars en route to the squirrel blasting action.  Our treasure hunting itch flares up as we get ready to scratch it with a local legend about buried gold.  And we learn the two places that we can see clearly in life...I hope my viewpoint is from above and not beneath!

Here's a bonus episode with our son-in-law Zach Joiner and daughter Rebekah discussing Zach's journey through life with brain cancer and the miracles and lessons along the way.  Listen and draw strength from them as they share their hearts. Cite excerpt from Instagram account @hopeheals

Tristen, John Cade and Papaw get cold and wet (more than once!) all over a few fish, some stink pots and empty duck holes.  The "hair in the biscuit" will make you watch yo step!  Plus a bonus Valentine's Day song about an old flame!

Learn from a star how to make it to the sky by stretching yourself!  If Jesus makes jelly from our first-fruits, it's bound to taste like muscadine jelly!

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