It's A Frank-ly Hairy Podcast

This week Frank gives his thoughts regarding the Charlie Kirk shooting and what it could mean for America going forward. After giving his admiration for this patriotic young man who left us way too soon, Frank reminds that the modern discourse in this country has been in decline for some time, festering out of control to a point where people just don't talk or worse incite violence. He also points...

This week Frank gives the expected commemoration of the show's 75th episode, reiterating what it's about and where he wants it to go eventually. It includes stories from his former civic membership and a brief comparison of classic comedy movies, one of which from the late 1940s has very similar plot elements to his favorite comedic dental movie from the late 60s. He also complains again about mov...

On another hairy episode, Frank begins with personal experiences relating to recent noises originally attributed to his refrigerator and the relative annoyance of workers blocking the alley (and his driveway) for his neighbors' seemingly never-ending construction projects. Then he gets into one word or phrase topics of context, frame, and nuance to include this week the recent Cracker Barrel rebra...

On this episode, Frank finally revisits the Q and A podcasting format to model a more "interactive" show. Topics asked include his opinion of the most annoying music growing up (or maybe ever), his favorite Hollywood starlets or crushes as a youngster, and a focused commentary on one thing college football could do better in its ever-fluid situation. He briefly and succinctly mentions his expectat...

In this episode, Frank once again breaks down how kids are going back to school so early and how adults, both from "his time" as well as now, need to do a little more putting of themselves in the kids' shoes for this event. It may be advisable to see their school district and some of its personnel as doing a lot of what they do for the district's financing scheme and, in some cases, to promote an...

This week Frank describes society non-judgmentally as "intellectually dull," and it is for this reason among many others why he does the show. He gives an example of this dullness from a just-ended masters' degree class and assures you that such examples are many all around if they could be counted. Later he gives a brief commentary about Howard Stern and the cancellation of his show from SiriusXM...

In another busy show this week, Frank begins by mentioning topics he could talk about simply because it's now the month of August. However he pivots to discussing the American Eagle/Sydney Sweeney ad "controversy" while giving his overwhelmingly approval of the commercial. After this he talks about the problem of emotions used in weather and other warnings along with the shortcomings of weather fo...

Frank remembers a few celebrities from the past week or so as well as some who died earlier in the year. He then goes in to a brief potpourri of current topics, some of which he has previously covered such as the "quality" of movie sequels made many years after the original, controversies he has quipped about (or has not yet discussed), and just "enjoying the ride" or process of life. Thank you as...

Frank has a big show today discussing several topics including observations from the classic movie Smokey and the Bandit and how it ties in to this show, at least in his mind. Then he recalls some high school memories of beer parties and others' discovery of his hairiness at the school cafeteria, the latter event leading to a life-long legacy and this show's name. Lastly he discusses the recent co...

On this week's show, Frank makes a humble correction regarding Lukas Nelson, who is Willie's son rather than great grandson as stated on Hairy Episode 64. This comes after hearing Lukas on Joe Rogan's podcast, where during the interview Lukas, much like Frank, uses somewhat "lesser" pop culture or art references to make a point or promote a life lesson or value. Lukas also shares Frank's concern f...

After a quick recap of his 4th of July, Frank gives his take on the 4th of July floods in Kerrville and the fallout they have caused. He describes a small, brief, and long ago connection to the area that he ties in to the commentary. To finish the show, he does another "Bad Movie Edits" segment on Superman and Superman II, both in terms of specific scenes and the bizarre trend these days of taking...

This week Frank celebrates with you as a reader of one of his old articles comments (and cordially disagrees) with him over its content. After recalling a desire to get responses from you the consumer, Frank recaps his disdain for sun (solar) sleeves on the LPGA tour and then reads the comment and his appreciative "rebuttal." Then he wraps up the show by telling that he has completed finally his c...

Today Frank recounts a couple of stories from the weekend at a popular casino resort. One involves a pool towel "vending machine" that overall seemed pretty useless. The other story is running in to an alleged great grandson of Willie Nelson at the resort's other pool. Finally, Frank describes a dereliction regarding the current use of pronouns in textbooks and sometimes non-textbooks that is not...

This week Frank recalls fun, light-hearted childhood memories and the sense of humor he developed from such films as Spaceballs and the Naked Gun series. The occasion for such recollection was the recent announcement of Spaceballs 2 going in to production soon, and the theatrical release in a few weeks of a Naked Gun 4. Frank is cautiously optimistic that both will provide a few laughs as the time...

On this week's show, Frank explains his pivot from what he was originally planning to discuss/explain this week and then reiterates one of his goals or visions for his commentary via this podcast. Next he discusses Canyon's (and his) recent weather problems and how he and his wife will be leaving the area due to this and other factors including career change and, much more sadly, the loss of invol...

This week, after some initial storytelling from his gym yesterday and his second grade class forty years ago, Frank explains his Game Show Theory, where game shows of any era, in addition to being fun, are a snap shot of society and its people from that particular time. So don't dismiss such entertainment as stupid or a worthless waste of time since much can be learned about people and life. Frank...

With a brief recap of Memorial Day, Frank corrects an oversight regarding John Cena's current and previously unknown (to Frank) "championship" while also giving a nod to a real sport--car racing--from the long weekend. Of course, our fallen soldiers and the freedom they helped provide as mentioned as well. Frank then gets in to his main topic regarding "what could be vs. what is" and the relations...

This week Frank talks about the importance of values in our lives and society--things seen and heard everywhere but almost never directly mentioned or pointed out. While his entire list of examples would be exponentially long, he limits this show's discussion to such values as further thoughts on not getting news on deaths of gameshow greats, the cancellation of the new Night Court sitcom, more sq...

On this week's hairy edition, Frank has three different and varied commentaries regarding his personal computer problems, not hearing immediately about the deaths of certain celebrities (or even those once considered pop culture icons), and how the selection of Pope Leo IV by the Roman Catholic Church could be a tremendous opportunity for that church to further Christianity with it fellow Christia...

This week Frank goes from small topic to small small topic ranging from the end of his first financial/business semester at Texas Tech, various local election frustrations with other citizens, the decline (as well as a decline in care by some) over Texas Tech Baseball, to "ding dong" discussions from the Kentucky Derby while the next day observing Danica Patrick commentating for the Formula 1 race...

This week after giving a quick synopsis of a nearby tornado, Frank goes deep into "bad" movie (or even TV) edits using an example from The Cannonball Run (1981) that he saw several weeks ago on tame, edited television. He goes on to explain why he's not a big fan of edits in general or censorship before going on to discuss double standards regarding women's cleavage and nipple exposure. A few othe...

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This week celebrates the 1st Anniversary of the show! Frank discusses a myriad of topics such as the recently concluded Masters golf tournament, the upcoming spectacle of Wrestlemania, and that this is Passion Week once again with Easter nearly here. For that, Frank talks about what he is thankful for, then spends some time talking about another story from a Gospel that is tangentially related to...

Today Frank analyzes the Trump Tariff policies and the resulting, fairly alarming, market decline. While he tells what he knows but doesn't have any great solutions, the problem in the end seems to be an overly emotional society compared with previous eras. This leads to a less functional and overall satisfying society. He tries to give some directive however and different perspectives once again...

On this episode, Frank comments on the general level of help (or lack thereof) currently in society, and discusses his experience thus far in writing and publishing (or trying to publish) a book. The show includes a short description of his manuscript Stranded Fantasy and some comments on the pitfalls of the publishing process, namely the use of literary agents. This is followed by a deeper talk a...