McAvoy Layne

What Would McAvoy Say?

Arts EN ↓ 243 episodes

Portraying Mark Twain for 38 years,has allowed me a foretaste of heavenprior to my earthly contract running out. The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slopehas taught me that even in this crazy worldit is possible, no, vital, to smile…

Author

McAvoy Layne

Category

Arts

Podcast website

www.ghostoftwain.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Love at First Sight Part Two 23.07.2025

That evening we went body surfing at midnight under a full moon, and a couple porpoises joined us as playmates and instructors...

Love at First Sight 15.07.2025

That was this boy’s lucky day...

Capt. Cook & Me 09.07.2025

Thereupon, not unlike Captain Cook, I shoved off to where no man had gone before.

Founding Incline Village 02.07.2025

"This little village of ours is going to need a really good name."

One Page Autobiography 26.06.2025

Future readings will serve to advance human understanding and tolerance.

Review of Ron Chernow's Mark Twain Biography 18.06.2025

If you’re hoping to check it out of your library you should expect to be put on a waiting list.

Mark Curtis 11.06.2025

They even let me climb inside Sputnik Two...

What Starlings Can Teach Us 04.06.2025

They administer that kindness regardless of those other birds’ political beliefs...

Surf Bum to Ski Bum 28.05.2025

No, if Lake Tahoe does not cure whatever ails you, I’ll bury you at my own expense...

Do Nothing Day 20.05.2025

So there it is, please join Leonardo, Liza, Horace and me in celebrating the eighteenth of September, America’s fast emerging day off, “Do Nothing Day.” 

The Hydrological Cycle and God 14.05.2025

...the hydrologic cycle as it mightrelate to a presence of God...

Ode to Huckleberry 08.05.2025

Huckleberry faked his own death to get my attention...

Time Travel 2025 08.05.2025

I look forward to seeing you in the distant future...

Writing an Opinion Column Backwards 30.04.2025

Meanwhile, peace, progressand human rights remain our three inextricably linked goals. And when all issaid and done, at the end of a 500-word opinion column written backwards, this bitter Earthis not so bitter after all…

The Dandy Frightening the Squatter 23.04.2025

So let us take a moment here in 2025, and take a listento this sixteen-year-old prophet…

Summer of Blaze 18.04.2025

As I hung there counting my sins, the sound of my beating heart was broken by laughter and shouts of approval from my antagonists...

Make America Kind Again 09.04.2025

Let us each be a living Statueof Liberty, in the spirit of that wonderful gift from France, and honor our American ideals, and liberty and democracy…

Land of Sky Blue Waters 02.04.2025

Yes, at thirteen years old I knew two things for certain, Ihated the taste of brussel sprouts and loved the taste of the Land of Sky Blue Waters…

Dream Come True 26.03.2025

...civility is alive and well in the Great State of Nevada…  

My Little Brother 19.03.2025

Everybody loved Louie, evenfour-legged and feathered friends, probably because his sympathies were so wide,and his heart was so simple and knew no guile.

Waging War 12.03.2025

Let us start a careful climb down the escalationladder, bomb by bomb, day by day...

Love March Madness 04.03.2025

When betting on March Madness bet with the heart...

A Time for Civility 24.02.2025

For the sake of us all, we are here for each other…

Love the Russian People 17.02.2025
Majoring in Basketball 12.02.2025

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