Y'all Show

Mental health is an important topic across the region, and Dakota Harmon stops by to offer insight.  We discuss the disaffiliation fight going on within the United Methodist Church. Southern-bytes.com serves up a tasty dill pickle recipe. Plus, a preview of Texas A&M football and the traditions of Aggieland.

Samford University aims to win back-to-back Southern Conference titles on the gridiron in 2023.  We preview the Bulldogs' FCS season, hear from head coach Chris Hatcher, and learn about the traditions on the Homewood, Alabama, campus. Ronnie McDowell's "The King Is Gone" made its debut weeks after Elvis Presley's 1977 death. Plus, Paul Hare shares the week's financial happenings.

Luke Combs announces a major stadium tour for 2024, with stops in Jacksonville and Houston.  The Georgia Bulldogs aim to become the first college football team to have a three-peat national championship since Minnesota did it in the 1930s. Head coach Kirby Smart talks about his No. 1 Dawgs.  Plus, a glimpse of the weekend's fun festivals across the South.

Cargo pants, wearing pink, and mullets are making a comeback.  Megan Hedwall reports on items from the past suddenly becoming the hot items of 2023. Head coach Willie Fritz previews his preseason No. 24 Tulane Green Wave football team.  We also hear all about TU's "Hullabaloo" tradition.  Plus, WalletHub.com's ranking of the best states to live in. 

Jerry Short, "The Toccopola Storyteller," takes a slap across the face from host Jon Rawl – all in an effort to display his toughness and past history of getting in scores of fist fights. Zach Arnett will guide the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team in 2023.  We preview State's season; heck, we've even got cowbells playing for y'all. Plus, Nashville novelist Ann Patchett describes her n...

A Democratic congressman from Minnesota is starting the chirping process regarding the possibility of replacing Joe Biden at the top of Dems' presidential ticket in 2024. Megan Hedwall and Jon Rawl discuss Rep. Dean Phillips's thoughts. South Carolina native Lucas Glover captures the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis., the first leg the PGA Tour's playoff run  And, a spotlight of the 202...

LSU aims to have another big season on the gridiron. We spotlight Brian Kelly and the 2023 Bayou Bengals. R.B. Greaves recorded "Take A Letter Maria" at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1969, and we learn more about this first hit from the Alabama studio. Flannery O'Connor was a noted Georgia writer. Also, Paul Hare relays developing news from the financial world.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio has been the site for some amazing sessions. throughout the last 50+ years.  "The Y'all Show" is on the road in Colbert County, Alabama, where tour guide Terrell Benton gives us an inside glimpse of the studio where Cher, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chris Stapleton, The Staple Singers, and others have cut hits.  We also go to Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, the birthplace...

Getting your Spotify playlist just right can be a challenge.  Megan Hedwall has tips to help keep the tunes flowing.  Billy Napier prepares for his second season leading the Florida Gators football team. We hear from the coach, and project the UF success rate in 2023.  Also, a Union and Confederate general share the same birthday; but each had a complicated backstory.

David Thomas drops in to help preview Mark Stoops' 2023 edition of Kentucky Wildcats football.  The "Toccopola Storyteller," Jerry Short, returns to reminiscence about eventful western travels.  A deadly August storm front takes the lives of an Alabama man and a South Carolina teenager. Also, we learn all about Southern novelist Ann Beattie.

USNWT is ousted from the World Cup.  Megan Hedwall discuses her fellow Megan – Rapinoe – and the soccer player's attraction to political drama instead of practicing penalty kicks. Gas prices keep going up, with Mississippi's current $3.32 average the lowest in the nation. Also, we spotlight the 2023 North Carolina Tar Heels, Heels' sophomore QB Drake May, and the football traditions in Chapel...

Paul Hare stops by to discuss the week's financial news, including changes to debt and taxation. The Arkansas Razorbacks are hog wild about the fourth year of the Sam Pittman era, which begins Sept. 2 against Western Carolina. Also, we rewind to 1997 for a salute to country music band Sons Of The Desert and their one Top 10 hit, "Whatever Comes First."

Florida State is looking to exit the ACC.  Will commissioner Greg Sankey and the Southeastern Conference take the Noles' call?  The Oak Ridge Boys have now been together 50 years in their current four-man lineup.  We have info on Donald Trump's indictment today in Washington, D.C., including thoughts from 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Plus, the annual Water...

Donald Trump receives a third indictment, this team for his involvement with January 6, 2021.  Megan Hedwall and Jon Rawl discuss the case special counsel Jack Smith is presenting.  Being on vacation does not mean you can can't stay in shape.  Hedwall has some away-from-home tone tips.  Also, Louisiana's on our mind today: Cafe Du Monde beignets, Tulane Green Wave Football, and...

Watermelon theft is on "Toccopola Storyteller" Jerry Short's story palate this week. A potential mass shooting at a Jewish school in Memphis is averted on Monday. August arrives, and longtime rivals Navy and Notre Dame will kick-off college football's season on Aug. 26.  Also, Sarasota, Florida, native and 1980s TV personality Paul Reubens ("Pee-wee Herman") dies of cancer at age 70.

Multiple Republican candidates speak at the Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. Megan Hedwall returns to discuss the boos, vision and speedy speeches heard in Iowa.  Jews have died in America's armed conflicts since 1776, when Francis Salvador died in colonial South Carolina. Also, we've got a helpful two ingredient watermelon ice cream recipe.

Dabo Swinney and Mack Brown speak about their Clemson Tigers and North Carolina Tar Heels teams as ACC Kickoff concludes in Charlotte on Thursday. We have a musical tribute to The Eagles co-founder Randy Meisner, who died this week at age 77.  Also, a tasty history lesson on Eagle Brand condensed milk.

Hunter Biden doesn't have the best day in court this week. Jon Rawl shares his thoughts on the troubled son of President Joe Biden.  UVa coach Tony Elliott, FSU coach Mike Norvell, and Duke coach and reigning "ACC Coach of the Year" honoree Mike Elko speak about their respective teams at ACC Media Days, Day 2.  Plus, a breakdown of states hating other states in today's "Hashtag Hullabalo...

Miami coach Mario Cristobal, Georgia Tech's Brent Key, and ACC commissioner Jim Phillips all speak in Charlotte on Day 1 of ACC Football Media Days 2023.  Virginia-born, East Carolina University-educated Sandra Bullock turns 59 today.  Also, CNBC has a helpful business story about just how the medical industry has privatized in the past 25 years. 

Jazz composer and singer Billy Taylor (1921-2010) was born on this day in Greenville, North Carolina.  Brian Harman, a Savannah-born pro golfer and UGA alum, captures the 151st Open Championship in England.  Jon Rawl relays Athlon's preseason Top 25 for college football's FCS. teams  Also, President Biden will create a new national monument for the commemoration of Emmett Till.

Lane Kiffin opens up about the "disaster" college football finds itself in after NIL and transfer portal dominate off-the-field.  The head coach at Mississippi spoke at the conclusion of SEC Media Days 2023.  We also hear from Tennessee coach Josh Heupel and South Carolina chief Shane Beamer.  Hear the entire "Try That In A Small Town" from Jason Aldean, the tune that was just banne...

Jason Nall, of College Tour X, previews the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool.  Alabama's Nick Saban, Kentucky's Mark Stoops, Arkansas's Sam Pittman, and Florida coach Billy Napier all speak at Day 3 of the SEC Media Days in Nashville.  Plus, CMT bans the "Try That In A Small Town" music video from Jason Aldean.

The term "coke" is preferred over "soda" and "pop" in Dixie.  Day 2 of SEC Media Days is a wrap, and we have audio clips from Auburn coach Hugh Freeze, Georgia coach Kirby Smart, Mississippi State's top dog Zach Arnett, and Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea.  Also, a 1967 Piedmont Airlines crash near Asheville, North Carolina, is memorialized.

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) flirts with a 2024 presidential run.  "Toccopola Storyteller" Jerry Short and host Jon Rawl examine how serious this political interest is.  Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher and Missouri's Eliah Drinkwitz are among the head coaches speaking at Day 1 of the 2023 SEC Media Days in Nashville. Also, Dalton, Georgia, native Johnny Joey Jones, of Fox News Channel fa...

Detroit, Lansing, and even the U.P. – sounds like we are headed to the Great Lakes State, eh?  Nope. Jon Rawl has fun trying to convince Megan Hedwall to have her own Michigan vacation right here in the South.  Day One of SEC Media Days in Nashville begins. Also, learn about the 1863 Battery Wagner battle near Charleston, South Carolina – a Confederate victory that included two of Rawl's...