The Reckon Yard Podcast
The Reckon Yard Podcast is hosted by Jerry Wayne Longmire, a 20-year standup comedian and creator of Truck Astrology and ShopTalk. He explores his personal history with automobiles and the experiences that shaped his lifelong love of fine machines. The show blends storytelling and comedy around car culture and internal combustion devotion.
Episodes
Ghost Light
JW spends a week in Northern California around a host of unusual characters. Something visits him on stage in San Francisco, and it can't be easily shaken off.
Planes, Trains, and automobiles
How do you get to Appleton? Slowly. Three days of performing standup in a giant monument to excess and commercialization exacts a toll on my synapses.
Niamey to Miami
JW treks across Florida chasing shows and a real diner. He reunites with comedian Lisa Corrao in Miami and sits down to shoot the shit with her about chasing laughs and a trip to Africa to entertain the troops.
Unseasoned
JW is back home for a day and decided to invite a couple close buddies over to swap lies and burn an afternoon.
Outlaws and Gents
JW visits Shayne Brown the founder of Outlaws and Gents to chop it up about cars and the business of taking care of people.
No time for dreaming
JW finishes out a lengthy run in the midwest while learning a little more about the why and what of things.
Karma gave me a Trailblazer
JW travels to Rockford, Illinois to pal around with his Editor who has become family and is also the Poet Laureate of Rockford and an accomplished writer. Adam Al Sirganay.
The worst that could happen
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. A canceled show, a mind altering drive home, and a compliment from Miss Bonnie I’m not letting anybody talk me out of, this one’s about what fear actually sounds like and how to tell the difference between the kind that keeps you safe and the kind that’s lying to you. Give it a listen.
No end in sight
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up at 7:30 pm cst. This one’s about meeting fans who’ve rewatched the whole show more than once, what it means to make something with no finish line in sight, and a fourteen-year mountain carving that never got seen by the man who started it. Give it a listen. In Duwali Bottoms TexasTwo people. One truck. All the history in the world between them and neither one k
Working Man
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s about what actually counts as real work, why we’re so quick to look down on somebody else’s labor, and a two hundred year old definition of work I think it’s time to argue with. Give it a listen.Back in Duwali Bottoms Texas. Things get hot for the McAfees, and we follow a walnut tree through generations, all the way to a shelf sitting in Tony’s kitc
Tulsa Time
New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s got a broke down Avalanche, a Tulsa cemetery, a Volkswagen collection I stumbled into, and a lesson about spinning plates I’m still chewing on a year later. Give it a listen.Also, new chapter of Duwali Bottoms Texas is up. Sheriff Garza’s got a car worth talking about, an old friend running out of chances, and Tony’s about to find out Amber doesn’t
Showing up
I recall an eventful week in Southern California with lots of milestones and folks that show up.
A Needle astray
I drove through tent city on the Fourth of July and couldn’t get it out of my head. The SoCal run, the anxiety, and what happens when you start doing the math on your own life at a red light.This week on Duwali Bottoms :A mother knows when to talk and when to just hold on. A father shows up with ribeyes and an agenda. Things are about to get complicated in Duwali Bottoms.
Beneath the surface
I take you through the particular fury of modern travel, the quiet rage my father carried like a second engine, and what my wife accidentally revealed about the distance between the two men. Also: what Enya has to do with any of it.This week on duwali Bottoms TexasThree people. Three mornings. One small East Texas town that keeps drawing everybody back whether they mean to come or not. Season Two
Fathers Day
Join me in Denver while I recount an adventurous three days of travel with the family. I've also included bonus footage of one of the Fort Collins shows where I'm telling the Harry story on stage for my original Reckon Crew.
Charles Clifford Brooks III
I got the opportunity to interview Pulitzer nominated poet, author and publisher Charles Clifford Brooks III. It’s a lively conversation about writing and a short dive into the majesty of Faulkner. Back in Duwali Bottoms,Carl Sr. has a plan. Alana already knows about it. Two young men from Houston who came to Duwali Bottoms because a hurricane left them no choice are about to find out that sometim
Unlikely Teachers
A hundred episodes in and I’m still figuring it out in public. Tonight I talk about the way music finds you through a crack you didn’t know was open. Keep your receptors open.In Duwali Bottoms Texas, Sheriff Garza gets his first real look at what he inherited in Rusk County, Carl Sr. takes the boys fishing on Lake of the Pines, and Matt Swindon reminds everybody exactly who he is.
Monsters
History’s been lied about from both directions and I’m tired of it. Edison, Ford, and Diamond Jim Brady none of them are who you think. This week on Duwali Bottoms, Tony and Dusty get out of jail, Alana shows up, Dave Tilton pays the sheriff a visit, and somebody comes flying around a curve on the two lane who has no business being there.
Ohm Ohm
This week, I talk about two days in a row when the world said no, and I kept going anyway, a flat tire in the rain, a camera on the concrete floor. I’ve been asking myself ever since whether the thing in me that always chooses the harder path is strength or scar tissue. I don’t have an answer, and I’m starting to think that might be the point.
Two Wolves
A hard call. The fella in me who ain’t a friend of reason wanted to hoist the black flag. The wiser part asked me to slow down and do right by the folks counting on me. This one’s about knowing when to swing and when to walk away clean. Two wolves. Both still in the room.Back in Duwali Bottoms,A fog-thick morning on the Bong Song plain, 1966. Carl Sr. hears something in an empty village he can’t u
Imaginary lines
Some lines get people killed. Some just keep us small. From the Driftless region of Minnesota to a joint that’s legal on one bank of the Mississippi and a criminal act on the other, JW walks through the imaginary lines men drew with rulers, and the smaller ones we draw inside ourselves. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas. Sixteen hours out of a flooded Houston, Tony and Dusty roll up on Du
Trust
I charged into trust thinking I had it figured out. Confucius stopped me in my tracks. From Jesus to Hemingway to Epictetus a deep dive into what trust actually is, what distrust actually costs, and why the wall you build to protect yourself might be the most expensive thing you own. Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas.Hurricane Ike is hours from landfall. Tony rides out the storm in the He
Humility
Humility was supposed to be the easy episode. It wasn’t. JW traces the concept from Aristotle to Augustine to a back porch in East Texas, then takes his own road to Damascus in the middle of writing it. Two sides of the humble coin, some stories about getting knocked off the horse, and a hard look at the difference between real humility and the fear that’s been wearing its clothes. Plus a new epis
Finding mercy
Mercy is a word we think we understand until life puts us in a room where we have to actually practice it. JW explores what Jesus, the Stoics, Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, and Twain had to say about mercy, then tells the story of a hospital room, a dying woman, and what happens when mercy gets corrupted into self-protection and called something else. The second labor of growth starts here.In Duwali B
Love and it's labor
I was handed a broken blueprint for love early on. Spent a lot of years building damaged things with it. This episode is about the people and moments that handed me a better plan and why love isn’t a feeling you fall into, it’s a labor you pick up. Season Four starts here. We return to Duwali Bottoms just in time for season two, Hurricane Ike is still just a disturbance in the Atlantic, but the st
Sacred Kingdom
The five labors of growth are complete. But before we close the series out JW has one more thing to tell you — the part he hasn’t said yet. These tools won’t fix everything. The world is full of people stomping around in their meat suits leaving wreckage behind them and a subscription to dogmatic belief doesn’t insure their humanity. What the toolbox does is give you a foundation that doesn’t move
Pandora's Box
JW closes out the season with stories about every time technology made his skills obsolete,the print shop, NDT, foundation repair, what he did about it. Plus a trip to Fredericksburg, the S10 Lot Legends video, a 4L60E update, a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas.
Selling soap
Why JW makes fun of brands, the truth behind Dawn soap and the Exxon Valdez, and why you don’t need the right boots to be worthy. Plus a road trip, the Austin show, Avalanche updates, and a new Duwali Bottoms. All are welcome in the house of internal combustion.
Fired on Friday
JW talks friendships and the complexity of favors, the fear that pervades us all regardless of station or occupation.This week in Duwali Bottoms, healing does not always mean mending.As Carl Jr recovers and the Haines family tries to steady themselves after tragedy, old friendships strain under the weight of silence and distance. Around town, life carries on in the summer heat but something restle
Hated that guy
JW revisits a brief fling with a ’92 Toyota pickup and the chaos that surrounded it in the early 2000’s. Late nights and a hard look in the mirror at a version of himself he didn’t much like.This week in Duwali Bottoms, TX:After two boys end up dead and a case gets filed away, Red can’t shake the feeling something doesn’t add up. Danny refuses to sit still, Tom learns the noise is spreading, and t
Great Expectations
This week on The Reckon Yard, JW remembers his first Valentine’s Day with Rachael, then reflects on his paternal grandfather’s life and the weight of expectations and how a man learns to carry them.Then we return to Duwali Bottoms, Texas. In the long heat of an East Texas summer, a single afternoon drifts along slow and easy… right up until it doesn’t, and the roads and pastures fill with the rest
If I could only fly
There’s a beauty in knowing we’re all mostly trying to get home.Blaze Foley helped me stumble across a truth so deep it could only have been hiding in plain sight the whole time.Episode Six of Duwali Bottoms, Texas finds Carl Jr. trying to outrun a summer that’s already slipping away. Sometimes the people you thought you understood best are the ones you don’t recognize anymore.
Never been to Spain
The Mazda has left the building while JW falls into a rabbit hole of Americana through the grace and talent of Hoyt Axton. In Duwali Bottoms episode five leans into atmosphere and character, living in the long pauses between decisions and the weight carried by men shaped by place, memory, and unfinished business. The story narrows, the silence grows louder, and Duwali Bottoms keeps moving forward.
Albatross Exit
This week is about the things we hold onto long after they stop serving us. From a stalled truck restoration to fallen empires and failed institutions, this episode asks when consistency turns into stubbornness. If you’ve ever stayed put just to avoid admitting the season ended, this one’s for you.
Rotten Fruit
This week on TRYP, JW talks about the revenge mindset, and how living on borrowed anger can drain you dry. Plus, the debut episode of a new fictional series “Duwali Bottoms, Texas.”
Christmas in Houston
JW recounts a quiet Christmas at home and getting the opportunity to spend some time in the service of others.
The Tipping Point
A road weary JW tells a few tales behind his recent exploits on the Christmas tour before delving off into deep analysis of the precipice in his life.
Optimism don't show up til noon
JW explores the difference in niceness and kindness while recounting a recent trip to East Texas.
A measure of success |S:03E.76
An overdue visit with a childhood friend from Alief helps JW reframe his parameters for success.
A very Jerry Thanksgiving |S:03E.75
This week on The Reckon Yard, JW digs into chaos, change, and the strange comfort of looking back. A sharp, heartfelt ride you don’t want to miss.
1986 GMC C1500 |S:03E.74
Some goodbyes don’t blow up.They just whisper.An inch of distance here, a missed call there, a silence that grows until the friendship you loved becomes a ghost.
"The rise and fall of Giant Tube Sock" |s:03E.73
JW gives a short primer on how to launch a wall stud over your neighbor's house using a 68 Ford Bronco before recalling the rise and fall of the greatest fictional Cover band you've never heard.
The mundane is sacred |S:03E.72
How important are the little things? The longer I'm here, the more their value seems to climb. There's even historical precedent.
"The Devil ain't a who" |S:03E.71
How much wood could a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood? A whole mess of it with the right pills. The devil don't come in an angry man, he's charismatic, gregarious, helpful even.
"The beast of Conroe" |S:03E.70
JW takes us back to 2011 when he was called upon to deal with a beast of truly mythic proportions.
"Aint about the fish anyway" |S:03E.69
Sometimes the best fishing trips don’t end with a stringer full of anything but stories. This week on The Reckon Yard, JW drags three lines in the water and hauls up three of his favorite misadventures
Death of a Salesman |S:03E.68
He worked himself right to death trying to please someone who couldn’t be pleased. But in the dust and noise he left behind, he planted something none of us saw coming, a legacy built from the wreckage, the stubbornness of a man who never quit. This week on The Reckon Yard, we talk about how the hardest lessons don’t always come from saints or teachers, but from the broken ones who showed us how t
Wonder what the poor people are doing today? |S:03E.67
JW takes us back to the cheap seats side of Lake Tyler in the 1980s, where summers were long, lessons were everywhere, and the shoreline was full of stories. From the awkward rites of teenage romance to the quiet wisdom of turtles and fishing lines, it was a place where memories got made on a budget and lasted a lifetime.
"The Phoenix" |S:03E.66
In “The Phoenix” we return to the pine shadowed Reckon Yard where rust, memory, and family collide. I take you with me as my cousins and I unearth my mother’s long lost Volkswagen, a broken shell that still burns with meaning. Along the way we wrestle with fathers, ghosts, and the strange grace of letting go, finding out what rises when you finally set old weight down. This episode is about resurr
Unbothered |S:03E.65
Some folks flash hot, some smolder until they burn through an engine block. My Uncle Terry? He just let it pass. Do you fight fire with fire, or are you learning to stay unbothered?
"Skip Jello Shots not rocks" |S:03E.64
A viral video about my Cadillac turned into a sermon on planned obsolescence. Then a story from the Comal River reminded me just how dumb luck and good friends shape a life.
Contractors and Conmen |s:03E.63
don’t sign your name next to a crook’s, or you’ll see it stained in the same ink. The Reckon Yard is about what you rebuild, not what burned you down.
Less Hell |S:03E.62
Back in ’97, I was just a heartbroken Texan shivering my way through Milwaukee, chasing work and bad decisions. Now it’s 2025, and I’m chasing stories that make the sadness sit lighter. This one’s about the past, a surprise trip for my friend Adam, and what it means to leave new echoes. It’s “Less Hell”.
2001 GMC Sierra 2500 |S:03E.61
JW starts season 3 with a bang. Enjoy a deep dive into his father-in-law. A real-life Rodeo Cowboy. He worked on the Goodyear blimp as flight crew and ran around Houston with a classmate Billy Gibbons.
Sarajevo Ghost
What do Epictetus and Helge Meyer have in common? Who knows, but let's try to make the connection anyway. Also episode four of Duwali Bottoms Texas is a humdinger.
Pulpwood Fiction
How much advice do you give on subjects you’re not knowledgeable about?I try like hell to avoid it.Trouble is, the waters are full of ignorant sharks.We return to Duwali Bottoms to learn a little more about the land, and what it asks of the people standing on it.
2012 Mazda 3S |S:02E.30
JW breaks down the design history of the second gen Mazda 3, before diving off into a recent roadtrip, a moment of unparalleled kindness from a stranger named Russell and a in person testimonial from a Day One’r named Forrest that changed his whole perspective on the show. Let’s wrap up season two with a bang!
1986 Ford RS200 |S:02E.29
JW breaks down a brief history of the events that led to the development of the Ford RS200 for Group B Rally. Afterwards, he tells some stories about someone important in his life who shares his affection for the RS200.
1977 Dodge Van |S:02E28
JW breaks down the history of Americas favorite rolling brick before delving off into some stories about his childhood church community and the little van that served them.
1982 Suzuki GS1100 |S:02E.27
Swing your leg over a Suzuki GS1100 and hang on tight as we tear through the history of Suzuki’s legendary street series before veering into the Rio Grande Valley, where oilfield days, wild nights, and a pocketful of peyote set the stage for a psychedelic detour in Longview, Texas. Motorcycles, memory, and maybe a message from beyond—this ride’s got it all.
1994 Dodge Dakota |S:02E.26
JW pontificates on the happenings that led to the development of the Dodge Dakota before telling a few stories about one he picked up for a little bit of nothing and worked like a mule.
2009 Toyota Matrix |S:02E.25
JW breaks down the history of the Toyota Matrix and then tells a few stories about the adventures him and his family had in theirs.
2005 cadillac Escalade |S:02E.24
Jerry Wayne dives into the wild history of the Cadillac Escalade and shares a hilarious story about crossing paths with comedian Ralphie May during his early days in stand-up.
2009 Dodge Ram 1500 |S:02E.23
JW gets into the Dodge Ram redesign of 2009 before Ram becomes its own brand. JW recalls a good neighbor and friend whose heart's desire was a brand-new 2009 Ram, and how his life circumstances changed quickly after acquiring it.
1973 Volkswagen Bus |S:02E.22
JW waxes poetic about the history and life of the Volkswagen Type 2 Bus, Kombi before telling a story about a type 2 he spent a great deal of time in as a young man.
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1991 Cadillac Brougham D'elegance |S:02E.20
JW breaks down the history of the Brougham name plate before sharing some stories about the origin of the studio and it's keepers.
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1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo |S:02E.19
Jerry Wayne briefly breaks down the history of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo before telling a story from a naive age about finding a rare unicorn of a 1986 Monte Carlo that really wasn't. Never buy a car at night.
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1984 Chevrolet S10 |S:02E.18
How the Chicken Tax started a domestic compact pickup revolution and stories of Uncle Stanley.
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1978 Pontiac Trans Am Revisited |S:02E.17
JW takes us through a quick history of the Firebird design and John Deloreans involvement. Then we take a riproaring ride through South Louisiana in JW's Trans Am. Its a fun time back in 1999 until it aint and the piper must be paid.
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1988 Dodge Ram w/ Jeff Canada |S:02E.16
Country music troubadour Jeff Canada stops by the Reckon Yard to swap some lies and play a little music.
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1992 Ford Taurus GL |S:02E.15
JW delves into the history of one of Ford's bestselling workhorses. He recants some stories about the one his mom owned and some of their times.
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1986 Ford Mustang GT |S.02E.14
JW breaks down a quick history of the Ford Fox platform and the great works of Saint Lee Iacocca before delving into his own history and a brief but obsessive affair with an 86 GT.
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2003 Hummer H2 |S.02E.13
JW gets off into the history of AM General and tells a story about Crystal Beach and a H2 in the early 2000's.
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1992 Dodge Caravan |S:02E:11
JW breaks down some of the history behind the design of the most selling minivan of all time. He ruminates on the value of the teachings of an older bicycle shop owner he knew as a teen.
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Brother from another mother |S.02E.09
JW's brother Geoie stops by for a visit. They celebrate some good news and rehash old stories. They also talk about cars they've owned past and present.
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Is that foreign fella drunk? |S.02E.06
JW recounts a four alarm fire and the crazy cast of characters surrounding him in 2014. Wendell Wiggins pops in for a weathercast.
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I might've hit a barrel |S.02E.05
Transmission builder, Car collector, and all-around good guy David Doig stops by the Reckon Yard so we can swap some lies and laughs.
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OKLAHOMA ReckonYard Roadtrip |S.02|E.04
JW and good friend and comedian Barry Laminack hit the road for a week of shows in Oklahoma. Some in the car conversation, some standup clips and post show reviews.
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Hardwired anger and a foam Crocodile |S.02E.03
JW discusses parenting triggers and patterns of anger and resentment in his family, Papaw answers questions with his usual questionable advice. Wendell Wiggins receives a big promotion, and a fight with a Mazda ignition system yields some sound advice from Uncle Bobby.
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A Pickle Jar full of Time | S.02 E.1
Jerry Wayne enlists Papaw for a new advice segment. Jerry tells a story about Papaw Longmire from childhood and ponders the mistakes that fathers and sons repeat.
Wendell Wiggins shows up with a weather update for the Gulf Coast and the Arctic storm.
In a new segment called Reckon Yard Radio JW gets to the back story of one of his favorite Merle Haggard songs and tells the story of how he became f
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