The Jacke Wilson Show
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Restless Mind Show #2 – Tolstoy’s Halloween
Taking another break from the history of literature for a Simpsons / Edgar Allan Poe mashup, Leo Tolstoy’s horse, and five lusty lizards blasted into space by the Russians. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:19 — 35.6MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Options Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Life’s Unanswerable Questions, Part 2 (Episode 2.2)
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Our quest for a more professional sheen to the podcast continues with Life’s Unanswerable Questions (Part 2) – Another play for Bryan Cranston and Kate Winslet, the untold story of Joseph the beleaguered father of Jesus, a look at why we love when we know it hurts Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Life’s Unanswerable Questions (Episode 2.1)
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Season Two! We’re off to a GREAT start with the new Jacke Wilson Show season. New producer, new studio…and a much more professional sheen. In episode 2.1 we cover Life’s Unanswerable Questions, as contributed by you, the listeners. Hope you enjoy the show! You can stream the Continue reading
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Melancholy Christmas… what to do when it’s almost over
Dear Readers, Oh, it’s been a good Christmas season here on the Jacke blog, although I’ve been struck by how much sadness, longing, and ache there is out there. Let’s call it the human, grown-up side of Christmas. The kids have their joy and excitement; the adults watch them bouncing around with their new presents Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 6 – A Boy Named Johnnie
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Holiday episode! Jacke surrenders to some seasonal melancholy and shares a story of his Grampa Johnnie, a Hungarian-American boy growing up in early-twentieth-century Wisconsin, where the forests were thick, the rivers were deep and fast, and life was rougher around the edges. Hope you enjoy the show! Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 5 – The Gift
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Hmm, Episode 5 is shorter than usual. Maybe because I had TWO embarrassing vacuum cleaner stories and I only told ONE of them. I’ll have to save it for the Director’s Cut edition. It’s one of the cardinal rules of professional podcasting: do not tell two embarrassing Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week: Backhanded Compliments
Wonderful Reader RR listens to Episode 4 of The Jacke Wilson Show and writes: I had to giggle at ‘easier to follow’. Ah yes! This was where I noted that my friend’s response to a particular story was that the story was “easier to follow” than one of my other stories. Easier to follow! Because I wanted Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 4 – The Worst Thing I Ever Did (Part Two)
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Episode 4 is here! I’m back to my four a.m. silent-house stage whisper. You didn’t think that afternoon voice would last forever, did you? Luckily I have a good microphone and an up-close personality. Or you can use it as white noise, to drift away to dreamland. I’m Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Week 4: The Readers!
We’ve spent Thanksgiving week giving thanks to the Kids, the Elders, and Life’s Sweet Partners. That covers most ground (sorry friends, coworkers, and facebook people I’m pretending to recall better than I actually do – maybe next year!). Or at least it covers most ground personally. Professionally, I still owe someone special. My enormous debt of Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 3 – The Worst Thing I Ever Did (Part One)
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Oh, people! Episode 3 of THE JACKE WILSON SHOW is now available! This one is full of heartbreak and agony. Yes, that’s right, it’s The Worst Thing I Ever Did… confessions of real-life people as submitted by you, the readers. Also includes A History of Jacke in 100 Continue reading
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