Hayden Alabama Podcast

In Episode 193 of the Hayden Alabama Podcast, we're joined by champion turkey caller Mitchell Johnston for another round of true Southern storytelling. From a Texas hunting trip where nearly everything went wrong to a fishing trip nobody will ever forget, these stories just keep getting better.

We've also got church cooking disasters, a singer who sent a Baptist pastor running, some questionable family recipes, and a barbecue catastrophe that nearly ruined an entire church event.

But there's more to this episode than laughter. Mitchell shares how his love for turkey calling became an unexpected opportunity to tell people about Jesus, a powerful testimony of God's work in a friend's life, and a touching memory of his father. We close with Scripture Time from Luke 18 and an encouragement to keep praying and never lose heart.

If you enjoy true Southern stories, clean humor, hunting and fishing adventures, family memories, and conversations about faith, we'd love for you to subscribe to the Hayden Alabama Podcast. New episodes every Tuesday at 6 PM.

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About the Hayden Alabama Podcast: Our podcast celebrates Southern humor, Southern storytelling and Christian faith, right from the heart of Alabama. We share funny stories, true tales, and testimonies that resonate with anyone who grew up in the South (or just wishes they did!) all while keeping appropriate for all ages to watch. Tune in for new episodes every Tuesday at 6PM.

0:00 Three Stories You Have to Hear

0:40 Sponsors and Welcome

1:53 Alabama Backroads and No Cell Service

4:45 The Turkey Hunter Who Wouldn't Shoot

9:56 Unspoken Expectations

11:47 Getting Shushed on a Turkey Hunt

14:31 A Hunting Call Nobody Expected

16:45 Poncho Outdoors

18:21 The Texas Turkey Hunt Disaster

23:12 Lost on a Texas Ranch

28:14 He Kept Shouting "Save Yourself"

34:07 The Yellow Jacket Story

37:31 Pranks on the New Guy

40:01 The Church Singer and the Pastor

45:44 Fifteen Gallons of Baked Beans

47:01 The Strange Hash Brown Casserole

51:36 The Ribeyes That Tasted Different

55:22 The Drive-Through Disaster

58:55 The Trouble With Church Potlucks

1:02:18 The Barbecue Chicken Mystery

1:04:42 Tracks in the Mashed Potatoes

1:07:00 Twenty Boston Butts Go Missing

1:11:36 When Turkey Calling Became a Ministry

1:16:44 First Impressions and Friendships

1:18:38 Steve's Story

1:25:43 A Baseball Glove and a Father's Love

1:28:34 Scripture Time: Pray and Don't Lose Heart

1:34:14 Closing

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A preacher loses his footing on the church steps in front of his congregation. An elk-hunting guide faces a charging bear. And a man turns the key on a boat even though someone can still smell gasoline.

In Episode 192 of the Hayden Alabama Podcast, three groups of Southern storytellers join us at the Great Outdoor Expo in Sumter, South Carolina. You'll hear church mishaps, a deer with no visible bullet hole, fishing memories, country childhood adventures, an Arkansas duck-hunting trip that calls out rescuers, and a father's frightening race to reach his little girl.

Some of these stories will make you laugh. Others will make you grateful for how they turned out.

We close with Scripture Time in 1 John 2:7–11, talking about loving others instead of holding on to hatred.

Subscribe to the Hayden Alabama Podcast for true Southern stories, clean humor, family, faith, and the occasional bad decision. New episodes every Tuesday at 6 PM Central.

We love our show sponsors and think you will too:

- AmFirst Credit Union - Serving members since 1936. https://www.Amfirst.org - 1-800-633-8431 Facebook - facebook.com/AmFirst Instagram - instagram.com/amfirstcu/ LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/amfirst YouTube - youtube.com/user/AmFirstFCU TikTok - tiktok.com/@amfirstcu

- Eiland Law - https://www.eiland-law.com/

- Precision Graphics (Printing, Screen-Printing, and Embroidery) - https://www.precisiongraphicsinc.net

About the Hayden Alabama Podcast: Our podcast celebrates Southern humor, Southern storytelling and Christian faith, right from the heart of Alabama. We share funny stories, true tales, and testimonies that resonate with anyone who grew up in the South (or just wishes they did!) all while keeping appropriate for all ages to watch. Tune in for new episodes every Tuesday at 6PM.

0:00 Three Stories, Three Groups

0:38 Welcome to Sumter, South Carolina

1:29 Big Steve at the Dove Shoot

4:50 The First Wood Duck

8:19 The Buck Nobody Expected

11:43 The Church Visit and the Mailbox

14:12 Another Mailbox Incident

16:38 A Very Slippery Sunday

20:07 Meet the Fishing Storytellers

20:27 His First Fish Scared Him

23:24 The Ten-Pound Bass Story

25:37 The Fish That Grew on the Way Home

28:25 Fishing Through a Child's Eyes

32:19 The Rough Boat Ride Home

35:34 A Deer With No Bullet Hole

39:10 Growing Up Country

44:28 Granddad Wanted Horses

46:00 Lessons From Stubborn Horses

47:15 The Runaway Horse Ride

49:13 The Feed Bucket Chase

51:27 Trying to Leave Work Early

56:13 Why "We" Matters

58:31 What the Word "Love" Means

1:00:03 Meet Our Final Storytellers

1:00:22 An Elk Hunt in Colorado

1:12:21 The Bear on the Bike Trail

1:14:23 Seven Guys Head to Arkansas

1:16:33 A Very Bad Boat Ride

1:19:12 The Search for the Hunters

1:20:21 The Problems Keep Coming

1:24:20 The Shrimping Trip

1:29:43 A Father's Terrifying Afternoon

1:37:27 Scripture Time: Love and Hatred

1:41:39 Closing Thoughts

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When Coty heard his truck alarm deep in the woods, he ran up the hill and found a stranger inside his truck wearing his yellow rain suit.

In this episode of the Hayden Alabama Podcast, we talk through that unbelievable story, plus a near-drowning at the beach, a Make-A-Wish trip that turned into a 17-hour travel day, a truck driven through a pond, a barbed-wire crash, tubing chaos, and more.

We also close with a testimony about God’s timing and a Scripture Time segment from Matthew 18 on forgiveness.

If you enjoy Southern storytelling, real-life family stories, and faith-filled conversation, be sure to like, comment, and subscribe.

New episodes every Tuesday at 6 PM!

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ABOUT THE HAYDEN ALABAMA PODCAST

Our podcast celebrates Southern humor, Southern storytelling, and Christian faith, right from the heart of Alabama.

We share funny stories, true tales, and testimonies that resonate with anyone who grew up in the South (or just wishes they did!), all while keeping our content appropriate for all ages.

Tune in for new episodes every Tuesday at 6 PM!

EPISODE 191 CHAPTERS

0:00 - Stranger in the Truck Cold Open

0:47 - Welcome Back to the Podcast

2:31 - The Woman in Cody's Truck

31:36 - Swept Out in the Ocean

35:49 - The Make-A-Wish Trip to New York

47:30 - Driving a Tacoma Through a Pond

54:00 - Cheap Dates and Learning Consequences

59:15 - Thrown Into a Barbed-Wire Fence

1:09:15 - Phillip's Lawnmower Story

1:11:26 - "You Can't Throw Me Off" Tubing Story

1:15:35 - Concession Stand Food Bracket

1:19:22 - Testimony: Praying for a Place to Live

1:24:15 - Scripture Time: Forgiveness Is More Than Saying "I Forgive You"

1:32:58 - Closing

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Andy Andrews and two buddies caught 2,000 pounds of shrimp in one night. They thought they had figured out how to get rich. Two days later, what they were doing was illegal. And somehow, that is only one of the stories in Episode 190. Andy joins Phillip and Walt at Lackluster Cabin for stories involving Nick Saban, a serial-killer investigation, an opening-day dove hunt gone wrong, the Mobile Bay Jubilee, Cher, Kenny Rogers, Bob Hope, one painfully quiet comedy show, and several situations that sound made up until Andy explains what actually happened.

Then the conversation turns toward something deeper: why Andy believes what he believes, the evidence for the resurrection, surrender, wanting God's will, where real peace comes from, and what 1 John 1:5–2:2 says about walking in the light.

The Hayden Alabama Podcast is Southern storytelling about ordinary people, unusual situations, faith, family, mistakes, laughter, and the stories you can't quit telling. Subscribe and join us for a new episode each week.

Andy Andrews - https://www.facebook.com/AndyAndrews

Walt Merrell - https://www.facebook.com/shepherdingoutdoors

We love our show sponsors and think you will too:

- AmFirst Credit Union - Serving members since 1936. Amfirst.org - 1-800-633-8431 Facebook - facebook.com/AmFirst Instagram - instagram.com/amfirstcu/ LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/amfirst YouTube - youtube.com/user/AmFirstFCU TikTok - tiktok.com/@amfirstcu

- Eiland Law - https://www.eiland-law.com/

- Precision Graphics (Printing, Screen-Printing, and Embroidery) - https://www.precisiongraphicsinc.net

About the Hayden Alabama Podcast: Our podcast celebrates Southern humor, Southern storytelling and Christian faith, right from the heart of Alabama. We share funny stories, true tales, and testimonies that resonate with anyone who grew up in the South (or just wishes they did!) all while keeping appropriate for all ages to watch. Tune in for new episodes every Tuesday at 6PM.

0:00 The Gulf Coast Was the Wild West

1:06 Welcome to Lackluster Cabin

2:06 Meet Andy Andrews

5:55 The Date That Went Sideways

9:19 Andy and Nick Saban

15:15 A Serial Killer Case Comes Back

24:32 Dad, the Dove Hunt & the Game Warden

28:27 The Shrimp Idea That Worked Too Well

37:03 What Is a Mobile Bay Jubilee?

47:36 Touring With Some Famous People

55:49 Kenny Rogers and the Silent Arena

1:01:03 Andy's Worst Night on Stage

1:11:42 The Fried Apple Pie Misunderstanding

1:14:36 The Story T-Shirt & Why Andy Believes

1:27:45 Surrender, God's Will & Finding Peace

1:35:04 Scripture Time — 1 John 1:5–2:2

#HaydenAlabamaPodcast #AndyAndrews #SouthernStorytelling #Alabama #ChristianPodcast

They had one simple goal: create a believable Bigfoot sighting in rural Alabama and get people talking. The plan worked—possibly a little too well. From a fake Bigfoot standing beside a backroad to an encounter with an emu, church situations nobody quite knew how to handle, and some youth-ministry ideas that went spectacularly sideways, this episode has no shortage of stories that escalated far beyond the original plan.

But the conversation eventually goes somewhere deeper. Joey shares how being around Christianity was very different from actually knowing Christ, the people God used during some of the hardest moments of his life, and how events he knew nothing about were already shaping the ministry he would one day lead. The episode closes by looking at the kind of fellowship John describes in 1 John 1:1–4.

The Hayden Alabama Podcast is Southern storytelling about family, faith, bad decisions, strange situations, and the people you never forget. If that sounds like your kind of conversation, subscribe and come hang out with us each week.

We love our show sponsors and think you will too:

- AmFirst Credit Union - Serving members since 1936. Amfirst.org - 1-800-633-8431 Facebook - facebook.com/AmFirst Instagram - instagram.com/amfirstcu/ LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/amfirst YouTube - youtube.com/user/AmFirstFCU TikTok - tiktok.com/@amfirstcu

- Eiland Law - https://www.eiland-law.com/

- Precision Graphics (Printing, Screen-Printing, and Embroidery) - https://www.precisiongraphicsinc.net

About the Hayden Alabama Podcast: Our podcast celebrates Southern humor, Southern storytelling and Christian faith, right from the heart of Alabama. We share funny stories, true tales, and testimonies that resonate with anyone who grew up in the South (or just wishes they did!) all while keeping appropriate for all ages to watch. Tune in for new episodes every Tuesday at 6PM.

0:00 The Church Problem Nobody Wanted

0:53 Welcome to Episode 189

1:54 The Bigfoot Plan

14:15 One Very Bad Beach Day

24:38 The 19-Year-Old Music Director

34:19 The Emu

41:39 Dinosaurs, the Moon & AI

46:35 Cousin It

58:51 Barrels of Fire

1:08:56 The Couple He Couldn't Place

1:14:58 The Band Name Story

1:18:24 The 90s Country Bracket

1:22:06 Joey's Testimony

1:36:27 High Point Community Church

1:39:21 Scripture Time — 1 John 1:1–4

1:58:22 Closing

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