The Reckon Yard Podcast

JW explores the difference in niceness and kindness while recounting a recent trip to East Texas.

An overdue visit with a childhood friend from Alief helps JW reframe his parameters for success.

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.

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.

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.

How important are the little things? The longer I'm here, the more their value seems to climb. There's even historical precedent.

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.

JW takes us back to 2011 when he was called upon to deal with a beast of truly mythic proportions.

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

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...

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...

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...

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?

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...