Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min · 4 segments
In this episode of Minute with Marlin, Marlin traces the origins of the podcast all the way back to when his dad died, 15 years ago. A few months after Marlin’s dad passed, he, his brother, and his…
Marlin MillerHost
Probably two years ago, when the Lord kinda, you know, shoved the podcast idea down my, down my throat, um, I was building the walls, and we were putting this whole thing together, and we had this equipment.
And so I called a friend of mine and I said, "Dude, will you be my guinea pig for the podcast?" And he said, "No, I don't wanna, I don't wanna be that guy." But he said, "I did think..." He said, "I just remembered a friend of his had just said goodbye to his mom." And, uh, I think that was, like, six months before, and this guy told my friend, he said, "I would give anything to go back and put Mom in front of a microphone and a camera and have her tell me stories and have her, you know, be, be able to ask the questions of what were we like and, and what was your life like?" And he missed that chance.
And all of a sudden, that reunion 13 years before passed back into my memory, and it actually came screaming back to mind, and I told my wife, I said, "I want to try to recreate that reunion, that storytelling thing." And so May 13th of, of, of last year, of 2025, um, we sat here for four hours.
I had my dad's brother, uh, Monk, M- Monroe, Monk, and then four of their cousins, and we sat here for four hours and told stories, and it was wonderful.
Probably two years ago, when the Lord kinda, you know, shoved the podcast idea down my, down my throat, um, I was building the walls, and we were putting this whole thing together, and we had this equipment.
And so I called a friend of mine and I said, "Dude, will you be my guinea pig for the podcast?" And he said, "No, I don't wanna, I don't wanna be that guy." But he said, "I did think..." He said, "I just remembered a friend of his had just said goodbye to his mom." And, uh, I think that was, like, six months before, and this guy told my friend, he said, "I would give anything to go back and put Mom in front of a microphone and a camera and have her tell me stories and have her, you know, be, be able to ask the questions of what were we like and, and what was your life like?" And he missed that chance.
And all of a sudden, that reunion 13 years before passed back into my memory, and it actually came screaming back to mind, and I told my wife, I said, "I want to try to recreate that reunion, that storytelling thing." And so May 13th of, of, of last year, of 2025, um, we sat here for four hours.
I had my dad's brother, uh, Monk, M- Monroe, Monk, and then four of their cousins, and we sat here for four hours and told stories, and it was wonderful.
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