The singer, bandleader, and accordion and harmonica player for Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots was previously an NFL football player and a U.S. park ranger. International tours with Paul Simon, Sting, and his own band have carried him far from his upbringing in rural Arkansas. Sunpie's childhood experience handling poisonous vipers in the backwoods serves him well as he sits down with the Troubled Men at Snake & Jake's.

Topics include the Big Island festival, a volcanic eruption, Tony Tocco, Atchafalaya restaurant, a flight delay, a bomb threat, convicts on the loose, the penny, ICE riots, sharecropping, the Pentecostal Church, baptisms, selling snakes, a rattlesnake round up, tent revivals, playing piano, a Buick Electra 225, integration, Jacques Cousteau, Marlin Perkins, Loretta Swit, a life plan, eating mule, a value system, the NFL draft, turf toe, the USFL, Bo Jackson, Raiders fans, Joe Sample, Harry Belafonte, early retirement, and much more.   

Break Music: "Fox & The Hound" from "Lick A Hot Skillet" by Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots

Outro Music: "We are the Northside Skull and Bone Gang" from "Island Man" by Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots

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Chapters

• (00:00:15 ) - Troubled Men
• (00:03:43 ) - The Time I Saw A Volcano Erupt
• (00:07:43 ) - The Pilot's Too-Tired Flight
• (00:10:43 ) - The Airport Bomb Threatner
• (00:13:01 ) - OPP Leads the Fight for Prison Escape
• (00:15:51 ) - Riots continue in LA
• (00:19:57 ) - Sly Stone Dead at 66
• (00:21:56 ) - Meet the Guest
• (00:23:03 ) - Sunpai Barnes
• (00:24:04 ) - Sun Pie
• (00:25:36 ) - Growing Up in a Sharecropper Community
• (00:29:09 ) - How to Catch a Rattlesnake
• (00:32:17 ) - Arkansas musicians: Starting to Play Music
• (00:36:33 ) - Living on the Road With A Confederate Dad
• (00:38:27 ) - Arkansas hurdler and college athlete
• (00:40:34 ) - Inspiring scientists: Manny
• (00:44:22 ) - Coon Hunt
• (00:46:17 ) - Please support the Troubleman Podcast!
• (00:50:18 ) - Tom Bosley and Loretta Sweat
• (00:51:29 ) - Bruce Sunpai Barnes on His
• (00:54:31 ) - Stick to Your List
• (00:54:43 ) - In the Elevator With Kendrick Lamar
• (00:58:48 ) - He Screwed Up The NFL Draft
• (01:02:07 ) - Donald Trump on His One Year in the NFL
• (01:05:19 ) - Andy Reid on His Football Career
• (01:09:31 ) - Reggie Jackson on His National Park Ranger Experience
• (01:14:07 ) - Trump rips National Park Service
• (01:16:15 ) - Paul Simon on His Music Career
• (01:20:35 ) - Paul McCartney on His First Tour With Sting
• (01:24:44 ) - Skull and Bone Gang