Ain't is a Word - A Southern Podcast

About Ain't is a Word - A Southern Podcast

Ain’t Is a Word is a Southern storytelling podcast from longtime newspaper columnist Toby Nix. After more than a decade of writing about family, small-town life, law enforcement, getting older, and the occasional bad decision, Toby finally bought a microphone. Some episodes revisit old columns and the stories behind them. Others are whatever happens to be on his mind that day. And every now and then, a friend pulls up a chair and joins the conversation. Funny sometimes. Serious sometimes. Southern pretty much all the time. And yes, ain’t is a word.

Publisher

Toby Nix

Category

arts · comedy · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Aug 2019

Latest episode

11 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

71 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Sept 2026

   Reading my old columns: Cringe, Classic and Completely Forgotten

   Send us Fan Mail This week I'm digging into the archives and reading three old columns from my first book, and apparently meeting a few earlier versions of myself along the way. The first one is kind of cringey. The second one may be my favorite column I've ever written. And the third? I have absolutely no memory of writing it. Three old columns. One I'd like to forget, one I'll probably never top, and one I already forgot.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026

   The Homemade Experiment

   Send us Fan Mail I've gone down the homemade food rabbit hole. This episode covers Beef Wellington, tres leches, mortadella, homemade bread and what happens when you start wondering, "Could I just make that myself?"

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   15 Apr 2026

   Reading the Old Me - Columns from several years ago

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I dust off four more old newspaper columns from the early days of me pretending I knew what I was doing. They may not be my finest work, and a couple of them feel like they were written by a man running entirely on coffee, deadline panic, and blind confidence, but they still carry the heart of where it all started. This round wanders through memories, small-town life, and the kind of ordinary moments that somehow felt important enough to make the paper....

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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