A Grandfather, a Farm, and a Life Well Lived
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Brent Timmons, a listener of Our American Stories, shares the story of his grandfather, a quiet man known in the family simply as “Pop Pop.” Vernon Timmons lived a modest life in southern Delaware, working hard, speaking little, and rarely seeking attention. He briefly ran a small gas station and later worked long hours while farming a piece of land outside the town of Dagsboro.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.2 | And we return to our American stories. |
| 0:17.5 | Jamel McGee spent three years in federal prison and not a day went by that he didn't |
| 0:21.9 | think about his son who he had never seen and the crooked cop who had kept Jamel from seeing him. |
| 0:28.9 | For most of those three years, Jamel writes in his book, Convicted, I promised myself that if I ever |
| 0:34.3 | saw this cop again, I was going to kill him. I intended to keep that promise. |
| 0:39.3 | Here's Jamel and Andrew picking up with the moment the two |
| 0:43.3 | saw each other for the first time in a park back home. |
| 0:47.3 | Here's Jamel. |
| 0:49.3 | In my mind, the first thing that popped up was get him. |
| 0:55.9 | Get him. |
| 0:57.8 | Now he's here. |
| 0:58.8 | He's in front of you. |
| 1:03.2 | All that I was feeling in the prison was back on my shoulders. |
| 1:05.5 | Everything. |
| 1:07.2 | And now he's in my face. |
| 1:08.9 | And I'm like, oh, yeah, it's time. |
| 1:09.5 | Let's get him. |
| 1:12.6 | So I go over there, B-line, stuck out my hands. I said, hey, you remember me? |
| 1:13.6 | And he said, yeah, when he said it, I squeezed them. |
| 1:16.6 | And in my mind was two things. |
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