Last of the Good Old Boys

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:32.9	The last of the good old boys.
0:37.8	Sapoga Baptist Church is a three-room building off County Highway 43.
0:42.7	I visited the rural congregation one Sunday, and I listened to an old man deliver the kind
0:47.6	of sermon that sounded like K-Ro syrup on hand-cut biscuits, the kind of preaching that is
0:53.5	done without microphones.
0:56.0	This church has been out here ever since before the invention of television.
1:02.1	Currently, they have nine and a half members.
1:06.3	A preacher took me to Shoney's after church.
1:09.2	He bought my breakfast, and then he filled my truck with gas without even asking.
1:14.0	I asked why he was being so kind to a stranger, and he said,
1:17.9	Because this world needs more good.
1:21.6	He said, and I take you down to Luzia, Alabama.
1:25.6	My friend and I were at Dairy Queen.
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