Keeping It Real with Cam Marston

Series produced by Cam Marston

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Cam Marston's short, pithy observations on the world and life as it goes on around him.

For over a year Cam Marston's Keeping It Real commentaries have been broadcast on Alabama Public Radio each Friday at 7:45am during Morning Edition and 4:45pm during All Things Considered. Topics range from golf tournaments, his children's activities, his work-related travel, to his dog and the Elf on the Shelf. Cam's commentaries have quickly won both state and national awards. Each is under four minutes long and new commentaries are added each week.


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26 Pieces

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Covid-19 and the taking economy is causing all of us to see what's really inside.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:31
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A wish for my oldest daughter on Valentine's Day - keep gifts, expectations, and hope for this day small. Do nothing that creates permanence. Avoid...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:42
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Too many people don't "get" Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is a big deal. It's also frivolous. And that's the best way to understand it.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:29
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Is he a gift directly from God? Or a Lucifer with "messianic certainty?" ALABAMA PUBLIC RADIO DECLINED TO AIR THIS COMMENTARY - TOO CONTROVERSIAL.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
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A group of tough men sung my father Happy Birthday well before dawn at the Bradford Store at the crossroads of Dickenson, Alabama.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
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I succumb to it every year but I should know better.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 03:40
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We make up phrases to disguise the fact that what we're really doing is having fun.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:35
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I tried counting my blessings. Strangely, it works!

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:35
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We can talk about intimate, personal, and private things. But we can't talk politics.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
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Sometimes I see people and know I'm better them.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:30
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My wife and I had to figure out how to get rid of him. He had stopped being fun.

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:31
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Football season is upon us and many friends wish they could be back on the field just one more time. Me? Not so much.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:43
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After over three million airline travel miles I have thoughts on readying yourself for holiday travel.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:33
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When clients ask me to help them prepare for the future I take them back to lanterns and candles.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:40
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I commit more sins in the ninety minutes before church than in the entire remainder of the week.

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:33
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An economist mentioned that the top ten percent of earners save thirty percent of their income. That got my mind spinning.

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
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Each city's tallest building reflects the character of that city, or so an old college professor once said.

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:37
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Hungry and looking for love creates good music. Once content, the music suffers.

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:36
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I was asked to screen candidates for early admission to my alma mater. What they did, and didn't do, taught me a lot.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 03:35
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He broke a cardinal rule of speaking: never attack your audience or an audience member.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 03:27
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