I Was Highly Successful Twice | At Least It'll Be A Good Story Ep. 6 with Adam Henry

Adam Henry had 31 jobs before he became a sheriff's deputy at 26. He's now training new recruits at the academy and he's hoping this one sticks. Adam is a friend from book club. We've known each other for years and somehow I learned more about him in this conversation than in all that time combined. We get into the Christmas tree farm at 13, the overnight call center where he pretended to be "Mark with two kids," getting his tie cut in half on his first car sale, going to kindergarten twice, and somehow ending up wrestling a drunk driver awake in his own barn at six in the morning. Plus: his dad fighting a fisher cat in pitch black West Virginia with a grilled cheese in his hand. My chickens (one of which faked her own death the week of Thanksgiving). The $10 mini horse Adam paid actual money for and now spends thousands on. The police academy that has a fake 7-Eleven, a fake bar, a fake pizza shop, a fake bank, and Adam as the resident actor playing suspects. The 12 Days of Christmas as labor analysis. A long debate about how each of us would want to be found dead in a way that would keep police guessing for decades. And the Backstreet Boys vs. 98 Degrees ad-lib argument that closes the show. Shoutout to Nairobi. Appreciate you guys. CHAPTERS: 0:00 — Cold open: a fisher cat in the dark 2:00 — 31 jobs before age 26 11:22 — Highly successful twice 17:33 — A fake version of myself 29:42 — The invisible gorilla 39:04 — Five years with inmates, then the Fugitive Task Force 41:40 — There's a man in my barn 49:20 — My transgender chicken 50:57 — Tanya the turkey faked her own death 51:25 — The rooster that wouldn't die 57:41 — Kami the $10 mini horse 1:05:12 — Building a men's book club through a Twitch Discord 1:15:58 — Y2K, AI, and the gift of fear 1:18:42 — How would you want to be found dead 1:25:25 — We have a fake 7-Eleven 1:27:47 — I'm kind of our go-to actor there 1:30:39 — Playing Fugitive in Florida 1:34:12 — Off the grid 1:36:35 — Sitting where Morgan Freeman will sit 1:37:29 — The 98 Degrees curse CONNECT: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2XGW... Instagram: @atleastitsagoodpodcast TikTok: @peteyvk