Grandpa and Grandma Bedtime Stories
This is a SWEET podcast where we share stories that will help you be courageous and choose the right. We hope you will laugh a lot, cry a little, and learn from our experiences.
Episodes
186 episodes
S4-E47 1962 World Series (Part 2)
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill relates his experience with the 1962 World Series in which his San Francisco Giants faced off against the New York Yankees. He shares how he managed to watch Game 7, even though he was supposed ...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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12:15
S4-E46 1962 World Series (Part 1)
In this episode, Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill recalls when he was 9 years old and was an avid San Francisco Giants baseball fan. It recounts the season and the Giants' remarkable comeback to win the 1962 National League Pennant. He tells h...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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10:38
S4-E45 Crazy Things Grandpa Did (Part 5) Flower Power
In this episode, Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill does a few more crazy things. I mean really crazy. At least the hippies at the International Fountain in the Seattle Center were entertained. However, Grandpa has another interaction with a policeman...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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9:42
S4-E44 Crazy Things Grandpa Did (Part 4) Animal Crackers
In this episode, Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill learns valuable lessons in friendship with animal crackers, poetry, and The Little Prince. "It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. The essential is invisible to the eye."
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Episode 44
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14:16
S4-E43 Crazy Things Grandpa Did (Part 3) Caught by the Police!
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill tells about a crazy thing he did while editor of the Washington High School "Patriot" school newspaper. At this time, unsurprisingly he was going to Washington High School and living in Tacoma, Washin...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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15:12
S4-E42 Crazy Things Grandpa Did (Part 2) Body Surfing and Sand Crabs
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill tells about crazy things he did while in elementary school living in Santa Cruz, California in the early 1960s.
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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15:11
S4-E41 Crazy Things Grandpa Did (Part 1) Creative Fun with Snails
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill tells about crazy things he did while a pre-schooler living in Santa Cruz, California in the 1950s.
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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7:47
S4-E40 How Grandpa Decided to Retire From BYU
Four years ago, this week, Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill decided to retire from his job as a professor at Brigham Young University, Provo. This episode tells the story of how he made this decision. It is interesting that he is now teaching a very...
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7:58
S4-E39 Grandpa Doesn't Walk Fast Enough
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill has an interesting experience with an apostle in the Wilkinson Student Center when he began his tenure as a professor at Brigham Young University-Provo.
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16:39
S4-E38 Uncle Jeff Learns to Play the Piano (His Way!)
In this episode Uncle Jeffrey Ray Hill, Sr., relates how he navigated Hill Family music expectations to learn to love to play the piano.
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10:53
S4-E37 What Was That?
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill deals with an unexpected intruder in his cottage in the woods in Hobble Creek Canyon.
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18:50
S4-E36 Grandpa Rides the "Big Dipper" Roller Coaster (as a four-year-old)!
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill remembers his dad, Great-Grandpa Edward Eyring Hill. He shares stories about get lost roads, learning to read, and riding the "Big Dipper" roller coaster when he was four years old (and before t...
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18:04
S4-E35 AI, the Biosphere, the Pizza Pilot Pirate, and Bigfoot
In this episode Grandpa experiments with AI to write a Bigfoot Bedtime Story requested by Mikayla Krristine Merrill. She requested a story with Lydia Wright, Lydia Kuhn, Ellie Hill, Grandpa and her. She asked that the story take place at the Th...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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15:54
S4-E34 Adventures of the Spectacular Seven (Part 2)
This is the conclusion to "The Advenures of the Spectacular Seven." In this episode six cousins backpack into the Enchanted Valley Chalet. William, Elsie, and Lydia Wright explore a waterfall and tangle with the Rotund Bald Man with the U...
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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18:37
S4-E33 Adventures of the Spectacular Seven (Part 1)
In this episode Lydia Ethlyn Wright requests a backpacking trip from Grandpa for her 10th birthday. He is ecstatic and trip trip expands to seven souls. What adventures await them as they trek into the Enchanted Valley? Will Bigfoot appea...
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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18:09
S4-E32 Meeting Bigfoot for the First Time
In this episode Grandpa Hill tells an imaginative story of how he met Bigfoot for the first time and how they became friends. Many of the details actually happened, but some of the story is fictional :)
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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16:00
S4-E31 Grandpa Becomes a Paperboy (And Learns that Root Beer Floats Really "Eat" into His Profits)
Grandpa tells about his very first job to earn money outside of the home. He was a paperboy for the San Francisco "News-Call Bulletin." The route skirted West Cliff Drive overlooking the beach in Santa Cruz, California. Though he didn't k...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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20:09
S4-E30 If You Want Something, Work For It
In this episode Grandpa tells about how his Dad, Great-Grandpa Edward Eyring Hill, taught him some valuable lessons. Perhaps the most important lesson was that if you want something you should work for it. You should not expect people to ...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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11:57
S4-E29 How a Squirt Gun Brought Grandma Juanita and Grandpa Together
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill shares how he met Grandma Juanita Ray, who later became his wife and the mother of nine Hill children. Interestingly enough a squirt gun played a major role in this event.
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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12:19
S4-E28 Romantic Elevators
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill tells about when he got engaged to Grandpa Juanita Ray in 1976 and how this led to a tradition of Romantic Elevators!
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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9:17
S4-E27 Great-Grandpa Irving J. Ray and a Computer Named Irv
This story tells how Grandma Juanita Ray's father, Great-Grandpa Irving J. Ray, gave Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill a wad of crinkled $20 bills to help by a computer. It taught Grandpa a lesson in generosity and love.
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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8:11
S4-E26 Don't Eat Cat Food! Obey Your Mom!
In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill learns the hard way the importance of obeying his mom, and of not eating catfood!
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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7:21
S4-E25 Happy Father's Day: Grandpa's First Memory
Happy Father's Day! In this episode Grandpa Edward Jeffrey Hill shares about his father, Great-grandpa Edward Eyring Hill, his mother, Great-grandma LaDean Jones Hill, other ancestors, his birth, and his first memory.
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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16:44
S4-E24 Strange but True: Abby Shares Her Memories of Bedtime in the Jeff and Juanita Hill Family
In this episode Aunt Abigail LaDean Hill Boone shares her precious memories of bedtime growing up in the Jeff and Juanita Hill family. She emphasizes how Grandma Juanita Hill used bedtime stories to teach important lessons to her children...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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11:12
S4-E23 You get what you get and you don't throw a fit (an UG story)
We meet Ug, an imaginary grandchild who is in great need of learning the important lessons of life. In this episode Ug, who is prone to get very upset when he doesn't get what he wants, learns an important lesson: You get what you get, an...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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11:29