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EP13 - Making Midlife More Fun! · Oh And One More Thing

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Some old friends. Facing our fears, laughing
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through the chaos and drinking some beers.
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So here's to the laughs, the crumbs and the cheers.
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All the awkward moments. And we're still here.
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Because in the end, we're just doing our thing.
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It's our crazy life. 01 more thing.
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One more thing. Welcome to Oh and one more
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thing, a podcast where 2 long time friends try to figure out
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what the heck is going on with this crazy thing called middle
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age. It's a mix of stories of how we
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navigate our lives and maybe some questionable advice.
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Some days we're wise, other days we're just trying to remember
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where the heck we left our phone.
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So join us as we laugh, groan, and maybe even learn a little
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something about surviving in the second-half of life.
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Oh, and one more thing. Hello, I'm Brian, welcome to.
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Oh, and one more thing. Hi, I'm Rob.
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Hey, how goes it today, buddy? Oh, it's great.
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What's what's new with you? Oh, everything's new.
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Every Every day is a new day, Rob.
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Yes, it is. The sun comes up, I wake up
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bright and shiny and ready to tackle the day and walk to my
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office 10 feet away and sit down.
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Or what? Kind of BSU selling today that's
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so not you. Remember back in the Technology
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Surviving Technology podcast, Uh huh, we talked about the Aura
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Ring. I I do.
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Remember that? Yes.
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So I looked it up a little bit. OK, so it's kind of expensive,
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and I seriously doubt I'm gonna get it.
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So a while back, my family and I, we were at the Minneapolis
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Farmers Market. There you go.
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And instead of the aura ring, I brought a mood ring I'll get.
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Out. And I'm wearing it right now.
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What does it mean when it's purple?
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Well, you want to know the meaning of the colors.
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Do you do you have that? So the mood ring doesn't
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actually work with sensing emotions, you know that, OK.
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Come on. When I was a kid I always
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thought it was real. Right?
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But they do change color based on temperature, not your mood.
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OK, yeah, yeah. All right.
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So it has no idea what mood you're in.
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Oh well, they correlate the moods with temperatures, so if
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you are happy you tend to be a warmer person, that sort of
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thing. Yep, and that's what happens.
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OK, So what colour is it now? What does it mean?
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Right now it's Violet. Yeah, purple.
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Yeah. Oh, guess what?
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It's it means I don't know. Very happy love, passionate
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romance. Oh, OK, I'm gonna.
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I am so romantic. I'm.
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Gonna pause the other romance part right now, but I get the
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happy part 'cause we're we're doing our podcast.
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Right, I'm always happy. Right, I like it.
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But I've only seen purple, blue and green.
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Sure, sure. So compared to the price of the
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Aura Ring, I'm guessing there's a little little bit of a gap.
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Yeah, like hundreds of dollars. I paid $10.00 for this.
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There you go, you. Get what you're paying for,
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buddy. And it was fun.
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Oh, that's good. Hey, did you know that I
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previously worked as a security guard?
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No. Yeah, my boss told me that as a
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security guard, it was my job to watch The Office.
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Yeah, I'm on season 6, but I'm not really sure what it's got to
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do with security. Yeah, that's kind of lame.
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That's kind of lame. But it was funny.
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It was. Funny, yeah.
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So I thought we would talk about, you know, what it's like
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to be in in middle age. So I googled, googled a day in
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the life of the middle-aged man you did.
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And what I got was kind of funny and frankly really generic.
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Well, so do you want to talk about it?
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Well, yeah, we should absolutely talk about, but it was this more
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just you, just a generic middle-aged man, or do you just
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specify like us? Well, I don't know how to
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specify us, so sadly it's just a generic middle-aged man.
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Let's go with it. OK, So to give my my Google
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Voice will be a little bit different than my voice, OK?
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I'm with you. Typical day in the middle-aged
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man might involve waking up, commuting to work, spending a
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day at his profession, returning home, possibly engaging in
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hobbies and family time, and then winding down for the
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evening. OK First off this Google Voice
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is very schmarmy so that scares. Me isn't Google schmarmy to
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begin? With it is a little schmarmy,
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but is this this isn't this isn't like almost every person
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in the world, I mean. Right.
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It's it's so lame. Yeah, OK.
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It cannot be more generic. Then it goes on to say he wakes
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up likely around 6:30 or 7:00 AM and gets ready for the day.
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OK first of all, not how? How does Google know when I get
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up? It doesn't.
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I get up at 5:45 5/25 every day. It has no idea.
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It has no idea, but however Alexa is listening, they are,
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and maybe they're figuring it out.
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Yeah, I'll go back to our technology podcast, Embrace the
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Cloud, Brian. Embrace.
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Embrace somebody, something. I mean, I meant to say something
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something. He might have coffee and
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breakfast, perhaps a quick bowl of oatmeal.
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Gross oatmeal I hate. Oatmeal.
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Well, I don't mind it. My wife loves it.
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But I hate it. It's so mushy.
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It's slimy. And guess what I also heard,
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because I believe everything that I hear is that you're not
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supposed to eat oats. Why?
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It's actually meant to fatten up horses.
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Oh, so I don't want to eat it. So because I have enough rolls,
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Yes, I have spring rolls. See if if if you're if you're
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trying to watch it eat oatmeal would not be the it's the
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problem oatmeal is I have to put a ton of cinnamon and sugar on
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it anyway. Right.
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So that we are defeating whatever health benefit it might
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come from so. Tell me I'm already doubling up
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on the tripling up option is. Don't eat.
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Don't eat oatmeal. Yeah.
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But coffee? I would.
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Yeah. All day long.
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Coffee. Good.
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Yeah. Then he heads out the door,
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either driving or taking public transit to his workplace in a
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nearby town or city. Yeah, Google has no idea who I.
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Am has no idea. No, I mean, this is so, yeah.
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Lame. Yeah, because you don't go
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anywhere and and I have to drive 40.
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Minutes, right? You'd think.
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Yeah, one would think that Google, by this time might know
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I work at home. What?
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You think right? Yeah.
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Right. I mean, I talk about on the
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podcast and, you know, they're copying what was.
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Absolutely. And it has to know your location
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like you never leave your house, right?
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It has to know. I know like life through 60, the
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app I have on my phone knows that I never leave the house,
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just. Recording this podcast is the
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one time a week you get out of the house.
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Hey, I go out for coffee. That is your three times a week
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you get out. Times a week and then one time
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here so I get out three times a. Week and although within 2 miles
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of your house. OK, but the construction in
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town, right? I had to freaking drive all the
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way around town just to get to your house.
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Did you try coming down on the County Road that's closed right
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now? No, no, no.
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I knew it was closed so. Seriously, though, so, you know,
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we have, we have a boat. Yeah.
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Talk about later. You know, we talked about
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before, We'll talk about it again.
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But it's 2 minutes from our house.
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But the road to get to it is now closed 'cause they're building a
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roundabout. It's gonna take me 20 minutes to
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go, 2 minutes to get my boat. Yeah, that's not right.
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I literally have to drive. Two towns over, go around the
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detour because the little dirt Rd. cut off that I was gonna
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take. Yeah.
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What happened with that? They closed it.
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No, yes, 'cause. My wife drove past it yesterday
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because she missed her turn and she's like, ah, darn it, I'm on
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the detour. So she went that way and it's
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like, Oh yeah, they put like actual cement barriers up so you
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and not take the. Detour.
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Oh, so you can't even try? It it's not just a sign that
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says won't close this. No, they put cement barriers on
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that sucker. Close.
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You're in trouble now and. Clearly I wasn't the only one
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with that idea. All right, What else does Google
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have? Well, it says after work he
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might commute back home or perhaps stay in the city for
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meetings and errands. Are you kidding?
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Oh my gosh, kill me now. Especially that voice.
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Oh my gosh, Google. I isn't that a great voice?
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That's my Google Voice, everybody.
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OK, so so that topic really that sucked, dude.
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Now what are we going to talk about?
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I well, I yes, something else is I can't take it anymore.
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So how do we make middle life more fun?
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I don't know. I think we should.
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That should be our topic for today.
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That's a good. Idea And instead of a bucket
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list, I think we should make a living list.
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Oh yeah, 'cause it focuses on the present and mean present.
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Oh, I like that. Something you probably need to
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do a lot better at. I think all of us do.
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So we need to embrace our new experiences.
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So what's your, I mean, bucket, What's, what's your living list,
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want to talk about a living list.
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So I I know you asked me about mine, but I I'll get into that,
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but I want to hear about yours first.
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Yeah, I don't really have a list per se.
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Some things that I'd like to do like especially right now, I'd
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like to spend more time with with family, with the kids and
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the grandkid. Yeah, you got the grandkids, so
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that's fun. Grandkid solo, but I'm sure
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there's more in the way. But the kids, both, we have 4
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kids between the two of us and two of them are much older.
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Obviously we have grandkids and then two are younger and younger
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ones are looking for the first apartment on their own.
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So that's very exciting. Yeah.
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So that was that going. Good.
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They're still in the research phase, so putting applications
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in a couple places, but they're still working on that.
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So OK, but like spend more time with them as they it's not kind
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of get out of the house. Love my kids.
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Get the heck out of the house. It's time.
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You're old enough. Go away.
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We'll come back and visit once in a while.
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Yeah, see that you're pushing them out and now you're like,
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hey, come back, come back. Let's let's do dinner sometime.
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I'll make you dinner, Yeah. And then there is and we are at
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that age where there is a little bit of retirement on the
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horizon. Yeah, retirement.
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I'm looking for a little closer than you are to retirement.
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That is true. That's true.
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I have a few more years, in fact, this last week at work.
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So I, you know, I am on a lawn care company, Spring Green.
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You do, I do. And it's a, It's a.
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Franchise, how did I not know that?
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You didn't You ran a spring green company.
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It hasn't been obvious. Has nothing to do with who our
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sponsor is. Not at all.
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And so every 10 years we have to renew our franchise agreement.
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And this week I signed the letter of intent to renew my
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franchise agreement. So it's official.
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All right, 10 more years, but after that, that's probably
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going to be it. So yeah, I don't have the
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applause thing potted up. I can't applause.
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I'd apply. Oh, here it is here.
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There, OK. I had to find it.
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There you go. It's hard when you produce and
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talk at the same time. Well, it's hard for me to talk.
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So, yeah, so and we did that. So that's very exciting.
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And then the question at that point becomes how do you stay
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busy in retirement? Oh, there's plenty of things to
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do. Well, that scares me a little
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bit because. My my kids say I'm going to wear
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a hole in the floor from pacing back and forth.
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What I'm saying? Because I do it now where if
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something on TV that I want to watch, whatever my, you know, my
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mind's going racing, whatever it is, I will just walk from one of
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the house and back and forth. And this happens regularly and.
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This is when you have a job. And I have a job, yeah.
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What's going to happen when you don't have a job?
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There'll be a groove in the floor.
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Yeah, I think we might have to go from a weekly to a daily
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podcast. OK, well wait for that, because
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it takes me a long time to write this stuff.
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True, true. But you got a few years to get
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better at it, so I'm just years. I'm just setting.
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Negotiation now, people. He's jotting me down for years
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to come. I'm booked.
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You're right. Got you on the calendar.
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All right, so left to me. What?
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What else? Well, I got some ideas that we I
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thought we could talk about here because there's lots of crazy
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things that I think would be really fun.
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OK, Have you ever gone whitewater rafting?
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I. Have not.
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So that was always on my but living list that I wanted to do
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it right. But I was younger when I made
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that list. Yeah.
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Yeah. And now I'm not so sure because
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they tip over and then you're in the water and I'm nervous.
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And there's like rocks and things.
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And there's a you wear a helmet. Yeah, well.
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Right, can't feel my arm but. Yeah, it's still broke.
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I broke some bones. Right.
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Yeah, but I haven't. Done it.
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Yeah. I've watched it on TV.
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It looks spent like it looks like a great time.
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Yeah. I I gotta try a smaller river
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first? Yeah, or a bigger boat or.
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No, I don't. Well, I don't know.
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Isn't it what the the kind that have like 8 to 10 people in it?
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Sure. Would a tubing down the upper
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river be considered white water rafting?
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I think that's a little slow. That's a lot more drinking
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involved. Yeah, so and I don't want to be
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in that. Water.
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No, no, there's that back, back in my eye.
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So I grew up going to YMCA camps all the time.
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And one of our camps is in Wisconsin.
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Yeah. And the lake is at the start of
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the Apple River. OK, so one where that is so.
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One year we our little, our little cabin, we decided to take
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a two day trip and we canoed all the way down the Apple River,
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which winds up in the Saint Corey and you end up in
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Stillwater. Yeah.
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So for two days we we canoed for half the day and then camp
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overnight somewhere and then canoed to, to Stillwater.
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But we go through the Apple River and those that don't know
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what the Apple River is, I mentioned earlier it's tubing
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and lots of drinking. We had a canoe through all these
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people. While they're floating down
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while. They're literally throwing like
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food in, like like popping beer cans at us.
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Ever canoeing through the Apple River.
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How? Old are you at this?
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Time. I was probably 14.
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Nice. Yeah.
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So I learned to canoe and 'cause I went to camp.
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OK, Boy Scout camp. It was a Boy Scout.
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So I learned to canoe and he had to learn all the different
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paddle strokes and how to tip your canoe and then get back in
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it in the water, all that sort of thing.
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So, you know, life skills. Yeah.
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Yeah. Also learned how to sail.
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You did. Do you know how to sail?
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I so again the camp I've sailed, but like actually like learn
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like like the terms and how to. I can't remember all the terms
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I. Mean I I can get a boat, I can
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put the thing up and find the wind.
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The thing? That's the extent the sail.
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The sail up. I have a sailboat, a very small
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one person sailboat, OK. And so I sail when I go to the
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cabin and I love it. And I learned it from being a
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Boy Scout. Well.
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There you go. Did you ever watch, you know,
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these reality competition shows like Amazing Race or The
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Challenge and they have to do any sort of paddling in the
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water and and they're just like. And they can't.
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They're just perplexed. Like these go in circles or they
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just they can't figure it out. So these are people that didn't
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go to camp, right? It just.
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Boggles me and again, I know I've had the experience, I've
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been trained that know how to do it, but right it's it's not that
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hard to figure out if you paddle.
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Paddle in the water in front of you, push it to your back.
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Yeah. And then to go left to right, if
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you if you push harder on the left, the boat's going to go to
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the right. Right, exactly something unless
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you do the J hook. Or do the J hook anything right
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then it's a whole new thing. But I just like and it's also
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the same people who get in a car at like an amazing race.
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They have to drive and they get a.
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They get a manual. And they don't have drive.
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They have no well, OK, that does take a little bit of extra
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practice. It's drive a manual stick shift.
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It does. And that was actually the first
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car I had. Mm hmm.
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So I learned to drive a stick in downtown Saint Cloud on a hill.
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Nice. That's where you really learn to
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figure out your pedals and and not let it kill.
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Yeah, my dad threw me in the car and said go figure it out.
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I mean, it was in our neighborhood.
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I wasn't driving on, yeah, streets like that.
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But he said go figure it out. So I like driving a stick.
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They're fun. Yeah, me too.
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I And that's our generation, you know, the middle-aged.
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Gen. X people and X people.
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We learned those things because we right didn't have a choice,
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but we learned those things. Life skills.
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I read a post today on Facebook and it was asking a question do
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people back in the olden days it said Gen.
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X has really let their kids just roam free?
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Yes. To answer your your Facebook
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post, yes. All the all.
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Day long, yeah. All the time, yeah.
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Just go get lost, yeah? And it's funny, we were talking
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at coffee this week with our buddy Jeff Hoxie.
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He was on last week. Jeff, Hi Jeff.
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Hi Jeff. Hey, where's your hammer, Jeff?
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And, and we were we were talking about his, his kid, his his son
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was out playing and he's actually at Brian's neighbor's
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house right next to you. And Jeff was hey, he was like, I
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just, I didn't know where he was.
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He just kind of just came home whenever.
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And we're both like, you let your kid do that.
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But as soon as we said that, I'm like, well, we did that.
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It is all time. That's normal, right?
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Yeah, so the neighbor boys had a lot of boys over, and there were
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balls being lobbed in our yard all night long and kids running
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in to get them. Yeah, that's fine.
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Yeah, absolutely. It is.
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Absolutely. They're fun.
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What else you got? So back to the sailing.
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You know, what I really want to get is a catamaran.
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You know, I'd like to go a little bit bigger than what I've
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got and get a catamaran because they they're just handled a
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little nicer, you know, that would be more fun.
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That's probably my next level. Do you need more wind in a
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bigger lake for that? Well, actually, it's weird.
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I don't. You don't need a bigger lake.
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Our lake's big enough. And the wind.
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My neighbor at the lake has a catamaran.
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OK. So it can be very, very light.
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Extremely light winds and they're out there sailing
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because the sail's bigger, right?
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And it's lighter than my sailboat, right?
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So it glides nicer. It's just like I'm.
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I'm amazed. Is my problem when I think
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catamaran now when we went to Mexico last?
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Year No. We we went on an excursion for
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the day. We were on a catamaran.
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They held like 30 people and had a bar and had a bathroom and had
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different levels. It's.
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Not that catamaran. OK, see, that's what I think.
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What I think Catamaran we know. Bring bring your expectations
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way down, please big enough though the the the two of us and
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four with our wives can go on it.
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That's what I. OK, that makes much more sense.
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Yeah, alright. How about extreme hiking?
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Would you ever do something like that?
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Define extreme. Well, OK, so they have these
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extreme hikes you can go on and they really do go up elevations
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and mountains and stuff, but I don't want to do that.
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Yeah, that sounds like work. But because that, you know,
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yeah, Trip, fall, die. Yeah.
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But I have climbed Harney Peak in South Dakota, so it's the
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tallest. I think it's the tallest peak in
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South Dakota. OK.
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And then when you get to the top, there's actually a Ranger
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station of the top. It's amazing.
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That's cool. But it is quite the hike.
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Yeah. We and we go visit my mom in
18:14
Arizona and we hike up a Butte. Butte is not Butte, Mt.
18:18
No no, that's Arizona a Butte. Ohh, a Butte.
18:21
It's paston Butte. What is that?
18:23
It's like it's a Butte. OK, I don't know what it's
18:26
talking about. It's an, it's a it's, it's
18:28
smaller than a mountain and larger than a hill.
18:30
Ohh, that's called a Butte. It's a Butte.
18:32
I didn't know that. It's a Butte, yes.
18:35
That's as much as I'm doing. OK, Something I'd like to do and
18:38
I've partially committed to doing this year is skydiving.
18:41
Awesome. So I think I've talked about
18:43
this earlier. One of my people that I work
18:45
with, she is a skydiving instructor, yes.
18:48
And I actually pulled her aside the other day and I said I'm
18:51
committing to you this year. I want to do it.
18:53
Is this for something special? No, just, I just just to do it.
18:56
I just want to do it. I just, I've always wanted to do
18:58
it. She's very accessible because I
18:59
see her every day, so the perfect person to take him
19:03
skydiving somebody is. Tammy going to do it with you,
19:05
OK. You're funny.
19:07
No. I have not asked her but I'm
19:08
going to go with no. Because someone has to survive.
19:11
Yeah, I think you should do it. Well, I've done it already.
19:16
You have. I've skydived.
19:18
It was my birthday present to myself when I turned 40I.
19:21
Think I remember you talking about this now.
19:22
OK, Yeah. It went tandem.
19:24
OK, Yeah. And my jumper, his name was
19:27
Jumping Joe Johnson. Of course it was.
19:29
It was amazing, Right. And, you know, I'm on the tall
19:33
side of life. Yeah.
19:35
Oh, that's funny. Age and height.
19:39
Anyway, Joe was much shorter than I was.
19:42
And when we're walking to the plane, you, you are kind of
19:46
strapped together as you walk together.
19:48
And then he said, hey, when we walked to the plane, let's make
19:52
a spectacle of ourselves. And he said.
19:55
It's right in your wheels. You just stand up straight.
19:59
He's on my back, so I stood up. His feet dangled and I walked to
20:03
the plane, carrying him on my back.
20:06
Totally see that. But then you're on the plane and
20:10
you're sitting in, not in seats, but in on a bench in a row, and
20:15
everyone's in front of you and they're going, right.
20:17
So we're going up, and it kind of go up in a spiral.
20:20
You know, adrenaline is huge right now.
20:22
It's just really exciting, you know, And I'm afraid of heights.
20:24
But didn't bother me one bit. Right.
20:26
He said, you know, OK, we're getting near the jump time.
20:29
The doors open. He said, I'm gonna tighten up
20:31
the slack. And I thought to myself, this is
20:33
already tight. He pulled another 10 to 12
20:37
inches of slack between US. Oh, good Lord.
20:40
And I was sitting. There's literally sitting on
20:42
him. Yeah.
20:43
And we were tight. Yeah, it was crazy.
20:45
But we were last ones to jump off the plane, get to the door
20:49
and he said is I'll never forget.
20:52
This is the best line ever. Just remember no sounds like go.
20:59
And so then we dived out. And there you go it.
21:02
Was amazing. It was fun, Yeah.
21:03
I I want to do that. I want to do that.
21:05
Hopefully my heart can handle it.
21:06
It can OK keep your mouth shut when you're going down.
21:09
Probably good advice. How about theme parks?
21:13
I know you love theme. Parks love theme parks.
21:15
I've I'm huge Disney fan. I've only been to Disney World
21:19
once and I've I've only actually been to Hollywood studios and
21:22
the Animal Kingdom. Haven't been to the other parks,
21:23
Epcot or the Magic Kingdom. Oh, you have have not been to
21:26
those. Yet.
21:26
So you mean I've been to more theme parks than you?
21:29
I've been to Disneyland multiple times.
21:31
California Disneyland. OK, I've been there once.
21:32
Multiple times. My mom used to live in
21:34
California when the kids were younger.
21:35
Went there bunch OK and been to Universal in Hollywood a couple
21:39
of times and then once in Florida OK, but would love to go
21:43
back and love to spend a lot more time there.
21:46
We gotta go to Epcot. I I would love to go to Epcot,
21:49
yes. I've been there and with the
21:50
kids when they're young, but yeah, I wanted to which we
21:52
couldn't drink around the world, right?
21:54
So you go to every country and have a drink.
21:57
Yeah, I think we totally should make an adult Disney vacation.
22:00
Yeah, that would be very fun. But we went to Tower of Terror
22:04
was called at the time when we went there.
22:05
It was in Disneyland. I think it still is because I
22:08
was on it a couple years ago. I think it changed to Guardians
22:10
of Galaxy. Yeah, must be recent.
22:13
Recent. It must be recent.
22:14
But anyway, we were on that ride and I talked.
22:16
Everyone in the group talked my wife into going on.
22:18
And she does not like rides. Yeah.
22:21
And you tell you, when that first door opening you dropped,
22:24
she was so scared. And I was.
22:27
I didn't. No disrespect to her, but I was
22:29
laughing the whole time. And each time that the light
22:32
would come on as you're going to the dark, then to the light, she
22:35
was grabbing on a different part of my body.
22:37
And she was trying to hold on. She hated it, by the way.
22:42
Yeah. My wife just refused to go on
22:44
any sort of rides like that. So she's she's, she has a lot
22:46
she likes that to do, the people watching.
22:48
At least that's what she tells me.
22:49
Or just 'cause I dragged her there and she has nothing else
22:51
to do? So oh, we were there with show
22:54
choir trip actually fun, and Jeff was with us.
22:57
Oh yeah, had a good time. Except for we went on the Star
23:01
Wars ride. Well, the old Star Wars are not.
23:04
Yeah, the old one. The old.
23:05
Yeah. And it's where you have the
23:06
whole video thing playing into and the seats move.
23:08
Yeah, that's horrible. Oh my gosh, Yeah.
23:10
By the time I got out there, I was green and I almost lost it.
23:14
Yeah, all over the place. Yeah, the new ones, The Rise of
23:16
the Resistance and the Millennium Falcon.
23:18
Two of the best rides you could possibly ever go on.
23:20
We'll see about that. Phenomenal.
23:22
Phenomenal. What about you're a gambler?
23:25
Yeah, I gamble. I don't gamble very often.
23:28
You don't gamble very often. But you like one of Vegas
23:30
though, right? I like the idea of Vegas.
23:32
Yeah, But I and I'll be all prepared.
23:35
And I got my money and I don't mind losing it.
23:36
I've already set it aside. We're good to go.
23:39
I'll get up to the table. I'm going to play blackjack, and
23:41
then I'll stand there and just watch.
23:44
And I, it's just that fear of sitting down and putting my
23:49
money on there. And you're so fast with that.
23:52
Maybe it's my, you know, poor math skills, but I can't add
23:56
that. Fast.
23:58
So when I was there with you, it's definitely more
24:01
comfortable, but I'm just too nervous.
24:03
See, I think we we did it right too, because we went in as a big
24:05
gaggle of people and we found a casino just off the strip.
24:10
They had dollar blackjack and $5 blackjack.
24:12
So cheaper blackjack. So it was a little bit easier to
24:15
play that and. We went there like during the
24:16
week when in the morning was kind of quieter, so we were able
24:18
to take over a whole table and we were there probably good 2-3
24:20
hours. Just us, and that's more fun.
24:22
That is a blast. I love doing that one.
24:25
Agree. Everybody's there.
24:25
You're just there to have fun. You don't care.
24:27
Somebody screws it up for the table.
24:28
One of those people who cares? We're just there to have fun,
24:30
right? Yeah.
24:31
So that that's fun. What about like other games like
24:33
you like when you go to like doing other games or slots or?
24:36
Ohh, I like craps. I don't get craps.
24:38
I mean, OK, it's just let me that.
24:40
You get the crap. I don't get the game of craps in
24:42
Vegas. I, I've played it, I've watched
24:46
it and I still people tell me what to do and I still, I throw
24:49
the damn dice and hopefully I get money.
24:50
I I just I really, I don't get it.
24:52
OK, there's a there's a very easy version of craps and then
24:55
there's the more technical in how you bet on side bet.
24:58
Yeah, I know. Don't try and explain it.
24:59
We were there for an hour and a half and I'd still I played and
25:01
I still didn't get it. So just.
25:02
Oh well, I got it. I love it, it's so much fun.
25:06
What about like what? No other card games though?
25:07
You know what? Well, I was trying to do what is
25:10
a three handed poker or something like that.
25:13
Texas hold 'em. No.
25:14
Well, Texas hold 'em. I'll play.
25:15
Yeah, anytime. Right.
25:17
If there's money involved, I'll lose.
25:19
Yeah. If we play for no money, I'll
25:21
win. I don't know what that is, but
25:24
no matter when we play anything, if we gamble for money, I lose.
25:28
OK, so. Next time we get together to
25:29
play cards, we're definitely not playing for money.
25:31
Because you know you'll win. I win.
25:33
Thanks a lot. Yeah.
25:34
What about like gambling on horses?
25:36
OK, that's. Fun.
25:38
That is fun. Yeah, I agree.
25:39
We have a racetrack near us, Canterbury Downs, and I've gone
25:44
a couple of times and I just, it's a lot of fun.
25:47
I really enjoy it. Yeah, it is fun.
25:48
I'd love to go to the to the Kentucky Derby though.
25:51
You really want to go to the Kentucky Derby.
25:53
Yeah, just to see, to be there, the nostalgia of it all.
25:56
Sure, I see about 300,000 people and go you.
25:59
Yeah, there's a lot of people, but look at the weird hats
26:02
they're wearing. It's fun, yeah.
26:05
Yeah, definitely. And don't you think about My
26:07
Fair Lady? What's that?
26:09
You've never seen My Fair Lady? No.
26:11
I've never seen it. Well, it's a musical.
26:12
Yeah, it's old. It's old Katharine Hepburn.
26:17
OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And anyway, she is the poor
26:22
peasant flower girl and the rich speech therapist doctor makes a
26:28
bet with his buddy or whoever he is and that he can turn her into
26:32
a lady. Oh, OK.
26:34
And then at one point they're going to test her out in society
26:37
and they go to the horse races. She's gorgeous.
26:40
Right. Right, You know it's a great
26:42
movie. Go see it.
26:43
Sure, sounds good. Jerk, I'm in.
26:49
How about race car test drive? Oh, that'll be fun.
26:53
Yeah, never done it, but yeah, that would that would be fun.
26:55
Do that so they have an extreme experience providers like at
26:59
supercar tracks. Yeah, why is everything extreme?
27:01
Extreme skydiving, extreme car racing, everything you're doing,
27:04
extreme hiking, extreme water rafting.
27:07
Why is there? 'Cause that's what we gotta do
27:08
now. We gotta be extreme.
27:09
You don't feel extreme. I'm extreme.
27:11
I know. You very well.
27:12
You don't feel like an extreme sort of guy.
27:13
I'd like to underplay that, OK. Undersell.
27:17
Undersell. You're still overdelive.
27:18
You're. Doing it the wrong way.
27:23
OK. So there is one in Vegas?
27:24
There, Yes. Yes I have.
27:26
I have seen ads for that. I don't know, it would be kind
27:28
of fun. I'd like to try it.
27:29
Never fun, but I think like with anything in Vegas, it's way
27:31
overpriced. Well, sure, but yeah, everything
27:33
in Vegas is. Expensive, so anything is great
27:35
you're. Just going there to drop money.
27:37
Except for In and Out Burger on the Strip.
27:39
Go in and out Burger. Best place to eat and it's best
27:41
place. And it's cheap.
27:44
And it's so good. It's so good.
27:45
Yeah. So Bourbon Tour in Kentucky.
27:48
We did that once. You did that.
27:50
No, we were. No, see, I take it back.
27:52
No, we went to Jack Daniels. We went to Jack Daniels, yes,
27:55
this was the last tour before the pandemic and so before they
28:01
closed the the. They closed everything.
28:03
Everything up? We were the last tour, yeah.
28:06
And then bam, Pam down. Yeah, we were in Nashville and
28:08
they closed Nashville the day we left.
28:10
Yeah, they closed Nashville. Broadway St.
28:12
Closed I. Just remember Sunday night going
28:14
to dinner and they knew. We knew it was coming.
28:16
We knew everything was getting closed, and we said, well, we're
28:18
going to dinner on Sunday night. So we went to this really super
28:20
popular steakhouse. We were the only ones in there.
28:22
Yeah, the only. Nashville, it was crazy.
28:25
Couldn't believe it. It was crazy, crazy.
28:27
But totally want to do the bourbon tour.
28:30
That'd be fun. Yeah.
28:31
It it travels around to different distilleries in
28:33
Kentucky and you taste and I mean you can do a shorter tour
28:37
like 8 hours, then you can do a long tour like a week.
28:40
That might be a little bit much. A lot of drinking, a lot of
28:44
drinking bourbon is not your thing.
28:46
It's OK, but I couldn't do a week of it.
28:48
Yeah, we can do 8 hours of it. Lucky 8 hours yeah alright, yeah
28:51
for. Sure, sign me up, alright.
28:52
Golfing Are you a golfer? Not a golfer?
28:55
Okay, are you a golfer? I'm a golfer.
28:58
I say that knowing that I go out once a year.
29:00
Okay, so that classified is you. As a golfer, I'm totally a
29:03
golfer, then absolutely. Okay, good to know still so I'm
29:06
not a golfer. So actually I got into golf.
29:09
He goes back in again. Back in my YMCA camp days, I
29:12
went to golf camp. For a week, another camp.
29:14
I know went to golf camp, went to horse camp, went to computer
29:17
camp. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
29:18
Let's back a minute. You went to horse camp.
29:20
Went to. Horse Camp.
29:21
You got to learn to take care of horses.
29:23
Camp Christmas tree? That's circle Y.
29:25
And what did you do at horse Camp?
29:26
You. Brushed the horses and you
29:28
walked the horses and you fed the horses.
29:30
You get to ride the horses. To learn how to ride the horses.
29:32
Yeah. You ride along the little, the
29:34
little pen there a little stable.
29:35
Well, you're like the real life cowboy.
29:37
You darn too? Yeah.
29:39
Went to horse camp. That's cool.
29:41
It's fun, Yeah. How about surfing?
29:43
Would you ever do that? Oh God no, why not?
29:45
I have 0 balance. OK, so stand on one foot.
29:48
Let's see. I I just fell over, no.
29:51
Yeah, no, that's not good. No, I wouldn't do it either.
29:54
Yeah, but that's not because of the balance, although granted,
29:56
my balance is not good. But ocean sharks?
30:00
That's right, yeah. Bite.
30:02
Die. Yeah, I I don't like that.
30:05
Yeah. Didn't Ocean scare me?
30:07
We. Learned last week the best way
30:08
to not get bit by sharks is it's it's not going the ocean.
30:10
Not going. It's not on the top ten list.
30:12
So don't we don't have to worry about it because obviously.
30:15
Yeah. How about in your retirement?
30:17
Do you wanna do any woodworking? Hmm.
30:20
Does that mean like building a campfire?
30:23
Yeah, I could do that. Okay.
30:25
So I wanna build like side tables and things and I wanna
30:29
learn how to do a resin pour. Sure, those things.
30:31
So all the scrap wood that I'm left with I'll give to you and
30:34
you can do the campfire. Done.
30:36
You need to speak with our daughter Nikki cuz Nikki does
30:40
this. She does.
30:41
I didn't know that. Does, yes.
30:43
OK, totally wanna. Yeah, so she's like, she's made
30:46
tables and her all. She has things she's made.
30:48
And yeah, it does the resin thing.
30:48
It does awesome. That's totally what I want to
30:50
do. They get, they get these big,
30:51
big old. A sheet of wood.
30:54
Yeah, sheet of wood, you know, where you you cut the and it's
30:58
the blog and put legs on it. Yeah.
30:59
You know when you get a slab of wood and you just, you just take
31:02
the wood and you do, you put legs on it and you do the resin
31:04
and all that kind of stuff. Make a little peoples out of it.
31:06
Those are beautiful. Yeah.
31:07
So if you get the the burrowed wood, yeah, that has all the
31:10
different grains that move around.
31:12
You know, I want to do this woodworking in tandem with all
31:15
of my art that I do because obviously, yeah, I think a few
31:19
people know that they paint. Yeah, that's very artsy.
31:21
Artsy. It is.
31:22
I think it's artsy. Yeah.
31:23
Yeah, for sure. I want to start small, though.
31:25
Yeah. I want to make cutting boards.
31:27
Yeah. So, you know, there's that.
31:28
Concerts. You've been to a couple of
31:29
concerts. I've been to a couple of
31:31
concerts with you and without you.
31:32
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry.
31:34
No. It's OK.
31:35
But but if I was to list out my concerts, if I can remember them
31:38
all, I know. Well, we went to Pink.
31:39
Yes, we did. I'll have seen Pink once you've
31:42
seen him. Like I don't know, groupie.
31:44
But the last 12 times she's been in Minneapolis.
31:46
Yes, yeah, you are groupie. And we saw.
31:48
We drove our road trip last year.
31:49
The purpose of our road trip is to drive to Montana.
31:51
To see pink. To see pink, see you are groupie
31:53
if you drive somewhere to see a concert.
31:56
I decided it was cool to see her in an outdoor college stadium in
31:59
the mountains. Yeah, it was.
32:01
It was cool. That was awesome.
32:02
But then we saw Def Leppard and Joan Jett together.
32:05
Yep, I saw Bon Jovi. Would that be good?
32:08
Yeah, it was really good. Yeah, it was one of his newer
32:11
albums. OK.
32:12
Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney. And if we go back, go way, way
32:17
back. I saw The Judds, Dixie Chicks.
32:19
Keith Urban was pretty recent. Brooks and Dunn.
32:22
Brooks and Dunn, Boots Good and boogie baby.
32:24
Yep, that's when that was live. Or their hit song.
32:27
And then, of course, Prince. Oh.
32:28
Yeah, you're from Minnesota. How can you not see Prince?
32:30
You didn't see Prince? Multiple times.
32:33
And did you ever do an after concert at at Paisley Park?
32:37
I've never been to Paisley Park. I've see.
32:39
I've done the, I've done the after concert.
32:41
OK, yeah, those are fun. Those are fun.
32:43
How about you? What did you see?
32:45
Well, obviously pink defleppard. Seen bare naked ladies a few
32:48
times, Seen kiss a couple times. Not a huge kiss fan.
32:52
I decided one. I mean, I like their.
32:54
Hits. Yeah, their hits are good.
32:56
I like the hits, but and they claim to be the loudest band in
32:59
rock'n'roll and they are the loudest band in rock'n'roll.
33:01
What gets so loud? What's at the point where you
33:03
wearing ear earplugs? Yeah, right.
33:07
And you're still like, I still got the vibration.
33:09
Like I couldn't see. Like it was so loud like it hurt
33:12
I literally walked out like it's it was just too much for me.
33:14
I I think that's why I have hearing loss.
33:17
Probably Kiss concerts. Yeah, yeah.
33:19
KISS concerts. No, I've never been to a KISS
33:21
concert, but that's why I have hearing loss.
33:23
It's crazy. Blue Man Group.
33:25
OK. But that's not a debt.
33:28
Is a rock show. It is a rock show.
33:30
I have not seen them. OK.
33:31
So I'm gonna say it is a rock show because you have this Blue
33:32
Man Group, you've seen them on TV, but half the show is they
33:35
they play music and it's, I mean, it's, it's rock music and
33:38
a thought and it's fun. I want to.
33:40
Go So next time we go to Vegas, we're going to a Blue Man Group.
33:42
Show we have a lot of trips we have to plan.
33:44
And I'm surprised in all of your listings you didn't mentor.
33:47
I'm Garth. Garth Brooks.
33:48
Well, OK, I didn't see Garth. You never saw Garth Brooks
33:51
concert? We had tickets.
33:53
I had tickets and we were ready to go.
33:55
This is in the in the 80s, yeah. Late 80s, yeah.
33:58
And I went to work that day. Uh huh.
34:01
And wear my cowboy boots had the tickets my wife was going to she
34:05
was home to let the plumber in and then she was going to meet
34:07
me and pick me up from work and little concert.
34:11
Well, what happens that particular day I fall, I'll, I
34:18
mean, definitely I'll I collapsed at work, passed out
34:23
from the pain I was having in my gut, and they rushed me to the
34:27
hospital. You were that excited to go see
34:29
Garth. You got stomach pains?
34:31
And I had pancreen Titus and had gallstones.
34:35
Oh, good Lord. So the doctor told me that, you
34:39
know, any longer and I would have died.
34:41
Oh my gosh. Well, I'm glad you went to the
34:43
doctor. Not the time.
34:43
So my wife ended up giving the tickets to the plumber.
34:46
Oh God, and I never got to see Garth Brooks.
34:48
See, a smart man would have written a nice little letter to
34:50
Garth Brooks say, I would have loved to come see you, but
34:52
instead I was having my life saved because funny.
34:59
So travel, we obviously the whole podcast and traveling, but
35:01
are there any other places that you would like to go that we
35:04
really didn't talk about? Oh well, we talked about a few
35:07
of them, but I really want to go to Ireland and those northern
35:10
countries. I do too.
35:11
I think that would be fine. Now, don't get me wrong, I want
35:13
to go to Aruba and I want to go to Jamaica, and we want to take
35:17
me to Bermuda. I want to go to those places
35:22
too, because they're warm and gorgeous and lay on the beach
35:25
and I love it. Yeah, but there's so much more.
35:28
Well, I don't know if there's probably history in all places,
35:30
but I just feel a connection to Ireland and Scotland.
35:34
So I went to Germany in high school and I would love to go
35:37
back now, a little more older, a little wiser.
35:40
I would love to take in that culture again.
35:43
Yeah, knowing what I know because.
35:44
It's different now. Totally different now, yeah.
35:46
And but I even then, even at 17, I mean, I thought we were there
35:49
for two weeks. I thought it was fantastic.
35:51
Yeah, I want to go to Germany. I would love to go back now.
35:53
Does it count if when I was flying to Rome we had to lay
35:57
over in Frankfurt? No, because I didn't leave the
36:00
airport, No. Airports all count.
36:01
Oh, so then I wasn't in Germany, but I was sort of in Germany.
36:04
You know, every airport looks the same.
36:06
I'm sorry but. No, the Frankfurt Airport
36:08
doesn't look the. Same, it looks like every other
36:10
freaking airport you've ever seen.
36:11
Don't even try and tell me it doesn't.
36:13
It does. You are a liar.
36:17
But yeah, I think travel does seem to be something you do as
36:19
you get older in life. I think it does, but I think you
36:22
just have more time and quote UN quote more money I hope.
36:25
OK, that makes sense. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, you're right.
36:28
You're right, I guess. Yeah.
36:28
No, they say it out loud. You're right.
36:30
You have a lot more time you're trying to fill the gaps with.
36:33
Yeah. And you're right, you have a
36:34
little more money in your life. Hopefully.
36:35
Hopefully. Yeah.
36:36
So that makes. Sense I'd like to go back to
36:37
Italy. Yeah.
36:38
But this time I if I do go, I wanna learn some more Italian.
36:42
OK. And so that I could, I would
36:44
like to actually live in Tuscany for a while.
36:46
Forget about it. Forget about it.
36:49
It's all Italian Ciao. Spaghetti.
36:56
Yeah, so, so you said you like to learn a little more Italian.
36:58
I mean, did you learn some when you went to Italy?
37:01
We did learn some kind of the little bit of the lingo, how to
37:04
communicate and, you know, real quick.
37:06
Sure, things like that. Yeah.
37:07
Yeah. But that's all left.
37:09
So I took German in high school before I knew I was going to
37:11
Germany. So I was in year 3 of German
37:13
class when I went to Germany. So I had a.
37:15
Very good working knowledge. OK, good.
37:17
So you did know I did kind of what was going on.
37:19
But honestly, I'd really like to learn Spanish.
37:22
You would, I did Well, you could talk to half people in, but
37:24
that's. What I'm saying, I mean, I just
37:26
think the the way that our world is going now, I think that would
37:29
be the best language to learn to be able to communicate better
37:31
with people. It is the most widely spoken.
37:33
Language, yeah. Plus I feel awkward always
37:34
having in my in my ear, my headphones in and holding my
37:37
phone with people when I talk to them.
37:38
That's that's. It's a little intrusive.
37:41
Not a great way to start a conversation.
37:42
Speak. In this phone.
37:44
Oh, you're speaking Spanish? I'm Momento, here's my phone.
37:47
I took French class in high school.
37:49
Did you? Yeah.
37:50
And has that served you well in life?
37:51
I can count to 10 and I can tell you that this is la tabla.
37:57
French are into French cuisine is very popular, isn't?
38:01
It it is have. You ever taken a cooking class?
38:03
I haven't taken a cooking class. I'd love to take more cooking
38:05
classes, but my wonderful wife Amy did once give me a chocolate
38:12
making class. Was that a cooking class?
38:14
Okay, I guess, but you don't actually cook it, you melt it.
38:17
That's true. But yeah, it was for an
38:19
anniversary gift. And she called around and she
38:21
found a small chocolatier who was willing to show us and teach
38:27
us. Oh, cool.
38:28
It was called Chocolate Celeste in Minneapolis.
38:31
And we were able to go in on a Saturday, and she was there
38:34
making chocolates. And she talked us through the
38:36
whole process. We helped her make the
38:38
chocolates, how to dip them and how to, you know, put the little
38:41
decals on them and actually made chocolates for her shop.
38:44
Nice, that's very cool. It was very, very cool.
38:46
Yeah, I did cooking class once. It was fun.
38:48
I, we made some sort of like 3 course meal and it was really
38:51
good and it was exciting, but I don't know if I'd want to do it
38:54
on a regular basis. I mean it was fun, but it was, I
38:56
like it. Been there, done that.
38:59
One thing I did once that was really, really fun.
39:00
I did an art class once. You did.
39:02
With who? With you.
39:02
Oh yeah, I remember that. That was.
39:06
Fun. Was it fun it?
39:07
Was I had a great time. I know you were stressed the
39:08
entire time, but we had a great time.
39:10
Well, for. Quite a while I used to teach
39:12
the wine and paint classes, OK, and, and they're fun, you know,
39:16
I have a good time doing them, right.
39:18
It's a little bit of a stress, you know, because you got a lot
39:20
of people who have varying levels.
39:22
Yeah, and positivity is wins out every time.
39:25
Absolutely. And and they're relying on you.
39:27
So I I can see that's a little bit of right bit of stress,
39:29
yeah. How about would you ever buy a
39:31
convertible? Oh yeah.
39:34
What's the convertible you want? Well, I would, I would get I
39:36
would get. So growing up, I got even
39:38
growing up in my 20s, I had a Jeep Wrangler.
39:40
OK, I would love to get a Wrangler again.
39:42
OK, I think that would be a fun weekend vehicle on a nice summer
39:45
day. Just pop in the Jeep, but throw
39:47
the top off down or off or whatever you want to do.
39:49
Take the doors off and just hit. It that would be fun.
39:51
Yeah. Yeah.
39:52
Growing up I was one of the Corvette.
39:54
OK, but that's changed now in mine.
39:57
OK later. What do you want now?
39:58
Yours Mustang. OK, Mustang convert.
40:01
Why? Why the Mustang now?
40:03
It's a sexy. Muscle car it is.
40:05
It is. Come on.
40:07
It is really nice. Yeah.
40:08
Yeah, that's why, Yeah. Hey Rob, would you ever write a
40:11
book in your retirement? I'd have to read a book in order
40:15
to write a book, so oh. Come on, we know you've read at
40:17
least one. I just had a huge reader.
40:20
I mean yes, I I read all the Harry Potter books.
40:23
I did too. Yeah, those are fascinating.
40:25
I do like that sort of, yeah, entertainment.
40:27
But it took. Me forever, just because you
40:29
know, I think my problem is when I start to read, First off, my
40:31
eyes are not the best and I get tired.
40:35
Then take a nap. But then he can't.
40:37
Then I'm very methodical. I have to finish a chapter.
40:41
Oh, no, no, no. I'm one of those people I I
40:44
can't stop in the middle. I have to get to the end.
40:47
I'm reading a book right now that I read when I'm at the
40:49
cabin and I read one page and I get tired and I put my bookmark
40:52
in. I take a nap.
40:55
I do the same thing with TV. Drives my wife nuts 'cause we're
40:57
watching a show and it's like we got like, you know, half an
40:59
hour. We're both kind of tired.
41:00
Like we're ready to go to bed. Like you want to start something
41:01
else? I'm like, they're all our shows.
41:03
Like, no, they're our shows. She's like, you can watch half
41:06
of a show. I'm like, no, I can't.
41:07
You gotta watch the whole show. That's.
41:09
The whole show. Well, getting back to the book
41:11
writing, you know I am writing a cookbook right now.
41:13
Are I am? Oh.
41:14
That's exciting. What?
41:15
What are you? What are you cookbooking about?
41:17
So I was, I thought of this idea, my wife and I thought of
41:20
this idea about writing a a book of all of our favorite recipes
41:23
to give to our kids. Mm Hmm.
41:24
For like a holiday. Oh.
41:25
That's cool. Well, this book started years
41:28
ago and they've not received it yet.
41:29
I. Say I say you're not ruining any
41:31
surprises. Right now, no, no, they all know
41:32
about it. But yeah, it's still in progress
41:35
and so we are writing it and you have to make the recipes, take a
41:38
photograph and all that sort of thing, and it's pretty cool.
41:41
That's cool, but hopefully someday it'll get done.
41:43
Yeah, cool. So this November for
41:46
Thanksgiving, we're going to see my mom who lives in Arizona, and
41:48
we decided this trip that we're going to take a day and
41:52
overnight trip and go to the Grand Canyon.
41:54
Have you ever been to the Grand? Never been to the Grand Canyon?
41:56
You haven't. No.
41:57
And she lives so close to it. Like, why don't we do that?
41:59
So we're going to do that. Oh, it's amazing.
42:00
So. You've been there, I take it?
42:01
I. Have been there?
42:02
Have you ever wanted to extreme hike to the bottom of the Grand
42:06
Canyon? Extreme and extreme.
42:07
Everything at this point in my life, no.
42:11
So I looked into it and I really wanted to do it years ago, but
42:14
now my knee isn't the greatest anymore.
42:16
But I think I could train. OK.
42:17
But you hike down and it's about a four to six hour hike to get
42:22
down. OK.
42:23
And then, you know, given the daylight issues, you actually
42:26
stay overnight at a place called Phantom Ranch.
42:28
Would that be fun? And it's like dormitory style.
42:31
Yeah. And then you basically stay
42:33
there a night or two and you hike back out.
42:36
It takes about 6 to 10 hours to hike out.
42:37
There's the problem right there the the backup.
42:40
Come on, it's. Cool, I can hike down no
42:42
problem. It's the it's the hike.
42:43
Backup I I once even they took Google Maps and follow the trail
42:47
down just to look at it. It's pretty cool.
42:49
That's cool. That's pretty close to
42:50
Albuquerque, right? I well, I stayed away.
42:55
'Cause they they have hot air balloon festival there, I've
42:57
always kind of wanted to go. See.
42:58
Oh, I've always wanted to go to that.
42:59
I think it's in October, isn't it?
43:00
I'm not sure that'd be fun. Yeah, it would be fun.
43:02
Yeah, you've been on a hot. Air balloon, I've never been on
43:04
one really. I've been on there is a height
43:06
issue there is that. So, you know, you've, I don't
43:10
know if you've seen me in those situations, but I do kind of
43:14
Crouch down and yeah, like fetal position 'cause it's too scary.
43:18
Yeah, and hot air balloons are. It's definitely different.
43:20
I've done twice now and we actually back in the day had a
43:24
spring green balloon and they came to Oconia.
43:27
Really. Yeah, so they were out here and
43:29
we just found a farm and ask a hey, can we launch a balloon?
43:32
Sure, launch a balloon. Flew right over Waconia, flew
43:35
right over the lake, and then landed in a farm somewhere on
43:38
the other side of Hwy. 7. That's cool.
43:40
It was pretty cool, it was fun, but it's definitely a different
43:43
experience because it goes just however the wind goes.
43:45
So you you know the the. Rights you have to have somebody
43:48
driving. But like you pull the little
43:51
thing to do the fire and it's loud to get the heat.
43:54
Is it really? And then they just control the
43:56
heat, the up and down. And this, the wind just takes
43:58
you and it's, you're just hanging out there like you have
44:01
no control. You control the up and the down.
44:03
Wow, that's it. So you make it sound like I
44:06
really want to go on a balloon ride.
44:07
You. Don't want to go on a balloon
44:09
ride. OK, I thought it was all.
44:10
Good check that one off the list.
44:11
That was awesome. So would you ever again extreme
44:16
hike up a volcano? Climb up the volcano to see
44:20
lava. Is it active?
44:22
Well, you can't see lava if it's not active.
44:25
I don't think I'd hike up the active volcano to go see the
44:28
lava. No, I from a distance.
44:29
I think it'd be cool to see like I know there's an active one
44:31
right now in Hawaii. Yeah, I think that'd be fun to
44:33
kind of watch it, watch the lava just lava along.
44:35
But. Did you ever see that
44:36
documentary The Volcano I did not rescue from Wakari?
44:40
No. So true story.
44:42
Yeah, people were hiking out on this volcano and it's actual
44:47
tours go out there. Well, the it's in New Zealand, I
44:50
believe it erupts out. And seriously, the whole
44:55
documentary is about how to save these people.
44:58
And some were just burned alive. And so I'll never, I'll never
45:04
climb a volcano. Yeah.
45:05
So do you want to ask me again if I want to do that?
45:07
I'm still going to say no, no, I didn't sound like fun at all.
45:12
Doesn't sound like fun, right? So that's how you make a living
45:15
list. Yes, that's a great list.
45:17
Yes, there's a lot here that we can do to really make our middle
45:19
age more fun and exciting, don't you think?
45:21
If we accomplish only a few of these, our list is going to be
45:24
great. That's going to be a great life.
45:25
Absolutely it is. Yep.
45:27
In fact, we are living a pretty great life right now.
45:30
I would agree. But doing a few of these things
45:33
could make a pretty interesting book, don't you think?
45:35
Yep. For sure, for sure.
45:36
The book you're going to write. Yep.
45:37
The last thing we want to mention is that we and oh, and
45:41
One More thing show will be going on a short hiatus just for
45:44
a few weeks. What I know?
45:46
I'm not going to see you for a few weeks.
45:47
You will still see me. We have coffee together.
45:49
Oh God, don't scare me like. We'll be writing some new
45:52
content and taking some a much needed summer vacation, yes.
45:55
We will, so please skip listening to the previous shows.
45:58
Tell Your Friends and coming on on August 28th, we'll release
46:02
our 14th episode, the 1st 1 of Season 2.
46:05
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46:08
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46:11
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46:14
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46:17
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46:21
point to live life to the fullest, look for the fun in
46:23
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46:25
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46:28
We'll see you again in August. Bye.
46:30
Bye. Holding back tears.
46:32
I miss you already.