March 29, 2026

S3E1-"We'd Explain The Delay, But We Forgot Why" Blame Our Knees and Hips

S3E1-"We'd Explain The Delay, But We Forgot Why" Blame Our Knees and Hips
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Season 3
Season 3: "So… did we just take the longest podcast hiatus in history? No worries, we’re back—and better (and shinier) than ever!"🎙️✨

Guess what? We’re back after a three-month nap—longer than most Netflix binging sessions. Turns out, life threw a few tantrums, but we’re still here, shined up and caffeinated.

From surviving neighborhood vigil vibes to pondering if horses are smiling or plotting—our lives are as colorful as our podcast titles (which, by the way, are still a thing—thanks for asking). We’ve been gardening, baking (yes, Don finally nailed bagels without calling emergency services), and Gary's planning a Disneyland adventure that would make even kids jealous.

And let’s not forget those deep thoughts—retirement’s looming, juice cleanses are in, and apparently, Gary can read horses’ minds now (spoiler: Don can’t).
Moral of the story? Aging is an art, and we’re still mastering it—one laugh, one new hobby, one surprise at a time.

Maybe that’s the point. Worth thinking about

Watch the full conversation on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com@Pafifer-Pod

#Donandgarydoin60 #SeasonThreeVibes #LifeAfterBreaks #AgingLikeFineWine
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Two three, Season three? Is my microphone on? I sure hope.

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So let's hope Carries is on this year too, because

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it'd be nice to finally hear from him after two seasons,

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don't you think anyway? Welcome to season three? What was that?

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I'm just getting ready? Baby?

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How does it feel? Is it weird?

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I don't know. I feel a little nervous.

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I do too. I was nervous too. It wasn't that funny.

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So I was checking. I don't I couldn't find the

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last date that we actually recorded in December. That last

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episode was released January eighteenth, Okay, but I couldn't find

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on my calendar what day you and I actually the recording.

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It was obviously before Christmas? Yeah, and here we are.

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It is today's March fifteenth, so three months. By the way,

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he's he's done.

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And you're Gary right right, yeah, as Miranda Priestley said,

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and the Devil War's product too, it took you long enough.

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I got I lost. I got lost in.

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My ways right right? Well? I mean, do we want

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to just jump in or do you want to just

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stop and start again? What do you think a little rusty?

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Aren't we all? Please?

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My bucket's a little you know, full of kelp.

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And talk about your bucket, because then we'll have to

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talk about mine, and wants to talk about see you.

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I'm excited about season three. Why don't we take a break.

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We'll put on our new graphics and right back and

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then we'll let yes, yes, hopefully hopefully. Anyway, we'll be

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right back. Okay, don't go away.

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Took you long enough to get to here, freeze freezing.

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Hi, Hey, welcome back to season three three.

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Can you believe it?

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I can't believe it. I really can't believe it. It's amazing.

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We both look amazing. I barely recognize you. I'm a

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little nervous from coming back. I'm not sure if you are.

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What showered and that helped calm me down?

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Okay, good, well, I'll try showering after I talk about

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my projects. Anyway. This is the Don and Gary podcast,

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proving life doesn't end at sixty. It just needs better

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life and more caffeine exactly. You can find us on

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all the platforms. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer.

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You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. We're also

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on YouTube at the five for pods so please join

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us there, and let's not forget our amazing website sponsored

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by pod Page. We got new graphics and new things exactly.

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So Gary, what are we talking about this week?

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Well, it's our first episode back, so we're kind of

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just gonna start off nice and easy and just a

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little recap, maybe give hints about some upcoming episodes, because

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of course we have more guests lined up.

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We'll be recording soon.

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But the last episode we release was in January, but

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we recorded that in December, so we're talking like a

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three month sabbatical.

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This is the longest sabbatical we've taken between podcasts. Even

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with three p's, we didn't take this long break. Well,

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we are older, so well speak for yourself. I am older,

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you know, well I guess i'm older too. We'll talk

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about that this season too, I guess, because that's definitely

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a factor in our lives right now. But yeah, this

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is the longest break we've ever taken from coming back.

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So from your.

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Perspective, why did it take three months?

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You know, it's funny to ask that because I wanted

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to make sure and I'll just I'll backtrack this week. Actually,

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Anthony's back in Boston and visiting his family. So I

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kind of needed a true reset. And what I mean

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by that is things have been plugging along since December

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and the holidays. We went into the January and then

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I just kind of just started training through work and

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life and everything going chug a chug chug. It's actually

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given me the chance to be find some down quiet

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time and relax and truly get back into being creative

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because I truly think that what we do is an

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art form. But it yeah, because we were so amazing,

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but also because it takes a little bit more energy

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to get back into the drill of it and get

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back into the graphics and editing and doing all this podcasting.

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I love it, but it did take me a little

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while to reset. But I've been doing a lot of things. Yeah,

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how about you? How about you?

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For me, well, you mentioned to you think life and work,

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I mean they just, you know, they keep going on.

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So for me from a work perspective, it was a

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little stressful for several weeks because there was some personnel

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changes and things that came up, so a lot got

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dumped on my lap. Who've since brought on someone new,

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because there were nights where I was just was not sleeping.

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through everything and what I have to do the next day,

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and I'm like, you need to like set that aside,

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get some sleep, get some downtime.

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So that was challenging for me.

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And the usual just not that there was a lot

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of events, but I do a lot of volunteer work,

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so there's always meetings and things that I've got on

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my calender. And then a couple of friends have gone

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through some health challenges, so that kind of adds to

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your stress and your.

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You know, concern and and all that.

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There was one week, just about two weeks ago where

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it was like one thing after another. So Monday, I

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went to a vigil of that week because there was

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in the neighborhood there was a pedestrian, a mom and

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her two year old who were crossing the street and

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the mom was injured and.

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The two year old was killed.

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Oh my god.

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Right, So I mean that's just the whole neighborhood just

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you know, reacted to that. So we I didn't know what.

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I didn't know them, but I just you just want

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to do something, So we went. I went with some

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other neighbors and went to the vigil. So it was Monday.

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Tuesday was when I found.

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Out about one of my friends having a health situation.

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So the next several days was visiting in the hospital,

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you know, and checking on them, and and then by

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filling in some friends on what had happened to this person.

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Another friend said, oh, by the way, I haven't shared

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with you, and this person is also going through some

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health challenges.

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Wow. Okay.

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So then Saturday, I'm visiting my mom and ran into

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a neighbor of hers, and that neighbor their relationship of

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twenty plus years ended abruptly.

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So it's just like what after.

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The only bright light out of that week was a

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friend did say that he and his wife are expecting

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their second baby.

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So it's like, okay, finely, And.

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You're your family's growing quite large too. I mean, you've

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got a lot of nieces, now, don't you.

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So yeah, So of my adult nieces and nephews, some

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of them married, and so of them, three of them

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have children. So the oldest is two and a half,

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the youngest is ten months. So yeah, there's My mom

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has three great grandchildren, wow, two of which one lives

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southern California, one lives out of state. So that's the

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challenge is that, you know, we don't get to see

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them very often.

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But and what the relationship from great grandchildren to you.

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Are you a great uncle?

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I guess I would be a great uncle.

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Yes? Are you a great uncle?

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I'm a great everything.

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Yes you are? For season three, you are.

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Yes.

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So that's kind of the things that just kind of

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been popping up. And then so you know, work a

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settle down. Today's a busy day because it's Oscar Day.

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That's right. That's right.

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So I'll be heading down to the South Bay to

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hang out with the friend of washing the oscars. That's

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our yearly tradition, which would be fun, and we'll we'll

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talk about oscars at another and another episode Hollywood of

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it All.

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Let me ask you about a quick question. Have you

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seen any of the movies that are nominated?

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I have not. I have my back, you know, because

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we fill out a ballot as part of the fun.

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And I'm looking at it and I might recognize in

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terms of the actors, I'll recognize some of the names,

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but I've not seen a single one of those movies

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that are nominated.

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Is that a first for you?

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Yeah, I mean I don't usually see all of them,

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but I try and see a couple of them. But

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I don't go to the movies. I love movies, but

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I just the last thing I saw in the theater

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I think was the second installment of Wicked.

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Okay, but I just don't go to the movies very often.

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I don't know either. I don't either. The only time

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we truly go is when we're in Palm Springs is

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it's one hundred and twenty degrees outside and we go

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to the senior special over at the at the Mary Pickford.

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It's like three dollars reclining seats, a diet coke, and

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a bar and a bucket full of popcorn, and you've

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taken ane. Well.

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I will say that while I did want to see

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Wicked the movie, I went to this theater in the

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Mission District, which back in the old days it was

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a movie theater shut down, then they reopened it, one

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of those fancy ones where they serve food, and it's

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so that I never I'd not been to that theater

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so I went. But because I saw on their website

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the food and stuff that they offer, and one of

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them was a boozy milkshake, I'm like, I'm all for that.

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So that was kind the main reason why I want.

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Do you even remember the movie?

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Well, no, I do remember the movie. But the problem was,

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and I said, you know the waiter k because they

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come to your seats. You have like push a button

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and they come to your seat, like, yeah, I want

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to get the boozy motion.

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Oh yes, I We're not serving them today like son

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of them, I'll have a diet coke.

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With malice. Man.

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That just pissed me off, So I was I left

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a little bitter.

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But uh, but no, to your point, so I've not

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seen any of the movies, so I just well, here's

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what my tradition every year is that I keep track

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of the winners of the various award shows leading up

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to it, the Golden Globes and the sag Awards and

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the BAFTAs and all the and my little spreadsheet has

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a column and I and I check so see if

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there's a trend like, oh, this guy has won three

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out of the five, so I'm gonna pick him. That's

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that's my logic, okay, and this the year is I'd

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have been all over the place, so there hasn't been

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like one clear cut winner in any category, well in

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the major categories. So I go in blindly and you know,

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whatever it is, what it is, Okay, But oh yes,

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I'm doing that tonight.

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And then I don't know if I'm no.

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I didn't mention before, but the only thing I'm looking

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forward to next month I'm going to Disneyland.

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I'm very excited about that.

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Okay. Why why is it such a thing for you?

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Why is it such a drum well?

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I mean, come on, what adult doesn't want to feel

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the kid in them again?

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And go back to Disneyland? I mean I've gone, have

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you been?

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Yes, I've been way back in the day, back in

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the nineties, I think with a boss of mine that

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really loved Disney and went to it. But I haven't

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been back since. That's gotta be what thirty years I went.

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So my you know, my parents took us the four boys,

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and you know, when we were kids, so there's like,

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what's a black and white photo, that's all I'm a

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cut was for the first time, so I was probably

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you know, six or seven, okay, well, and then as

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an adult, I've gone several times, but it's probably been.

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Eight years is that I've gone.

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I think I had mentioned on an episode that in

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Instagram there was something that came up about Disneyland about

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like a free tickets or diskoind of tickets, and like

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a fool, I signed up for it end uping some

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kind of scam. And so one of our guests, Christine said, Gary,

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you know who I work for.

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I can get you discounts.

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Or or day passes. So two years ago she sent

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me two one day passes. Wow, and they're good for

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two years. So I have to use it by June

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of this year. So the rest of twenty four I

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went by, twenty five went by, and I'm like, you're

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gonna need to use them. So I reached out to

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John and I'm going to fly down San Diego and

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he and I are going to drive up to Anaheim.

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We're going to use the one day pass on Sunday

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of last Sunday of April. And then I bought a

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second ticket because I want to go a second day

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because it's a lot to see it try and cram

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everything in one day. And even the Monday ticket was

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cheaper than buying on the weekend, and that I want

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to say, it was one hundred and forty dollars.

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How do they afford to do this? I mean, I

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know some families that go every year, and some people

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I know go a couple for like a couple of

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weeks or something.

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It's like, well, you know, they offer like you know,

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year year passes, which I assume will offer you considerable discusts.

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But to your point, when you have a family, parents

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and one or two kids, that's just the entrance.

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Then you've got food, right and.

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Then oh you don't want to wait in the long line,

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Well if you buy this fast pass, this will get

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you to the you know. So there's so many tricks

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and shorty, it's at all all cost money at airfare

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and hotel and so.

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Right, So what's the thing about it that you like? Though?

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I mean, is do you like the magic of it all?

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The rides of it all?

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I mean what I do like rides like the roller coaster,

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you know, and it's a small world and all those

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you know, they're they're kitschy things there. But I think

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she's the kid in you remember when you were a

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kid and you see them. And I was never like

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a big Disney Fanly, I didn't see a lot of

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the Disney movies. I didn't grow up with that. But

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I think it's just again, just for for the kid

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in you. It just yeah, it's like a safe place, right,

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a happy place, right, so right freaking amazing, right, I

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mean because I got Airfair, I got hotel meals.

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And then yeah, no, I get it, I got it.

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Yeah, So it's just for the pure fun of it,

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just to relive my youth.

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I guess who knows, Hey, why not do it while

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we can exactly? We forget about our youth.

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And also my brother and I are talking about doing

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a small family trip to Mexico and take my mom

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home because she'sn't back. And while I've not been back

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and visited relatives in Mexico in twelve years.

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Didn't you your mom on a plane one time and

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send her back to Mexico.

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I've never thrown my mother anywhere anywhere?

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How dare you that woman?

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There were times where like I would fly down to

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La with her because there's no direct flights to Maslan

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which is where normally she'd fly, so I would I

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a couple of times, I flew down to LA with her,

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put her, put.

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Her on a plane.

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They had just throw her on a plane, put her

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on a plane, and then I would fly back and

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then when and then on the return trip, i'd fly

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back down to LA meet her and then.

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Fly home with her.

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But she's gone, but it's still been a while for

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her too, And I got a lot of peasants that

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live there and they would love to see her, and

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I've love to see them because I've not been in year.

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So just time off, you deserve it.

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But it's also the timing of it, because if you

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wait too long, it's too god damn hot down there. True,

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their summers are brutal, so it has to be like

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in the spring before the heat starts, or wait till

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the fall. And I think my brother's looking into it now,

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so I think we're going to go sometime.

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Nice before May. It can be coming up soon and

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I'll see you.

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Depending on how long the ago I'm we can only

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go for a long weekend or some people figure it out. Gods,

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I can't take that that much time off from work,

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especially as you land.

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Well, hey, speaking back to three Piece, I wanted to

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mention this. We talked about it briefly. I did not

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realize and I think I shared this with you. But

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can you believe that we are still getting so much

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traction out of that podcast right now? I think I

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shared it. Yeah, I mentioned it, and I just put

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it down again. The we've actually downloaded over close to

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three thousand episodes from that three was it for four seasons?

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I forget how many we did three or four seasons,

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but we downloaded that about that many, and just the

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other day we had about thirty three. I know it

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doesn't sound like a lot to the millions that we

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downloaded this podcast, right, I know the fact that this

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episode these this podcast was actually about three years old now,

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and it was from a few years back. It's the

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fact that it still gets downloads. It's like, thank you audience, right,

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it's amazing.

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Now we don't have to go in detail now, But

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does it bring down like which episodes got downloaded the most?

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It does, and I don't have that with me, but

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more the more recent ones are the ones they get.

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But I gotta tell you, we crack ourselves up. I

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think pretty funny. We were pretty funny. All three of

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us were really funny on that podcast.

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For those who may not know, Don and I and

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another friend John started a podcast back in twenty I

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want to say May of twenty twenty one. We started

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talking about in September of twenty during the pandemic, the

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three of Us conversion of Santa Barbara, and out of

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that visit grew the idea for a podcast, and in

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May of twenty twenty one we started. And it's called

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Three Peas in a podcast, and I think, and then

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the sub title is after that is is it gay

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in here?

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Or is it just me? The long ass title?

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We were funny And the reason why the three piece

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is because all of our last names started with starts

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with a P.

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And who came up with that brilliant title?

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I think you did? You come?

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Yeah?

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I here you are. You are the vision genius. You

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are the vision monster for all things because you are

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the one that comes up with half of our episode titles.

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You came up with that title for our episode or

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our podcast before. You're a genius and you're very smart

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about those kinds of things. They make a lot of sense.

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And the premise of that was the three of us,

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just because we've known each other for so long, share

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a lot of stories, some serious, some funny. We had

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guests on as well, but it was it just it

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was a lot of fun doing it, so that we

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did that for about three years.

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I think a moost four maybe four, but befween and

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a half, I don't know, right, Yeah, but yeah, if

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you if anybody wants to listen to them, they're still

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available on Apple podcast on Spotify. It was before we

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got the technology under our belts and our wigs to

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be able to do video, so there's no YouTube channel

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on it, but you can actually listen to any of

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them and there. We actually still have an Instagram page.

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There's a lot of video on there too, so it's

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actually quite fun.

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It's like sixty something episodes we did, I.

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Think, yes, I guess, I mean, which is a lot

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considering most of the podcasts that I hear about don't

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make it past three or four episodes out in the world.

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Wow.

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Really, Yeah, surprised, I'm all sting out there. Well, there's

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there's us and then there's everyone else, right.

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So you can hear the younger versions of us before

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we turn sixty Yeah, we were funny then and we're

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funny now. So this season, Yeah, we've got more guests

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coming up. We already have two lined up for sure.

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We're working on a there's a third one who just said, yes,

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we just have to pick a date. And I'm working

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on a couple others. And I think you're working a

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couple others.

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So and we still have to let Marty out of

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the can.

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Yes, poor Marty, Marty, we love you and we didn't

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forget about you. We recorded your episode several months ago,

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but you are the next one that gets released after

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this one.

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This is our intro.

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And even though you're number two, Marty, you're number one.

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You're always number one in our hearts. Marty, and we'll

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let you out of the canon. Think how we stuck

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holes in the can so you can actually.

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Breathe through it exactly. Just we need to let him

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know so he.

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Knows that we didn't forget about it. Yeah. Yeah, so

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more fun, more frivolity, more guests. I just saw an.

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Article on Instagram that I'm going to do, you know,

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extract information from there. But the question that came up

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was about retirement, and like, let me see if I

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can the title is what's the biggest thing? Well, I

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should probably read the whole title, what's the biggest thing?

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What's the biggest thing? You're still trying to figure out

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about retirement?

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Oh so that kind.

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Of intrigued me, and there's a bunch of responses. So

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I'm going to go extract the responses from that and

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then we'll talk about that in another episode, because that's

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one of the things we talk about as being that

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we are doing sixty is if you haven't already had

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that conversation about retirement, when.

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What does it look like? Am I looking forward to it?

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Am I dreading it? What age?

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I mean?

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I don't know if I've asked you, have you figured

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out at what age you want to retire?

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Yes? And actually, as part of I still have to

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tell you all the things I've been up to this

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last few months. But my husband actually recently retired literally

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about a week ago. Yes, yes, so it was quite

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a momentous change. It took a lot of preparation, a

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lot of mental preparation, not for me, but for them

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to actually get to the point where you know, basically

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it started with a very serious conversation with our financial

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planner to see what that truly meant. Sure, and then

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it took a little bit more because you know, again,

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one of these things we all factor into retirement is

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how long do I want to work? How long do

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I need to work? And when I if I don't work?

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What is that? Like you said, what does that even

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look like? And it's a much bigger question than anyone realizes,

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I think, I think. So, yeah, Now, the thing is

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you have six I've seen a bunch of Ted talks

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on this too, and basically the first six months is

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the honeymoon period and then on day one after six months,

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it's like now what now? What? Yeah, So you got

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to have a plan. It's not just retirement nothing. It's

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retirement and plan for your retirement.

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And pre planning, especially when it comes to medicare oh yes, right,

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because they say you have to sign up like at

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least six months before correct to kind of lay the groundwork.

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Yep. And if you're transitioning like I'm planning on transitioning

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to that a few months prior to my Becuse, who

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knew I'd be the older one and still working. That's

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the one that that was not in the script. I

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did not.

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Plan for that did that piss you off?

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It kind of did, but that wasn't the plan. But

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the thing is transitioning now because you know, we'll take

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on my medical coverage while I still work, but then

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there's maybe a time when I don't want to, so

479
00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:15.640
we have to figure out like the jump from having

480
00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:19.799
metal coverage to medicare right, So there's a it depends

481
00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:21.519
on whether I walk work it all the way to

482
00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:24.920
sixty five, which is years and years and years from now,

483
00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.680
who knows when. So yeah, I mean so there's lots

484
00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:29.400
of things to think about, patpoint. I think that's a

485
00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:30.480
whole episode for us.

486
00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:35.519
Actually, will weave that into that? Yeah, So so you

487
00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:37.799
mentioned things you've been up to, so tell tell me.

488
00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:39.839
Yeah, so a few months I wrote them down. So,

489
00:23:39.880 --> 00:23:43.640
first of all, I've been juicing. Do you know what

490
00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:47.160
that is? Not? Not? Not testosterone?

491
00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:49.319
Do you remember it's a family show.

492
00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:53.480
So I've found and I know this sounds silly, but

493
00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:56.480
I found the benefits of you know, I don't.

494
00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:57.799
Do You don't drink a lot of coffee, do you.

495
00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:59.359
I don't drink a lot of coffee.

496
00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:02.119
Okay, good for you. Because I usually had a whole

497
00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:04.880
routine and we talked about how much this money costs

498
00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.079
to do a Starbucks thing? Because if every day your routine,

499
00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:10.440
like myself and many many other people up to a

500
00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:14.359
certain point, was go to Starbucks, get a cup of coffee,

501
00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:17.279
get a Danish or a sandwich or something, and go

502
00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:18.839
on to work, and then in the middle of the

503
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:20.599
day you probably get another cup of coffee, and if

504
00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:22.759
you're really into it, the second half of your day,

505
00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:25.160
you probably need a third cup of coffee. So I

506
00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:26.559
looked into that for a while and I saw how

507
00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:28.279
much that was costing us. So if you think about

508
00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:31.279
a basic Americano that I get with an adshot is

509
00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:34.519
about five bucks. So let's say you have fifteen bucks

510
00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.759
just in that the food's another five bucks. That's twenty dollars.

511
00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:40.720
So you could literally spend any from twenty to thirty

512
00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:44.759
dollars a day just on Starbucks. And what does it

513
00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:47.200
really get you? So what I tried this experiment. There's

514
00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:50.359
a place called Press Juicery. Let me say that again.

515
00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:54.319
There's a place called Press Juicery. Maybe they should be

516
00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:58.200
our sponsor, because what I found was the amazing thing

517
00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:00.640
is like, if you're doing like I, let go of

518
00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.319
coffee in the morning and instead I get a couple

519
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.440
of juices. They're not inexpensive, but they're actually spread out

520
00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:09.799
over the week they're okay. So basically what I found

521
00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:13.759
was letting going coffee and doing either green tea or

522
00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.000
water with lemon or something plus this juice. I had

523
00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:20.720
so much more energy throughout the day than having some

524
00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:22.559
carbs in the morning with a bunch of caffeine that

525
00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:24.480
only gives you a spike and then you come down.

526
00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:27.559
So that's the big thing. I'm totally into the juicing

527
00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:29.200
right now. I just find that I have much more

528
00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:31.400
energy throughout the day and towards the end of the day.

529
00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.960
So that's something I've been really into. I loved it.

530
00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:39.000
We did have the soft opening of Cafe Carnegie. I

531
00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:41.240
don't know if I told you about that. Now we

532
00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:43.799
live on Carnegie Lane and we actually spend a lot

533
00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:47.839
of time on the terras upstairs and the hub. Since

534
00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:50.200
he's near the retirement stage, decided to set up a

535
00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:53.160
whole bar table on the side of the house which

536
00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.559
is our terrace wraps around the house, and you built

537
00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:59.000
this whole thing which has a divider on it, there's

538
00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:01.359
lights over it. You had there's a table on a

539
00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:05.400
couple of chairs like a bistro. It's really amazing fancy. Yeah,

540
00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:07.839
it's very fancy and very exclusive. You can't get in,

541
00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:10.559
so you have to set a reservation for months in advance.

542
00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:11.839
You need a key or a number.

543
00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:14.920
You well, you a secret handshake ooh a wah, a

544
00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.519
wah a wah. And then you from the Flintstones. Oh,

545
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.319
never mind. Anyway, you need a secret handshake to get in.

546
00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:25.759
So that was something that we spent a lot of

547
00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:29.920
time on. That was fun. Let's see baking. I finally

548
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.480
embraced baking again because for the longest time I was

549
00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.400
discouraged because none of my bagels were coming out right.

550
00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:40.400
My pizza dough was flat and my Danish was dead.

551
00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:43.599
So I got, who hasn't loved your bagels?

552
00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:47.519
Well, I did a bagel palooza a while ago, and

553
00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:49.559
the neighbors were very pleased because I used my neighbors

554
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:51.960
as a test or the lab rats. Yeah, they don't

555
00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.440
keel over after I passed out some bagels. Imagine this.

556
00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:56.680
I actually follow the recipe to the letter now because

557
00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:59.480
baking is so precise. Oh you have to yes, well, yeah,

558
00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:01.240
I didn't know that till I didn't know that, so

559
00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:04.319
I've embraced that. So we've had a couple of baga paloozas,

560
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.519
and I'm really embracing the baking because I'm taking my

561
00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:10.839
time and I'm also using that I forget. There's I'll

562
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:12.640
look it up there and I'll put it on here somewhere.

563
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:17.200
But there's a technique for having all of your items

564
00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:20.960
prepared in small bowls before you put them into your recipe.

565
00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.200
There's actually a name for it. I'll put it above

566
00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:25.759
here somewhere. So I really embrace that. So I'm really

567
00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:31.039
enjoying that. Let's see, oh, the Pfi fur planting palooza

568
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:35.319
has taken place. I have found that I am totally

569
00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:39.519
enamored with gardening gooing things, So I mean, I really

570
00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:41.559
enjoy We don't have a lot of places to garden

571
00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:43.119
in this house, but we're so close to the beach

572
00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:44.720
that you have to find out the new weather patterns

573
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:47.400
that happened. It's pretty hot during the summer. Yeah. This

574
00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.279
all started with our lovely, wonderful friend Nancy, who went

575
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:53.519
with me to pick out a lemon tree that we

576
00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:56.960
ended up naming Lizzo, so Liza the lemon tree. We

577
00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:01.240
then got another lime tree that we named Lenny. So

578
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:04.200
then we also in honor of Nancy who passed away

579
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:06.839
a couple of years ago, we got a nectarine that

580
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:11.119
we called Nancy the Nectarine. Then we got Prunilla, the

581
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:13.720
passion fruit rest in priests. Prunilla. She didn't make it,

582
00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:15.640
so we had we had to take her out. And

583
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.160
now we have Precious the per Simon. So we've got

584
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:21.759
all these trees we've been planting and nurturing and it's

585
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:24.519
actually been really fun because you're actually we get a

586
00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:28.880
huge harvest of lemons, we got a good harvest of limes. Actually,

587
00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:34.000
Anthony planted carrots last summer from seeds, and so we're

588
00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:36.319
really getting into the gardening thing, which I mean all

589
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.240
in your front, you know, the big plant you've been

590
00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:41.640
here right planting bed on the left side of the

591
00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:46.079
yard in the front, and then containers upstairs. And we've

592
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:48.000
got new pots in the front of the house too,

593
00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:50.920
So it's like it's so much fun. We're actually I

594
00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:54.119
finding I find it very therapeutic actually to go out

595
00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:56.000
there in the morning and weed stuff and just do

596
00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:57.200
you ever do you ever like doing that?

597
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:00.119
No?

598
00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:01.799
Next time.

599
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.519
I buy my parrots at the store like everybody else.

600
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:14.000
And my last thing and this is telling you I

601
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.319
have too much time on my hands, and I had

602
00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:17.599
to get back to the podcast. Was my latest planting

603
00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:21.960
Palooza experiment was we have planter boxes above us on

604
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:25.880
the terrace or the terrace, and we planted different things

605
00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:28.359
we want to divine over because you can see over

606
00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:31.359
one divine over and I've experimented with different types of things.

607
00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:36.000
So now we basically fried two batches of vines. So

608
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.799
now I'm doing an experiment where I'm doing a succulent.

609
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:41.519
We've got like maybe let's say eight boxes that hang

610
00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.119
over the front of the house. So now and you're

611
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:46.200
gonna think this is so stupid. I know Anthony's gonna

612
00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:49.079
hate it when he comes back. But basically, I've taken

613
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:51.920
out four of the boxes. I'm gonna plant a succulent

614
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:54.319
that I know will grow well in the really warm sun.

615
00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:58.119
And then I'm making a little tent to go over

616
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:02.799
the existing viney so they don't get sunburned. Okay, to

617
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.240
see if they make what if it just rub a

618
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:08.759
little lotion on their leaves, Well that'd be on every

619
00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:12.440
single leave every Well, you've got time, Well, no yes,

620
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:14.279
I do, but I thought, you know, this is such

621
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:17.599
sounds like when I talk about it sounds as stupid

622
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:20.599
keeps me off the street, off the pipe, and off

623
00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.440
the pole. So I'm good about that off the pole.

624
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:28.319
So yeah, I mean it's been it's been a lot

625
00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:32.319
of fun things. I mean it's and what's scary, Gary,

626
00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:35.680
It goes by so fast time. I feel like you

627
00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:40.839
know that last episode we we recorded back in December. Yeah,

628
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.240
it got released in and now what it's mid March?

629
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:49.160
So wow, wow, time does go by five fast as

630
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:51.039
you're getting older, doesn't it doesn't?

631
00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:51.799
You tell me?

632
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:52.279
I don't know.

633
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:56.720
Oh no it does, it does, believe me, Yes, since

634
00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:57.880
you're sharing all your fun things.

635
00:30:57.920 --> 00:30:58.920
I just have fun yesterday.

636
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:02.160
I never do because I live in San Francisco and

637
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:04.559
you don't think of horses being in San Francisco.

638
00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.359
Did they have but mounted police anymore?

639
00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:11.599
I don't think so. If they did, it was very

640
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:13.480
rare and it's usually in Golden Gate Park.

641
00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:16.240
But yeah, but I don't. I haven't heard of them

642
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:18.759
in a while. But I was with a friend, you'll say.

643
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.200
We went up on a on a day trip, Jannapa,

644
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.039
and I know that she has horses, but I thought

645
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:28.480
they were down in half Moon Bay, which is down

646
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:32.640
the peninsula, down the coast, And I told her recently, Sad,

647
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:34.240
I'd love to meet up with you one day when

648
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:35.960
you go see your horses, because it's like, how often

649
00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:36.160
am I?

650
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:38.799
How often do I see horses? I'm a city boy.

651
00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:43.759
That turns out they are on a horse ranch just

652
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:48.440
borderline San Francisco, in Daily City, off of John Daily Boulevard.

653
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:50.039
Yeah, I didn't even know there.

654
00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:52.839
So if you take John Daily Boulevard up to skyline

655
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:54.160
and make a right, it's right there.

656
00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:54.960
It's on the coast.

657
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:58.480
So you drive up park and there's this you know,

658
00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.319
there's some corrals, there's a big barn, and if you

659
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:03.799
walk through the barn, not far after that is the

660
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:05.839
edge of the cliff and there's the Pacific Ocean.

661
00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:07.200
Wow.

662
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:09.720
And she keeps her two horses there.

663
00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:12.519
So after we did, he it is and it's a

664
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:14.880
beautiful day. I got there around four o'clock and it

665
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:17.880
was gorgeous. And you know, you think normally is gonna

666
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:19.039
be overcast and windy.

667
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:20.440
No, none of that is beautiful.

668
00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:23.200
So after we did our day trip, we came back.

669
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:25.039
She said, well, I'm gonna head to see the horses,

670
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:27.720
so dropped her off. She changed, I went home, I

671
00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.119
changed and met up down there.

672
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:36.960
Wow, met Charismatic and lady and Lady friend.

673
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:39.680
Lady friend.

674
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:43.440
Lady Friend is a female, and Charismatic is a male. Really,

675
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:49.000
Charismatic is twenty four years old. Wow, and Lady Friend

676
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:50.519
is twenty three years old.

677
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:51.039
Huh.

678
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:53.960
Yeah. So she goes and visits them, you know.

679
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.920
So they keep them there and she has people that

680
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.359
like trainers and people that care for them during the week,

681
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.240
but she goes down like three times to ride them

682
00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:01.839
and groom them.

683
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:03.960
So I was helping grooming her horses yesterday.

684
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:07.519
So question because for me they've always been horses. Have

685
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.440
They've been a little intimidating to me because they're such large,

686
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:11.559
beautiful animals, but.

687
00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:13.279
Right so large? They are large?

688
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:16.559
Yes, and then I never know. I can't read them,

689
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:18.720
you know, I can't tell like a dog you can

690
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:21.160
read pretty easily, or a cat the cat hates you,

691
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:22.960
who loves you, or the dog is waggon's tail or

692
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:26.200
licking your hand or whatever, but the horse is difficult

693
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:27.440
to read. Well.

694
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.279
She's been around horses since she was a young girl,

695
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:35.119
because she went to like a summer camp in Wyoming,

696
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.640
she said, when she was fourteen and then she just

697
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:38.200
fell in love.

698
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:40.480
So she's been connected horses all this time.

699
00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:46.400
So while we're grooming them, we're grooming the female first

700
00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:49.039
and then the male do something. She's like, hey, babe,

701
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:52.200
like what they do? Well, see how her the ears

702
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.319
did this and did that. So she could read the

703
00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.519
signs and nose. You know, if one of them is

704
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.039
acting up, they don't have to like freak out. They

705
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.920
do something with the you know, could be their breathing,

706
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:06.000
could be how they move their ears.

707
00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:09.079
Something like that. So she knows.

708
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:11.239
So everyone a while she'd comp it on something and

709
00:34:11.239 --> 00:34:14.199
then she'd explain, See she's doing this because of that.

710
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.960
Really, and I know, you know, I mean I've always

711
00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:21.960
heard you never walked behind them? Right? Or is that something?

712
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:22.159
Is that?

713
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:24.880
Is that a cow? I don't know.

714
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:26.960
I mean I did because we did take Charismatic for

715
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:28.920
a walk a stroll around that there's.

716
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:30.639
A big field next to the bar.

717
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:33.559
And so we took him for a walk and you know,

718
00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.679
it's kind of a narrow path. So she was leading

719
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:37.880
him and then I was behind them. But no, I

720
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:39.280
don't know about that.

721
00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:40.920
No, I just I just thought it might be some

722
00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:44.159
I was told sometimes horses kick, so oh they might.

723
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:48.119
They're older, I mean, I asked her what is their lifespan?

724
00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:51.400
I mean, and she's that they lived here like thirty

725
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.000
to thirty five years old. Wow, that's so, she said,

726
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:56.519
right now charismatic, who's twenty four, that would be equivalent

727
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:57.920
to like a seventy five year old man.

728
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:01.920
Okay, right, so there or but yeah, well.

729
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:06.880
That sounds fun. So you weren't intimidated at all by

730
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:07.840
the size.

731
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.159
Of what they No, I mean, you're still I mean,

732
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:12.440
because I'm not used to being around them. I mean

733
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:13.840
I was on a horse when I was like ten

734
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:18.960
years old one time, right in Mexico, but around here,

735
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:20.519
just that's not something to come across.

736
00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:24.159
So yeah, so walking up to them, but they're just

737
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:25.559
both very docile and.

738
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.760
And you know, especially when when she gave me a

739
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:31.960
cookie to put in my hand and you lay your

740
00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:34.159
hand flat, you know, then they come and eat it.

741
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.039
And like, so I made friends right away because well,

742
00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:41.079
who doesn't want a cookie from Gary?

743
00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:43.800
Is that a euphemism for something? It's his family show.

744
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:47.639
So so that was my Saturday afternoon.

745
00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:48.320
Nice.

746
00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:49.719
Yeah, so it was fun.

747
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:49.960
It was.

748
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:50.719
It was really fun.

749
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:53.159
So I don't know when else see horses again, but

750
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:55.320
she says, you're welcome to, you know, meet me some time.

751
00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:57.199
It was like less than thirty minutes I was.

752
00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:59.719
There, and you had mentioned previous that you went to

753
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.320
see I think you mentioned this that you had gone

754
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.679
to see a show a string quartet or something playing

755
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.639
in a church. For with contemporary music.

756
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:15.400
Yeah, there is a series of musicians or a series

757
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.159
of concerts that are done by musicians, usually violinists or

758
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:20.039
string instruments.

759
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:23.000
And this last.

760
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:25.320
One I did was they'll they'll pick an artist to

761
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:28.480
salute and then they'll do highlights of their music.

762
00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:31.199
So this one was the music of Adele Nice.

763
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:33.679
So normally it could be in a big church and

764
00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:36.599
they'll do all the faux candles, like thousands of them

765
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:39.519
all around, and then the seats are just kind of intermix,

766
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:41.639
so you're just sitting amongst all these candles, and then

767
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:44.639
the stage is in front of you. Where I was

768
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:49.119
at wasn't a church, but it was like an art gallery. Nice,

769
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.000
very rust a lot of exposed brick and pipes whatever,

770
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.239
but it's all you know, it's all dark except for

771
00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:55.880
the candles. So it's all dressed up and it was

772
00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:59.880
really nice and they did a beautiful job featuring Adele,

773
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:03.360
and so I have that on my list. So if

774
00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:05.840
there's another artist coming up, you know, I'll go see that.

775
00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:07.960
But this is the second what I've been to nice.

776
00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:10.639
I wanted. I've seen it do happening down here in

777
00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:15.079
the South Bay. Yeah, like in Hermosa or Manhattan Beach.

778
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:17.559
So yeah, they do them all over and it's just

779
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:19.440
you know, fun, you know, classy.

780
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:23.800
Yeah, event you've used it a little classy exactly, y'all

781
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:27.400
could well anyway, So do you think we covered what

782
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:27.920
we needed to do?

783
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:31.480
Yeah, we're just kind of recapping and let people know

784
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:33.679
we're still here. We haven't gone away.

785
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:36.239
Nope. Season three, baby.

786
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:39.360
And there's more coming, so we're looking forward to that.

787
00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:40.039
Yes.

788
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:43.159
In fact, we're recording another episode.

789
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:48.079
Next week next week. Yeah, yeah, and I think there's

790
00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:50.719
one right after that too. We are busy, busy, baby, busy.

791
00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:52.239
So that's great.

792
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:56.440
So we're gonna be pumping it out exactly, So looking

793
00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:57.039
forward to it.

794
00:37:57.239 --> 00:37:59.280
So do you want to close us down? You want

795
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:01.400
me to close it? Remember how we closed it down?

796
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:03.960
Well, you always have something pithy to say, I'm just

797
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:05.480
more like you can you.

798
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:07.559
Know, we'll go ahead and enjoy us.

799
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:10.679
We have two seasons that you can already listen to

800
00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:13.960
and look forward to the new ones. As Don mentioned

801
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.320
in the opener, you can find us now on YouTube, yes,

802
00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:21.920
and then your favorite platforms like Spotify and Apple podcast.

803
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.360
The website is sponsored by Podcage.

804
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:30.000
Yes what nothing?

805
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:30.719
Okay?

806
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:31.159
Uh?

807
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:33.320
The YouTube is through five for.

808
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:41.159
You should know that my last name William in front

809
00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:41.719
of the children.

810
00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:44.480
And you want to email us at Don and Gary

811
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:49.400
Due sixty at gmail dot com. But website you can

812
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:54.920
find everything there all the platforms of course, Instagram, Facebook, where.

813
00:38:54.800 --> 00:39:00.119
Else you mentioned and you mentioned another Deezer, Deezer.

814
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.159
Sneezer and Beezer, I don't know. There's We're on all

815
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:05.599
the platforms. You can't. You can't throw a dead cat

816
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:06.440
without hitting one.

817
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:07.679
Of our podcasts exactly.

818
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.119
I think you came up with that line too, I did, Yes, okay,

819
00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:15.599
so thanks Gary for that. And remember age is just

820
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:20.440
a number. Unfortunately ours and I'm I messed it up

821
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:26.039
text you take okay, right? Remember age is just a number.

822
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:29.840
Unfortunately ours is unlisted. Thanks for watching Don and Gary

823
00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:36.280
doing sixty season three, Can I stop now?

824
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:37.239
Please do