Episode #1 - Our episodes take place at different remote locations. This personally keeps Tim and Liz off the bored grid and helps kickstart conversations. Hear how detasseling corn can lead to the band Cheap Trick, motorcycl...
Catching Up and Creating It Over Coffee. Our location for the trailer is Meg's Daily Grind in Rockford, Illinois. Locally owned and operated with four locations.
Episode #2 - If you kick a can far enough down the road you’ll run into Roland Olson Forest Preserve. We surrounded ourselves with dogwalkers and prairie fields and chatted until sunset. From foods you dip to questions about ...
Episode #3 - Our latest Life's 3x5s show took place in the middle of a farmer’s market in the Midwest. Never bored of our locations and it helps kickstart conversations. The farmers dressed up for Halloween and we talked abou...
Episode #4 - Our episodes take us places not normally thought of for a talk show. We learn so much and meet great people. Today’s conversation took us from company logos to binge movies to musicals and creamsicles. And then f...
Episode #5 - Being at a different remote location for each episode keeps it exciting, but today was thrilling. Three years ago twelve friends dug up some blueprints for a hundred-year-old airplane called the Jenny and decided...
Episode #6 - Our show takes place in the WLUV radio studio in Loves Park, Illinois. This is personally close to their hearts because of the live shows they did there in 2021. Shortly after the owner died at the age of ninety-...
Episode #7 - Our location for our 7th episode is inside the firehouse location of Beef-a-Roo restaurant in Loves Park, Illinois. They are a local fast-food chain of 50+ years. The stories piled up very quickly. From a radio s...
Episode #8 - We knew it would be a little risker doing our shows on the road. Weather is the biggest culprit. Our conversation took place in a makeshift studio in a minivan in the middle of a December holiday light festival ...
Episode #9 began with a three-mile hike back to a falls on a beautiful December day in Starved Rock State Park. Kathy Casstevens was our docent host for the day. A comfort food lunch provided the perfect backdrop for a great ...
A very cold and windy January day next to a restaurant’s fireplace surrounded by great sharable food. From wildlife and Betty White to fantasy camp and Harrison Ford. How do our conversations go so many places in thirty minut...
Episode #11 – We were within the recording studios at the Rockford Symphony Orchestra offices. It was a day of giggles over the dumbest things. Surrounded by fun and creativity in the Riverfront Museum Park in Rockford, Illin...
Episode #12 - Among palm trees and everything green and within a gigantic glass box in northern Illinois, Liz and Tim talked about the smell of death, grubby kids in the dirt, ice skating, models trains, first jobs, plant k...
Episode #13 – Liz and Tim were so inspired by the Midway Museum in Rockford, Illinois. The stories flowed faster than any other episode. From Estwing hammers and Amerock hardware to the Aldeen Golf Club barn and the Rockford ...
Episode #14 - Frigid temperatures and huge blocks of snow result in amazing works of art in three days. Liz and Tim have set up a makeshift studio in a minivan to bring you the Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition for this sho...
Episode #15 – SPECIAL NOTE: Several bonus audio segments mentioned in this show follow the exit music. Tim and Liz were surrounded by vintage audio equipment of every kind and brand at Sounds Classic in Rockford, Illinois. Fr...
Season #2 Episode #1 – SPECIAL NOTE: A sampling of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra's show from February 12, 2022 can be heard immediately following our exit music. This is likely going to be one of our most unique shows. In t...
It was time for us to step out of our comfort zones and do some abstract painting. As usual the conversation “leaped off of the brush” into mistaken suspects, stick a fork in the grave, taboo on display, Babe Ruth’s bathtub, ...
We bundled up and headed down the hills on frigid tubes. Crazy winter fun in the Midwest. Once we warmed up by the fire with our hot chocolate, the conversation shot out of the gates again. From our underwear and childhood ca...
The phrase “once in a lifetime” often gets tossed around haphazardly, but today it’s rock solid. Twosday, February 22, 2022 at 2:22 pm! Liz celebrates and Tim learns its significance. Also…glaciers, angel numbers, conversat...
This very same kick off reception to the Beloit International Film Festival in 2020 is where Tim and Liz reconnected and was where the very first domino fell for their many projects. Learn their story, famous lines from film...
Season#2 Episode #6 - A thorough explanation of our new project aimed at capturing audio history from former and current employees of WROK radio in Rockford, Illinois. The station’s 100th anniversary is in 2023! Also, unpred...
Season#2 Episode #7 - We were inspired by the interstate traffic under our feet. We talked about family car vacations, motorcycle trips, outrunning a tornado, kid car games, the epic sneeze, a true back-and-forth, state-b...
Season#2 Episode #8 - Tim and Liz spent an amazing day at WGN Radio in Chicago with our longtime colleague Lisa Dent. They met Bob Sirott, John Williams and Steve Bertrand. Their unpredictable conversation covered Ken Burns’...