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Season# 4 Episode # 1 - Just a few topics from this episode… Pouring custom candles, gift giving rules, senior class pranks, 90th birthday, “that’s your porn name”, when Tim runs for office, slowest & fastest talkers, cold throw, the rich & the homeless, Disney ties and the Coronation party. Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast! Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee.

Season# 3 Episode # 15 - Just a few topics from this episode… Old Fashion slushes, Billy Williams, baseball themed movies, triple party day coming up, superstitions, the Jeep wave, sports communities, big league announcers, John O’Leary & Jack Buck, fish slime or dog slobber and our new pets. Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast! Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee.

Season# 3 Episode # 14 - Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast! Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee. Just some of the topics in this episode – humping Liz’s leg, muscle cars, trains, cereal boxes, difficult names for specific collectors, coyotes, going through Liz’s purse, Tim’s new puppy, Airheads and “shoplifting.” And, many stories connected to what we saw and what we have at home. March 16, 2023 at Best of Beloit Vintage Mall 1019 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois.

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Season# 3 Episode # 12 - Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast! Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee. A full blown two hour conversation with our lifelong radio friend Don Kronberg of Nitelite Promotions. We mentally and verbally rubbed shoulders with hundreds of rock stars and comedians spanning his 33 years. Drinking wine in the morning, love for comedians, nervous on stage, B.B. King’s Lucille guitar, showing off the lobby of the Rialto Theater in Joliet, Illinois, a banjo on...

Season# 3 Episode # 11 - Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast! Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee. Whiskey Acres provided a great backdrop for many stories today…bourbon slushes, drunk stories from the 70’s, betting on Gatorade, the best bar slogan ever, “it tastes like booger”, “Who puked on me?”, the party backwash looked like it was drinkable, shipping corn to Kentucky, running moonshine, farm-crafted and approachable, Tim’s drinking ploy, bungholes galore, bourbon balls, ...

Season# 3 Episode # 10 - Remember to tell your friends and review rate us on Apple! Visit lifes3x5s.com for each episode’s photo gallery, a way to contribute ideas to our podcast and the Buy Us A Coffee Tip Jar. Here’s a some of the topics from this episode. The National Snow Sculpting Competition, dueling toasts, ice maze, sand sculpting, lending your home to charities, banana peels for your plants, city versus country, creative team names, Tim’s new dog is coming, “Here eat this”, snow ice cre...

Season# 3 Episode # 9 - Remember to tell your friends and review rate us on Apple! Visit lifes3x5s.com for each episode’s photo gallery, a way to contribute ideas to our podcast and the Buy Us A Coffee Tip Jar. Here are some of the topics from this episode. The Rockford Photo Club shoot, turkey feathers on Tim’s dashboard, eagles right over our heads, turkey vultures within reach, see freeze frames when they put a chip in our heads, bird banding, lorikeets, I hit a goose with my van, some bird m...

Season# 3 Episode # 8 - It was a nice way to spend the afternoon. Several talented figure skaters practiced their programs for us. Our first episode of January 2023 was also Lifes3x5s podcast first year anniversary! We celebrated by chatting about Mittens versus Gloves, Tim is NOT a trendsetter, childhood skating, Tim’s grandfather’s advice, Olympic skater Janet Lynn, “Google that!”, fake skating, think like a criminal, our favorite toys, dog breeds and naming a pet, hidden hobbies, and a vivid ...

Season# 3 Episode # 7 - It was a really fun day at Park Lanes Bowling in Loves Park, Illinois. Here are some of the topics we covered after our three games wearing those fancy colored shoes. Dumb asses on two lanes, Tim’s early birthday gifts, Christine McVie died and how Mick Fleetwood entered the room, thirty-two weeks with three four year old kids, not lasting until midnight on New Year’s Eve, betting on bowling, Death Pool, the last time you’ve written a letter to someone, your socially unac...

Season #3 Episode #6 - Tim and Liz are within a rumored to be haunted house. This episode’s stories are like no other. “Someone” moved our wine glasses and my towel in that hotel, it was as cold as a fridge in mid-July, an orb appeared in Liz’s photos, ghosts at the White House, WYBR radio in the CherryVale Mall, and true stories from Tim’s relatives. “Did you hear that buzz?” Our stones went through those two pale white bulldogs, Tim’s phone rings while on silent mode, the little boy in the bas...

Season #3 Episode #5 - Tim and Liz were pleasantly surprised to be offered to do this episode in the Paul and Angel Harvey Studio at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, Illinois. So many radio stories were shared within the former WGN Showcase Studio once on Michigan Avenue. It was donated to the museum in 2012. Midwest temperatures unexpectedly plunged into the upper thirties the week of October 20, 2022 therefore we kept our coats on during the show and held back their chatterin...

Season #3 Episode #4 - Not often, but the weather can pounce on any one of our remote locations. This would be one of those times. Pouring rain at the Rock River Valley Mustang Car Show. Never the less, our show went on. We chatted about our personal memories of September 11, 2021, an old girlfriend married the officer who busted us, Bravehearts, duct taping a microphone to her head, the sports cars we’ve owned, “I want to buy a BRIGHT convertible”, learning to drive a manual transmission at the...

Season #3 Episode #2 - Surrounded by thousands of pumpkins, gourds and squash, we chatted at a picnic table on a beautiful September day. Our podcast, as usual, covered many unpredictable topics – choking on apples, a wet ghost story, “What’s on your lip?”, the wise words of Rod Kramer, pumpkin spice is in bed with everything, Foley sound effects, pie versus cake, “How’s your dog’s poop?”, Dr. Doolizzle, Queen Elizabeth II dies, team sports, 120 mph, and a VW Bug full of Squash. An easy way to c...

Season #3 Episode #2 - Admiring the new city murals, bird seed, color blind artist, Jim Carey, free t-shirts, senior discounts, crying over a book, pet rock, “It’s good for you!”, nickels, Tim’s painting, not reading labels, latest dumbass moves, raking river rocks and filthy rich. An easy way to contribute to our podcast is to Buy Me a Coffee through our Tip Jar tab. Thanks in advance.

Season #3 Episode #1 - This is the first episode of our third season. What a free-for-all of topics! Mt. Rushmore, dinner with former WLS radio folks, bison, rescuing wildlife, time-waster, horrible joke telling, fading fads, not shopping together, people our age, regifting, bourbon cookies, plastic surgery, going to Prince's Paisley Park, moonshine shots, Foster Brooks idea and swimming with Liz’s dog. An easy way to contribute to our podcast is to Buy Me a Coffee through our Tip Jar tab. Thank...

Season #2 Episode #15 - This is the last episode of our second season. Thanks you for joining us at thirty very different locations. Today we’re at the Boy Scouts and Blackhawk Area Council’s Canyon Camp just outside Stockton, Illinois. Conversations about National Park ranger training, the Merlin Bird app, glamping, “a spider crawled across my lips", and winter camping tips. Eagle projects, cooking over a fire, great movie soundtracks, the hardest lesson learned, and berry picking on a hike. Us...

Season# 2 Episode # 14 - We hoisted our equipment up into a hay loft and began to chat. Why is there a kitten in the Tupperware? Animal Stories on WLS radio in Chicago. Parting gifts from the farm, Going down the rabbit hole, seeing UFOs, Think about it and IT will happen, watermelon seeds and Tom Sawyer & Becky Thatcher weekend. What’s your weakness? Reassembling a barn, close up photos at the fair, bull scrotum for sale, hot air balloons, and Princess was a nice horse. Remember to tell your fr...

Season #2 Episode #13 - While sitting on the tarmac of the airport’s cargo terminal at high noon! We chat about flying first class, the UPS plane that spun and swept everything off our table, and answer the question, “Are your nuts still warm?” Shipping false teeth, getting packages from Dick Clark and George Lucas, football cards and training dogs. The unpredictability of this podcast is exciting. Enjoy. Remember to tell your friends and review rate us on Apple! Visit lifes3x5s.com for each epi...

Season# 2 Episode # 12 - The world renowned Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps played the Sinnissippi Park Music Shell in Rockford, Illinois. Illinois is truly in the middle of everything! Listen as our conversation drifts into favorite flowers, a lightning round of Family Feud, who can keep a secret, Utter Tuggers baseball, and the guy who Beat Bobby Flay. A moving performance of Taps by Brandon Colmark. And how Tim’s cousins got 350+ people cross country so the Dobyns-Bennett High School ba...

Season# 2 Episode # 11 - Toad Hall is a vintage music and book store. You name it they have it…somewhere in the building. Tim has been going there since high school. Somehow Liz and Tim covered these topics. Thousands of albums, hauling equipment to dances, epic quotes about music, clothes that will make Liz vomit, and someone gets means when SHE drinks. And, let’s not forget, “Tim is not anyone’s secretary!” Remember to tell your friends and review rate us on Apple! Visit lifes3x5s.com for each...

Diners are the very best places for genuine conversation. Tim and Liz talked about their individual trips to Disney World, a reason to get up in the morning, K-mart cassettes, and wise men sitting at the counter. They think they are due for an aircheck session, old weird apartments, lightning rods, disrobing in a diner and major shit about birthdays. Don’t just ask yourself about how Liz and Tim ended up on all of these topics. Join them for more unpredictable conversation! Remember to tell your...

A beautiful day in the Windy City. They arrived early for this episode before recording yet another show for their side project The Storytellers Studio at Newsradio 780 WBBM just a block away. It felt to be a stone’s throw from Cloud Gate in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois. Tim and Liz met folks from El Paso, Texas; Turkey; Austria; Naperville, Illinois and England. They became impromptu tour agents and chatted about unexpected items in the mail, a haunted house tour, being grateful, a cart...

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’ Benjamin Franklin documentary, Grammy winners Emily Bear and Abigale Barlow, “her father fixed my middle finger”, transistor radios in a horse pasture, and many personal memories from WGN radio’s 100 year history. On the day prior, they meet the #200 mark co-authoring the up...