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May 15, 2022

S2 E9 We Found a Distinctive Bean in Chicago and it Only Took a Mille…

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 fr...

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May 17, 2022

S2 E10 When It Comes to the Potato Shak, the I’s Have It! in Loves P…

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 thin...

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May 19, 2022

S2 E11 Running Through the Most Perfect Meadow of Music at Toad Hall…

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 ...

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June 23, 2022

S2 E12 - It’s Time to Blow Your Own Horn at the Sinnissippi Music She…

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 d...

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June 29, 2022

S2 E13 Punch Air Holes For Us Before You Ship from Chicago Rockford …

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, “...

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July 3, 2022

S2 E14 Funny How Everyone Smells the Same in a Barn near Byron, Illin…

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 h...

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July 11, 2022

S2 E15 When Nature Pulls You in and Keeps You For the Day at Canyon C…

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 Stoc...

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Aug. 23, 2022

S3 E1 Giggles and Moonshine on the River in Liz’s backyard

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 ...

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Sept. 3, 2022

S3 E2 We’re Painted Into a Corner in Loves Park, Illinois.

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 lab...

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Sept. 9, 2022

S3 E3 Straight Off the Vine at Thyme and Again Farm

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 w...

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Sept. 12, 2022

S3 E4 Driving a Clutch in the Pouring Rain

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...

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Oct. 21, 2022

S3 E5 Riding the Waves of Radio at the Museum of Broadcast Communica…

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...

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Nov. 15, 2022

S3 E6 Is Somebody Watching Us? at an Undisclosed Location

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,...

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Dec. 2, 2022

S3 E7 This Show Requires Huge Balls at Park Lanes Bowling

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, T...

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Jan. 18, 2023

S3 E8 Our First Anniversary On-The-Rocks at Carlson Artic Ice Arena

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! ...

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Jan. 25, 2023

S3 E9 Birds of a Feather Do a Podcast at Hoo Haven

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 a...

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Feb. 6, 2023

S3 E10 Cold Enough to Carve at Lake Geneva’s Winterfest

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’...

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Feb. 9, 2023

S3 E 11 We Too Are Aged at Whiskey Acres

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...

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Feb. 16, 2023

S3 E12 Mentally On Stage with the Legends at Nitelite Promotions

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 Promoti...

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March 7, 2023

S3 E13 First Anniversary Episode Recap

Tim Larson mentions some of the highlights from Lifes3x5s podcast's first 42 episodes. It may be time for you to catch up on missed shows, listen again, or jot down a location suggestion and submit it to Lifes3x5xs.com on the...

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March 17, 2023

S3 E14 Vintage is Sexy for Antique at Best of Beloit Mall

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, di...

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May 4, 2023

S3 E15 Deeper Than The Game of Baseball with the Beloit Sky Carps

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 announce...

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May 8, 2023

S4 E1 The Scents of Accomplishment at AR Workshop

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...

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June 2, 2023

S4 E2 Prime Time Picnic at Rock Cut State Park

Season# 4 Episode # 2 - Just a few topics from this episode… First time picnic ideas, walking barefoot in the grass, food that’s bad for dogs, car meets deer, move before the ice melts, cooking outdoors when it’s ninety d...

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