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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...

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...

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-by-state ping pong match of trip stories, and cruises. Today’s conversation once again proved it’s not always the giant vacations that have the most lasting memories. Visit lifes3x5s.com for each episode’s photo gallery, the Contact tab to offer ideas to our shows and contribute ...

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, unpredictable conversations about favorite albums, comic books, a root beer taste off, a bath in mashed potatoes and gravy, “here it’s good for you”, a recap of the Beloit International Film Festival, mending burns, comedian Foster Brooks and the compelling question, “Why are Tim a...

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 films, being a critic, an international creative mentor, details of the 2022 festival, the exciting behind-the-scenes stories, Tim saw a tear drop during the film Ghost, and the magical feelings created in the movies.

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, conversation starters, Swedish meatballs, Paczki, palindromes, being derailed, birthdays, divine intervention, and everyone got overheated.

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 cartoons to ziplines and the Kubb lawn game. From surfing hawks and voicing a cartoon to tossing trash and drawing Goofy over twenty thousand times. We filled up a bag with Americana and alerted the media. Please remember to support our podcast through our Tip Jar.

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, your QR Code when you’re dead, two parking tickets, our ties to the Olympics, board game competition, dressed to the nines and Tim is not a good Googler.

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 the background, you will progressively hear the individual rehearsals begin for the Rockford Symphony Orchestra. The Coronado Theater has a rich history and provided conversation about John F. Kennedy, music cheat sheets, Liberace, the color of lies, tunnel vision, woodwin...