WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:29.039 Welcome to the experiment, the one hundred person Project. Simple questions for one 2 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.759 hundred people. I'm Bill Corral and this is my investigation. It's my research 3 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:38.880 project to gather data from one hundred beautiful human beings for the sole purpose to 4 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:43.039 see what actually happens across the interviews. Now, the questions are fixed and 5 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:48.560 all the interviews will remain consistent with the variable being the actual participants themselves and 6 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.759 their answers. So it's as if I'm having you come sit on my porch, 7 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.119 Linda, to share your thoughts so I can learn about people. And 8 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.920 I'm looking forward to what we're going to learn at the end of this thing 9 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.159 when we're complete. But in the meantime, very interested in people, the 10 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:07.319 process, in your particular story. So you're all going to get to know 11 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.079 our guests through the interview. So let's just go ahead and dive in. 12 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:18.319 What is your full name? Hi, good morning Bell. My name is 13 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:23.519 Linda Jane McLaughlin. I'm just wondering if we're going to delve it. This 14 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:27.280 is going to be like this intense thing, like I should get a box 15 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:37.120 of Kleenex, like immediately, if not sooner. You know what it hasn't 16 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:42.879 happened before, but you know you and you know me. I do. 17 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:49.079 So. What what's your maiden name? I'm very I'm a nice Hungarian girl. 18 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:55.120 Yeah, I'm irish by a really bad decision, but that's a whole 19 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:02.159 nother story. We'll get there. What is your favorite nickname that most people 20 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:09.599 don't know? Hmmm, Well, I love my nickname from you where you 21 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.759 feminize the buddy, So being a buddyett is kind of cool. And I 22 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:21.439 know who's talking to me. But when I was little, it was Peaches, 23 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.800 and my uncle Joe called me Peaches up until he died, So I 24 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.400 love that. I just think it's the cutest thing. My uncle Joe still 25 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.520 always called me that. What's here remind you of? That's kind of an 26 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.759 interesting thing. I mean, when you think about him, your face got 27 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.879 all kind of like smiley, and it sounds to me like everybody has an 28 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:50.039 uncle Joe. I think that is just this spectacular human being who survived living 29 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:53.759 with ant Florence. In the name of God and all things holy. He 30 00:02:53.199 --> 00:03:01.319 was just this jovial, always smiling, huggy bear kind of guy that just 31 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:07.199 enveloped me and I always felt so safe and loved when I was around him, 32 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.639 so that's why he was amazing. And if you went and talked to 33 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:17.520 Anti Flow's neighbors, Uncle Joe died way before she did, and all the 34 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:23.879 neighbors are upset over that goodness. Okay, all right, so I will 35 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:30.240 not use peaches inappropriately, at least not after the podcast, because what happens 36 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.599 in the podcast stays in the podcast. Okay, Well, it's cute and 37 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:37.319 called peaches when you're little, but when you're older, it's like you're a 38 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:43.479 belly fan dancer, pole dancer. Men could get smacked forther, you know, 39 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:47.360 in the wrong environment, right, Yeah, I suppose. Now I 40 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.759 don't think so because of my who I am, I'd be just laughing. 41 00:03:52.840 --> 00:04:00.000 The more inappropriate humor that you can share, the more I applaud you. 42 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:02.199 I will bear that in mind as we go along. Peaches. Okay, 43 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:10.879 when did you first notice what color hair you had? Wow, that's funny 44 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.879 that you even bring that up, because I believe it was two weeks ago. 45 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.079 I had not gone to the hairdresser since September, and I remember looking 46 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:25.399 in the mirror and going, oh, that's what color my hair is, 47 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.920 and what are those gray things going? On. I don't even know, 48 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:34.759 but that was the first time, like in it really that I was aware 49 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:42.199 of what my hair color was? Ill, I know? And what did 50 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:47.920 that feel like? Frightening along with that woman that seems to live behind my 51 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:51.800 mirror. I don't know who the hell she is, but I really wish 52 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:58.360 she would leave because she's really annoying me and she needs a facelift. Well, 53 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.800 maybe you and I can work on that later on. Okay, we'll 54 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.639 get that woman in the mirror, you know, in line it whipped into 55 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:10.399 shape? Really, you know, back off? You know I have boundaries. 56 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:15.160 Okay, you do, don't you. I've never seen I don't think 57 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:20.160 my my bar could go any lower. Yeah, well, I wouldn't put 58 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:24.399 it that way. I would just say that you've got a capacity to love 59 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:29.079 so many people, no matter what they look like or who they are exactly. 60 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.560 Yeah. So this is kind of an interesting one because as long as 61 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.439 I've known you, and as well as I think I do, I'm probably 62 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:41.199 going to learn something here. What's your favorite thing to do to intentionally waste 63 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:47.120 time? Oh? I'm good at that lately, so as much as it 64 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.439 always used to upset me with people playing video games, on their phones. 65 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:58.759 I do a triple match three D, which that's an idle thing, and 66 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:06.480 time goes by. But I've also discovered thousand piece puzzles. Wow. Yeah, 67 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:12.480 and I thought it was that's been fun and pass us the time. 68 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:18.800 And I think I'm doing something and my daughter has she doesn't want me to 69 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:23.920 break them down. She wants to ultimately frame them, and I go why, 70 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.360 I don't understand it. But I think she's already, you know, 71 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:33.639 preparing my cremation. I think it's like at a certain point in time. 72 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:40.480 I remember when she decided I was a senior, and that was great because 73 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:46.079 I always got to ride shotgun after that, and now it's just a matter 74 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:50.680 of time before I fall and break a hip and go to God. That's 75 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:57.319 very cool. Okay, so you've got accomplishment accomplishes in your wasting time, 76 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:02.560 don't you. Absolutely? My little head and stops. Okay, So all 77 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:08.560 right, so we'll get back to the published questions, which is what is 78 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:15.600 your favorite movie to watch alone? I watch all my movies alone, so, 79 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:21.120 but my favorite movie is While You Were Sleeping. I just love it 80 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:28.199 with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, and it's a love happily ever after. 81 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:33.839 The characters are great. I always giggle and it's a feel good thing for 82 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:39.879 me. So how many times would you estimate that you've actually watched that? 83 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:47.160 Oh my word, I'm going to say a minimum of four times a year. 84 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:50.879 And whenever that movie first came out, and I'm thinking it might have 85 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.879 been in the eighties. I have no idea when it came out, but 86 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:01.920 I watch it quite frequently, so I'm guessing you could probably there another one. 87 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:05.839 Oh When the Canyon is the most recent one, and I just watched 88 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:11.519 that over like I serial watch it. It's it's really a great movie on 89 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:18.079 how folk became rock with the folk guitars becoming electric and the birds and and 90 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:28.000 then David Crosby hooking up with Stephen Stills and Stephen Stills was Buffalo's Springfield with 91 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:37.799 Neil Young and then they became Crosby Soll Snash and Young and yeah, good 92 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.039 stuff. So I love I can't get enough of it. There's all my 93 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:50.960 favorites. There was Joni Mitchell and Jackson Brown and all the Jacob Dylon is 94 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:56.399 the narrator, and there the Mama's and the Michelle Phillips from the Mamas and 95 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:00.840 the Papa Showcase. There. Oh, I don't want to ruin your good 96 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.440 time, but no, I'll tell you what you know this is, this 97 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.120 is like my happy place. Okay. Have you ever been to Laura Canyon? 98 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:13.879 No? But that was the place. Yeah. The easy way to 99 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:20.600 get that is go and join Amazon Prime and and check that they can avoid 100 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:26.919 some you know, minimize boxes, and they'll give you a little coupon or 101 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:31.279 something to get to buy a movie. So I bought that movie. It's 102 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.480 the only one I bought, and I watch it all the time. And 103 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:41.399 who says we don't give you value here on a hundred person right, Yeah, 104 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.399 I should write a book or something. There you go, well, 105 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:50.799 so we've got and then what was it Echoes in the Canyon. Yes, 106 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.519 Echo in the Canyon, Echo in the Canyon. Marvelous. And you know 107 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.559 the really interesting part of that too, is is that the fourth piece, 108 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:03.000 you know, and that Crosby Stills Nash and Young Graham Nash was introduced to 109 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:09.000 Stephen Still's by Joni Mitchell. So you know that came a little bit later, 110 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:16.320 and really honest, David Crosby discovered Joni Mitchell and brought her to California 111 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.159 didn't discover her, but founder and convinced her to come to California. From 112 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:28.120 there, she met yeah, little mister Nash one hundred percent, and they 113 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.279 all got together and sang around the campfire. Our house is, Nash wrote, 114 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.320 because of Joni in her house where she had all the parties one hundred 115 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:43.399 percent. I've actually been two cats in the yard. Yes, life used 116 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:48.279 to be so hard. Now everything is easy. Because that's the Nash wrote. 117 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.960 Joye No, Yeah, Nash wrote that, and Joni wrote something else 118 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.519 for them. I have no I can't right now, it's too early. 119 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.600 No worries. Okay, that's very good. I think we've gotten a lot 120 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:05.759 out of your intentionally wasting time in the movies you love. Okay, So 121 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.600 if you were to have an action figure made of you, what superpower would 122 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.919 it have, Linda? And what colors would the uniform be? Hmm? 123 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:20.039 I think it would be so cool to be invisible. So I would like 124 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:26.279 to be invisible, and then I need to snazzy it up, so I 125 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:31.559 would like my costume to be gold, white, gold, and rose gold. 126 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:39.200 So yeah, there you go. That's that's that's interesting. So those 127 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.399 times, yeah, before you go invisible, you may as well look cool 128 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:50.399 on the way right, sparkly one. So you're going to go from red 129 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.480 carpet to nobody knows if you've got anything on it all. It's invisible, 130 00:11:54.600 --> 00:12:01.120 right is she? What is she wearing? Yeah? Exactly? So what 131 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.679 did you want to be when you grew up? And when you were five 132 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:15.440 years old? I have no aspirations At five, I was just living life. 133 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:22.360 That was it. No aspirations really, nope. I don't remember even 134 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:30.039 having aspirations until I was like in third grade, and that's when I wanted 135 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:35.039 to be a nun because that's around the time with your confirmation or your communion, 136 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.759 and boy are they drilling you. So I needed to and I remember 137 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:50.360 my mother was absolutely horrified and said they'll shave your hair. So that was 138 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.759 that. I'm trying to remember. Did you go Did you worship in our 139 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.240 Lady of Lords? Yes? And we had to know each other before I 140 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:03.960 thought I read. I got dropped off every Sunday and my mother picked me 141 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:09.039 back up. That was, you know. Our My mother said your father 142 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:13.919 was Catholic and we had you christened and I promised I'd bringing up in the 143 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:20.759 Catholic religion. So her idea of break of bringing me up Catholic was dropping 144 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.480 me off every Sunday. I had no idea where you went after she dropped 145 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.240 you off, but you got her card done right. Oh listen back then 146 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.279 at the Catholic church and you had to do confession before Sundays, and I 147 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:39.159 remember making things up because I didn't. I mean, how awful can you 148 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.120 be when you're in third grade? Although I did have a keen sense of 149 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:50.039 adventure, I did things without reason. There was no thought behind it. 150 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:54.159 I try and look back and think of why I did the things I did, 151 00:13:54.240 --> 00:14:01.720 and there is no thought at all. I just think when I was 152 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:07.000 in first grade and we were getting our pictures taken for our school pictures, 153 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:16.159 I went and I curled my bottom lip down and kind of just did a 154 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.159 closed mouth smile with my lip curled down. And I remember the photographer stop 155 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.519 and he looks and he goes, what are you doing? Like, go, 156 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:30.480 I'm smiling. He goes like that, that's how I smile. And 157 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.960 I got that picture, and it's what that was the first time. I 158 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:39.240 don't even know where that came from. And my kids think that that's like 159 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:45.440 spectacular. There's a couple of things that in my life, like the fact 160 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.360 that I can open every time I lock myself out of my house, I 161 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:54.440 can open the lock with a credit card. Katie just thinks, I'm like, 162 00:14:54.039 --> 00:15:00.039 way too cool for school. When did you learn to do that? 163 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:05.480 I go, I don't know. It's just a gift from God. And 164 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.279 isn't that what credit cards are for? I mean, that's really I don't 165 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.519 know. That's why I went. And I told her I always keep oh 166 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.200 here everybody. This might not be true, and I might have a pitbull 167 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.000 or something in the backyard, but I leave the door to my garage open 168 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.759 and I hide a key in there in case I do forget my keys, 169 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.639 which is quite often. And I went to go do it and the door 170 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.679 was locked. And I called Katie on the phone and went, did you 171 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.840 lock my garage door? She goes, yeah, I thought, you know, 172 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.480 Katie, nobody can even get to me from the garage. I'm on 173 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:48.039 a slab foundation. I just do that, Papapa. I go, never 174 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:56.120 mind, come over here and bring a couple of credit cards. And she 175 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.440 tried. She couldn't even get the video going. By the time I was 176 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.639 able to do that. It was just very cool. It's funny. That's 177 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.679 funny. I am just a plepetude of information, aren't I. I go 178 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:10.559 there it goes. You know, the B and e's in my area of 179 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:17.720 now gone up and how to get free movies. You just got it all 180 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:22.080 and we're not done yet. Wait no, you think i'd be dating more. 181 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:29.080 But no. You can fit that conversation in anywhere that you want to. 182 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.039 Here's a question that might lead you to that story. Oh, what 183 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:41.639 is your greatest accomplishment? Oh, probably the fact that I can dress myself 184 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:48.080 looking over my shoulder at my tumultuous past. That probably is. I don't 185 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:49.960 know. There's a lot of things, you know. You want to say, 186 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:56.919 Oh, my kids, well not necessarily, and my education e and 187 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.039 my career and I go, yeah, that was okay. And the fact 188 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.599 that I was a single mom and we didn't wind up in the projects and 189 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.240 I just worked and worked and worked, and all of these things. I 190 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:17.240 mean I I had nothing in the home minus nothing, eating out of food 191 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:22.519 closets with Katie who was twelve years old, and from there, having three 192 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:27.000 houses in Newport, Rhode Islands, and it was just working. I have 193 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:34.000 no drop your drawer stories. I just worked and just put all my money 194 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:41.400 into paying off the mortgages with the help of renters. Okay, well, 195 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.880 see that's the thing, you know, is you create a system whereby you 196 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.599 getting income off of it, and it works for everybody involved. And you've 197 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.960 really become a master at that for your nice, tidy little units, there's 198 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.960 no question about it. And I agree with you. You know, you 199 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:00.079 remind me of a meme that I saw this last week. I posted it 200 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.359 myself as a matter of fact, which basically said, sometimes just being alive 201 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:10.640 requires courage, you know, absolutely, And I think being a single woman 202 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:17.319 walking the planet is difficult. I mean, I don't have anybody to bail 203 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:19.759 me out if I may. I'm not afforded the luxury of making a bad 204 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:26.480 decision. It's all on me. And so yeah, it is. It 205 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:34.759 is hard, and I don't think I'm fearful. I just think it's exhausting 206 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:44.319 because you really can't let your guard down. So that's a whole another podcast 207 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:48.599 bill. We'll schedule that one, Okay, absolutely, notice till my voice 208 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:55.359 just went Yeah, that one can have all sorts of different words in it, 209 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:59.759 but this one we're keeping clean. And I know, I know that 210 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.000 there. There's a lot of story going on with you, no doubt about 211 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.359 it, And this next question will actually give you an opportunity to maybe focus 212 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.200 on that just a little bit. Who is your favorite person to listen to? 213 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:23.240 Oh? I love listening to the narrator of all Ken Burns documentaries, 214 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:30.000 Peter Coyote. Oh my god, Yes, that's who I love. If 215 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:32.160 you stop and think about it, if you go, oh, who do 216 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:34.759 I like to listen to? Is it music? Well, I've got such 217 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:41.200 a vast love from Sarah Brightman on down to you know, I don't know 218 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:48.000 traffic and cream. I go, it's but listening. I find his voice. 219 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:51.720 That's how I can go to sleep. I just put it on his 220 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:55.960 voice. I just love it. Ye. I have listened to the Roosevelts 221 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:03.599 documentary at least five times a week for the past ten years. I go, 222 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:10.920 oh, my god, just to I just love that soothing. It's 223 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:15.559 ye, ladies and gentlemen. Yet another valuable tip from our guests. No 224 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:21.160 doubt, Aboulcome, You're welcome. I was listening to right before you and 225 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:26.160 I got busy getting on here. I was listening to an original from nineteen 226 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:33.640 sixty five or nineteen sixty six, Steve Winwood doing John Barleycorn must die. 227 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:41.079 Stevie Winwood, I swear to God I have saved a little ovary thing for 228 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:48.400 him. I just always I was a trap I've been a traffic fan my 229 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.359 whole life. And when I was raising my kids, and I raised them, 230 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:56.079 we lived in a log cabin in a neighborhood, but it was set 231 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:57.799 back an acre, and there was an acre behind us. And when it 232 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:03.119 snowed, we had big picture windows and holly trees out in front, and 233 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:08.279 the cardinals and the blue jays and the Scotch pines and the waxy leaves and 234 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:14.680 the red berries. And I put my couch in front of the window and 235 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:21.880 I would just crank cream blind faith and traffic, change, smoke and drink 236 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:25.960 coffee. Back in the day when I did change, when I did smoke, 237 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:27.680 and I was a smoke them if you got them girls. So that's 238 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:33.480 a whole nother story too. Stop. Not only does everybody would be able 239 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.279 to save money and be able to go to Italy at least once a year, 240 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.720 but you don't even want to ever ever not be able to breathe. 241 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:47.920 It's awful, absolutely awful. So I'm going to do something with what you 242 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:51.599 just said, and I completely agree with you. Your miracle. You are 243 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:55.480 a freaking miracle. There's no doubt in my life. There's nobody that I 244 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:57.240 know that's been able to pull off what you've been able to pull off in 245 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:00.599 the last three or four years. I would love it if you could just 246 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.720 say a little bit more about that. I've lost two sisters, you know, 247 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:10.559 to lung cancer and emphysema, and once you start that downhill slide, 248 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:14.720 that's almost like this is over. You really need to gather your family together 249 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.519 and you know, figure out what's what. But Linda, you really showed 250 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:23.599 something to the world by taking care of yourself. Exactly. If you're here, 251 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:29.720 I go. Lord knows, I can talk forever without taking a breath. 252 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:33.759 But what had happened. It helps being a nurse because unless you have 253 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:38.880 an amputated arm, you will not go to the hospital. So I had 254 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:45.519 this horrible I was going into respiratory failure. I went to my doctor's office. 255 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.599 I had Katie's friend follow me or bring me there is what it was. 256 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:52.119 And she goes, I'm calling an ambulance. You're going to go And 257 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.720 I said, absolutely not. So she gave me nebulizer treatments while I was 258 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:03.279 there. I got I think it was decadron or soli amedro and the bomb 259 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:08.599 I got so that would be a steroid, but shot a roseephin. She 260 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:15.400 sent me home with a slew of of medications. I remember sitting on the 261 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:21.960 couch in tripod position and my girls came and I'm thinking to myself, they're 262 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.599 running all over my little house and I'm going to myself, stay out of 263 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:30.920 my jewelry box. And yeah, and from there, I know that my 264 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:40.680 daughter Jessica made me turmeric and spirolina sprow spirriw. Yeah, I think that's 265 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:45.400 what I call. It's the blue algae milkshakes and stuff. And then from 266 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.960 there, I started researching because I'm a I'm a nurse, and I found 267 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:56.720 these supplements like nac an acetyl cysteine that they use for people with cystic fibrosis, 268 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:07.440 and CORTCEP mushroom supplements, and there were a couple other ones. So 269 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:11.920 I stopped smoking because that's what it took, is not being able to breathe. 270 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:15.440 I wouldn't even light so much as a candle. I was doing these 271 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:21.480 supplements working as a nurse. When I got well enough to go back to 272 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:26.640 work from the acute onset that I went through, and I went to my 273 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:32.960 doctor. I have a pulmonary doctor who's amazing, and I said, I 274 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:36.119 am just so surprised. I go, it had to be all these supplements, 275 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.559 and she goes, oh, no, our lungs have a big capacity 276 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:45.319 to find new avenues and all this stuff. And then when I stopped nursing, 277 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:52.680 all of a sudden, all my pulmonary function testing went pretty much in 278 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:59.079 the toilet because I was running sixteen hours a day during the pandemic when I'd 279 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:02.839 come into TREA with forty people in the waiting room and a twelve hour wait 280 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.119 and running them to the ed that now is from fifty people to one hundred 281 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:14.400 and fifty and so I wasn't doing that anymore. I started with strength training 282 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.640 recently, maybe for six months now, and when I went, I'm one 283 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:23.799 hundred and twenty percent better than I was last year, And she said, 284 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:30.759 here you go again. You're lung got from the strength training got stronger, 285 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:36.039 and your heart is a muscle and it got stronger with the strength training too, 286 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:40.480 So there you go. Oh, I have one question to kind of 287 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.680 put this all into perspective at the worst, when you were at that point 288 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:48.400 where you were still deciding whether to quit smoking or not. No, there 289 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.599 was no no deciding. No, you actually had a diagnosis, didn't you. 290 00:25:52.920 --> 00:26:00.880 Oh, I'm a copder and physeema chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a COPD. 291 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:07.519 But they also now do blood work where they can see they do like 292 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:14.839 not DNA, it's testing where I am an anti trips in one deficient person, 293 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:19.359 which means I'm missing a protective enzyme for my lungs. Because I had 294 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:23.160 lived for a little bit with a ninety six year old woman who was a 295 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:29.079 smoker until she died. And I'm going why. I loved the smoking. 296 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:33.799 I go and it kept my weight down. I was very good, and 297 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:40.000 I mean that it was soothing. I was a thumbsucker until I think I 298 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:42.319 was eighteen years old, and it was peer pressure of going off to college 299 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:48.359 that made me stop that. But the cigarettes did the oral gratification thing, 300 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:53.160 and then from there that's how people gain weight, because yeah, you keep 301 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:56.640 it going. It's like, how do you don't want a cigarette after dinner 302 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:03.240 if the meal never ends? You know exactly exactly. Thank you for all 303 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:06.720 of that. I really appreciate that. That's I mean, the honest to 304 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:10.440 God, that's gold. And that's one hundred percent why I do this podcast 305 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:15.640 with people you know, and if nobody, if everyone listening, can just 306 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.920 get hope with someone you know and love or yourself, you've got to take 307 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.799 the action, don't accept the diagnosis and just get and then lie down. 308 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:29.240 You know. Well, the thing is if if and I understand it's exhausting, 309 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:36.359 I mean when people are in stages of COPD, just eating uses up 310 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:41.559 all their oxygen. But if all you can do is walk three feet, 311 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:48.680 then walk three feet and then for like three days, and then walk four 312 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.839 feet for three days, I mean, just keep it going, just keep 313 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:59.200 moving, but do smart things. I mean, to keep smoking when you 314 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:04.319 have no lung capacity and think you're gonna use oxygen's going to do it for 315 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:11.240 you. That doesn't even do it. So anyway, that's another problem story 316 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:17.680 kind of into this next question. Okay, now that you're going to around 317 00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:22.160 for a few minutes, which I'm really happy and thankful for, complete this 318 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:33.640 sentence. When I grow up, i'd like to wow, I think I 319 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.839 have the emotional stability of a twelve year old. So I'm not saying that 320 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:45.200 I've even grown and I don't know what. I'm just happy being. I 321 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:51.920 don't I'm now now I go. I don't think I have any aspirations to 322 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:57.759 do anything other than things that I love now. So when I grow up, 323 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:03.960 I don't know. I want to keep on being. Are looking at 324 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:11.160 life like a child there, you know, that's taking great joy and beautiful 325 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:19.119 colors of flowers and textures outside and how many colors can you see? And 326 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:23.759 on the beach, you know, we were doing that yesterday, how many 327 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:32.000 colors watching this big ocean and it was sunset and gray and steel and silver 328 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:37.039 and white and lavender and purple and pink and coral, and reveling in that 329 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.640 and really enjoying it, I mean in my heart, like like I feel 330 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:47.440 it. It's it's wonderful. And I hope I never lose that. Yeah, 331 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:51.039 that's my wish for you, by the way, and I thank you. 332 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.519 You know, you are at the moment the poster child of somebody who 333 00:29:53.559 --> 00:30:00.599 turned out. You work all your life and you and or most of the 334 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.160 time that I've known you, there's been something that's kind of been in your 335 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.839 face and in your way and now for the first time you can actually see 336 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:12.519 what's going on and you like being in the now here. Yeah, and 337 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:21.519 it was because of that. When you are first alone or there is a 338 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.559 it's a sadness. I certainly there's parts of my life that weren't on my 339 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:33.440 cue card, but being able to have friends you specifically were one of them 340 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.640 that not only listened, but would give you a tool. I mean, 341 00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:41.240 just give you a tool hang up, and without carrying that weight and bringing 342 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.240 you down, you were uplifting. I knew I wasn't alone. I knew 343 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.359 I had somebody that I so I couldn't say I'm oh my god, I'm 344 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:52.759 all by myself because I wasn't. It was a lie that I was telling 345 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.200 myself, which also triggers more anxiety, and the flip side of that is 346 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:00.200 depression. And I go, well, I'm just gonna lay on this here 347 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.960 couch for a while until you think you're going to get muscle wasting, and 348 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:11.519 then you know it's So that was wonderful. That was wonderful, and I 349 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.440 wanted to add in a tool. Yeah, it's great to listen, but 350 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:21.599 there's got to be something in your arsenal of life that you can throw a 351 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:23.680 little bone to somebody and go, I don't know if this will work for 352 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.279 you, but this helped me, so maybe you could try it. But 353 00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:33.400 seeing that there's another avenue in it, it's not roadblocked, that there's other 354 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:40.279 hallways that you can travel on that I never Sometimes when you're in the forest, 355 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.440 you can't see the trees and it takes somebody else to be able to 356 00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:48.519 help you with that. Absolutely, I call that giving sighted guide to somebody 357 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:55.599 who who is myopic at the moment. You know. Yeah, so this 358 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:59.480 is we've covered so much, Linda, But I'm going to ask you this 359 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:02.559 question exactly as it is, and let's see where it takes us. What 360 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.839 is the most important thing in life to you right now, you know, 361 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:15.000 beyond being in the moment. Well, I always laughed being a nurse and 362 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.519 I worked as an LPN first while I was going to school to be an 363 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:22.640 RN, and I worked in nursing homes in a cute care long term care 364 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.440 bah bah bah, and I realized I used to laugh that the answer to 365 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.640 life, what it all comes down to at the end, is one decent 366 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:37.079 bowel movement a day. So now I'm here and I go. But food 367 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:43.680 is a good meal is so exciting for me. And travel. I want 368 00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:47.480 to travel and see the world while I can still walk. But it's for 369 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:54.240 the cultural aspect of it. I'm the people and the food and the architecture 370 00:32:54.480 --> 00:33:01.519 and the art and oh my word, it's just this planet is amazing. 371 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:07.880 Yes, And you're somebody who's put a few miles on in the last ten 372 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:12.359 years, haven't you shut up and eat that to yourself? Okay? I 373 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:21.559 mean in the world you're still under warranty. My friend still Katie that, 374 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:27.720 yeah, I will. I didn't talk to her, but I texted with 375 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:32.839 her last night. So here's the Yeah. So what would you like to 376 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:39.799 leave in the world after your life is done? A smile and a funny 377 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:46.400 story. That's what I want people to just think of me and can't help 378 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:57.079 but laugh or smile for whether it's from one extreme of maybe when I was 379 00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:02.640 going through for whatever. There's always a funny story. There's something bananas. 380 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:06.759 You can turn around and look at it and laugh. When it's all over 381 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:09.679 and the tremors have stopped, you can look at it and go, holy 382 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:15.480 moly, that was hysterical. There's lots of funny things, but that's what 383 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:21.360 I want to be. At first, I wanted to be remembered for something 384 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:27.519 profound and really like, the planet's not going to know I was even here. 385 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:36.920 But if people that I've touched or been with can have fun with me 386 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:43.159 and smile and laugh, I go. I think I will have that. 387 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:49.119 That's the biggest thing I could probably leave. Yeah. Yeah, there's an 388 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:54.159 old saying that you don't pass until the last person says your name. You 389 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:59.280 know, when people stop saying your name, that's when you're actually gone and 390 00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:04.199 gone for good. But that you and I will remain in people's stories for 391 00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:07.599 a minute or two, won't we. I hope, so, I truly 392 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:19.320 hope. So so. Being an avid fan, an epicurean and a gourmet 393 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.880 connoisseur and all those other really fancy words. You go to the banker every 394 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.000 once in a while, and when you leave the baker having bought a dozen 395 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:29.239 rolls, what do you get? You get a thirteenth one? Right, 396 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:34.639 So that's the spirit of this next question. It's a free question, and 397 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:39.400 I would just like to know what is the thing that most people misunderstand about 398 00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:49.400 you? Linda. I wanted it on my tombstone to be written. She 399 00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:54.920 meant, well, I am the eldest sibling, an E. R. 400 00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:06.159 Traman nurse. You have autonomy and a pretty better not a wallflower. And 401 00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:10.360 I think I come in and I want to make things better. I want 402 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:15.000 to help. And it's like, Lord knows, I like, I go 403 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:21.079 through my little recipe cards of life experiences when somebody's going through it, and 404 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:27.440 I think sometimes me bringing up things that and what I'm trying to say to 405 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:32.079 them is I understand I've been through this, that there's empathy here. This 406 00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:36.719 is what I did. And people misunderstand that and they go, oh, 407 00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.360 bringing it around to you again. So I think intentions. I go, 408 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:47.840 my sister was intubated and I'm a nurse and I walking into work and I 409 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:54.440 get this phone call. Your sister's back as hospitals, intubated, and she 410 00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:59.559 wants she asked me to call her sister. Oh my god, my baby 411 00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.199 sister meets her, her big sister, Oh my god, oh my god, 412 00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:08.519 oh my god. And I drove down there and I was like Duvall 413 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:14.159 on the beach at on Apocalypse. Now, I go, I owe my 414 00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:16.840 God, but I wanted to fix it. And make it better and take 415 00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:21.480 it. And it is a control thing to an extent, but it's not 416 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:30.360 I'm not meaning it with any My intentions are absolutely the best, and I 417 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:37.239 say what I say what other people are thinking, unfortunately, but it's not 418 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:42.199 for any I'm not doing it to hurt anybody or anything. It's just it 419 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.440 is what it is. There, you go, I don't know. I 420 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:51.360 think it's my intentions. I'm misunderstood and I only have the best of attentions, 421 00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:57.679 intentions I'm not I really am not a mean person or vindictive or any 422 00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:02.000 of those things. However, you come knocking at my door, it's like, 423 00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:07.079 no, don't, don't pick it with the big dogs. If you're 424 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.519 not ready, you know, and don't be surprised. But yeah, I 425 00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:17.079 would think I'm misunderstood for my intentions. It's because I love. It's if 426 00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:22.039 I didn't love, I wouldn't want to fix it or take care of things 427 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.920 or make it better. So you know what I'm doing now, Bill, 428 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:34.000 for fun, I'm finding hoarders and trying to clean their houses as a volunteer 429 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.480 thing. I go just because if they truly I don't want to fight with 430 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:42.880 them over getting rid of a gum wrapper. But if they're like that because 431 00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:46.000 or they live like that because they got sick and they can't do the things 432 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:52.280 that they used to, I'm right there, I am, And so that's 433 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:58.159 that I can definitely see how that would be therapeutic for you, you know, 434 00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:02.079 Thank you. Yeah, keeps me out of jail. Well, see 435 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:08.559 that's the summary of all of the published questions. But this is where I 436 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:15.719 ask you if you have any questions of me, absolutely I go. I 437 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:21.159 would really Well, you explained yourself at the beginning that this is your study, 438 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:27.360 which I applaud because you're constantly you love people so much, you're constantly 439 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:36.599 figuring out or seeing how they tick and to understand people. I think it's 440 00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:44.559 very difficult, but I think it helps in acceptance of anybody, anything, 441 00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:58.960 anywhere, and it helps you love so And I know I actually don't if 442 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:01.599 I hadn't talked to you in ages and ages, I'd probably have a slum 443 00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:07.239 and go get another cup of coffee. But we pretty much. Yeah, 444 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:15.119 I I You're happy that your I know you. So there's no questions why 445 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.039 you do what you do. It's because you love people so much, and 446 00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:24.039 so there, why do you love me? There you go. That's my 447 00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:31.719 question. Count the way you're one of the most intellectually stimulating human beings and 448 00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:36.360 and you are one of those really cool people, like there should be a 449 00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:39.760 sign on your forehead. My problem is is I think and my lips move, 450 00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:44.199 you know, and I'm the same way. And we have to like 451 00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:47.119 get debates all things back a little bit, you know. If you don't, 452 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:51.559 if you don't see subtitles, don't worry about it. My face is 453 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:55.920 what's going on right, So, uh no, there's there's a there's so 454 00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:04.679 much that's there straight talk. It's it's like always being accepting and always there 455 00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.840 with a you know, if you have to put on a size fifteen boot 456 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:09.639 every once in a while, you know, to give me a swift kick. 457 00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:14.000 How could I not love you? You know? And I do. 458 00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:17.199 I love you madly and I love how I feel when I think about you. 459 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:22.679 Okay, I love you me feel Okay, that's why, thank you. 460 00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:28.480 We'll go ask the people I'm visiting down that they have been friends of 461 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:32.719 mine since god I was like twenty five years old or something. But they 462 00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:38.360 live up in Lake Placid. I'm down in Florida right now with them they're 463 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:42.159 down here for a month. They invited me to stay for a month. 464 00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:47.599 Katie interjected, if you want to remain friends with them, only go for 465 00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:52.599 two weeks. Mom, because you and Jeff in a room together. She 466 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.840 goes, it's I don't even know how Patty does it. And Jeff and 467 00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:02.400 I are just NonStop, but we're both non stop talking about different subjects, 468 00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.760 and then we get random, like we could be on how great you know 469 00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:15.880 lightweight boxing was, and then go to do you think armadillo would bite you 470 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:22.559 if you kissed them on the lips? I love it and it's insane. 471 00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:24.800 God. No, that's a whole topic. Well, I'll tell you what, 472 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:28.760 As much as I hate to call this, you know, to a 473 00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:32.519 conclusion. You and I will talk afterwards. But in the meantime, for 474 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:36.199 all you folks at home, I got one more question for you. Is 475 00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:38.039 there anything else that you'd like to say to just kind of wrap up and 476 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:50.559 put a little bow on it. Life is nothing but rapid machine gun fire 477 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.360 for which you have to change hats all the time. I mean, you're 478 00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:58.719 you're a single person, then you're a working person, and you're a mom, 479 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:04.840 and then you're an empty nester. But all of these different phases that 480 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:10.599 you go through to be able to change hats and be cool with it and 481 00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:15.920 be okay with it, it's I think that that is what you need. 482 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:20.639 It's what is needed in order to survive, because you're not going to change 483 00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:25.360 the world. Per se life how it happens. I think they're all it's 484 00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:32.119 just it can be quite challenging, but that's just what life is and it'll 485 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:37.599 pass. And I think you need to face it because if you look at 486 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:45.239 that dragon, that fire breathing dragon, sometimes it's just smoke, you know. 487 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:51.880 It's I think if you face this stuff head on and not try and 488 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:59.519 go into denial or or medicate yourself through it, or drink yourself through it 489 00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:01.840 or any of those things, just feel it and get through it, and 490 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:06.599 you'll be stronger and wiser and you'll be able to help somebody else walk into 491 00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:14.400 I appreciate all of your thoughts that you've shared, I appreciate all your candidate 492 00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:20.159 answers, and I mostly appreciate you and your friendship. So with that said, 493 00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:23.800 I just want to remind all of you listeners that we are simple questions 494 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:29.639 for one hundred people, and I'm really loving this and I can't wait to 495 00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:31.840 have you on my podcast as well, so get in touch with me if 496 00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:36.440 you'd like to do that. And in the meantime, Linda, I love 497 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.360 you and thank you for your time today. Thank you Bill for having me 498 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:45.239 all right, bye bye, now bye, my friend. You've been listening 499 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:50.239 to Simple Questions for one hundred people, part of the x Audio podcast Network. 500 00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:53.840 You can find every episode at xbadio dot com, slash podcasts, the 501 00:44:53.880 --> 00:45:00.360 Apple podcast app, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and We're where you 502 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:07.599 find podcasts. Mm hmm