Welcome to the experiment, the one hundred person Project. Simple questions for one
hundred people. I'm Bill Corral and this is my investigation. It's my research
project to gather data from one hundred beautiful human beings for the sole purpose to
see what actually happens across the interviews. Now, the questions are fixed and
all the interviews will remain consistent with the variable being the actual participants themselves and
their answers. So it's as if I'm having you come sit on my porch,
Linda, to share your thoughts so I can learn about people. And
I'm looking forward to what we're going to learn at the end of this thing
when we're complete. But in the meantime, very interested in people, the
process, in your particular story. So you're all going to get to know
our guests through the interview. So let's just go ahead and dive in.
What is your full name? Hi, good morning Bell. My name is
Linda Jane McLaughlin. I'm just wondering if we're going to delve it. This
is going to be like this intense thing, like I should get a box
of Kleenex, like immediately, if not sooner. You know what it hasn't
happened before, but you know you and you know me. I do.
So. What what's your maiden name? I'm very I'm a nice Hungarian girl.
Yeah, I'm irish by a really bad decision, but that's a whole
nother story. We'll get there. What is your favorite nickname that most people
don't know? Hmmm, Well, I love my nickname from you where you
feminize the buddy, So being a buddyett is kind of cool. And I
know who's talking to me. But when I was little, it was Peaches,
and my uncle Joe called me Peaches up until he died, So I
love that. I just think it's the cutest thing. My uncle Joe still
always called me that. What's here remind you of? That's kind of an
interesting thing. I mean, when you think about him, your face got
all kind of like smiley, and it sounds to me like everybody has an
uncle Joe. I think that is just this spectacular human being who survived living
with ant Florence. In the name of God and all things holy. He
was just this jovial, always smiling, huggy bear kind of guy that just
enveloped me and I always felt so safe and loved when I was around him,
so that's why he was amazing. And if you went and talked to
Anti Flow's neighbors, Uncle Joe died way before she did, and all the
neighbors are upset over that goodness. Okay, all right, so I will
not use peaches inappropriately, at least not after the podcast, because what happens
in the podcast stays in the podcast. Okay, Well, it's cute and
called peaches when you're little, but when you're older, it's like you're a
belly fan dancer, pole dancer. Men could get smacked forther, you know,
in the wrong environment, right, Yeah, I suppose. Now I
don't think so because of my who I am, I'd be just laughing.
The more inappropriate humor that you can share, the more I applaud you.
I will bear that in mind as we go along. Peaches. Okay,
when did you first notice what color hair you had? Wow, that's funny
that you even bring that up, because I believe it was two weeks ago.
I had not gone to the hairdresser since September, and I remember looking
in the mirror and going, oh, that's what color my hair is,
and what are those gray things going? On. I don't even know,
but that was the first time, like in it really that I was aware
of what my hair color was? Ill, I know? And what did
that feel like? Frightening along with that woman that seems to live behind my
mirror. I don't know who the hell she is, but I really wish
she would leave because she's really annoying me and she needs a facelift. Well,
maybe you and I can work on that later on. Okay, we'll
get that woman in the mirror, you know, in line it whipped into
shape? Really, you know, back off? You know I have boundaries.
Okay, you do, don't you. I've never seen I don't think
my my bar could go any lower. Yeah, well, I wouldn't put
it that way. I would just say that you've got a capacity to love
so many people, no matter what they look like or who they are exactly.
Yeah. So this is kind of an interesting one because as long as
I've known you, and as well as I think I do, I'm probably
going to learn something here. What's your favorite thing to do to intentionally waste
time? Oh? I'm good at that lately, so as much as it
always used to upset me with people playing video games, on their phones.
I do a triple match three D, which that's an idle thing, and
time goes by. But I've also discovered thousand piece puzzles. Wow. Yeah,
and I thought it was that's been fun and pass us the time.
And I think I'm doing something and my daughter has she doesn't want me to
break them down. She wants to ultimately frame them, and I go why,
I don't understand it. But I think she's already, you know,
preparing my cremation. I think it's like at a certain point in time.
I remember when she decided I was a senior, and that was great because
I always got to ride shotgun after that, and now it's just a matter
of time before I fall and break a hip and go to God. That's
very cool. Okay, so you've got accomplishment accomplishes in your wasting time,
don't you. Absolutely? My little head and stops. Okay, So all
right, so we'll get back to the published questions, which is what is
your favorite movie to watch alone? I watch all my movies alone, so,
but my favorite movie is While You Were Sleeping. I just love it
with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, and it's a love happily ever after.
The characters are great. I always giggle and it's a feel good thing for
me. So how many times would you estimate that you've actually watched that?
Oh my word, I'm going to say a minimum of four times a year.
And whenever that movie first came out, and I'm thinking it might have
been in the eighties. I have no idea when it came out, but
I watch it quite frequently, so I'm guessing you could probably there another one.
Oh When the Canyon is the most recent one, and I just watched
that over like I serial watch it. It's it's really a great movie on
how folk became rock with the folk guitars becoming electric and the birds and and
then David Crosby hooking up with Stephen Stills and Stephen Stills was Buffalo's Springfield with
Neil Young and then they became Crosby Soll Snash and Young and yeah, good
stuff. So I love I can't get enough of it. There's all my
favorites. There was Joni Mitchell and Jackson Brown and all the Jacob Dylon is
the narrator, and there the Mama's and the Michelle Phillips from the Mamas and
the Papa Showcase. There. Oh, I don't want to ruin your good
time, but no, I'll tell you what you know this is, this
is like my happy place. Okay. Have you ever been to Laura Canyon?
No? But that was the place. Yeah. The easy way to
get that is go and join Amazon Prime and and check that they can avoid
some you know, minimize boxes, and they'll give you a little coupon or
something to get to buy a movie. So I bought that movie. It's
the only one I bought, and I watch it all the time. And
who says we don't give you value here on a hundred person right, Yeah,
I should write a book or something. There you go, well,
so we've got and then what was it Echoes in the Canyon. Yes,
Echo in the Canyon, Echo in the Canyon. Marvelous. And you know
the really interesting part of that too, is is that the fourth piece,
you know, and that Crosby Stills Nash and Young Graham Nash was introduced to
Stephen Still's by Joni Mitchell. So you know that came a little bit later,
and really honest, David Crosby discovered Joni Mitchell and brought her to California
didn't discover her, but founder and convinced her to come to California. From
there, she met yeah, little mister Nash one hundred percent, and they
all got together and sang around the campfire. Our house is, Nash wrote,
because of Joni in her house where she had all the parties one hundred
percent. I've actually been two cats in the yard. Yes, life used
to be so hard. Now everything is easy. Because that's the Nash wrote.
Joye No, Yeah, Nash wrote that, and Joni wrote something else
for them. I have no I can't right now, it's too early.
No worries. Okay, that's very good. I think we've gotten a lot
out of your intentionally wasting time in the movies you love. Okay, So
if you were to have an action figure made of you, what superpower would
it have, Linda? And what colors would the uniform be? Hmm?
I think it would be so cool to be invisible. So I would like
to be invisible, and then I need to snazzy it up, so I
would like my costume to be gold, white, gold, and rose gold.
So yeah, there you go. That's that's that's interesting. So those
times, yeah, before you go invisible, you may as well look cool
on the way right, sparkly one. So you're going to go from red
carpet to nobody knows if you've got anything on it all. It's invisible,
right is she? What is she wearing? Yeah? Exactly? So what
did you want to be when you grew up? And when you were five
years old? I have no aspirations At five, I was just living life.
That was it. No aspirations really, nope. I don't remember even
having aspirations until I was like in third grade, and that's when I wanted
to be a nun because that's around the time with your confirmation or your communion,
and boy are they drilling you. So I needed to and I remember
my mother was absolutely horrified and said they'll shave your hair. So that was
that. I'm trying to remember. Did you go Did you worship in our
Lady of Lords? Yes? And we had to know each other before I
thought I read. I got dropped off every Sunday and my mother picked me
back up. That was, you know. Our My mother said your father
was Catholic and we had you christened and I promised I'd bringing up in the
Catholic religion. So her idea of break of bringing me up Catholic was dropping
me off every Sunday. I had no idea where you went after she dropped
you off, but you got her card done right. Oh listen back then
at the Catholic church and you had to do confession before Sundays, and I
remember making things up because I didn't. I mean, how awful can you
be when you're in third grade? Although I did have a keen sense of
adventure, I did things without reason. There was no thought behind it.
I try and look back and think of why I did the things I did,
and there is no thought at all. I just think when I was
in first grade and we were getting our pictures taken for our school pictures,
I went and I curled my bottom lip down and kind of just did a
closed mouth smile with my lip curled down. And I remember the photographer stop
and he looks and he goes, what are you doing? Like, go,
I'm smiling. He goes like that, that's how I smile. And
I got that picture, and it's what that was the first time. I
don't even know where that came from. And my kids think that that's like
spectacular. There's a couple of things that in my life, like the fact
that I can open every time I lock myself out of my house, I
can open the lock with a credit card. Katie just thinks, I'm like,
way too cool for school. When did you learn to do that?
I go, I don't know. It's just a gift from God. And
isn't that what credit cards are for? I mean, that's really I don't
know. That's why I went. And I told her I always keep oh
here everybody. This might not be true, and I might have a pitbull
or something in the backyard, but I leave the door to my garage open
and I hide a key in there in case I do forget my keys,
which is quite often. And I went to go do it and the door
was locked. And I called Katie on the phone and went, did you
lock my garage door? She goes, yeah, I thought, you know,
Katie, nobody can even get to me from the garage. I'm on
a slab foundation. I just do that, Papapa. I go, never
mind, come over here and bring a couple of credit cards. And she
tried. She couldn't even get the video going. By the time I was
able to do that. It was just very cool. It's funny. That's
funny. I am just a plepetude of information, aren't I. I go
there it goes. You know, the B and e's in my area of
now gone up and how to get free movies. You just got it all
and we're not done yet. Wait no, you think i'd be dating more.
But no. You can fit that conversation in anywhere that you want to.
Here's a question that might lead you to that story. Oh, what
is your greatest accomplishment? Oh, probably the fact that I can dress myself
looking over my shoulder at my tumultuous past. That probably is. I don't
know. There's a lot of things, you know. You want to say,
Oh, my kids, well not necessarily, and my education e and
my career and I go, yeah, that was okay. And the fact
that I was a single mom and we didn't wind up in the projects and
I just worked and worked and worked, and all of these things. I
mean I I had nothing in the home minus nothing, eating out of food
closets with Katie who was twelve years old, and from there, having three
houses in Newport, Rhode Islands, and it was just working. I have
no drop your drawer stories. I just worked and just put all my money
into paying off the mortgages with the help of renters. Okay, well,
see that's the thing, you know, is you create a system whereby you
getting income off of it, and it works for everybody involved. And you've
really become a master at that for your nice, tidy little units, there's
no question about it. And I agree with you. You know, you
remind me of a meme that I saw this last week. I posted it
myself as a matter of fact, which basically said, sometimes just being alive
requires courage, you know, absolutely, And I think being a single woman
walking the planet is difficult. I mean, I don't have anybody to bail
me out if I may. I'm not afforded the luxury of making a bad
decision. It's all on me. And so yeah, it is. It
is hard, and I don't think I'm fearful. I just think it's exhausting
because you really can't let your guard down. So that's a whole another podcast
bill. We'll schedule that one, Okay, absolutely, notice till my voice
just went Yeah, that one can have all sorts of different words in it,
but this one we're keeping clean. And I know, I know that
there. There's a lot of story going on with you, no doubt about
it, And this next question will actually give you an opportunity to maybe focus
on that just a little bit. Who is your favorite person to listen to?
Oh? I love listening to the narrator of all Ken Burns documentaries,
Peter Coyote. Oh my god, Yes, that's who I love. If
you stop and think about it, if you go, oh, who do
I like to listen to? Is it music? Well, I've got such
a vast love from Sarah Brightman on down to you know, I don't know
traffic and cream. I go, it's but listening. I find his voice.
That's how I can go to sleep. I just put it on his
voice. I just love it. Ye. I have listened to the Roosevelts
documentary at least five times a week for the past ten years. I go,
oh, my god, just to I just love that soothing. It's
ye, ladies and gentlemen. Yet another valuable tip from our guests. No
doubt, Aboulcome, You're welcome. I was listening to right before you and
I got busy getting on here. I was listening to an original from nineteen
sixty five or nineteen sixty six, Steve Winwood doing John Barleycorn must die.
Stevie Winwood, I swear to God I have saved a little ovary thing for
him. I just always I was a trap I've been a traffic fan my
whole life. And when I was raising my kids, and I raised them,
we lived in a log cabin in a neighborhood, but it was set
back an acre, and there was an acre behind us. And when it
snowed, we had big picture windows and holly trees out in front, and
the cardinals and the blue jays and the Scotch pines and the waxy leaves and
the red berries. And I put my couch in front of the window and
I would just crank cream blind faith and traffic, change, smoke and drink
coffee. Back in the day when I did change, when I did smoke,
and I was a smoke them if you got them girls. So that's
a whole nother story too. Stop. Not only does everybody would be able
to save money and be able to go to Italy at least once a year,
but you don't even want to ever ever not be able to breathe.
It's awful, absolutely awful. So I'm going to do something with what you
just said, and I completely agree with you. Your miracle. You are
a freaking miracle. There's no doubt in my life. There's nobody that I
know that's been able to pull off what you've been able to pull off in
the last three or four years. I would love it if you could just
say a little bit more about that. I've lost two sisters, you know,
to lung cancer and emphysema, and once you start that downhill slide,
that's almost like this is over. You really need to gather your family together
and you know, figure out what's what. But Linda, you really showed
something to the world by taking care of yourself. Exactly. If you're here,
I go. Lord knows, I can talk forever without taking a breath.
But what had happened. It helps being a nurse because unless you have
an amputated arm, you will not go to the hospital. So I had
this horrible I was going into respiratory failure. I went to my doctor's office.
I had Katie's friend follow me or bring me there is what it was.
And she goes, I'm calling an ambulance. You're going to go And
I said, absolutely not. So she gave me nebulizer treatments while I was
there. I got I think it was decadron or soli amedro and the bomb
I got so that would be a steroid, but shot a roseephin. She
sent me home with a slew of of medications. I remember sitting on the
couch in tripod position and my girls came and I'm thinking to myself, they're
running all over my little house and I'm going to myself, stay out of
my jewelry box. And yeah, and from there, I know that my
daughter Jessica made me turmeric and spirolina sprow spirriw. Yeah, I think that's
what I call. It's the blue algae milkshakes and stuff. And then from
there, I started researching because I'm a I'm a nurse, and I found
these supplements like nac an acetyl cysteine that they use for people with cystic fibrosis,
and CORTCEP mushroom supplements, and there were a couple other ones. So
I stopped smoking because that's what it took, is not being able to breathe.
I wouldn't even light so much as a candle. I was doing these
supplements working as a nurse. When I got well enough to go back to
work from the acute onset that I went through, and I went to my
doctor. I have a pulmonary doctor who's amazing, and I said, I
am just so surprised. I go, it had to be all these supplements,
and she goes, oh, no, our lungs have a big capacity
to find new avenues and all this stuff. And then when I stopped nursing,
all of a sudden, all my pulmonary function testing went pretty much in
the toilet because I was running sixteen hours a day during the pandemic when I'd
come into TREA with forty people in the waiting room and a twelve hour wait
and running them to the ed that now is from fifty people to one hundred
and fifty and so I wasn't doing that anymore. I started with strength training
recently, maybe for six months now, and when I went, I'm one
hundred and twenty percent better than I was last year, And she said,
here you go again. You're lung got from the strength training got stronger,
and your heart is a muscle and it got stronger with the strength training too,
So there you go. Oh, I have one question to kind of
put this all into perspective at the worst, when you were at that point
where you were still deciding whether to quit smoking or not. No, there
was no no deciding. No, you actually had a diagnosis, didn't you.
Oh, I'm a copder and physeema chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a COPD.
But they also now do blood work where they can see they do like
not DNA, it's testing where I am an anti trips in one deficient person,
which means I'm missing a protective enzyme for my lungs. Because I had
lived for a little bit with a ninety six year old woman who was a
smoker until she died. And I'm going why. I loved the smoking.
I go and it kept my weight down. I was very good, and
I mean that it was soothing. I was a thumbsucker until I think I
was eighteen years old, and it was peer pressure of going off to college
that made me stop that. But the cigarettes did the oral gratification thing,
and then from there that's how people gain weight, because yeah, you keep
it going. It's like, how do you don't want a cigarette after dinner
if the meal never ends? You know exactly exactly. Thank you for all
of that. I really appreciate that. That's I mean, the honest to
God, that's gold. And that's one hundred percent why I do this podcast
with people you know, and if nobody, if everyone listening, can just
get hope with someone you know and love or yourself, you've got to take
the action, don't accept the diagnosis and just get and then lie down.
You know. Well, the thing is if if and I understand it's exhausting,
I mean when people are in stages of COPD, just eating uses up
all their oxygen. But if all you can do is walk three feet,
then walk three feet and then for like three days, and then walk four
feet for three days, I mean, just keep it going, just keep
moving, but do smart things. I mean, to keep smoking when you
have no lung capacity and think you're gonna use oxygen's going to do it for
you. That doesn't even do it. So anyway, that's another problem story
kind of into this next question. Okay, now that you're going to around
for a few minutes, which I'm really happy and thankful for, complete this
sentence. When I grow up, i'd like to wow, I think I
have the emotional stability of a twelve year old. So I'm not saying that
I've even grown and I don't know what. I'm just happy being. I
don't I'm now now I go. I don't think I have any aspirations to
do anything other than things that I love now. So when I grow up,
I don't know. I want to keep on being. Are looking at
life like a child there, you know, that's taking great joy and beautiful
colors of flowers and textures outside and how many colors can you see? And
on the beach, you know, we were doing that yesterday, how many
colors watching this big ocean and it was sunset and gray and steel and silver
and white and lavender and purple and pink and coral, and reveling in that
and really enjoying it, I mean in my heart, like like I feel
it. It's it's wonderful. And I hope I never lose that. Yeah,
that's my wish for you, by the way, and I thank you.
You know, you are at the moment the poster child of somebody who
turned out. You work all your life and you and or most of the
time that I've known you, there's been something that's kind of been in your
face and in your way and now for the first time you can actually see
what's going on and you like being in the now here. Yeah, and
it was because of that. When you are first alone or there is a
it's a sadness. I certainly there's parts of my life that weren't on my
cue card, but being able to have friends you specifically were one of them
that not only listened, but would give you a tool. I mean,
just give you a tool hang up, and without carrying that weight and bringing
you down, you were uplifting. I knew I wasn't alone. I knew
I had somebody that I so I couldn't say I'm oh my god, I'm
all by myself because I wasn't. It was a lie that I was telling
myself, which also triggers more anxiety, and the flip side of that is
depression. And I go, well, I'm just gonna lay on this here
couch for a while until you think you're going to get muscle wasting, and
then you know it's So that was wonderful. That was wonderful, and I
wanted to add in a tool. Yeah, it's great to listen, but
there's got to be something in your arsenal of life that you can throw a
little bone to somebody and go, I don't know if this will work for
you, but this helped me, so maybe you could try it. But
seeing that there's another avenue in it, it's not roadblocked, that there's other
hallways that you can travel on that I never Sometimes when you're in the forest,
you can't see the trees and it takes somebody else to be able to
help you with that. Absolutely, I call that giving sighted guide to somebody
who who is myopic at the moment. You know. Yeah, so this
is we've covered so much, Linda, But I'm going to ask you this
question exactly as it is, and let's see where it takes us. What
is the most important thing in life to you right now, you know,
beyond being in the moment. Well, I always laughed being a nurse and
I worked as an LPN first while I was going to school to be an
RN, and I worked in nursing homes in a cute care long term care
bah bah bah, and I realized I used to laugh that the answer to
life, what it all comes down to at the end, is one decent
bowel movement a day. So now I'm here and I go. But food
is a good meal is so exciting for me. And travel. I want
to travel and see the world while I can still walk. But it's for
the cultural aspect of it. I'm the people and the food and the architecture
and the art and oh my word, it's just this planet is amazing.
Yes, And you're somebody who's put a few miles on in the last ten
years, haven't you shut up and eat that to yourself? Okay? I
mean in the world you're still under warranty. My friend still Katie that,
yeah, I will. I didn't talk to her, but I texted with
her last night. So here's the Yeah. So what would you like to
leave in the world after your life is done? A smile and a funny
story. That's what I want people to just think of me and can't help
but laugh or smile for whether it's from one extreme of maybe when I was
going through for whatever. There's always a funny story. There's something bananas.
You can turn around and look at it and laugh. When it's all over
and the tremors have stopped, you can look at it and go, holy
moly, that was hysterical. There's lots of funny things, but that's what
I want to be. At first, I wanted to be remembered for something
profound and really like, the planet's not going to know I was even here.
But if people that I've touched or been with can have fun with me
and smile and laugh, I go. I think I will have that.
That's the biggest thing I could probably leave. Yeah. Yeah, there's an
old saying that you don't pass until the last person says your name. You
know, when people stop saying your name, that's when you're actually gone and
gone for good. But that you and I will remain in people's stories for
a minute or two, won't we. I hope, so, I truly
hope. So so. Being an avid fan, an epicurean and a gourmet
connoisseur and all those other really fancy words. You go to the banker every
once in a while, and when you leave the baker having bought a dozen
rolls, what do you get? You get a thirteenth one? Right,
So that's the spirit of this next question. It's a free question, and
I would just like to know what is the thing that most people misunderstand about
you? Linda. I wanted it on my tombstone to be written. She
meant, well, I am the eldest sibling, an E. R.
Traman nurse. You have autonomy and a pretty better not a wallflower. And
I think I come in and I want to make things better. I want
to help. And it's like, Lord knows, I like, I go
through my little recipe cards of life experiences when somebody's going through it, and
I think sometimes me bringing up things that and what I'm trying to say to
them is I understand I've been through this, that there's empathy here. This
is what I did. And people misunderstand that and they go, oh,
bringing it around to you again. So I think intentions. I go,
my sister was intubated and I'm a nurse and I walking into work and I
get this phone call. Your sister's back as hospitals, intubated, and she
wants she asked me to call her sister. Oh my god, my baby
sister meets her, her big sister, Oh my god, oh my god,
oh my god. And I drove down there and I was like Duvall
on the beach at on Apocalypse. Now, I go, I owe my
God, but I wanted to fix it. And make it better and take
it. And it is a control thing to an extent, but it's not
I'm not meaning it with any My intentions are absolutely the best, and I
say what I say what other people are thinking, unfortunately, but it's not
for any I'm not doing it to hurt anybody or anything. It's just it
is what it is. There, you go, I don't know. I
think it's my intentions. I'm misunderstood and I only have the best of attentions,
intentions I'm not I really am not a mean person or vindictive or any
of those things. However, you come knocking at my door, it's like,
no, don't, don't pick it with the big dogs. If you're
not ready, you know, and don't be surprised. But yeah, I
would think I'm misunderstood for my intentions. It's because I love. It's if
I didn't love, I wouldn't want to fix it or take care of things
or make it better. So you know what I'm doing now, Bill,
for fun, I'm finding hoarders and trying to clean their houses as a volunteer
thing. I go just because if they truly I don't want to fight with
them over getting rid of a gum wrapper. But if they're like that because
or they live like that because they got sick and they can't do the things
that they used to, I'm right there, I am, And so that's
that I can definitely see how that would be therapeutic for you, you know,
Thank you. Yeah, keeps me out of jail. Well, see
that's the summary of all of the published questions. But this is where I
ask you if you have any questions of me, absolutely I go. I
would really Well, you explained yourself at the beginning that this is your study,
which I applaud because you're constantly you love people so much, you're constantly
figuring out or seeing how they tick and to understand people. I think it's
very difficult, but I think it helps in acceptance of anybody, anything,
anywhere, and it helps you love so And I know I actually don't if
I hadn't talked to you in ages and ages, I'd probably have a slum
and go get another cup of coffee. But we pretty much. Yeah,
I I You're happy that your I know you. So there's no questions why
you do what you do. It's because you love people so much, and
so there, why do you love me? There you go. That's my
question. Count the way you're one of the most intellectually stimulating human beings and
and you are one of those really cool people, like there should be a
sign on your forehead. My problem is is I think and my lips move,
you know, and I'm the same way. And we have to like
get debates all things back a little bit, you know. If you don't,
if you don't see subtitles, don't worry about it. My face is
what's going on right, So, uh no, there's there's a there's so
much that's there straight talk. It's it's like always being accepting and always there
with a you know, if you have to put on a size fifteen boot
every once in a while, you know, to give me a swift kick.
How could I not love you? You know? And I do.
I love you madly and I love how I feel when I think about you.
Okay, I love you me feel Okay, that's why, thank you.
We'll go ask the people I'm visiting down that they have been friends of
mine since god I was like twenty five years old or something. But they
live up in Lake Placid. I'm down in Florida right now with them they're
down here for a month. They invited me to stay for a month.
Katie interjected, if you want to remain friends with them, only go for
two weeks. Mom, because you and Jeff in a room together. She
goes, it's I don't even know how Patty does it. And Jeff and
I are just NonStop, but we're both non stop talking about different subjects,
and then we get random, like we could be on how great you know
lightweight boxing was, and then go to do you think armadillo would bite you
if you kissed them on the lips? I love it and it's insane.
God. No, that's a whole topic. Well, I'll tell you what,
As much as I hate to call this, you know, to a
conclusion. You and I will talk afterwards. But in the meantime, for
all you folks at home, I got one more question for you. Is
there anything else that you'd like to say to just kind of wrap up and
put a little bow on it. Life is nothing but rapid machine gun fire
for which you have to change hats all the time. I mean, you're
you're a single person, then you're a working person, and you're a mom,
and then you're an empty nester. But all of these different phases that
you go through to be able to change hats and be cool with it and
be okay with it, it's I think that that is what you need.
It's what is needed in order to survive, because you're not going to change
the world. Per se life how it happens. I think they're all it's
just it can be quite challenging, but that's just what life is and it'll
pass. And I think you need to face it because if you look at
that dragon, that fire breathing dragon, sometimes it's just smoke, you know.
It's I think if you face this stuff head on and not try and
go into denial or or medicate yourself through it, or drink yourself through it
or any of those things, just feel it and get through it, and
you'll be stronger and wiser and you'll be able to help somebody else walk into
I appreciate all of your thoughts that you've shared, I appreciate all your candidate
answers, and I mostly appreciate you and your friendship. So with that said,
I just want to remind all of you listeners that we are simple questions
for one hundred people, and I'm really loving this and I can't wait to
have you on my podcast as well, so get in touch with me if
you'd like to do that. And in the meantime, Linda, I love
you and thank you for your time today. Thank you Bill for having me
all right, bye bye, now bye, my friend. You've been listening
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