Speaker 1: So for fifty plus this week. It's my birthday.
Speaker 2: My birthday is coming up this week, and and I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, there is.
Speaker 1: That's all we gotta talk about. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I used to sell candy.
Speaker 2: We had Helen Graces, but we also had this one
Speaker 2: called World's Finest Chocolate.
Speaker 1: And you and I know you guys.
Speaker 2: I don't if you guys sold candy when you were
Speaker 2: growing up, but it was like there was there was
Speaker 2: like you had to sell like you get ten or
Speaker 2: twenty bars per box, and you had to sell them
Speaker 2: for a dollar. Back then it was a dollar, and
Speaker 2: you would they were towards something and it was funny.
Speaker 2: I remember once I jumped for a zone and they
Speaker 2: were like, you have to pay that back.
Speaker 1: They're like three dollars a blocks hour.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I was in a Chevron gas station, a Chevron
Speaker 2: gas station, and I saw World's Finest Chocolate.
Speaker 1: I'm like for a dollar, I'm like, what.
Speaker 2: I have not seen this since I was like in
Speaker 2: high school, which was nineteen eighty seven. I've seen how
Speaker 2: the gracist is, but I never seen World's Finess. So
Speaker 2: here's what it looks like. This is the Christy one
Speaker 2: this is the milk chocolate these used to sell. We
Speaker 2: said one it was caramel to this thing. If you
Speaker 2: remember this thing is tiny right now. In the old days,
Speaker 2: it was this size, was one even bigger. I think
Speaker 2: it was like a little longer and bigger. It was
Speaker 2: this size made of one. Now it's two. It is
Speaker 2: crazy how that went down. And I'm like, what happened,
Speaker 2: World's finest? Why are they like this? I don't understand.
Speaker 2: It was crazy talk. So I'm thinking of my just
Speaker 2: thinking of my childhood and all the years I I
Speaker 2: sold candy, and I'm just like the world has gone
Speaker 2: crazy and it's gone crazy and candy. And no, it's
Speaker 2: not that I thought that I was smaller. Out of
Speaker 2: the bars were bigger. The people back then, if you
Speaker 2: were doing it, you were you were doing it. You
Speaker 2: know how big things were. I just it's it's funny
Speaker 2: because I think back at school. I was never fully
Speaker 2: a school person. I mean I went to school, was practical.
Speaker 2: School was school was that I knew I had to do.
Speaker 2: And I was popular in school, not because I tried
Speaker 2: to be or anything. I just I was a friendly person.
Speaker 2: I was called a group hoopper. I could go to
Speaker 2: different groups. I could be with the rockers, I conna
Speaker 2: be with the volleyball kids. I'd be with the smarties
Speaker 2: and with the nerds. Like I just, I went just wherever.
Speaker 2: I was in Spanish club, I was in this guy,
Speaker 2: I was in drama with it.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I just I just moved around a lot, and I
Speaker 2: had a lot of friends. Always had a lot of friends.
Speaker 2: So I think, I just I'm just thinking back on
Speaker 2: all that and and I there's sometimes I missed it
Speaker 2: a little bit because life is getting harder now at
Speaker 2: this age and other stuff, and I'm just like those
Speaker 2: carefree days are having to worry about school and worry
Speaker 2: about maybe a spelling beach championship or a soccer game
Speaker 2: coming up. You know, we try to grow so fast,
Speaker 2: and I had to grow up really fast because my
Speaker 2: home situation and plus the gen X are we just were.
Speaker 2: We were basically bor and grown and so I had
Speaker 2: no choice. But I guess. So I look back at
Speaker 2: my life as my birthday approaches, and not looking back
Speaker 2: my life, I believe my twenties in some thirties I
Speaker 2: made up for it. I did a lot.
Speaker 1: I did a lot of st I had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun.
Speaker 2: I will say that I was working hard, but I
Speaker 2: had a lot of fun and did a lot of
Speaker 2: different things and had a good time. And I think
Speaker 2: I made up for some of those things. And I
Speaker 2: mean even when I was a teenager. I mean I
Speaker 2: had fun, but I was on a mission.
Speaker 1: Like I am now.
Speaker 2: I'm always on a Missionways want you something, I'm just
Speaker 2: thinking back on. Wow, those are the days. There were
Speaker 2: some good days. I think about it sometimes and things
Speaker 2: like selling this chocolate. It just it just it takes
Speaker 2: you back, and I don't know, just it's it's very interesting.
Speaker 2: This one's peanut free and gluten free. Oh dang, So
Speaker 2: I why I share that as I'm getting ready to
Speaker 2: turn fifty six or by the time you watch this,
Speaker 2: roady fifty six, I could be year older already. Depends
Speaker 2: on what when this comes, when you watch it, you
Speaker 2: put it out on Tuesdays. It depends on when you're
Speaker 2: watching it. I think you were watching I know. I
Speaker 2: do this as a audio show, but occasionally do video
Speaker 2: versions because I really wanted to show the the skinny things.
Speaker 1: I'll put them over here somewhere some later. hYP birthday
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: I missed the seventies and eighties sometimes actually it's ninety
Speaker 2: sometimes too.
Speaker 1: As you know, as a young adult, you know it
Speaker 1: was hard too. It's hard.
Speaker 2: Life is there's something else. There's something else, you guys,
Speaker 2: really is, and being fifty plus is something else also,
Speaker 2: and that's so profound. But I just sometimes you just
Speaker 2: start words. It's it's it's about feelings. You anybody, you
Speaker 2: feel it, And I'm glad I made it here, obviously,
Speaker 2: but you have no ideas what you get here, what
Speaker 2: it's like. That's I guess the best way to say
Speaker 2: it to say, you just see this. It's it's a
Speaker 2: different it's a different stage of life. It really is
Speaker 2: than forties or thirties or twice, a different age your
Speaker 2: life that you start to enter, you.
Speaker 1: Go into.
Speaker 2: And I know you'll go online, you'll scroll through the
Speaker 2: Instagram on Facebook and yeah, people will tell you, no,
Speaker 2: it's not any different, No, it's not any of this.
Speaker 1: No now now, no, oh my god, what's wrong?
Speaker 2: You know? It's age. I think a number of stuff
Speaker 2: and in some cases that's true, right, in some instances
Speaker 2: that is just a number, and our person, I'm a
Speaker 2: toll example of someone who has never been held back.
Speaker 1: I try whatever I want to try whenever I try it.
Speaker 1: But I was saying that it's it.
Speaker 2: It looks and feels different these days physically and mentally,
Speaker 2: and you're handling different things now these days too.
Speaker 1: That's what it is there, So.
Speaker 2: Anyha, I will continue to talk about this subject and
Speaker 2: others on this show fifty plus on Tuesdays from JLJA Media.
Speaker 2: I'm James Nott Junior. Anybody else's turning anybody else's fifty
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