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Milestones: The Markers That Define Our Journey
What are the moments that define your life's journey? The signposts that mark where you've been and how far you've come?
In this deeply personal episode, Scott, Jim, and Keith dive into the concept of personal milestones—those significant markers that represent key moments in our individual paths. Through heartfelt storytelling, the hosts reveal their most meaningful achievements and the life lessons learned along the way.
Scott shares the powerful full-circle moment of wrestling professionally in the same Tennessee venue where he watched his first match as a child—a testament to perseverance and childhood dreams realized. Jim opens up about becoming a father at 40 after 13 years of marriage when he and his wife had nearly given up hope, now navigating raising a kind-hearted son in a sometimes harsh world. Meanwhile, Keith reveals his triumph over an educational system that failed him, and how obtaining his GED represented not just academic achievement but personal vindication.
The conversation expands to explore other significant milestones—from military service to homeownership after years in trailer parks—while acknowledging a friend's one-year sobriety anniversary. Throughout, the hosts emphasize that milestones differ for everyone, with each person's journey uniquely their own.
What emerges is a powerful reminder that whether big or small, every achievement deserves recognition. As the hosts put it, "Be proud of what you did in life, man, even the smallest things matter." In a world often focused on comparing ourselves to others, this episode invites you to celebrate your own path and the obstacles you've overcome.
What milestone are you working toward? Or which achievement deserves more recognition than you've given it? Share your thoughts and join the conversation about the markers that make our lives meaningful.
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On this episode of the Powerspoint Podcast. In the road of life, there are mile markers, personal milestones that represent key moments in our individual life's journey, whether that be graduating school, having children or reaching a fitness goal. Today we're talking about personal milestones. Hey Scott, give us some milestone music.
Speaker 2:Well, hello, hello, well, hello, hello, well, hello, hello. Welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 25. I'm your host, scott Powers. With me, as always, is the one and only Jim Banks.
Speaker 1:Hello everyone.
Speaker 2:And the man from Toledo, the one and only Keith Mackey.
Speaker 3:Hello everybody, Good to be back.
Speaker 2:Now, if you're just tuning in for the first time and wondering what the powers point podcast is all about, well, let me tell you real fast and you could decide whether you're staying or not. But we talk about anything and everything, with the exception of two things. We don't talk politics. We don't talk religion. Those are just like boars and lames and they start too much trouble amongst the family dinners. So there are other podcasts out there probably about 60,000 of them that you can find those subjects. But since we don't talk about it and you want to listen to something hopefully new, well, we try to give you a laugh or two, but no more than three. And we always say here if you have more than three, then yours. And Keith likes Twinkies man, so you can mail us some of those and I will get them to him. So finally, guys, I got that out. We are having technical difficulties with me today, you know, I couldn't even remember my own intro. But what have you guys been up to this week, man, because it's been crazy.
Speaker 1:Today my family we went to the Porter County Fair today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that kicking off today it started last night. Ludacris was the main stage last nighticrous was the the main uh stage last night no, he's on tonight oh nice, okay, yeah, because lauren day goes tomorrow and uh my wife and and uh lynn are going to go see him or her jeez, if some guy's named lauren something there was some country singer.
Speaker 1:She was on the side stage or something during the afternoon when we were there I wonder if they got rick dickulous.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, did you ever see that? It's an snl bit. When ludacris was on there, uh, keenan thompson came out and said he was a guy who grew up, uh, with ludacris and fucking. His name was rick barnes, but he changed his name to rick dickulous, just like ludacris changed his name.
Speaker 2:It's a ludicrous, that's funny hey look, let me ask you, jim, since you went to the fair yesterday, uh, no, today or today. Yeah, I'm listening, man, don't worry. Uh, how are the prices nowadays for like food? I know like a bucket of spuds was like 14 bucks at the festival down the street from my house and it's just tater tots, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the price has gone up again, like every year, but like a lemonade or an elephant ear. An elephant ear is like $8 or something and usually they were like five or something.
Speaker 2:You know something simple for years, or uh all that is is flour eggs and water yeah, and and throw it on the thing and then throw a little topping on it, I mean for crying out loud, and they are and they had a lemonade uh, like a strawberry lemonade thing was like six or something or seven.
Speaker 1:And then like uh, one with like bobo boba little pebbles or whatever it's in it. That cost like eight dollars or something, and just adding up every little thing, a bag of popcorn was six dollars. I'm like man, this stuff used to be like dollars, just a couple dollars, that's it, and I'm like it all adds up to like 50 bucks you've spent or something. I'm like what?
Speaker 2:now let me ask you did you do the free before three or?
Speaker 1:our cousins, uh, had had passes, okay, and we went with them and they're they're like in 4-H, my cousin's daughters, and they do like tons of stuff every year. They do like baking, they bake stuff and competitions and they go to states. Some of their stuff's going to state, the fairs and stuff Photography.
Speaker 2:Lin's daughter shows animals like rabbits and goats.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were looking at the rabbits.
Speaker 2:I feel sorry for one goat. He's making his rounds. He was raised with the family and he's like a family pet. Well, after this last time in Lake County coming up in a couple weeks, they're sending them to market.
Speaker 1:And I'm like how can you do that man? That's crazy.
Speaker 2:You know, I was like man, how can I buy a goat? You know, like this thing, this thing is a couple of years old man, been around kids and all. Now we're going to be feeding on the fricking goat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they do the 4-h stuff and it's like baking, photography and sewing clothes and all that. And I'm like man, if, like an apocalypse happened, I'm getting with your family.
Speaker 2:Your daughters already know how to do a lot of that old world stuff they're the ones that uh threw a birthday party for lynn's uh kids horse, uh, and and I went to that birthday party and everybody's singing happy birthday to a damn horse with a cake, you you know, as a special made for the horse. And then I'm sitting amongst the women because the guys they went and did something, the guys were all horses, they were getting the drinks.
Speaker 2:They were all talking about how to clean a chicken and how to kill it in the proper way and how to bleed it and like in my head, I'm like man. How am I not a vegetarian man? How am I not? Because?
Speaker 1:I don't want to hear about it, just put it in front of me thing is I'm thinking about we're all joining stuff, because that's the stuff we're all going to need to know If, like, any kind of our Wi-Fi's or electricity in our world gets taken out the satellites or something and we have to go back to primitive times. We're going to need to know that stuff.
Speaker 2:I always tell them that they're a cult.
Speaker 3:No, by definition kind of you know.
Speaker 2:People have got to know those skills.
Speaker 1:You've got to keep the skills going.
Speaker 2:That's what home, ec and school is for.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:It's a.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like a Teemu app.
Speaker 2:I listened to a radio show from 1935, 1936, and I'm just laying there and it says be sure to support your 4-H, your local 4-H. And I was like man even back then, dude, they were like cult status.
Speaker 1:They weren't cult. Well, the main reason we went today cause it was the weather was perfect. It was like 70 degrees and the rest of this week is supposed to be like up to climbing to nineties and stuff.
Speaker 2:So we can't Severe thunderstorms tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, we got them today.
Speaker 1:Oh, so they're coming from you, thanks, Pretty much all that happened to us Me. I started them.
Speaker 2:Now do you let Jimmy ride rides, or does he just?
Speaker 1:No, we didn't. We didn't want to do the rides, we just wanted to go walk around, look at the exhibits that my cousin's daughters were in, and then just get some fair food and that's it.
Speaker 2:About three hours there. I just don't trust those rides, man, as much as they go up and down.
Speaker 1:Well, when you go to the kids, they're up in a day down in a day. Yeah, when you go to the kids area where they have the games and the rides, that's the carny area.
Speaker 3:That's where they're going games and the rides, that's the carny area, that's where they're gonna just take your money and just rip you off everything. Yeah, do you think they might possibly? With the fact that they uh through repetition, then maybe it might be even a little safer. You know what I mean if they're putting them rides up and down and all the time that they're. You know, they got such a rhythm on it that they can.
Speaker 3:Maybe you know I mean they'll secure them a little more than maybe something that, only that stays up, and all they got to do is is, if it breaks, then they go look at it we still have uh accidents in the area.
Speaker 2:On rides like ferris wheels break in, tilt the world's breaking uh. Imagine that being on the tilt the world. When you're got this g-force on you, man, it shoots off the thing.
Speaker 1:Man, that'd be really crazy the biggest one they have over there is like a stick in the sky and it has two little cages on each side and it just goes up and it's spinning all around and I'm like man that's high up, could you imagine that thing just launching you?
Speaker 2:yeah they used. They used to have a, a double ferris wheel, uh, that they would bring and they were big. And then I've never seen like a ferris wheel on top of a ferris wheel, uh, that they would bring, and they were big, and then I've never seen like a ferris wheel on top of a ferris wheel and it's the craziest thing in the world and it rotates, you know. So both of them get to go up in the air.
Speaker 1:It's pretty cool, but when you hear the metal creaking, man, it's like not cool they should go back to the old days where I remember I was a kid they used to have camels and stuff there and you get to ride a camel. I mean, how many times you get to do that in life?
Speaker 2:remind me to tell you about a camel story from the devil, oh my god, here's mr military nice, yeah, I'll tell you one day off, off of here it's crazy making a segment called military tales or something there, you go there you
Speaker 3:go see. I always assumed everyone had. Uh, I grew up so close to cedar point, I assumed everyone had something like a cedar point until I would go there as an adult and then you would see you know people who were coming from like states and states away. You know what I mean, and like long hours. I tell you, the most I would meet people would be from Chicago, like if I would talk to someone where you're from Chicago, we're from Chicago, it's like. So I feel like a lot of people from Chicago like to go to to Cedar Point. It is a fun place well, cedar.
Speaker 2:Cedar Point holds a record for having the most roller coasters in the theme park, right still to this day.
Speaker 3:It's the most and the biggest and like the most biggest.
Speaker 2:So it's like there and they shut down the one because, uh, some dude got, uh, that was the worst one. And at cedar lake man, the race car one that it went, uh, shot out and went straight up 234 feet yes and sometimes it doesn't have the momentum to go all the way all around.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then it slides all the way back around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then it would slide back down while a bolt fell yeah, off the thing one of those big bolts man hit a dude right in the dome. Man, oh man, yeah, I think he uh, he's uh, not no longer like a uh okay person like he's mentally gone, yeah, yeah it's at the play.
Speaker 3:It is a really a spectacular place. You got to be a real jerk to ruin a day at cedar point all right, you ever been there, jim, if you catch what I'm saying never been there you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:You got to be a straight asshole to ruin a day at cedar point you know, I mean, and you got to happen to be sitting in the same chair as me right now. If you're that same guy, that same asshole who did that very thing, you know they're still talking about it in the bars to this day they are yeah yeah, all right, I made a note. Go to cedar point ohio without you know, yeah, just make sure you don't bring me, because I'll fuck the day up. Dude, honestly, it.
Speaker 2:They actually have challenges, man. It's like a time period and you have to try to get to go on all the roller coasters and and not a lot of people do the whole circuit they actually have to sit and plan it out and how they they want to move around the park. It's super nice man. It's right around the lake, it's beautiful, it's cool man it is. And all we have is Gurney Mills, which is Six Flag Great America. It's like north of Chicago, but our big one. For Indiana. We have two in Indiana. We have Indiana Beach, which has been around since 1928. And then the other one's in Santa Claus, indiana. They have a big Christmas theme.
Speaker 1:Then we have Gary Indiana.
Speaker 2:Christmas Indiana. No, it's Santa. That's a marathon to run through there, it's an event there.
Speaker 3:You got to get out of there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's an event there, you got to get out of there.
Speaker 3:Yeah See, Heather, my wife until she met and married the great recluse here, had season passes for Cedar Point, and for her to go 20-some times in one season was not uncommon.
Speaker 2:We used to go every year with the band in school. It was like after we did the 4th of July parades we'd jump on the bus and go to Cedar Point Right and stay the night at a local holiday.
Speaker 3:Cedar was like an after-prom tradition Day after prom, everybody went to Cedar Point.
Speaker 2:That's how Six Flags is here, yeah.
Speaker 3:I went to neither, so let's just just say that what have you been up to keith?
Speaker 3:uh, I was just holding the house down, you know, I mean just a lot of that, a lot of cooking, a lot of, uh, getting back to normal eating habits and that kind of stuff. So I'm pretty happy, you know. I mean as far as that goes, I mean dealing with my hanging out with my two boys, my little golden guy and uh big, big dude right here that I feel if I sift my chair even slightly I'm going to roll over him.
Speaker 2:Right on One dally, you know this is the longest I've gone without ever owning my own dog.
Speaker 2:I got five in the house but they're not my dog, you know right it's just I feel guilty because I work midnights every single night, so I'm gone. I sleep during the daytime, so I'm not fun to have with. You know, I have to have like a senior citizen dog or something who just wants to sleep during the day with me and uh, but like if I want to go on a trip or something who just wants to sleep during the day with me and uh, but like if I want to go on a trip or something, then I don't have to worry about, right, my dog, you know so, uh, but yeah, there's enough dogs here.
Speaker 3:But I never thought it was lack of like desire to have one. I know you love the dogs. That's why any you know well, when common died, you were the first person. You know, I mean, you were the first person I didn't do it? Oh okay, I hope not, buddy but, yeah, well, like I said you was, you know, I mean, like I said you was the first person I told about it, you know?
Speaker 2:yeah, you know, and man, I like absolutely, love, love my own pets, you know.
Speaker 3:Not literally, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not that stuff, that's illegal.
Speaker 1:Okay, wink, wink.
Speaker 3:They're pushing, probably, for it not to be, though they're inching their way there.
Speaker 2:It's like that famous Valparaiso chicken effort. The guy got caught in a motel banging chickens.
Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God, oh my God, it was messy jim. Tell me, you've never heard that I?
Speaker 1:I've heard something of it. I can't remember how long ago was that oh man, I was in the 90s, dude I remember hearing something that made the news and it showed the guy's face.
Speaker 2:Dude, I'm like that. Dude's never going to outlive that man no, it's probably not.
Speaker 1:No, all the things that all, All the things Indiana's known for. Put chicken fucker on top of it too.
Speaker 2:Well, we're good for pork tenderloins, we're good for Indiana beads, we're good for chicken fucking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, talk about the clan Meth and then chicken fuckers. That's Indiana.
Speaker 2:Oh, and the dunes oh yeah, tom Petty. But yeah, so we're running long, that's okay.
Speaker 2:We got a good subject. Everybody on this earth has won. A milestone happened in your particular life. You know, like, things throughout your life that you did or achieved I would even say achieving uh that you're like super proud of something that you've learned from an experience that you've had. You know just a. So when we come back, we're going to dive into this topic, because there's no way, and green earth, that the three of us are all going to have the exact same things. So this will be interesting, right? So stay tuned. We will be back after these messages.
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Speaker 2:All right, welcome back uh, and we uh, we appreciate uh, whoever that was that just sponsored us.
Speaker 1:But we're getting new ones, don't worry dude, I'm laughing at everything.
Speaker 2:It's ridiculous, man. But uh, so before the commercial I said that everybody had that one thing in life, that they've hit a milestone. You know, like a first, uh, my first wrestling show. Uh, that that was a big first for me because as a as a kid growing up watching the road warriors and and the wwf and the nwa and the wcw, I want to be a damn wrestler.
Speaker 2:so a wrestling school happened, uh, by my parents house and uh, it was right down the street from me and man, they beat the hell out of me, dude, like uh, and it was uh kind of ridiculous and I didn't really care because I was doing something that I grew up watching.
Speaker 2:And the crazy thing is, when I used to stay the summers down in Tennessee, I used to stay with my uncle and aunt all the time down in Springfield, tennessee, and they would take me to their wrestling shows on on Thursday nights and they were in this building and my first match I ever seen was Jerry Lawler versus Boogie Woogie man, jimmy Valiant.
Speaker 2:Big match, big feud at the time. And fast forward, after we learned wrestling, after I'd been in wrestling for at least 20 years, I got a phone call and it was a promoter down in Tennessee and they asked if Law Order, which was Cade Lee, and myself, would come down and do a wrestling show. So I was like man, tennessee's like the mecca of wrestling to me, you know. So of course I'm going to go. And so Cade and I we went, and when I pulled up to the building, it was the building that I went to go see my first wrestling match in Wow, that was awesome for me, man, you know, and, and, and there was a little boy sitting in the same seat that I used to sit in every week when I was there, and, uh, I thought it was cool, man, and that was definitely one of the biggest milestones for me.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's wicked man, and that kid being there, that's symbolic, because that was you. You know what I mean and that's the thing. That's how gangster that is. Man, you did it and now you are that. How many people get to fucking say that? Not enough. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:How many people say well, it, and so I did it and now I am this, and that's people. They're watching law and order, you know, and you know, and that night I had to wrestle kate lee because something happened and our, our opponents didn't show up. So they're like won't you just wrestle him? You know, you guys know each other, and so I always tell everybody, I always tell everybody man in a singles match, hit me and however hard you hit me. That's how hard we play, you know yeah and dude.
Speaker 2:He slapped me so hard he broke my tooth out of my mouth wow and yes, but I didn't care, man, because people are like chanting and cheering and and damn, you know, like that's real. When your teeth go flying, I fit right in with them. You know, down there I was losing teeth, so but again that has to be up there in the top four, top two of my life, four top two of my of my life. I'd say like my third, uh, my, you know, yeah, because I can't put the wife I have now after wrestling you could do.
Speaker 1:This is a safe space. You could do anything you want category.
Speaker 3:That's. The thing is that you always do one of that say, well, I can't, you know, my, my children and all that say that kind of stuff almost should go without saying. But that's, you know. I mean it's a different category, it's a personal, you know, like a personal achievement. It's a different kind of thing it was.
Speaker 2:just it was. It was so cool man, because I took brintley alexander dawson. He just showed up with us and so they threw him in the match and, uh, you know, promoters, they usually tell the wrestlers man how long the match should be. So a normal match is like 12 to 13, 12 to 14 minute long. And me and Cade before we found out that the tag team wasn't coming we asked how long the match is and the guy's like 90 minutes and I was like 90? Who the hell wrestles for 90 minutes, man? Wow. So.
Speaker 2:So kade got up and he spit on his finger dude and the promoter didn't know us, you know. And he and the promoter okay, let's just make this milestone a little weirder man, the promoter was boogie woogie man, jimmy Valiant's son, which is the first person I ever seen wrestle down in Tennessee, so really went full circle. But yeah so, sean, he stood up, spit on his finger dude, and he raised the zero off of it and he's like nine sounds good. But yeah so, brentntley, he wrestled this one guy, man who was smoking a pack of cigarettes before he even got to the entranceway as his music's playing, he's like, and then he put it on the on the rail, you know, because he was halfway done and he walked out to the ring, yeah, so uh, addiction is real.
Speaker 3:Which kind of leads us into where we're going with this hey?
Speaker 2:hey, yeah, yeah. So that was like one of the biggest milestones for me. Like I said, what's one for you guys? Whoever wants to kick off?
Speaker 1:jimmy yeah, I had a. Mine would be have a child, because me and the wife were together for like seven years engaged you know a little bit too long. And then, uh, we got married and we just kept trying and trying and couldn't have a kid. And we thought after like 10 or more years, like this ain't going to happen and stuff, so we just stopped, you know, trying and stuff. And then all of a sudden, boom, like 13 years after marriage, it's like boom, you're going to have a kid. And I'm like wait, I'm 40 years old, what the hell. And then Were you scared.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was terrified. I'm like what the heck I mean? We were, we tried when, of course, my cousin, my oldest cousin, he uh had what's it called, uh, those fertility pills or something for the wife, for the woman trying to have a kid yeah and he and they had twins.
Speaker 1:And then they didn't take the pills. They were gonna have another kid and then they had natural twins after that, so they had like two sets of twins. Everybody's like why don't you just take, you know, those pills and stuff? And my wife was like, no, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, whatever someone's plan or whatever you know.
Speaker 2:If it's not talking about. Are you? Were you scared for the age I'm talking about?
Speaker 1:yeah, oh yeah scared now.
Speaker 2:Now I have to be, I'll step my game up you know, yeah, I had.
Speaker 1:Now I'm like I'm getting in this late. All my friends and family. I've had kids that are already like in their teens and stuff and we're not, we're just starting now in 2014 and stuff, and it's like, oh my god, I was so nervous. And then, with her being like older for the woman of the having the kid that they're going to, there's cop, the risk of complications and having something wrong with the kid is high and we were like so scared. And then they were like telling us, nope, he's going to be fine everything. And then, like every hospital visit, we were terrified, like they're going to tell us this time something's wrong or this time, and nope, we just kept thinking positive and he's perfectly fine, right on, and I met your kid and and jim is a cool little dude man.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, he's the most peaceful, doesn't want any fighting, no violence. He wants everybody to get along and be happy and he gives anything he has to people. Like he'll just give toys or like food or anything. Everybody. He just wants to be friends with everybody. He seemed like he's like he'll just give toys or like food or anything everybody.
Speaker 2:He just wants to be friends with everybody he seemed like he's like he's not he's not meant for this freaking evil world we have here he seemed like the, the kid who wants to learn a little bit about everything yeah, you know he's very inquisitive. You know because, like he was listening about the dog uh training thing, he was telling me about the wanting to do a youtube page or or whatever. You know, like he was, he always asked a lot of questions and his friends just want cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his friends just want to play like violent video games or like horrific stuff for 10 years old, and I'm like he doesn't want none of that gross stuff or evil, he's like I just want to. You know, let's all just have fun and play and everybody has fun and I'm like, okay, it's like he he's set uh, set back and like uh, I don't know uh, just niceness and stuff he's like abundant that's a great way to be man yeah, and I'm trying to tell him like positive, truthful things.
Speaker 1:I have to remind him all the time not everybody's going to like you and not everybody's going to want to do what you do and they're going to be mean, but you've got to stay positive and just trying to give him the straight talk and not the phony stuff. We were told Sugarcoat in.
Speaker 3:Does that give you a bigger fear of, uh, him being a little too trusting and and the snakes of the world being yeah? I have the same fear, with my daughter taking advantage of him because he wants to help and not, you know, realizing that the wolves are, are, everywhere yeah, even some.
Speaker 1:You know he some of his closest friends or, uh, others they're like they treat him a little bit, they ignore him or won't let him talk and stuff, and he gets real mad. And I'm like you just got to calm down, dude, and just I'm telling you nobody thinks like you and stuff, and you got to just not enough people. Yeah, I said it, you be yourself and stay at your own vibration. You know, put out what positive stuff and the people that like you and love you are going to come to you. If somebody's like repelling and don't want to be around you, they're going to try to get away from you yeah but just let people come to you.
Speaker 1:I just had.
Speaker 2:I just had this conversation with a grown-ass man cowboy you guys both, though yeah you know, he's another one who's like jimmy man, who, who tries to be nice to everybody, who tries to help everybody, you know, and then if somebody lets them down or something, it's like really like disheartening yeah what I mean and I I had to tell him I'm like dude, if they don't like you, who cares?
Speaker 2:There's people that do like you and they'll find you. You know, like everybody's type finds each other some way, man, you know, and it may not happen when you want it to, but it happens.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to tell him this stuff because, like when I was a kid and I would tell my mom, like mom, like, uh, kids picking on me or bullying me or something back in the 80s or something, she would say, oh, just try to be friends with them or try to be nice to them, and just you know, I'm like she would tell me like to be around them and stuff and try to like, well, you know they'll, they'll come around and stuff, and I'm like, no, they're not, they're just they're laughing and making it worse and stuff, pray hard enough and then god will help you.
Speaker 2:It's like okay. But yeah, dude, how about you, keith?
Speaker 3:uh, let's see the land. Well, I mean, I guess maybe first, before we talk about a personal one for me, i'd'd like to mention the inspiration for this episode and then, not necessarily, why I was such a jerk about presenting it. I didn't mean to be again. I'm sorry about that, guys, I didn't. I didn't mean that to come off the way it did. But my good buddy and my brother from another country, mr Bobby Bouhey, from up in Winnipeg, canada, is about to celebrate his one year of sobriety milestone tomorrow and I believe it'll be Saturday. It's Friday right now, so it'll be tomorrow. So hopefully we'll get this out either, you know, within some kind of comparable time to that. And you know I figured that's a big one. You know for him and you know he's a great guy, he deserves it, and fucking you know for him. And, um, you know he's a great guy, he deserves it, and fucking you know, uh, love your brother, love your mom, say hi to miss uh, brenda bouhey, and then your family and your son, luke, and all that.
Speaker 3:And I mean that's just the first one, so everybody's big one yeah, because a lot of people you know there's a lot, especially the people our age have gone through. You know the substance abuse in one form or another. You know what I mean. Some of some of us are on, like you know, long since the other side of it. Some of us not, you know in the throes of it currently. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:So it's good to know that somebody is at least trying to keep it positive like that, cause it's real easy to. That is, for whatever reason, that self-destructive side just seems real attractive. You know what I mean. And getting into that like, um, then you know when you know you're fucking up. You know what I mean. But it's like man, I'm still gonna do it. It's, it's easier than the what. You know what I mean and I'm glad that, uh, I wouldn't say he was ever at that point. You know what I mean. But uh, he decided that it wasn't something that he wanted to do on a regular day basis and he wanted to get a handle on it. And I'm glad he did, glad did, and I'm proud of you congratulations, bob.
Speaker 2:And uh, yeah, you know, like struggle's real man, and a lot of people don't want to admit that it's happening to them. You know, like I don't have a drinking problem, oh, I don't have a pill problem, you know. But the people around them knows there's a problem. So when a person realizes that themselves, that they got an issue, and they actually take and fight like hey, going to the bar with your friends or whatever, let's's go celebrate, I need a drink. When you know, like smoking, you know you can't smoke, you got to have a beer in your hand, you know it's just I don't know they come hand in hand. So for him to be sober for a year, man, that is really awesome, that's huge. I love hearing that you know it's baby steps first man. I love hearing that you know it's baby steps first man. And if you ever have any issues you know or any struggling or you feel like I don't know you're starting to go back that way, call Keith man.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, absolutely, and we got people. And if not, I got people. Who got people? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so yeah, that, that, that's. That's really awesome. Now, how about for your first, my?
Speaker 3:own personal milestone, the one that came uh to mind mostly is, um, the way I graduated high school was actually not very, um, I guess, normal. You know, I went through all four years of high school. I had 21 credits. You needed 19 to graduate. But I did not graduate high school. I got a GED a year and a half later it was in my senior year.
Speaker 3:I was an art major. A lot of good that did me, but I was and so I had what they called block classes, like, if you took business class, there was like the middle of your day was a block class and you took a block class. Well, my art block um didn't match up with what, uh, a year of English, that you know what I mean. That I needed to graduate, which is a required course, and so I had a class scheduled. I went in and the teacher decided that the class was too full and that I needed to go down and get switched into another hour. Well, when I went in and the teacher decided that the class was too full and that I needed to go down and get switched into another hour, well, when I went to get switched into another hour, the counselor said that there wasn't one available and that I had to go into that class. Well, I went back to that class and the lady's teaching the class in about five minutes in, and she stops and she says hold on a second, please, please. And she walks up to me in front of the whole class and she says who are you? And the whole fucking room starts laughing at me. You know what I mean. And so it's like humiliating. You know what I mean, and so that's that's why I'm. You know, I'm keith mackie bitch. You know that's not, I should have. But, um, yeah. And so she says well, I have this person here in this seat. That's's their seat, you know. And so I went back again to the counselor and the counselor says well, it's up to you to make it right with her. I'm not doing this again, what? And so, yeah, and so I would just go down to my art class.
Speaker 3:And then the first semester passed, and at that point I was fucked. You know what I mean? There wasn't. I wasn't going to be able to make that credit up. They gave me the option of, uh, taking it at a night class you know what I mean which you have to pay for, which my dad at the time, rightfully so, says well, if you wasn't going to take it during the day, why should I have to pay for this, for you to take it at night? Yeah, and so you know, I didn't end up getting that class and so, uh, we're talking about a week before the very last day was my senior year.
Speaker 3:I got caught skipping school and I skipped maybe four days of school, my entire time of being in school, and the dean of boys wanted to kick me out, wanted to expel me, and I says, well, that's fine. He says, well, you know what's going to happen here is you're not about to graduate? I says, well, I wasn't going to graduate anyways. And he says what do you mean? And then I explained it to him, I broke it down to him and he says, well, wait a minute. And he walked out of the room, comes back in about a half hour later. I'm sitting there, I'm expecting to be expelled, and it says Keith, I'll tell you what comfort I'm still not graduating like if you got the Wade High School in 1993 graduating class, my name is on the t-shirt, like I was supposed to. You know, I mean, but now I just you know that. Uh, so I didn't.
Speaker 3:The very last day of school, I walked home extra slow because I knew I wasn't going home. You know what I mean? I knew I wasn't. You know that was the last time I was ever going to be there and I went straight to work about I don't know a week later, something like that. But I had. But I was basically a high school dropout.
Speaker 3:About a year and a half after that I'd moved. Now I'm sitting here wanting to tell you the name of the place I moved into here, which is reckless, you know what I mean. So nobody has any idea where that place is. But I moved about what was about a half hour walk from a community college, and I lived in this trailer court with my brother while we worked in this place. Well, I'd gotten fired from that job, you know purposely, but that's a whole other story and so I decided to walk down and see if I could get my GED, and so I went into this place and this is all right.
Speaker 3:Well, here's, you know, the place where you take your GED. I mean, you got to take a pre-test, uh, before, otherwise we're going to make you pay for the whole thing. So here's your. You know you take your, your pre-test. Of the five sections of the pre-test, I missed two questions on all five of them combined. Wow, yeah. And so they're like well, why are you here? And then I explained the story to them and they're like you know, again the same thing is like wow, well, this is you know, this is terrible. Okay, well, here's your, your test date. The day of the test comes, I could not have been more sick, like I'm talking fever, throwing up up, vertigo, dizzy, whatever but I made myself go, I took that test, I got through that bitch and I don't know if I passed it by one point or if I passed it by all the points, but I did get that motherfucker man and I mean, and so that was, that was a pretty big one for me. Wow, yeah.
Speaker 2:Long story.
Speaker 3:But you know sorry, Mo, I hope I didn't bore you, that's amazing. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, you go from dropping out to turning around being kicked out, really. Yeah, they kind of flushed you out the system there, man. Yeah, it was totally their fault. You're doing your thing, you like the art class or whatever, and they turn their back on you, man, which really sucks.
Speaker 3:And then, years later, when Chrysler here was hiring, I was in the pool to get hired at Chrysler, and so they said, all right, well, you have to go through all your various steps and whatnot. And so they said, all right, well, you have to go. You know, you got to go through all your various steps and whatnot. And so they said, well, what you have to do is you have to show either your diploma or your ged. And I says, all right, well, here's, you know, the copy of my ged. There's like, all right, well, we still need your transcripts from your high school. It was okay. So I got a hold of the high school and they told me they have no record of my having ever been there, ever oh, oh, my god, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there it's all there.
Speaker 3:I didn't get the job. Because of that I got. I got immediately taken out of the pool.
Speaker 1:Because of that yeah, oh my god, that is. Oh my god, I'm so pissed. Oh, it happened 30 years ago, wow yeah, yeah, but yeah, that's those.
Speaker 3:That's my height, you know, I mean, but it's still to get the thing. It was at least a mile, so I guess it's good for something right.
Speaker 2:Now, what kind of student were you back in the day? Did you go for the friends or go because you really liked it? Because me, I went because friends, girlfriends.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I hated them. You know what's weird? I was a bad like I a basically a basic punk until I started smoking weed and and I kid you not and I got a 3.8 after I started smoking weed and because I was such a fuck up in the ninth grade that I was like considered a 9r. I I like started probably my junior year and I got so many credits that I'd actually jump myself back up to being a junior and I should have been on the honor roll. See, this is all like fucking how Keith got the short end of the high school thing. I should have been on the honor roll for the whole four quarters of my junior year and senior year. I held a 3.8 or better. I'd go and see the the list of the honorable. I was never on any of them, oh my god. So I was a good student because you didn't go there, so uh I didn't go there, you didn't exist so
Speaker 3:I was a ghost, yeah, but like I got into the, like the school work when I would you know when I would get high, because I was getting legitimately high, then it's not like now. We're just almost like, you know, drinking a cup of coffee, where it just kind of makes me more normal. Um, like I would get into the school work, I would usually have it done before I ever went home. So it's like I never did homework because I had. You know, you get a study hall or an art class.
Speaker 3:You know, in the art, the art class, um, there was two different kinds of, two different levels of students. There was students that had some skills that as long as they did something within the assignment uh, time of the assignment they could get graded for that. And then there was the other people who didn't you know, who wasn't necessarily there, who had to do these, you know, whatever the assignment was, but I was, I was the one that as long as I did something and so I would always get, you know, like my art teacher would give me flack for it. He was like, well, you always wait till the day before assignments due and then you knock something out in two hours. It's like yeah, but I still get an a on it, don't I? It's like yeah, so what's the problem? The?
Speaker 2:problem is you know, a lot of stuff every day yeah yeah, it's just like test. You know like some people didn't even study until like two hours before the test. You know right and can do.
Speaker 2:Okay, logically, that makes sense because it stays, it's fresh in your mind, you know. And and then you get those people like me who studied, like for three weeks and still barely pulled off a seat. You know, dude, I asked the guy, it just was an inconvenience for me. I graduated number 40 out of 120. So okay, still in the top third, you know. But I just went for the girls, dude, honestly, ladies man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see, I had a Dutch boy haircut. I had a Dutch boy haircut, overweight, with bad chap lips, so I wasn't. You know what I mean. I had a bit of androgyny, against my will going there, so I wasn't going for the girls. Even if I was, it wasn't doing me no good.
Speaker 2:You know I would hate to be in school nowadays if I was like Jimmy's age.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 2:Like man. You see all the bullies online. Man, yeah, Vicious. And instead of helping somebody, they want that viral video. You know they want their video to be tops on YouTube, you know. But I love the video where the kid gets picked on and turns around and beats the shit out of the person where he slams him. Oh, dude, that's a good one man.
Speaker 3:That's what we're talking about, where he keeps pulling the heavy sack kid and he fucking finally slams that little bitch he like rock bottoms him man. We love violence on children here we need to get Keith famous.
Speaker 1:If Keith gets really big famous he can out that school and show them what they did to him and stuff.
Speaker 3:Right. Well, dude, it's the same high school that Mark Kerr went to.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I went to a wrestling seminar with him when I was in the fifth grade. He was there. We're classmates. Him and my brother actually know each other, kind of had a little bit of beef in the day, you know. I mean, and kerr was kerr and my brother was like 110 pounds and five six, you know. But that's yeah. He wanted to beat the shit out of my brother because he beat him at a game of ping pong. He's like round two on the mat, bitch fucking my brother's like now we ain't going to the mat that was his milestone.
Speaker 3:He beat his personal milestone right well, they gave me all that, but I've told that story before. They're good now. They, you know I mean, there's good. That's the thing is is, to some people, mark kerr is just another east sider, and they you know what I mean he's just another cat from east toledo. Mark Kerr is just another East Sider. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:He's just another cat from East Toledo, right on, right on For me, like my second one that would be up there is, you know, and my sister died and she was only 26, you know, and horrific death. She was only 26, you know, and horrific death. But it made me think and, like all my relatives, man, they were in the military and they could be traced through every single battle, every war. You know whether Marine, navy, army, air Force and again, gi Joe was always my, my go-to.
Speaker 2:So I want to be like them, I want my own code name and, you know, even though that was just some bullshit stuff unless you like, really got up there, but joining the army, man was, was a huge one and one of my biggest tests mentally, physically, uh, you know, it was all fun and games and when the recruiter's taking you to the airplane and you're getting on, you're flying somewhere and drill sergeants are over your ass fast, as could be man, you know, like flies on shit and I was already two days late because of all the the flight delays and yeah, my beard was thick like my beard was thick like it is now and they just hand me a razor and told me to shave it off.
Speaker 2:And dude, I was so bloody, no shaving cream. My, uh, my, my first military picture. And like all blood up, it was crazy. But and then after a couple weeks you lie there in bed at night, man, and you just start questioning man, what the hell am I doing here? You know I could be with my friends. They're having fun. You know I'm tired of waiting in line to use the payphone. And for the youth listening payphone you had to usually pay a lot of quarters to communicate or call toll, or what was that toll call? Yeah, yeah, and your parents had to accept the charges.
Speaker 3:The collect, yeah, the collect call.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the collect call.
Speaker 1:And man Well, man you thought you were gonna catch saddam hussein.
Speaker 2:That's what you were, uh hoping you're gonna get famous dude, it's just when I graduated basic training, man, and I look back and I see, like the nine weeks of hell that I went through and and the things that I've accomplished and the things that I'm like like getting maced in the face a lot, you know, like pepper sprayed in the eyes.
Speaker 2:That's probably what's wrong my eye now, uh, but and then it goes from hurting real bad to like yeah, eh, it's you get used to it, you know. But it's just stuff like that man, that I was probably my most proud, that milestone, that that would be that moment, you know, is pushing myself way past, you know, jumping out of airplanes, uh, what's wrong with the airplane man, you know, you just jump, you learn a jump in fort benning, and then I went to fort bragg. So, and immediately like towards the end of my army career is when I started wrestling. You know, like midway through, uh, I'd come home and go to the school and and learn there, but a lot, of, a lot of stuff all in that one time frame that that happened to me. That I have to say, because I don't have kids I'm not, I have stepdaughters and and they're it's hard to raise somebody else's kid, you know, and to not try to be their dad, but to be not. You know what I mean Learning to be a dad, you know, and being there.
Speaker 3:You're still an adult figure, one form or another.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even though it's not my kid, and if I could put myself in their shoes like this guy, he ain't my dad. He's trying to tell me what to do and all that and putting up with stuff like that. At least, I started when Jenny was 11 or 12. She's the youngest and she's now 34. So I've been her father figure longer than her father, even though he lives 10 minutes down the street, see my wife is the same way.
Speaker 3:Her stepdad is more or less her dad, because her real dad is a little bitch and I hope somebody plays him that clip and he gets angry about it and wants to do something. But that's just the way he is. He's not and here's the thing quality individual as far as the rest of the world goes. You know, I mean he worked secret service for ronald reagan at one point, you know I mean. So it's not like he's a a lot, you know whatever. You know vagrant, fucking sub-Saharan, as the Hodge twins would say. You know what I mean, or anything like that. It's just as far as his. His fathering skills with my wife and her sister are pretty, pretty subpar, bro. You know, I hope somebody sends you this clip, son. You know, I hope somebody sends you this clip, son. Probably not, but you know I mean, or I will yeah, or I could just slip it into there yeah, well, that's the thing is.
Speaker 3:I could always just call him on the phone and tell him all these things, you know I mean because it's probably a great chance I'm never going to be in the same person, the same. But that's the thing is with me is you know what this is like? You know who wants to argue with a man. You know what I mean. Yeah, so let him go on, and that's I guess. Another thing is what he was trying to say before. Is that, um, uh, just because you didn't witness somebody's comeuppance doesn't mean they didn't necessarily get it, you know, I mean you just weren't there to see it. So I'm sure he's had his bad days, his hard times, his whatever like that. But you know, I mean you could do better, homeboy.
Speaker 1:That's all I so Jim well, you can cut this out, but where are we at time with how long we've been recording? I didn't know if it was an hour or two hours. This might have to be a two parter it could be man well, when you said your second milestone, I was like, oh my god, are we going to say like two or three each? I didn't know how long that was going to be?
Speaker 2:No, you don't have to. Those are the only two that are really we got two good ones.
Speaker 3:Those are ones you should. Those had to be said, those were musts.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Those were musts, musts, says.
Speaker 2:It's just.
Speaker 3:Alright, okay, then pick up right here right, I just choose that, just chose to go in on heather's dad. For fucking, you know, for for grins, you know, all right here we go.
Speaker 1:Uh, for my second one, I would have to say. It is buying a house, a home yeah, that's a big because me and, uh, the missus.
Speaker 1:We lived in a trailer in a trailer park for like almost, just about almost 20 years and we thought we'd be there, we're never going to get a house, we're never going to afford it. You know, just slowly every year, make getting raises at work. But it was just like pennies and pennies and pennies and just and then finally, like right after, right before, uh, or right right after Jimmy was born, I said we can't, I don't want him to be in the school system, in the, where the trailer is here, like the area and stuff. I said I want him to go to, like where we are now, or a better town, city or something, because it's trashy over here. I don't want, you know, the school system. So she just said, okay, and we just put our foot down and we started looking at who. We got to talk to realtors and they all.
Speaker 1:Just it's funny when you, you finally do something and you're like, well, why didn't we do this, like years ago? You know just, all right, we make this much X, we do this, we need a house, here's the area, here's what we want. And when you, you finally say it and make it happen, it comes true and you're like, well, we were all just quietly saying, oh, we're never going to get it, and just accepting it. If that's what life you just got to make it happen and do it. Just get off your butt and do it that's. And once we hit it, we were like, oh my God, we fricking own a house. You know, this is awesome.
Speaker 2:And I've been to your house the one time and it's pretty awesome. It's really nice looking man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's it's real big but and I thought, oh, we're going to have all these uh parties and family and stuff. And then that's when, uh, everybody, like the family, like all moves, gets uh, they get married or they move away and stuff, and then it's not as together as the family used to be, like when me and her store dating in like the mid 90s, where they every uh holiday, every the weekend stuff, everybody was all together in these big parties, in the small houses. And then I just didn't realize, when everybody moves away and gets older, like the cousins, generation x level and everybody, and then they barely, everybody barely sees each other, I'm like man, I didn't think of that and stuff. So now we're now with jimmy, we're trying to like get people to come over and family members to do stuff.
Speaker 1:Cause you know, you guys know with your family like uh, especially with the world nowadays, with like, if you don't think the same way, someone else thinks they like want to throw salt on you or like burn you and stuff and pour gasoline on you, and you're like man, even family members are like. Back in the day we all knew grandpa felt a certain way about politics. You just, I mean, he's going to start cussing and talking real, say some racial things, but just don't bring it up and just walk away.
Speaker 1:Right, but grandpa got your back when nobody else did and you didn't hate him for it or your uncle or something. You didn't hate him and say I hate him. But nowadays I got uh, cousins and family members, all I hate them and I they, they think this person's way and it's like god, what happened to you man? You guys just stop. You know we're family, what the hell it's right, it's.
Speaker 2:You know, a lot of times when it comes to family especially mine when the grandparents are no longer with us, yeah, that goes, the family, everybody yeah, the linchpins yeah, yeah, you know, now everything's unhinged and yeah it's just not as important, no more because you don't have. You know, like my house, karen believes in having like christmas parties with the family yeah thanksgiving with the family. You know, just memories, some memories and and hopefully, when caroline's older, she will continue yeah so.
Speaker 2:But yeah, dude, I mean that's a huge milestone man is getting your own house. I came from a trailer, too, to this house, and you know, and I thought that it was a freaking mansion wait, keith, did you live in a trailer?
Speaker 1:yes, sir we're the trailer park boys technically absolutely, oh my god former trailer park boys. So yeah, I just had two little room, uh trailer man and we all know when a raccoon gets or a cat gets underneath their skirting and stuff and it starts ripping a hole underneath your floor, plug the heat tape in or in the winter leave the sink running just a little bit so it don't freeze if the tape messes up.
Speaker 1:So whenever there's bad weather, you're like, uh, I'm too tired, I'm the tornado's coming. I'm tired, I don't want to go. I gotta get up early in the morning. Your parents are like it did you get out? Come over, there's a tornado. Yeah, we're okay right if we see it, we'll like get there it's my time.
Speaker 2:It's my time so do you have a?
Speaker 3:uh, another one, keith uh, no, I actually gave two. I gave the one for myself and one for bobby, but uh, if I can piggyback on what you guys were saying though, uh, what you're describing to me is america. It's the american dream, you know. I mean, it's the best shit that there is in life, you know? I mean, and I feel like you know some of the maybe somebody who's who's come on as a guest, or you know, I mean, or whatever, with this thing, it's like, well, I don't really feel like we need to know what you're eating for breakfast, bitch, because these are the guys who's winning right here. You know what I mean. These are the men with's winning right here. You know what I mean. These are the men with the lives, with the families, with the people in the whatever, in the substance. You know what I mean, and it's necessarily.
Speaker 3:You know, if each one of us had 100,000 followers, but we're still sitting right here with each other, how the fuck do we know they're not here with us? I mean, they're not shining us up here in person. You know what I? Yeah, I mean they're not shining us up here in person, you know. I mean, we're living our lives, we're doing our things, and that's what I'm saying. As far as what you know to take, you know, I mean, it's not it's one thing to speak for myself, but I'm saying but as far as you guys, you know, I mean you guys are killing it man, you guys are crushing, you guys are the ones winning, you know, I mean you, that's the saying. So they should be finding out what you guys are doing. You know what, what I mean, not what you know. Am I making sense here?
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't worry about other people's milestones and stuff. You live your life, you do your milestones. It's your life, right Once again even, in particular, you two.
Speaker 3:You guys are doing fucking great man. You got you know houses, cars, something to eat, someone to fucking talk to, and then fucking whatever. You know what I mean? Everything. That's the dream, man. Yeah, you dream.
Speaker 1:So many people out there have nothing at all yeah, whatever you accomplish, that's what you accomplish, that's you make.
Speaker 2:You make it work for yourself, man, yeah you know it doesn't necessarily have to be the american dream persona. You know there's a lot of people in other countries that do listen to us as well, but I think for everybody that achieves the milestones that they put out there into the universe and you accomplish it, or you step up your game and you go from the trailer to the house, you know. Be proud of that. You know, be proud of who you are. Be you Don't worry about. Oh, jones is down the street. They got a brand new car, so now I have to work my ass off to get another car.
Speaker 3:Don't be that person and you may decide that when you're in the house, that you were happier at the trailer and you want to go back. You know, I mean that it made more sense to be in the trailer. It's like, well, this house is a little too much for me, I don't got it. Do you know what I mean? That it made more sense to be in the trailer. It's like, well, this house is a little too much for me, I don't got it. Do you know what I mean? I don't. This is, this is more than what I need. Maybe the trailer was all I needed. I should.
Speaker 3:You know, I mean, and I'm good, I'm good there sure it takes a lot longer to clean you're not kidding, man, it's plain old basements flooding in the trailer, man, and then it does it again, and then it does it again right got rats, got got bats up in the attic, but hey, that's all you got right now.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, you know we ran long, but you know, hey, it happens, we don't care, we don't put a time limit on our conversations. But again, you know, for anything you get, anybody listening has accomplished man. Be proud of it, be proud of even the little things in life let us know little milestones pat your back. You know that would be a milestone if somebody actually did tell us something right other than mo and and sean and pa and. But yeah, the little milestones, man, just feel good, don't brag about it.
Speaker 1:If you got through a day without punching somebody in the face, that's a milestone and be happy for your friends too.
Speaker 3:Man, you know what I mean. You want any of your friends for a reason. You want to speak loud to your friends. Those are your friends. You know what I mean. You don't want to be like, well, let me tell you about my boy, but like nah. You want to speak loud about your boy, but like nah, no, that's my boy, let me tell you about him. You know what I mean, that's, you know. Be happy for your people. Positive.
Speaker 2:So, speaking of positive, I'm pretty positive that you have a quote for us this week, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got two of them today.
Speaker 2:Oh man, Because this is an important one.
Speaker 1:All right, the first one Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead. And then the second one is believe you can, and you're halfway there.
Speaker 2:Love it Both. Good man, way there. Love it both. Both. Good man, both. You know they they have 100 do what we're talking about. So yeah, um, now this episode was a lot to take in. You know, maybe it got your mind thinking.
Speaker 2:You know, questioning things in life. You know, what did you do? You know, did you achieve what you want to achieve? You know there's a lot of people like in the nursing home. It's all gone from them. You know, right, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't one of their. Uh, things they wanted to do in life is to be in a nursing home. But we appreciate each and every one of you guys just tuning in and listening to uh, jim keith and myself, and uh, I know, for me, I super appreciate each and every one of you guys that tune in all the time and and support and not support as in financial, but support like man, that was a good show or hey, dude, you guys are just killing it man, that's the stuff. That it's more than money to me. You know, like knowing that we're helping somebody make it through the day. You know, making them just feel good.
Speaker 2:So if you're new to this show I hope we did that and, uh, you can let us know and contact us. Or if you have any subjects, you can hit us up at the powers point podcast at yahoocom. If you want us to cover a subject no religion, no politics just put in subject line show idea. Haven't had nobody do that yet, but uh, I'm pretty positive. Whoever is going to send that first email is going to be a milestone for us next time.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm doing, and this is uh. This is chuck from uh colorado I'm gonna send perverted stuff, right.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, be proud of what you did. In life, man, even the smallest things matter. So that's all I got, guys, and again from Jim, keith and myself. Everybody have a great week and we will return next week. Bye.
Speaker 3:Bye, bye everybody, great week and we will return next week.
Speaker 5:Bye, bye, bye, everybody. Some folks run fast, some take it slow. Some climb the mountain, some walk the roads. Doesn't matter where you're standing. What you're trying to prove. Every little victory is a step in your shoes, a pat on the back or a whisper inside A sunrise you caught after swallowing pride. Every page you turn is a story that's yours. You don't need to chase someone else's reward. So light that candle when you cross your line. Raise your glass high. It's your moment to shine.
Speaker 5:Every milestone matters, whether big or small. Be proud of your journey. Yeah, be proud of it all. Maybe it's a diploma, maybe it's a good day, maybe it's just breathing after finding your way.
Speaker 5:Don't count your word by another man's clock. Don't count your word by another man's clock. Time ticks different when you follow your heart. A tear wiped away or a laugh you let out. Every small triumph is worth every shout. Life's not a race, it's a road made for you. Every mile you cross is a badge, that's true. So light that candle when you cross your line. Raise your glass high. It's your moment to shine. Every milestone matters, whether big or small. Be proud of your journey. Yeah, be proud of it all. Don't look sideways, just follow your flame. No one else can run your race the same. The finish line's yours, the start line too. Every little step makes a better you, so light that candle when you cross your line. Raise your glass high. It's your moment to shine. Every milestone matters, whether big or small. Be proud of your journey, yeah. Be proud of it all. Yeah, be proud of it all. One step, one day, your story unfolds. Be you, be proud. That's worth more than gold.
