Boomers on the Edge
Before smartphones. Before social media. Before anyone thought to record the evidence.
Boomers on the Edge is a weekly storytelling podcast where two lifelong friends revisit the wild, reckless, and often unbelievable adventures of their youth. Kenn and Ron trade stories from the 60s, 70s, and 80s — the mischief, the bad decisions, and the close calls that somehow didn’t kill them.
From gritty Detroit bars and summer days on the lake to high school locker rooms and blue-collar job sites, every episode blends sharp improv, vivid memories, and outrageous true tales.
It’s unfiltered nostalgia — raw, irreverent, and laugh-out-loud funny.
If you like your comedy honest, slightly inappropriate, and full of “there’s no way that really happened” moments… welcome to the edge.
Boomers on the Edge
Dating Etiquette (Boomers on the Edge Style)
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Guest host Randy, a single Boomer navigating the modern dating world, shares how the Buds—have a knack for unintentionally sabotaging his romantic evenings.
Randy has one firm rule on dates: no phone ringer. He keeps things polite and distraction-free, with only the vibration setting on—just in case one of his adult kids needs him in an emergency.
But one night at dinner, his phone won’t stop buzzing. It’s Kenn. Randy ignores it at first… then again… and again. Finally, trying to save face, he excuses himself and tells his date that, given his medical background, the call might be urgent—possibly someone needing expert guidance during a procedure.
Sounds impressive—until he answers.
On the other end, Kenn casually explains that he and Ray are out deer hunting and need Randy to walk them through field dressing their “patient.”
At that moment, the illusion shatters. The “emergency” isn’t exactly what Randy’s date had in mind—and it quickly becomes clear this is not a human medical situation.
Needless to say, the date doesn’t quite recover.
Another well-intentioned (but perfectly timed) interruption from the Buds—and another unforgettable dating disaster. Classic Boomers on the Edge: equal parts outrageous and hilarious.
- Boomer rating: Under the Edge
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Hey, and welcome to Overton B. So guys in their 60s, I still think they're 60. Your host, Kat and Ron. And this week, yes host, my brother, Brandon. Let's get started. Hey, so uh hey, thanks for coming back to Boomers on the Edge. Got my brother here today. Hello. Yeah, he was gonna tell us some stories about some of his uh I don't know, some of the buds get involved in some of his dating sometimes. It gets a little irritating.
SPEAKER_02Oh that's why we have this romantic music playing?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, it's supposed to represent one of Randy's, you know, he's a single guy and he's out on the he's out on the dating scene. It was the first date, I believe. And what happened in this you have a story about that yes, don't you?
SPEAKER_01And I I you know I I don't like talking about dates. No, but this happened like you don't want to be a good one. You don't want to kiss and tell this was years ago. And um anyway, um I think it's really not about the date. It's really more about your stupid buds. Well, yeah, and I I knew this was during uh hunting season, and I knew Ken was going hunting with a friend of his and that had flown in from California.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so you know and had never shot a deer in his life.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so it's kind of on my mind that these guys are out hunting and I'm on a date. Um you're out on a date and you're thinking about Ken and hunting. Well, I'm always thinking. So anyway. I think that's why you're still dating. I never I never have my phone on during a date. It's not polite, you know, and I'm not checking my phone. In case of emergency, I do have the phone.
SPEAKER_02You do have kids that could call it.
SPEAKER_01I did, and I thought I'll have my phone nearby in the event, and my phone is blowing up, it's vibrating and it's going off. And and I kind of look and I see that it says Ken. I don't answer it because I'm like That's not a you know, it's it's just a friend of mine. You know wait if he's dying. Yeah, it's uh you know, he can wait. But but I kept calling. Ken doesn't he wasn't giving up, and I'm like, this could be an emergency. Yeah, and usually two Ken calls or more. It's emergency back to back. Yeah. I told this woman, I said, uh I I hate to do this. I said I'm so sorry, and I, you know, I I don't This could be life and death. I don't uh I don't take call or you know, unless it's something's really emergency. And it must be an emergency.
SPEAKER_03I mean, he doesn't usually call more than twice in a row.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so there's like probably eight calls or so and go on, and I'm like, this is serious. So I take the call. It was like texting Randy, I really mean it. I call back, I go, Ken, what what I'm kind of in the middle of a kind of date here. Ken, what did you think?
SPEAKER_03What's going on in the restaurant?
SPEAKER_02I said Randy. I said, Randy. Rach got his first deer, and we're sitting over getting ready to field trust it. And he doesn't like my instruction. I said to him, Did you want me to call Randy? Because you trust Randy. And he said, Yeah, call him.
SPEAKER_01So this poor woman's looking across from you and then she thinks that I'm taking an emergency call because I did tell her I work in medical. Anyway, I said I said, I I'm I'm talking on the phone, like, so you know, what's happening? And Ken's saying, uh, well, we're we're using this this guy, the knife, like right, you know, trying to fuel dress the animal. And I said, well, you kind of want to move move the tissue this way and do that, and going on and on and telling them how to fuel dress. And then I said I kind of slipped and I said, Did you get the like, did you move the deer over? What? Thanks, Randy, for field dressing deer at all.
SPEAKER_02The important thing is you took the call.
SPEAKER_01She's like, what was that? And I said, Well, my friend just got out of here. I kind of had to help walk him through the process. I didn't get a second. I didn't get a second date. I'm sorry about that. But in in the future, if this did come up again, though, I'd do the same thing for a hunting kitty one. I'm sorry. I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_03Did uh how'd the next date with that woman? There wasn't okay.
SPEAKER_02Well, thanks for sharing that short little uh story dating story, romantic as it was. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Hey, thanks for joining us here on Boomers on the Edge. We hope you'll join us again. And until then, have a great time. Thank you.