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Hey, and welcome to Boomers on the Edge. Some guys in their 60s who still think they're 60. Your hosts, Ken and Ron. Let's get started. Kind of soft music, Ron. What's the name of this thing? Yeah, this is called uh wedding anniversary music. And that's gonna be the theme. What did you call me and tell me last week? Well, it was uh our wedding anniversary. How many years?

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43, believe it or not. Matter of fact, I met my wife in 77, so uh we're gonna have next year we'll have met each other 50 years ago.

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Now that's really makes you sound old, doesn't it? But it's been a nice ride. No, I mean a lot of people aren't staying married these days. Oh, right. Yeah, no, because you know, like I know even when we were getting married back in the 70s or the 80s, I'm I got married in 84. You got married in the 80s as well. We were already here in statistics, like you know, 50% of marriages are gonna end up in divorce. Well, we had some of our friends, we won't name them. Their parents had already got divorced before. So statistics Which used to be something you'd never heard of in the good old days. Right. Yeah. Well, anyways, my anniversary is coming up. My 42nd anniversary is coming up in May. Yeah, you were a year behind me. Yeah, because you were always a little faster. Yeah, and but not as fast as Keith. No. So I was thinking about you know, my marriage and how it's gone, and just so everyone knows, I'm still madly in love with my wife. And uh I got the better deal for sure. And I know Ron always says that's true. That is true. But what I was thinking about was, you know, during my you know, 42 years, and I dated her for five before that as well. I thought, what were the three dumbest things that I ever said? You went right from that romantic music into the three dumbest things. No, I was thinking about our marriage, and you know, it's been 42 years of wedded bliss in my mind. In your mind. And then and then you're gonna talk about the three dumbest things. Well, the three dumbest things I ever said or did. You ever said, okay.

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So that's what I'm gonna do. Okay, you called me up and you said, I have this idea, I want to talk about the three dumbest things. Do you have the three dumbest things?

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And I'm like, I don't I don't really know where I don't really have examples of where I'm sure I've said dumb things, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

He probably conveniently forgot. Probably. So I didn't live together with my wife. Yeah, I didn't live with her prior to the wedding.

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Because in those days people didn't do that as much.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

They were starting to do that. They were starting to. So no one ever told me how things are when you got married. I see. Okay. And well, you had your parents as an example. As an example, I know. But the first thing I want to talk about is the first time she went to get a haircut after we were married, and it seems like prior to getting married, it seems like women drive around, they have like long hair. And you see them in their car fluffing it up and they're at the light and they're like messing with their ponytail or whatever, letting it fire. Why are you looking at these women? You're supposed to be able to do it. I'm just saying in general. And I think that the hair, they use the hair kind of like a lure. Like uh people fishermen use lures to catch fish. The women are out there. Really? You just figured this out. Yeah. But as soon as my wife got married, and I've noticed over the years, a lot of women who get married, one of the first things they do is they cut their hair off. They don't have long hair. Yeah, here we go. Yeah. And so my wife comes to me, you know, a couple months after we're married, and she says, You know what? You sure your wife's gonna like this story? I don't know, she probably isn't, but she didn't like the wedding cake story either, right? But no, but she uh she says, I'm thinking about getting my hair cut a little bit shorter this time. I said, Yeah, that's fine, fine. Go on. Get your hair cut shorter, however you want it. So she does. She comes home. Now no one called me in advance of her coming home to say, be careful. Well, because even your wife. Have you ever seen the commercial where they have Abe Lincoln who said he could not tell a lie? Yeah, but that came along. And then and then and then and then he his wife's saying, Do I look fat in this? Well, this is probably something Abe's like this is probably something similar to that. You don't Abe knew better. I didn't see that commercial during this time.

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It was an old commercial and and it was well, it wasn't in '84. I don't know when it came out, but Abe's cannot tell when it was.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Well, suffice it to say Abe didn't know what to do. Suffice it to say, no one called me up and pre-warned me that she didn't even like her own. I wish I had. Yeah. So I said to her when she came home, she says, Well, what do you think? And I said, and I've always been honest. Oh, God. I said, Wow. I said, Wow. I said, Wow, when you said you were gonna get your hair cut shorter this time, I go, I didn't know you meant this short. Oh my gosh. The floodgates were open. She's crying these tears, like an inordinate amount of tears. She's like got the streams running down her face. And I just turned around and walked away, and I'm like, Uh-oh. I go, you just and I come back and I go, you know what? You told me, you asked me the question, what did I think? And I go, and I told you what I thought. Yeah, real good. And I had a picture in my hand. You haven't figured the page. And it was a picture, uh, it was a picture of her uh when we first started dating, and I loved her hair, feathered, you know, like when Ferrafoss's feathered look was in. And I had the picture with me that I keep on my nightstand, and it's still on my nightstand today. And I said, you know what? I go, this, I showed her the picture. I said, This is your optimal look for me. Oh no, anything other than this, anything other than this is less than optimal. And I go, but from now on, because of this reaction you just had, if you ever ask me the question, how does your hair look like Abe Lincoln? I'm just gonna say it looks fine. Until I croak, I'm just gonna say it looks fine. Man, and so it's real good. See this picture here?

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This is what I married, this is good. But what you look like right now, no, no, and you know what? If you ask me tomorrow, I'm not gonna tell you the truth.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

So that's what you just said.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

So so that's the part of this, the one that was the first of the dumbest things I ever said to my wife. I'm surprised I'm guilty. It was surprised you made it 42 years ago. I did, I did. So, what year was that? That was like 84, 85-ish.

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I'm surprised she didn't cash in her chips right there. Yeah. Well, anyway, so you know, really good. Real good.

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Fast forward about five years.

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Here, let me tell the young guys in the crowd who haven't got married. Don't do that.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Yeah. And from me too, from my experience, use me like the tuition to the school of life.

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Honey, does this dress make me look fat?

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Anyway, so fast forward about five or so years, a little bit between five and six years, and we're starting to think about having kids. Uh-huh. Right? Again, Ron. I'm surprised you were even able to have it after that. So, so yeah, Ron had already had your son. I'm just faster today. Yeah, you're faster. Out of the blocks. So I just want to say to the young people or the people that are getting married or contemplating it or about to have a kid. Postpartum blues is real. Okay. After a woman gives birth, it sees I don't know if it's like hormonal or whatever.

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One second. Okay. I thought we were talking about having kids.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

Now we're having kids already. Yeah. It's five years later. Oh. After the, you know, after the haircut. Okay. Yeah. So it took five years just to get out of that hole. Yeah, exactly. So, and I don't even know if I ever read, because you know, people weren't reading their, you know, on their iPhones like they used to, but I don't even know if I ever heard in 84. Nobody had an iPhone in an 84. This is what people don't get. Yeah, and and I wasn't going up and researching. You couldn't go ask Chat GPT, hey Chat GPT.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

I wasn't reading if my wife says she got a new haircut. Well, what do you think? Do I tell her the truth or do I say that looks fabulous, honey, that buzz cut. Chat GPT, if I told her the truth, will I have kids?

SPEAKER_01 8:55

So, anyways, we're having a kid, but no, I had no reason to look up something called postpartum blues, okay? Well, if you had a phone to do a phone, Chat GPT would have told you steer clear. Be careful, be careful, because your your wife's in a sensitive uh position at this time. Well, okay, so at the very same time we had hopefully she didn't have another haircut. At the very same time we had our daughter, it was it was early June, and we had a string of about three or four days that were between 90 and 100 and humid, right? Not good. And my wife was, you know, she got her time off from work, you know, because she had to spend time with the kid.

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They didn't give you as much as they do now.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Yeah, they sure didn't. But so she's off for her maternity leave. I come home from work one day. It's pretty hot out, you know, and we don't have air conditioning in the house. And we didn't grow up with air conditioning, neither her nor I. I did. You did. Because you lived, you know, you guys were a little bit more. We were the high end of the little town. We won't name you had the you had the fancy Chase Lounge, the small town. You had the fancy Chase Lounge and all. So, anyways, I come home and I and I and I will say it was pretty warm. And my wife's in the backyard, and she says, cat, we really need to get air conditioning. Yeah, I bet. And I go, I know. I said, I know. I go, we've already called Sears to come out for an estimate. We've called Flame Furnace to come out for an estimate, and no one can get out here quick enough because there's a lot of demand right now.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

You didn't say, like, well, if you cut more of your hair off, it would feel cooler.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

No, I did not say that. But to my to my response to her, she goes, I know, but the baby's so uncomfortable. And I'm like, I looked at her and I said, Oh, come on. Oh no. I said, What does the baby have to compare to? I go, This is its normal right now. Did the caveman worry about air conditioning? Yeah, kind of. You should have been there helping me out. You really helped me. I didn't. So I realized You know, there was no internet, but you could have called me and said, hey, how do I handle this? Well, I realized that I had definitely stuck my foot in my mouth there, you know. Uh-oh. So I turned around to get the heck out of there. Yeah. And right then, thankfully, my neighbor's van is going down the street. He lives right at a kitty corner across the street from me. Going down the street, and he's a heating and cooling guy. Oh, thank God. And see all that praying. Mm-hmm. And I finally worked. Exactly. And and and he pulls up into his driveway and I just continue walking right across the street. Yeah. Ed. Yeah? I go, you ever put in central air uh conditioning units on this? For women with postpartum. Yeah, I didn't say that. He goes, Yeah, I've done it. I go, and you tell me what's wrong with this next line. I said to him Is there another dumb line? Well, no, well, no, because anyways just you tell me what you what I didn't say. Okay. I said, Ed, what is the fastest you can get air installed in my home? And it was a Thursday. I go, what's the fastest you can get AC installed in my home? He goes, Saturday by noon? Oh, that's right. I says, Oh, that's great. That's even before these other outfits are coming out to give us an estimate. Yeah. I go, Ed, if you can get me air conditioning Saturday by noon, you're gonna be my hero for the rest of my life. Now, what was wrong with that comment? Nothing. Why? Well, I never asked about the cost. Oh. See? Yeah, for example. And I usually for me, that's a big deal. That's a big deal, I'm sorry. But but then you went and asked him if you could get it half off. No, no, but at that point, cost was not an object. Ah, okay. So when it comes to your kids and all. And your wife that you're madly in love with, which I still am. We got it, we got air conditioning by like 11, 11:30 on Saturday. That's pretty good. It was a beautiful thing. We get through that, you know, now we're first-time parents and we go through all that.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

You could have avoided if you thought it out ahead of time, you know. Like, I wonder if this house is gonna be too hot for kids, you know.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Well, maybe if I was a year and a half older like you, no, if I had been married a year and a half more, I would have thought that. But anyway, so the third and final thing.

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I was I was weaned on air, so there was no way I wasn't having air, but anyway.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

So the third, I I'm not I can't say this is the final dumbest thing I ever said, but these are the biggest dumbest things. No, because I just saw you get in trouble with your wife about an hour ago here. Yes, you did. But so my wife breastfed both of our children. Okay. So we're having our second child now, and it's like three years after we had our first child.

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It's natural.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

It's natural.

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It was uh back to one of our other episodes. That's right. Exactly. So I learned that in school that it was natural.

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Natural. That's right. Elementary.

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If you want to go check out those episodes, elementary. Elementary.

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The uh second child here, our son. He second goes, your son. He goes to this episode because both of our kids were pretty quiet when they went to sleep. Well, that's good. Most people would say that's good. But there was like a stretch of about uh two weeks to a month where my son was really fussing when he got hungry or whatever. Kind of like you do when you get hungry. Oh, I'm you're really bad. I'm thinking about food right now. They should have made that Snickers commercial about you. But anyways, I'm that person. You are that person. So have we told that one where I almost stabbed somebody over the no, but if you ever want to see someone get hangry, it's definitely right. We'll tell a couple of those. So, anyways, I'm working at this time and my wife's she's on her maternity leave. But when she goes to breastfeed the kid, you know, the nursery's in the other room, so she has to go across the hall, you know, leave our room and go across the hallway.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

This is at night kind of thing? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

You know, I'm gonna I gotta get up in a couple hours. Yeah, you know, the baby's screaming and crying, you know. And for the last two or three nights, when my wife got up to go, you know, feed the baby, she just left the door open, and I could hear all this screaming going on. Okay. So, like the third or fourth night of this, she she's leaving the room, and I said, Could you close the door this time? No, I did. I wish I hadn't. Oh no. I wasn't getting up and bringing the baby to her.

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What's wrong with you? I didn't have a book. Let me see. I don't have to get up and breastfeed the kid, but let me yell at you, you know. Hey, hey, close the dead door. Okay. I'm trying to get some sleep over here while you got a kid.

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I'm trying to help newly newly wed people to have these thoughts ahead of time. Wow. And or if you're you know ready to have a kid.

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I think a lot of guys have figured that one out beforehand.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Well, for those who for those who haven't, you don't yell out when your wife's breastfeeding at two o'clock in the morning because she should shut the door because she needs some sleep. Could you shut the door this time? So those are the three dumbest things I ever said. Wow. I'm not proud, but I just thought that was interesting.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Uh I never said any of those things.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:21

Yeah.

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But we're still happily married.

SPEAKER_02 16:23

I I do have one picture, one video of my son. I would actually get up in the evening and we would he was breastfeeding. He was I Did you have one of those vests with the bottles that dropped it? Like in the movie. Like the lambskin vest with the bottles that dropped. Oh, you didn't have one? Ben Spiller and the big thing. You have all the latest. No, I never did that. No. No, we he had bottles as well as the breast. I have a video. I take this video up and he's screaming and he's crying, and he's sitting in his little baby chair, and I got him up on the counter because he's that young and old, you know, a little baby. And he's yelling, and you and I'm heating up the bottle or whatever you have to do. And it's like three o'clock in the morning, and I I turn the TV on just to have something while I'm sitting there feeding him. And and it it's green acres, like a rerun of Green Acres, and I videotaped the Green Acres of the place. And I'm like, I'm like, I videotape him, and I'm like, he's screaming, and I videotape the green acres, and I'm like, okay, in the future, when you tell me that I didn't do anything for you, exactly. Here's the evidence. Yeah, here it is. What a dad. Yeah, I am and I'm like, and he's screaming, and I'm just videotaping him. Look, look, and I'm you know, zooming in and zooming out, and it's like, and then look what's on the TV, green green acres. He it's pretty funny when you're a caring dad. I always, but I didn't have the breast thing going, like you were saying, the fake breast. No, but no, neither did I. But anyway, no, I didn't say any of those things.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Well, I'm glad yet you didn't, and I wished I hadn't. And with that, okay, you guys, thanks for listening. Yeah, thanks. Talk to you guys later. Hey, thanks for joining us here on Boomers on the Edge.

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