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.
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A lifetime as Boomers has resulted in more than a few encounters with the police. All minor traffic offenses, of course—but in true Boomers on the Edge fashion, the stories are anything but ordinary!
Ron kicks things off with a story from the 1980s involving a multi-million-dollar business proposal that had to be delivered across town. Back then, proposals weren’t emailed—they were printed, bound, and delivered the old-fashioned way. After delays from the pricing committee, Ron finds himself printing the proposal at the last minute and attempting to make a 60-minute drive in, well… 45 minutes!
The result? A run-in with the police followed by a hilarious court appearance that has become legendary.
Then Kenn shares two of his many police encounters. First, there’s the time he decides that at 2:00 AM, with practically nobody on the road, it might be perfectly reasonable to drive down the middle of a divided highway instead of, you know, his actual lane.
What could possibly go wrong?
In his second story, Kenn gets pulled over and becomes so nervous that when the officer asks for his driver’s license, he accidentally hands him his credit card instead. His two teenage children sitting in the backseat? They erupt in laughter.
Just a few of the many unforgettable Boomers on the Edge Police Encounters!
And these stories are only the beginning. The police encounters continue in our next episode, Police Encounters 2!
More unbelievable stories, questionable decisions, and plenty of laughs from Boomers on the Edge.
Hey, and welcome to Boomers on the Edge. Some guys in their 60s who still think they're 60. Your host, Kat and Ron. Let's get started.
SPEAKER_01
One Adam 12. One Adam 12. Yeah. Hey, do you remember that show?
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, it was a great police show for the uh audience that's not a boomer.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER_01
Yeah, I think it was just called Adam 12. But um it was an Adam 12. Yeah, and uh but the boomers might have only seen that on reruns. No, we saw the reals. The real ones.
SPEAKER_00
The non-boomers. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01
Yeah. Um the non-boomers saw the reruns. But it's making us think about being pulled over by the police.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, we uh being older guys, uh we have a few speeding ticket stories, don't we?
SPEAKER_01
Well, not just speeding tickets, but other tickets in in in general tickets.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, well, I I have more than speeding tickets. You know, being a guy that was out on the road, you know, going to see customers in sales, I put in a lot of miles during a given day.
SPEAKER_01
Well, why don't you tell us about one of those stories?
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, let me uh tell one that was related to work, ends up being pretty funny. I'll try not to stretch it out too much. That in the sales world, you have proposals that you have to get done. And we had a proposal that was literally multi-million dollars. I'm not kidding, like it it might have been over five million dollars. And they have a defined deadline where that has to be posted by thank you. And and again, being a boomer story, this basically uh explains today. If you're in sales and you're doing this, it's all submitted electronically as you can imagine. We didn't have that luxury. Uh, this is a 1980s story, okay? Right. I had a proposal that was due, and it was due by noon. And the way they did it in those good old days with the high technology was you had to literally show up at the front desk of the building of the company I was going to with auto stamped it. This was at an one of the big three autos, and the lady at the front desk would time stamp it. Right. They had a machine to do that. Yes, they did. Exactly. This thing you you know, for those who don't know, I don't want to go into a big explanation, but these are major ordeals. Like they give these to you, and sometimes you have 60, 90 days, sometimes you only have 30 days, but it takes many, many people to put together a deal like this. So it's quite the effort. Multiple departments, yeah. You got to re spawn all these quite. I mean, I've had ones that are well over thousands of questions, okay? So a lot of work. Anyway, so we have one of these. Well, I won't get into it, but the people who needed to give me the pricing would not give me the pricing, and we basically had the whole thing printed. Oh, and you had to have them printed in those days. It wasn't electronic, like now it would all be, you know. So we had to wait and put the price in it and then print the final pages that had the pricing. Okay. Yeah. Well, these people would not give me the pricing. Anyway, I'm explaining to them. I got to get over, and it's going to take me to get from one side of town to the other side of town well over an hour. I mean, I was over, I won't say what cities, but I was on the west side, way over the west side, and trying to get over to the east side. Right. And anyway, finally And it might have been during rush hour. Technically, no, well, I I had to be there by noon. So I already said that. So it wasn't technically rush hour. And that's probably why I got away with doing what I did do. So I'm I remember literally my uh administrator assistant was helping me carry the full the we're putting the stuff in the binder and I'm walking. I'm I'm not jogging, okay? Yeah. And and so bottom line is it's due at noon, and I honestly got I think it was like 20 after uh 11 already. Okay. So every minute comes. I don't even think it was possible to get over to that side of town that fast. It's it's more like an hour plus ride. Okay. I'm like, I have no choice. I get it, I get in the car, I go shooting out the back of our office, and there's a light that used to be a no light or a flashing light, and they had changed it to a regular light. I decided there was no traffic there. So I shot it. Okay.
SPEAKER_01
So you kind of said F it.
SPEAKER_00
Well, I had no, yeah. So I I made it green. It wasn't green. I looked to my right as I'm doing that, and there's the uh the local police. He's about half a mile, quarter mile down. I'm not sure if he can see me. So now I make the left, and now I gotta go through uh I'll say some of the roads. Eight mile and and uh your favorite road in Haggerty. Eight mile, yeah. Everybody likes when I talk about eight mile anyway. I decide that one's red too. Well, I should I've already shot through one. I shot through a second one. It was more than pink, it definitely was. So now I'm not sure because he's so far down that he saw me. So now I have to merge onto the expressway. And so you know how you're you know, you go around in one of those curly cues, yeah, and you can kind of see the road that you just came from. You can see the well now. I can see him with full lights ablazing. Oh yeah, okay. And I'm like, I don't know that he's after me necessarily. Right. And so I I always think possible. I'm now rolling down the expressway. Well, he pulls me over. What the heck are you doing?
SPEAKER_01
You know, are you on the shoulder of the freeway?
SPEAKER_00
Yeah. He says, Where are you going? You know, a fire? And I said, uh, well, I says, you see that right there on that passenger seat? That's a five million dollar contract. Contract. I don't want to exaggerate actually it might have been a $10 million contract. Okay. Right. He looks at that and I says, and it's due. And now it's like 11 30 now. I go, it's due like in 30 minutes.
SPEAKER_01
Let me back up for a second. Yeah. And I worked in a defense contractor and we had similar type proposals that had to be submitted by a certain time. Yeah. And if you were the last person, like in a game in the game of hot potato, yeah, if it didn't get in on time, that was your butt. No matter how much everyone else wasted your time.
SPEAKER_00
Totally. You mean because I'm the delivery man?
SPEAKER_01
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00
You're the one that's going to take the brunt of me. You know this is true from your business. There may have been 50 plus people that touched this exactly. Okay. But I've now got it in my hands. Okay, so I'm expiring to explain to him. I'm going, look, you know, yes, I know I might have done a few things. Let's see, speeding in two red lights. Hastily. Hastily. But uh that is due in 30 minutes. He he doesn't say a word. Okay. He goes, you know, drive license registration. Oh, yeah. I've heard that about it. Comes comes back. Comes back. He says, uh, you know, that's your problem. I I because I said to him, You could really do me a great favor. You know, I know I did wrong, but I gotta get this over there, and I won't speed the rest of the way. I'll just do the best I can to get there. But if you hold me up, I will guarantee we won't be there on time. Because that's your problem. I said, okay. So I sat there like I had to, and he gives it to me. I, you know, pull away at some minor speed, and then I start speeding again, of course. Okay, so he didn't cut you over. Oh no, he gave me no no break whatsoever. That was your problem. So I that was my problem. I pull in to the place, and it's honest to God, it's like, and I sped like a nut. Must have been like 1205, 1210. I knew the lady at the front desk, her name was Irene, and I decided to try this strategy. And I what didn't go rushing in, didn't go crying, didn't do anything. I had in my envelope with all my stuff in it. Irene, well, how are you doing? How's the kids? You know, how's the grandkids? The consummate salesman. How's it going? And she's like, Oh yeah. Oh, did you see my baby, my little grandchild's pictures? I'm like, no, show them to me. And so then she's showing them to me. And I'm like, oh my, oh, oh my God, oh my god. What? She's like, what's wrong, Ron? What's wrong? I go, This was supposed to be time stamped, and we overran. And we were told my God. And she goes, honey. She goes, honey, I can fix this machine. She readjusts the table. And this is the beauty of the good old days, you know. Okay. It is. So she fixes it, right? But that's not the end of the story because now I got to decide I'm going to go and fight the ticket. You're going to court. So I go into an actual real courtroom with like other criminals and such. Okay. And in those days, this is the 80s. So I'm fully decked during the day. I go like at a like a court, like at noon or something. Like you're looking like one of the lawyers. I have a suit on and a tie, and this guy next to me, I'm not joking. He's got handcuffs on. And so I don't know what kind of hearing he was having, but finally they call me up, and uh the guy next to me is just looking at me, like looking at me up and down, like, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Judge starts saying, Okay, so uh, what's what what's your story? And the room, I'm not joking. I've been to one where there's nobody in there. There's like easily 50 to 7,500 people in this room. I'm not joking.
SPEAKER_01
Okay.
SPEAKER_00
I'm like, and so I'm on a microphone and everything. And like Judge Wapner or something, and he's he's like, Okay, what's your story? I go, Well, you know, I'm telling him the whole thing I just do, and it was a $10 million thing, and and it wasn't my fault. He goes, Wow. He says, You know what my wife tells me? What? It's it's always your fault. Oh yeah, oh yeah. We've all all of us guys, we've heard that from our wife. He says, So uh, you know, that was your problem. I'm like, oh and the and the guy next to me with the handcuffs, he goes, you're I won't say the whole word just to make just a semi-clean. Thank you. He's whispering over me, he goes, You you F man. Oh, okay, great. Everybody in the room's laughing at me because the criminals like to see the guy in the white, you know, in the white shirt and tying getting the grab. Who wants the man to get it? You know, yeah, you know, you you know, that that that my wife tells me that that's your problem, you know. And so I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever, you know, just we just end this and you know, do whatever you gotta do. And he goes, but he goes, you know, sometimes he says, sometimes you uh you know, there are circumstances extenuating circumstances. And uh I'll tell you what, I'm gonna cut you some slack today. He says, No points on your record, go pay the fine.
SPEAKER_01
There you go. Thank you. Maybe he didn't like what that guy said.
SPEAKER_00
Maybe he heard maybe he was maybe he wasn't liking that the audience was enjoying me get beat up so much.
SPEAKER_01
Yeah, and there's a little bit of a lesson here for people that maybe the younger gen, maybe they haven't had um run-ins with the law and or going to court. That's like a good point. Going to court. Really, you gotta treat the courts with respect.
SPEAKER_00
Treat the court with respect, treat police with respect. And I did treat the guy with respect who wouldn't let me go, but who knows? He might have, you know.
SPEAKER_01
And and the thing is, is when you go to court, dress up, you know, at least business casual.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, and so look presentable. You know, yes, I ended up paying the fine, but I didn't end up I ran two red lights and was speeding at least 30 miles over the speed limit and didn't get any points. Okay. That's a beautiful thing. Yeah. So you said you had some stories.
SPEAKER_01
I do, and I have a couple stories, but I'm gonna say one. We don't know how much time we have here, but I'm gonna tell you guys one. And um one one night we were preparing to go camping with the family, and this was uh the extended family, brothers and sisters and stuff like that. And I was pulling up, I had a pop-up that we were gonna sleep in, pop-up camper, and I wanted to bring up my uh sea dudes. And so uh my brother had said to me that he would take the pop-up and I would drag the sea dudes up. So it's probably like between one and two o'clock in the morning. Because it's like last night. We're all working.
SPEAKER_00
Where are you in this case?
SPEAKER_01
I'm at home in Sterling Heights, and I gotta cruise across town. I probably got like a 25-minute drive at least. I get there, I drop the camper off for my brother to tow for us, and then I'm driving home. I'm coming down this really dark road, it's got no street lights, and uh looked like it was just resurfaced uh blacktop-wise, and it had really bright yellow stripes. But the point is, is there was no one on the road, and I didn't think it really meant didddly squat if I drove over the line. So drove over the line, the yellow line.
SPEAKER_00
Well, why were you driving over the yellow line?
SPEAKER_01
I was just like I don't know, driving in the middle of the road. I didn't think it was that big of a deal. There was no one on the road. Okay, so all of a sudden the lights come on.
SPEAKER_00
You're gonna look at two o'clock in the morning like you're drunk.
SPEAKER_01
That's exactly what the guy thought. So it gets it gets worse.
SPEAKER_00
A lot of things, a lot of my stories they get worse. So hey, let this is a good idea.
SPEAKER_01
Let me look like I'm drunk at two o'clock in the morning, even though I'm not. I'm not gonna increase my chances of getting pulled over, not at all. So I get pulled over. This is a good one for the young guys, too. I get pulled over, and I've been pulled over quite a bit. This is just one of the stories. And and uh every time I get pulled over, man, I start shaking like a leaf, and I'm like, oh yeah, and I Yeah, because you don't want to go into jail and court. And I've got court stories and all that too. But I'm I'm pulled over, it's 1:30 in the morning, and the guy comes up and says, license registration, proof of insurance, please. So I pull out my wallet, I pull out what I thought was my license and I hand it to him, you know. And he looks at me and he's he goes, Sir, I didn't need your credit card.
SPEAKER_00
And I go while you have it, why don't you just you know put one on yourself there? You know, that's we'll call it a night, huh?
SPEAKER_01
No, I said, I said, I'm so sorry, sir. I says, I'm just so scared. I go, I just when I get pulled over by a cop, I go to the city. And and my kids, both of my kids. But the kids are the kids are in the car. They're laughing their butts off, and the cop sees them laughing at me, you know. They're going, Dan, I can't believe it. I can't believe you gave the guy your granny cop. And I think that the cop felt so bad for me that I was getting away.
SPEAKER_00
He was uniting, he was he was uniting in bonding with another father. Exactly. Who was getting joked about by his kids, almost chastised, the point of being chastised.
SPEAKER_01
And he goes, you know, I'm gonna let you off with a woman. Just be more careful. So that was one of my stories. Wow. Short and sweet, but I got off. Uh, I like what you said earlier. You know, I was being honest with the guy, and uh, I got let go. So that was one of the only times I've ever was let off on a on a ticket for a traffic violation. Did you have any more stories?
SPEAKER_00
I do, but do you think we should save those for a second episode? We could. Yeah, maybe we could.
SPEAKER_01
Okay, because well, I have plenty. I know I have plenty more than run.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, maybe we should do a speeding ticket too or something.
SPEAKER_01
Yeah, or accidents. Because I've got my shares of both. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00
Anyways, thanks for listening, everyone. Thanks. Hey, 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.
