Lifes 3x5s

Season# 3   Episode # 15  -   Just a few topics from this episode… Old Fashion slushes, Billy Williams, baseball themed movies, triple party day coming up, superstitions, the Jeep wave, sports communities, big league announcers, John O’Leary & Jack Buck, fish slime or dog slobber and our new pets.   Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast!  Find...

Season# 3   Episode # 14  -   Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast!  Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee.   Just some of the topics in this episode – humping Liz’s leg, muscle cars, trains, cereal boxes, difficult names for specific collectors, coyotes, going through Liz’s purse, Tim’s new puppy, Airheads and “shoplifting.”  And, many...

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Season# 3   Episode # 12  -   Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast!  Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee.   A full blown two hour conversation with our lifelong radio friend Don Kronberg of Nitelite Promotions.  We mentally and verbally rubbed shoulders with hundreds of rock stars and comedians spanning his 33 years.  Drinking wi...

Season# 3   Episode # 11  -   Bars have TIP JARS and so does Lifes3x5s podcast!  Find it on our website and Buy Us A Coffee.   Whiskey Acres provided a great backdrop for many stories today…bourbon slushes, drunk stories from the 70’s, betting on Gatorade, the best bar slogan ever, “it tastes like booger”, “Who puked on me?”, the party backwash looked like i...

Season# 3   Episode # 10  -   Remember to tell your friends and review rate us on Apple!  Visit lifes3x5s.com for each episode’s photo gallery, a way to contribute ideas to our podcast and the Buy Us A Coffee Tip Jar.   Here’s a some of the topics from this episode.  The National Snow Sculpting Competition, dueling toasts, ice maze, sand sculpting, lend...

Season# 3   Episode # 9  -   Remember to tell your friends and review rate us on Apple!  Visit lifes3x5s.com for each episode’s photo gallery, a way to contribute ideas to our podcast and the Buy Us A Coffee Tip Jar.   Here are some of the topics from this episode.  The Rockford Photo Club shoot, turkey feathers on Tim’s dashboard, eagles right over our...

Season# 3   Episode # 8   -   It was a nice way to spend the afternoon.  Several talented figure skaters practiced their programs for us.  Our first episode of January 2023 was also Lifes3x5s podcast first year anniversary!  We celebrated by chatting about Mittens versus Gloves, Tim is NOT a trendsetter, childhood skating, Tim’s grandfather’s advice, Ol...

Season# 3   Episode # 7   -   It was a really fun day at Park Lanes Bowling in Loves Park, Illinois.  Here are some of the topics we covered after our three games wearing those fancy colored shoes.  Dumb asses on two lanes, Tim’s early birthday gifts, Christine McVie died and how Mick Fleetwood entered the room, thirty-two weeks with three four year old kids...

Season #3    Episode #6 -  Tim and Liz are within a rumored to be haunted house.  This episode’s stories are like no other.  “Someone” moved our wine glasses and my towel in that hotel, it was as cold as a fridge in mid-July, an orb appeared in Liz’s photos, ghosts at the White House, WYBR radio in the CherryVale Mall, and true stories from Tim’s relatives. ...

Season #3    Episode #5 -  Tim and Liz were pleasantly surprised to be offered to do this episode in the Paul and Angel Harvey Studio at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, Illinois.  So many radio stories were shared within the former WGN Showcase Studio once on Michigan Avenue.  It was donated to the museum in 2012. Midwest temperatures unexpecte...

Season #3    Episode #4 -  Not often, but the weather can pounce on any one of our remote locations.  This would be one of those times.   Pouring rain at the Rock River Valley Mustang Car Show.  Never the  less, our show went on.  We chatted about our personal memories of September 11, 2021, an old girlfriend married the officer who busted us,...

Season #3    Episode #2  -  Surrounded by thousands of pumpkins, gourds and squash, we chatted at a picnic table on a beautiful September day.  Our podcast, as usual, covered many unpredictable topics – choking on apples, a wet ghost story, “What’s on your lip?”, the wise words of Rod Kramer, pumpkin spice is in bed with everything, Foley sound effects, pie versus cak...

Season #3    Episode #2  -  Admiring the new city murals, bird seed, color blind artist, Jim Carey, free t-shirts, senior discounts, crying over a book, pet rock, “It’s good for you!”, nickels, Tim’s painting, not reading labels, latest dumbass moves, raking river rocks and filthy rich.  An easy way to contribute to our podcast is to Buy Me a Coffee through our Tip Ja...

Season #3    Episode #1 - This is the first episode of our third season.  What a free-for-all of topics!  Mt. Rushmore, dinner with former WLS radio folks, bison, rescuing wildlife, time-waster, horrible joke telling, fading fads, not shopping together, people our age, regifting, bourbon cookies, plastic surgery, going to Prince's Paisley Park, moonshine shots, Foster Broo...

Season #2    Episode #15 - This is the last episode of our second season. Thanks you for joining us at thirty very different locations.  Today we’re at the Boy Scouts and Blackhawk Area Council’s Canyon Camp just outside Stockton, Illinois.  Conversations about National Park ranger training, the Merlin Bird app, glamping, “a spider crawled across my lips", and wi...

Season# 2  Episode # 14  - We hoisted our equipment up into a hay loft and began to chat.  Why is there a kitten in the Tupperware?  Animal Stories on WLS radio in Chicago. Parting gifts from the farm, Going down the rabbit hole, seeing UFOs, Think about it and IT will happen, watermelon seeds and Tom Sawyer & Becky Thatcher weekend. What’s your weakness? Reassembling a bar...

Season #2    Episode #13   -  While sitting on the tarmac of the airport’s cargo terminal at high noon!  We chat about flying first class, the UPS plane that spun and swept everything off our table, and answer the question, “Are your nuts still warm?”    Shipping false teeth, getting packages from Dick Clark and George Lucas, football cards and tra...

Season# 2   Episode #  12 - The world renowned Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps played the Sinnissippi Park Music Shell in Rockford, Illinois.  Illinois is truly in the middle of everything!  Listen as our conversation drifts into favorite flowers, a lightning round of Family Feud, who can keep a secret, Utter Tuggers baseball, and the guy who Beat Bobb...

Season# 2   Episode #  11 - Toad Hall is a vintage music and book store.  You name it they have it…somewhere in the building.  Tim has been going there since high school.  Somehow Liz and Tim covered these topics.  Thousands of albums, hauling equipment to dances, epic quotes about music, clothes that will make Liz vomit, and someone gets means when SHE drin...

Diners are the very best places for genuine conversation.  Tim and Liz talked about their individual trips to Disney World, a reason to get up in the morning, K-mart cassettes, and wise men sitting at the counter.   They think they are due for an aircheck session, old weird apartments, lightning rods, disrobing in a diner and major shit about birthdays.  Don’t just ask yourself...

A beautiful day in the Windy City. They arrived early for this episode before recording yet another show for their side project The Storytellers Studio at Newsradio 780 WBBM just a block away. It felt to be a stone’s throw from Cloud Gate in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois. Tim and Liz met folks from El Paso, Texas; Turkey; Austria; Naperville, Illinois and England. They became impromptu tour...

Season#2 Episode #8 - Tim and Liz spent an amazing day at WGN Radio in Chicago with our longtime colleague Lisa Dent. They met Bob Sirott, John Williams and Steve Bertrand.  Their unpredictable conversation covered Ken Burns’ Benjamin Franklin documentary, Grammy winners Emily Bear and Abigale Barlow, “her father fixed my middle finger”, transistor radios in a horse pasture, an...

Season#2  Episode #7  -  We were inspired by the interstate traffic under our feet.  We talked about family car vacations, motorcycle trips, outrunning a tornado, kid car games, the epic sneeze, a true back-and-forth, state-by-state ping pong match of trip stories, and cruises.  Today’s conversation once again proved it’s not always the giant vacations that have the most l...

Season#2 Episode #6 - A thorough explanation of our new project aimed at capturing audio history from former and current employees of WROK radio in Rockford, Illinois. The station’s 100th anniversary is in 2023!  Also, unpredictable conversations about favorite albums, comic books, a root beer taste off, a bath in mashed potatoes and gravy, “here it’s good for you”, a recap of the B...