Lifes 3x5s

This very same kick off reception to the Beloit International Film Festival in 2020 is where Tim and Liz reconnected and was where the very first domino fell for their many projects.  Learn their story, famous lines from films, being a critic, an international creative mentor, details of the 2022 festival, the exciting behind-the-scenes stories, Tim saw a tear drop during the film Ghost, and...

The phrase “once in a lifetime” often gets tossed around haphazardly, but today it’s rock solid.  Twosday, February 22, 2022 at 2:22 pm! Liz celebrates and Tim learns its significance.  Also…glaciers, angel numbers, conversation starters, Swedish meatballs, Paczki, palindromes, being derailed, birthdays, divine intervention, and everyone got overheated.

We bundled up and headed down the hills on frigid tubes. Crazy winter fun in the Midwest. Once we warmed up by the fire with our hot chocolate, the conversation shot out of the gates again. From our underwear and childhood cartoons to ziplines and the Kubb lawn game. From surfing hawks and voicing a cartoon to tossing trash and drawing Goofy over twenty thousand times. We fille...

It was time for us to step out of our comfort zones and do some abstract painting. As usual the conversation “leaped off of the brush” into mistaken suspects, stick a fork in the grave, taboo on display, Babe Ruth’s bathtub, your QR Code when you’re dead, two parking tickets, our ties to the Olympics, board game competition, dressed to the nines and Tim is not a good Googler.   

Season #2 Episode #1 – SPECIAL NOTE: A sampling of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra's show from February 12, 2022 can be heard immediately following our exit music. This is likely going to be one of our most unique shows. In the background, you will progressively hear the individual rehearsals begin for the Rockford Symphony Orchestra. The Coronado Theater has a rich history and provided conversati...

Episode #14 - Frigid temperatures and huge blocks of snow result in amazing works of art in three days. Liz and Tim have set up a makeshift studio in a minivan to bring you the Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition for this show.  From tools of the trade and NFL football twins to cars sinking in the lake and sculpting the impossible.  Dirty snow and sand sculpting to “I can’t feel my thigh...

Episode #15 – SPECIAL NOTE: Several bonus audio segments mentioned in this show follow the exit music. Tim and Liz were surrounded by vintage audio equipment of every kind and brand at Sounds Classic in Rockford, Illinois. From renting to Hollywood and old radio airchecks to giant speakers in dorm rooms and outstanding concerts memories.  From smelling musty socks and albums with an extra hol...

Episode #13 – Liz and Tim were so inspired by the Midway Museum in Rockford, Illinois. The stories flowed faster than any other episode. From Estwing hammers and Amerock hardware to the Aldeen Golf Club barn and the Rockford Peaches women's baseball team. Tim bought new jeans and Liz needed socks from Nelson Knitting. Tim pointed out his family heirlooms on display in the museum and there's news a...

Episode #12  -  Among palm trees and everything green and within a gigantic glass box in northern Illinois, Liz and Tim talked about the smell of death, grubby kids in the dirt, ice skating, models trains, first jobs, plant kaleidoscopes, allergies, koi fish up to your elbow, dead animals, traveling abroad, and dressing in layers.  Visit lifes3x5s.com for each episode’s photo galler...

Episode #11 – We were within the recording studios at the Rockford Symphony Orchestra offices. It was a day of giggles over the dumbest things. Surrounded by fun and creativity in the Riverfront Museum Park in Rockford, Illinois. From piano lessons and haunted hotels to birthday adventures and hoarding. Going to Liz Camp and inventing golf according to Robin Williams. Remembering reading for the b...

A very cold and windy January day next to a restaurant’s fireplace surrounded by great sharable food. From wildlife and Betty White to fantasy camp and Harrison Ford. How do our conversations go so many places in thirty minutes or so? From being compared to someone and Dan Marino to recognizing someone from years ago in a split second and the successful folks named Lisa we know. Visit lifes3x5s.co...

Episode #9 began with a three-mile hike back to a falls on a beautiful December day in Starved Rock State Park. Kathy Casstevens was our docent host for the day. A comfort food lunch provided the perfect backdrop for a great conversation about the park’s history and plans for the future. From an impromptu birthday song in the bar and snowshoes to twins and a dog named Woody. From boys who seemingl...

Episode #8 - We knew it would be a little risker doing our shows on the road.  Weather is the biggest culprit. Our conversation took place in a makeshift studio in a minivan in the middle of a December holiday light festival in the pouring rain. So much fun. From mouth scolding cider and the invention of White-Out to Pentatonix and Santa Claus’ footprints. What to do with things “broken down”...

Episode #7 - Our location for our 7th episode is inside the firehouse location of Beef-a-Roo restaurant in Loves Park, Illinois. They are a local fast-food chain of 50+ years. The stories piled up very quickly. From a radio station bumper sticker to fifth-grade field trip bag lunches. From The Love Boat trip to a jingle singing bartender in Las Vegas. From Tim’s French fries nubbins to a shore lun...

Episode #6 - Our show takes place in the WLUV radio studio in Loves Park, Illinois. This is personally close to their hearts because of the live shows they did there in 2021. Shortly after the owner died at the age of ninety-eight, the format changed and the building was renovated. Tim worked in the same studio when he was sixteen years old. Today’s episode is twice as long for obvious reasons.

Episode #5 - Being at a different remote location for each episode keeps it exciting, but today was thrilling. Three years ago twelve friends dug up some blueprints for a hundred-year-old airplane called the Jenny and decided to build one. Thirty seconds before we were to begin our podcast, they arrived to fly it for only the second time. Our conversation went from our first flight to skydiving, f...

Episode #4 - Our episodes take us places not normally thought of for a talk show. We learn so much and meet great people. Today’s conversation took us from company logos to binge movies to musicals and creamsicles. And then from shipping containers to old photo slides to bedside items and giant cars in tiny garages.   It’s a roller coaster of gabbing. Our 4 th episode takes place inside...

Episode #3 - Our latest Life's 3x5s show took place in the middle of a farmer’s market in the Midwest. Never bored of our locations and it helps kickstart conversations. The farmers dressed up for Halloween and we talked about snoot, baseball caps memories, honey, gorging ourselves without throwing up, the National Restaurant Association, and seeing President George W. Bush. Following the snake tr...

Episode #2 - If you kick a can far enough down the road you’ll run into Roland Olson Forest Preserve. We surrounded ourselves with dogwalkers and prairie fields and chatted until sunset. From foods you dip to questions about plants. From dogs on lame leashes to frog eye salad and the weird items on a McDonald’s menu elsewhere. They could never script it so they don’t because it’s more fun that way...

Catching Up and Creating It Over Coffee. Our location for the trailer is Meg's Daily Grind in Rockford, Illinois. Locally owned and operated with four locations.

Episode #1 - Our episodes take place at different remote locations. This personally keeps Tim and Liz off the bored grid and helps kickstart conversations. Hear how detasseling corn can lead to the band Cheap Trick, motorcycling to Sturgis, drinking moonshine, riding horses in the winter, and a famous Japanese garden. None of these topics were scripted or intended except for the very first one wri...