Not Meant for the Oval Office: A Fun Trip down Memory Lane and Beyond
Oct 16, 2023
Marcy Backhus
Ever wondered which year of your life you'd choose to relive if you could? Join us on a trip down memory lane as we answer this and more, sharing our favorite charities, exploring our family bonds, and discussing the incredible work being done by our church. Meet Craig, my husband, who amusingly shares why he's not cut out for the presidency. Tune in for an insight into our artistic abilities and how we're eerily similar to our parents.
In the second half, we dream aloud, imagining our perfect day and the alternate career paths we might have chosen. Our chat is a delightful blend of hilarity and warmth. Get ready to reminisce, laugh and maybe find inspiration as we bare our past and present our dreams.
Ever wondered which year of your life you'd choose to relive if you could? Join us on a trip down memory lane as we answer this and more, sharing our favorite charities, exploring our family bonds, and discussing the incredible work being done by our church. Meet Craig, my husband, who amusingly shares why he's not cut out for the presidency. Tune in for an insight into our artistic abilities and how we're eerily similar to our parents.
In the second half, we dream aloud, imagining our perfect day and the alternate career paths we might have chosen. Our chat is a delightful blend of hilarity and warmth. Get ready to reminisce, laugh and maybe find inspiration as we bare our past and present our dreams.
Speaker 1:
Hello and welcome to the AJ New Persistis Podcast. My name is Marcy Gackett and I'm your host. Well, on today's episode we're having a repeat. I'm a little tired this week been traveling and I thought it would be fun to repeat our one-year episode and listen to my interview with my husband, Craig. So enjoy.
Speaker 2:
Alright. So here we are after the break and I promised you a surprise, and it's a surprise. Alright, we'll see how this goes. Say hi, craig.
Speaker 3:
Hello.
Speaker 2:
So far, so good. We're doing good, aren't we? So are you ready for this, craig?
Speaker 3:
Yes.
Speaker 2:
The one thing I told them is no one word answers and we've gotten a hello and a yes so far. We're just off to the races. Okay, you realize there's people out there to be entertained and if we don't entertain them, they're going to turn it off. Okay, alright. So I tried to make this a little easier than just a chat between Craig and I. I printed off some, as I've been told, generic questions, but they're not generic questions. They are 100 conversational questions to ask your spouse.
Speaker 2:
So as you're listening to this, you may want to take some of these questions and ask your spouse. If you're doing a road trip, maybe dinner, and it's a little boring. I'll put them up on my website, which is wwwaging8forSissycom Aging8forSissy's podcast excuse me, aging8forsissy'spodcastcom and I'll put the questions up there in case you feel the need to print them out or just open them on your phone or your computer and annoy your husband or significant other or your wife or whoever it might be, so you guys can get them there. So I do have a few questions. Are you ready to answer the questions, craig?
Speaker 3:
Yes.
Speaker 2:
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3:
I don't like how I answer.
Speaker 2:
I don't care, you answer them however. You want to answer them. Okay, so number one, I'll answer them too, but we'll start with Craig answers. If you could relive a year in your life, what age would you choose?
Speaker 3:
Okay, you have to tell me for what purpose am I reliving it?
Speaker 2:
I don't care for whatever reason you want to relive it.
Speaker 3:
Because it's different for you Okay?
Speaker 2:
well then give me your answer. I know Craig already wrote down answers.
Speaker 1:
So here we go.
Speaker 3:
So I lived in France and went to school in 1976, 1977. That was a really fun year, so that would be fun to relive again. I learned a lot that year. I'm living overseas at that age Okay. But if they answered the reliving, it was for the purpose of to do something different, so things could have been better. In 2003, I decided that I was going to invest in Bitcoin, and then Charles Schwab wasn't able to buy Bitcoin yet, so I kept putting it off while I did other things and never bought the Bitcoins that I should have bought Way to go.
Speaker 2:
Geez, I didn't even know that. Oh nice, craig, another one of your procrastinations. Huh, that has gained us nothing, nothing, all right. Well, there you go. What year would I relive in my life, and what age? I don't know what year I would relive. I think I would relive the first year I had Kyle. I liked that year. I liked having Kyle in the fall, I don't know. It was a very happy year. We lived in our house in Venice and I don't know. I just liked that year. That would be the year I would relive, just to have a happy year again. So there you had it. It's before Kyle could talk. What is your favorite charity you love and why Do you have a favorite charity?
Speaker 3:
I suppose it would be our current church.
Speaker 2:
Your current, our current church.
Speaker 3:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
They do a lot of good, don't they, yep.
Speaker 3:
And some very hands-on. It's not like sending it to United Way or something where they use 60% of the money for themselves.
Speaker 2:
Okay, I agree with that. I think our church our church does hands-on. That money goes straight into our own community. Living in a big city, there's a lot of needs right at our doorstep and I think they address those needs really well. I would agree with you. My favorite charity is it's a guy up in Oregon that has huge property and he takes in hundreds of dogs, cats, horses. He's amazing and I follow him on Instagram and he is a great human being and he takes animals out of bad situations. And to watch him walk do a pack walk with hundreds of dogs on his giant property in Oregon does your heart a lot of good. He ends up with a lot of dogs that really need him and I will put his information on my website. The name isn't coming to me right now, but I think he does a lot of good, so that's mine. Let's see which of your parents are you most like.
Speaker 3:
I'm most like my father. I inherited my artistic abilities from him. He's also was more quiet and unemotional, like I am too.
Speaker 2:
Where'd you get your hoarding from your mother? That didn't come from your dad, but I would agree with that. I think you're a lot like your dad. I think I'm a combination of my two parents, really an even combination. I think I'm a lot like my mom in a lot of ways, but I also think I have a lot of my dad's qualities, so I see that I'm both of them. Which of your siblings are you most like?
Speaker 3:
My sister and Muff. You and Muff, you think, are a lot of like More than the other ones.
Speaker 2:
Oh, more than the other ones. Okay, I can see you and Muff being a lot of like. I see a lot of difference in the two of you two. But I do see I don't know, I was thinking about this I have a brother and I have two sisters. At one time I would have said I'm a lot like my sister Devon, and I think at this point I'm more like my sister Cindy in more ways than my sister Devon. I think as you age, things change, people change what's something you've always wanted to learn how to do. You know how to juggle already.
Speaker 3:
I know most things that I might need to learn to do. I just do Like juggling.
Speaker 2:
Okay, you don't think you need to learn how to use your phone.
Speaker 3:
No, the answer to this question I prepared was I'd like to be able to speak multiple languages and I haven't taken the time to learn them.
Speaker 2:
Alright, so we both want to learn Spanish. Maybe we should learn Spanish together.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2:
You want to work down in Mexico. You got a project that's what you're working on, so I think we are supposed to start that. And then I ended up in the hospital in California. If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Speaker 3:
Buy you your house in Arizona you want.
Speaker 2:
Okay, thank you. We're going to start playing the lottery more. We're getting tickets every week. That's really what you would do with the money.
Speaker 3:
Okay, so here's my so I don't do that pay off any debts we have and then then give money to our church.
Speaker 2:
Alright, so do you know what I would do?
Speaker 3:
What.
Speaker 2:
I would do exactly what Lee Asher has done and I would buy the biggest piece of property I could buy and I would rescue every animal that I could rescue and I would have all the doctors and all the people to help the animals. That's what I would do.
Speaker 3:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
So you would know, if I won the lottery everybody I would be living off the grid somewhere with a bunch of animals. Alright, let's see. What else do we have here? Hmm, I like this question. What does your ideal day look like?
Speaker 3:
You can go first if you want, because I didn't like this question. I think every day is different, so it depends. Well, tomorrow it might be different than how I feel about the day two weeks from now.
Speaker 2:
That's just too much work for me. Craig, my ideal day would be a day on the beach with all of my family and my kids and my extended family, and a day at the beach with David, matthew, dennis, their kids, everybody, just all of them. Chris and Casey and Adeline and Alan and Beth and Angie and everybody I just my siblings, I don't know. I just I would love a big family reunion on the beach. That would be my perfect day.
Speaker 3:
I gotta pick a generic day, I'd say I'm learning something new every day.
Speaker 2:
Okay, well, there you go.
Speaker 3:
Alright.
Speaker 2:
What's? If you weren't what you are now, what other career would you have? I've had a lot of careers already, so there isn't anything. I've had like six different careers.
Speaker 3:
Oh, I'd be a fine artist, a painter, a sculptor or something like that, which is sort of related to what I do now. I'm an architect, but-.
Speaker 2:
You would go with your art route.
Speaker 3:
But the other career that I think it would be fun to do, I'd like to do but I wouldn't be good at, would be a politician. I'd like to be the president or a senator or something like that.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you'd suck at that. Though you couldn't get there, you'd be good at being the president.