Peach Podcast
Two guys and an occasional guest breaking open topics on: Purpose, Energy, Attitude, Commitment and Health through shared experiences.
Peach Podcast
EP027: Turkey Trots, Traditions & Gratitude
Ever wondered how a simple family gathering can become a cornerstone of tradition and togetherness? We invite you to join us as we share the heartfelt experience of attending our annual pre-Thanksgiving celebration. It's more than just a potluck—it's a vibrant tapestry of family and friends, united by the irresistible pull of communal spirit! Join us as we reminisce about the evolution of this cherished event, you'll hear stories of laughter, collaboration, and the undeniable charm that makes it a staple of our Thanksgiving tradition.
Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to the Peach Podcast. Just a couple of dudes and an occasional guest breaking open topics from everyday life on purpose, energy, attitude, commitment and health. So, if you're ready, listen in as we live to learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude and laugh as we level up. To learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude and laugh as we level up. Always remember, if you ever feel stuck, all you got to do is just start.
Speaker 1:Come on, let's go. Hey, welcome back to the Beach Podcast with Doug and Daryl Again. First and foremost, I want to say thank you to all the listeners, Thank you to those who follow us and support us, thank you especially to those who send us text messages and give us feedback on our podcast. We can't tell you how much we appreciate that and look forward to that. We're always constantly trying to grow, trying to improve and, most importantly, trying to add value.
Speaker 1:We don't take your time for granted, and so we want to make sure that when you're spending this time with us, you're catching some kind of nugget. If it's one thing, man, isn't it awesome if you can just learn one thing a day? How awesome your life would be in a month, in a year, in a decade, all the things you will have learned that you can take with you, pass on to the generations behind you, and so forth and so on. So again, welcome back. Thanks for being with us, daryl. Let's just dive right in. Man, tell me a little bit about what happened this weekend. What happened this weekend?
Speaker 3:Well, it's me, coming in the family, been here 15 years, your father Chief, or Joseph, or Steve he's got many different names tells you very early on that there's one thing you need to do you need to be up at his house the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:It is his day. All the family comes up. The interesting thing over the years is if you're somebody that stops by a 49er game passing up here in August or September, chief will say to you I'll see you on Thanksgiving, right, and they're like what do you mean? I'm not part of the family, so you know he continues to have, and it was really awesome this year that we had a great combination of the core family but also a lot of friends. Um, so it's a. It's a Saturday all day event. Yep, the one thing is always interesting is the weather. We honestly have some amazing weather, but we have anywhere between 40 to this year we had almost 80 people yes, zero people, wow, up in Somerset at his place, which is a beautiful place to host a lot of different people. Right, I know you killed it as far as working, but we had tents and folding chairs and stuff all over the place. We had a huge fire pit and everything else, and it's a potluck. Everybody brings something.
Speaker 1:Totally. There's so much food. It's crazy so much food. You know, daryl, on the potluck, on the food, there was a moment, maybe a week or two ago, your wife, josephine, my sister. She was concerned there wasn't going to be enough food. And I'm just sitting there. I can hear her talking. She's on speakerphone with my dad and I hear her talking to him and he's thinking oh honey, don't worry about it, there's always enough food. She goes, I don't know man. There's like 80 people coming, or close to 90 at the time, or whatever. I think a few people dropped at the last minute due to illness or whatever. I don't ever remember a year where there has been not enough food. As a matter of fact, we send almost everyone packing with, you know, to-go boxes to like let's just take this food with you.
Speaker 3:Now there is an exception. Okay, okay, little Joe and Laura. Right, Laura, I don't know. Maybe they got married maybe eight, ten years ago, something like that. Laura came up here the first time and made a normal casserole of this like seven different cheese, mac and mac and cheese.
Speaker 3:it was yeah yeah oh yeah, and people literally were arguing and scraping the sides the next year we literally said don't come up here unless you bring double. Yeah, but um, but overall and uh, it is like a little bit like oceans 11, because your dad's like hey, we have two turkeys, do we need one more? We need one more, yeah so this year we had three turkeys, three turkeys, three big turkeys, turkeys. We had a couple hams, I think.
Speaker 3:I think maybe one ham went missing but I know we had some ham and everything else, and so doug is going to put, as he always does, a great reel of the day with pictures and everything. You've got to have one of the food table, it's just absolutely nice.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'll have to see. I don't remember seeing any of the food table, but I'm sure somebody took one of the food table and to give you a sense of how big it is.
Speaker 3:And first of all, knock on wood. Thank you so much, Doug, you, Billy, you know everybody helped out. One thought, Robert yeah, a lot of people. There's probably 10 to 15 people up here. I know you worked all week and everything else for more than that, but there's 10 to 15 people in the morning just putting stuff together, putting tents up, chairs. Everything else Did a really, really great job, so it was really an amazing day.
Speaker 1:It was, it was. And you know, Darrell, I'm sitting here thinking and the one thing that can't leave my head right now is you said you started coming 15 years ago. What's different? What's changed in the fifth? I've always remembered it being a lot of people, but that's because I just grew up with this. But has it grown? Has it changed? Has the dynamics? What do you notice different from the first time you came, other than being scared to death because you met our family? I think.
Speaker 3:To be honest, I think a lot of it. It's not just the family, it's also the family and friends. Yes, and you know, like all families, there's different things. Certain people move away. Certain people may maybe change their circumstances. In some cases, some people have passed away. Right, everybody keeps coming, no matter what branch you're from. Right, this year we had people from Colorado, from Arizona, from all up and down California. In the past we've had people from Alaska, I think Hawaii, and everybody comes and everybody feels welcome and you literally don't sit and talk to the same person for more than five to ten minutes. It's hard, you can't. You are just going around the place here and it seems so much more open and inclusive. I don't know why that means. Maybe it's just because there's more people, the neighbors, right?
Speaker 1:Mike and Shana yeah.
Speaker 3:As you're going to hear on the podcast, we had people that had been here. How long have you been here? My whole life? I'm 44 years old, right, right, and somebody says this is my first time here, Right. So I feel like the diversity of people is bigger. Yes, and it's just such a welcoming event.
Speaker 1:It is. It's a beautiful welcoming event. Event it is. It's a beautiful welcoming event. And even when you're inviting people I know for me I noticed myself lighting up the light bulb comes on like, oh hey, are you coming to my dad's Thanksgiving? You got to come to his Thanksgiving and for us, for his kids, I think one of the brilliant moves. I'm just going to share this and I think a lot of people do this now.
Speaker 1:But as you get older, you find a significant other and they have families too, and so you get around the holidays. You're like, where are we going to go for Thanksgiving and where are we going to go for Christmas? And I don't know if this was my dad's intention and I think that part of it was was that this is the antidote. He know he's going to have his Thanksgiving the Saturday before Thanksgiving, where all of his kids and all of his grandkids and their friends and whatnot come together and that way on Thanksgiving, if you want to go to the significant others, there's no, no harm, no foul. Everybody got to see each other. And it's funny because this it's grown so much that even significant others are coming to their side of the family's, coming to the chief's thanksgiving now too, so, uh, I don't know what people are actually doing on thanksgiving these days other than turkey trots daryl exactly, exactly, in fact.
Speaker 3:Uh, this is great. It's kind of uh, we're recording this the week of thanksgiving. Um, I'm, doug and I are here together. Generally we're on zoom together recording, uh. So I came up here and doug took me on a run and I got to enjoy those hills that you love so much. And as we got back and getting showered to go do our podcast, we get a text from Josephine, who just completed her run. So we're about two days away from Turkey Trot, so it's gonna be an awesome week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and just to really recap with Josephine because this is it I think she was on the 12-week plan training for the Turkey Trot 10K. A lot of people start off with a 5K for their first run and she man she's my sister, because when I decided to run I signed up for a 10K as well. I was like I could do a 5K but then I like nah, you know I'm gonna do a 10K Pushed the limits in. She has been so committed, so driven and so open to the process of this training. And really, daryl, you and I know and I hope this is something that she discovers or has discovered along the way the event is just that's the party. You know, when you show up to the starting line, that's you're, you're at the party, that's all that is. It's good, it's fun. You. Whether you get it done or not is kind of irrelevant.
Speaker 1:The training leading up to the event, really that's where the transformation happens, because the days that come and you just like, man, there's this sucks, I don't want to do it and you get it done. And I think a couple weekends ago you guys went away on a on really looked like a really fun weekend out in Bodega Bay, was it Right? Yeah, and you know, hanging out with some new friends, making some new connections and seeing new places and and and some old places right when we get our sticky buns on our bike rides and stuff and you know that a weekend like that takes a takes a lot out of you, and I think you had told me that she came home and it's like I got to get my run done and just that level of commitment and drive. That's what happens when you take on a 10K run and commit to a 12-week plan. Your priorities shift and things in your life start changing and I'm really excited for it.
Speaker 1:And, sis, I know you listen to our podcast, so I know you need to know that I'm deeply proud of you and I got your husband speaks nothing but amazing things about how you are, just how you stick to your commitment and how you rise above and how you get shit done, and so we're both deeply proud of you, man, and can't wait to run with you this Thursday on Thanksgiving on your first 10K turkey trot. You've done many turkey trots, but they were usually filled with walking and champagne, but this one you're running and, man, you sent your picture and I texted her back on her picture, I said damn, sis, you got your glow on for sure. She is glowing man, she looks great. I know she's feeling good and that's the result of doing something like this. It's going to be fun and hopefully she's encouraged to sign up for something next, because what's next? Right, Daryl?
Speaker 3:That's the secret sauce right there, man. What's next? Shamrock, shamrock. Yes, we already have some more people coming up. March, we're going to be running the Shamrock. We've got a few more people there. Hey, doug, minute, then we'll jump into, uh, the individuals. And it was awesome. We were able to get some really great clips of people, um, talking about what they're thankful for. Doug, we'll talk about that from the outside. I got to see josephine go through this journey, right, and it was interesting. It's always been me going in training for something, but seeing from the outside of I signed up for something, oh crap, reaching out to you and getting a structure right, looking at something and feeling like it was so daunting, just ticking off one box at the time I think the beginning she was literally running one minute, walking one minute running one minute and then she printed out the schedule right on the refrigerator.
Speaker 3:She also has it on her phone, yeah, as a screensaver. Screensaver sees it every day. Anybody that comes over and asks her about it. She takes them up there. She comes home and crosses off each of the items and it went from a topic to oh my God, what am I doing? To? Wow, I've got some big runs up To now. It's just part of what she does.
Speaker 3:Yes, last night, as we're going to bed, she says to Ava by the way, we're getting up early, I've got to get my workout in before we go do our items. Wow, it's just second nature. And she's just clicking them off. That's amazing. She's running like an hour. Wow, you know, plus out there, yeah, and I was walking home from the clubhouse, I will tell you this and I was walking home and I had my bag in my hand and I was about four or 500 yards and I could kind of see my truck down there and I saw this fleeting thing look like it came from our house and just took off and I think, what is that? That was Josephine going for a run. Wow, she does not warm up, she shuts the door and starts running and I literally started to try and catch you and I couldn't. It was absolutely amazing. But seeing that transformation is awesome From like what did I do to structure to just being part of what she does.
Speaker 1:It's awesome. You know what I love, daryl, and, like you said, usually we're on Zoom and we can still see each other on Zoom, but being here in person with you right now, and I'm telling you, when you started sharing that story, your posture got straight up, your energy, your eyes opened up wider. And I'm sharing these details because I don't think people understand how you impact and influence others when you're trying to do hard shit yourself, even in the midst of the hard shit, in the painful, in the suffering, even when you're saying, damn, I hate this, I don't want to do this, and you're bitching and whining or whatever. And I'm not saying that's the case with Josephine, but even in those times, because we all get there, you know, man, look, just listen, just watching you say, well, it came fleeting out of my house and when you realized it was Josephine, you said I started to run to catch her. Like, why would you do that? You know, because you're inspired, man, you're inspired and so you know that's good shit, sis. Look what you're inspired and so, uh, you know that's good shit, sis. Look what you're doing, man, you're impacting people and, as daryl's telling me and I'm watching him get excited, I'm like shit.
Speaker 1:Maybe we should have ran six miles today, man you know. But we'll do that on thursday 6.2 on thursday, actually, you know, just for the record. Uh, turkey trot people. That is not a 10k, it's a little longer, I think it's it's about six and a half. Excuse me, choked on myself there. It's about six and a half. Excuse me, choked on myself there. It's about six and a half miles or close to, because every time I watch peeps at 10K I'm like why am I still running when the hell's the finish line? But it's cool, it's all cool and there's so many people and it's fun, it's for a good cause and it's just great being together.
Speaker 3:Well, I can't wait for this episode and Doug the editor, but Doug, kind of give people an update of what they're going to hear.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we basically, man, like you said, there was close to 80 people here, adults and kids, and real quick, I'm just going to segue real quick into the adults and kids. Man, daryl, it's so neat. I was talking with Chad and Lisa, who had, you know, they'd been coming for years and we hadn't seen them for a while and then they came back and now they have big grown boys Some of them are close to being as tall as you. Man, it's like what the heck? But talking to Chad, he was going, you know, doug, it's really cool just looking down at the playground at the bocce ball court where a lot of the kids play, you know, soccer or bocce ball or wrestle or run and tag or whatever, and he goes.
Speaker 1:It's so cool watching the kids play and they get he goes. Man, you're watching them and they're they play kind of rough and they're banging each other up and knocking each other down and he goes and you're just he goes. I'm just standing here looking from afar going. Well, he got that kid got up and looked smaller, but he got up and he's charging back in again Like you know, let's do this again and he goes. It's so cool to see them, how they can take these kids take care of themselves, they take care of each other and they just love being together and no one's getting you know. From a parent's perspective, you might feel like, oh shoot, be careful, be careful, be careful. But the kids are. The last thing they're thinking of is being careful. They're just like let's be joyful man and let's keep it real.
Speaker 3:Okay, I think we might've invented a new sport. Chief has an awesome and we'll try to find a picture to put up there at the bocce ball court. Okay, yeah, yeah, chief built this really nice bocce ball court. I don't know, it's probably been eight, 10 years ago. He actually now has, where it's actually kind of, artificial grass.
Speaker 1:But it was originally made with. How did they make them? With shells, like a crushed shell or something like that, like the Italian style.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he did that and he did that. There was probably about eight to 10 boys, between three and maybe 12 out there that turned that into an indoor soccer, slash tackle football game. They were going at it, man, I'm telling you, and I told Josephine, I was like there's a lot of young boys there and they just turned that back ball and the adults were. I was afraid to even go down there. I was sure I was going to get tripped or clipped or something like that I think Tony went down there and got tackled one time.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it was cool, it was super cool.
Speaker 1:I kept my old ass out. I watched from afar. Man, I remember those days, but not for me anymore, but it's fun to watch, it's fun to watch. So we went around and, man, I wish we could have asked everyone.
Speaker 1:So Daryl and I kind of collaborated and took a few minutes, stepped aside from the party and said what are we going to do? How are we going to interview all these people? Because, man, you know, there's certain characters that could take up a whole episode Stephanie, Just saying Steph, we love you, man. But there's also, you know, we wanted to hear from as many people as we can, and we knew that some people would be a little shy. We put in a mic in front of their mouth and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:But so we just said you know what, let's just ask this, this is about giving thanks and thanksgiving and family and just really getting different voices and hearing different answers. And so we came up with three or a few questions. One was just asking them their name and then asking them how long have they been coming to this particular event? And then we'd ask them what did they appreciate or most look forward to when they came to this event? And then the last question we asked them was if they could sum up in a word or in a short phrase what are they most grateful for in 2024? And so in a few moments you're going to hear a bunch of different answers, and you'll be surprised that a lot of the answers aren't so different, are they? No, they were very good. Yeah, yeah, Very cool. So let's dive in and listen to a few and see how it goes from there. All right, Daryl, let's go.
Speaker 10:My name is Angelina.
Speaker 1:All right, angelina, how long have you been coming to this event?
Speaker 10:This is my first year coming to this event.
Speaker 1:And what are you appreciating or enjoying about this event so far?
Speaker 10:So this is my first time coming here, but I grew up at this house and it's honestly so great to spend quality time with family and friends and people that I love.
Speaker 1:Awesome, awesome. And being in the season of Thanksgiving, giving thanks, what's one thing you're thankful for this year, in 2024?
Speaker 10:In 2024,. I am probably most grateful for my health because I've been working on it a lot this year and it's been a journey, but it's something that I've been working on and I'm really grateful for it.
Speaker 1:So all right, we have our next guest. What is your name? Jeremy? Jeremy, thanks for joining us. I'm asking a few questions here. How long have you been coming to this particular family function?
Speaker 7:I would say, I'll say almost six years, maybe all right, almost six years.
Speaker 1:And in those six years, what's one thing you appreciate or most looked forward to when you come up to this particular family function? Um, definitely the food yeah, the food is good.
Speaker 7:The food is good, uh no, but mostly the family, uh, it's, it's good to see everyone get together here and just just celebrate. You know, life, yeah, just loved ones and just being here.
Speaker 1:Being in the season of giving thanks or gratitude, if you can sum up in a word or in a small phrase what are you most grateful for in the year 2024?
Speaker 7:Most grateful for, yeah, I would say, my family. That's an ongoing thing that I would always appreciate my family that I'm with, especially here, the large family that we have here that gets together every year, so it's good to see new faces every time. That's awesome.
Speaker 1:Thanks for sharing some time with us, Jeremy. So what's your name? Mike West. Mike West, how long have you been coming to this event? Longer than I can remember.
Speaker 11:Okay, which, of course, since I can't remember shit, it's not very long, all right.
Speaker 1:And what do you appreciate about coming to this event Nice? To see all the old people Very nice, very nice, and being in the year of Thanksgiving, or in this season of Thanksgiving, what's one thing you're grateful for? In 2024? I'm still alive. That's a great thing to be grateful for. All right, thank you. All right, we got two more people with us, so what's your name? First, let's start with that. I'm Tony Valene. Tony Valene, all right. And what's your name? Gage Valene. Gage Valene. Oh, you guys know each other. Then.
Speaker 8:Very close. Yeah, for quite some time I was going to say you look a little similar, that's all good.
Speaker 1:All right, how long have you been coming to this event? Let's start with Tony.
Speaker 8:Oh, you know, I don't even know, but more than five years I believe.
Speaker 1:All right, cool, cool, and let's stay with you. Tony, what do you appreciate? What about coming to this event?
Speaker 7:uh, all the family and and friends and fun times here all right yeah, and just being in this mountain, in the mountains okay, good, good good clean air all right, let's go over to gage.
Speaker 1:Gage how long have you been coming to this event?
Speaker 9:oh, same time, I think five years, probably more yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And what's one thing you appreciate or look forward to when you come to these things? I would say definitely hang out with family and friends. All right.
Speaker 9:And just being with you guys. Second family, yeah. Second family, yeah, yeah, yeah, right on right on.
Speaker 1:Hopefully one day we'll move up to the first family stage.
Speaker 10:No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4:All right.
Speaker 1:Being in the season of giving thanks. If you could sum up one thing, just one thing, that you're most grateful for in 2024, what would you say? It is Waking up. That's a good one, Gage. What about you?
Speaker 9:I'd say friends and family and just having a job, you know Okay good, good, good.
Speaker 3:That was some good stuff. Hey, I'll tell you a couple things that really hit me out of. That was both Mike, tony and others. Several people just said they're happy to wake up. They're happy to be alive, happy to be breathing.
Speaker 1:Right, right, that's pretty cool. That is very cool. You know, you think you're waiting for this big answer. Sometimes I think we have this expectation of this big grandiose thing, like I'm grateful that you know something I don't know. I'm grateful that you know something I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying to say, but it's, it's those simple things. They're like what, what would life look like if we could really just be grateful to wake the hell up, right, man, I'm up, like, and not just say it, but we really what if you really felt grateful when you open your eyes, like, oh my God, I gotta, I got another chance today to do something.
Speaker 3:Right, yep, yep, living in the moment. The other thing that uh, several people talked about, of course, here, family is a key topic, but you know one of the things, uh, tony, you remember he said second, family. Yes, I remember Tony a couple of times talking to him and he talked about the family you have and the family you choose. Yes, and if I look at uh, the Valines and I, josephine says the same thing they're family. Yeah, they're absolutely, and they are and they're always up here, and you got Tony with Gage and his girls and his girls, right, and they've been up here. I know he said five years, it's probably been 10.
Speaker 1:I think it's been longer than that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I love that the family you have and the family you choose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and to be around those people. You know, I know because I'm on the receiving end of that right. He's chosen to have our family be part of his family and vice versa, obviously. But you know he's such a beautiful soul, his whole family is beautiful people Jamie, the girls you know, gage, all of them, they're just incredible people and to have that connection and to be blessed, to spend time and you know, when you have people like that in your life, daryl, you know what's cool about it is there's people like that you don't need to see every day and you don't get to.
Speaker 1:I mean, they live down in Dixon and we live up here in the mountains and you know so it's not. You know, just like walking to your neighbor's next door. You know it's special occasions or birthdays, and well, with Josephine and Jamie, they plan stuff to see each other all the time, which is awesome. What a great friendship. But you know, despite not seeing Tony all the time, or his kids all the time, or Jamie all the time, when I do see them it's like we've never stopped, it's like we did live next door to each other. Like somehow, someway, you know about each other and there's just this great sense of gratitude and love and connection and we don't got to catch up, you know, it's just like let's continue the conversation, man, you know, so I appreciate and I love that man, so good stuff. Let's listen into a few more. All right, here we are and let's go. So what's your name? My name is Nicholas, and what's your name? My name is Lorena.
Speaker 1:All right, nicholas and Lorena, how many years have you been coming to this event?
Speaker 5:I would say about this is my second or third year, but I've known you guys since.
Speaker 1:I was born, okay, good, and how many years have you been coming to this event? This is my first year. Oh, I love that we have two different opinions or two different sites we're going to see. So what have you appreciated, Nicholas, coming in the last few years about this event?
Speaker 5:I would say it's the family. You know, without family you don't really have anything really. Family is always there for you. Without them, you just feel kind of empty inside.
Speaker 1:All right all right, lorena, this is your first time, so what have you noticed or what do you appreciate about being here?
Speaker 6:I appreciate, first of all, being invited. It's your unity as a family, the whole. It's beautiful, it's admirable, it's just amazing to be here and be able to spend time and get to know each and every one of you.
Speaker 1:Awesome, thank you, thank you. So, being in the season of giving thanks, what's one thing each of you are grateful for in 2024, and we'll start with Lorena this time?
Speaker 6:oh my, I'm thankful for so much. First of all, my health, my family's health, um Nicholas, everyone that I've gotten to meet. I mean, it's just amazing. I'm so thankful. Um, yeah, that's good. That's one thing that's.
Speaker 1:That's one thing, that's more than one thing. That's good. So one thing for you, nicholas. What's one thing for 2024 that you're grateful for? If you had to sum it up, I'm thankful for my fiance right here. Oh yeah, yeah, she's amazing. Yeah, that's awesome, man. That's awesome. Well, thank you guys. Appreciate you, man. That's awesome. Well, thank you guys appreciate you.
Speaker 8:Yep, all right, our next interviewee. What's your name?
Speaker 1:my name is selwyn, everyone calls me sel. Selwyn, everyone calls you sel. Okay, good, hey, sel, how many years have you been coming to this family event?
Speaker 8:uh, I'm gonna say eight or nine, I'm not sure, because elena and I've been together for 10 okay, so eight or nine years.
Speaker 1:And what's one thing you appreciate or most look forward to when you come to this particular event.
Speaker 8:I like the family environment. I like the way everyone comes together. It's something that I've missed in my youth, but I take advantage of it when I can, and there seems to be a lot of opportunity in that, especially around this family.
Speaker 1:Very cool, very cool. And, being in the season of giving thanks, if you could sum up one thing, one word or one phrase for 2024, what's the thing you're most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 8:For me personally, because I'm retiring, I would say my health, trying to be a little more conscious about that, or a lot more conscious, to be honest with you, because I'm seeing people you know unfortunately pass away at young ages and that kind of thing. But the other thing again is the family, the camaraderie. I mean, just the way everyone just gets along and kind of forgets all the stuff that's not really positive in their lives and you can sees all the stuff that's not really positive in their lives and you can see that and definitely feel that here.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. Thank you, sal, appreciate you All. Right, we have our next guest, and what is your name?
Speaker 2:Yvonne.
Speaker 1:Thanks for joining us, Yvonne. I'm going to ask you a few questions. How long have you been coming to this particular family event?
Speaker 13:Five years.
Speaker 1:Five years, wow. Family event Five years Five years Wow, that's awesome. And what do you look most forward?
Speaker 2:to when you come to this particular event. I don't get to see everybody all year, so this is the one time of year that I get to see everyone.
Speaker 1:All right, so looking forward to seeing all the family. Awesome, and being that we're in the year of, or the season of gratitude, giving thanks. If you can sum up in one word or a small phrase, what are you most grateful for in 2024? My kids. Kids. All right, thanks, yvonne. All right, we got a couple more guests here and they're arguing on who's going to go first, so I will pick. So first of all, we'll start with something easy what are your names? What's your name?
Speaker 13:Jessica and your name.
Speaker 1:Stephanie. What are your names? What's?
Speaker 13:your name, jessica, and your name.
Speaker 1:Stephanie. All right, jessica, stephanie, stephanie, let me ask you first how many years have you been coming to this family event?
Speaker 13:My whole life. So I'm like very young, I'm like 21 years old. So it's been about 21 years. Just kidding, I'm over 30. So it's been a little over 30 years. That's all I'm going to say, okay.
Speaker 1:So, Stephanie, let's stay with you right now. What's one thing you appreciate and look forward to when you come to these events?
Speaker 13:Family Absolutely Like family is hard to come by in big dosage, and this is the one event every year that everyone comes together, and that's what I look forward to is seeing all the families that I don't get to see throughout the year, and I get to see them this one time a year and I love it.
Speaker 1:Awesome. All right, let's move over to you, jessica. Jessica, how many years have you been coming to this event?
Speaker 10:Six.
Speaker 1:Six years. Okay, and what's one thing you appreciate or look forward to when you come to these family events?
Speaker 14:Family, Watching the family gather and watching the kids grow up and play it's. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:All right, cool, cool. Well, Jessica, let's. Let's get back to you then, with the last question. What is, if you could sum up one thing you're grateful for in 2024, what would that one thing be?
Speaker 14:Family.
Speaker 1:Family, okay, and Stephanie in 2024, one thing you're grateful for. What would that be?
Speaker 13:I'll back you up, cause I'm not just grateful for 2024. What I'm grateful for is this family event that we're at one, because I have three children that I get to share this experience with, and they get to see the family that I loved growing up with, and not only that, but the different generations, its cousins, spending time with each other and all of that In 2024 specifically. What I'm grateful for is I'm gonna pause for a second it's always been family, but really this year has settled with me because my kids are growing up and it goes by fast. But when I get to spend time with my family, I see how much it means to everybody and how sacred it is to be surrounded by all of our generations and sharing stories and experiences with each other, and I love that.
Speaker 3:So beautiful answer. Thank you very much, doug. One of the cool parts was interviewing, which we've got to do a couple of times now. It's really fun. Yeah, yeah, you get a lot of energy. Yes.
Speaker 1:Different energy, different energy.
Speaker 3:But our reactions? We had a lot of energy, yeah, different energy, different energy, you know, and uh, but our reactions, we had, uh, we'd just eaten, yep. So you know, everybody was full and we're kind of mingling and Doug gave me a little nod and it's like all right, let's, uh, let's, start recording, yeah. So we set up outside and we started calling people over. Uh, uh, angelina was the first one. Yeah, was she first.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, she was, she was, she was and she was proud there and it was really cool. We had different reactions, Doug. Didn't we Tell us about that?
Speaker 1:We did. You know, what was funny, darrell, is we had to let people know we weren't going to video them, even though you were using the video component on your phone to record all these things. Some of them would get all done up and make sure like we're not videoing this, we're just the audio version. But it was interesting. Some people they ran over like give me the mic, give me the mic. And other people the complete other extreme. You can see. They were gazing over, looking at us from afar, and then all of a sudden you hear in the background oh, it's time for us to go.
Speaker 1:now we got to get going that was the other extreme, and then in between was other people kind of just hovering around the edge, peeking in, curious like man I hope they don't call me, I hope they don't call me. And yet those were the people we called too.
Speaker 3:It and and yet those were the people we call too. It was, it was. And then we had a few little uh girls that were in the background volunteering, uh, braylon and Ava. Ava's been on the podcast a couple of times. They were excited to come and, um, you mentioned to me as we were talking how awesome is it going to be five, 10, 20 years from now to have them hear themselves on the podcast. It's going to be cool.
Speaker 1:That is going to be so cool, daryl, you know, you imagine. You know when they're. How old is Ava now? Nine, nine, yeah, nine years old, and I think Braylon is very close to that. They're, you know, when they're teenagers. This is going to be material to tease them with. Oh, listen to what you sounded.
Speaker 1:No, don't share that with them they're going to be doing all that stuff, but then one day they may choose to become moms and stuff like that and to listen back if they have kids to listen back to when they were nine years old Because this stuff will live on the air for eternity.
Speaker 3:I guess that's how the internet works or how sound waves work and we have a new member of the family, Anonymous. Oh yeah, I didn't see that one coming. Somebody says and this is Anonymous, yeah, we're like okay.
Speaker 1:And then you called him out. I did call him out. I wasn't going to let him slide down easy. All right, let's listen to some more yeah it was a lot of fun. Let's definitely, yeah, go ahead, daryl. We'll listen to some more. Let's go next. Okay, we have our next guest. Hi. What is your name?
Speaker 14:Braylon.
Speaker 1:Hi, braylon, thanks for joining us. We're going to ask you a few questions. First question is not who's your mother? The mother's in the around you can all hear her people all right. So, braylon, I'm gonna ask you some questions. How long have you been coming to this particular family event? I don't know you don't know how old are you 11 11, so I imagine you probably been coming your whole life.
Speaker 1:So in those 11 years, braylon, what's the one thing you look forward to or most excited about when you come up to this family event?
Speaker 12:um the food the food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I'm with you on that one. Since we're in the season of giving thanks, what's one thing you're most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 14:My family.
Speaker 1:Your family. Well, thank you, braylon, that was easy. All right, we have our next guest, and actually I think our audience has heard this guest before, so it's nice to have her on with some different questions. So, first of all, what's your name?
Speaker 14:Ava, you know me, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Ava Jo, she's on the show again. Very good Thanks for joining us, Ava. Ava, I got a few questions for you. How many years have you been coming to this family function?
Speaker 14:So, according to my calculations, I think about like four, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, how old are you, ava?
Speaker 12:I'm nine. My birthday is in 22 days.
Speaker 1:So you're nine, that's right. December is your birthday, so you've been coming for nine years, probably because I know your mom's been coming ever since. So, in those nine years, what do you appreciate or look forward to when you're coming to this particular event?
Speaker 12:My cousin Braylon.
Speaker 1:Your cousin Braylon. Okay, and being that we're in the season of giving thanks, if you can sum up in one word or one phrase what are you most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 12:Probably my family and you and her.
Speaker 1:Who are you pointing to?
Speaker 12:My cousin Braylon.
Speaker 1:Who else were you pointing to?
Speaker 12:Uncle Doug.
Speaker 1:There you go, all right, thank you, ava. All right, here we are. Here we have our next interviewee, and what's your name?
Speaker 2:Jennifer LaRocca.
Speaker 1:Jen, nice to have you. How many years you been coming to this event?
Speaker 2:Probably over 40. I'm 44. So I can remember at least the last 35 of those years, because I'm older now.
Speaker 1:Wow Dang, you're an OG right there. That's cool. What's one thing you appreciate or look forward to every time you come to these events?
Speaker 2:I really appreciate all the elders that are here and I appreciate all of my cousins who come from far that I get to see their faces at least once a year and I really appreciate that we have such a big family, because some people don't even have a grandpa or a grandma or anything like that. So I just feel very grateful.
Speaker 1:Wow, what a beautiful answer, thank you.
Speaker 2:I'm grateful for the strength that God has given me to really get through anything that I put my mind to. That's what I'm grateful for this year.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much Beautiful answers, love it. So first of all, what's your name?
Speaker 4:Zabrina.
Speaker 1:Zabrina, thanks for being here. How many years have you been coming to this family event? 40 years 40 years, okay. And what's one thing you appreciate most or look forward to when you come to this event? 40 years, 40 years, okay. And what's one thing you appreciate most or look forward to when you come to this event?
Speaker 10:Grandpa Chief.
Speaker 1:Grandpa Chief. Oh, beautiful answer. Okay, and being in the season of giving thanks or Thanksgiving, what's one thing, one word or phrase that you are most grateful for in 2024? Time.
Speaker 1:Time. Okay, that's a deep answer I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to think about that. That's good, thank you. All right, we got our next interviewee. What's your name? Michael Michael. All right, michael, how long have you been coming to this family function? About 20 years, about 20 years. And in this, in those 20 years, what's the one thing you most appreciate or look forward to when you come up? Family, family, awesome. And, being that we're in the season of giving thanks or Thanksgiving, if you can sum up one word or a phrase, what are you most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 3:About being grateful that I am still with a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1:Sabrina. Okay, we'll make sure she hears this, michael. Good job, brother. Thank you All right. Here's our next guest. What is your name? Anonymous, anonymous, okay, thanks, joe. How long have you been coming to this event? Shit, 46 years, wow, 46 years. All right in those 46 years, wow, 46 years, all right, in those 46 years you've been coming, what's the one thing you most appreciate or most look forward to when you come?
Speaker 7:My aunt's. Oh my God, I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 1:The string bean casserole.
Speaker 7:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of people look forward to that. And then if you had us, being that we're in the season of gratitude or giving thanks, if you had to sum up in a word or a phrase what are you most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 7:2024. I'm grateful to be alive. Honestly, that's pretty basic shit, perfect, thank you All right, we have our next guest.
Speaker 1:What is your name?
Speaker 2:Elizabeth Kelkenny.
Speaker 1:Thanks for joining us, Elizabeth. Elizabeth, how long have you been coming to this particular family function?
Speaker 10:Oh my God, Years, maybe 10 plus years.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's awesome. And in those 10 plus years, what's one thing you look most forward to when you come up to this event?
Speaker 10:Seeing everyone. You guys always make me feel like I'm family.
Speaker 1:That's because you are family, elizabeth. All right, and if we can sum up in one word or a small phrase, being in the season of giving thanks, what's one thing you're most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 10:I am grateful for the safety net of the relationships my mom left me so I can go to turn to any one of you and know that you're always behind me.
Speaker 1:That's a beautiful answer, elizabeth. Thanks for joining us. All right, we got our next guest. What is your name? Paul Fireball. Paul, all right, paul. How many years have you been coming to this particular event? This is my first year, your first year. Welcome, paul, welcome. And in your first year, what's one thing you noticed or you appreciate or you're appreciating about being at this event?
Speaker 9:Well, I noticed that half the people look alike. Well, I noticed that half the people look alike. No, it's great because it's so many people, but you can tell there's family and friends. Everyone's just happy to be here and happy to see each other and just a lot of love.
Speaker 1:Yes, great answer. Thanks, Paul. Being in the season of gratitude or giving thanks, if you can sum up in a word, or in a phrase what's one thing you're most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 9:Probably the same as every year I'm very grateful for my family, awesome.
Speaker 1:Thanks, paul. All right, we're with our next guest. What is your name?
Speaker 13:Alyssa.
Speaker 1:Hi, alyssa. I call her Lissy Lou though. Alyssa, how many years have you been coming to this family event? Since birth, since birth, and so how old are you?
Speaker 12:24.
Speaker 1:24. And what's the one thing you look forward to or you appreciate about coming to this event?
Speaker 12:I love seeing Grandpa Chiefy happy. I know that this is one of the things that he looks forward to most, so I just appreciate the time that we still have with him. So that's what I look forward to. That's beautiful. Appreciate the time that we still have with him, so that's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful. And the last question is being that we're in a season of just gratitude and giving thanks. If you could sum up in a word or in a phrase what's the one thing you're most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 12:I would say my circle. I feel like my family, my friends, everybody. They're still growing and I have such a close relationship with everybody and, yeah, I just appreciate my circle.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Thank you, Alyssa All right we have our next guest. She's about to leave, so we're going to make this quick. What is your name?
Speaker 13:My name is.
Speaker 1:Cynthia Taylor. So, Cynthia Taylor, thanks for joining us. How long have you been coming to this particular family event?
Speaker 13:Since I was born.
Speaker 1:And how old are you? 42. So for 42 years, and in those 42 years, what's one thing you look most forward to when you come up here? Seeing all the family. Cynthia's tearing up right now For those of you that can't see family means the world to her. Yes, and now I'm getting a hug. Here we go. All right, Cynthia. So the last thing. We're in a season of gratitude, giving thanks. If you can sum up in one word or a small phrase, what are you most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 2:My baby Francis.
Speaker 1:Baby Francis. Thank you, Cynthia. Thanks for joining us. Here we are with our next guest. What is your name?
Speaker 14:Glenda Montoya.
Speaker 1:Glenda. Thank you, Glenda, for being here with us. How many years have you been coming to this particular family event?
Speaker 14:This is my second year.
Speaker 1:Your second year and for you I'm going to ask where are you coming in from?
Speaker 14:Colorado, colorado.
Speaker 1:Virago country, virago country, virago country. So you make a flight to get over here. That's awesome.
Speaker 14:Well, yes.
Speaker 1:All right. So my next question is in the two years, what's the one thing you appreciate or look forward to when you come here?
Speaker 14:I appreciate my family All right.
Speaker 1:Your family.
Speaker 14:All the girls getting together to cook my family.
Speaker 1:Okay, your family Awesome, beautiful family, awesome, beautiful family, awesome. So we're in the season of giving thanks and gratitude. If you could sum up in one word or in a phrase what's one thing you're most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 14:I'm looking forward to seeing more and more of my family, All the ones in California mostly.
Speaker 1:Nice. Thank you, Glenda.
Speaker 14:All of my cousins and the little kids too.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Thanks, glenda, for sharing some time with us. Alright, we have our next guest. What is your name? Robert Baca? Robert Baca, alright, cousin, here we go. How many years have you been coming to this particular family event?
Speaker 11:This is also my second year coming. Your second year coming. Okay, my uncle's been inviting me for many years. I just retired a couple of years ago, so I didn't really have the opportunity all these years, but I was able to last year and, yeah, I finally came.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, we're glad to have you too. Cuz Now, in these two years, what's the one thing if you could pin it down to one thing that you most look forward to when you come to these events?
Speaker 11:Absolutely. That's an easy question. Just being here with my uncle and seeing the closeness of his family, I know family is a big thing for him. He's always taught us that since we were little kids and you could see it here with all his children, his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins, friends, everybody. It's just the enormity of that love for my Uncle Steve that I look forward to. It really strikes me. It's something beautiful. I've never seen it before. It's a one-of-a-kind thing.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's a beautiful answer. So, being in the season of giving thanks, if you can sum up in a word or in a phrase, what's the one thing you're most grateful for?
Speaker 11:in 2024? That's another easy question. So my mom, which is my Uncle Steve's sister, I still have her with us. I still have my dad, my Uncle Steve, and my mom. They're the last two, the nine siblings, and I'm grateful every day. I can't even imagine what it's going to be like when one of my parents goes, man. I mean, I know, you know what that's like and I'm very thankful, man, that I still have them with me. Man, you know that's a wonderful gift from our Lord and Savior. I want to thank you, doug and Daryl man, for what you guys do, broadcasting all over the world, man, you guys are an inspiration, man. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 1:Thank you, robert. That means a lot. Man, man, oh man. Thank you so much for hanging on with us through all these interviews with our awesome and beautiful family man. I just love them to death. People come from far and near and near and far, man, and it's a beautiful party. A beautiful party.
Speaker 1:The last interviewee before me and Daryl ask ourselves these questions, or each other these questions is the chief? Who is my dad? How blessed and how fortunate am I to have the chief as my dad, who has taught me the value of family and the sacredness of it? And it's in these special moments and these special times that, in the culmination of all the efforts he's had over the years, that it gets to come together and we all get to enjoy the fruits of this, of these moments. And so listen in as we ask my dad these questions, and then Daryl and I will answer the questions ourselves, and we're going to close out the podcast with, just you know, saying Happy Thanksgiving, god bless you and enjoy your family. All right, we have our next guest, daryl, but this is not your normal next guest. This is the actual host of the event, and so we get to talk to the chief. So, chief, what's your name?
Speaker 4:I'm called Joseph S Talmadge.
Speaker 1:All right and chief. We call him chief, but so chief. How many years have you been hosting this event?
Speaker 4:I've been hosting this event for 40 plus years and this is absolutely my favorite, favorite thing to do every year.
Speaker 1:Right. So every year, I know you look so forward to this and you do a lot of prep to get ready for it, and we all appreciate it. So let me ask you the next question is when you're getting ready for this event, what are you looking most forward to or anticipating for this particular day? The weather for this particular day?
Speaker 4:The weather Honestly, that is the truth is the weather that the Great Spirit blesses us with, good weather, because I don't want anything to happen and it'll rain on my parade. This is the most favorite day of my life, and so I want it to be nice and clear, but sometimes it doesn't happen that way, but adjust we do adjust, we do just, and when the weather works out for you and everything works out, just fine.
Speaker 1:What do you love seeing happening all around you when everyone's here?
Speaker 4:oh, my favorite part is seeing the grandchildren, the great-grandchildren, all the little kids just playing in the bocce ball court, running around the place. Oh, it just takes my heart to see and I film it all the time. And today I see my great-grandson, christopher, who is Cynthia's boy. The kids were playing soccer in the bocce ball court. So he decides he wants to join the club and he's probably the smallest one there, but he wanted to play tackle. So anybody who kicked the ball he'd tackle them. But I enjoyed that and I filmed it all. That's funny, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:I love that. All right, last question. Last question we are in the season of giving thanks right now, so if you could define in a word or in a small phrase what's one thing you're most grateful for in 2024?.
Speaker 4:I'm grateful for my health and grateful that the great spirit has blessed me to be here 83 years and I'll continue to just honor that. I hope that he gives me maybe a few more, but whenever he's ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Beautiful answer. Thanks for sharing. Dad, Love you. Wow, what cool, cool responses and just interaction. You know, Darrell, what I enjoyed about that day and interviewing all these different family members and friends who I'm just calling family at this point, because that's really what they are is not just their answers but learning a little bit about them, having a mic in front of them, how nervous they were, nervous they were, and and and then how, as the questions progressed, how they softened up and how they opened up. It was really beautiful to watch, it was interesting to watch and, uh, I think it gave us, uh, you know, some insights into some people that we otherwise never would have learned or seen or experienced.
Speaker 1:But but there are, there are two more people that have to answer these questions. Man, I think it's only fair because we're the host of this show, and so I'll go ahead and ask you first, and then you can turn around and ask me. We obviously know your name, so I'm not going to ask you your name, and a lot of our listeners are probably saying thank God, you guys talk a lot. No, I'm just kidding. So the first so we'll go into the first question is how long have you been coming to this event?
Speaker 3:Yes, I've been at this event for 16 years. I had to go look back if it was 15 or 16. So it was 16 years I've been here, okay, 16 years.
Speaker 1:That's the first question. All right, Now the second question is what do you look forward to most when you're coming to these events every year?
Speaker 3:I think the thing I love about this is seeing the people. But when I reflected on the way home, it was the little moments. You know, it's a big event 80 people. You're going one way, I'm going the other. You know, I'm carving the Turkey, you're doing this and there, and the one moment that I really enjoy is you know, you know, my wife and I got a lot of different tasks, a lot of different people. Two to three times she just came up and gave me a little hug, wow, and we didn't spend a lot of time together because I'm doing this, she's doing that and everything else, but we just kind of that little connection and those little moments. And as I was leaving, because I didn't have a lot of time to talk to Chief, of course we spent a lot of time together. He just gave me a big hug and he says who loves you? So there's little moments.
Speaker 1:Right, that's kind of what I took away. I want to know what your answer is. I'm just kidding, yeah, all right, so that, so you've been coming that for that long and that's what you look forward to. So it sounds like if I, if I was to summarize that you look forward to those little brief interactions or brief moments that are memorable. Yeah Right, and they're transformation. Actually, it just changes you inside. Good stuff, daryl. So the last question is that we asked everyone. That I'm asking you now is if you had to sum up in a word or a short phrase what's the one thing you're most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 3:Absolutely is my health for in 2024? Absolutely is my health. If I look at my mental health, my physical health, my spiritual health, that is such a big part, which I know makes me a better person to my family, so it makes me a better person for myself and I think, overall. So I think it's health. Wow, all right, cool brother. And last but not least, d-flex in the house. First of all, we know your name, all right. How long have you been coming here and what are you most appreciative about coming here in this event?
Speaker 1:I've been coming here. Well, I'm 58 years old, but I don't think it started when I was a baby. So Chief always says he's been doing this for 40 years, but I think it's probably a little longer. So I've been coming here somewhere around 40 years and I don't think I've ever missed a year In that time.
Speaker 1:I may have missed in my early years, when I was young, dumb and blah blah blah blah, I may have missed due to being incarcerated or whatever, but for the most part I can remember coming to every one of them.
Speaker 3:Great, great, and what do?
Speaker 1:you look forward to the most. You know that's a great question when you have that much history with something. I'm sure it's changed and evolved over the years. I can only recall the last five, 10 years of what I look forward to the most. And you know what I look forward to, not just the event itself.
Speaker 1:There's something about the anticipation leading up to the event, the invites, anticipating who's going to come, and I look forward to so many people getting together and being together and reconnecting that when someone does have to cancel or back out, man, it's almost heartbreaking. It's like, oh man, you got, you're such a huge piece of this intricate fabric that's being woven together over the years. You know like it really is a tapestry of love and creation and it's just, it's a beautiful thing. So I think I look forward to just the anticipation that builds while we're having it. I mean, there's a lot of stress going on too and a lot of setup and a lot of these other things. But you know you do all that stuff with great joy and anticipation and delight because you know what it what's going to be the outcome when everyone's here. You know just that. All the different, the stories and the connections, it's just it's. That's what I look forward to every year.
Speaker 3:And last question what are you most grateful for in 2024?
Speaker 1:That's a. That's a good question and in hearing a lot of other responses and making sure that I'm not having those responses influence what's D-Flex grateful for? I think what I'm most grateful for, daryl, is relationships, some key relationships in my life, not just the fun, happy, joyful ones, but even the challenging ones. Just grateful for all the lessons that come from the joyful ones and grateful for the lessons that come in the challenging ones, in the challenging times. So I'm grateful for relationships because I don't think we get to evolve or become the people we're called to be without some challenge, some struggle, some hardships, but also with some celebration and some joy. We don't get to become who we're truly called to be.
Speaker 1:With my mindset today, darrell, I'm all about. We never arrive, man. There is no finish line. So you know, I'm grateful that I get to lean into this process through all the beautiful relationships and you're one of them, brother man. You're, you're like I told you today on our run, you're, you're one of the main pillars in the relationship I have that get to develop me and push me and and sometimes it's challenging and other times it's just a whole hell of a lot of fun. So relationships, that's great.
Speaker 3:That's great, so we'll wrap this up. It's been a very cool podcast, yes, and it's been a great year, and it's not over yet. No, no, no, no, we got it, but it feels like we're heading into the final chapter. We're on the we're in the back couple holes of 2024 we are, we are, we got some.
Speaker 1:We got some interesting ideas that we're tossing around, moving ahead and and coming up that we really want to get more people, uh, involved and and if daryl and I can, you know, help guide other people into, you know, making some moves and changes in their lives, we're playing around with some ideas about how can we mentor that process, how can we be a part of your process, and so we don't have all the I's dotted and the T's crossed, but look for something like that, look to be invited into something like that, and we want to take maybe just a few select handful of people, because we have lives and time limits and constraints as well. But, man, if we could dive in deep with one to three people, maybe five people at most, over a year's time, got to be committed, though, got to be all in, got to go all in, and not we're not looking for perfection. There's going to be mistakes and slip ups, but that's part of the growth process. So, looking forward to some stuff to build some more moments of gratitude, daryl, with other people, and spread that circle out even larger.
Speaker 1:Sounds good, sounds good. Right on, brother. So, with that said, man, let's just sign off, like we always do. God bless and peace out, peach out, we're out, bye.