David & Alicia - Detroit - Ford Motor Company - Guns

This was a fun one ! David and Alicia join for a conversation about their life . 

Edited & Produced by Daisie Media 

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:12

Welcome to the Trevor Buck Podcast, episode 63. And this episode is sponsored by the Trevor Buck Company. You gotta check out TrevorBuckco.com and get the TB9 Sniper sunglasses we got in. And I want to welcome David and Alicia.

SPEAKER_04 0:29

Hello.

SPEAKER_05 0:30

Hello. This is awesome. And just a public service announcement. I am not a marriage counselor, so we're just that's not the purpose of this podcast. That's what we were here for. I mean, we could use it, but and uh Alicia, you're from Detroit.

SPEAKER_04 0:47

Yes, yep.

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How did you end up marrying a Canadian?

SPEAKER_04 0:51

Well, we met. Uh we we uh met in '91. I met him actually through church. Okay. We met in the UP.

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Okay.

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Upper Peninsula. Right. Yeah.

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Okay. And um, what was it like growing up in Detroit? I've never been there. And I just picture this big huge city.

SPEAKER_03 1:07

Yep. It's a big city.

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Surrounded by the auto industry. Right, yeah. Okay. So what was it like growing up there?

SPEAKER_04 1:13

Um, it was pretty cool. I liked it. Right. Yeah. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Uh I grew up in Troy, Michigan.

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Okay.

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So, yeah, about 30 minutes from downtown Detroit.

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Okay.

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Uh just yeah, lots of busy roads and freeways and buildings and neighborhoods, subdivisions, on and on and on.

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Right. Uh and did you have family in the uh the auto industry?

SPEAKER_04 1:36

Um at that well, yeah, I believe so. At that time, I don't remember my dad did um retire from Ford Motor Company. He did? Yeah. That's right. But he worked for General Dynamics also, which was like uh, you know, how would you explain that?

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Well, it was bought out by it used to be affiliated with Chrysler Corporation. And then they it's a uh defense contractor. Okay. They built tanks. Okay. So when he put his turban on in uh uh where was that? Egypt. In Egypt, and he was riding a camel, he actually looked like he belonged there.

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Okay, that's great.

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But yeah, then he worked for Ford and yeah.

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Okay, and you still have some residual benefits from that?

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We get the A plan or the Z plan now because he's retired for any Ford vehicles, so we've been buying Fords for years.

SPEAKER_05 2:22

I love it. Yeah. And is it common for the people in Detroit they're pretty loyal to the American cars? Yes.

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Oh, cars are huge there. I tell everybody. I was just talking about the other day. I tell everybody, I'm like, I come from Detroit. That's why I love cars. I love cars. Fast cars, old cars, classics, trucks. I love cars. I admire trucks, I admire cars, and I don't know how I look around like there's a lot of ugly cars out here.

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And you have a very I just love cars.

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I'm like, I would spend my money on that. I don't know.

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Can I interject on this about cars?

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I hate them.

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Give me a bicep. You're not a car guy. Well, that's why you guys are together and that balance.

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I mean, my brothers were always tinkering, always working on cars, making things faster. Yep. Motorcycles, dirt bikes. Did you have lawnmowers?

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They'll hop up a lot.

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Did you ever get into I mean, did you work on them? No, I never worked on them.

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I think I learned how to do an oil change once, but I haven't done it again since.

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What what do you like better? Cars or cowboy boots?

SPEAKER_04 3:28

Uh I like both, but I would say cars better. But the cowboy boots are cool too.

SPEAKER_03 3:35

I love those. I've always loved cowboy boots, and I know a lot of people don't, but no, but you have nice ones.

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Yeah, I think they're not cheap ones. No, but they're not like they're the real ones.

SPEAKER_05 3:46

I know, but they're not even ones like like cowboys would wear.

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Maybe not. Right.

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No, and I love that about you too. So David's got his Nike shoe collection, and you have your beautiful boots, by the way. They are. Yeah, they're cute. Yes, I love that.

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Different colors, yeah. Yep.

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And I want to share this. This is super amazing. You are a mother of ten children. Yes. And you had five girls.

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Yep, five girls first, and then okay.

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Was there a little bit of a a break there? Uh between the girls and the boys? No.

SPEAKER_04 4:21

Or not necessarily. There was a break in there.

SPEAKER_02 4:23

Uh we have a five-year break from number se uh second boy to our third boy. Okay. Yes. There's five years. Almost five years. We didn't like each other during that period.

SPEAKER_05 4:33

Okay, and the difference in raising girls versus boys. Yeah. What what's that like?

SPEAKER_04 4:39

Oh, the girls are way easier. No. The boys. Stop. I meant the other.

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So I want to know. Because I don't have children.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

The girls are a lot harder. Let me tell you.

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And where were you living when your girls were, let's say, in the teenagers? Minneapolis. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

Well, no, Buffalo, Minnesota, but Minneapolis area.

SPEAKER_05 5:01

Okay. So that's where the girls are. Okay. And did you have to like Welcome to Minnesota? So like, did you like you have beautiful children? Oh, yeah. But so, like, are you worried? Because I'm a guy. Yeah. And the guys are sickos. Yes. But like, so are you worried about like your girls? What's that like?

SPEAKER_02 5:26

Yes. Very much so. But like we won the lottery with our son-in-laws. Right. Like we have. And our girls found genuine young men. Yeah. You know, that's and so those worries were alleviated pretty quickly because four of the five got married at 18, and then one at three of them at 18, one at 19, and then Alison. I'm sorry, I I've used her name. Sorry, Allison. Um, got married later.

SPEAKER_05 5:52

And and the girls all live out in Washington?

SPEAKER_04 5:55

Uh most of them. One lives in South Dakota. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 5:58

Yep. And then the boys, do you have one living in Norway? Norway, yeah. Okay.

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Yep. Trundheim.

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So did he marry a Norwegian? And his plans to I almost said her name.

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Sorry. I mean we can we can beef it out.

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But so are there are there plans to stay in living in Norway?

SPEAKER_04 6:16

Um, I don't know. We don't ask them. Okay, okay. They just they've talked about it. He's open to anything.

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Yep, yep, okay.

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Right. So we just kind of like whatever they do, whatever makes them happy.

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Yep. And you've made a few trips there.

SPEAKER_04 6:27

Yeah. I've been back I've been there three times now.

SPEAKER_05 6:30

And David, you have some heritage there.

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Uh too much.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

I identify as Norwegian on this podcast. I was identifying as Canadian on the previous one. Right. Do you have your uh depends where you're from?

SPEAKER_05 6:44

Does your family have have their own island there too? Like the other Norwegians we know?

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Like, no, they don't have an island. They have an area, a big farm area. They do. It's it's just it's in Lowfoten. And they uh all my dad's side of the family lives in Norway. I think I have I found out I have one first cousin in Vancouver, BC. Okay. Yeah that's married, that lives, he's 13 years older than me, I think. But he's uh so there is another I can't see who's my last name, but whatever. In North America. There's another I have a very, very, very distinct last name. There's only 149 of us in the world. So I'm royalty in Norway, just letting everybody know.

SPEAKER_05 7:24

Okay, so then where did the uh where'd the boys grow up? Was that out here?

SPEAKER_04 7:28

Um I would say more Detroit.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

The two the two oldest boys would uh uh consider Michigan. Okay. We lived in north of Detroit and Holly, okay, which is North Olkin County. Right. But the youngest three uh definitely got infected by the our youngest was only a year old when we moved from Minneapolis to Detroit.

SPEAKER_04 7:49

So all the boys pretty much grew up grew up in Detroit.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

No, not the youngest three, they grew up here.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Well, it's welcome to Clark County.

SPEAKER_05 7:58

Ouch, so yeah, the cultural differences in in you know from Detroit to the West Coast, it's a little bit different.

SPEAKER_04 8:08

Yeah, it is a little different, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:11

That does not describe the difference. But no, talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Oh man, I don't even know how it is.

SPEAKER_05 8:18

I mean, David said the Detroit people are more they think before they talk.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

Yeah, maybe a little bit in I would say I don't know, like as a I just think they're not they're not so caught up in we're just and this goes for editing, but they're not so caught up in what their neighbor is doing as much as I like that. Maybe that might be do I need to be like kind and stuff and try to like really put those.

SPEAKER_04 8:45

I would think too, like everybody seems to just like really enjoy each other, hang out together, be happy with doesn't matter if you live 45 minutes away. Everybody seems to live 45 minutes away.

SPEAKER_05 8:54

That's that's what I was gonna ask. Yeah. So it's a little bit different.

SPEAKER_04 8:56

They have to drive a distance to see each other, everybody just hangs out, just enjoys not too worried about what they're doing for their job and what they're you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Yeah, they don't have I'm gonna talk about neighborhoods and how like the neighborhoods we live. You know, out here everyone has a fence and cameras looking over the fence, like just generally like paranoia is like there's no fences in neighborhoods. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 9:21

Yeah, most of the neighborhoods there are just open and they can't think they can have fences.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

No, they can't. So they when they play soccer and football and all the stuff, you're using everyone's yards in the back.

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Right.

SPEAKER_02 9:33

You know your neighbors, you enjoy your neighbors. If you have a disagreement, you talk to them. Like it it's neighborly. Yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_04 9:41

And here's all the kids hang out in the back. I mean, when we lived there, they'd come home from school, they'd run through the backyards, throw their backpacks down, go play soccer, we had nets set up, and the neighbor kids would come over. It was just a big, huge backyard, basically.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

No, I'm glad you shared that. That's amazing. Yeah, now we just have cops that show up and say, Did your kids drive a e-bike through my my lawn?

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Yeah, we can say that was.

SPEAKER_05 10:24

And Alicia, you were a nurse. Yes. And where did you go get your education at?

SPEAKER_04 10:29

Uh that was in Minneapolis.

SPEAKER_05 10:31

Okay, and that was you started after you were married or before you were married, you started?

SPEAKER_04 10:36

After I was married, yeah. Yep. I had seven kids home when I went back to school.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

That's amazing. Yes. And can I really pump her tires right now? No. Okay, she she during clinicals, during her education, she had three children. She had three children, and she maintained a 3.9 GPA. And she had three babies during this, during that time. She's not no she's not normal. No, two. Right. Well, you had the third, you were pregnant with a third and had it when you first started work. A third of that.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Can we get who's back?

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We had to take a little break. Okay. Alicia's got her grandson sitting on her lab now. Hi, bud. Hey, how's it going?

SPEAKER_00 11:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:26

Okay, so we were talking about your nursing career. Uh-huh. Um, did you specialize in any certain areas when you were going through your schooling?

SPEAKER_04 11:34

Um, not when I was going through schooling. You pretty much go through the program and um just, you know, do your clinics and all different departments. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:41

And then when you uh entered the workforce as a nurse, did you have you done different like emergency room or what do they call the room?

SPEAKER_04 11:49

I started out um I mean I first started out like in a nursing home and did home care as well. Um then got into a hospital and I did different floors. I did some um ortho neuro, I did a float pool, and then uh eventually got into the ER.

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What's a float pool?

SPEAKER_04 12:07

Um so you basically help out on different units. They help they put you, you float to um basically like, oh, you're needed on this floor today. Well, that's kind of funny. So I worked on some cardiology or ortho or but then I went to the ED and I've been in the ED for I think uh well I was in the ED for about eleven years full-time.

SPEAKER_05 12:26

Okay, and ED is Emergency Department. It's not erectile dysfunction.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Okay, everyone she refers to this thing, ED, and it's like you're talking to a 54-year-old man. That's that's a swear word.

SPEAKER_05 12:41

Okay, and so are are you currently in emergency department?

SPEAKER_04 12:44

Um not right now. I left the I left the ED.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Right. Okay, as most people would.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

I mean, you have to right I I I thought I needed a break, um but so I've been working full-time urgent care. Okay. But um Urgent Care.

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And uh shout out to who you work for, vital care.

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Vital care, yep.

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Tell people listening, because people are gonna be listening to this all over, but vital care is pretty neat. Yeah, vital care. So it's a different, is it privately so it's a private practice?

SPEAKER_04 13:14

Yeah. Um, and then of course uh like the owner of somebody I know and grew up with the family and the whole.

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Right. So is he from Detroit? Yes, also from Detroit.

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That is really, really neat. Yep. Neat. There's a really awesome culture family.

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Yeah, that they're a neat family.

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Yes.

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Yeah, it's all about the culture and what we can do for the community. Yes.

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I even go use them for primary care myself. Okay. And I'm I'm a guy who's probably a little not trustworthy of some of that stuff, and I'm a thousand percent comfortable.

SPEAKER_05 13:46

And and vital care. So uh you I think you use the term like urgent care. Yes. But so what what are the limitations or what what doesn't it do? So if I can I go there with a broken arm? Yes.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

Okay, and you and we would x-ray, and um if it's obviously like I mean, there's a lot to it, depending if we can take care of it and put you in a splint and refer you to ortho, all that. So yeah, we do a lot. We have x-ray, okay. We have CT, we have ultrasound, okay. We have our own lab, we have our own pharmacy. We also do primary care, okay, which recently expanded to a new location.

SPEAKER_05 14:21

Oh really?

SPEAKER_04 14:22

Yeah, so vital care now has two locations. There's a primary care location, okay, and just urgent care, and I stay in the urgent care side.

SPEAKER_05 14:29

Where is the primary care location?

SPEAKER_04 14:31

It's in Battleground, over by uh First Sight Family Vision, right next to it. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 14:35

And um I believe, I don't know if you're privy on this stuff, but aren't there uh Vital Care has special programs or with with the different companies?

SPEAKER_04 14:48

So like vital care can be like a preferred like a preferred like a tier or something or preferred provider for um certain businesses.

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Because healthcare is so expensive, so the people are figuring out ways to reduce so if you can they encourage you to go to vital care or urgent care first. Yes. Before going to one of the big corporate places.

SPEAKER_04 15:08

Right. I don't know exactly how it all works, but it started out where all the big companies were, but then we started taking insurance, outside insurance. Okay. Um so then it's grown and I've seen it like I've been there. They will have they will have been in this new location, I think it's four years this summer. Okay. And I started it'll be four years too. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_05 15:28

And what kind of uh what kind of hours start uh how how do they figure out nurses' hours?

SPEAKER_04 15:33

That also has grown and changed so much with the times and with uh the growth. Um we I remember when it was just like one nurse on the floor. And then we didn't come in until later in the morning and we left earlier before closed. But now we actually l overlap and have two nurses during the day for certain hours. Um so there's multiple nurses now throughout the day. Okay as well as management, which are also our nurses. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 15:58

And is vital care open 24 or 7?

SPEAKER_04 16:00

They're open 7 a.m. to midnight every day there. Okay, that's great. Yep. Holidays, everything.

SPEAKER_05 16:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 16:07

Yeah. Yeah, no, we do a white, we're kind of like uh higher acuity urgent care, I would say. So when people talk about uh urgent cares or I tell people I work in urgent care, it's like it's not your regular urgent care. We actually do a lot more. Correct. That's okay. We try to keep people from going into the ED. We try to do everything we can, and when we send them into the ED, we we send them with you know the same. Can we use CR, please? Okay. I mean, and we've done direct admits too, if but it's hard to do with the um out here in the hospitals, it's just because everything's full.

SPEAKER_05 16:40

Yeah. And do you enjoy being a nurse?

SPEAKER_04 16:42

Yeah, I love it. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_05 16:44

Yeah. I think um, so I have uh different friends that were in the industry, but the trend they left and went and worked for private companies. Okay. Yeah. But but I think they were they were working, they weren't working for a facil like like yours. So so I think they get burnout. Yeah. When you're working at like the big corporate hospitals or you can, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:05

And I mean I think that's why um, yeah, I guess it's hard to say, but leaving the ED for a while. Right. Emergency room, let's say.

SPEAKER_05 17:13

Okay, and do you I notice you're quite the gardener. Yeah, loves it.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

Is that I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't say I love it. I wish I had more area to garden here.

SPEAKER_05 17:22

But I'm sure I no no no no dude.

SPEAKER_04 17:25

Yeah, I do like it though.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Yeah, no, but I'm sure nursing is stress, but it looks like when I walk up, that's what you do. Yeah, you get away from work.

SPEAKER_04 17:32

You have every morning I go out with my cup of coffee. I look at my plants, I water them. I just I love being around plants and make sure she doesn't wake up anybody else because that's her private private time.

SPEAKER_05 17:45

Now, are you raising them from I've seen some little tiny ones like that?

SPEAKER_04 17:48

I did start this in my first year starting some gardens, like vegetable gardens. How fun! Yeah, that's really fun. I don't know if they're gonna survive, but we'll see. I'm watching them, they're growing, some of them.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

Well, you manage to raise 10 kids, those those plants have no chance of dying.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

And you had shared that um you uh have a concealed weapon license. Now, did you get that when your daughters were teenagers?

SPEAKER_03 18:13

That's a good one. That's a good one. No, I should have.

SPEAKER_04 18:21

If there's a story in the reflector about an unhappy wife and a husband who's got holes in them, when my girls luckily when they were teenagers, I was preoccupied with babies, little ones.

SPEAKER_05 18:33

So, what made you decide to get your concealed well living in Washington? Yep.

SPEAKER_04 18:39

Um, and I don't know the craziness everywhere, you know. Right. And I was working in Portland downtown at Kidsam. I did some travel nursing, so I'm, you know, working in areas that were very sketchy. Right. Now I thought like, hey, this is my right.

SPEAKER_05 18:52

Is it on you? Like at work?

SPEAKER_04 18:54

I can No. Yeah, it's concealed. That's a concealed thing. No. Does it have to be concealed? Uh no, I can no, wait.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

Um because I I've seen people You can open carry. If you license, you can open carry.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Because it's more to get a concealed weapon than a most people have to show if you're gonna have a weapon, you have to be, but I can conceal it.

SPEAKER_05 19:19

Yeah. Okay, but because it's kind of alarming. I've walked into a store before. You see like a regular civilian with a gun on there, it's like it's kind of shocking. So I kind of want to see you at work with a gun. That'd be fun.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

And that would be great. But people that have maybe that would straighten people out in the ER.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

No, here but you talk about that. I have zero fear of somebody that I see carrying a weapon. They are not my concern. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Zero. I'm not a threat, you know. It's yeah, that's they have the right, and that's I have zero.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

I knew how just with the way things were going, I'm like, if I have this right to get this and it's gonna get harder, I want to get it now.

SPEAKER_05 20:02

And what kind of uh pistol did you get?

SPEAKER_04 20:04

Well, I had a um, what was it again? Sigsaur 365, which I actually did it properly, but I gave it to my son-in-law.

SPEAKER_05 20:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 20:14

And I mean that sounds crazy. Give the pistol to my son-in-law.

SPEAKER_05 20:17

Was it was it pink?

SPEAKER_04 20:18

No, it wasn't pink. I had a pink holster. Oh, you did.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 20:22

And have you replaced it? Have you replaced it?

SPEAKER_04 20:24

I have not been meaning to. I keep thinking about it and have it in my notes to go get another gun.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

We're getting we're getting we're getting her. I'm gonna be taking her to get one probably in the next one.

SPEAKER_04 20:35

Yeah, his cousin, and we're just gonna he shoot, so he was gonna come and help me pick out. I just didn't like the one I had. I had feel like I could never really aim right with it. Okay, perfect. It's still small. I need a bigger one, bigger gun.

SPEAKER_05 20:48

Um how many how many children do you have still living at home?

SPEAKER_04 20:52

Well, three right now. Okay. Yeah. And the one is moving out here anytime.

SPEAKER_05 20:57

Okay, so then you'll have two. Yeah. And the ages of the ones left at home?

SPEAKER_04 21:01

Uh he'll be 15.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

17, 16. Okay. The one turns 15 tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 21:06

Yes. Tomorrow's his birthday, so he'll be fifteen.

SPEAKER_05 21:08

So, like, in in the next five years, presumably you could have empty house. Yes. What do you like? Do you two have like plans? Like, does that is that gonna change anything? You're gonna travel more?

SPEAKER_04 21:20

We do love to travel. I know you do. Yeah, we travel a lot. We'll probably continue to do that and more.

SPEAKER_05 21:25

Oh, that's amazing. What's your favorite spot that you've traveled to?

SPEAKER_04 21:30

Honestly, probably Norway. Okay. I would say. I also love Hawaii, but we he hasn't been back to Hawaii with me. We went there for our honeymoon, and I went back with my daughter.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

In August, we went from ninety ninety degrees and a hundred percent humidity in Detroit when we got married, right? Yeah, to eighty-nine degrees and ninety-eight percent humidity in Hawaii.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

Right. There's better places to go in the summer, right?

SPEAKER_02 21:57

Is I wanted to go to Quebec and have a pool. Man's European vacation vacation.

SPEAKER_05 22:02

I would like to go to Quebec. I've heard it's beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

They have a walled city like you you would have in Europe. Right. Quebec City. I think it's Quebec City. And they I wanted to go there. Right. But when when when she's 18 and I'm 21, that's not brag. There's no bragging rights when you talk about a honeymoon in Quebec. Right. You need to say you went to Hawaii.

SPEAKER_05 22:30

I would be more proud to say I went to Quebec. But myself, also. David, do you do you have uh Norwegian citizenship?

SPEAKER_02 22:38

In the process, I'm I'm eligible for it. Okay. They just allowed you to, in 2019, they just allowed you to where you didn't have to give up any of your other citizenships in Norway. Okay. So I have, you know, I've you have to have been before you're 19 years old, you have you have to prove that you'd spent two years of your life in Norway. It can be three weeks this time, a month. And I have that. I traveled numerous, numerous times.

SPEAKER_05 23:08

How many times have you been to Norway?

SPEAKER_02 23:11

It's double digits. Many times. Many, many times.

SPEAKER_05 23:13

And is it a very clean, very clean country? You don't see trash, you don't see cars, you don't see homeless.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Or overweight people.

SPEAKER_05 23:25

Well, that's probably all over Europe.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

Yeah, but generally it's particularly it's and flat out, everybody's good looking. Okay. I mean I just like you know how you in America you go to Walmart and you can people watch and have the most entertaining. I mean, there's nothing like it.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

Who needs a television when you can go to Walmart, right? So I mean, sorry everybody on here, but it's just pure entertainment.

SPEAKER_02 23:55

Just go sit in the entrance at Walmart and you you don't need a TV, you don't need smartphones, you don't need to stream anything. Right. It's all there.

SPEAKER_05 24:03

And I think uh they drive a lot of Teslas in Norway. Don't they really push that over there?

SPEAKER_02 24:08

They do, yeah. Well they get they get true benefits. So you the they don't pay tolls, there's a free parking, there's at least in in s in some areas. Right. And then you have and plus they're cheaper. Okay. You don't pay they don't pay the import tax. There's a huge because they want you to drive them. Yeah. So they make it financially better than driving something.

SPEAKER_05 24:37

And you have a is your Ford full electric? Yeah, I have two. We have two two Mach E's. Mach E's, okay. And I think the rally. They're they're the rally, they're the fun package on them. Yeah. And uh what kind of uh mileage do you get on those? As far as distance on a charge.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Depends on what mode, okay, but max maybe two fifth 250 miles. Okay. It it works perfect for us. Now you if I would get a different one with a wider range if we start to do more traveling.

SPEAKER_05 25:08

And uh you also, I know uh you've had good luck with the maverick.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Excellent. They're gonna have a fully electric maverick next year, okay. Which is probably something I will get. Yeah. So now I'm gonna sound like I like cars, but uh the the maverick.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

He doesn't want to admit it, but I think he does it.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

No, I would get it because I think it's kind of useful. They're a compact. Right. Living out here, like the parking spots are meant for like little smart cars. I mean, like there's no right, but everyone drives trucks. Right. Which I can't figure out full-size trucks. Full size trucks.

SPEAKER_05 25:48

Right, right. How long have you had the Bronco, Alicia?

SPEAKER_04 25:52

Uh I got it last summer. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:54

Does it have um does it have a good tune system?

SPEAKER_04 25:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:57

So you've put it to test with some bass?

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Yeah, I guess so.

SPEAKER_05 26:01

And then denies and denies when our kids get in the car and the thing's beating the thing out of your back. Hey, once in a while, that's hey, some of us, there's a little bit of.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

Oh, that's great. How many times has it happened when you get in the car and you look at me going, why is that on?

SPEAKER_04 26:24

I haven't taken the tops down yet. I need to do that. The top comes off.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

Oh, it does.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

Yeah, it's got a hard top and all the time.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

Oh, completely come off. The doors come off too. Really?

SPEAKER_04 26:32

So I think it'd be fun to try it. That'd be super fun in a nice warm night.

SPEAKER_05 26:35

So then it'll look like a like the old school Jeep. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's the old school Bronco. Yeah, I want to.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

That's actually that. She got that because that is one vehicle. Like the old Broncos from the 60s. Right. They that is one car I like. Okay, that one's gonna be around. We're just gonna hold on to that one.

SPEAKER_04 26:59

We went to the dealer looking at the Maque's, remember? Yeah, and we're gonna be able to do that. Well then I saw the Bronco and I said, I want that. Right. And I ended up buying it that day.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

And well, you know, since she owns a pistol, she gets what she wants.

SPEAKER_05 27:12

Because I I think before you had a like a uh was it expedition or oh yeah, we had the expedition. Okay, I remember that.

SPEAKER_04 27:18

I think we traded it in or something. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 27:20

Did we?

SPEAKER_03 27:21

It did something, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:22

Okay, I want to ask this with your family and your grandkids, can they all fit in your house here when it comes to the holidays? They can. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:32

It's crowded, but they can.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

Well, it's because our we have uh look, if you take a peek in our backyard, I'm I don't like grass. Right. Period. I love your backyard. Yeah, but it actually is pretty it can house activity of kids drawing. I mean, you if you well, you could turn around and look, they got hockey pucks and shooter.

SPEAKER_04 27:53

We have all been getting together up at our kids' houses up north.

SPEAKER_02 27:56

Oh, I love a lot more. They all kind of have more space. Okay. Well, it's the parking here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

You know, with these memory, we talked about neighborhoods, right, right. Right, right. Phone call, it it it immediately triggers they think we're having a party over here, and everybody's, you know. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 28:12

Right. This is great. Our youngest little podcast guest we've ever had.

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His name is Tommy, but I call him T Shush. He doesn't say much. He doesn't know what to say. Say Gamma. Say, say Gamma. Gamma. Can you say gamma? Gamma.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

Oh, shoot.

SPEAKER_05 28:39

Yes. Well, that's what I've got on my list. This has been really fun. Yeah. And I thank you for doing this. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. And this episode was edited and produced by Daisy Media, and you can like, follow, subscribe, and hear this on Apple and Spotify. Thank you. Good night.