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Wisdom at 63: Learning by Doing Not Listening
Wisdom doesn't come from sermons – it comes from scrapes, burns, and learning on our feet. Today's special birthday episode features an impromptu conversation with a guest celebrating 63 years of life lessons acquired the hard way.
Our birthday guest offers a refreshingly counterintuitive perspective on gaining wisdom: "Get out and do it and find out what's right and wrong, instead of having someone tell you." This philosophy stands in stark contrast to our modern information landscape where everyone from politicians to social media personalities dispenses advice without the credentials of lived experience. The conversation suggests that genuine understanding comes not from following instructions but from feeling the consequences of our choices firsthand.
The discussion takes an unexpected turn toward everyday frustrations that reveal deeper societal issues. Our guest's passionate plea for proper parking etiquette highlights how individual actions affect community spaces. Those half-parked vehicles creating hazards for pedestrians and blocking other drivers become a metaphor for consideration in shared environments. This segment resonates with listeners who recognize how small courtesies contribute to functional public spaces.
Personal stories dominate the latter half of our conversation, with nostalgic recollections of memorable birthdays. From an 18th birthday oyster roast that involved sneaking out while grounded to adventures with fake IDs at drive-thru liquor stores, these anecdotes capture universal coming-of-age experiences. The humorous encounter with a clerk who finally realized he'd been serving an underage customer for years perfectly encapsulates the audacity of youth. These birthday memories serve as perfect time capsules that mark not just aging but personal development.
What's your most memorable birthday? Share your stories with us and join the conversation about how celebrations become milestones in our life journeys!
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Well, hello, good morning, happy Friday. We made it to the weekend. Welcome, welcome. And welcome to the gent who will be a special guest this morning on the podcast. Normally we have our own podcast come out every Sunday morning called Brute Awakening, but today is his birthday and I took off of work, so I am at home. So here you go, happy birthday.
Speaker 2:Good morning, happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me, yes it's my birthday Glorious day. Do you feel any older? No, uh-oh, I don't. I feel like it's just another day, except I got served coffee in bed, yeah you're gonna get breakfast too?
Speaker 1:oh well, all right, then I like that.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna cater to all, to you this morning. Yeah, well, you know my breakfast consists of a piece of toast, so, but you know what? I'm not gonna be making it. So I'm gonna love every minute of it.
Speaker 1:Thank you, my dear, I appreciate it well, awesome, well, any kind of words of wisdom you would like to impart to the world for being another year older and wiser go out and support your local bulldogs, go dog sick and woof, woo, woof, woof.
Speaker 2:Okay, you know. As far as wisdom goes, I think part of wisdom. People need to get out and do and learn, instead of having people preach to them about what they need to do. I think we get too much of you know, all the government and everybody over here and left and right telling you this is the way you do it. This is the way you do it. When, in essence, if you go out and do something and it burns you, you know, yeah, you know that's not to do that again, but all the people just sitting there and preaching moan about you know this is the way you gotta do it, this way, when they really have no experience on telling you how to do it. So my experience and my wisdom would say get out and go do it and find out what's right and wrong, instead of having someone tell you what's right and wrong and pull up in the parking space all the way.
Speaker 2:That too. That too, you know, that's one of my pet peeves.
Speaker 1:That seems like a new thing lately. It is?
Speaker 2:I think it is. You know, one of my pet peeves lately is pulling into the parking lot of the grocery store and people halfway in their parking space, halfway in their parking space, and you've got to delicately negotiate your way through the lanes of traffic into. You know, not only are you doing it, but now you know people can walk out directly into the middle of the traffic if it's a big car, because they can't see around the car, because the car's sticking too far out into the lane. So it's a danger. But it seems like and you know, at first I thought I was the only one that was getting- that.
Speaker 1:Also, when the car next to them wants to back out and turn, you can't because they are. So. Not only it, but you can't turn in time because the other car beside you is out.
Speaker 2:His ass is out in the aisle, yeah, and you can't turn to get out of your parking place, exactly right, and, like I said, I thought I was one of the only. You know that was. I was the only one pissed off about this, but I pulled into space. The other pulled into the lot the other day and there was a lady out outside her car actually taking pictures of another car. That was, you know, not even halfway into it. It was awful. But yeah, that would be my next piece of advice to 63. Use your whole damn parking space. All right, yes, it's going to be a good day. Okay, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know what else is going on. I haven't really paid attention to the news. I don't know. If you want to talk about the news. What is your? How about this? I'm going to put you on the spot. Okay, what's your most memorable birthday?
Speaker 2:Oh Lord From the past, oh good God I know I put you on the spot.
Speaker 1:Should I put it on pause and let you think, yeah, all, okay, we had to hunt for something.
Speaker 2:I would probably have to hunt for something too. When I turned 18, I had an oyster roast at my house. Okay, now here's the funny part about that I had gotten in trouble and was grounded.
Speaker 1:You're going to share what you got in trouble for no.
Speaker 2:And I was not to leave the house, so I had, you know, a bunch of friends that came over and my you know, my parents were, yeah, it's your 18th birthday, you know we're not gonna let that pass, and so, you know, had an oyster roast in there. But you know this, this is when I learned that I just I was, you know, yeah, what a what a person I was. Well, you know, we needed, we needed ice for the beer, so it's like, well, so we, I got a buddy and your parents let you drink beer.
Speaker 1:I was 18 years old.
Speaker 2:18 years old was the age was it?
Speaker 1:I, yeah, I thought it was 21. No, in.
Speaker 2:Georgia when I grew up 18. Hell, I was going to the bars when I was 15 with a fake ID.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God Shh. I mean, you know, move on, continue your story.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you the rest of that story too.
Speaker 1:No, we can't. We've got to keep this short, okay, ten minutes or under.
Speaker 2:Oh well, this will be ten minutes or under, Anyway. So I hop in the car and we go up to this hotel that we know close to where we live and raid the ice bin there and get a bunch of ice and bring it back, and of course my parents were like where the hell were you? I was just going to get some get in trouble on my 18th birthday. So you know, we had an oyster roast. I'm grounded, I didn't care, I left anyway to go get ice to drink beer with on my 18th birthday. You know, I remember that for some reason, I remember that I was okay. Yeah, what a life. I was getting ready to leave at that point. No, but I'll tell you the short story of being 18 with a fake ID.
Speaker 1:You mean 15?
Speaker 2:Being 18 when I had a fake ID. After having a fake ID for that many years, all right, pulled into the liquor store. One night after I'd pulled we had drive-thru liquor stores Pulled to the drive-thru liquor store to get a bottle to go out. That night the guy, for some reason, carded me. He said can I get an ID? And I was like yeah, because I just turned 18 and I had my driver's license. I had a driver. He looked at me. He goes, you just turned 18? I said yes, sir, he goes. I've been serving you for three years. I said yes, sir, he goes, be careful. Tonight I was like thanks. So that was kind of funny.
Speaker 1:Very good, that's my whole story, all right, so you didn't have to use your fake ID anymore.
Speaker 2:Exactly I could use.
Speaker 2:You were using your real ID by then, but I never used my fake ID with him because he'd been selling me for three. But if I remember correctly, I was on a, I was dressed in a suit and I was going out on a date and I was pulling into the liquor store and you know, of course they're way mad. It's like prom night or something and you're coming to get liquor. You got to be underage. I'm like, well, no, I'm not, and that was when he, that's when it hit him. He's like son of a bitch. I've been serving you for three years. Yes, sir, you have well, have a good night and be careful. Yes, sir, I will. So anyway, that was why all right well that's funny hope you have a great day.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna try to make it a great day for you anyway and the nfl draft is on.
Speaker 2:so if anybody has the notion to watch that, that's entertaining. If you're a big football fan and I'm not a huge NFL fan, but I do like to see where all the college players are going and that's been entertaining so far.
Speaker 1:Awesome. So I'm going to leave you with my question of the day, which I've already asked what is your most memorable birthday? That is the question of the day.
Speaker 2:Thank you for listening you didn't even tell them how old I was.
Speaker 1:Oh, what you already did, I think yeah.
Speaker 2:See, I don't even remember. I must be 58.
Speaker 1:63.
Speaker 2:No dogs.
Speaker 1:All right, love y'all, bye.
