Routine...ish – E99 Greatest Hits

Clancy Denton  0:00  
Hey guys on this week's episode of the loud quiet, it's another Greatest Hits episode. This one is about us finding our new routine after becoming empty nesters. Listen as we navigate this new phase of life and the first few weekends that we had as empty nesters. We hope you enjoyed on this episode of The loud quiet. Welcome back to the loud, quiet. Thanks for joining us. I'm Clancy, and this is Rick, and we're so glad that you've chosen to come along again with us on this journey. This is episode three,

Rick Denton  0:32  
three more than some folks thought we'd get to. So

Clancy Denton  0:35  
three more than maybe we thought we would get you. We could just, you know, sudden, my first studio and just

Rick Denton  0:44  
Fisher Price is my first studio up here. Yeah, no, we, we definitely are glad that folks have been listening. Want you to continue. We've seen so much engagement. Continue with the comments. Please continue with the likes, the follows, the shares with your friends, not just because we want more folks to hear the show, but really, we want to learn from more people, and the more of y'all that are contributing. We're already seeing it on some of the today as we're recording. Clancy had put something out there on the Facebook page, and we're already seeing some great commentary there and some great ideas coming from there. So please go out there, have a look and let us know what you think, because it's it's fun to hear from you, and we're learning Absolutely,

Clancy Denton  1:22  
yes, we do really appreciate the comments. Love the comments, love the feedback. Love all the shares. Please share with your friends and family. We really do appreciate you guys. So I guess we can get into it. That's right this week, because this week's episode. Episode is we titled it routine. Ish, that's right, because that's what we feel like. We're back in a routine.

Rick Denton  1:50  
Ish, yeah, it definitely is sort of a routine. You know what? It's almost like the facade of a routine in many cases, where you're going about some of the same things and the same steps are happening. It just feels different. It's like it's walking down Disney's Main Street. But if you look behind, you'd see that it's different.

Clancy Denton  2:11  
It is. I mean, everyone craves routine. I know when we think Summer's here, ooh, no routine when the kids are younger, but we as humans crave routine, and yes, ours has stayed the same in some degrees, but has definitely changed, and probably more than it stayed the same. I mean, you

Rick Denton  2:34  
were telling me about this specific time of year has its own element of routine in it, where you were telling me, because I'm not out there as often, but all of the first day of school posts that you saw,

Clancy Denton  2:44  
yeah, I mean, that was, you know, something every year that you posed them wherever they were at whatever, whatever time it was, yes, because sometimes it was very early in The morning. But yeah, you saw the first group, first day of picture posts. You know, luckily, both of our kids appeased me, and have every year that they have been or tan artist Denton, every year he's been in college and Teagan started this year and sent their first day of picture to me. So that makes me feel good that, you know, yeah, they were still willing to do that for me, because it's for me. It's not for them, it's for me. You wait

Rick Denton  3:30  
when they're 30, when they're 40, they might ensure but it is, and that's, that's a great example of routine ish, in that it's what we are so accustomed to. And we got a little taste of it, right? Tanner was doing that when he was off at school, but now there's no one standing in front of our door by their sports sign, as we've we've done for probably not decades, but decade at least as it's always been no and

Clancy Denton  3:53  
actually, I think every year has been by his fraternity flag, but not this year. He actually, you know, took one outside of his townhouse because it's, yeah, you know, it was a neat picture before he went off to the class that day. So, so yes, I do appreciate that they are still trying to keep mom in the routine a little bit. But, you know, we got back Monday night

Rick Denton  4:21  
work, 510, that alarm went off and off to Bible study, off to gym, off to work, right? And it, it was, it actually was satisfying to be back in that routine work, not withstanding whatever, you know, those sorts of comments. It just, it was a distraction for that at some point, though, this isn't a distraction anymore. It's actually our routine. And it started to feel that way last week when we were recording. It was all about raw emotion. I mean, we were, I know I was still feeling it. You were still feeling it. At times, I felt like I was in a daze, right? It just didn't seem real. Well, now we're. Sitting here talking to each other, and it is that routine. Then it worked for a week now, and yeah, doing, doing the rhythms of commuting and everything that that involves.

Clancy Denton  5:13  
I mean, my routine stayed, you know, pretty much the same. I went to work, I went to the grocery store. Now my cart looked like some sad single persons because there wasn't much in it, because to feed two people, it's totally different than to feed four and one a college boy. Yeah. I mean, that was, I could not believe how little I had in my cart. Yeah and yeah. Came home. You know, it didn't take me four trips to unload everything. Like walking in with three, I

Rick Denton  5:55  
wouldn't be here for that. It was just, it's true on the other end too, that question that you put on Facebook today of, how can you tell that you're How do you tell people you're an empty nester without telling them you're an empty nester? For me, it's, well, the trash can was really light when I rolled it out to the street. There wasn't, I mean, there's just not even the generation of trash, yeah, anymore. It

Clancy Denton  6:14  
is just, you know, cooking dinner, there were two place mats at the table. You know, we had four all summer because Tanner was home all summer. Tegan has always been with us until now, and so, yeah, having only two place mats there, and you know, we could eat at whatever time. We weren't going on anyone else's schedule. We were just on our schedule want to be the early bird special, or there were some nights that it wasn't quite,

Rick Denton  6:48  
quite as early that the we are finding ourselves at the AARP dining time. We'll try not to continue that. That's, though, an example of it's the routine, but it's different in that it is two place mats. And yet, I'm sure that you and I both noticed it first, but I don't know that I really noticed it as much. I'm just filling up two glass of tea for the saying out laying out two forks or whatever. It just that's now what reality is is two place mats

Clancy Denton  7:17  
and one of our couple friends, Ashley and Ward, who will be on the podcast probably in a couple weeks. She said word changes seats every night. She said it drives her crazy. And I specifically meet Liz. Remember Tegan saying, don't sit in my seat when she left. So

Rick Denton  7:40  
I do, I do remember that now that is some inspiration. So there's an example of a tip that I do want to start taking, even things like planning out the weekly schedule. You know, we would usually sit down on Sunday afternoon and we would talk about, okay, so where does this kid go? And even if we weren't, we were out of the driving days for a long time, but there. Okay, so this one will be away. This one's working. All of that. We definitely got to experience that in a deeper level this summer. And now it's Well, I guess we'll record on Monday night, and then that's about it.

Clancy Denton  8:15  
Well, and like we were talking about, you know, I've seen on Facebook this week, oh, the first football game is this week. And I just like to say thank you, Tegan, for graduating last year so that we do not have to drive to Texarkana this Thursday or Thursday or to Burleson next week. So thank you, and I'm sorry to those of you listening who do have to do that. But, you know, that was, that was just another, okay, yeah, we don't have to go Yeah. And

Rick Denton  8:48  
Thursday, we're okay. So I gotta leave work here so that we can drive the four hours to Alito, or whatever that looks like. And yeah, again, so

Clancy Denton  8:54  
yeah, it was, you know, as much as you know they're there, there in Arizona. But you know, even though they are 16 hours away,

Rick Denton  9:08  
I feel like we're still here, they do still need you for

Clancy Denton  9:11  
certain things. Which brings us to our

Speaker 1  9:14  
tech. Sorry, we haven't worked that out yet. I didn't know it

Clancy Denton  9:17  
had a name. It didn't have a name. I

Rick Denton  9:20  
was trying to do an improv, just trying to trying to read what you were saying. So there you go. We're not, we're not professionals. That's only one

Clancy Denton  9:26  
of us has done improv in this, yeah, but I'm the one that screwed it up,

Rick Denton  9:31  
and we're definitely leaving that in. That's the phrase that'll be in every episode. Yeah, we're not

Clancy Denton  9:36  
professionals. So these were, this was the first one that I got. We were here, we were home, but yes, it's from Teagan. It says, Do you know where we put my jewelry box? By the way, I was trying to find it. Well, first of all, we didn't put it anywhere. I put it in. Her rolling cart, which she found it I was unpacking while she was building shelves and that kind of thing. And then to this morning, it was, where's my rain jacket again? And I said, hanging in your closet. Okay, thank you, yes. So so they do still need your help from time to

Rick Denton  10:21  
time, your your tone when you read that, though you know where's my rain jacket, sounds like what you you answered that very Oh, it's in your closet. I'm sure in your mind was like, it's in your closet. She did

Clancy Denton  10:32  
not pay attention to the orientation. I guess I should have left her a map or a list, but that's okay. I still want them to need us. They we all want them to still need us. I would be very sad. And I've seen some posts that my kids not talking to me, you know, pretty much cut off ties when they got to college. And no, I don't know, we've had very vibrant texting. I'm very happy to help you figure out where your stuff is in your room.

Rick Denton  11:02  
Okay, so I want to remember this moment, and I want to ask you that, is that still true? October 17 or March 3, if we're still feeling that way about Yeah, to thinking more about the routine stuff, there were things though, not though, things that we were doing before. I used to play Zelda just about every night, and then I came to know that they were taking the switch away, so I was playing Zelda a lot to try to get as much in. Well, now, yeah, it's a routine, but I was relegated to playing Paper Mario. So there's still the things that are routine, but they're different.

Clancy Denton  11:38  
Well, sure, and I'd like to add, you know, let's go for a walk in the evening. Well, great, but, yeah, but you can't go until eight o'clock because it's still 104

Rick Denton  11:49  
100 degrees. You know what? Though, there's a great example, though that is the kind of thing that, okay, it's a routine, but now we don't have that structure that it can truly be that, not that the kids look they were out of our hair in the evenings anyway, but it really was, and we're starting to experience that, that the choices we get to make are truly just the two of us, which it sounds Gosh, that sentence sounds so selfish. I think for now, though, we're probably trying to figure out how to be that kind of selfish again, and the good kind of selfish. And to me, that's almost a dating equivalent, like, you know, it's a, Hey, let's go for a walk together. And we did, and, yeah, we had to wait till it was eight o'clock. And yet, we did it last night. It was great just wandering out there, sweating together.

Clancy Denton  12:34  
And, I mean, that's, you know, once we made it to our weekend, and this weekend we didn't have anything on the calendar, you know, on Saturday we were just said, Let's go to Fort Worth. And

Rick Denton  12:47  
what did we decide to do? Yeah, and so I assume, I imagine, that most of the folks that are listening or watching know that Fort Worth is about an hour away from where we live. We live in Frisco, Texas. The Fort Worth is over there. So it's not a place that you wander to every, you know, every weekend or whatever. But it's not a this far trip. It really was a hey, let's just head over there and give it a

Clancy Denton  13:07  
shot. Yeah, and it was very pleasant. And, you know, we knew some things to do over there. We enjoy the Kimball Museum, and so that's what we decided to do. It was inside air conditioning.

Rick Denton  13:21  
It was part of the requirement. It definitely was. And so this is the outside of the Kimball that's here on the screen or on the on the video. It is. It's not an overwhelming museum. It's actually quite cozy. It's there's not a ton of space in there, but there's some beneath. There's a Mondrian in there. There's some other really neat Of course, every Picasso and all that there. And there's really, really wonderful things to look at in there. What I found so enjoyable about being there is just the peace, right? Even with this is outside, inside, we're not taking pictures inside it, just walking around the grounds and just enjoying how calming that is. Yeah, this is a picture that we're putting up here that is the the waterfalls that are out there, and there's a grove of trees, it, it, it was nice to be able to have a weekend that was not all about Go, go, think about what a Saturday prior was that was moving in, that was that just intensity of that. Here was a chance to just chill out and enjoy each other's company, sometimes with words, sometimes with silence, but no structure at all, just peace. I love that.

Clancy Denton  14:31  
And it wasn't crowded. I mean, it was, it was, it was a very, just ideal afternoon. You know, we got to see there was a wedding party there getting their pictures taken before they went to their reception or before they went to their ceremony. I don't know which

Rick Denton  14:47  
weddings outside in August, though, that party was

Clancy Denton  14:51  
dying. Yeah, they photos. They didn't look real happy with their bride. That's okay. It was still a neat, it was a beautiful it was a neat. Thing to see.

Rick Denton  15:01  
They can Photoshop out the sweat beads. So, you know, yeah, I know that I enjoy walking around and enjoying the peacefulness. I get a sense that you have a different objective.

Clancy Denton  15:12  
Rick and I do museums very differently. I enjoy museums, I enjoy culture. I like to find the creepy pictures and try to figure out which ones are the creepiest. And there was a tie for two at the Kimball. So if you go,

Rick Denton  15:35  
come tell us which one you thought was the most

Clancy Denton  15:37  
creepy, there were a lot of portraits like, creepy, yeah,

Rick Denton  15:43  
watch my language. I don't want to get the explicit flag on this episode, but really creepy pictures. One was I walked up, I'm like, Oh my gosh, that girl is going to end up in your nightmares tonight. And then there's a couple walk times. Oh, look at that. Just darling face on that girl. Like, that girl is going to stab you in your sleep. She's gonna come out of that pain and kill

Clancy Denton  16:02  
you. For me, it was the two brothers, one that, yeah, that looked like they could have been in The Shining part too. I mean, I was ready for them to just for blood to start running from that picture.

Rick Denton  16:17  
So I hope you're all enjoying the art history lesson that we're going to provide here in the loud, quiet of the Kimball Museum. Well, we'll tell you about the DMA next.

Clancy Denton  16:27  
So yes, but that's also I mean again, I can enjoy it for what it is, but we also like to make things put our little spin on

Rick Denton  16:41  
and that's always been an element of who we are exactly. And yes, that's not to try to get too deep here, but that I think, is a key part of this empty nest thing is, I always screw up the math, but it is, what is it? 21 years ago? 22 years ago, I guess 21 years ago is when we stopped being empty nest or then we weren't empty we were just dating. We were a couple. It was just Rick and Clancy. Then we became Rick and Clancy and Tanner, then Rick and Clancy and Tanner and Tegan. There's a lot of rediscovery that has to take place when you have a 21 year gap from that time, and not that we never dated or anything like that during that time, but just that kind of, not necessarily rediscovery, but amplification of exactly that, we go to some serious things and well, sometimes we're not so serious, and that's okay. We're not rude, we're not interfering with anybody else's world, but we don't necessarily take everything as seriously as perhaps you're supposed to.

Clancy Denton  17:36  
Hence, some of the shows that we enjoy, which I'm sure at some point we will get into

Rick Denton  17:40  
let's review what we're what they do in the shadows. There's the high level of maturity. I love that one. But what do you do after a high culture? Oh, it's time for beverage.

Clancy Denton  17:52  
Yes. And you know, we didn't have to get back to worry about making dinner for anyone or making sure everybody was where they were supposed to be. So we could just spend as much time over there as we want and do. Yeah, I think

Rick Denton  18:03  
actually, the only thing that we had, we actually had two things planned. We knew we wanted to go to the Kimball because it was air conditioned, and we knew we wanted to eat dinner. That's it. Yes, after the Kimball, it was all right, let's go find a really cool or let's find a cocktail place. We found a really cool cocktail place. Listeners, or Fort Worth goers, check out Tom Thompson's bookstore. Yeah, yeah, no, it's not Barnes and Noble. It is. It's, it's, I think it was originally a bookstore. It's the classic old school cocktail place. It's neat,

Clancy Denton  18:33  
really neat, soft, plushy couches. Nice bar to sit at. Yes, very that was just a a nice

Rick Denton  18:41  
it probably turns loud later. We got there. When did we get there? We got there at

Clancy Denton  18:44  
three. It opened at three. Okay, we weren't the first ones there were. There were other

Rick Denton  18:50  
people before we got there. I'm sure it gets great, but that was nice, and it this does show perhaps my age is I want to go have a good cocktail crafted by an intelligent bartender who knows how to make something good and have a conversation with

Clancy Denton  19:03  
yes and yes, that is the one complaint, and with my girlfriends when we go out too, is that some of these places are so loud now you can't, yeah, you can't have a conversation, and especially now that we're getting older. Yes, we can't hear oh

Rick Denton  19:18  
my gosh, we sound so old. But

Clancy Denton  19:21  
it's true. I mean, you want to be able to, you know, connect with the person that you're with, and if you can't hear them, they can't do that. Now, you did say, by what, how did you describe the bartender? What did you say you wanted a intelligent, young, no,

Rick Denton  19:38  
I didn't say young. Did you say yeah, I don't think I said Young,

Clancy Denton  19:45  
but that leads me to my Yeah. I We had one of their craft at cocktails, and then I said, Oh, you know what? I haven't had a cure Royale in a long time, and that was Rick's dad's. He

Rick Denton  19:57  
really enjoyed that. What his favorite? But no. Is a signature one that he would order when we would travel, especially

Clancy Denton  20:03  
internationally. And so she came over, and I said, Okay, I'll, you know, can I have a curio, please? And she looked at me, and she said, I don't know what that is. And I said, Oh, okay. And I said, Well, it's really basic, because it's champagne and cassis. And she said, Oh. And so I showed it to her, and she said, Oh, okay, yeah. And then served it. Did a great job. Then she came back and she said, now, what's your name? And I said, Clancy. And she said, Okay, now this drink is called the Clancy. So if you go to Thompson's bookstore, order the Clancy. And I love sending that text to our oldest child, guess who just got a drink named after him at the bar.

Rick Denton  20:49  
So there, the enjoyment of the Clancy is going to take place at Thompson's bookstore. Yeah. Okay, that does order a Clancy beverage. Let's try that. That sounds better. Try not to get the explicit flag again. And yeah, we wrapped up with a good Mexican food dinner, Mexican in, I think it original. Mexican in, Mexican in cafe. I think was multiple locations, but that was just great. The whole thing, the whole theme of this, was a chance to reconnect, a chance to do something, the freedom to be able to do that something

Clancy Denton  21:23  
well. And I knew this was going to be our first Saturday at home. I didn't want to be in the house. Yeah, I wanted to be, you know, we did our morning routine and stuff, but I wanted to be gone. I just, I knew that sitting here all day or doing stuff around the house would just not be good. I I wanted to, you know, and we should, let's take advantage of, you know, the time that we have now to go do these things.

Rick Denton  21:55  
So I think it's going to be interesting to see how well, how well, maybe I'll just say how we do that going forward, because it's not sustainable to Okay, okay, so we're going to go to, I mentioned Burle center. Yeah, we'll go to Granbury. You start doing these Saturday tours? Well, that doesn't make sense. Plus, we live in North Texas. There's not a ton that's around us. It's not that you're, you know, got things that are that close. Yes, there's weekend trips to be had with flights. And so how do we do that? And what does that look like? How do you like I'll say it almost very nakedly. How do we date again? Or how do we live again as a couple, right? The dating, the engagement, the marriage. There was that period before kids. What did that look like? And there's even an element of that that did we ever really, really do that? Because both of us were doing some heavy traveling during that phase of our life. So this is a time that neither of us are heavy traveling. And so what does that look like as we be a couple in the same place, at the same time, without kids?

Clancy Denton  23:00  
Well, yeah. And I think looking back at that time, you know, you were, you, we were working, you know, you, you probably didn't have as much money as you have later in life, you know. So, yeah, we tried to find things on the weekends like that. And we were still with our younger friends. None of us had kids, so we would go out, you know, those kind of things. But I think, I think especially this first weekend, oh yeah, it was just so important to me that we have to find something to do. Yeah, you know, we have to and, and, you know, which leads, you know, Sunday.

Rick Denton  23:38  
Oh gosh, yes, you know that Sunday is the, oh, I'm interrupting you.

Clancy Denton  23:41  
I'm sorry. No, no, you're fine. Yeah, no, Sunday, you know, we go to church, but we don't. We've gotten into the 11 o'clock service because the kids were going with us this summer. Well, no way are they getting up to go to a nine o'clock service. So and and nine o'clock is pushing it a little bit even firm. We have a

Rick Denton  23:59  
disagreement on this, but I've Okay, capitulated. I prefer the nine. So I

Clancy Denton  24:04  
had already finished my one load of laundry, meal plans for the week before we even went to church. And that was kind of our after church. You know, everybody was trying to get organized for the week. And, you know, and all summer, every Sunday had pretty much been trying to get the kids something done for school, something, you know, Sunday was college. Sunday, that's what we called it, because that seemed to be when we would always do what needed to be done for college. And so, you know, by two o'clock, I was just like, I can't this is I'm so bored. You actually said that. I know I did. I'm bored, yeah, and that's not saying anything to you. That's just I've been so busy that I. Just was sitting in my feelings. I didn't like it. It was quiet. It was I like I said I had already done the things I needed to get done. And yes, some people would see that as a gift. You know, our sermon this week was actually on about about Sabbath and taking the Sabbath, but I can take the Sabbath for about 30 minutes, and I need to get up and get going again. Well

Rick Denton  25:30  
that was, to me, that was the first real, tangible feeling of the loud quiet, that it was so quiet, that it was loud, and I didn't get there, as I had a few more things to do. And then by the time I finished those things, I was reading something. It was just I was actually enjoying that moment to actually just have a quiet time to read a National Geographic. I'm backed up by a couple months because I haven't even had the time to read them. At the end of that though, I think the TV had shut off, I'd finished the magazine, and it really was just so shockingly quiet in there.

Clancy Denton  26:08  
I don't think we even had even have the TV on, because EPL soccer was already over. Yeah, now I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm ready for NFL to come back, because that's market down. I heard it. I enjoy it time. I enjoy it. But that's a chunk that will take up, you know. And we can get together, together, with our neighbors, we can get, you know, so,

Rick Denton  26:32  
and this was a weekend we didn't do anything with other people, too. And so that was, that was something that, you know, that that will be a rhythm and a routine, I think we're going to have to discover, and not, like, I've got an answer to this, but we're going to have to discover how to balance that need for activity, the need for dating, the need for connection, all of that with the realization that there's also a space to be still. And what does that look like? And I say that like Clancy, there's a need to be still. No, I need that too. Like, I need to know how to sit in that because you have even called me out on that in the past, like you keep trying to do something, or you're busy doing this or that I don't do so well. It truly just Heck, I plan our vacation sometimes that way, where it's just go, go, go, as opposed to just the moments of No, don't do anything. And that's a balance we're going to have to figure out, is the freedom to do whatever we want and the freedom to do the nothing that exists and and that's

Clancy Denton  27:25  
what I don't think it was necessarily the lack of something to do. It was just that there was nothing else going on in the house, you know, which is just, you know, when you just

Rick Denton  27:43  
different on a Sunday, there's, there's, even if it's not every moment, there's some question, hey, you never yelling upstairs to somebody or you got a

Clancy Denton  27:50  
question, and I'm doing four to five loads of laundry. Yeah, that that'll keep you busy on a

Rick Denton  27:55  
Sunday. You think, you know, I didn't even get a chance to fold a load of laundry. Not that that's like, oh, well, yay for you. But yeah, it was one and done. It's gone. Yeah, so that is, that is going to be our loud quiet, and how do we adapt to that will be interesting.

Clancy Denton  28:10  
And that, you know, that was my answer today. I said on the tell me, you know you're an empty nester without telling me, I said I only did one load of laundry. Now I answered 10 questions about how to do laundry,

Rick Denton  28:25  
plenty of advice given, yeah, and to certainly, even in spite of the text we're we're talking about the 1% of the things they're doing such a good job of adjusting, and the things that they're figuring out on their own and all of that. So it is, it is actually really, really good now, yeah,

Clancy Denton  28:46  
about them adjusting? What's on with it and, you know, and the cat is going through his adjustment as well. This

Rick Denton  28:55  
is Sunday. This was Sunday, right? This was

Clancy Denton  28:56  
Saturday. I know this was Friday night because we, she called, called us, yeah, and she said, you know, put I said, Do you want me to put you on FaceTime? Because she hasn't really been asking about him a lot, and that's on purpose. And she said, Yeah, put me on FaceTime the minute, the second he heard her voice, he jumped down and he rubbed. This is a picture. He is rubbing all over that he could see her face. She's crying. I was like, Okay, we gotta cut this off.

Rick Denton  29:29  
So he was meowing back at her and all that.

Clancy Denton  29:32  
So that was, that was good, I think, for her. And I've been, you know, telling her he's doing fine. He's fine. You know, this is her baby and

Rick Denton  29:43  
and he is doing fine as he is now. Found his way back upstairs. He was in here earlier. He's found his way back upstairs. And that's face but it was a sweet moment to see

Clancy Denton  29:52  
him, yes, and it is FaceTiming,

Rick Denton  29:55  
yeah. Did I say that? Yeah?

Clancy Denton  29:58  
He doesn't have his own phone. And that was me. IPhone that I was when

Rick Denton  30:02  
does he get his phone?

Clancy Denton  30:04  
But, you know, it, it is. We made it through that. We made it through the first week, weekend, high five. So,

Rick Denton  30:15  
well, let's, let's enjoy another week coming up. And I want to end with that. I think that's where we should end that with, with the cat there certainly again reinforcing we just love hearing from everybody. Please let us know. Hey, let us know what you thought about that, or how your kids talk to their pets, or how you can tell people that you're an empty nester without actually telling them that you're an empty nester, or just say hi to us. The loud, quiet pod@gmail.com

Clancy Denton  30:40  
Yeah, yeah. And please also, if you have a text that your child is fine with you sharing, you might make it up on the text of the

Rick Denton  30:49  
week. That's right, these don't have to be our kids. We'd love to see young kids here as well. Well, Clancy, I think that's a that's a wrap to another episode three. Still haven't figured out how to close out this thing, but it's it's fun again. Record another episode. I can't believe we're like, this is fun. I'm actually enjoying this. This is good.

Speaker 1  31:07  
We'll just end with that. Yay.

Clancy Denton  31:11  
Thanks again for joining us on The loud, quiet, living the empty nest. You.

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