Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urich and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside and I just read an endearing book. I didn't even know how much I was going to like it. It's called Good Grandpa. Stories from the Heart of Grandfatherhood and the author, Grandpa Ted Page, is here. Welcome. Thank you so much, Jenny. It's thrilling to talk with you about the book and have a good conversation.

Yes. Okay, I have to tell you something. We have had, I don't know, 550, 570 interviews, something like that.

It's getting close to 600. And you are the only person ever who has sent a letter because people like often send a letter with it and it's like a packet of information.

You are the only one who's ever sent a personalized letter with the book.

Really?

Yes.

Yeah.

Dear Josh,

thanks for your interest in learning about my good grandpa project.

I'm very excited by the prospect of sharing my book with 1,000 hours outside.

I mean, it's like personalized.

Yeah.

You know, I've had a marketing agency for 25 years. That's what I've done in my career. And the worst thing to do in marketing

is to make something seem like, you know, it isn't personal, right? So it really helps to connect with people one-on-one, just like you do with your podcast. I mean, you're talking to a lot of people at once, really, but, you know, it all starts with that one-on-one personal connection. I was really tickled. I thought that was really, really special. I've got all sorts of notes on this book. I loved it so much.

I, you know, you're feeling in need. You're talking about how in culture, no one's really talking about grandpas too much. And you just portray so well in this book. It's called Good Grandpa. It's out now. People can get a copy of it. You can get it for the grandpas in your life that you love or you can get it for your husband. so he can start to think about what kind of a grandparent he wants to be, what kind of a grandpa.

But you portray so well, Ted, like how exciting it is. And I guess I can't really wrap my head around it. Like you

say, becoming a grandparent is so exciting. Upon hearing the news of my impending grandfatherhood, I was so overwhelmed

with happiness. I joined my wife Nancy and going bananas. I hugged her. I hugged my daughter and son-in-law.

I hugged the in-laws. I might have hugged the cat. Like you're talking about just this rush of emotion

and you wept once the baby's finally here and then you drive through the night to go meet the baby.

I think when you're a parent, but not quite at the grandparent stage, you can't really comprehend

that.

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