This is Jockel Podcast number 225 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

Last month I went to a memorial service.

And it was the first memorial service that I had been to

for a long time that wasn't

for a seal.

It was the first memorial service that I had been to for a long time that was for someone who died of

natural causes.

I'm a memorial service for someone that had actually lived their full life expectancy 80, 80 years or maybe 82 years or 83. I don't remember the exact number, which is kind of interesting in its own right because when someone that's younger dies, then everyone talks about

their age, no one says it was only 26. So we was just 28. It was only 32.

And I've been to far too many funerals and memorial services like that.

For too many funerals where the morning that is taking place is about what is never going to get done.

Potential that wasn't breached. The life that was cut short, but this this memorial was for the

Patriarch of a group of families who are friends with my family.

And this man, this old man had three sons who are friends of mine.

And those sons all have kids and all our kids grew up together and we have done a lot over the years surfing and

camping and climbing and playing music.

Playing music around the campfire or in the little studio.

And I actually known these guys for over 20 years and because I knew them, I knew their old man too.

And the old man was, you know, he was a stud in his own right. He was going strong, he was an athlete, he was an entrepreneur.

He liked sports and beer and rock and roll and late nights.

And again, this guy was an older guy, you know, 75, 78, 80 years old in his later years and then he poured everything he could into his family.

Into his kids and into their kids.

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