Yeah, you know, I don't know what to do with the clutter. You got a room like this in at home. Where is that any?

A little bit in Nashville. Yeah. Any room that they leave to me. My wife leaves to me. Yeah.

I love it when she goes in to straighten it up. Yeah. I can't find anything. She's straightened it up.

There's an order to it and it's sort of it's cozy. You know, the more stuff you're surrounded by from your life. What do you got in there?

Um, junk basically, but I think it's really important for some reason because I've kept it and by every three years I've

found something I haven't seen in years and years. Yeah. And I'll put it back. Yeah. Why I don't throw away. I don't know.

But I got you know, I wonder about that too. You know, when I sit in here because I think like, you know, maybe I could just get rid of a lot of this stuff.

And a lot of the stuff that, you know, I, I don't know if I take time to look at it or not, but like you said, sometimes you have that moment with something and it'll take you somewhere.

Even if it's for a second. And I just don't want to turn around and put it in a waste basket. Right or throw it away because then, you know, that you've lost a time travel machine.

Yeah. I mean, it would be good if it was like cash or something. You stashed right? Right. Right. Right. That the surprise cash. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't think I have any of that. Do you?

I haven't found it yet. How long have you lived down there?

I lived in Nashville since 1980. I moved there from Chicago. I was born and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago. Yeah. Like what now? What town? Mayway. Yeah. Right off of Madison. So we were neither north side or south side. Like we were half a block off of Madison. Yeah. And what, what's your, what's your old man do?

He was a two-room die maker at the American can company. Oh, really? Yeah. He moved up there in the thirties from a western Kentucky. Uh-huh.

And to get factory work because there was no, unless you wanted to work in the mines or your family had a little business or something. There wasn't really a lot of work. And uh-huh.

And uh, that party Kentucky. So him and a lot of his cousins and stuff, drifted up towards Cleveland Detroit, Chicago for factory work. Uh-huh.

And if you did get work, you usually sent for somebody else back home and they'd come live with us and they'd tried out and either moved back to my dad always thought that he was going to go back to Kentucky.

So he raised us as if we were from Kentucky, even though we were born and raised in Chicago area. And what, what does that, what does that mean to be raised like you're from Kentucky?

Well, yeah. He always thought that he was going to make enough money to move back there. Right. But like, uh-

He rented the same house for 38 years. He's going to pay for it three times. Yeah.

It's a, in his mind. Yeah. And we, you're going to get, we're all going back. Right. He, uh, I remember him particular, uh,

the SSS school was like third graders. Yeah. Uh, go home and find out what your origins are. What, where your parents are from what countries and little girl in front of the next day in school.

A little girl in front of me stands up and goes, well, my mother's family's from Sweden and my father's family's from Germany. Yeah.

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