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Joy Ryan

Sep 19, 2026

11:04
Brad and Grandma Joy have been speaking to my colleague, Casa Alum.
11:08
Well, it started when I was 85.
11:11
He called up, wondered if I wanted to go camping, and I said yes.
11:15
So away we went, and we got there in the rain.
11:18
It was quite a trip, I can tell you that.
11:21
[laughs] I held the umbrella on it, over him while he put the tent together.
11:26
And then the air mattress, I kept falling off of it, so I said to heck with it.
speaker_9CORRESPONDENT
15:19
What would you say to anyone who hasn't traveled that much in their life?
Jennifer D. RobertsMODERATOR
27:53
I would have been bringing back
27:56
a lot of stuff,

24 MINS LATER

52:00
So was there anything that scared you along the way that you had to talk yourself into?
52:08
I thought at my age, there ain't no re-dos.
52:11
You either do it or not.
52:18
I enjoyed every minute of it.
52:20
And the rapid wasn't any different than a roller coaster.
6:55
Oh,
6:56
we met the nicest people.
6:58
A lot of people was coming down as we were going up.
7:04
And everybody said hi, and we talked to them.
7:08
Of course, I talked to everybody, people in the parking lot, wherever.
7:15
But it was like an adventure.
7:19
You're never too old to have an adventure, I don't think.

30 MINS LATER

37:46
You probably don't drink a lot of alcohol or eat a lot of sugar.

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