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Welcome to Late Boomers, the podcast that is your guide to creating a third act with style, power and impact! Join your hosts, Cathy Worthington and Merry Elkins, as they bring you conversations with successful artists, entrepreneurs and entertainers who have set themselves up for an amazing third act. Everyone has a story, and Cathy and Merry take you along for the ride on each interview, recounting the journey each guest has taken to get where they are, and inspiring you to create a path to success as you look toward your own third act!
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Cathy Worthington:Welcome to Late Boomers, our podcast guide to creating your third act with style, power, and impact. Hi. I'm Kathy Worthington.
Merry Elkins:And I'm Mary Elkins. Join us as we bring you conversations with entrepreneurs, entertainers, and people with vision who are making a difference in the world.
Cathy Worthington:Everyone has a story, and we'll take you along for the ride on each interview, recounting the journey our guests have taken to get where they are, inspiring you to create your own path to success. Let's get started. Welcome to the late boomers podcast where we bring you inspiring stories of people creating new chapters in life with style, power, and impact. I'm Kathy Worthington.
Merry Elkins:And I'm Mary Elkins. On Late Boomers, we'd love to talk about reinvention, how people find new passions and careers and callings in the second half of life. And because really it's never too late to do something extraordinary.
Cathy Worthington:That's right. Sometimes the biggest opportunities come after we think the best years are behind us. When experience, perspective, and humor start to come together.
Merry Elkins:And what we've seen in our podcasts and life really is so many examples of people who take what they've learned, pivot, and find something even more meaningful, whether it's writing a book or launching a business or taking the stage or just living with more joy and purpose.
Cathy Worthington:And that brings us to today's guest, someone who embodies all of that.
Merry Elkins:Our guest today is Fritz Coleman, a legendary Los Angeles weatherman who spent decades on television bringing calm and humor to Southern California's very unpredictable weather.
Cathy Worthington:But Fritz didn't stop there. He's also an award winning stand up comedian, storyteller, and now a podcaster himself. His podcast Media Path dives into fascinating conversations about culture, creativity, and life after broadcasting.
Merry Elkins:And Fritz proves you can reinvent yourself, stay creative, and keep making people smile at any age. Fritz, welcome to late boomers.
Fritz Coleman:Wow. You perfectly described my life. I love talking to my demographic. It's nice to be here. Thank you for inviting Welcome.
Cathy Worthington:Well, Fritz, you've had such an iconic career in Los Angeles broadcasting. So what made you decide to make the leap into stand up and podcasting?
Fritz Coleman:Well, very few people know this story. And real meteorologists hate this story, but I'm gonna tell
Merry Elkins:you the Yeah.
Fritz Coleman:I was hired to do the weather from working at the comedy store. Was doing I a show was working at the comedy store in 1982, and my friend who was an anchor person at channel four brought his wife I'm sorry, his boss and his boss's wife to see me through a show. And I had talked in my show at the comedy store about having done the weather in the navy. I worked for armed forces radio and television when was in the navy, which was my introduction to my career. But I didn't know anything about the weather, but that didn't seem to matter to the navy.
Fritz Coleman:And so I just I just made stuff up, and I had some Oh,
Merry Elkins:You made it up?
Fritz Coleman:I had some anecdotes about that. And after my show with The Comedy Store was over, went backstage to meet this gentleman. And he said, this is an odd question, but do you have any desire to come to channel four and do some vacation relief weather forecasting for me and vacay and weekend, you know, fill in? I I have guys that need a vacation. I said, you did hear me say I don't know anything about the weather.
Fritz Coleman:And the guy said, perfect. There's no weather in California. This will work out great.
Merry Elkins:Oh, that's that's true. I
Fritz Coleman:had to I had to audition. I got the job, and I did a weekend fill in for two years. And then the predecessor to the weekday job, the the full time job left, and I was promoted to the weekday weathercaster where I did the five, six, and 11:00 news. And I retired two weeks shy of my fortieth anniversary. I always tell people it was the greatest stroke of show business luck since that woman was discovered at Schwab's Pharmacy in the forties.
Merry Elkins:Well, shows you you got a woman yourself in the right place at the right time. Right? Don't they
Fritz Coleman:say that? A thousand percent. I have been the beneficiary of some astonishing good luck in my life. I just hope I haven't run out of it, but it's it's truly what it is. It's it's about being at the right place at the right time, and not being afraid to try something that you hadn't considered.
Fritz Coleman:I didn't come to California to be a weatherman. I came to be a comedian. But this opportunity presented itself. I had two children that I was trying to provide a stable home for. I didn't wanna go on the road anymore as a comic because I I was not known, so I wasn't making any money.
Fritz Coleman:This was the perfect opportunity. So really, the only thing I brought to the table was I wasn't afraid to try something I hadn't considered.
Merry Elkins:Wow. What about the jump
Cathy Worthington:then after the broadcasting? The jump
Fritz Coleman:After the broadcasting, you know, truthfully, while I was doing the weather, I continued to perform. My my job was five, six, and 11:00 news. I would go to work about noon. It was a split shift. I would go to work at noon every day.
Fritz Coleman:I would prepare the five and six broadcast. I would do the five and six broadcast. And if the weather was tranquil, we weren't in the middle of an El Nino siege, I would leave at 06:30 and have to be back about 10:00. And in that time, I would go perform at the comedy store and the improv and the ice house and those places. So I was working around town the whole time.
Fritz Coleman:I never stopped and restarted. I just went to my avocation when I retired.
Merry Elkins:So you yeah. So you never really reinvented yourself. You just knew where you were going when you were ready to I
Fritz Coleman:massaged that part of my heart when I retired a little bit more. It's so much fun. I'm doing nonprofits. I'm on the board of two nonprofits, and I'm performing. And to to to speak to the great issues that you talk about on your wonderful podcast, I'm so happy because I'm spending all of my energy doing things I love, as opposed to doing it for a paycheck or working for the corporate man.
Cathy Worthington:That's pretty special. Yes. How would you say your years as a weatherman enhanced your comedy?
Fritz Coleman:Well, being on live television teaches you to not be intimidated by or to react well to unforeseen circumstances, like computer glitches or things going awry in the studio, and it it taught me to think on my feet. And it also introduced me to the public. Yeah. It really I I it made it easier for me to get comedy jobs around town because people knew who I was. And I really learned an interesting thing about television, and that is it's such an intimate medium.
Fritz Coleman:When you come into people's homes at the same time every night, say 05:18, every night for forty years, they they they incorporate you into their family. It's like you're part of their daily existence. So Chris is on at 05:18, that must mean I'm still alive. I don't like the tie he's wearing, but it's good to see him. And you know, but but you you become part of the continuity of people's lives, and that that gave me a great respect for fans and people who watch me and watch my
Merry Elkins:were television part of mine for that long. Mean, I unbelievable.
Fritz Coleman:It's
Merry Elkins:it's I tuned in to you for the laughs and for the weather. Yes. Me too. Yeah.
Cathy Worthington:Well, I'm from here.
Fritz Coleman:I I I was hired because I was a comedian. And in those days, you know, in 1982, I was my first day on the air was Christmas Eve nineteen eighty two.
Cathy Worthington:Mhmm.
Fritz Coleman:And back in those days, news wasn't as severe as it is now. It's all breaking news and freeway chases and drive bys
Cathy Worthington:and
Fritz Coleman:all of it, and there wasn't as much competition. So they didn't mind having somebody in the newscast that was a sort of a a lighter touch. I always said that my job was to be the palate cleanser between the tragedy and the sports. I would give people a little breather, and I had the least threatening part of the newscast. And so over time, it was just fantastic.
Fritz Coleman:I forgot what your question was, but I'm just I'm talking. Just tell me. Oh,
Cathy Worthington:just about how the weatherman thing enhanced your comedy.
Fritz Coleman:Oh, yes.
Cathy Worthington:Do pull stuff from that?
Fritz Coleman:Yes. I I if you when you come and hear my show, you'll hear me talk about the weather briefly. That sets the stage, but what I really talk about, particularly in this new show that I have called Unassisted Living, it's for people of a certain age. I think if you have a Medicare card in your wallet, you need to come and see this show. Uh-huh.
Fritz Coleman:It's about what we have in common in the aging process. That's all it's about. And I found that in these times, these dark times, when there's so much division and rancor and division, even in families, people don't wanna be reminded in a comedy show about what divides them. Tell us what we have in common. I talk about, ninety minutes, the experience that we all have of getting old.
Fritz Coleman:And what resonates with people is it's all the recognition of those same symptoms in themselves, and just having a great time doing
Merry Elkins:It's so true. Well you talked earlier about not being afraid to try something new, but what would you say to people? What advice would you give people who feel it might be too late to start over, or to continue with their passion to retry her from the real job, and continue with their passions?
Fritz Coleman:It's never too late. If you still have the intellectual faculties and the drive, I I have to work. I'm I'm always a person who had to be active during the day. Even your retirement, I'm busier now than I was when I was doing the weather. Mhmm.
Fritz Coleman:That's Me my character. I have to stay active. And as long as you stay active and do things to massage your mind, read, and you know, engage in pursuits that stimulate your brain, you're gonna be fine. It's never too late. I have more performance opportunities now at 77 years old than I had when I was younger.
Fritz Coleman:And it's I'm so grateful. We're building we just finished our second year at the El Portal Theatre, and we have a full show every time, and it's just honestly, I'm not exaggerating when I say it's a gift. I'm so thankful that I'm able to still generate this kind of business at my age.
Cathy Worthington:It's fabulous, but you you've always been known for your humor and optimism as we talked about. How important do you think laughter is in staying young and resilient?
Fritz Coleman:It's so important. And I'll tell you, I don't think that the the value of comedy has been more important than it is right now, because again, this is a very threatening world. Every day on the news, we're learning about things that divide us. We're we're talking about The Us and them syndrome every day. We're learning about not being able to afford food and all these other things.
Fritz Coleman:But I think people appreciate when they come to a show they come to my show because I don't do any politics at all. I I think people just appreciate that we talk about the common experience of being a human being, and what draws us together. And then after the show, always meet everybody out in the lobby, and they bring me little stories. You know that thing you said about shaving cream? I'm like, god, it's so funny, and here's my story.
Fritz Coleman:It's just the things we have in common, because really, all I'm doing is putting into words the feelings other people are having, but they don't have the narcissistic tendency to have to say it in front of an audience. They they they you know, I'm putting into words what they feel, and and and that's that's the release. That's the comedy release for them. It's the the laugh of recognition. So I I don't think the job of a comic has ever been more important than it is right now.
Merry Elkins:Oh, yeah. So tell us more about your show, Unassisted Living, and talk
Fritz Coleman:a little bit about what
Merry Elkins:inspired it Fritz, and is there a message that you hope audiences take away?
Fritz Coleman:Well, think your show perfectly describes the message. It's you will survive and have a long life positivity, if you maintain your you know, you you can stay in good shape physically, and you maintain an interest in life, and maintain the ability to laugh at yourself and other people. And I have gone back thirty years to doing what I call single topic monologues. That is every show I do takes a topic, and then we expand it to an hour, an hour and a half. For instance, thirty years ago I had a show called it's me dad, which was about being a single father and all of the struggles of my family with alcoholism and all those things.
Fritz Coleman:And I it it it resonated so well with people. Public television, KCET bought the show, and they put it on their broadcast on Father's Day every Father's Day for seven years in a row because it resonated with me. Then when that show was done, I did one called the reception, which was about divorce. And then I did one about the news. It was called tonight at eleven.
Fritz Coleman:Ten night at eleven. Then I did the first one about aging when I was just discovering I was old, but it hadn't overtaken my life yet called flying to gravity. And now this one, on the living, which is, oh my god, I'm old. There's nothing I can do about it. Let's all hold hands.
Fritz Coleman:Somebody said that this show is like a baby boomer support group. It's just the
Cathy Worthington:Oh, I saw that written and I thought that's so good.
Fritz Coleman:Yeah. I was so happy to get to get that review. It's a great review.
Cathy Worthington:Uh-huh. I love
Fritz Coleman:So that's that's where I I like to write about one topic and then just flesh it out. And the various things I talk about are the changes I've made in myself since retirement and not being particularly happy with the person I've become. The combination of the changes since the pandemic and being old and how it's changed my direction, being a grandparent, not being able to see my grandchildren enough, taking too many medications, all that kind of stuff. All the comics is very old.
Merry Elkins:What? Do you ever talk about relationships in old age?
Fritz Coleman:Yes. Yes. I talk about that. I get very you as you'll see, I get I get I get very personal about the romantic lives of senior citizens. Cool.
Fritz Coleman:And you'll see that too.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, I
Fritz Coleman:love it. And Yeah. And and I talk about my parents, my relationship with my parents, Their their hideous twenty years in a retirement home in Vero Beach, Florida. I talk about going to my fifty fifth high school reunion and all the fruit that that bore. So it's just all the stuff we all go through as seniors.
Cathy Worthington:And I think when you go to these events like a reunion, you're making notes back in the hotel room in between because it's so good. Juicy. Yeah. Juicy stuff. Tell us now about your podcast, Media Path.
Merry Elkins:What inspired
Cathy Worthington:you to start it, and what do you love most about doing it?
Fritz Coleman:Well, I I have a very good friend Louise Palankar, who is my co host, who made her fortune starting a radio company called Premier Radio Networks, and they provided services to radio stations, and they syndicated radio shows. And she she did so well, they sold the company to Clear Channel, and then to iHeart Radio, and she retired. And she was doing podcasts. And then when I retired, she said, I I had a contract at NBC which precluded me from doing things out on the media outside channel four. I couldn't do anything.
Fritz Coleman:I was I was Mhmm. Not allowed to do that. So when I retired, she said, why don't you come and do this podcast? And we we we solo life the same. Our politics were the same.
Fritz Coleman:Our movie tastes were the same. Our tastes in books. So let's just have a conversation. We'll continue like what we do in life. So we started this thing.
Fritz Coleman:We've done 300 episodes. It's it's like five years. And
Cathy Worthington:Nice. We're almost up to you. We have 270, I think.
Fritz Coleman:God bless you. You know Yeah. And the way I I you can't look at it, and you know this better than I do. You can't look at it like you look at television. For instance, in television, you get up in the morning, and you look at the overnight ratings to make sure you succeeded, and everything is all the your newscasts are parsed down into fifteen minute blocks.
Fritz Coleman:Podcasting is not like that. It takes a long time to cut out territory in a podcast. I mean, I think the number like a 180,000 podcasts in America now, some insane number. So I had to put that out of my mind. I do it because I love the conversation.
Fritz Coleman:And I do it because I love learning things that I didn't know before from our various guests. We had a great guest on yesterday. We do it every Tuesday. His name is John Capellas. He's a Canadian actor.
Fritz Coleman:He started in the improv world at second city in Chicago. He was in all the the John Hughes movies of 16 Candles.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, god. I love those movies.
Fritz Coleman:Breakfast Club, and he had a great story, but he's my age. And so here's a guy that had an arc in show business, and we learned the ups and downs, and all the friends he made, and I just love the conversation. He really didn't have anything to promote. He just came on and told us about it.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, I'd love to have him on our show.
Fritz Coleman:Yeah. I'll give you his contact. Said he
Cathy Worthington:would to.
Fritz Coleman:And a great conversationalist.
Cathy Worthington:We're not a great pairing.
Fritz Coleman:Yeah. Yeah.
Merry Elkins:Absolutely. I I just like the conversation. You started during COVID, didn't you?
Cathy Worthington:Yes. We did. We did too.
Merry Elkins:That's exactly what we did. Talking about carving out your life.
Cathy Worthington:Five years. Yeah.
Fritz Coleman:Lot of podcasts were giving birth during COVID because we couldn't get out of the house. Mhmm. But I think you you have a great demographic, and you provide a great service. At the very least, the service you provide is being a friend to people who are not sure about the last third of their life, and what direction they wanna go. You
Merry Elkins:know it's interesting because more and more older people are listening to podcasts now. And it's especially When first started it,
Cathy Worthington:it was like what's a podcast? Now they now they say, but how do I listen to it? And you have to give them a link. You have to spoon feed them the link because No.
Fritz Coleman:Do. Especially
Cathy Worthington:people don't realize it's on everything. Just turn it on.
Fritz Coleman:People. Yeah. You know, the the Gen Xers and the all that.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah.
Fritz Coleman:It has replaced radio in their lives.
Cathy Worthington:Wow, radio's gone.
Fritz Coleman:They listen all the time, and it's it's fantastic.
Merry Elkins:It is. Oh yeah.
Fritz Coleman:I I think it's it's just getting started.
Merry Elkins:So I have to ask you, Fritz, because I'm curious. You've you've been on so many TV shows with so many famous people. And I'm curious, who influenced you? Who's had the biggest influence in your career and in your comedy?
Fritz Coleman:Well, I think the person that made me wanna be on TV the most was Johnny Carson and Bob Hope. Mhmm. I just thought their charm and their ability to off handedly be so funny and convulse the 500 person audience, I thought that was just fantastic. As a comedian, my great inspiration was George Carlin.
Merry Elkins:Ah.
Fritz Coleman:When I was in eleventh grade, my uncle gave me tickets to see George Carlin in concert at a performance venue on the East Coast called the Valley Forge Music Fair. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and every summer, these East Coast cities would have these music fairs where they would put up a big tent like a Cirque du Soleil tent, and it could fit 3,000 people, and that and it was an outdoor, but not really outdoor venue. And he gave me tickets to see George Carlin, and I'd never seen anybody do a long do a complete, what we say, comedy set, like an hour, hour and a half show on their own. I mean, I'd seen comedians on the Ed Sullivan show, on the Johnny Carson show do five minute snippets, but I never saw anybody do a whole show. So I went to see this Carlin show, and he talked for ninety minutes flawlessly, and what I loved about him was his wordplay.
Fritz Coleman:He he was a great master of the English language, and that and that was most of his act. And he just convulsed this 3,000 person audience with his own words and his own thoughts, and it was I'm telling you, I'm not exaggerating when I say it was a religious experience. I felt like I was watching a TV evangelist for the first time. He just knew how to work the crowd, and it was it changed my life. Now, I never thought I could do it professionally until I got older, but it it sort it endeared me to him.
Fritz Coleman:And then another hero of mine was Robert Klein, who was another charismatic wonderful performer as well. So I have the old school guys that are my heroes. Sure.
Cathy Worthington:That makes perfect sense.
Fritz Coleman:Yeah.
Cathy Worthington:Well, and speaking of old school guys, do you think retirement is an outdated concept for creative people?
Fritz Coleman:Yes. 1000%. I'm glad you brought that up. I First really of all, I think I'm doing the best writing of my career now.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, good.
Fritz Coleman:Because you know, 50% of the joy of stand up for me is the writing process. I I discipline myself pretty well. I do an hour or two every day of either rehearsing what I've written or writing new material. Oh. And that routine is very important to me.
Fritz Coleman:And because, you know, it's it's part of my performance process, but it also, as I say, keeps my mind stimulated. And I'm doing the best writing of my life, and I as I said to you before, I'm having success in theaters greater than I had when I was a younger man. So I am I am the manifestation of what you're talking about is your your your career doesn't end with retirement. Plus, physically and medically, we're having longer lives now. I mean, if somebody dies at 72 years old or something, you say, my god, that young man.
Fritz Coleman:People are living in their eighties and nineties now, so you can retire from work at 65 and have twenty five or thirty years in front of you, and if you can find a productive way to utilize that time, you're in golden shape.
Merry Elkins:Absolutely. Great. We love that because we have a lot of
Cathy Worthington:guests that talk about that. Fabulous. Fabulous.
Merry Elkins:And I have friends in their eighties who are really doing more now than they've ever done before, it's very exciting.
Fritz Coleman:Know what's really interesting? Our our generation, the boomers, have more expendable capital. We have more savings than the Gen Xers and the Gen Zers and the whatever comes after that group. Because for the first time in American history, and this is sad in a way, but not for our generation, they're not you always want your children to do better than you are. Well, it's not happening.
Fritz Coleman:Financially, it's not happening. So we have this money. I find that people our age are going out and engaging and doing theater and live performance, and they're getting involved in other things more so because they have the wherewithal to do it. And it's I I think it's the best generation. I I as I close my act with, and I don't wanna I don't wanna give you this, I I have a whole section toward the end of my act that says I've never been happier in my life than I am right now, and I talk about why.
Merry Elkins:Oh, love that. Can't wait to see it. Love it. You Me too. Talking about your writing, you've always described comedy as truth telling in disguise.
Merry Elkins:So what truths are you most passionate about sharing these days?
Fritz Coleman:Well, it's just in general terms, the the the truth of everybody's aging process. Really, that's where the laughs come from. I'm not a I'm not a joke teller. I say amusing things within stories, and I I think what gets laughs in my show is the recognition of the familiarity of what I'm describing. People are going, yes, I had that happened yesterday.
Fritz Coleman:Yes, I take yes, I take too many pills. Some are so small, I drop them on the carpet and can't find them. All that stuff is I just think the truer the observation, what happens is my comedy comes from finding the truth, the nugget of truth in a concept, and then exaggerating it, and ginning it up with adjectives and everything to make it amusing, and that's what gets the laughs. It's a laugh of recognition of the truth.
Cathy Worthington:Mhmm. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah. And you've said that people underestimate the second half of life. So what would you say has surprised you most about your own? What's the most
Fritz Coleman:Well, I I as I've said it in different ways, I I never thought I'd be this happy at this phase of my life. Because I'll tell you, I was afraid to retire from my profession because I watched my father, who was the classic post World War two businessman, whose entire identity was his work. He didn't read books, he didn't go to movies, he didn't go to plays, he did yard work, and then he got too old to do his own yard work, and that was the end of that. Like he all he did was work. He worked twelve, fifteen hours a day, and exhausted himself, and he'd watch Wheel of Fortune and be in bed by 07:30.
Fritz Coleman:That was it. And and over time, I watched this man implode slowly. His life just lost meaning, there was nothing to keep his enthusiasm, or his heart, or his soul going. Nothing creative. And it scared me so much when I got to retirement age and said, oh my God, I hope that's not a hereditary trait, because I don't wanna be that way.
Fritz Coleman:My life is a 180 degrees different than that. I'm busier than I've ever been. I'm doing what I love to do. I look forward to every day, and as I say, I've never been happier in my life than I am right now.
Merry Elkins:Your father would be very proud of you.
Fritz Coleman:He was. He he got to see some early success. You know, we had a complicated relationship. My father was an alcoholic, and he he he put offenses when he was an alcoholic and it made it difficult to get really close to him until he was much older. We did repair our relationship and it wasn't bad toward the end, but we wasted a lot of time when he was younger and I was younger.
Fritz Coleman:But so it was a different thing. It was a different world. You know, post World War two men who had lived through the depression and World War two felt like, listen, I gave you a beautiful home in the suburbs of Philadelphia, You got three square meals a day. You have wonderful friends. You're not gonna starve to death.
Fritz Coleman:You go to a great school. My job is complete. I and you know, I don't have to give you the lovey dovey emotional connection stuff. I'm I'm the I'm the provider and that's what he did, or at least that's what he thought he did. So it was a different time.
Fritz Coleman:There was no quality and he didn't look for quality in his own life over and above what he did for us.
Cathy Worthington:Mhmm. Understood.
Merry Elkins:So Fritz, I have I have a threefold question for
Fritz Coleman:you. Okay.
Merry Elkins:Alright. What's next for you? Any new projects or directions you're going towards that excite you? And also, what would you have our audience have as a takeaway today?
Fritz Coleman:Okay. I my my the next phase in my life is this show that I'm doing now, Unassisted Living, is universal. Although I can sell tickets, because I was on the air in LA for forty years, so I can sell tickets between Santa Barbara and the Mexican border. What I would like to do is have somebody help me take this elsewhere in The United States and share it with everybody, because there there's nothing regional or local about this act except when I describe my job as a weatherman, which everybody understands, but it only takes up two or three minutes of the show. I would like to I would like to spread out and take it elsewhere.
Fritz Coleman:Now that my kids are all out of the house, and my cat is no longer with us, I can leave for periods of time. I'd love to go work on the road a little bit. Just, you know, not crazy, a couple times a month, and take this show to other parts of The United States. And I I would I would leave your audience with the message that you so beautifully described in your mandate for your podcast. It's never too late.
Fritz Coleman:I am so surprised that I am as energetic, and as creative, and as passionate about what I do at this phase of my life than I ever thought I would be. I was afraid to retire, and then I retired, And then I said, oh, it's it's it's the greatest aspect of my life. You no longer feel guilty about the mistakes you made with your children. You can you can raise your grandchildren and not be famished about it all the time. It's it's a great time of life.
Cathy Worthington:I love Oh, that's great. Fritz, thank you so much for joining us today.
Fritz Coleman:I'm so happy. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. I'd like to I'd like to put your engineer on a retainer.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, she's great.
Fritz Coleman:For helping me solve my problems.
Cathy Worthington:But thanks so much for sharing your humor, insight, and inspiration with us.
Fritz Coleman:Well, you guys do a great job, and I wish you continued success. Are more and more boomers living longer, so I see only good things for your podcast.
Merry Elkins:Oh, you're great. Thank so much. We and we'd love hearing how you continue to create and connect and make people laugh. And it's really a great reminder that the best chapters can come later in life. Right?
Cathy Worthington:And to our listeners, thank you for tuning into Late Boomers.
Merry Elkins:And Yeah. And be sure to follow and subscribe whenever you listen to podcasts and wherever you listen to podcasts, and share this episode with someone who could use a little inspiration to start their next adventure because as Fritz says, it's never too late.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah. I'm Kathy Worthington.
Merry Elkins:And I'm Mary Elkins.
Cathy Worthington:See you next time on late boomers. Thank you for joining us on late boomers, the podcast that is your guide to creating a third act with style, power, and impact. Please visit our website and get in touch with us at lateboomers.us. If you would like to listen to or download other episodes of late boomers, go to ewnpodcastnetwork.com.
Merry Elkins:This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and most other major podcast sites. We hope you make use of the wisdom you've gained here and that you enjoy a successful third act with your own style, power, and impact.