The Good Life – November-December 2018

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HAVING A BEER WITH | JOEL HEITKAMP Good Life: Who was your childhood celebrity crush? Joel Heitkamp: Celebrity crush…? You’re tough. GL: I know. JH: Well, it’s not going to shock you, but Marsha Brady. I was that age. It was Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. GL: If you had ties to any culture that you’re not a part of already, which would you choose? JH: Irish. My daughters are Irish, and you can see it in them. It seems to me that the Irish have the most fun. Of course, there’s a dark history there, and I get that. I just wish I was Irish every St. Paddy’s Day. We’re going to Ireland in March of next year on St. Paddy’s Day. GL: It’s not that big of a deal over there, right? Just to Americans? JH: It’s not. We’re going to try to change that. GL: Will you be voting for your sister in the upcoming election? JH: Still debating. She hasn’t earned my vote yet, but we’ll see. I’m undecided. 14 / THE GOOD LIFE / urbantoadmedia.com GL: Are your wife and you extremely similar, more like opposites, or what? JH: You know, at the beginning I thought we were more opposites, but the longer we’re together, the more I think we’re similar. We both like sports and are very career-minded. We both get a chance to work with a lot of professionals. We both manage. We like to travel. I’d say we’re really similar, actually. And she’s a huge Vikings fan because that would be a deal breaker. She doesn’t like the fact that I’m a Yankee’s fan, but she had to get over that. GL: So she’s more of a Twins’ fan? JH: Oh, a huge Twins’ fan. But we share a passionate hatred for the Green Bay Packers. That’s a tie that binds us eternally. GL: What do you think about kombucha, and have you ever held a SCOBY in your hand? JH: Uh. No. Are you going to tell me what that is? A stogie? I’ve smoked many a cigar. Is that what we’re talking about? GL: SCOBY stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. The SCOBY looks like this gross, round piece of old deli ham, but you use it to make kombucha, which is essentially fermented tea. JH: Have you ever tried headcheese? GL: No, but I featured it in an article. JH: Have you ever tried blood sausage? GL: That was also featured in the same article, but I’ve never tried it. JH: I’ve eaten those. I eat liver sausage. Have you ever eaten cow tongue? You come out to my fish house and it’ll be an experience. You won’t stay long unless you wear a gas mask, but you can come on in. GL: When did your love of headcheese come about? JH: We didn’t have a lot of money growing up, so mom and dad didn’t throw away anything. We learned to eat liver. We learned to eat cow tongue. Dad wasn’t that big on headcheese. It’s just a joke I make on air, but there was always Braunschweiger in the fridge—what you would call liver pâté. I act like I eat it every day, but I haven’t eaten it in 15 years.
GL: If you were a dog, what breed would you be? JH: I’d be a golden retriever. GL: Same. JH: Yeah, you have to be a redhead. Gotta be a decent size where you can put up a fight. You don’t have to win it, but you’ve gotta be able to punch. Goldens are loyal. Goldens are fun to be around, and they like kids, plus they hunt the way I do. They hunt hard until about noon, and then they look for a beer. GL: I just imagined a golden retriever extending its paw to open the fridge and pull out a Budweiser. GL: Which era in history would you choose to live during for an entire year? JH: World War II because it was truly the best generation. We make them out to be better than they were, don’t get me wrong. Those boys didn’t behave that much better than any of us, but their cause was so good. It collectively bound them together. My dad fought for WWII. When he came home, if you hadn’t been in the military you weren’t the norm. I was always jealous of that, that everybody served and everybody had that to hang their hat on. I would have loved to say I was a part of that. GL: What does living “the good life” mean to you? JH: Freedom. Everybody’s freedom is different. You do what you want to do when you want to do it. That’s the good life. It doesn’t mean having money. That’s not what it’s about at all. Tonight it might mean hopping on your bicycle, or, for me, hopping on my Harley and going for a ride. It’s about the freedom and the mindset to do whatever you want to do. If I want to hang around my grandkids and go to a Vikings game I can because I’m free. That’s freedom to me. • urbantoadmedia.com / THE GOOD LIFE / 15
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