The Good Life – May-June 2019

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HAVING A BEER WITH | BERNIE DARDIS GL: What’s one thing people would never know just by looking at you? Any strange hobbies or bands that you like? BD: I love AC/DC, and bass fishing is my absolute passion. I don’t care if I never catch another species, but boy, do I love bass. I either listen to AC/DC or classical music when I’m fishing. GL: When did you start getting into politics? BD: I’ve been active in politics my whole life. I started for my dad as sheriff when I was 12. When I was the state FFA president at 18, I got to meet Richard Nixon. He took me into the Oval Office and had me sit in the president’s chair at the desk. As I continued being involved in politics, I had dinner at a table of 12 in the White House with Ronald and Nancy Reagan and then another time with George H. and Barbara Bush. Barbara once invited me to sit in the president’s box at the National Convention with their family. What a matriarch she was. I will value those experiences my entire life. GL: What’s one thing about your personality you like? BD: I think I’m a good listener. GL: What’s your best friend like? BD: I have a couple, but one in particular is Pat. I grew up with him. I’m a day older than he is and he’ll never let me forget it. Pat is the one person in the world who knows me better than I know myself. He’s never missed any major event in our lives, whether it was my kids playing in state championship football games, graduating from high school or college, or getting married. GL: What was your first job? BD: I was a gravedigger. I was 12 years old the first time I ever got paid cash to do a job, and it was for our friend Jim. He would dig graves, but he was too big a man to clean up the graves, once he started digging them. We had a 6-foot ladder and I’d crawl down and shovel. “I was a gravedigger. I was 12 years old the first time I ever got paid cash to do a job, and it was for our friend Jim.” <strong>–</strong> Bernie Dardis 16 / THE GOOD LIFE / urbantoadmedia.com
GL: What’s your favorite book? BD: I’m going to give you a real sappy answer: Photo albums of my family. That’s my favorite book. GL: What’s your favorite quote, line of poetry or sentence that sticks out? BD: Shortly after Reagan had been shot, he was speaking at an event and someone dropped something. It was very loud, so he turned right at it and said, “Missed me.” That was so like him. GL: What’s your biggest pet peeve? BD: Mean people that say or do things just to hurt other people. I don’t have time for that in my life. GL: Have you ever had a laugh attack while in a serious meeting? BD: Absolutely. <strong>The</strong>re are things that just tickle the heck out of me, and other people don’t get it. GL: What does living the good life mean to you? BD: Family. It’s as simple as that. If I can be around my grandkids, my sons, their wives, my wife, and my dear friends — that’s what life is about. Each day I can spend with the people I love is a gift. • urbantoadmedia.com / THE GOOD LIFE / 17
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