The Good Life – September-October 2021

HAVING A BEER WITH | TJ NELSON
legs. I ordered those at the Gordon Ramsay Steak
restaurant in Las Vegas recently. The way they made
it was ridiculous. They were fantastic.
GL: What’s one thing people would be surprised
to know about you?
TJN: People always ask, but I don’t tell them my
age. We told a guy my age in Vegas last week on the
monorail and he almost fell out of his seat. He was
shocked.
"People always ask, but I don’t
tell them my age. We told a guy
my age in Vegas last week on
the monorail and he almost fell
out of his seat. He was shocked."
GL: What’s been your favorite year of life so far?
TJN: I’m going to say the year I graduated high
school and left the house. You get to be on your own
for the first time. It was such an adventure.
GL: If you were to teach a kid one life lesson, what
would it be?
TJN: I would say listen more. Especially with
social media, everybody is talk, talk, talk, and people
don’t listen enough. You sit there and talk to people
and they’re either zoned out on their phone or doing
something else. That ticks me off.
GL: What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
TJN: I like to have fun. I don’t like being serious
all the time. I like comedies and that kind of stuff. I
don’t like scary movies because I have to deal with
that every day. I have to listen to a scanner about
shootings, stabbings, suicides and all that other
stuff. When you get out of work you need to find
something uplifting for your own mental well-being.
GL: What’s your favorite thing to do to have fun?
TJN: Travel and concerts. Last year was a killer.
We used to go to two or three concerts a month.
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