Retirement, not for it.

Yo, you should check out Heller’s Organically Grown Cachagua Cab. Mr. Heller is a great guy and told me that if anyone drinks his wines and gets a headache he’ll refund them the price of the bottle. This guarantee is void if you have more than one bottle.

Woah!!! Gary – this is a GENIUS episode!!! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. You and Tim make one dynamite team. You guys ought to do more shows!

I adore Tim too; loved his preso at Blog World Expo last year *almost* as much as I loved yours. LOL!

Seriously though, you should totally have this episode transcribed and made into a wee eBook. hehe. You two cover a whole bunch of great metaphors and innuendos. 😉 Lmao at the 4.5 hour workweek. And wine + love handles. What a h00t.

Re Tim’s question – as a committed serial entrepreneur, I never ever plan to retire. It has the word “tire” in it. haha. I love what I do with a PASSION and care about peeps more than anything. So, I’ll always be involved in some business projects.

I’m always raving about how Tim’s 4HWW is NOT about the four hours. It’s about doing your dream life *NOW*. Not waiting til the kids are grown, you’ve lost weight, got more money, got the right education, blah blah blah. ;D

Cheers,
@marismith

Good show and interesting guest. I will have to track down the C.

QOTD: I already know I will ‘never’ be able to afford retire so there would be no change for me.

QOTD: You become a waiter…

Great episode, guys! Tim is a stud- don’t worry Gary, you’re in good shape too!

QOTD: I just turned 24, and I’m not even thinking as far as 30, never mind 65!!

BTW I loved the female innuendo you guys worked into today’s episode- the Argentinan women, Tim’s “one night stand” comment, etc. Risque! Remember, the core of this show is wine, which means your audience is, for all intensive purposes, 21+, so don’t be afraid to get a little adult now and then!

Keep up the good work.

Malbec. That was the first bottle of wine I ever purchased at a liquor store. This year. I’m young. 2008 Crios Malbec by Susan Balbo. Gary mentioned her! Is that one over oaked?

QOTD: Retire? Sounds boring…

I had to stop this at the 27:14 mark and comment: (b4 I forget): this is a great conversation. Tim says he is a “naive” taster. BUT, actually, since he drinks wine a lot WITH meals, he is, IMHO, an expert opinion. Someone we in the wine trade should listen to.

It also makes me think of the fallacy of wine critics judging 40-50 wines in one sitting.
Many times, the “blockbuster taste” of a wine becomes palate-fatigue after a few glasses.

I’m glad Tim expresses the context in which he judges a wine. Earlier, he said, yes-if I was just having a glass of Malbec #2. Many times, I have had a person say they love a wine after only one sip.

Loved the show about malbec, GV, cuz it’s a fantastic varietal.

QOTD: If you take retirement out of the equation, people would probably concentrate on finding a career that makes them happy instead of focusing so much on money. Money is important, but not more so than happiness and mental health. I recently “retired” from lawyering to take up teaching. The money is not as good, but the satisfaction is far greater for me. However, I now have to work harder at finding good value wines! Like malbecs.

Great show! Not a big malbec fan though. I think they are popular because they are cheap.
Oddly, The super-expensive ones are not as appealing as the mid-range ones (to me).
I have had the good fortune to try many different malbecs in many different price ranges.

Chile is smart. Do not bet on one varietal (like malbec, shiraz, carmenere). The picture is getting too cloudy in the Argentina Malbec category. The bad to mediocre are dragging down the exceptional.

I enjoyed the show (great exploration of “why do/don’t you like the wine” and exposure of “the oak monster”).

My wife and I enjoy malbecs from Argentina.

QOTD: I haven’t even started working so I have never given thought to retirment so I can really answer the Question. But I can imagine that things would change if retirment would fall away.

GREAT GUEST!!! He sounds very intelligent! I will look up his book.

Great show…love the malbec! I’ll go get one this afternoon!

QOTD: Love to work toward being able to travel a couple of months and work the other months. That would be enough down time so I wouldn’t get born at either.

P.S. How’s Lizzie?

Hi gary after a short vacation i turn back on a great malbec episode and a disappointed bee looking for pollen grains 🙂 by the way gary is your office
full of flowers or plants ? you should grow a tiny vine on your desk… thank you for your focus on languedoc wines built very often on syrah, grenache, carignan and mourvedre
from south of france

Thanks guys

Interesting show, Tim sounds like a very interesting guy.

QOTD: I suppose, what job I would do, how many hours I worked, how hard I worked, where I worked and who I worked with would all be things to think about

Cheers
Andrew

I have to answer the QOTD for Tim: I don’t plan on retiring either. I plan on “doing other things”. I’ve always been able to find things that I find enjoyable that can also earn an income – and so I plan to continue doing that which I love for the rest of my life.

Gary, it’s great to have you back. I had to dig through the archives to get my fix for the last 10 days or so. I don’t know what I’m going do when WLTV only makes you 99% happy…

QOTD: I only plan on retiring in the sense that I won’t be working for someone else anymore – I’ll be my own boss. In that sense, I’ll be retiring in the next 10-15 years and I’m not out of college yet. Go Blue!

QotD: I wouldn’t change a thing actually, because I’m studying to become a teacher and that’s something I can see myself doing until the end of my days. SOmething new every day [and summer’s off!].

Good show, cool guest!

QOTD: Farm it out baby. Get the dirt under my nails.

Great show today! Gary I love your show but especially love it when you have an interesting quest on the show. I am intrigued by the book and will now have to read it now.

QOTD:

I really look forward to some form of retirement even though I love what I do. But there are not many breaks from my work and I love traveling with my bride of 22 years. My work is extremely portable by design which is good and bad. Being in the business of Promotional Marketing I understand opportunity comes and goes and the need to jump when it presents itself! But if retirement was out of the picture I would try to figure out a way to get breaks today and in the future because I am not sure that I could keep up this level of production long (70’s or 80’s as I am 43 now) term. BTW I am not really sure what retirement really looks like since I do love what I do so much. A great and thought provoking QOTD for me. Is the typical model of “retirement” for me? Wow I didn’t expect to be considering this today!

Thanks!

Steve

Good show (even though there was talk about the Jets). Learned something new. Will go out and try these.

QOTD – Not inetrested in retiring. I love what I do and get too much satisfaction from it.

Great show! I haven’t left a comment for a long time, but felt compelled to do so today. I have read Tim’s book and, although I can’t buy in to 4 hours of work (I love work), I implemented many of the ideas. Thanks Tim!

I don’t plan to ever retire. When I’m not passionate about working and have built up enough nest egg, I plan to do Missions work, volunteering, etc.

I was excited to watch this having read Tim’s book. His beliefs are different than Gary’s in terms of work, life goals and interaction with customers. Tim is more: do things more efficiently (and outsource) so you can spend time doing the things you love. Gary is more: do what you love everyday and enjoy life all the time. Tim wants you to train your audience/clients how and when to contact you. Gary wants constant interaction from all types of media. I think both are great paths depending on how they fit into your life.

Tim’s book is great, but you will pick and choose what speaks to you. 100% of the material will not apply to everyone’s life.

Great show!

Didnt know you could sing, GV!

QOTD: I’d love to do what I love doing without having to meet quotas, budgets, datelines that we have everyday! If I can go cruising, I would…otherwise, I do hope I’ve attained a good palate by then to be able to comment on wines, drinks whether for publication purposes or maybe even for any food industry!

GV you rock for acknowledging the chatter! You care so much! Love the way you interviewed him-it was a totally enjoyable, informative and entertaining episode! Love the malbec and will find the 2007 Bodegas Goulart Malbec Classic for sure! Thanks again for crushing it – glad you had a blast on the ship! Maybe next year!!

QOTD: I can’t picture me not working – or doing something that I love! I’m pretty fortunate – I have a creative day job and an exciting night job selling wine!!! If I could have any life I would choose the one I’m living!!

i think it was thoreau who said “a body is more likely to rust out than burn out” i think this be true in many a case. i would love to own and work in a restaurant until i die. i will cook until im an old man, then ill just hangout at the bar. thats my dream life.