This is a bit off-topic for this website, but I considered the fact that many of my readers are mature (far more so than the people we regularly criticize) and so I thought this might be uplifting for many who frequent here. If you haven’t seen the most recent Clint Eastwood movie “The Mule”, you might not recognize the scenes.
The video stands without that though. Well worth your time.
h/t to Ed Grens.
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Sorry, I got a little window with “No video with supported format and MIME type found”.
Worked here. Windows 10. What’s your OS?
fixed now
Thank you muchly!
Thanks for the video. It hit a spot for me, right now!…
Chuck Norris did it.
There is no universe, only the Chuckiverse, we are just lucky He lets us exist here!
Chuck Norris actually died 10 years ago, but Death is afraid to tell him.
I miss Barrens Chat and the endless stream of Chuckisms.
Barrens chat. Now there’s a phrase I haven’t seen in a long time. Trade chat isn’t as much fun. Lots of trolls still.
Wouldn’t work on Firefox. Right-click and copy the file location. Open another window and past that into the URL. It plays from that just fine.
“Wouldn’t work on Firefox”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(film)
which is a bit unexpected
yay worked for me;-) thanks heaps;-)
Worked on my Firefox
yeah, me too;-(
I also can never open any links to twitter clips
firefox help is no help at all to sorting it either
Update your video player or use VLC video player..
Video worked for me.
I just happened to watch Gran Torino again last night.
Been watching Clint Eastwood from Rawhide to Dirty Harry to now.
Don’t let the old man in.
Ditto. The Old Man comes knocking on my door, I tell him to get lost. I have stuff to do.
Spring’s officially here. The redwinged blackbirds showed up on my front steps this morning, six of them, looking for food. The trails are calling and my camera batteries are fully charged.
I guess it’s spring. It was -6F, there’s bit of snow and it’s not all that springlike. Did see a magpie yesterday—never seen one out here in the 36 years I’ve lived here. Kind of interesting. Waiting for the starlings to find the grain on my burning barrel so I can decrease their numbers…..Okay, I guess that’s spring……Rabbit season is over, so it must be spring.
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” was fun.
In the climate debate, the alarmist side is particularly ugly (try not to think of Andrew Dessler or Naomi Oreskes), of course they’re after a “Fistful of Dollars.”
I haven’t seen the movie, but will look for it. Yes indeed, age is very much a state of mind. Staying youthful and vigorous requires keeping physically active, as well as mentally.
“Think positive. You will live longer”.
Thank you Anthony. I turn 60 in a couple of months. Still working 6 days a week in my own business…because I am not sure what meaning my life would have otherwise. My family is involved in my business and this gives it a completely different dimension and appeal. I enjoyed the movie. I particularly enjoyed this post and what it serves to remind me of. Thanks again.
Thank you for that……….. I just turned 80 and although I still feel young I know it can change any day. Till it does may God help me keep the old man out.
OK, video was up this time. Good song, sending it along to a few people.
Came up alright for me. I agree with the sentiment but the old buggar doesn’t half bang hard on the door sometimes.
Is that a meme, an ear-worm, “Don’t let the old man in?” It’s been viral around the internet where I hang out for a couple of weeks.
I’m 70, well retired since 54. Just escaped from northern Wisconsin to Seabrook Island at Charleston, SC to get an early start in bicycling, working up to two hours every other day for 25 miles.
Flaunt it our faces why dontcha’!
(Glad you’re having a good time; exercise is wonderful, isn’t it?; especially outdoors)
Sounds like: I want to live me some more.
Subtitle says:
I want to leave it alone
Live it some more?
https://youtu.be/RLp9pkWicdo
Great song.
Day lillies are hardy.
I once dug some up in Oregon and shipped them in a cardboard box to Nebraska by ground. They arrived, survived and thrived.
The man about whom the movie was made was for many years a prominent hybridizer and grower of hybrid daylilies. I’m happy to see daylilies–what many call “the perfect perennial”–featured in that film. The tragedy is that the man was seduced into transporting drugs. The daylilies will outlive us all. (I have grown them now for over thirty years and will never exhaust the possibilities for beauty in the genus.)
True.
With his business deeply in debt and (admittedly deservedly) deserted by his family, day lily hybridizer Leo Sharp was desperate enough to go to work for coke smugglers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Sharp
But in the end, his arrest helped to roll up a cartel network.
Sorry. Daylily is the correct spelling of the common name of the genus.
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asphodelaceae
Subfamily: Hemerocallidoideae
Genus: Hemerocallis
Worked fine for me. Haven’t seen the movie, but from the video, it appears to be expressing the sentiment that becoming a recluse in your old age is not the way. Instead, widen your circle. Be there for others – a giver, not a taker.
SR
Reminder to self: refresh page before posting. When I first viewed this page there was only the one reply posted – about video not working. By the time I viewed the video, shared it with my wife, and made my reply above, I found my reply way down here, having unknowingly repeated others’ replies.
SR
Thats alright! I was running a print job and hitting new posts here and elsewhere so I got dibs. VVideo worked when I responded to your comment, so it be good. 😉
My mates and I have a saying which we all acknowledge –
“when you get to our age, if you wake up and nothing’s hurting, you’re probably dead”
Even tho my diversion handle seems to indicate otherwise for the last 30 years, Get off my Lawn Eastwood understands the real deal. My mantra is also simple. On waking up each morning, a brief recognition that sums up as “I’m still here! – I think I’ll get a coffee” and rolls on to other adventures from there.
My advice to anyone: get an active dog.
That’ll keep you going. Having an active dog makes you walk and get outside.
And I’m not talking about little foo-foo dogs.
I have a Belgian Malinois and a Dutch Shepherd. Cool dogs. Smart. They come tell me every morning to get out of bed and take them for a walk. And then every evening to walk them and play with them in the yard, usually while I’m trying to drink a beer.
Of course, I live in place where getting outside everyday is pretty easy.
And if you live in place where you can’t have a dog….. move.
One can also get a smart cat which wakes me at 4:30 each morning for food, then wants to play chase the foil ball for 25 minutes. He chases it when I throw it, then comes back and waits for me to either throw another one, or go fetch the one I just threw. I had two other cats, not simultaneously, who would actually fetch the ball and drop it at my feet. I suspect this one thinks I sit too much anyway. He’s bulked up from running and climbing his pole. That should keep him from getting fat, but it means that he has serious weight now and all muscle.
We have a fetcher. I’ve only had one other one in some 40 years of pets.
We have a fetcher, problem is she only “fetches” when we go to bed. Took her in 7 months ago as a bone thin starveling, she is getting a bit chunky now.
Kitty fetches your toes through the covers? I’ve feel your pain . . .
Worse! She brings toys up and drops them on us and if we don’t throw it she just starts playing with it on top of us. We finally had to start shutting her out, even the dogs were tired of it.
I have 5 large inside dogs..I have NO option but getting up as they literally prod me forcefully off the bed if i try n turn over..and as they allow me a small sliver of my bed turning over is risk prone at the best of times;-)
i endorse the no dogs…then no me rule;-)
Thank you. The video really resonates with me. I’ve had a difficult 5 month stretch health wise but an unusual spate of sunny, cold days here in the Great NorthWet has been drawing me outside and providing more healing than all the nostrums offered by the health care shamans.
“Don’t let the old man in…” indeed!
Remember that next time you see Bernie talking about wanting in the White House.
Don’t Let the Old Man In.
10 thumbs up!
LOL! +1000.
Same goes for the almost as old Joe Biden.
JB born 20 Nov. 1942
BS born 8 Sept. 1941.
OK, so JB was born after Pearl Harbor, and BS before.
Hey, I was born in 1943…I could be president some day! Ha Ha Ha Ha….
Thanks for that.
Ah, there are apparently a lot of people around here that are of that certain age (my age) – but not many country music station listeners…
I would note that Toby Keith wrote this with only the vaguest idea of what the movie was about, just a description of the character in, if I recall correctly, a phone call from Clint. Nailed it perfectly, though.
[EDIT – looked it up before posting this, and it was a conversation when he partnered Clint at a golf tourney, not a phone call.]
Story here:
Clint Eastwood, Toby Keith
“I get up every day and don’t let the old man in”
Ahaha. He get’s it. Most excellent. Carry on.
I’m 85 next birthday and have given up a lot- offshore yachting, rugby football, ski-ing, postage stamp collecting. But still have to walk the dog, cuddle wife, plan next foreign trip (Uzbekistan). Reading a biography of Alexander von Humboldt, a scientist to put our population of shabby crooks to shame
I’m 93. Had to give up skiing last year. Had to let the old man in, just just briefly. I’m not looking back at him. Got my art & a fight against the CO2 hypothesis to keep me going.
Great song and concept. Love Clint Eastwood.
Because I’m a pedant, I would point out what I think is an error in the lyrics captioning text. The text says
“ask yourself how — would you be, if you didn’t know the day you were born.” I believe the words Toby Keith is singing is
“ask yourself how old would you be, if you didn’t know the day you were born.”
The lyric is heard twice, with the second time being more clearly enunciated.
Your site, you get to put up what you want and it was very refreshing!
(was a great movie too)!
Yep, it is Anthony’s house and when I misbehave in it I don’t whine or sulk when he smacks me down for it. And already got several ping backs for sharing this post.
Apparently, Clint raises daylilies.
Thanks for that short but very important message.
I could swear that just last night I laid me down after a hard days play. I was really looking forward to getting up and taking off on the dirt bike again to shoot at stuff with my cool new bolt-action Benjamin pump. It does BB’s, darts and pellets!
But when I woke up this morning, suddenly everything had changed.