Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982

134 Todd Meyerdirk - Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982

February 09, 2022 Scott Townsend & Todd Meyerdirk Season 2 Episode 134
Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982
134 Todd Meyerdirk - Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982
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As we approach our 40th year, I interview friends from my graduating class of 1982, The College High Wildcats. This class held the distinction of being the last graduating class of College High School before the name was changed to Bartlesville High School.  Sooner High School and College High were combined into one school called Bartlesville High School.

In this episode, I visit with Col-Hi Wildcat, Todd Meyerdirk about his life as a pastor, life in Hungary, high school memories, parents, biggest challenges and greatest accomplishments. 

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Narrator:

Welcome to the Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982 podcast, brought to you by Deetsoman Production

Chris Hayes:

you know, you go to college and you're on this all star team. So I would tell myself that, really don't listen to that voice inside your head that tells you you're not good enough. And probably the other thing I would tell myself is get more sleep.

Amy Wallen:

Not everyone's gonna like you, but try to make them want to...still working on that one.

Kent Hudson:

People say, Well, I'm not going to have kids yet, because it's not the right time or I'm not gonna get married yet. It's not the right time. Well, if you keep moving the goalposts in line, it's never gonna be the right time. So enjoy your life.

John Hensley:

Do what you love for a living, figure out a way to make that work. Don't Don't do something because that's what you're supposed to do, because it's kind of something that makes you happy.

Mark Thompson:

Think going to Landers for lunch, sitting around Jeff Blair's Mustang II and listening to his tape of Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Scott Townsend:

Hey, this is Scott Townsend. Welcome back to The Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982 podcast. And today I have the privilege of speaking with Todd Meyerdirk all the way from Hungary. Probably the longest distance interview we've done yet. Todd is working at a nondenominational church in Hungary with his family, and he's currently working on his PhD. More on that later. Todd talks about his family, high school memories, those things he's most proud of, and the things that have made him a better person. If you like this podcast, you can be a member of the Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982 podcast by going to patreon.com forward slash Wildcats 1982 and choose the membership level that's right for you. I think they started like $3 Super easy to do. And as always make sure and subscribe to this podcast on YouTube, on the YouTube channel or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. And now my conversation with Todd Meyerdirk. Todd what's going on man?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Not a lot, not a lot.

Scott Townsend:

You were talking about COVID or what? What was that?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Oh, and all that? Yeah, my oldest daughter flying from the US to Hungary got stuck in Zurich, Switzerland. They're putting her on a flight back to the US tomorrow. So

Scott Townsend:

was she going to the US or she coming home?

Todd Meyerdirk:

She was coming to Hungary because she didn't have documentation for vaccines vaccination. The Swiss officials wouldn't let her out of the airport and said she had to fly back to the US.

Scott Townsend:

Oh, man.

Todd Meyerdirk:

So so we're trying to untangle that knot?

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, what where is she going to go, where is she going to go in the US? If it's any of my business.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Fly back to Chicago, where she flew from. So get in a seven hour flight to Zurich. Spend the night in a hotel and the Zurich airport and then take a seven hour flight back. And lots of fun.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, I was. What's life like over in Hungary? With the all this COVID stuff going on? Probably the same as everywhere else.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah. In some ways, well, depending on where you are in the states we have greater freedom. We have the there's a mask mandate for being indoors now in public places. But in general, you can pretty well go and do go to restaurants go to movies to do whatever. Right? Not too bad at this point. Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

So what are you been up to the last 39 years kind of give us all a little bit of a rundown of life with Todd Meyerdirk. What's going on?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Wow. Okay. 39 years. See See in 39 seconds or less. Let's see, after Graduated, went to Oklahoma State for two years and transferred Oklahoma Baptist University. And spent a, I think, did a year, year and a half, something like that. After I graduated working as an intern in a church there in Shawnee, Oklahoma, though, then went from there to Dallas, where I attended Dallas Theological Seminary, graduated from there in 1993, my master's in theology, but was looking to be a pastor. But because I was single, and didn't have any experience, there weren't too many churches, too interested in hiring me. But I, I guess, yeah, I spent a year and a half ended up doing an internship out of the seminary at a church of Central Illinois, spending an extra year and a half there at that church after then moved to Dallas worked just at a finance company for I don't remember how long I finally decided, well, if I'm, I'm going to be in ministry and probably I always wanted to teach so I decided I go international teach and I was headed to Ukraine to teach at a theological seminary in Kiev. And the door closed on that. So by that time, I was married had a kid. So I ended up pastoring in the US and Minnesota, and they're near that in the Twin Cities and then Rockford, Illinois, then I got to the point where I didn't really want to felt like God was leading me to something other than pastorate. Man wanted to teach and found out about an opportunity here in Hungary to teach at a Bible Institute, post high school, undergraduate post high school two year program. And came here in what year is that? 2013? Actually, yeah, right at the end of 2013. Been here since teaching in students from literally around the world, mostly from Central Europe, Europe, and US and Brazil.

Scott Townsend:

Wow. So what's life like in Hungary? It's a I looked it up. It's kind of what do you got a lot of immigration going on there? And?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Well, yeah, two years ago, there was a big immigration crisis. None of the immigrants really want to stay in Hungary. They want to go on to Yeah, you know, to Britain, or France or England. Britain, Germany, Austria, so but yeah, then Hungarian government closed off the border and wouldn't allow the immigrants trying to pass through Hungary into the EU to continue on, and we had a number of several, three or 4000 of them camping out.

Scott Townsend:

Now. You've got Budapest, which is the capital, there in Hungary. And you're kind of like, you're below Switzerland. You're above India. You got Europe in the west and

Todd Meyerdirk:

we're to the north of Slovakia. Slovakia I'm sorry. Yeah, to the west is Austria. Got Serbia, Romania. Ukraine on the east.

Scott Townsend:

What's it like moving to a foreign country like that? It's got to be oh, I've never done it

Todd Meyerdirk:

is very strange.

Scott Townsend:

You know, the language?

Todd Meyerdirk:

I wish. Yeah. It's considered. I mean, most of the time I'm surrounded by English and I do Don't have to for my position here don't have to speak Hungarian it would be very nice. The it's considered one of the most difficult languages for an English speaker to learn. So is it know that it's, it's not indo European. So Hindi is closer to English than Hungarian? Oh, wow. So yeah, so I can the very basics, you know, I can say I don't speak Hungarian very well.

Scott Townsend:

What's that sound like?

Todd Meyerdirk:

nem beszlek magyarul

Scott Townsend:

That does sound a little Hindu or Indian or something.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, it's Asiatic I guess originally Yes. So it's, it's a strange language.

Scott Townsend:

How'd you meet your wife?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, I was going to after I finished seminary and decided well, I decided to go overseas to teach went to a conference a missions conference. That one of my former classmates, at Dallas Seminary told me about come check out our mission and see if you want to come with us. And my wife had started working for this classmate as an assistant, like a couple of weeks before the conference. Holland, Michigan. So there was a group of us singles that were there and my wife and I hung out with the group and we kind of went on a date during the conference. And then afterwards, we started corresponding and I was living in Dallas, she was living in Southfield, Michigan, suburb of Detroit, and

Scott Townsend:

one of those long distance deals.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

Sounds like it all worked out.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Seems to have so far.

Scott Townsend:

So far. So good. Yeah, man. So that brings us up to speed so somewhat to what you're up to so if we dial it back here to 82 I got some notes here on the screen. I was looking to the yearbook and looks like you were in the art club with McKinney and deca, the distributive education Clubs of America. Yeah. What was that like?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Well it was the chance to get out of school an hour early. It was interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Remember, we were planning our banquet? Getting a school bus and going through the drive thru McDonald's so it's real classy club.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, sounds like it. What's your what's your family doing now? How your mom and dad I mean, I remember you have brothers seem like or how's everybody doing? I don't quite know. Yeah.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Two older brothers. That well both live in Texas presently. In her well yeah, one my oldest brother's retired veterinarian near Texas.

Scott Townsend:

And I remember I think when when you and I knew each other in high school isn't wasn't he going to vet school or was he already a vet?

Todd Meyerdirk:

No he was probably in vet school.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, yeah.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Let's see maybe just recently graduated Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

So you think back on College High, the senior year 82. What what do you think of what first comes to mind when you think back on your senior year?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Wow, well ready to be done with high school. Well, yeah. I can't say high school was the highlight of my life. You know, I kind of survived high school.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, a lot of us did. Yeah. Trying to figure it out. You were going to the First Baptist Church, right? Yeah. Your mom and dad. And have you been to any of the reunions?

Todd Meyerdirk:

I went to the I think it was the 10 year reunion. We didn't have a five year right?

Scott Townsend:

Right.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, so it must have been the 10 year reunion. Like it's I think it was. Yeah. When I was still in seminary in Dallas.

Scott Townsend:

Oh, yeah? So you're Go ahead. I'm sorry.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Most of them. I've lived way too far away to make the trip back. Way too far away. But yeah, yeah. Life didn't line up to make it back.

Scott Townsend:

So who were your friends in high school? Who did you hang out with?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Jason Casto. Yeah. A bunch of my friends in my social network was more with the youth group at First Baptist. So yeah. My best friend in high school is the guy who went to sooner. Dean Cook.

Scott Townsend:

Oh, yeah. John Hensley? Yeah. Johnny Hensley. Butch Bolen, Mark Kelly. Little bit. I would say, Keith, Jason. Dean Cook those were my closest friends. Yeah, I was a bit of a wallflower in high school, so I didn't have like a huge entourage.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Entourage.

Scott Townsend:

Do you still stay in touch with them?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Um, no. No, you

Scott Townsend:

don't stay in touch with me.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah. Yeah. When was last time we talked Scott.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, it's got to be even before graduation. Maybe at Oklahoma State. I'm sure we may have bumped into each other. A time or two in Oklahoma State.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, I've stayed. Like Keith Richards was like best man at wedding. And I've seen him. Yeah. Most recently. That was a couple of years ago. number of years ago, I called Jason Casto. Said, Hey, Jason, this is Todd. He has. Yeah. I used to know a guy named Todd. But he's dead. He must because he never contacts me.

Scott Townsend:

No, yeah,

Todd Meyerdirk:

I guess. I kind of moved on. From Bartlesville and College High and haven't stayed real close contact with too many people from there. Keith and his wife Tracy stayed friends, but it's hard when you live on the other side of the world. And yeah, time zones and. mm, excuse.

Scott Townsend:

It's, it's just so easy to do, especially when you get out of high school and college. And then you go off and you do your thing. And you're all gung ho and energetic and you're wanting to you know, grab the tiger by the tail and just put a whoopin' on it. And it takes a lot of energy takes a lot of time. You know, then family comes in, you got kids, I mean, it's just kind of snowballs and you kind of lose touch with everybody. And then when you get to our age, and you look back and go I wish I would have stayed and you know, that's just me. It's It's been fun to catch up with everybody and reconnect and

Todd Meyerdirk:

yeah, just interesting to see what the outcome of people's lives

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, yeah. It really has. Did you have a girlfriend in high school?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, yeah. Couple not the same time. Dated Mary Robertson I think that was was my sophomore year and dated a girl that went to sooner. I think pretty sure Becky Scott.

Scott Townsend:

I I'm surprised at how many people dated other folks at sooner. Other interviews people have, you know, girlfriend boyfriend from I didn't realize that kind of stuff was going on. Just you know, in College High, you're just kind of sequestered in 74003. You know, but I never interacted with anybody at sooner.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, it was mostly for me, you know, with first Baptist youth group.

Scott Townsend:

Oh, yeah, I guess. Yeah. So what do you do for fun these days? What's your when Todd goes out to relax, what does Todd do?

Todd Meyerdirk:

I don't really have time for that. Yeah, I lost my senses. lost control of my senses, and decided to start working on a PhD here in the last. And so that combined with a couple of full time jobs here and the Word of Life Hungary where I serve. But listening, I do like to Budapest is a beautiful city, it's fun to go hang out. See the city and before COVID hit, you know, could travel around the region. See some of the sights and Vienna, bled and Croatia No, that's somewhere down there. So you'd think I'd know the geography.

Scott Townsend:

Well, you're just that busy. You know? What are you most proud of? Looking back on it? Don't say your family or kids. Everybody says that. If I take the kids and stuff off the table, after that, what are you most proud of professionally? Personally? Over the last 39 years, what would you point to?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Huh? Well, and say everything that in my life is by the grace of God. So but if I so I'm a little hesitant to say proud but

Scott Townsend:

well, you know, something that you know, you're proud or however you want to whatever word you want to use.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, then I take satisfaction in okay. Yeah. Well, yeah, I guess. First thing that comes to mind that I was completed my master's and I really struggled academically, dyslexia, and it was, I'd say, somewhat miraculous that I graduated high school. Really? Yeah. Yes. I didn't realize it. Yeah. And then for me to, and I just went on to college, because that's what all my friends did.

Scott Townsend:

Right? Yep.

Todd Meyerdirk:

And I hung out with a smart crowd. They are all going to college so I'm gonna go to college. It's just natural man to get through college. That was somewhat miraculous, but it was nothing compared to making it through a four years masters Hmm.

Scott Townsend:

That was what was the hardest part?

Todd Meyerdirk:

of the masters? Hmm. Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

The Masters all of it?

Todd Meyerdirk:

I'm just slow at reading slow at getting assignments accomplished, then, yeah. And then study two ancient languages and

Scott Townsend:

wow, you know, the slow part. I read slow. And I always used to think I have to read fast, you know, everybody's speed reading, you know, and I finally just came to terms with, you know, what, I'm a slow reader and I am okay with that. And, yes, you know, I'm not gonna speed read. I'm just gonna take my time and it's the way I do it. And so that has to be okay.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, it's fine until your professor gives you like 800 pages to read in a couple of weeks, then it's yeah, I get it. Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Then the pressures on Yeah, yeah. But you made it. And that sounds. That's awesome. Now you're going for a PhD?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah. Glutton for punishment.

Scott Townsend:

So what would a PhD entail?

Todd Meyerdirk:

He wants, I, Maybe a little clarification on your question without and why

Scott Townsend:

you're getting a PhD. When you get a PhD? Do you get it in something? Do you get it in a subject or?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, mine usually? Well, mine is Bible and theology. Okay. My emphasis, my focus will be determined once I've determined my dissertation topic. Say I need to do so.

Scott Townsend:

That part seems really hard. Dissertation.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

What's the time you went through? We went from what are you most proud of? Let me ask you this. What's the time that you went through a valley and came out on the other side stronger? What was uh, over the last 39 years? Maybe it's something that was really tough, but you made it through and you made it through better faster, you could leap tall buildings in a single bound?

Todd Meyerdirk:

It's good question. Well, there's been a few things. And start with my this is back in 2012. My daughter was nine at the time, got what we thought was a cold. And a couple of days into it, she woke up one morning could barely breathe, took her to is the immediate care clinic and they said, she has to go to an emergency room right now. Her blood oxygen, her pulse ox was really low suddenly took her by ambulance to the emergency room. She's put into pediatric intensive care, ended up on a ventilator for a week. But I mean, if it was COVID was around, I would have thought it was like a severe case of COVID when she was in intensive care for 12 days, they couldn't figure out what was going on. And spent a lot of time praying. Giving her up to God. So yeah, see, obviously, she made it through that. That was, but it certainly came out stronger, just relying upon God, being willing to trust him with every aspect of my life, and everything I held there. Us as a pastor, pastored, the church that ended up closing its doors, and I was, I would say, I was there for six years, was some of the most grueling six years. It's it's really difficult. But

Scott Townsend:

what led up to that, well, why were they wanting to close it?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Well, it was a dying church that they contacted me and said, we're looking for a guy who could come back and can give new life to our church and they had voted on whether to close the doors or continue and they decided they would continue. Probably should have closed their doors for going a new pastor. And I won't go into all the gory details, but I kept saying, No, I'm not interested, not interested. They kept contacting me and saying to come, you know, just fill our pulpit,

Scott Townsend:

a Southern Baptist situation or

Todd Meyerdirk:

no is an Evangelical Free Church, okay? So I finally, they kept at me and I finally said, Okay, we'll sit down and talk and presented them with. I said, Okay, if you're going to call me, then you need to know, as pastor, you know, hire me whatever terminology, people would be understand. said, here are the conditions I'm going to come on. You gotta know, I'm going to make these changes. And I said, everybody in the congregation needs to be aware of these before they vote on bringing me here as pastor. And so they did unanimous vote. In the, there was about, I can't remember maybe 40 or 50 people when I first started, and for a brief honeymoon period, there we saw over 150 people coming but but as the core, you know, as I was making the changes that we I thought we had all agreed upon. Boy, things just got really ugly.

Scott Townsend:

Oh, I've heard of that kind of thing happening. I've never been through. Seen it, but I've heard about it. Yeah, everybody has an opinion.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, it's then,

Scott Townsend:

what do you learn from that?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Well, well, I learned a lot of humility. Learned that, learned that God is more concerned about my holiness, my character, me being like Christ, than He is concerned about what I accomplished as the pastor in any situation that he's more concerned that I am like his Son, and my character.

Scott Townsend:

That's great. Those are tough things to go through. But you know, when you come out on the other side, and you realize the things that you have learned, and the things that you realize that it just definitely makes you stronger, better, you know. But, unfortunately, it takes some of us going through some of the stuff to realize that kind of a thing. All of us, not just one person, all of us. Yeah. What did you want to be when you grew up? When you grew up? When you were a kid, he's always said when I grew up, I want to be a...

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, let's see. I think it started out cowboy. I don't know how long that phase continued. I think into maybe junior high and somebody called me a real chip kicker. And then I was like, I don't want to be a chip kicker, cuz I used to wear rodeo buckles and cowboy boots. I don't know if it was in junior high. I don't remember. It's all kind of hazy. Yeah. Then I wanted to be a fighter pilot. That was the next one. Somewhere in there, decided I wanted to be an artist.

Scott Townsend:

I remember that because sometimes I would go over your house and we would draw little animations and things like that, you know? Yeah, I

Todd Meyerdirk:

was trying to remember when it was we were trying to build a light table to do Yeah, we're gonna do a cartoon.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah, a little short. I ultimately did build the light table, but I don't think we ever got the cartoon drew drawn up.

Todd Meyerdirk:

No. I'm pretty sure about that. Yeah, yeah. I remember you coming over my house with as an eight millimeter camera and we had a little we had sheep. Yeah. Orphaned lamb that we were making some movie.

Scott Townsend:

I just barely remember that. You live down the country down on down east of mace. The Come on. What's the lodge? Moose Lodge? Lodge? Yeah. On down. Yeah.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah. Which is I don't know what it is now.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah. And then Jason Casto lived over on a on, Silver Lake Road like, yeah. And every time I drive by they're always trying to figure out which house it was. I think I remember but I'm not quite sure. Did it have a curved front to it or something? Or it was a White House or the current

Todd Meyerdirk:

White House. I think it's still there. stucco or? Yeah, let's see what side of the road would that be? I'm terrible with on the

Scott Townsend:

east. If we're going south towards Tulsa would be on the east side of the road.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Your not helping me.

Scott Townsend:

On the left side of the road as you're going towards Tulsa on Silver Lake. like, if you were Yeah, that's right. In that direction.

Todd Meyerdirk:

And there is a hill? Yes. If you're coming out of Bartlesville and silver like there's a hill. Yeah. Jason and I used to sled down that hill. Yeah, man.

Scott Townsend:

So you know, looking back on what you know, now. What would you tell your 18 year old self? If you were to see Todd Meyerdirk walking across the stage graduation stage, knowing what you know, now you'd go to him and say, What? The one thing that you could say to him?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Hey, well a couple of things. I think the first thing I'd say is dude, lay off the doughnuts, because your metabolism is not going to be the same as a nuclear submarine for your entire life. Yeah, that's the first thing. The other would be just to not worry so much about, to care about people than not to care so much about their opinions of me. And to take the risk to be rejected.

Scott Townsend:

Hmm. It's kind of where I am. I think that's what I that's pretty close to what I'd say to.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, I guess we all probably all feared to a certain degree rejection back in high school. Mm hmm. The opinion of others, but for me, it was and I can't compare it to what it was like for anyone else. But I know for me it was paralyzing.

Scott Townsend:

Really. So for example, give me an example. You were afraid of what people would think about you regarding the clothes you wore or the or was it anything?

Todd Meyerdirk:

I'm not sure it was that specific. Just the thing would think it was yeah, a probably is a some of the one of the carryover from struggling with school and being teased somewhat for that. Think I was stupid that they think I was a geek and nerd that.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah. Yeah, you did, did you get held back in school?

Todd Meyerdirk:

My mom was a public school teacher did seem she was real big on holding students back. I was placed in a, Bartlesville was kind of progressive than having a program for dealing with learning disabilities. And so I went to a class for that for a year. Here's when he pulled me on the Wayside and put me at Will Rogers.

Scott Townsend:

Okay. Is that where your mom taught? Wayside?

Todd Meyerdirk:

No, she didn't teach at either those schools. Highland Park, okay. Will Rogers was where they had the special program for learning disabilities.

Scott Townsend:

So the thought of people teasing you kids teasing you. And you know what kids are really good at teasing. You know, they can be really brutal.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, this is yeah, yeah. So Yes, I think I struggled with feeling like people think I was stupid or

Scott Townsend:

Yeah. So yeah, I mean, going for your masters got your masters gone to your PhD. I mean, you know, it's you just do whatever you want to do as long as you know.

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I strive to make sure it's that I'm not trying to silence the voices in my head about. You're not smart. You're stupid.

Scott Townsend:

Were is Casto these days?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Huh? I you're really putting me on the spot, Scott.

Scott Townsend:

I think he's in Bartlesville. If you haven't number for him, or if you have a number for him or something, let me know. And I'll try to get in touch with him and get him on the show.

Todd Meyerdirk:

But yeah, I think know he was in Tulsa. He wasn't the last time I saw him he was in Bartlesville. Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

So, you know, wrapping this up, what would you say to the Wildcats watching your interview here? Anything you want to say to all your friends and fellow graduates?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Well, wish I could come up with something profound and wise... just make the most of the days that God has given you.

Scott Townsend:

Do what?

Todd Meyerdirk:

And that you the days that God has given you and that you have left? Mm hmm. You were

Scott Townsend:

we're closer to the end than we were a long time ago. Yeah. Yeah. Do you make it back to the states often?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Well, just about every two years, we come back for the summer. So every other summer.

Scott Townsend:

Do you come back to Bartlesville? Or do you go somewhere else?

Todd Meyerdirk:

Yeah, my, my parents are still living, though. They're both, my dad's 93, my mom's 90. Wow. So yeah, I was, I was in Bartlesville this summer for a week.

Scott Townsend:

Do they still live in the same house? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Todd Meyerdirk:

It's not good. They're out there. 20 acres land out 10 miles out of town. And

Scott Townsend:

yeah. Yeah, I get where you're coming from. Kind of you kind of wish that they would go to someplace more sustainable. You know. That's what my mom

Todd Meyerdirk:

and my parents, they're determined they were not going to leave there. So that's, yeah,

Scott Townsend:

makes it rough.

Todd Meyerdirk:

It does it's challenging.

Scott Townsend:

Well, Todd, it's been good catching up with you. I know, almost into an hour here. And I don't want to take up much more of your time. But I appreciate I know how busy you are. And thanks for carving out some time for us. And this just kind of going down memory lane.

Todd Meyerdirk:

That's been fun. It's been interesting to say I'm not prone to reflect too much stuff in my high school years. So this is good. Yeah.

Scott Townsend:

Yeah. It's been a lot. It's a it's a fun project. Everybody seems to enjoy it. Alright, well I'll close it down here. So for Todd Meyerdirk, this is Scott Townsend. Thanks for watching and listening to the Last of the Col-Hi Wildcats 1982 podcast. Have a great day. And we'll talk to you later.

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