{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Get The Joke","description":"Cam and his wife were at a wedding reception last week. It was beautiful. One conversation, though, has stuck with him. ----- My wife and I stood with a young man at a wedding Saturday night as he lamented the lack of turkeys to hunt at his camp. There were no gobblers, he said, and he was a bit down in the mouth about it. \u201cWhy,\u201d my wife asked. \u201cIn the spring,\u201d he said, \u201cthe hens move to a different place where they like the environment for nesting. The gobblers follow. And wherever those hens go, it\u2019s not on our property. I wish there were something about our place that the hens liked but every spring they move away, and the gobblers go with them.\u201d \u201cSounds a lot like the bars I used to go to in college,\u201d I said. No reaction. Then my wife joined in. \u201cHow about making your place more romantic. Some mood lighting in the woods and you can play Sade and Lou Rawls. That\u2019ll make the hens want to stick around. Make it so romantic they can\u2019t bring themselves to leave.\u201d And she began singing You\u2019ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine and doing a little shoulder dance. She and I laughed at the idea. It was funny! Both of us were imagining two turkeys doing a sensual dance around each other in the middle of the woods to Lou Rawls or Sade under some soft lights. We were wiping tears from our eyes. It was hysterical and we kept the joke going. It was good stuff! The young man\u2019s expression was, well\u2026he was either pitying us, worried for us, or worried for himself. He thought none of it was funny. He didn\u2019t get the joke. He looked awkward because he felt awkward. Two people standing in front of him mopping tears from their eyes to something that he knew flew way over his head. Lou Rawls? Sade? Who were they? Should he offer us a nervous, sympathetic laugh? Should he excuse himself and quickly get lost in the crowd? The poor young man stood there uncomfortably, not knowing what to do. We stopped laughing and an awkward silence hung. It was the age gap. It reared its ugly head and stared all of us in the face. Was the key to getting the joke knowing who Sade and Lou Rawls is? Was the key to getting the joke hearing the song in your head and picturing the turkeys dancing? Was the joke something only old people like and when I was in my twenties would have felt sad for me, too. Does humor, like wine, age and change its complexity? And then, like wine, go bad. I could chalk the whole incident up to my wife and my shared odd sense of humor. I\u2019m not gonna do that. I could chalk it up to our humor having gone bad. That\u2019s not it. I\u2019m going to chalk it up to kids these days. Imagine two turkeys dancing in the woods to this music and try not to smile. Try I dare you. You can\u2019t not smile. It was funny! I worry about the future of our nation. I\u2019m Cam Marston and I\u2019m just trying to Keep It Real. ","author_name":"Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston","author_url":"https:\/\/cammarston.com\/keepin-it-real-with-cam-marston\/","html":"