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The Mango Times Podcast is where midlife curiosity meets adventure, humor, and human stories. Hosted by Fletch, the show features thoughtful conversations, great banter, and stories from the porch to the open road.
In Season 6, each episode explores what it looks like to wake up in the second half of life and decide there’s still plenty of adventure left...through interviews, personal reflections, recurring segments, and a little bit of well-earned shtick.
New episodes drop every other week and stay under 45 minutes. Pull up a chair, hop on the back of the bike and join the conversation.
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Send Fletch a Voicemail or Text! I didn’t disappear, life just got loud and summer got full and that’s exactly why I wanted to hit record again. Consider this a fall reset for the Mango Times podcast: a quick hello, a real update, and a nudge to keep making room for adventure even when work and obligations try to crowd it out. If you’ve ever worried that you’re “behind” on your hobbies, your creativity, or your big plans, you’ll hear a familiar rhythm here. First up, motorcycles. I fin...
Send Fletch a Voicemail or Text! The life you built can look faithful on the outside and still be quietly crushing you on the inside. Jason Callahan helps us name that moment when “sacrifice” starts turning into isolation, when every relationship gains an agenda, and when your confidence is louder than your actual certainty. We talk through Jason’s unlikely path from an aimless early adulthood into an anarchist touring band, then into intense urban ministry in North St. Louis where “pastorin...
Send Fletch a Voicemail or Text! You can spend years chasing adventure through plane tickets and packed itineraries, or you can build a place that makes adventure come to you. I’m back behind the mic after a packed summer, and I’m joined by my friends Curt and Chris Reynolds, who make a bold midlife reinvention feel surprisingly practical: they leave California, buy wooded property in southern Washington, and start creating a calm, welcoming stop for travelers. We talk through the full story...
Send Fletch a Voicemail or Text! A train platform in Bath, England is not where you expect a midlife pep talk to hit, but that’s exactly what happens. Between rolling luggage and incoming rain, I ask the listeners “Where are you traveling next?” You’ll also hear the behind-the-scenes truth of running an interview podcast: sometimes the feed goes quiet because the pipeline runs out. So we’re turning this into a listener-powered stretch of the show and inviting your voice into future episodes...
Send Fletch a Voicemail or Text! Sherry McIntyre on Reinvention and Retirement. A single vote can erase a program overnight, even if it shaped a whole community for decades. That’s what happened to Sherry McIntyre, a Modesto, California teacher who spent 25 years teaching a World Religions class that was required for graduation in public school, a “first and only” experiment in religious literacy at that scale. When the school board moved to phase it out to make room for a required Ethnic Stu...
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