Who Is My Neighbor? | Chad Thornburg — Work Hard To Play Hard

"Washington's not going to come and shovel your driveway. I will." Chad Thornburg farms — or rather, maintains — land his family has worked since 1836, when his ancestors arrived from southern Ohio to find nothing but forest. He's a 31-year railroad man currently working nights, a motorcyclist, a paramotor pilot who inspects tile drainage systems from 200 feet up, and a deputy township trustee who didn't ask for the job. He's got two sons, a wife, a cat that hates him, and two girls in Kentucky — 11 and 12 — whose parents are both incarcerated, who have essentially ended up in his pocket. He is extremely content with his life and has a genuinely good reason for it. We'd love to read your answers to Chad's final question in the comments! Key Takeaways: What 31 years on the railroad taught him about trains — and what most people still get wrong Why he values a favor more than money — and what he believes makes someone genuinely good What he saw at Shriners Hospital that he's never forgotten The reason he never learned to fish, which didn't occur to him until he was in his 20s What a Confederate soldier known only to God is doing in the local cemetery — and why Chad tends it Links & Resources: 📚 The Middletown Myth by Baird Davis — a son's account of corruption in the Muncie police department, set against the backdrop of America's most-studied city: https://www.amazon.com/Middletown-Myt... 🏥 Shriners Children's Hospital — St. Louis: https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/... 📚 Free Range Rodeo: Horseback Through the Apocalypse — Sea G Rhydr's memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Range-Rod... 🤠 Learn more about host Sea G Rhydr: https://www.freerangerodeo.com