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EP. 95 "FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE!"....Why? Because I Love You!
Something magical happens when you disconnect from the digital world. During our annual "Griswolds family camping trip," the Wi-Fi went down completely and cell service barely existed. The result? Kids weren't glued to screens, adults weren't checking emails, and we all rediscovered the art of genuine conversation and connection. Sometimes the universe forces these digital detoxes on us exactly when we need them most.
The podcast world and music world collided recently when I had the opportunity to meet Angel at the Whiskey A Go Go. What struck me wasn't just their incredible performance, but their genuine warmth backstage. Each band member took time to connect with fans, sign memorabilia, and share stories. When musicians who've achieved success still demonstrate that level of appreciation for their fans, it speaks volumes about their character. The exhaustion following the late night was worth every moment of the experience.
Behind the scenes, major changes are brewing for the podcast. The current studio space has served well for individual interviews, but larger group conversations require more room. This week marked the beginning of that transformation with a freshly poured concrete slab that will support a storage shed, ultimately allowing the garage to be converted into a proper studio space. Much like this podcast's journey from episode 1 to our current milestone of episode 95, building something meaningful happens one step at a time.
As we approach episode 100, I'm more grateful than ever for this community of listeners. Whether you're following on social media, subscribing on your favorite podcast platform, or watching the YouTube videos, you're part of what makes this adventure worthwhile. Help us reach our goal of 500 YouTube subscribers before year-end by sharing with friends and family who might enjoy these conversations. After all, the best connections are the ones we create together.#podcast #tellyourstory #thebenmaynardprogram #familymatters #angeltheband #frankdimino #punkymeadows #dannyfarrow
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Hey there, welcome into the Ben Maynard program. Thanks for being here. What is up? Everybody, you know what today is. Tonight is Friday and we are live. Yes, we are Friday night. Live it is. Let's see, there it is. It is date night with me, all right, so sit back, relax and enjoy. All right, a little bit of this Before we get going here on Friday Night Live.
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Speaker 1:And here we are in studio at home. It's live Friday night date night with me. Sorry about pounding on that there. So, yeah, date night with me. So listen, a lot's been going on the last couple of weeks. It's been a couple of weeks since we've been together, and so here we are and honestly, it was like I don't know six o'clock and I studio. I had to put the studio back together. I'll explain it All right. So I was like I got to get this done, I got to put the studio back together, got to get on. It's Friday night and the reason why I'm reason why we're going live tonight is I had a guest lined up for tomorrow and that guest backed out. So, anyway, it's just one of those things and I figured, well, now I don't have to do anything tomorrow morning, so I can just kind of take it easy and kick back on Saturday, take it easy on Sunday. I've been on vacation all week and we'll get into some of that too. But, yeah, so a guest backed out and I figured, well, let's get in studio, let's put it all back together and go live. So here we are. So let's see the last episode, the last one I left you guys with. That was I guess it'll be like two weeks tomorrow that was Air Force Amy Absolutely great.
Speaker 1:She was dynamite, she was so nice, she was so engaging, it was a great conversation the two of us had. She had some great stories and if you haven't seen the episode, if you haven't listened to it yet, then go check it out. It's really really good stuff. It's doing very well. It's doing real well on the streaming services and it's doing really well here on YouTube as well. So, yeah, just go check it out. She was great and I've said it before, but we get new people all the time.
Speaker 1:If you guys know me or for those of you who don't know me, look, I'm not gonna be a real crass guy and if you know Air Force Amy, you know her background, we got into it, but I wasn't gonna to, you know, ask all these, you know stupid questions and uh, you know, oh, hey, what about this or what about that, or how many of this? And you know, just, just, that's just silly stuff, okay, and I wasn't going to get into it. That wasn't the point of it all. And that's probably why, uh, we had such a good time and why she'll be coming back. She's going to, she's working on a book and she's going to come back on again. She just had a great time. She sent me a text message afterwards and so it was just, it was awesome. So, listen, go check it out.
Speaker 1:And the last few guests I know I've put out some TikTok videos and and I've I've kind of, you know, encouraged you guys to go back and listen to the last few episodes or watch them, whatever it is, but it's because they're that good. Look, tonight is episode 95. Yeah, we're pushing 100. We're right on episode 100's doorstep. We're just about ready to knock on that door. So, yeah, I'm pushing it all. I'm pushing all the episodes all 94 previous to tonight, but the last, I want to say the last four episodes, because I think we had a Friday night live in between and I had Spaz and Shannon were on. That was a great episode where we talked about our top five albums from 1985. It was just so fun and it was so good and each one of us had we're just very different in our lists, you know, but let's see.
Speaker 1:Previous to Amy, we had Chris Skates, great author, great storyteller. The episode's doing okay. It could be doing better. It's actually doing much better on the streaming services than it is here. So that just means the audio version is doing really well. It's doing better there than it is, uh, here on youtube. But he was so good, so, so, so good and I can't wait to have him back. I'll have him back on when he gets his next book out.
Speaker 1:Uh, then there was, um, there was randy latzman and she was dynamite, that was. We had her on just before mother's Day and she was fabulous. Get her book from the heart of a mother, I think that's what it was. I hope I got that right, randy. If I didn't, I apologize, but she was great, just great discussion. We've been on a roll with great guests lately, not just counting my friends that come on the podcast. And then there was Mick Heyman. You know, mellow your Money, great. The episode has done really well here on YouTube. It's done pretty well on the streaming services or the audio version.
Speaker 1:However, you want me to say that you know whatever sounds better to you guys. But, um, you know, all I want are eyes and ears on this podcast. I don't, I'm not worried about money, I'm just worried. I just want eyes and ears. That's it. And that's why I had this big I've got this big subscriber campaign going. I'm trying to hit 500 subscribers before the end of the year. We're creeping along. We've picked up a few, but I need more. Come on, people. First off, I think you know how many subscribers I have to this channel. I have to do is look, I think it's just over 150. So I have a ways to go. You got to get me 350 more. That's why you have to tell 10,000 of your family and friends. All right, you tell 10,000 of your family and friends and even if a thousand of them subscribe to this channel. Man, boom, there, it is right there, right, so cool. Anyhow, I'll tell you what too.
Speaker 1:If tonight, if someone, if you guys, call in, if someone calls in tonight, then I where are? Oh shoot, I didn't bring any, I got new coasters, got new coasters, some new swag. Catherine and I were working on a couple of things and but I got some new coasters. So if you call into the program, um, or if you leave a comment and then put the comments up, I should put the comments up, there we go. Or you leave a comment and in the comments you leave me, like your address, I'll send you a set. I'll send you a set of four coasters oh my gosh, four coasters. Ooh, I'll send you a set of four coasters, oh my gosh, four coasters. But why not? I'll send them to you and you'll have four Ben Maynard program coasters at home to put your drinks on, to pass out to your family and friends, whatever it is, I don't know, it's just something to remind you of me, okay, so, anyway, so, yeah, those are the last few episodes. Go check them out. So so good. And then, when you're done checking those ones out, go back and watch or listen to all the other ones as well, because it's good stuff, all right. And so let's see, let's get this ball rolling. So you know what today is.
Speaker 1:Today, not only is it Friday and it's Friday, june 20th, but it's National Take your Dog to Work Day. That's awesome. I've never had a job to where I could actually take my dog to work with me. Unfortunately, I never had a job to where I could take my daughter to work with me. But you see where I'm going, yeah, so I think that's really really cool. Take my daughter to work with me, but you see where I'm going. Yeah, so I think that's really really cool. Take your dog to work instead of leaving them home alone, and reconsider the important bond between man and his best friend. Absolutely, that bond should never end, and I've said it for many, many years Dogs are God's best work, dogs are just the absolute best. So, yeah, take your dog to work day. What else is it? Oh, yeah, this is cool.
Speaker 1:National Vanilla Milkshake Day. Well, let's see, it is now 13 minutes after the hour, 13 minutes after the hour, so we've been on for like almost 12 minutes here. When this show is over, I'm going to get a vanilla shake. You know it, catherine, by the way, we're going to go get milkshakes when we're done here, just letting it's national vanilla milkshake Day, so we're going for one. She's downstairs, I think she's probably watching General Hospital or something. Anyway, so National Vanilla Milkshake Day. So when you're done here, when our date night is over, you go grab a vanilla milkshake as well. You know I'm going to. I don't know where we'll go yet, I'm not sure. Not sure. Got a little time to think about it. It's all good.
Speaker 1:Milkshakes, great stuff, yeah. So let's see what else we have, what else we got going on in. Let's see how about some celebrity birthdays? Yeah, just to kind of kick things off, right, we're just having fun. It's date night with you and me, and that's all it is right now is you and me. Let's see Born on this day Get my glasses on here. Born on this day in 1967. Nicole Kidman All right, go Kidman. All right, go Nicole. And also born on this day in 1949, lionel Richie All right, I love Lionel Richie. Yeah, lionel Richie, I like me some Commodores and I like me some Lionel Richie solo stuff. Yeah, all good stuff, good stuff. Let's see what else.
Speaker 1:Oh, and on this day in history. Let's scroll right through here. Where was it? I saw a couple things here in 1963. In this day, oh well, let's go back to 1941. This day in 1941, ford Motor Company signs its first contract with Auto Workers Union. After a long and bitter struggle on the part of Henry Ford against corporation, with organized I'm sorry, against cooperation with organized labor unions, ford Motor Company signs its first contract with the UAW of America and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1941. Okay, in 1963, the United States and Soviet Union agree to establish a nuclear hotline. To lessen the threat of an accidental nuclear war, the United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a hotline communication system between the two nations. The agreement was a small step in reducing tensions between the United States and the USSR following the October 1962 missile crisis, which was that was known as the Bay of Pigs. Let's see, oh, I like this one. Yeah, this one's good.
Speaker 1:This date, june 20th in 1981, 20th in 1981, stars on 45, the single reaches the top of the chart. So you remember that single. It was the Beatles medley stars on, but it was just called stars on 45 medley, I think is what it was. But it was, it was. It was more known as the Beatles men medley, but it says here not so much a band as an audacious business plan. A group called stars on 45 climbs all the way to the top of the us pop charts on june 20th 1981 with a single whose impossibly long title takes almost as long to read as the song itself to play, which that's true.
Speaker 1:When the song first was released, the title of the song was Stars on 45 Medley, and then every single song or the title of every single song that was in that medley. So, like you know, I think Venus was in there, sugar, sugar, and then every Beatles song that was in that song. So they kind of just trimmed that down because that's a lot to say to Stars on 45 medley. But that was a really, really cool tune and what was cool and check me on this if you need to okay, they didn't take snippets of each song and then kind of put them together and build a medley. They actually sang each one of those tunes. Yeah, I know they sounded so good doing all that. They actually performed that stuff. So they weren't like a band, so to speak, but uh, they were a band for the for for this here and they did a great job, tremendous job in, uh, in singing that and sounding like the Beatles and um, you know, just really, really cool.
Speaker 1:What else? What else here on June 20th, let's see, oh, yes, right there, this might be the biggest one. This is cool. This date in 1975, jaws was released in theaters, was released in theaters. Cool movie, cool movie. Yeah, if you haven't seen it, come on, everybody's seen Jaws. Who hasn't seen Jaws, really, at least once? Come on, such a good movie. And back in 75, let's see, I was still nine, so I hadn't turned 10 yet when that movie came out. Let's see, I was still nine, so I hadn't turned 10 yet when that movie came out. Boy, would that freak me out. Nobody would want to go in the ocean after seeing this movie.
Speaker 1:It's so good, so, so, so good. The acting was great Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw. Man, so good, so, so, so good, anyway. So, yeah, that's it this day in history. So later to you, what else has been going on? Okay, let's see. Well, it was what? Oh, it was the same day, same day as the Air Force Amy show that evening, my buddy Spaz, everybody knows Spaz. I mean geez, he practically has his own chair right here in the studio.
Speaker 1:We went to go see one of my favorites, angel. They were playing here locally and we went to the Whiskey A Go Go for that show and I got us the meet and greet for the two of us and so we got to meet the band and all that and it was great. It was a little bit confusing at first the way the meet and greet was playing out, but it was really cool. It was so nice to meet the guys in the band. They were absolutely just wonderful, not because they had to be, they just were. They were just so cool. And I did Okay, I did, I've got you know guys, I, you know I've been wanting to get this band on the podcast for nearly the entire run of this podcast.
Speaker 1:Um, so I took my, I took my coasters, I took a bunch of coasters cause I was figuring I'm just going to hit it, these are my calling cards and I'm handing them out. And, uh, so I'm just going to hit it, these are my calling cards and I'm handing them out. And so I did. I gave each guy, each guy in the band, one of my coasters, but I think on two or three of them. I wrote my cell number and my email address. Well, one of the guys in the band, the rhythm guitarist and one of the main songwriters, danny Farrow, he also kind of takes care of the business matters with the band also, and so I, when I'm handing these out, I said, hey, I really would like you guys to be on the podcast, real like you to come on my podcast. And they were like, oh, really, you know, that's cool. And and then Danny says, uh, yeah, maybe we can make that happen.
Speaker 1:Um, so, uh, we went about with the rest of the meet and greet and it was. It was just great. It would really was just dynamite. I think they would take. They would take a group, however many people were in your group, and it would be in like the dressing room to meet the band. And you got really like a good five minutes at least with the band and I kept hearing people saying, oh yeah, they were doing the meet and greet right now and they can sign stuff, and then they're going to call everybody back to take pictures with the band. Well, I shouldn't have listened to anyone, because that was the moment to take photos with the band and Spaz and I didn't, so that sucked for us, but whatever, it's okay. I have the memory of of shaking their hands and talking to the guys and then, um, you know, they were just great. I took, uh, I took a couple of cds and I took, uh, I took my album. I should put it up on the studio here yet, but, uh, so they autographed the stuff for me. So it was just really cool.
Speaker 1:They were just very engaging, just warm guys, nice guys, and then Spaz and I we had a table. There's a balcony area at the whiskey and then, of course, down below is the floor, and so we were there. We saw every band that was opening up. I think there were like four or five bands that played previous to Angel. So we sat in the balcony, we sat at our table. The entryway towards their dressing room was right next to our table, so they were kept coming out, peeking their heads out Billy, billy Orko, who's the drummer, and Charlie Calve, the keyboard keyboardist. He, they, those guys came out for a bit. They're just walking through the crowd and every single time they came by spaz and I they were just like fist bumping, a shaking hands, all that kind of stuff by spaz and I. They were just like fist bumping and shaking hands, all that kind of stuff. They were just very, very cool.
Speaker 1:Uh, danny came out a couple times same thing, just you know and spaz and I stood there, you know, stayed at the table, and then, uh, I waited. I told spaz, I said, hey, look, um, you want to come down to the floor with me when these guys take the stage? He says, nope, I'm sitting right here. I didn't blame him too. Come on, a couple of 60 year old guys, you know, um, but uh, when the guys came out, they were we. They walked right by us and they were just shaking our hands and fist bumping us on the way to the stage. They were just so very cool. It's not, we didn't ask for it, it was like there we are, hey guys, and uh, I ran down to the floor and uh, I, just I stayed there the whole show and it was great. They were absolutely on fire. It was such a good show, such a good show.
Speaker 1:And uh, spaz, who you know, for whatever reason and there's a lot of people who you know hadn't been, you know, weren't familiar with angel back then, and that's actually part of the problem uh, you know that that they had over their careers. So, um, it was just dynamite, he loved it, he had a great time. Um, I think we got out of there. What time we get out of there? We got got out there about 1230, I think something like that, 12, 1230, maybe quarter to one, I can't recall and we both walked. I drove and we both walked out, got to the truck and we kind of look at each other man, we're like way too old to be doing this stuff. I said I need a nap now. And he's like no kidding. So, uh, but we had such a good time, it was great, it was absolutely dynamite. Um, so that's how that's. That was kind of, uh, that's how that night went, that's, that was this. Like, I said the same the same night that we had, uh, air force Amy on the on the show.
Speaker 1:And then, uh, the following week, catherine and I were, uh, we had our annual Griswold's family camping trip and, uh, what we do, uh, we've done it quite a few years. We haven't done it every year, but, um, it's been going on since 2017. And the whole family, you know nieces, nephews, my kids, you know and we go to this campground. It's called Vail Lake Campground. It's just east of Temecula Actually, I think it's still considered Temecula down here in Southern California and it's a great campground, great facility.
Speaker 1:Most of us, we just rent RV trailers. We'll go through this particular company and you just you get your trailer, you get your trailer and it sounds bad to say trailer, but I mean it is, it's a trailer, but these things are gorgeous and you tell the company when you need them and the first day of the trip you show up and boom, it's there. They drop the trailer in your spot and they got the AC going. When you get there there, all you gotta do is throw your stuff in there and you're ready to go. So it's a good time. We've been like I said, we've done it. Uh, we've done it most years since. Uh, since 2017.
Speaker 1:Uh, we took 2020 off for obvious reasons, and 2021 also, but we went. We were back in 2022 and then, um, let's see, oh, 2023. We took a break from that because we did our griswold's trip to alaska, so we'd we'd done our trip to alaska instead of camping, and then we didn't camp. We'd had nothing going on last year. So we got it back going this year and we're already booking everything for next year, so it's a good time we go out three, four days, actually, I think it's four days. Four days, three nights. I think next year, kath and I are talking about doing four nights and five days, so that's probably what we'll do. It doing four nights and five days. So that's probably what we'll do. It's just a. It's a good time to go out and spend it with family.
Speaker 1:And the really cool part I think I told you guys I had made a TikTok video while Catherine and I were on our way down there and I said oh yeah, you know, no, no show this week, but we, I'll be doing some TikTok videos throughout the weekend. Yeah, that wasn't going to happen. We had in the past. The campground had no Wi-Fi and limited cell service. It was pretty weak. And we got there and checked in and they gave us the network and the password for the Wi-Fi. Oh, ok, cool, that's all right then. And it didn't work. All week, all weekend, all four days. It didn't work Apparently. And in the area where we were, there was a small tower that was supposed to help with the Wi-Fi service. Well, apparently it was down and they had a. I don't know they had a call in for service on it, so we were out of luck on that. And then the cell service was really really bad, really bad. So it just wasn't going to happen. But you know what, that's okay, because the kids didn't have screens to watch, they didn't have their phones to get in and look at and all that kind of thing. So it just lent itself to more, just more, family time. So it was cool. It was cool, yeah, so that was going on last weekend and then I've been on vacation all week this week I go back to work on Monday and I think I I don't know if I told you guys, but shortly after I started this podcast, the studio now it's great, I love it, but it's too small.
Speaker 1:We can only have a couple of people in here at a time. It's just too small to have big groups, and we've done a couple episodes where I've had to move the equipment to another location in the house so we can have five, six, seven people or whatever. And so the plan was to move the studio down into the garage, clear out the garage, build a studio, build a proper studio in there and then, you know, proceed to move everything there and that's what you know. I think that's kind of still what the plan is. But in order to do that, you know, we have a fairly we have a fairly sizable piece of property and the backyard's pretty big and there's one section of the of our yard where we have a hillside that slopes down and then at the bottom of that hill it's pretty flat.
Speaker 1:So I spent this week pouring concrete. Well, not this week, I did it yesterday but I spent earlier in the week prepping it all. It was being graded and we had to form it all up. A buddy of mine, chuck, he helped me out and we formatted it all up, getting our rock base in and all that. And then I had gone to Home Depot, ordered up all the concrete and had it delivered to the house. And then yesterday morning Chuck and I were out there sweating away.
Speaker 1:It's a big old slab. It's a 10, 10 by 20 slab. So it's huge. It's huge. And that that's where the shed. We're going to put a shed there. It's uh, uh. That's where it's going to sit and we're clearing out the garage. So in the next maybe couple of weeks uh, it'll be, it'll be three piles throw away, keep and donate, you know that kind of that kind of thing. And then, uh, then we'll start our conversion on the garage.
Speaker 1:We're, what we're going to do is is Tess is actually moving back home for a little bit. Uh, she's going to move back next month and, uh, eventually she'll, she'll get to move down into the into garage. What will soon or I shouldn't say soon, but what will one day become the studio is going to be more living quarters. We're going to build a small uh, I don't really want to call it an adu, but uh, but we'll build a small living space down there and we're going to build out our laundry room to have a proper laundry room, and then I'll have a small area for, like my I don't want to say workshop so much, but now workshop my tools, that kind of thing. So that will be the project and that we need the shed for, so we can get everything out of the garage. So, yeah, it's going to be a big shed and Catherine and I we just went and checked that one out today, we just made our purchase on that one and that will be coming in next month, I think, I don't know, I think the first part of next month, something like that. So we're looking forward to that.
Speaker 1:What else, oh what else, has been going on? Let me see. Was it last week, while I was away camping? Wasn't there stuff going around the country? Weren't all these? Here we go? Weren't there a whole bunch of quote unquote demonstrations and protests for no kings? Something like that. No kings protests, something like that, no kings protests. Holy cow, give me a break, come on. So you guys know I don't get political in here. You know where I stand, you know where I stand, but you know that you don't come to me for politics. So I don't get very political. But this was kind of stupid. This was a joke, all right, and of course it started, I think, the week before.
Speaker 1:Uh, right here in LA, with a bunch of crap going on, a bunch of people out in the streets blocking freeways and all that kind of stuff, and then we have got city officials and, and you know, and our governor complaining about having the National Guard come in and that kind of stuff. And it's like, wait a second, wait a second. If you guys would mind your business, if you guys would take care of business, there wouldn't be any National Guard here. That's the bottom line. If you allow law enforcement to do what it is that they're supposed to do, which is uphold and enforce the law, then you don't have that issue. Then the National Guard isn't coming in to protect federal property, because, see here, local law enforcement whether it's the city, law enforcement, county, whatever it is they're not going to protect federal property. They'll try to protect their assets, their property, but they're going to protect the federal property, okay. So if they're not going to do that, somebody needs to see bring the national guard and then you back them up with the Marines, you know? Wait, that's the way it is, okay. So I don't want to hear about Kings and this and that kind of thing, whatever. All right, it's just stupid. You guys don't get it and they're not protests, all right.
Speaker 1:I heard somebody on the news this was great, it was local news, this is awesome, awesome Talking about our president, president Trump, calling in the Marines and calling in the National Guard, the Marines and said I'm getting it verbatim, I'm getting it verbatim. I'm not quoting it, but said something to the effect the president really needs to be careful how this is managed and how this is handled and how he brings the National Guard into the LA area because it could spark all kinds of stuff. Right now, it's just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn, and I heard that I was like, really, you serious, huh, watching cars burn, that's fun, right? That's a friendly protest or a friendly demonstration, okay, yeah, all right, that's the way people in the city of Los Angeles think, that's the way the city officials think about that. That's all friendly, it's all uh, uh fun. You know it's nonviolent, you know that kind of stuff that just that just kills me. That's great stuff. I love it. I love it. So, look, god bless the president for doing what it is that he had to do.
Speaker 1:Okay, took care of business, and last week they're going to have these no kings, I don't know what you want to call them protest demonstrations. They end up being riots. Okay, because they're not. Okay, they're not mostly peaceful protests. Okay, they're not. They're not mostly peaceful protests. Okay, they're full out riots. Okay, come on, let's just be honest. And uh, but I love it because that same day we're celebrating the 250th birthday of the army, the U S army, you know, good on you guys.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday to the army. We're celebrating flag day, the American flag day, okay and we're celebrating our president's birthday. Oh, you know what? It was also my uncle Bruce's birthday too. I sent him a text. I told him happy birthday. We're celebrating all that while you got a bunch of dummies out in the streets, you know wreaking havoc and you know crying if they get thrown in jail or crying if they're getting pushed back.
Speaker 1:And I just love it. I love it. You know, don't be stupid and don't try to. And I just I can't stand the news media trying to fool everybody. Oh, it's mostly peaceful protests.
Speaker 1:Well, listen, here's what a peaceful protest is, or a demonstration, either way, you stand on a street corner, you wave your signs, your banners, whatever it is, and you state your case. That's peaceful, okay. Once you step off the sidewalk into the street and you impede the flow of traffic, you impede someone's path or mode of movement. You've now broken the law, all right. And now you're susceptible to arrest. That's just the bottom line. That's the bottom line. But no, they think that they're expressing their First Amendment right. Not when you step off the curb, not when you block a freeway on ramp, not when you block a freeway. None of that. That's not peaceful and that's not expressing First Amendment rights. You want to stand out there and do stupid stuff. I got better things to do with my time, but that's just insane that people would want to do that and then try to call it peaceful. Yeah, love that stuff, but you know what here, here's for all of you out there that may have taken part in it, or for all the folks out there that did partake in their no Kings protests and and and demonstrations and riots In the end you guys won.
Speaker 1:You guys actually won. So good for you. I guess it did some good, because you know what we don't have a King. We don't have a King running this country. You win, you got what you wanted no Kings. Awesome, awesome, good on you, good on you guys. That's excellent. So, look, um, that's all I'll say about that. Okay, I don't need to go on anymore about that. That is, that's it. What are we working on? I'm working on a guest for next week. It's another author. He's been in touch with me. He contacted me a couple of times this week and I'd just been so busy I didn't get back to him. But I'll talk to him tomorrow. We'll try to set something up for next Saturday. It'll be fun and we'll get right back into the swing of things, okay. So there you go.
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