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Valerie Thurston joins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Speaker 1: Viva Tequila Seltzer, the number one hard Seltzer in the
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  Speaker 2: Drinking with Dog, ditch them up add tequila welcome back
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  Speaker 2: today drinking with a dog.
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  Speaker 1: It is a steamy hot July second and the other
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  Speaker 1: one gearing up for July fourth this weekend, So everyone
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  Speaker 1: be safe, do not drink and drive, and enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: day and the fireworks. But before we get to that day,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you'll give us a listen today because I
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  Speaker 1: have a very special guest on and a mystery guest
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  Speaker 1: behind that.
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  Speaker 3: This is my good friend, Valerie Thurston.
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  Speaker 2: Valerie, welcome to the shows.
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  Speaker 4: So much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, of course, so I stumbled upon a you know,
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  Speaker 1: Facebook post about you and a book you wrote, and
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  Speaker 1: it's called Food Poisoning.
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  Speaker 3: And it's I'm taking these in my own words, but
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  Speaker 3: it's a story of family business built out of love,
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  Speaker 3: ambition and betrayal. Right, So what was you're you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, behind the scenes, how you came across Now you've
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  Speaker 1: written some auto or some nonfiction correct your first fictional book, right,
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  Speaker 1: So what got you on to this?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I never ever intended to be an author, but I
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  Speaker 5: always loved writing.
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  Speaker 4: That was my favorite.
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  Speaker 5: I would love the assignments in college to write the papers.
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  Speaker 6: That was great.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I don't share that comment now, but not
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  Speaker 3: many people do.
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  Speaker 5: But at any rate, But after my husband passed away
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  Speaker 5: seventeen years ago, I realized that I was holding onto
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  Speaker 5: a lot of memories, memories of our marriage, of the
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  Speaker 5: business that he helped to build, of our family traditions,
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  Speaker 5: and of the very complicated world of a family business.
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  Speaker 5: So I decided to I didn't realize it, but I
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  Speaker 5: started collecting all these memories together, and I realized is
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  Speaker 5: that I wasn't the only one who had these universal
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  Speaker 5: themes going on.
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  Speaker 4: In the book. There's a love story basically.
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  Speaker 3: It's a story. Yeah, more than one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's divorce, there's illness, illness, there's obviously loss and
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  Speaker 5: grief and resilience. That's a big thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a lot what I took away from it,
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  Speaker 1: especially when everyone dealt with the grief of losing members
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  Speaker 1: or dealing with, you know, the betrayal of some family members.
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  Speaker 3: Of how you guys always seem to cope and and
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  Speaker 3: look to, you know, someone that had passed and their
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  Speaker 3: and their passion.
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  Speaker 1: For life and the connections you had or they had
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  Speaker 1: with somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: From generation to generation. There's a few generations in this book.
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  Speaker 5: It's a multi generational story and that's what fascinates me
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  Speaker 5: because we all have a story. Every one of us
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  Speaker 5: has a story, and it's the stories that connect us.
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell you how many people have come up
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  Speaker 5: to me and said, oh, my.
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  Speaker 4: God, I know exactly what you were talking about.
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  Speaker 5: My son got divorced as well, and I felt the
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  Speaker 5: pain because I lived the pain. And people have said
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  Speaker 5: to me, I know exactly what you were talking about.
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  Speaker 5: A family business, and they go on and on and
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  Speaker 5: talk about those sorts of things. So people are connecting
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  Speaker 5: on a very universal basis.
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  Speaker 4: And I knew that there was those themes, but I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know.
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  Speaker 5: It's absolutely humbling to realize how people are connecting with
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  Speaker 5: this book.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So one way I connected was, you know, being in
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  Speaker 1: my current job at zechors Chime was you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: different than the business in this book, obviously, but some
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  Speaker 1: of the story, as you tell, you know about you know,
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  Speaker 1: persevering and you know not taking basically no free answer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, expansion.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of these things that you know, in a
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  Speaker 3: short time. I've been there, you know, I've been.
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  Speaker 1: At the bar forever, but even I worked for hotels
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  Speaker 1: way before that, and I felt there's some good, actual,
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  Speaker 1: you know, life lessons that people.
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  Speaker 3: In business can learn right through this book. Like seriously,
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  Speaker 3: like I think it was very well written and very
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  Speaker 3: well you know portrayed, you know, to the.
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  Speaker 1: To the reader on how to you know, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: really dive into how to build a business, but how
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the obstacles that come with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to build a business.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and this was over generations.
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  Speaker 5: Right, and Bennett was a very important character, and he's
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  Speaker 5: the one who actually started this food business, right, and
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  Speaker 5: so there were times when, you know, the first ten
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  Speaker 5: years were difficult, and then they were They had food.
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  Speaker 1: Lockers, right right, that's yeah, they had the basically freezers, right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right before anybody had freezers, So a household could
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  Speaker 5: actually go into this locker and bring any food that
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  Speaker 5: they wanted and then me and when they needed it
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  Speaker 5: they could go in and take it out. And then
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  Speaker 5: then after the war, more washing machines and dryers and
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  Speaker 5: freezers and refrigerators became popular, so more people were being.
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  Speaker 4: Able to afford them.
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  Speaker 5: So then the company they had to pivot and say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: well maybe we shouldn't just rent the food lockers, maybe
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  Speaker 5: we should rent them full of food.
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  Speaker 4: And he pivoted them.
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  Speaker 5: And then another time they almost went out of business
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  Speaker 5: in the sixties and decided that maybe they.
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  Speaker 4: Were dealing with A and P.
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  Speaker 5: Supermarkets and the big boys. Yeah, and they said, well
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  Speaker 5: maybe we should pivot to industry anyone who massed people.
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  Speaker 4: So there's that story that goes on.
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  Speaker 5: And then the dynamics of three brothers who now were
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  Speaker 5: two of them started it, and then ten years later
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  Speaker 5: took on the third brother and that's when all the trauma.
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  Speaker 3: Much the behead. Yes, that was jet Jet. Jet Jet
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  Speaker 3: was the third brother. So it was Bennett, David and
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  Speaker 3: Jet Correct.
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  Speaker 5: And and you had then you had those three brothers
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  Speaker 5: had ten male offspring, right, and they were all in
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  Speaker 5: the business as well.
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  Speaker 7: That's a big You got a lot of mouse to
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  Speaker 7: feet at home, and that's a lot of I mean,
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  Speaker 7: but the way they grew, you know, exponentially, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: it took a while, but as they grew and grew
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  Speaker 7: and kept expanding land and getting bigger.
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  Speaker 3: Lots and bigger it's a good problem to have, you.
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  Speaker 8: Know, she's like a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: It's your show. No worries, no worries. I one thing
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  Speaker 3: I liked it. First of all, I like the little
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  Speaker 3: recipes you put in the book. My girlfriend wants to
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  Speaker 3: make them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I've done a number of book signings,
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  Speaker 5: book clubs and so forth, and everybody serves the banana
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  Speaker 5: bread serve the chocolate nut brittle and the whoopie pies.
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  Speaker 4: And that was my editor, Matt his idea. Oh really, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the food poisoning in itself. Let me back up. I
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  Speaker 4: had the title for the book before I ever wrote the.
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  Speaker 5: Book, and so now after I thought the hardest part
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  Speaker 5: would be writing the book.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't really.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that was in hindsight, that was the easiest part.
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  Speaker 5: Because once the book is written, now you have to
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  Speaker 5: either find a publisher or self published, right, And I
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  Speaker 5: looked into a lot of options. I actually at one
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  Speaker 5: point thought, well, maybe I should just get a ghostwriter,
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  Speaker 5: and then I thought I wanted to be my voice, and.
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  Speaker 4: How do you know when you hire somebody, I wouldn't know, right, So.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think that I got to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess if you get involved in you like
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  Speaker 1: I don't, maybe it's be easier. Yeah, but you just
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  Speaker 1: said yourself it was so easy for you to it was.
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  Speaker 5: But then so I decided to go the self publishing route,
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  Speaker 5: because who's going to take you know, some seventy eight
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  Speaker 5: year old woman who just publishes her first novel. Apprentice Hall,
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  Speaker 5: wasn't you know, knocking down my door saying, oh my God.
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  Speaker 4: Give us your book.
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  Speaker 5: So to do that for Amazon, there is a laundry
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  Speaker 5: list of things that you have to follow. One is
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  Speaker 5: you have to have it formatted in a certain way.
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  Speaker 5: And they tell you, oh, you could easily do this
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  Speaker 5: if you use this program.
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  Speaker 4: I'm seventy eight. I'm technically stunted.
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  Speaker 5: For me to send a text is lots of times
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  Speaker 5: I write them, but then I forget.
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  Speaker 3: You would texting me.
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  Speaker 5: Fine, I can't tell you how many times I have texted,
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  Speaker 5: written the text and forgot to set one.
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  Speaker 4: So I had to learn how to cut and paste.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know how to do that in writing this book.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so I had to hire somebody to format this.
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  Speaker 5: I had no clue how to set this up, and
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  Speaker 5: so I hired a guy in Calgary, Canada, Alberta.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he did that for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So that being gone, now we have to submit it.
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  Speaker 5: And he had a whole bunch of things to go through.
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  Speaker 5: Did I want it kindle form?
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  Speaker 4: Did I want it hardcover?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: How do you want the cover to look?
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  Speaker 5: Like? What do you want the how do you want
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  Speaker 5: the design? I'm like, well, I don't I have it
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  Speaker 5: a clue. How do you depict food portioning?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: For HIV and sex?
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  Speaker 4: I thought I had to go.
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  Speaker 3: Mystery shut that off for her. Sorry, that's all right.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite the rain though. That would wake me up
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  Speaker 3: in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: So he kept sending me ideas. Yeah, I hated all
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  Speaker 4: of them.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't like it, Like on face value food
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  Speaker 1: poison and you're thinking, okay, this is maybe it could
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  Speaker 1: be a thriller.
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  Speaker 3: It could be you know, you don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It could be a book on how not to get
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  Speaker 5: it or what to do if we get it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't want or how to kill your lover.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, right, So it didn't depict what I
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  Speaker 5: wanted and so, but I knew I wanted a blue cover, yep,
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  Speaker 5: but I didn't want a baby blue.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want a navy blue.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't want I had the color in my head,
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  Speaker 5: but I didn't know what color.
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  Speaker 4: So a friend sent me.
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  Speaker 5: A note car to thank you note and it was
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  Speaker 5: that blue.
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  Speaker 4: This is perfect, So I said the tour. I said,
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  Speaker 4: can you make it that color? He said, yeah, No,
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  Speaker 4: what else do you want on it? I said, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know.
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  Speaker 5: But Brindley in the book is an avid gardener and
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  Speaker 5: her favorite flower was the hydrangea yea, And the hydrangea
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  Speaker 5: is a legacy flower no matter how hard, hard or
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  Speaker 5: harsh you cut it back in the fall. In the
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  Speaker 5: spring it comes back bigger and fuller and sturdier every year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't ah.
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  Speaker 5: I love the dichotomy of the flower against food poisoning
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  Speaker 5: right now. That works works because the book is a
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  Speaker 5: lot of rot resilience, not only the story and the betrayal,
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  Speaker 5: but what people do and how they pick themselves up
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  Speaker 5: and dust themselves off after right when life throws you
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  Speaker 5: a curveball.
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  Speaker 4: And how do you do?
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  Speaker 1: And the betrayal in the book isn't just about the business.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the other parts of betrayal that you stumbled upon.
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  Speaker 1: As the book goes on and Honestly, I like this
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  Speaker 1: form because I like I like short chapters. I like
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  Speaker 1: just moving right along. But I feel like you always
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  Speaker 1: through the reader or me for a little loop because
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm getting it all right, Everything's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: good now, you know, and then you.
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  Speaker 3: Get to the next chapter You're like, no, what heck's
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  Speaker 3: going on? You know? And I like that.
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  Speaker 1: So my question is, as you write the book, do
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  Speaker 1: you write it just were you just like chronologically from
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  Speaker 1: front to back or did you, you know, write down
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  Speaker 1: certain chapters that you knew and then you pieced it
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  Speaker 1: together later like I always wonder, kind of like writing music,
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  Speaker 1: like how do you what was your process?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Process?
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  Speaker 4: I wrote the first chapter.
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  Speaker 5: I knew exactly how I wanted to do the chapter,
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  Speaker 5: and I wrote two chapters. And then I went to
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  Speaker 5: visit my and I had an outline in my head.
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  Speaker 5: I had an outline of how it was going to go,
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  Speaker 5: but I didn't know exactly, just a basic form. And
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  Speaker 5: then I went to see my brother, my older brother
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  Speaker 5: and sister in law and in Utah.
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  Speaker 4: And when I got there, I said to them these
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  Speaker 4: two chapters.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to be brutally honest, and I want
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  Speaker 5: you to tell me what you think. If you think
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  Speaker 5: it's awful, tell me and I'll stop. Do you think
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  Speaker 5: there's potential there, I'll keep going. My brother said, he
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  Speaker 5: read the first chapter and said, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 5: you exactly how to end it.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay.
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  Speaker 5: He said, you have to end it exactly where you
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  Speaker 5: started it, which was at the cemetery. I said, oh,
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  Speaker 5: that's a great idea, and then he set the scene
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  Speaker 5: for me.
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  Speaker 4: It was the in between.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know exactly how I was going to do it,
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  Speaker 5: but I knew I had to do it in flashbacks.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, so I really would only write a chapter
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  Speaker 5: at a time.
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  Speaker 3: Right now. I haven't read a book in a while. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I did. I read. Ah, I read a.
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  Speaker 1: Book about a music a music teacher and how he
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  Speaker 1: teaches kids. But it was it was an Amazon book,
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  Speaker 1: but it was it was, it was good. It was
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  Speaker 1: it was like a you know, t two hour reading.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking but but it was Chris Caliph's Little Guy.
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  Speaker 1: But those are the last two books I've read. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: in a while, you know, maybe baby, since college.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I read a lot though, I just
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  Speaker 3: don't read books. I mean, I get the newspaper every day.
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  Speaker 1: I read the newspaper every day, and I'm always reading online.
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  Speaker 3: I read articles. You know, a lot of it was
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  Speaker 3: just stupid sports stuff. But this was awesome, BECU.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I literally sat on my couch for
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  Speaker 1: two nights in like three four hours stints, and I
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  Speaker 1: was just like the like the I got to page
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  Speaker 1: one hundred on the first night, and I I think
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  Speaker 1: around forty I was ready to put it down, and
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  Speaker 1: I just was like, well, hold on, I'll do one
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  Speaker 1: more chapter. And it just sucked me in, sucked me
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  Speaker 1: and sucked me in, you know, and uh I I
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  Speaker 1: I I can't congratulate you more because it's it's really
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  Speaker 1: a great it's a great read, and it's a great
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, like you said, so many families and you
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  Speaker 1: don't even have their own businesses, but so many families.
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  Speaker 3: Are just you know, you have you know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to say drama, but you have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: you know, there there is a lot of drama. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they are grief.
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  Speaker 4: That was another big thing.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone three or four of the characters in the book
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  Speaker 5: all handled grief in a different way, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, and the big the big seat, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The cancer, you know, that's yeah, that's everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone could say that they don't know
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  Speaker 1: anyone that ever had cancer who.
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  Speaker 4: Has not been touched. Everyone has.
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  Speaker 3: My mother had.
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  Speaker 1: Breast cancer and she beat it, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like my grandfather died of prostate cancer.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's just something.
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  Speaker 4: I got to keep an eye on, you know, of course,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's uh, that's why. Obviously no one likes
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  Speaker 3: that disease. It's it's terrible, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Insidious, Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 9: But yet you cover that in the book too, so
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  Speaker 9: obviously people relate to that.
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  Speaker 3: Without spoiling it. Like towards the.
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  Speaker 1: End, not the ending, but towards the end, like it
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  Speaker 1: really got.
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  Speaker 3: It got like it upset me a little bit, like
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  Speaker 3: I could believe that Brindley was going through what she
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  Speaker 3: was going through, especially trying to raise two kids.
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  Speaker 1: I and then I'm not going to spoil the ending either,
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  Speaker 1: but like I I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see the ending happening the way it was.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be, you know, happily. Ever, after.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people have said that yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: h I wanted it to be.
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  Speaker 3: To him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and I did that intentionally because I thought I
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  Speaker 5: might write a sequel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and now you're going.
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  Speaker 4: Through I've already written four chapters.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm so glad to hear you said you
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  Speaker 5: like the short chapters.
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  Speaker 4: I too, like a short chapter. Sometimes when I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Reading a book, and I read a lot, I don't
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  Speaker 5: like a thirty page chapter because I might have just
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  Speaker 5: a short period of time, right, and I'd like.
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  Speaker 4: To finish a chapter before I put a book down, right.
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  Speaker 3: No, exactly. That's why I kept picking that. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: put it down like I would actually sneak. Sorry, how
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  Speaker 3: many pages of the next yeah, Red six are coming on?
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  Speaker 1: It's sorry, they suck it. I'm like, all right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, no, it really was. It was a nice
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: easy flow. You have a lot of characters. Oh, yes,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you do, and normally my mind wouldn't be able to,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you know, get them all in my head.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: But I actually, for the most part, there was a
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: couple of times I have to go back, this is
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: my own head. It's not your writing. I just said
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: to be like, all right, boy, who's this again. But
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: other than that, there's a lot of characters that flowed great.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: The storytelling was superb, and you're very detailed on.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: You know, like the hyd hydriving, the hydrange.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Hydranges and the gardening and the food side of it
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and the parties day threw. I think we can all
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: relate to that in this room, right, yeah. I mean
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I love the host. I know you guys love the host.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: And you asked about the recipes when Matt suggested to me,
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: said you need to put some recipes in there, and
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I said, oh, Matt, I don't want this to turn.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Into a cookbook. No, this is a book about the
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: food industry, right, you need to put some in there.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: And then he says to me, what you got to
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: start with the whoobee pies? Why didn't you put the
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: wookie pie recipe? And that tumbled me back.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: So obviously this is a work of fiction and the
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: characters are created, but some of the stories are based
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: on lived experiences. And one of those was that both
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: my boys went to Fairfield Prep. Yes, and I didn't
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I knew I needed. I had readers, who I call
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: them early readers, who read the chapters as I sent
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: them to them, and they would say, you know, you
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: didn't explain this very well, or you needed to capitalize this,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: or you know, they gave me good grammatical.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Criticism. But I didn't know what to do.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: I knew I needed a real editor, so I had
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: one of my sons call up Matt.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I had that idea.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Matt was their English teacher at Prep, and they both
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: of them said he was the best teacher they ever
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: had in all of their schooling.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Really.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's right now, I'll bring on the special
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: guests that is Chris Thurston.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Can you concur that he was the best teacher you
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: ever had?
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: Yes? I can.
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  Speaker 6: He was also our hockey coach for Full Prep as well,
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: so that made it uh a lot easier to be
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: my favorite favorite teacher, Jair, because I was kind of
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: also able to do whatever the heck I wanted.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, get it to me when you can.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, Yeah.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Let me open this uh delicious Viva Tequila seltzer here.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So for those that know my sponsor, Chris's brother owns Steven, right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: If I could say that, yeah, absolutely, no, yes, engagement here,
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: but no, yes, I.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Think everyone knows that they listen to my show enough
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that they know that Viva intro and they know, uh
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I talk.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Very fondly, by the way.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that, and I love the intro that you
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: have there too. That was it was clever.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Where'd I get that from?
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Somebody might give you some nice quick notes.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: The commercials awesome.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll show it to you.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I'd love to see.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was when they agreed to sponsor me.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: I have a buddy that it's great.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Mixed you know, videos and stuff for his band.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So we went down to the duck pond down here
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: on a hot, hot day like today, and I just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: had the stupid I I don't not even spoiler, I'll
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: just showed you, but I have a stupid idea in
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: my head about announcing them as my sponsor.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: So I'll show you that. You know.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Now you say that, I gotta get that tweeted again
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: and get that back because it's been a few years
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: that we haven't done that. So I kind of forgot
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: about that. So let's make sure I get that done
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: this weekend.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, fresh fun. Yeah, absolutely. So you talked
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: about two kids in the book. They went the fair
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Fit Prep and their college.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, their hockey and right, and he was also there
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: their hockey.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I think anyone that writes fiction always uses
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: life experience like writing music.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's the same thing. You you have.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Life experiences that are going to influence how you write
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a certain part of the.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Book soon any writer, of course, Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: So he's the one who said you have to have
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: the whoopee pies. And let me tell you the story
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: about the whoopie pies. When Chris was in youth hockey,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: and Chris and Steve and they were playing big games,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: you know, to them big games, right, I would make
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: boopie pies and I'd bring them to the locker roll
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: and the kids would love eating them and everything.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: And then they win the game and they'd come.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Back and they say, mister, you gotta make the We
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: gotta have the whoopie pies for the next game.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: You have to have them. That's how we win. So seven, eight, nine, ten.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I continue to make the whoopeevies.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: But now, yeah, definitely, Now Chris gets to prep.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: He makes a team as a freshman, and they they
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: had a terrible start. You had a terrible start with
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: I don't know, you lost the first five or.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: Six, struggled to make the tournament.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they did, they made they made the tournament.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: And he comes to me and he says, now they're
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: going to be in the semis.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: Right, I think I think you started through playoffs.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: You started the first round, second round and semis and finals.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: You make woop pies, said Chris. That was fine when
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: you were you know, youth hockey. You're in high school.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Now you sure you want me to do this?
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Said?
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Well, absolutely, make the whoopie pies. So I made the
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: whoopie pies and they went on a winning streak.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: And for six years all I did was make woopie pies.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Every gamer just played games, just really important games.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: Big games, big games in playoffs.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like there are rivals were hammed in when they played.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Hammer, And didn't you guys win fortun in six.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Years between the two of us, yes, a lot, never together,
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: never together.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So I had to do the math in my head
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: last night.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, wait to say, if they're twenty months apart,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: so that's two two years?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hold on, doesn't make sense to me.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, I got it now, freshman sophomore Yeah no, no,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and then he won junior senior crack.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy though.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my freshman sophomore year we won, and then Steve's
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: junior senior year.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Steve was a freshman sophomore because you already had two
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: rings exactly what I mean.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he finally got better.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Won it when I would like to have won it. Yeah.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: My senior year, we lost in the semi finals, one
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: nothing and overtime.
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: That was That was a killer one, Sims Barriy.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: But you guys are always.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: We're always in it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that was overtime, overtime, Yeah, one nothing.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: Over time, you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Guys still like still a good team. Yeah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: High school hockey has changed a lot since in the
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: last like five to ten years. It's a lot of
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: kids now that are good at hockey, that are probably
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: gonna play at the next level tend to go to
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: juniors and prep school. And the public high school in
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Connecticut isn't as prominent.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: As it was back in the day. It's kind of
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: sad actually, but it's still decent hockey.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, it's funny, like the stay a little hockey.
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: Note.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: You know the US like the juniors.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Sure, you know they have.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: The championships every beginning of January.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know the worlds, and I read an article
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: was interesting about, you know, US is one like six
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: of the last eleven when they never used to win
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: Canada or one of the European.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: Teams yep, Canada or Russia usually.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I read this article about I don't know, it was
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: like fifteen years ago whoever ran that, you know, organization
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of the juniors went to.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Somebody and got a grant.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: To really infuse money into this and really start coaching
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and recruiting kids and getting them starting young, and like voila.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Ten years later, fifteen years later, they're they're they're dominating
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: almost Yeah, And I was like, I watched soccer last night,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, why don't this isn't happen.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: In soccer and youth Like it's.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Huge, But like, I mean, I don't know, I don't
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: know why I related to soccer, but I can't watch soccer.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm kind of with you all. I've been watching
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: the USA games.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: That's been exciting, always been, yeah, yeah, you know, it
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: was always when I grew up, as always the Canadians,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: you know, we're the best players, the Wayne Gretzky's in the.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: World of Marion le Muse.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You know, and and the Americans had their guys, you know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: but we would never but we never used to win
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the juniors and now we're now we're winning every other year.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: And now look at the Olympics too, And I just
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: wanted the gold medal on the Olympics and.
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: Years old.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Taje.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: Thompson, who was Orange, Connecticut plays at Wallingford Country Club
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: all the time.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: I found out yesterday and yukon grat, I mean he
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: was a he's a stud play at uh at the
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: country Yeah. I heard he's a lot around a lot
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: in the summertime. Yeah, I haven't met. I haven't either.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: I heard he's a great guy though, hell of the
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: hockey player player. So yeah, it's day. I'll sign up
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: for that r or a Ranger. No, we're cheremy Bruins fans. Yeah,
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: hello Rangers.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah those are.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Great to So promote the poke a little bit for me,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: change subjects.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: You know where you can buy it? How you get
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: an autographed copy? Like I got one? Now everyone else
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: is jealous? Uh yeah so so.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: So the book can be purchased only on Amazon. I'm
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: having an audio version. It's on Kindle and it's in paperback.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I actually hired a who speaks it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: I did, Yeah, I did.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: I thought I could do it, and then Steven said
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: to me, Mom, are you out of your mind?
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: You need to sound for room, you need auf and so.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: But I not that I didn't believe I might just
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: wanted to do my due diligence that I looked into it,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: and he was absolutely correct. It was three times more
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: expensive than hiring an actress. So she's going to by
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: mid July. That's only a couple of weeks, she said.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: She sent me her audition tape with the first chapter.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: I was listening to her.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: I was a.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Puddle as she was doing it. Really, and I'll think,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: what is wrong with you?
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: You wrote this? How she just neede it come to life? Yeah?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: So I can't wait for that version to come out.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Anyone we know, No, I don't know her, no, but
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: this is what she does.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: She does his voiceovers.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, there's big money in that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of money in that. Yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: So I haven't been picked up yet five years.
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: Of you know, maybe somebody will now.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: But one thing that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of themes in it, A big one
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: besides the betrayal and there's a lot of examples of.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Betrayal in it, but the.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Biggest theme is legacy. You know what really defines a legacy.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Is it the business that we build, is it the
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: wealth we accumulate and leave behind, or is it the
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: love and the values that we pass on to the
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: next generation.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Right, So it's if I look at it as like generationally.
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: I saw this quote and it was like this kind
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: of like this, uh, this speaker and he asked a
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: bunch of audience members if they can name their great
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: grandparents and less than one percent good.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: You know, I could name my grandparents. I definitely can
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: name my great grandparents. So as as far as legacy,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: My father talked about his grandfather, but I Boxer never
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: knew him.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I didn't know my grandfather. He was he passed away
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: before well like I was like a year.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: But I think the l I I look at legacy
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: as you're I don't think it's money. I don't think
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: it's a business that you own your passing down. Yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that's great, that is if that could be part of
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the legacy.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: But I think legacy needs to stay alive by you know,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: not only making.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Sure your kids are supported and well off, and they
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you know, go that way with their kids and and
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: that lineage of it. But I think just memories and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: talking about people. You know, my father always talked about
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: my grand or my grandfather because I never met him,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you know, So yeah, soul stories and stuff. So I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: have a vision in my head of who this man
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: was that I never met.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: And to me, that's kind of legacy, you know.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: But I think it's I like your definition, I don't
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: really have a definition for it, but I mean, there
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: is a lot of different ways to look at it, right.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: And so the people, the friends of mine obviously were
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: the same vintage, right, And I tell them all the time,
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: you need to write down these things for your children,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: because we all have stories, and those stories are what
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: connect all of us from generation to generation. For instance,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I never knew until my aunt told me that my
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: on my maternal side, my maternal grandparents, they died when
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: I was three, both of them, so I didn't know them.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: But my grandfather was actually from Italy, was in the
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: seminary because over.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: There you were wealthy.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: If you had a priest and a nun out of
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: your family, that was considered the best.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: So he was designated to be in the seminary. He
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: was in the seminary.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: He left in disgrace, and he married the seamstress in
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: the village that they loved. They came over to America,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: and if they hadn't imagined Chris wouldn't be there.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be here.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's the choices that we make. These are
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: important things that generations need.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: To know, right And I fear that, yes I'm strolling
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: in the stirring at your phone, that legacies will be forgotten.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: For sure in the next few generations.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: You know, Nicole sun Braid. You know, I'm like his
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: father and great kid. And one thing, when I was reading.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: A book, he asked me what I was reading and
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I told him, you know, it's for the show, and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you know Chris, and it's his mom.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: He was so cool, and I said, you know, she's she's.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Talking about a character that takes a lot of notes
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: down through heartache or whatever.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: And it's almost like a germ, you know, in some sense.
• 34:16
  Speaker 12: And you ever you ever done that, you know, And
• 34:18
  Speaker 12: he's like, he's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
• 34:22
  Speaker 12: I go, you don't have to have a little yellow
• 34:24
  Speaker 12: note yeah, you know, and it's like, yeah, I go
• 34:28
  Speaker 12: do you use it?
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: He's like no, And I'm like, all right, well that's fine.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: But like he goes to tech school, even if he
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: went to foreigner law, he goes to plat tech.
• 34:38
  Speaker 13: Like he doesn't have books, he doesn't he doesn't write
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: anything down.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: He's had a homework. And it's almost the same with
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: the regular high schools too, you know, because you know
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: he has classes.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: You know, he does three weeks and shot three weeks class,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: you know, just alternates. But I just don't get it,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you know, and then they go on TikTok and he
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: thinks he knows more about a subject than I do.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Right, just roll the sleeves up, all right, what do
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: you got?
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: It's true. I think it's a shame.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: When I was in school in the dark Ages, every
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: summer we had a summer reading list and movies. I
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: did you did?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: How old are you?
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: Forty one?
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Did you ever have reading?
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: Yead summer reading every year?
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: They don't have that.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And I did it like the last two days of
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: summer before scholah of course, yeah, always last minute.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got it all done in the beginning, of course.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: So I didn't have to worry about it at the
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: end of the summer.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but then you forget everything. Jeremy and I had
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: it right because you do it right before school.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: And then you're ready for class when I got it.
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, hello, but I think it's a.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Shame that the kids aren't reading.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: One thing my mother used to always say to me
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: is you may be alone, but you are You may
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: be alone.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: No wait a minute, you may be lonely, but you'll
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: never be alone if you have a book. And it's true,
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: this book may be.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Getting me to write more books, I swear to God.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Like I'm either on my couch, like I worked.
• 36:14
  Speaker 14: So hard during the day, I get home, do my
• 36:17
  Speaker 14: things and then I sit down and I just either doom,
• 36:22
  Speaker 14: scroll or I watched The Red Sox, Patriots whatever.
• 36:27
  Speaker 13: The last two nights, I was like engulfed and it
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: was I'm not lying. You can ask my girl.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I was like, she just left me alone. The place
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: was quiet, and I'm like, I'm going to get more.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: Books nowas and yeah, and that's what I like.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: I like an easy read.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: It.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: You know, it was very difficult for me. I was
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: better at descriptive writing. Yeah, dialogue was really hard for me.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: I found that very difficult and the problem and Matt
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: would make would point that out to me. He'd say,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: you get a lot of information in one sentence of dialogue.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: You can show feeling emotion. Yeah, he was great.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Did you use and I don't This is not slander
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: to use AI at all, to like do any kind
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: of like for me, for like formatting at all.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: You want to hear something funny, but they wanted me
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: to listen to this in the beginning, I mean.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Like formatting it.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you can literally download the whole thing to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: AI and they'll like, they won't write it for you.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: You already wrote it, but they'll they'll make sure it's it.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: That's why I hired the guy in Canada to so
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know what he did, but he did. But
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: I there's so many characters in this book that I
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: did a float chart a character.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: I wrote something it down on you in the beginning.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: So I said, I'm here, I am like a moron
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: trying to do this float chart on my iPad. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: can't get it right. It's come wrong and it was
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: just a mess. You come Steve one day and he says,
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: I don't know what the problem this.
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: Mom.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: What we have to do is take a picture of
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: because then I hand wrote it. That was the only
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: way I could get it done correctly. All you have
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: to do is take a picture of this, send it
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: to AI and it'll do it for you. I said, okay,
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: well how about it?
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: So he does It was a scrambled mess. Yes, he said,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: well let me take it home. I'll work on it.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: He couldn't do it. But my guy in Canada.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Program.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: When I write emails at work to like people above me,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I always throw them into.
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: A I would forget that. I just if you don't
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: like the way I'm talking to him.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: If I'm here here someone below me, screw it. You
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: get this ship done. If I'm going to like the
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: director of the building, I'm.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Like, all right, don't get me fired at.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: You know what's funny. It's it's creeping into music.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: But I wonder if people are just giving a topic
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: to AI and producing a book and selling on Amazon.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: It's got to be happening.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Who knows.
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: I mean, nothing surprises me anymore.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: There's albums coming out that are completely AI.
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it's just not.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Rock techno and it's like they're names to them. There's
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: you know, there's a country rock star that's a really
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and they're like they sold like two million copies of
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: a song.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: It's it's crazy, that's scary.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, and then and the musicians are not happy.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I don't blame or weren't even.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Acting now, Like I was just gonna say, what about movies?
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because they because they had what was it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: Who?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: The actor's Brad Pitt and somebody else and the ai
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the two of them in a fight, and it was
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: so realistic, and I think Brad Pitt came out and
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: said something like, hey.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: What what the hell is this? You know, it was
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: just it was just weird.
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah you know, oh yeah, I think it's a of affairs.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: And that surprised me.
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: Twenty twenty six. That's uh. What you see is what
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: you get these days.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: And you can't believe when they say picture is worth
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: a thousand words. You can't believe that pictures real. That's
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: another thing now, Yeah.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah you can't. I mean there's so many realistic memes
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: and and stuff. I mean, Trump's all over them. I mean,
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: and Trump's like so like crazy that you obviously have
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: to sink. Wait, did you really do that? You really
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: say that? Yeah, gorilla in the face.
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, everything on social media. I'm like, is that AI?
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Is that real?
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: What's going on here?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I'm really trying to distance myself from it, but it
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: is addicting.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Like big time, But there's so many good things that
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: it does.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: You know, I think we might even find the cure
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: for cancer through ai't.
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, definitely not.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: It's funny, yeah, v at so you and I agree
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: on the politics side of things. She doesn't go down
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: that rabbit hole, you know. She just thinks that everything
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: is hunky dory.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: The only way they cure cancer is if they come
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: up with another disease that is just as profitable, and
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: then they'll say.
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: Correct, cure cancer, And then it's too many businesses would
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: lose money if they cured cancer.
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: We can't do that, all right?
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Can I just say one thing about the book topic hair.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Cancer?
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: It is now in the hands of a lifetime producer,
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: So keep your fingers crossed.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Really, yeah, there might be a motion picture.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: There may be interesting. That's going to take years.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: But I stressed how fast they spit those Yeah, well
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: that's true.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I mean there were, I would imagine they would condensed
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: down the character list.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Probably yeah, yeah, but that'd be that'd be amazing, that'd
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: be so cool.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: It's I'll tell you what, I've had more fun.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I think this, this book should be a series, not
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: just like a two hour movie, like it should be
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: a ten episode series because I was like the generations
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you talk about in the in the stories, and just
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the expansion of the business and and all the children
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: being born and a family dynamic, and like, well.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: She did ask me if I wanted to write the
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: screen blay. Yeah, So in order to get it on
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: you have to you have to write an outline and
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: scream form.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you download the book into AI.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Do this?
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: Do that?
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, of course I could.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, you've already written the book.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: So now they're asking you to okay making scream, which
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: is like you said, you have to say okay, so
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Brittany in parentheses and her line, you know, and then
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: you gotta go down.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: And that's a whole different venue.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. That's that's that's not gonna be
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: easy at not writing the book now.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: So I'm writing the sequel now, right.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And what is that you want to give a
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: little teaser on that.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's going to be more mystery things come up
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: from the past.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that a generation, whole generation grandchildren. Oh don't know
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: about really? Yeah, wow, yeah, you don't even know.
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: Okay, I'm excited to find out.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm excited to find out for you. Yeah,
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: I said, sounds like a enough show.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: Maybe in a year and a half from now, we
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: might be sitting here again talking about the sequel.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: No, drinking a new Viva flavor. Maybe I don't know.
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, there might be something coming down the line
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: here soon.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: I gotta say. The sixty ounce cans or a hit.
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: Oh okay. So Camping never responded, so he went with them,
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: so he did do it. Yeah that's awesome. Yeah, I
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: have to go through.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: We'd be selling for the same prices as the twelves.
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: And people are getting four ounces more and I love it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: Oh that's good to hear. I'm glad my uh.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: When I offered it, he hit my pitch whatever you
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: want to call it worked, So that's great.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: So the golf club in the book was west what
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: was it Westgate? You know, the town was Westbridge, Westbridge,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: and what was the country club's.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: Name the Estates, the Estates, that's right, the.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Estates in Westbridge. Now is that off of a memory
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: in life?
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, is that where we're golfing? Maybe? Yes?
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: That maybe?
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Actually I have owned a rainsheck to that.
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: Yes, we got first time I met him, that's right.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: It was me and him, Uh, can't.
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: Be Michael Notcher Mike, Yeah, and.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: We were shooting the ship.
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: Just met him and we start talking five years ago, yep.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: We start talking about Milford and this is where he
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: says to me, I just bought a house at Milford,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: that's right. And I'm like where.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: He's like, well, down a Davit and I knew my
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: old house was for sale and.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I'm like what street. He's like Orleans Street and I'm
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: like nineteen and he goes, well, I'm not sure the number,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: but my mom like looked at and told me to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: buy it. I go, is there in the back or
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: the backyard? He goes, yeah, me, and can't be built up.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: That was wild. It was crazy again, Like you said,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: so crazy, It's just you never know what's gonna what's
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: gonna happen.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, right, So so yeah, we were golfing and liked
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: made golf a little easier too. You know sometimes if
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: you meet somebody and you're about to play golf and
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: things can be a little tense until somebody has a
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: little a couple of drinks whatever and loosen things up.
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: And uh, yeah, I mean a good friends.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: And I sold myself.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Seven years ago, that's yeah. And you know, speaking of
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: a legacy, there was that that house. I think I've
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: told you. I think I told you last night. There's
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: a legacy there. I wish I might dig it up somewhere,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: but there's a picture of that house when it was
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a tiny cottage in the nineteen forties. Really, and he
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: had showed me some stuff he had dug up. And
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: was he tore a wall down or something.
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: No, we just go down in the basement and my
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: wife found out, Yeah, yeah, an album, wasn't it. Yeah
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: with all these old you know, war pictures and Yankees
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: photos and yeah, I.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Don't know if I told you, but so where the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: fire pit is has to be a shed, and it
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: was so dilapidated when we bought the house.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: So one day I just hired a dumpster and we
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: had a little let's tear it down party with my
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: friends and they all came over and helped me tear
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: it down. But as we were tearing it down, we
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: were finding you know, whiskey bottles from nineteen fifty.
• 46:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, all this stuff.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: So the.
• 47:03
  Speaker 9: The person we bought it from was my ex girlfriend's uncle,
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: so it was in it was in her family forever,
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: you know, until I sold it or we sold it.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: It was in her family forever.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: And he was telling me stories about the forties and
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: fifties that they were the party house. So that that
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: actually brought a lot of like framing your book brought
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: me back memories of hearing about you know, because when
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I was tearing it down, like you could tell it man,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was bottles.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Like in behind me, bottles, bottle bottles. They just weren't
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: I was. I tried to save a couple, but like
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: we literally had like a back home and we were
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: like tearing thing down. But I'm like, oh, not a lot.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I think I saw something.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was this old Dilapidada shed and they
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: all used to party in there and drink at night.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: And you know, back then there was probably eight houses
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: on the street, you know, and it wasn't really even
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a street as a dirt road, and that that house
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: was a.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Tiny little cottage.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: But it's funny in that picture you can you can
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: decipher like the front porch and it just goes back
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: to probably where.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: The kitchen starts. Okay, the kitchen and the back bedrooms
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: were all expansion over the years. Yeah, and then the side,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: you know, the main bedroom that sticks out the side
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: of the right right. So I you know, I think
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I might know where it is. I think it's because
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: when I moved out, I had it, and I think
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: it might be Camp's basement in the box, like I
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: just store a lot of stuff in his house when
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: I moved out.
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: That's great, I'll go dig it for it.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: But I might even have a picture of the picture
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: of it. But and it literally had like nineteen forty
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: three or something that's done.
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: That's wild.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty cool. But it is a great house,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: great location.
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: Full circle there.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: You know, it's crazy.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy like that.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: And now their two sons, yeah, joy.
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: Enjoy Yeah, yeah, yeah, went to the beach today and
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: the weather's great. He's here now, well he's here staying
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: here up in Boston right now. Doing some work, but
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: coming back tomorrow and it's the fourth of July and Bayview,
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: as you know, is the best, and I'll be there.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: Oh no, no Bayview for you.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't go last year.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: I uh so.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: I live on the other side of town now, and
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: a couple of my friends, Eric and Emily, the one
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: that runs the roadhouse there laying sure they bought this
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: monstrosity of the house down there. I mean went last
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: year and it's just closer for me and the kids
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: working there. Four at Stonebridge buses there now. So he's
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: gonna when he gets that, we're gonna pick him up.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: He's gonna drive us there and then drive us home
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: and perfect. Yeah.
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so nice.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: You're going to.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: Be in the parade. Ye, golf cart because I never
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: used it when they come it would be better at
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: the beach.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're gonna You don't have a golf cart
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: there yet?
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: Well now we didn't you well, and I didn't val
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, hey, it was a nice gesture and we
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: got one.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Now there's a company.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: Right by me.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty new. It's called Connecticy Golf Cart Company.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if they'd leaves them or rentum
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: or just sell them. I don't know into it. They're
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: right around the corner for me.
• 50:02
  Speaker 13: I just drove by the other day like a brand
• 50:03
  Speaker 13: new sign of them, because I always wanted one.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: When I lived there.
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: Sure, and it was just.
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: This one's brand new because she val never used it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: So it worked out great and shipped it up. It's
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: in a great condition.
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: And yeah it was fun. Yeah, fun that you know,
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: big time kids love.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: What are you guys doing in the parade even and up?
• 50:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think a little bit of America and Viva.
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: My wife is taking care of it.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: And they were in charge after that.
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: Okay, we're gonna have my cousin Pete's kids taken into
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: the and give the candy out and yeah it's candy.
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll be right on the corner.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: We used to always stand on that four way intersection
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: with the beach kind of ends.
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's perfect right there. Yeah, yeah, it's excuse.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: That is small town America right there.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and everyone down there knows each other. That's the
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: bad know me because the stormers. But when I lived there,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: they'll remember me that I lived in that house.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: When I go down there.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: Last year, the mayor was down there taking pictures with
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: Pete and I a great guy.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah anymore.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: But yeah, oh he's not lost. Oh I didn't know, Okay, awful.
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: He seemed like awesome, perfect.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: He ran on no taxes and he called Tony Taxing
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Tony g and then he came in and the the.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Rates went up.
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: Of course, that's kind of that sounds about right, assent.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: No, I don't.
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: It's all online and I haven't even seen it.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: My assessment on my house was two twenty two when
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I bought it, and then a new assessment has.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: It at three fifty eight.
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: Oh awesome, that's great. That's a big creamy jeez.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: So you're probably you're probably the same You're probably assessed
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: where because my house I would assume so the same
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: value as well, that sales sure.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Same values. You're probably somewhere in the same boat. Beautiful. Yeah,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: so look forward to that.
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not that I can't handle. Of course, football season,
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: football seasons right around the corner.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: He's going to sell the golf.
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: They washing dishes at stone Bridge.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: But do you like this heat? When you were younger?
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Do you like this heat?
• 52:26
  Speaker 13: I know you know, I'm not saying you're you know old.
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: I'm the same My mother is in the same way.
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: She's like, oh, it's.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: Beautiful, you like, I love it. Hotter the better for me.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: See, I'm on the opposite.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I don't like it, you know, cold cold, But I'm
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: not the guy that gets online and being like it's
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: so cold I can't wait for summer, and then on
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: the same.
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: Time it's too hot.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: I can't shall you can't beat the fall in New England?
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, and golfing too.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: I love golfing.
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: The next Yeah, I don't mind it either in the.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: But you know who the mayor of New York is
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: mcdonnie have real good guy. I heard so he came
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: out yesterday. He got killed, but he came out yesterday
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: and was just like, all right, everybody in New York,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: you know it's hot out and you know our electric
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: electrical companies are running blah blah blah. And he's like,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: everyone put their everyone put their set their things to seventy.
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: Eight degrees thermometers, thermometers, that's insane.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: In their house. And I'm just like, are you kidding
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: me right now? That doesn't even make any sense.
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: That's like heat, right, yeah, yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, correct That's what I always say. My heat in
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: the winter is never that hot.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's why so he took Speaking of heat,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: he took the heat for that, Yeah, as he should have.
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's insane, but that would be great if Portnoy
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: ran he's talking about he's talking.
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't think I don't think he would.
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: I don't think he when. But kind of like the
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: Spencer Pratt thing.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: And I think in New York now I thought it
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: was I thought it was he resies in New York
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: resident has a house and then Tucket right.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, well he moved barstool to New York.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: So I think he bought a you know, probably a big.
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: Luxury little spot and has a spot there now. Yeah,
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: has a place in Miami and.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: In New York City. Tomorrow or tonight, tonight?
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: What's tonight?
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey their rehearsal dinners.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I don't get married tomorrow.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: Or must be well, rumor has it that the rehearsal
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: is happening now Madison Square Garden.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: But they're probably going to get married at her apartment tomorrow.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: And then and then have their party at MSG. This
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: does not like is this?
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: He like this stuff?
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: I love Travis kelce I really I don't know much
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: about her.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Read the room.
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: I can't believe you just said those words. You love
• 55:05
  Speaker 8: Travis Kelcey. Sorry you're a Patriots fan.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: But I cannot like other.
• 55:11
  Speaker 8: No, no, you can't. And there's no reason why you
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: should like Travis Kelcey. He's a student.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: He is a jerk.
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: Unbelievable.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Wow, but something I do MVM for this, and I'm
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: not a swiftie. But he got a sugar mama through
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: a podcast, for.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Sure he did. That's how we got her. If Katy
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Perry has done dating justin Trudeau.
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: My father used to always say, make your if you're
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: gonna get married, make your money.
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: At the altar, he goes, you won't listen to me,
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: but that's what you should do.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: God he was right.
• 55:48
  Speaker 8: I no, yeah, she'll never listen to this. But I
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: married somebody poor and got it in death.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, here we are, man, I I this
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: is not a slight on it. I don't know.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: My girlfriend doesn't listen to so I don't care about
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I've never ever dated a girl that had any.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Resemblance of like more money than me and I.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Don't have that much money right, Like it was just
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: never just never that way and I never cared about it.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: But I dated something that made the same amount as me.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: But I never like, you know, like what do you make?
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: I never did either. Once I did and and uh
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: wow it was a good time girl from Gwich.
• 56:32
  Speaker 8: Well she better have money for it was great two
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: years Yeah, yeah, different lifestyle.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Should have put a ring on it.
• 56:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah she got rid of me, oh did she?
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: Here we are.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: But to your mom's point, though, you're better off where
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: you are. You got a beautiful wife, a beautiful house.
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: You live in Swampscott, swamp.
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: Scott and then Milford in the summertime.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so hown be worse.
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: I'm here, Oh and then you go home and then
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: you're home, go home Monday, work a few days, come
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: back playing in the memory, guests in Wallingford next weekend,
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: and then I'm here a bunch.
• 57:16
  Speaker 8: Of long weekends in July and August.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 57:19
  Speaker 8: So I'm gonna spend a lot of time here this summer.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah good.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: I feel like you just don't really capitalize on it.
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: My wife this this year, I said, I get so
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: much spacecation time, and I don't use it. This year,
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: we're gonna use it and we're gonna come down a
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: ton So it's gonna be great.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good summer, no good. And I mean,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: I work Saturdays, but I got Fridays off, Sundays off.
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: I think we're gonna spend some time.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Might have some cold vivas today.
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: We're gonna start tonight.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: I think we are that. I think so.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: So, Val, You're gonna sit this one out. So Jaylen
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Brown got traded last night. So I started the day
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: they signed Mitchell Robinson and I was like, okay, yeah,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Happy with it. I was happy with it, and I
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: was more happy with it because I.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Thought that the whole point of trading Jalen Brown was
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: to get a big So I'm like, maybe they're not
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: going to trade him now, you know, like maybe they
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: don't work it out or whatever they got to do.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Then I got home.
• 58:15
  Speaker 8: I was reading VAL's.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Book actually, and my phone went.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Texting.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: My phone was blowing up, and I'm like I first
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: read it, I'm like, that's a fake story.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then I was like, you got to be
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: kidding me. What I don't understand is why, Philly, why
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: the return? I mean you got to hold out for
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: the kid Edgecumbe or Maxi or one of the one
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: of the studs.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not that you're getting a guy that's seven years older.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: It makes the same amount of money, just one less year, correct, right,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: and had a drug suspension.
• 58:47
  Speaker 8: I just had a good year. But I'm not a
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: large guy and I never have been.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: These guys are.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: They're like Clippers guys.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: They go to a team and they never win.
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: The Celtics Scott Fleet.
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: To be honest with you, and I think, and this
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: is just my personal opinion about being a Boston sports fan,
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: is that they got so far into it with Jalen
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: Brown with the y honest thing, and this is what
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: the second time that they went through this process that
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: they were trying to de yeah, and that they were
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: just so far in at this point where Brown was
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: probably just like, yeah, you guys don't want me, and
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: you're all set with it being Tatum's team, let's go.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: I went out and they had no choice. You know what.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: But he's not around the fucking gym right now. He's
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: not in Boston.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I know, Like why now, like get get closer to
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, make teams really want to
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: step up, see how their teams are gelling in the summer,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: and maybe they And then I just don't understand the
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: hastiness behind it. Like I said, you don't see this
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: guy every day. He's not in the corporate offices. He's
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: you know, he's traveling the country, taking his vacations whatever.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: I know that everyone's on social media, but like whatever,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: just let it go.
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: He's your property, you know, Like, yeah, I mean, I
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: think there's just stuff that we never know, you know
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: what I mean.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: But then trade him to you know, a team in
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: the West that for just draft picks I would have
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: been fine with. I would have you know, three four first.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Rounds, take him absolutely all day.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: But to Philly, who you just lost to embarrassingly in
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: Yep, and that's you this year, the two years ago.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: This is like worse than Mookie. To me, it could
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: be I mean, he let it play out, but it
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: could be worse than Mooky.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: They've they've just been so gung ho about this being
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: Tatum's team and and I feel like I don't even
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: know if this is gonna work for Philly because I
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: feel like that's Maxi's team.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Right right, Like if you were gonna have beids always hurting,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: now you have three, you have three.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: Brown one his own team. Deep down, I don't think
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: he really got his own team.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: So I don't think he's not the one a there now.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: I mean he's still embiid. First of all, you're still
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: competing again. And then edgecumb is a couple of years
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: away from Yeah, I mean that was this team was
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: stating that Core won't stay together for too long.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: I don't think, but yeah, I don't know. It's it's
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: I read an article. Actually, my buddy Chris sent it
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: to me. It's about uh, this is actually goes back
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: to your book a little val This is uh corporate America.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: It's it's what do you call it?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: I can't think of the word, but uh, there's these
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: companies that buy into major league sports teams.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, private equity.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I couldn't couldn't take of the term, right, So,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: so that the article was about the Red Sox and
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: John Henry and why the problem with these private equity
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: firms buying stakes into the Patriots.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: The driver Craft sold.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Some the Celtics, and this happens across America, like it,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: not just the Boston sports teams. But there's a bottom
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: line now, and the owner actually has to make sure
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: these private equity people make money. So a lot of
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: times they spend a lot of money. And what's the
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: way that they can make sure their bottom line is
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: good for the private equity stakeholders is okay, Well, let's
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: dump salary. Like Runner Crap never spends. He always has
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: forty fucking million left of fucking cap space. Like why,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Like he's so lucky that Tom Brady took all those
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: pay cuts, so lucky, and I don't think it's not
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: gonna happen with Drake may So that worries me because
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: he's a year away again.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: You'll never see that again in the history of non sports.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: No, no hometown discounts and no.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: And you see this, never see all these guys that
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: make all this money, and they're fucking broken when they
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: retire because they don't notice.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: They don't they they have to pay their posse's, their friends,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: their groups, they hang out with their.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Cars.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: And you know, he lived exactly. You know, you know,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: you make ten million in a year, you know you
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: really bring it home. Probably out there everything five and
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: a half six and you know, you buy that million
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: dollars two million our home.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 8: You know, it's still.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: It's a problem I would love to have, but they
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: outspend their means, and the NBA happens.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: All the time.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: It's like you did so many horror stories. Antlon Walker
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: played for the Celtics. I met him at the casino
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: in the early spring. He was doing autographs. I thought,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: I thought, I didn't know who this guy was. He
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: was about four hundred pounds.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: Yes he was. I actually have a picture on my
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: phone of him.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I walked by him.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: I look back, I'm like, who the fuck is that?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Why people gonna honor that guy? And then I saw
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: the little placard behind him. I'm like, that's fucking Antoine.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: That's crazy.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: So Antoine made like one hundred and ten million dollars
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: in his career and he's now signing autographs.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: To get by. Yeah, it's fucking well.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Gambling is a part of it. These guys lose a
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: lot of money and gambling they have no career after this.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see a lot of Charles Barclay's of the
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: world Travis Kelsey. When he retires of the podcast, he'll
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: probably go.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: To ESPN his brother.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of outlets with these guys, but a
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: lot of guys.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: They're just like, I'm gone jobs around right right, exactly exactly,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: And you know, it's just crazy to me that you
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: can earn that much that quickly.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: And it's like same thing with lottery winners.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: You see a lot of stories these people when they
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: can take the lump sums and then they're broken, bad
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: investments or you know, they hire the wrong financial advisor
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: that cheats amount of money.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many variables that go into it.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, give me that problem, give me the lottery winner.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be okay.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: So Valve, you thought about I know you've got a
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: second book coming, but if you thought about like a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: whole time, entirely different book to write, Like do you
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: always have ideas spinning in your head? Like, oh, maybe
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I'd write a book about whatever.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: It's so funny. The women. Yeah, I have a wonderful
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: community in Florida.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Are you in Tampa? Yeah, you're north of my mother,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: she's in Coral. Yeah.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: So they all, you know, we all have stories of course,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: and we're all very interesting, diverse stories about our lives. Yeah,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: and so they all say, well, you know, I can
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: tell you my story, and so I have a lot
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: of I have a pool of information.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: Oh no, they all want there want to be a ghostwriter.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Now exactly, look at this late in life. You found
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: a new career I have. Isn't that crazy? That's that's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: so inspiring, to be honest with you, it's kind of insane. Yeah,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: well that too. Yeah.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you're going to publish like eleven books in
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: the next five years, number one bestseller and your fifth
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: book will be a number one bestseller.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it won't be Amazon anymore. No, you'll be
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: getting You'll have like I don't even know what's what.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: I don't even know what's a big like company. Yeah,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: I want to say that them.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my Amazon's pretty big.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: And I have to say, well, you have you have
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: such a you have a great network of friends and people.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you're selling this out.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: And I even went to Omaha, Nebraska to do a book.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: No way, I swear, I just came back.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: They were hoping to get fifty people sixty seven showed up.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: It was standing room only. Come on, I swear.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: How did that come about?
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 5: One of the gals that I know who lives in
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 5: my community, she's from Omaha, and a couple of her
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: friends were visiting in February.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: The book just came out. They read it. They said,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: you've got to come.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: I said, okay, See, the problem with self publishing is you.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Have to do your own promotions, right right, they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to Yeah, so are these printed on demand?
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  Speaker 2: On demand?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I figured.
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  Speaker 3: The beauty is.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to have a big outline, right, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to, you know, put it on How many
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  Speaker 1: book should I?
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  Speaker 8: Of course prints.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm going to sell, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: right right, I.
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  Speaker 8: Mean that's the way to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody could, right, you don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you'd get your family to buy him.
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  Speaker 2: But after that, who knows?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really blessing. It's amazing.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: No, this is this is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: This book was awesome.
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  Speaker 8: I'm so glad I read it.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that he wrote it. No, I will
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: I will remember this book for the rest of my life. Seriously,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: because there was there was a lot of things in
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: there that like touched home.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have the big family dynamic in my life. Well,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: actually my father had eleven brothers and sisters. Yeah, but
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: they all kind of went their different ways. My father
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: took over the family business, which was Wells Builders. So
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: when his father died, my father took it over. They
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: were you know, they built, you know, they were confroners,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: you know, and contractors.
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  Speaker 2: And my father took it over. And then I only
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: have one brother. My father hired two of his brothers
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: and then you know the girls and the other guys
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: that were.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: Like the hit.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: My father was the second oldest, so his brothers older brother, Roger,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: he was a businessman.
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  Speaker 3: He was an army vet.
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  Speaker 8: He had his own thing going on.
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  Speaker 2: So my father took it over and then he had
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: my brother work for him. And then me when I
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: was like sixteen, and I knew right away this wasn't
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did, so I just I was literally
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  Speaker 1: like the guy that drove the truck to the job
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  Speaker 1: and got a lunch.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: They would never let me hammer a nail, and like
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  Speaker 1: I'm still is to this day. I'm like who is
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: your dad a carpenter? You don't know how to hang
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  Speaker 1: a fucking picture. And I'm like, I know, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: My brother stuck it out for a little while.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: But then my father was booming in the eighties, booming.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: They were just building speckhouses and selling them.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: And then the housing market crashed early two thousands, and
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: then I'm sorry, in the nineties it.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Crashed first, then it crashed.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Again, and it was just him his brother for years,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: and you know, they just they you know, my father
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: passed away at seventy nine of a heart attack and
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: he was still like doing side jobs on a street
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: and I felt like that kept him alive.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: More than anything, because I he just was. He never
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: took time off.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Sundays was his only day and he went golfing. He
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: was a big golfer. And and love my dad miss him,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's there's a legacy there.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: Too, and like, you know, and it was great when
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: he when he not great that he died, but we waited.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: He died in January, and we waited till July because
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: the family is so vast on his side. I mean,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: I had like forty something cousins, so we waited for
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: July and we had the thing up in Greenfield, mass
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: and a little ceremony, and then we all went to
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: a restaurant and you know, it's like a scene of
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: the end of any movie and everyone's just sitting there
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: and they're getting together and they haven't seen each other
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: in years.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: You know, I've been in Connecticut forever.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: They're all a lot of them based in Massachusetts.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 8: UF that that's that far.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: But you know, I didn't really seen them that much,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: and a lot of the guys hadn't seen him forever,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: you know, So yeah, oh that's all we were doing.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Like like literally, those the guys that were for my father.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: So I had some uncles that were married to my aunts,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: you know, and they worked for my father when he
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: was booming, and they were like, remember that time, you know,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: I was like, drove over that.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Fence line in that cowfield and you're going to get
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: his lunch, you know, like, wasn't any good stories.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: I remember when you put that wall up and you
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: fucking nailed.
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  Speaker 1: It, you know, And I'm like, so they were making
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: fun of me, which I I I could be a battery.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: I don't care, you can I enjoyed being making fun
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: of I think.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: It's life, you know, because this ship out just as
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: much as you can't take it, then don't this it out?
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: So you know.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: But all right, well, I look forward to the next book.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: I want to I want to be at the do
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: you guy, do you have any PREMI you gotta have
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: a premiere now, right, like a book signing premiere.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: Well, I've had them. I've had many of them, actually,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: I mean I want to be at the first one.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: Well, me and Chris will do a live podcast from there. Yeah,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: get a booked.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: Grandchildren, Oh, not a lot of time. It looks like
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: toss has exploded in the living.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: You've waited a while to become a grandmother.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: Area, you know, because I got late.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: I got married late in life.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we have trouble yeah yeah yeah.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: And then and then the kids did too, you know,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: they waited to get married.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: See, I mean I don't have any children of my own,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: but my brother had three. So my mom was just like,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: I'm good as.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: Long as I have some, you know, like I go, Mom,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: I don't really think I.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Want kids, but oh yeah, you know, I mean I've
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: had a kid for the last eight years and now he's.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Sixteen, and then he perfect. I've never you know how
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: many times I wanted to say I never this is
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: the reason why I never wanted a kid.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: But I haven't crossed that barrier.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 8: And I'm proud of myself. Yeah, I would never do that.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's such a nice young man. I remember meeting.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's uh, he's a good kid.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: He's a good kid.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: And he's he's he's he's lazy at home. This is
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: two things I'll give a credit for.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: He's he's disrespectful at home to his mother and me
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: comes you know, just a kid, a child disrespect you know,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: like shout up mom or this and that. But when
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: we're out with him, he is so respectful to everyone
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: we're around.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 15: But they're all like, that's right exactly. So I'm always
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 15: like we did something. I was like, oh my god,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 15: the kid is he's such a wonderful child. Seen him
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 15: at home, I'm glad he does this out.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: And and two he's lazy as ship around the house,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: but he works his ass off his stone bridge. He
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: details cars on the side, and he saved up a
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: ton of money to buy a car when he gets
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: his license next month. That's awesome, and I'm proud of that,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: you know, like like he loves working at a stone bridge.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: He loves and everyone loves him there, like like they
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: were a little Hesitan animals, see what he's about. And
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: then the first day there, all the all the servers
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: that I know that hate, all of our bussers are.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, he's awesome.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, that's awesome. I'm like, you're not
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: just saying that because I mean, you know, and they're like, no, no,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: I swear to God. So I had him last story
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: and then we'll wrap it up Sunday. We had this
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: band called Anchor Management. They were a yacht rock band.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: They were yacht rocks, like eighties nineties. Christopher Cross. Yeh,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: Chris Christopher Cross, Chris Christofferson. It's just this slow rock,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: slow rock.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Beach music, beach music.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: I know, it's kind of a new genre, but it's
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: it's older music though, stuff that kind of I grew
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: up on, and.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: You maybe hit it towards, you know, as you were
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: becoming an adult.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: But they were well yeah, I mean there was no feel.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: He got the tail end of it.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: So I don't know you've been to Stonebridge, but you've
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: ever seen where I work on the outside where you're
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: always at, Well, I've never been there.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: So there's this little bar outside and we don't really
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: have much area, but we have me and camp. We
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: have a ton of following, so we have a ton of.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: Reservations just for us. So there's the wrap around deck.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: So we put four five tables up there, but the
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: only way for me to access it is to either.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: Go all the way around and up the ramp or
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: through the crowd.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: That is so freaking busy, and I get frustrated because
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: no one, no one hears you, no one's paying attention,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: and you really got.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: To show people out of when she's like here at
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: a concert and then go up the main steps.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: So fux, So I go this way all the time.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go around the bar and go all
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: the way around. Blah bah blah.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: So Braiden was bussing that day. Now, he's never worked
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: for me as a busser. He's always inside. Whatever I said, Bray,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: these are my five tables is what you're gonna focus on.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: He's like, all right, So at one point it's like
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: six o'clock. It's the middle of the show. The place
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: is insane. I get up there, and now I know
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: everyone's sitting at these tables, right, So a lot of
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: the times they're just coming me through the through the rails,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna give them their drinks so I
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: don't have to go up there. Sure, they're handing me
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: food orders. I'm just punching them in and they're getting delivered, right.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: So I go up there. One table.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: One table had like all these empty water glasses and
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: empty plastic shot cups.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: So he comes running around. I can see he's fucking tired.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: So he comes running around. I'm like, bray, He's like what.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: I'm like, look at all these fucking goddamn empty glasses.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: He looks at me. I never seen.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: And I know, I'm just fucking with you.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: You can leave it.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: I don't give a ship.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: It's chaotic right now. But he's making money.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, three ships a weekend, and he's he's making more
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: of his friends ark for him, you know. So he's
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: gonna get a carson. Yeah, he's a good kid.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: I don't take too much credit for it. But she's
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: the mom. I always give the credit to the moms,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have influence for sure, but yeah sure, but
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: all right, well, val thanks so much. It's Food Poisoning
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: Valerie Thurston. Available on Amazon and soon to be on
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: a what do you call audio book?
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: And where's that available on anything that's Amazon too, that's their.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: Kindle, Windows Digital.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's just Amazon Music or whatever you get
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: it through. Awesome, thanks so much for me. I'm so
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: proud of this book for you. Chris.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Will just continue our stupid conversations after this show and
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: hit the links in.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: A couple of weeks.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 8: Looking forward to it. Thank you so much at.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: Thet Yeah, thanks again. We'll talk to you guys soon.