Welcome, this is an awesome podcast to the Jeff, there's a lot of whiskey, Jeff, Makalino,

Jeff Makalino, Makalino, Makalino, podcast.

Hello everybody, thank you for joining me.

I'm going to keep this very short because I just had a battle with the flu that waved

to me out for most of this past week, so I'm recording this one last minute, this intro

and outro, the podcast was recorded when I was nice and healthy.

Influenza, I haven't had the flu since 2003, boy, I would happily never get that again.

Excuse me, today you get to enjoy my discussion.

My chat with David Matthew Barnes, he is a best-selling author, he's written novels, collections

of poetry, short stories, more than 70 stage plays that have performed in three different

languages in 12 different countries, he writes across all different genres, which fascinates

me, not only different kinds of writing, different styles, but different genres, so very

fun to talk with David Matthew Barnes, he was a lot of fun, this conversation just flew

by for me, so I hope you enjoy it, again I'll be quick on the intro and outro today because

I hope you can't hear how nasally I feel, so with that, enjoy the episode, here's

me and David Matthew Barnes.

All right, everybody, I am now super pleased to welcome David Matthew Barnes to the Jeff

Makalino podcast, how are you today?

I'm doing well, thank you, how are you?

I'm doing well also, thank you very much, it's nice to have someone who

doesn't make me mess up their name instantly off the bat because I've been on a bad stretch

of just fumbling names, David Matthew Barnes, I can get that all day, we owe that to my

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