Hey guys, welcome to episode number 172 of the Industrial Strength Show.

I would like to kick today's show off by extending a very heartfelt happy birthday to the lovely talented luscious lift

wife of my children, Ashley DeFranco.

Happy birthday, my dear.

Thank you.

And look who's here with us.

So I wanted to just, I know you have to go pick up the girls,

but I wanted you to jump on the intro to wish you a happy birthday in person.

Today when this show airs goes live, it is actually Ashley's birthday July 19th you are I don't know

42 no what do you 36 33 33 getting all Tony Dorset I used to hate that bastard I also thought maybe wanted to come on and apologize to my audience for taking me away from them for a week during our vacation.

Did you tell about your bug bites? No, I didn't. The show just started. Did it seem that it, uh, I think I might talk about it when I mentioned it when

Jay Fruggia is on today's podcast I don't know if you knew that but um my man Jay we had a nice time

Minus your bug bites on your legs. Yeah, the first day it

poured raining, like, and of course everybody's like, oh, don't worry about the rain. It it rains 10 minutes and then you never knew it

rained it's beautiful out it rained 24 hours the first day we got there I

wanted to kill Ashley for booking the trip but in her defense things got on the up and up we ended up having a

great four days I would say and but nobody warned me of the freaking Puerto Rican sand flies.

Fleeze.

That apparently if you're on the beach after the sun goes down,

these things like burrow under the sand because they don't like the heat.

But if when the sun goes down, they come to the surface and they eat you alive, but you do not feel anything. So the bites show up two to three days after

you've gotten bitten apparently so our last day there was Friday. Ironically our last day there was Friday, ironically, our last night there,

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