The following is an archived podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for Podcast Recovery, a Charles Austin company.

It is the first and only episode of the podcast. Welcome to episode one.

Hey, everybody. It's, I think it's been a long time coming. Welcome to the first episode of Bourbon Bastards.

We've been talking about doing this for a really long time. And I'm glad we

kind of have the chance to do it here with set the, we're calling it the first annual dark and

stormy writers retreat here at the, the libertine at the bar, you know, just outside of Disney

world here. And I got three of, you know, some of the best poets, creators.

I mean, guys that are just cut from the exact same cloth as me.

You know, we're going to call everybody here the bourbon bastards.

And first up, I'd like to introduce, you may know him best as

under black waves, but my close personal friend, Mask O'Hare, Mask, how you doing today?

I'm doing great. I'm glad to be here with all of you and finally get together with some

incredible minds that I've enjoyed for many years. And hopefully we uncover some things about ourselves that

maybe aren't quite easy to look at but those are the best things to look at anyway.

You know, we're going to be talking about a lot of stuff here on Bourbon Bastards. You know,

we're going to be talking about some of our formative experiences, some of our inspirations as a writer. We're going to be free

associating later and got two more guests here. I'd like to shout out. You may know him as Rye

of the Beholder. Always love that username. But he goes by Clift Myasma. Cliff, how you doing?

You know, you guys are maybe some of the only people in this

entire world who can understand how I'm feeling right now, how, you know, my soul is as dark as this

pint of stout and as heavy as this finger of whiskey. Coming in, uh, lovely, beautiful poetics already, thank you very much and last of course but

not least i was really excited when i saw him walk through the door i had never actually met him

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