The Honeydue with Ryan Sickler.

Welcome back to the honeydew, y'all.

We're over here doing it in the Nightpants Studios.

I am Ryan Sickler.

I want to thank you guys, as always. Thank you for

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And you all have the craziest stories on the internet. All right? If you or someone you know has a story that has to be heard, please submit it to Honeydew Podcast at gmail.com. We'd love to do your story. All right. That's the biz. You know what we do? We highlight the low lights here. I always say that these are the stories behind the storytellers. I am very excited to have this guest here with us today. Ladies and

gentlemen, first time here. Please welcome. Joe Montaigneur, welcome to the honey-dew Joe Battea.

Thank you, Ryan. I'm stoked to have you here, buddy.

Thanks, brother. Before we get into your story here, please promote anything you would like.

Well, look, I've been doing criminal minds for this was here, for me, year 17. Is it? And season 19 for the show. That show's been on 19. 19 years. This is our 19th year as the show. And we're still going strong. Doing very, very well. And I love it. I enjoy. Love the people. So that we're still doing that. I've been doing a show called Gun Stories on the Outdoor Channel, which sounds ominous. But it's really just the, we trace historical firearms. We're doing that about 15 years. I'm producing a, my assistant who runs my company. He's been with me for 24 years now. Dan Ram wrote this novel called Long Branch.

He's a wonderful writer. And we're getting a lot of play on this, turning this into a possibly

in series and something. Can you quickly tell us what it's about? What is this about? Yeah, it's,

you know, it's in a nutshell, it's about him being working for me for that long.

Certainly has put him in the, the guy started as a roofer, started in the roofing business, had his own roofing company. And he put a roof on a couple houses that I own. Is that right? Yeah, it really did. But it turned out, this guy was so sharp and I could tell he was, and he wanted to move on to try to do something else in his life. And he had this, you could just tell. he was a jack of trades in many ways, had a lot of talents and writing being one of them because he had a pot, he had a, he had a thing going about for the rat pack. I thought a young guy like that was like in his 30s at the time, I thought this guy's into a rat pack. He likes the music I liked, this is pretty cool. you know so anyway he started working for us for my wife and i you know been working on some of the

houses He likes the music I liked. It's pretty cool. So anyway, he started working for us, for my wife and I, you know,

working on some of the houses.

But it turns out he had this, you know, this writing ability.

And so working in the business with me as long as he has now for, you know, 20 plus years,

he has this scenario for the novel of this guy is a former actor who had a

like a drama show, a Western kind of type show back in the day.

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