All right welcome to another episode of Let the Be Talk. It is Monday, August 24th, and this is episode number 544, my friends.

Welcome. Hope you had a great weekend. Hope you're, uh, hope you're staying positive out there trying to keep, keep the wheels rolling.

I am, uh, I'm chilling right now. Let's see. What did I do this weekend? Lots of podcast work.

And, uh, did some zoom fest on my Patreon. If you're a Patreoner, you can hang out with me every weekend on zoom.

Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey. I do a zoom fest. And it was a good one this weekend. We talked about, uh, the Great Lane Staley and Joe Strummer.

So that was a fantastic Saturday night with, uh, some Dale Reasers.

Uh, other than that, just, uh, getting together the new podcast, uh, like I said, I'm going to have all the handmade episodes under one umbrella, one brand, uh, coming up here pretty soon, just getting the artwork and the website and everything together for that. And then it'll be ready to go. You should have about 75, I think back episodes of the handmade series from Let the Be Talk.

And then tons of new ones today is another handmade episode. Um, I had this guy on four years ago.

Met this guy at Inspiration's clothing show in downtown Los Angeles. And every since we have been, uh, very good friends. I love them. It's Brian, the bootmaker owner of Roll Club.

The greatest boots I feel made right now in America. When I met him, he was 24 years old. A cobbler. I don't think there's a cobbler under 90 years old right now in America that I know of. So to meet a 24 year old cobbler, I immediately wanted to talk to that man and his work over the last 10 years now.

And he's been in business is, uh, just gone through the roof. I love him. I could talk to him for hours. It's so funny, man. This show and, um, and comedy have given me some of the greatest friends in the last 10 years. Brian, being one of those guys. He's celebrating a 10 year anniversary with a special 10 year anniversary. Um, engineer boot coming out.

Which is, uh, really cool. And you can hear about it here on today's episode. We talk, we dive deep into boots. Of course, we talk a little real estate. We get into some automobile talk and comedy talk.

So, uh, really cool. People like Brian make me think, you know, like a lot of people are moving out of LA right now. And, uh, and of course, I think about it sometimes of like, where would I go?

There's some good spots out there. I like Palm Springs and like Joshua Tree. I like Austin. I like Nashville. But some things make me think like, man, I couldn't imagine not being around people like Brian, the boot maker.

Or, uh, some of my friends here. Um, it used to be also some of the shops and restaurants and clubs. But those are not open right now. So, like I said, level playing field out there. Level playing field. I'm just going to keep it positive. Wake up each day. Keep working and see what happens.

If you sit there and worry about it, you'll, you'll have a meltdown. I know because I go in and out of those. Um, but try to stay positive and healthy.

And thank God for you guys tuning in to the podcast each week. Thank you so much. If you can, do me a favor. It's been a while since I asked this. Leave a review and subscribe on iTunes.

Leave a review. I'm at 1868 trying to get it up to 2000. See what we can do there. All of you listening and all of you, uh, handmade fans. I hope to see you at the new podcast. I will reveal the name once the artwork is up and ready to go.

I want to thank some of the new Patreoners right now and then we'll get into the episode. Memes of reality. Welcome. Thank you. Michael Kaufman. Awesome. David Osborne. Carlos Garcia. Eric Benellis. Ryan can. My main man Brian spink with the Super donation. Love you. Awesome. Zane.

Oh, Oh, Othlin. Another great donation. Robin Yates. Been a fan for about eight years. Thank you, Robin. Just always there. Amazing people out there. Amazing people supporting the arts out there.

You know, join the Patreon. I see how many people listen to this podcast. Join the Patreon. Help out. There's 89 bonus episodes right now. There's a lot of cool photos. There's the zoom fest. All that. So join up in the meantime. Enjoy this episode. I absolutely love you, Brian. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I love everything you do. I think you are an incredible human and.

I'm really looking forward to see what you do in the next 10 years when I'm 64 and you can make me some of those old man sandals. I'll be walking around like Brian. I need some sandals. Dude, come on. I'm old.

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