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Mr. Ben Vaughn, how are you doing today?

Hello, I am great. I'm great.

So you're coming to us from, I think you said the Mojave Desert.

You're out in the middle, kind of in middle of nowhere. Is that correct?

Centurally isolated is how we, is how we call. Yeah, I'm in the Mojave Desert, where I am right now in my house is about one mile before electricity ends for another 80 miles. I'm at the very end of the

grid. Yeah, and that's, yeah, it's very isolated out there. But it's actually, it's cool. Like,

you know, if that's what you want, if you want that lifestyle, it's awesome. That's a great place to be. It's very pretty out there,

actually, too. Oh, it's beautiful. Yeah, it's beautiful. So you have a big story. You've been a composer

for several big shows, a music person for the third, for third rock for that that 70 show we'll talk a little bit about that

but also you have a podcast that just started on January 22nd you and a co-host Laura and I'll let

you pronounce her last name.

Okandello.

Okadillo.

There you go.

Who is also a Nashville music industry professional radio DJ.

I think you've done some radio DJ stuff yourself.

Yes. Yes, I have.

So, yeah, so tell me about the new show and a little bit about your background and how you got into not only podcasting, but being a musical, working music on those kind of shows,

because that's a big deal, as we know.

Well, I was discovered, well, I guess the way I got into doing TV music is pretty simple.

For some reason, during a time when surf music couldn't have been more dead,

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