All right, we ready? Yeah, poor miserable me. I'm having cramps and this person over here is flying by me.

Yeah, yeah. You're recording this, aren't you free, man? Get everything. All right, are we ready?

Yeah, welcome to another edition of Bonus Mile, Scott. Starting this off the same way we start off all podcasts.

But this is after the recording that we released just last week with Dr. Phil. The part that says, hey,

let's continue recording and let's just talk some more.

If you haven't listened to that episode, it's very good. It's about becoming stronger

and the recent book that Phil Maffatone released back in November of 2020. There's a lot of really good insights.

I think you can gain some of that now on with bonus miles.

Sure. What have you been up to? You told us via an email that you've been traveling over to Europe.

What did you do that for? Yeah, so the end of last summer I recorded an album in New York,

which was a bit overdue because COVID had shut things down and I couldn't get the people I wanted or the studio I wanted.

Finally, it all came together. I recorded an album. And then right after that, I heard from a guy in Lisbon,

Pierre Adern, who's of Portuguese, a French-born Brazilian living in Lisbon, who's a well-established singer-songwriter,

and an Iron Man triathlete who's gotten out of shape who was calling to see if I could help them.

I said, no, not really, but tell me about your music. One thing led to another and we ended up writing a song together,

which I never really have done that, and that we ended up writing another song together.

He invited me to Lisbon and I went and I met some of the most interesting musicians who had some of the most interesting instruments I've never seen before.

Basinova, you know, Samba, Fato, you know, those things which you see traditionally in the Portuguese language in Brazil and in Europe.

And it was just magical. It was truly magical. And the only thing I can relate it to is when Paul Simon went to South Africa and came up with this amazing album called Graceland,

and I'm quickly going to point out that my music is not as good as Paul Simon's. However, for me, it was a huge, huge,

just a breakthrough into a whole new world that I didn't even know existed. And the recordings we made were just to die for.

And so I'm going to have three of those singles coming out starting next week, actually, along with a new website.

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