Hello, everybody.

Welcome to a bonus conversation with Danny O'Neill, the man, the myth.

I almost, he's almost just a legend because I, he came out he said hello and I was like Danny. Is that Danny O'Neill? What do you do it here? He's like an apparition that's appeared in Seattle. How are you doing, man? I think you would say myth because you've heard a potentially of my name, but you've never really seen me. Like it's been like the Sasquatch.

Yeah, maybe.

No, it's great to see you.

It's great to see you, man.

What are you doing here?

I am in town because there is an Asian American Journalist Association Convention in downtown

Seattle this week, 1,300 of not just the country, but some of the world's best Asian American

journalists.

And my wife is a former officer in the organization. So she goes every year, and I tagged along with her as somewhat of a homecoming. I guess it's the first time I've been back in a year. I came back about this time last year. All right. And where did you grow up? I grew up in Clameth Falls, Oregon, which is on the feral half of the state. Yeah.

It's beautiful there, though.

Ah, come on.

Cleveland Falls.

Now, I love it.

There's some tubing you could do there.

I love it, but it is it is borderline high desert, a lot of scrub pine.

It is rocky terrain.

Sure.

My father who graduated from the university of

california berkeley in nineteen seventy two which is the height of the free speech movement

moved to oregon to kill trees he became a logger so i grew up the son of a logger in the

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