Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Friday edition of the Dark Delay podcast.

With beans, it's another solo show for me today as Frank soaks up the sun in Appalachia.

I don't even know if it's sunny up there. He's camping with the family. So cool. So cool.

I'm going to try and get out there with him one of these days.

So we have pretty busy show. My browser is full of things to talk to you about,

full of things to gripe about and get upset about and smile about too, especially the music

that they use behind some of their campaigns. Oh gosh, like the most nefarious thing in their

playing like like YouTube stock dancing music behind it. In the beginning of the show,

we're going to talk about some business and personal stuff. I want to start with something

that's really, really crazy. I don't I briefly told the story. I think a bunch,

a bunch of weeks ago, but my sister's husband took my son, my nephew to get his first haircut and

fell in love with the guy that he had taken him to and they go there every two weeks like without

fail every two weeks. They're getting their haircut at this place with this guy. And my sister

texted me a couple weeks ago and she's like, Hey, Tracy, Jimmy came home. He was a mess.

And he told me that he his his barber that cuts their hair is a vet. And he was beside himself

because this this guy Steve, he needed life saving surgery to fix a bunch of problems from injuries

that he sustained when he was overseas fighting for our country. And the VA will not cover the

surgery. And there's a lot of reasons for that. So I I'm telling the backstory here because it's

going to explain a lot to you. So I was like, well, let me, you know, getting you is he willing to

talk to me, you know, can I maybe I can introduce him to someone or maybe like I can help him somehow

or maybe we can try and raise him some money for the surgery or who knows like what I could

potentially do to help. So she gave me his number and like life got crazy. My in-laws came

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