Before we start the show, I just wanted to fill you in on the craziness that has gone

over here at Madness headquarters.

Three weeks ago, I managed to get Collier Landry's episode The Brass Ring recorded a bit

early, and so Beck and I had some free time on Sunday night.

We were hanging out upstairs, which is kind of a rare occurrence because the kids normally

take over the television in the living room, and Beck and I hang out downstairs in our

den.

And on that day, there was a huge thunderstorm.

So we're sitting there, and all of a sudden we started hearing this whining kind of siren

sound.

So I got up and looked downstairs to see what it was all about, and when I did, there

was a foot of water in our den.

We soon discovered that the sound we heard was actually a furnace trying to operate in

about a foot of water because it's summer when we had the air conditioner on.

So as you can imagine, I screamed a lot of expletives, ran downstairs and into our laundry room,

which has a door that leads to the backyard, and what I saw, no homeowner ever wants to

see.

Water was streaming in from the door about three feet from the floor, and not only was

our den level flooded, the water was flowing down to the basement, which is where we had

a bedroom, and a month ago the studio was down there.

So we went into a full on troubleshooting mode and started assessing the situation, and

then put in an emergency call to our insurance company.

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