Hello again everybody and welcome to another exciting episode of the Jim Cornette experience. I of course am Jim Cornette today

It's the astronomy edition where we tell the difference between stars and black holes and joining me not the person you expect because Brian last is

finally taken a day off to spend with his family it took him all morning just

to find him but now joining me in his stead and his

place but never to replace him an author a gadabout a racket tour and a part-time

swashbuckler you may know him by his birth name Solomon

Grunty it's Brian Solomon everybody. Well I'm glad to be here again I'm glad that

Brian took a day off finally and we don't get Brian last today but we get

Brian second to last that's me.

Is this your all about Eve moment?

Ryan you know you're you're incredibly accomplished on the printed page, your regular columns over there

and in the Inside the Ropes magazine over the UK, your fine books that you've written, but, but you know, you're fine books that you've written, but you know you're not, you're not a word on everybody, a name on it, I should say, well you're a few words, but you're not a name on everybody's tongue as a broadcaster,

and now you're branching as your big chance and the number one program on the entire planet.

Are you nervous? Do you have the, are you shaken like a dog shitting peach seeds?

No, no pressure at all since you describe it that way.

You know, I'm listen, I did NPR last week, so you know, I'm I'm moving up in the world.

You know there are a lot of similarities between this program and the offerings from the

fine folks over at NPR so that was a good warm up for this.

I think you'll find a lot of...

The politics definitely.

Definitely the politics.

And in some of the words, we're going to use some of the same words they use over on NPR, but I'll be you were hitting me with excuses

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