This Friday, December 17, 2021, and it's the relevant podcast here in Orlando where it's

bummed 79 degrees. I'm your host Cameron Strang, joining me from Leverland, Virginia,

Jester Carrey. Hello, hello. From Austin, Texas, author, speaker,

podcaster Jamie Ivy. Hey, guys. And finally, back the mogul artist producer from Rastwood, Tennessee,

Derek Minor. Hey, I just want to say I really, really miss John. I want to say thank you all for

coming out to the relevant Derek Minor birthday special. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. It's going down. Happy birthday to me. What? Today, your birthday right now? No. My birthday is

December 16. So it's the birthday. It's the birthday. It's the but it's when you're black.

You celebrate your birthday all week. Now it's like it's an unwritten rule in black culture that

your birth. Really, it's two weeks because it's the week before the pregame. And then it's the week.

Right. So let you know, and I try to put my people out, but you know, if somebody called

off six four weeks, because it's birthday week, it's actually birthday week. Derek, I know we

addressed this before of like receiving the combined Christmas birthday gift. I know I know we've

discussed that before. And it's a bird that's a powerful thing. But you know, knowing that, you

know, for for you in particular, the birthday celebration extends beyond just the day of your birth.

It is really a, I feel like you got a bookend at what weeks like the week or the week before

the week after all part of the cell. It's like the build up and then kind of the, you know,

the coming down and get ready for the next year. Just be honest right now. Just lay this out

because I'm looking at your background right now. And I don't see anything Christmasy back there.

It's just for you. Garland.

I'm not putting on Christmas lights up in my studio. That's number one. Number two. Yeah, I

would be real. Like this, this time of year, for me, you know what it is? It's being broke because

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