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Discord.LRN.fm. And wow, we're back after five days of broadcasting from Rogers Campground, Ian and Mark back in the studio,

but also joined by Silver Dave. Hey, Silver Dave. Hey, thanks for having me, Ian. Yeah, it's good to have you

back here. You're our normal co-host on Tuesday night, but as of just a few hours ago, you were on

the Rogers Campground as well, and you're going to be there for the remainder of the Porcupine Freedom Festival.

But you came all the way down here to Keen to go shopping and figured you'd come, you know, be on the radio with us as well.

That's right. It's a great pleasure to be here.

And also you have a really good grocery store in town. The Banadna Co-op, they did not pay me to say this, but I really like their price on cashews and organic vanilla beans and things like that that are really hard to find. They've got them, so I came here for it. And you've been cooked. The reason why you're buying this food is you've been cooking at Forkfest over the last several days. And now the Porcupine Freedom Festival's first day is today. And you intend to go back and do some more cooking. I take it. That's right. That's right. In fact, tomorrow night, I intend to serve a seared yellowfin ahi tuna. Oh, wow. That really sounds good. I think I need to get down there for that.

Oh, I hope you do.

It's, uh, I hope to, uh, it would be my great pleasure to serve you.

Oh, that would be awesome. Uh, Mark, you said you had some of Dave's fish. Yeah, I had, uh, Dave's salmon and it was the best salmon I've ever eaten. I don't know what he did to it or how he made salmon taste better than salmon, but that's what happened.

It was like, you know, limine or something. Well, it's not too late to get up to the Porcupine Freedom Festival if you're in New England or heading up for the weekend. It's going to go all the way through Sunday or early on the day. I think it ends like noonish on Sunday. So you get plenty of time to get up to Rogers Campground. So we're going to get back into doing like a regular talk radio show here. We've been, you know, just recording the show for the last five days, which means we couldn't take phone calls. So the phones are open again. The toll free numbers 855, 453. And again, Discord at Discord.lrn.fm. And that's actually we're going to the phones here first to Michael W. Dean, who listeners may recall, longer time listeners may recall, as the host of the freedom fiends. Michael, welcome back to Free Talk Live.

Hey, it's good to be here. How do I sound on your Discord?

You sound great, but you sound a little rough, but I imagine that's because you're probably not well.

Yeah, I've been sick on and off for five years, about four and three quarters years.

It's kind of hard to say when I really started getting sick, although, I mean, it goes back.

I smoked two packs a day for 30 years.

Wow.

And I don't recommend that.

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