All right, a little bit of a different show today. We'll have add-a-boy cards. My buddy Chris is going to join here as we tease last episode. But some sad news. I did want to at least address it here because I made a post and because so many people in our community probably knew him, especially if you've been with us for a while. So Russ, my uncle, used to come to the shows with us, especially the national.

Like that was our guy's trip every year.

Me and my dad, so Mike and Mike, I'm a junior.

And then my cousin Russ and his dad, Russ and Russ Jr., Russ and Russ Jr., I should say.

Yeah, they came, he came to shows with us for, I bet four or five years in a row came to the national.

Dude was a character.

Like, he, the amount of people who reached out after I mentioned his passing on Facebook was pretty cool because if you met him, he was one of those guys for good or bad.

You definitely remembered the experience.

And that's what a bunch of people reached out and said, which was pretty cool.

Yeah, so we lost him Monday night this week.

The reason I bring it up, too, not just because people knew him, he knew this a little bit,

but also inspiration for me ever starting a podcast, quite frankly.

He was an awesome, awesome public speaker, especially when he was younger.

He was a Vietnam vet, you know, came back, as many did super, super messed up,

dealt with addiction his whole life, drugs, alcohol, the whole nine yards.

But when he was clean, which he was, he'd go through stretches, I think 12, 13 years in a row through most of my child.

He was clean. And he would speak at the local high school up in New Hampshire. I think it was Pelham High. Even at a young age, I was a little bit younger. I think I was a freshman. And he would only speak to the seniors. I don't want the younger kids hearing what he had to say because he gave a very, very blunt one hour long discussion to the senior class.

And it was pretty amazing.

I remember thinking to myself, nobody in this room wants to hear this old guy talk.

Right?

Like you're a bunch of 17, 18 year old, cocky high school kids, unpopular audience.

And Russ, within minutes minutes commanded the room. I've never seen

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