Okay, you ready to start this show.

Your host to the evening is a really funny dude.

I forgot his last name, but I've seen him before it.

He's really funny.

Give him up for Mike. Coming to you live on tape from the penthouse.

Coming to you live on tape from the penthouse

so they partially completed commercial high rise in glamorous

Hollywood adjacent California from the studios of Sirius XM West

posting an obstructed view of one of LA's leading cement factories.

This is the Tully show.

I am your host, Mike Tully.

Joining me today, a singer, a songwriter, a one-time political figure,

but above all else, a professional conversationalist the host

of not one not two not three but four highly regarded podcast currently in the midst of a

string of live dates for the friendly Fire Pod.

Hello and welcome John Roderick.

Hi Mike, hi.

Hello, thank you for coming.

Thank you.

This is socially awkward.

This is the first time I've ever felt like I was on a blind date on the radio.

You can't, that cannot be true after all the years.

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