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completed my bucket list at age 12 eric mat taxes hey there folks welcome to the show welcome to

the week chris let me welcome you on behalf of uh all of us uh who uh who hosts the show actually it's just me on behalf of all of us who, who hosts the show. Actually, it's just me. On behalf of me,

myself and I welcome. Welcome to the week. This is a crazy week on a hundred levels. So I'm going

to try to explain how crazy this week is. maybe we start with today, right?

Today's kind of exciting.

I was going to say to start with, well, first of all, let me say today I'm interviewing

John Smirak in a few minutes.

We've got him for an hour and into the second hour.

And then our friend Cynthia Garrett is coming on talking about her new book.

The Zmirak stuff alone is lunacy.

I got to mention today, ladies and gentlemen, is my mother's 90th birthday.

She has never had a 90th birthday before.

We checked.

We looked into it.

And, you know, family records only go back so far but from what we could tell

this is the first 90th birthday that she's ever had and it's a big deal the first 90th is a very big deal

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