Welcome back, retail therapy. My name's Will DeFreeze. Barrett, Dudley. How are you today?

I'm doing okay. I'm sitting over here, just, you know, sipping on you know sipping on a

sipping on a cold brood recovering a little bit from a yield 4th of July

uh-huh but but overall you know I'm feeling all right I'm feeling all right yeah I mean we're doing the rare

July 5th Friday recording which not a lot of podcasts are putting in that kind of work now now

this is this is grind this is grind boy. It's all about that mentality.

But I, you know, as an insider, I've been quite enjoying all of the Sunday Scaries

four-day weekend out of office Friday memes, you know, because a lot of people do have to work today.

And even though we're pushing that narrative, you specifically are pushing that narrative that this is, that this entire four days is about nothing

but rest and relaxation, you yourself, not not 100% living that

living that truth.

Yeah, sending that out, scheduling that out from the office on July

5th does not feel good but but we don't we don't just sit here and record on

Friday July 5th, with no reason.

Part of the reason we're doing this is because I will be out all next week.

And so, you know, if I have to work one day out of the next eight,

I guess I can suck it up.

That's okay. Yeah, yeah yeah it's okay I think we'd be

remiss today to not make a formal introduction for one Randy Trimbaki who has recently

been written up by the New York Times style section.

Wow. Wow.

Hey mama made it. Look at me. Do you mind if I read a little passage from your, uh,

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