Make me a deal in, make it good for me.

I won't get full of myself, I can't afford to be.

This is small-town music, this is big-town music.

He's ahead of his time, you know, but he can't use it.

If only he could prove it.

Well, tomorrow's just a songway, a songway, a songway.

Hey, everybody, welcome to Rock Solid, the comedy podcast for all things music, both new and classic.

I'm Pat Francis, and joining me in the Zoom room today to discuss his first book,

Movie Star Parking at the White Tower and Other Stories.

Please welcome my buddy from college, Mr. Pat Halfordy.

Hey, Pat.

Hey, Pat, how you doing?

Good to be here.

Thank you. You know, I really appreciate you having me Good to be here. Thank you.

You know, I really appreciate you having me on. I've been getting a lot of mileage out of telling people I got bumped for Daryl Hall. So I'm glad I'm finally here. So, you know. Well, I mean, if you're, oh, you know what's funny is when, and I'll just tell the people this, I didn't even realize when I played the,

before I started, I said, Pat, I didn't even realize when I played the,

before I started, I said, Pat, I'm going to play some music and let me know if you can hear it,

and then if you can hear it, we'll start the record. And I played a, I played a Holland Oates song. Yeah, there you go. I wasn't rubbing it in your face. No, no. Also, my youngest daughter went to Temple University, which was also where Darrell Hall and John Oates met.

And when she wanted to move off campus, she said, you know, we'd like to get an apartment.

And I said, okay, we'll let you do that.

But here's the deal you have to tell

people that the stoop of your you know your house is where Darrell and John met

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