Hi, this is author, podcaster, musician Paul Myers, and you're listening to the Rock Solid podcast.

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.

Fun, 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 to promote the release of his new book, John Candy, A Life in Comedy. Please welcome, author and host of the Record Store Day podcast, Paul Myers. How you doing, Paul? Well, thanks for being, thanks for having me. It's good to be

here. Thank you. Thank you. Now, where are you right now, Paul? I'm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Where is Paul Myers? Right now, I'm in the Kensington, California, which is just north of

Berkeley. And in fact, I'm four blocks away from John Fogarty's childhood home.

Oh, that's it.

You can see the paddle wheel steamers from here.

Yes.

That's a great bit of trivia.

Now people are going to be able to narrow down where to find you to get their book signed.

And everyone knows his childhood home is in Sausalito.

And it's in uh wisconsin okay originally from canada how long have you made your home in uh california on and off since

on and off since 97 i moved from toronto with my wife, who's also Canadian, and we both had

worked visas in 97, and then we stayed here until about 2001, and then we went to Vancouver, Canada,

for five years because various job things were changing. And then Lisa got another job in California,

and we thought this time we're going to make it stick.

So we got visas.

We got the H-1.

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