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This is Monica Perez, joined today by Drew Treglia.

I'm going to say Tregglia, because that would be how you pronounce it in Italian.

Correct?

Actually, in Italian, it would be Treggia, but then you just sound like a, I sound like a pretentious ass.

Tregley is what you put my name. It's my name. You did it right. Most people don't get that right. Good job. Well, my sister speaks Italian and she said every single letter is always pronounced. And also the second to last syllable is where the accent is. That's right. Yeah. So Triglia. So, but yeah, okay, no, I don't have the little sounds down.

But you are the director and producer of Jones Plantation and a lot more. So I want to, I want you to tell people about you, but I have to say, I have been thinking about you all morning. I was listening to the news, reading the paper, and like, I don't know, I think today is the day,

this will be in the past for people who are listening to this, but where Trump, the Trump administration, whoever, you know, whatever Trump represents, uh, seized an oil tanker and

off of Venezuela. And the, and the press conference was straight out of your work,

where they're just like, we are, I wrote it down.

It was so funny, I gotta find it.

It said, let me see.

Ah, shit. It was something to the effect of...

Oh, yeah, here it is.

They use these tankers to export terrorism and death.

These are...

We are protecting... We are protecting homeland from threats organized and presented by international organized crime.

And I'm just laughing because this idea that you were in constant danger, everything they do, everything they say they do,

they are there to protect you. And I used to think it was about getting your buy-in from the

principled position of self-defense. But after being, you know, absorbing a lot of your work,

...