Welcome to the Stuttering John podcast.

I'm here again with my co-host, the great Noel Castler.

How are you, Noel?

I'm good, John.

Good to see you, brother.

Rainy day on the East Coast.

Oh, really hot as balls on the West Coast.

First, before I get started, I had a bittersweet day yesterday it was full with sadness

and happiness the sadness is it would have been my father's 94th birthday he died five years ago

on November 10th June 10th you know it was, it was his birthday. So happy birthday, dad.

And then it also happened to fall on the date of my son's junior high graduation.

He, you know, he graduated with a scholarship and straight A's.

That's awesome.

So congratulations, Oscar.

So there you go.

It was a, it was a hell of a good and sad day, you know, for me.

What a, what a way to honor your father's memory, though.

You know, he must have been looking down and smiling and full of pride.

And, you know, I saw that picture of you and your son.

That's a good looking family you

got there man yeah thanks and my daughter's you know she's straight A's you know uh valedictorian so

I must have done something right that's awesome dude but um and I do want to tell you a funny story

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