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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, God, it's side.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You get a real nice face, now, don't.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You, Johnny, Well, actually I'm Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's what Johnny. That's we're going to tell the boys
about Johnny, doctor Johnny Fever and I am burning up
in here, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
All right, welcome inn. Wow, what a crazy week. This
has been.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Busy, busy, been giving away tickets for Paul McCartney. He's
coming back to town. We'll have more tickets to give
away next week. Great, but yeah, you know we're giving
away one thousand dollars. We got the roadway trivia question
and phones have been absolutely crazy. And of course later
next week we've got Toto coming to town. And I
(00:48):
had the chance to talk to one of my no,
actually my favorite guitarist, Steve. Look at her, Wow, I
would say, in my opinion, the greatest living guitarist like
Jimi Hendrix, changed the game, Eddie van Halen both dead though,
and Jeff Beck also Yeah, they're only so Steve, yeah,
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stay out for at least a week. And you know,
I was really nervous to talk to him. I'm always
nervous when I talked to him because he is such
a funny guy and I highly recommend.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He wrote a book called the book Luke it Is.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I have the paperback or the actually actually the book
and the audio book. I highly recommend it because his story.
He's a funny guy to begin with, funny, funny guy
and tells great stories. So I read the book and
giggle through the whole thing, and then I listened to
the audio book with him reading the stories. You're like,
oh my god, he's actually lived all this, and I
(01:50):
would love to know some of these stories that he
can't tell.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I'm probably every rock star has a few of those.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I'm sure he has a lot because he's been around. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
So anyway, that's coming up later in the podcast. Recapping
the show for July eighteenth, one hundred and ninety ninth
day of the year. One hundred and sixty six days remain.
Nine days till the yacht rock crews who have Captain
Valporter you ready, you got your you got your captain
hat ready?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I do forty five days the labor day one hundred
and sixty days to Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Today is Insurance NERD Day.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I feel like we all need an insurance nerd. Doesn't
everybody have some questions about their insurance.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't get insurance. I mean I have insurance.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I don't understand, right, No National Caveard Day, fish bait.
It's like little fish pimples on a cracker. I don't
know why it's such you know why.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It's so popular? Like who, I'm going to invent something
bizarre and people will think this makes no sense and
I'm going to charge a lot of money for it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Good for it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You go for that Sour Candy Day. I'm not I'm
not a big fan of anything sour.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Nelson Mandela International Day, Perfect Family Day and World Listening
Day and Day number twenty four for the roadwary trivia
question coming up after this comedy cut from Zultan Kansas.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I used to make fun of millennials. That was something
I did. Yeah, I used to make fun of millennials
until I did a Google search and I realized I
am one. No, I don't think they're that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's who I am.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
In a nutshell, I'm a total hypocrite.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I will make fun of a group of people till
I realize I am that group of people, and I'll
be like, come on, you guys, they're all right. I
like millennials. If I did have to pick on millennials.
I think our biggest issue is we're too self aware.
We know exactly what's wrong with us and why. And
I don't know if that's healthy. Because everyone in my
age knows exactly who's wrong with them, but no one
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seems to be getting any better. Like every person I
meet my age, they're like, I have anxiety, and I'm like, oh,
what are you doing about that?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Nothing? I'm telling you, so you work around it.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Why is it that millennials seems like all millennials have anxiety?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But gen X we're unflappable.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
We have it, we just don't talk about it.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Maybe maybe that's don't mention it? All right?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
This week has been absolutely bonkers with the roadary trivia
question trying to give away tickets for Paul McCartney.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
We're getting closer, getting closer. Let's take some calls. Good morning.
Who's this all right? LEVI?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Approximately twenty one hundred of these are on planet Earth,
two hundred and fifty five in the USA and eight
in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
What are they?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Red?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Not an animal? Not any kind of animal at all? Dang,
all right, thank you, thank you? Four one two three
three three ninety four or five? Oh, which you got?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
All right, I'm gonna go with Micheline Star restaurants.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
We've had a couple of people say that it's not bad,
that's not thanks, that's okay. No, no, no, no, don't
don't apologize to me. Go ahead, you guess not.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's not any kind of animal at all, John, what
do you got for us, Bud?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I was gonna say steel mills, not steel mills?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Another popular all right, mark nuclear power plants. Now you
tell them that's the hot answer, and that is the
wrong hot answer.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, we've had a lot of people say that, not it. Well,
thank you very much. Hi there, what you guess?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yes, I wanted to put an answer in for the question.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I think it's the zoos.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The animal zoos.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Has nothing to do with animals at all.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Thank you. Hi there, what you guess?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It would be a courtesy exchange.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, nothing like that at all.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Okay, thank you. Ed.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I'm very good?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
How are you awesome? What you got?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
How about chocolate factories? Hm?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Hmm you hadn't always said that so far?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Ed?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Nothing that big.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
By You're on something?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Three?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You ask good morning. Who's this Hi?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
This is Patsy, Hi Betsy.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'm real good.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
How are you good?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What you got whooping cranes?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Not any kind of animals or birds or anything like
that at all?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Thanks and one?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Four, one, two, three, three, three ninety four or five?
Oh your turn? How about law school?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
No, not law schools, but not too bad? All right,
your turn. I was gonna say racetracks, not racetracks. Okay,
thank you for how you doing good? Doing well? What
do you got historic site? Yeah, we've had a lot
of people say that.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Nope, no, no, okay, I was gonna say solar panels forms,
but it's not that either.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh see how she she's snuck in another one?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, no, neither one. Okay, Hi Kim, how you doing
what you got? No, you're way off. You didn't listen
to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Did you? No?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, I'm trying to help you out with the with
the podcast there, but give it a quick listen.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
So once you once you hear the podcast, you go,
oh yeah, measles is definitely off the table.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Okay, okay, thank you, Good morning. Who's this day?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Johnny by day? Bobby G.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Bobby G. Did you listen? Guys, did you listen to
our podcast?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I didn't listen to it, but I read it, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You read it well that I did? All all right?
All right?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
So what's what's the significant hint that Val gave us yesterday?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well, when I got out of it there it was
a building.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
All right. Well, you're the last call I'm going to
take today.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You get it right, You win those Paul McCartney tickets
otherwise day number twenty five on Monday.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
All right, Val, give us a drum roll.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm skyscrapers, not skyscrame.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, Bobby G. Hot size. I'm sorry, Bobby G. That's
all good? All right. Do you have a guess?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I don't have a guess.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You have a question, or do you want me to
give a hint?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Give a hint?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Okay, it's not a kind of building. It's something in
a building. Oh, okay, it's a specific business.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
What's most important to me? News updates, news, news updates.
I like all the local news.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
What's that face for?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Is this a terrible clue?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Thank you for the photocompan I appreciate it. All right,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's okay, because everybody else was thinking the same thing.
New report is shedding some disturbing light on kids and
artificial intelligence. Researchers have found that children who are feeling
lonely have started to turn to AI in place of
seeking out life relationships. Internet Matters surveyed a thousand kids
between the ages of seven and seventeen and found sixty
(09:06):
seven percent say they use AI chat bot regularly. More
than a third say it feels as if they are
talking to a friend. But most concerning to researchers is
the twelve percent who say they have turned to AI
companionship because sadly they don't have other people to speak to.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Okay, I think you should have like chat wife and
chat husband, And so you type in a question and
they answered like your wife or husband does Like the
husband would go, what's the question again?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
What did you do?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
What you say?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Customs officials at an airport in Germany uncovered a creepy
Crawley surprise inside a shipment of chocolate sponge cake. Authorities
at Cologne Bond Airports say they discovered about fifteen hundred
baby tarantulas Oh Lord, packed into tiny plastic containers, all
hidden inside what was supposed to be fifteen pounds of
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sponge cake. The shipment had arrived from Vietnam, but officers
were tipped off by a strange smell that was definitely
not chocolate.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So they were trying to smuggle in tarantula.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It seems like, Yeah, many of the tarantulas were dead.
The survivors were placed in the care of an expert handler.
Authorities say the intended recipient of the tarantulas is facing
criminal charge.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
You have this, Did that make any sense? Like snakes
and spiders whatever, when there's so many other fluffy options.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, you know, puppies are cute, kittens are cute, baby elephants.
I can't imagine baby tarantula that will try to kill me, right,
And sometimes things just happen that make you question the
concept of karma and fairness in life. At the end
of April, James Farthing cashed in a winning two dollars
lottery ticket he had purchased in Georgetown, Kentucky, a ticket
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worth one hundred and sixty seven point three million dollars.
Since then, we have come to find out a little
bit more about the gentleman, learning that he has spent
some quality time in at least twenty five different correctional facilities,
spent almost thirty years in custody, and has posted posed
for more than forty mugshots for crimes including assault, drugs, gambling,
(11:19):
and loan sharking.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Wow, okay, so so crime does pay?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I guess so?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Good lord? All right, thanks val, All right, let's talk
Toto all right?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Coming up next Thursday at the Pavilion at Starlight three
WS presents Toto, also Christopher Cross and men at work
and on the phone with me is my favorite guitarist,
Steve Lucather or Steve.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
How the heck are you ahe Johnny?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
How's it going, buddy?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, you're coming in town next week. I'm excited for this.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's ye, that would be correct, my friend.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I've been a huge fan for Toto for such a
long time. I have never seen Toto live.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, come out and see this.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh I'm going Oh, I'm going on with you like
I've seen you with Ringo. I've seen you with Ringo.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
But what is the whole of the ball game? This
is the whole other thing. I mean with Ringo, it's
it's a looser and we're from. This is much more
detailed his way into it, you know, recreating perfect sounds
and stuff, and then we work hard to sound good.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Love man, we're having a loss doing it.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Total had their day in the sun. You guys have
always been massive overseas in Europe and Asia, but in
America that was kind of tepid up until about ten
years ago, and then they started.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Really working it.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I took over management of the band.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Around then, and I got with w I, me and
William Morris, and we worked this thing hard. I said,
I'm not dying until I get the US back. And
it turns out it's happening right now, after all these
years of hard work and taking not taking note for
an answer.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, you go through these things and thanks to be
video game stranger things and the gazillion covers that we've
had of the song that's taken a life of its song.
It's great for business, but what's really happening is that
the ages fifteen to thirty five have just gotten into us,
and then they realized we get you know, eighteen records
(13:17):
out and the whole back catalog is whaling. We're doing
thirty million streams a month. And it's not just Africa,
it's everything.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
But also credit to you, you have never stopped promoting
the band. You even when there there was times that
where it was a hiatus, you were putting out solo records.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
There you were always.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I don't know how to do anything else.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
When you're going to retire, go well, I tried this
retirement thing during the pandemic and I'd rather die first.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know, I don't do well sitting around my house.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I mean, you retire from a job you hate or
that sucks. You know, I had the best job on
planet Earth? Are you want to give that up?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You work with everybody, I mean everyone from Michael Jackson
to Paul McCartney. Is there is there a collaboration that
you still makes you go wow, I really did that.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh, there's a lot of them that I feel that
way about.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I mean, sometimes I find myself in the room with
the legends of legends, you know, and I got a
chance to play with most of my heroes, and not
many people can say that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It's always been a great learning experience.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
And oh, man, of the best times of my life
is when I was a young session guy.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You know, I got to do every day was a
new adventure.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Can you name name some names because I've read your
book and it's in this story.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I won't want me to start.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I know everything from Miles Davis to Dallas Cooper Cheap
Trick to Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, h Chicago, Don Henley,
all the Eagles solo records I played on.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I could go on Herbie Hancock.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
All the way up to pop songs, a lot of
that MTV stuff that I played, Lionel Richie, run with
the night I played the solo and let's get physical.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, you know, I did a lot of things
you people really don't know. Boss Guys was a huge
thing when I was a kid. He gave me a
great a great starting point.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Now hom a lot, But you know, there's a lot
of things that I did I don't hardly remember. I mean,
go to AllMusic dot Com and you can kind of
spend a good hour looking at that. I'm reminded sometimes
when I hear the rating oh I played on that.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
You know, with the resurgence of Toto also is the
resurgence of Steve Lucather. I mean people are really now
really recognizing it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, I'm just like you know a comedian that didn't
make it. I have.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I have famous comedian friends of mine say, you know,
the man, you're a funny guy, but you're not comedy
store funny.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And they're right, that's a really hard job. Comedy boy,
forget about it. I have deep respect for these guys,
the guys that do it well and make it look easy.
It's not easy.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Well, if anybody could pull it off. In fact, I
would love to see a Steve Lucather tour with a
guitar and stories and just you want to.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh my lord, you know that's some of me hit
on me to do that.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
You know, by some of the stories, I took the
sacred oath and I'd be killed if I mentioned them.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Why. I like to have friends.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
All right, So the show is coming up next week.
You've got you've got an embarrassment of riches. When it
comes to songs, how do you come up with a
playlist for Toto?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Well, we got to play the hits that every loves me.
Anybody that's play man. People pay money, do one of
hear their favorite songs? And uh, you know, I put
together this whole tour was my idea with the minute
Work and Christopher Cross, who are dear friends. In Chris's case,
I played on a lot of his early hits and
he's a dear friend of guitar player Buddy and I
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always loved him and uh, Colin and I have been
Ringo's band and he's such an amazing like singer, song
and a storyteller, and he's got all this great hits
and people are gonna I think it's a good bang
for the buck man. I mean, you get to see
three acts and got billions of streams and songs everybody
knows from a certain area.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But at the same time, these songs never died.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I mean I didn't think the hole the line would
be playing almost fifty years later, but here it is.
You know, I was nineteen when I recorded that, Like Wow, okay,
it's been very almost hit songs and very very good
to us and happy to play them live. I mean,
I wouldn't sit around my house Butterball naked with a
fire one playing Africa by myself.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Speaking of Christopher Crossing, you two absolutely stall.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
The HBO documentary Yacht Rock No.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Chris Cross's daughter was the producer, and he called me
early on he goes look, I would be really great
to get you on because if you do it, then
other people I'm like, you know what, Chris, I don't
care anymore what they want to call this. You know,
I'll do a favor for you'll do that. I mean,
the thing is, so many people have such misconceptions.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Man, there's almost the I don't want to dig up a.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Bunch of shit, just like we were session guys. Most
of those records, at least one of us was.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
On really the whole era. Yeah, and like you know,
and nobody ever says that.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Nobody wants to you know, people don't want to give
us you know, certainly mainstream journalists never want to give
us credit for anything.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
But we played. That's what we did every day.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
You want to come up with a silly name, There's
been lots of silly names for that kind of style.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And yacht rock, where's my yacht? You know what I mean?
I said where's my yacht in the movie?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I know, which was which was the best line in
the whole movie?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Yeah, and like it ever's going to a fig and
right on figs and you know, he had six of
his songs in the in the thing, and like you know,
they have to pay licenses. So this, I hate this
case seemed rather scripted to me.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But what do I know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
What you talked about?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You know, you have to play the hits, But is
there any underrated Toto song in your opinion? And that
and why do you think it deserves a little more love?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
And we've done like four hundred songs, but is there
really exact if you look at it throughout the entire career.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I you know, you got to play the hits.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I love to play the hits in front of all
I think get that reacts every single long.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
That's a beautiful that's an incredible feeling, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
And uh, but you know I like the album cuts
because they're fun to play. We're digging some stuff, but
we try to dig something out every time that we
haven't done in forever or maybe never, you know, And
that keeps the old school fans.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
People have been coming to see this forever. They go,
oh wow, they're gonna play something new, They're gonna play
something different off the old stuff. But you can't. You
got to keep the attention of the people that came
there to see the hit. And here the hits.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
So it's a fine line, but we try to make
it work and so far, so good.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Speaking of shows, you're going to be here next week, Toto,
Christopher Cross and Men at Work Pavilion at Starlight. Steve,
thank you so much for a time. I cannot wait
to see Toto live.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Man, it was really great talking to you, mate. All right, brother,
come out to the show and say, oh, you.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Know it, I've been hyping Toto for such a long time.
And uh, and I can't wait to see you guys finally.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
God bless you man. Thank you so much. Bro.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
All Right, Steve, take care you're there, all right?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
But yeah, right awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
You know they say never meet your your heroes.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah, I'm almost afraid to meet him because he's he
was a great Obviously he's a great.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I don't think you have anything to worry about you No,
I know.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, But I cannot wait for the show. So he was.
He's such a cool guy.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Hold the line is one of my all time favorite songs.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
One of mine. Two.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
One of the songs that they rarely play is ninety nine.
Oh and it's one of my favorite songs ever. Yeah,
and there's a lot of like obscure Toto songs. Yeah,
that that I would know. I would love for see
to see.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Them live, but you know they got to play they hits,
So that's Christopher Cross.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I've never seen any of the bands on this bill.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I've seen Steve Lucather with UH and Colin Hey at
work with with Ringo because they both toured with with Ringo,
but I've never seen them with their their correspondent bands,
So I cannot wait for that. Speaking of that, we'll
have tickets to give away for Toto and the Yacht
Rock Cruise featuring yours truly, Captain val Porter next week,
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and of course we have those Paul McCartney.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Tickets permission to come aboard Captain.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
All right, So have yourself a great weekend. We'll catch
you on Monday at five am. That's it for us
a seens.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Guys, guys,