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Greetings, fellow listeners. Feast your ears on what is now officially my all-time favorite jibber jabber of the podcast with somebody who outstandingly fascinates me. Not only is she the pod's thirty-sixth guest, but she's also a real great friend of mine. Jennifer Mendes and I first came together at Tea & Poets nearly two months ago and each of us saw something in the other that sparked a sturdy-going friendship despite her being a first-born millennial. We go on for what's usually the duration of our typical phone calls about how we first met and clicked, her taking on the roles of a full-time employee and all-time mom to two highly intelligent and independent girls, and we dish out on common interests and unfamiliar territories. However, this also happens to be probably the most awkward situation I've ever been placed in because Jen's eldest daughter Ari (Thirty-seven) tags along and my Aunt Mercedes (Thirty-eight) and Uncle Patricio (Thirty-nine) from Mexico joins in the chit-chat and I totally didn't plan on spinning the bottle on either one of them. But what the hell? Such is life.

Greetings, fellow listeners. It's been ages since we had a guest on the pod and this one planted a self-reflective implant in my brain. Cristina Ramirez, the pod's thirty-fifth guest, sits down with us to talk about crossing paths at Hole in the Wall, our mutual acquaintance with my old high school geometry teacher and bowling coach, teaching English and journalism to high schoolers, participating in awareness for Autism, and her incredible transition from film major to journalism major. Not only was this a really neat conversation, but it felt like an unexpected breakthrough at a therapy session.

Greetings, fellow listeners. We've rapidly sprung into spring, the sun is shining, and the buds are blooming. How to kick off this month? By giving y'all a recap of who I happily met at MegaCon 2023 in Orlando over April Fools Day Weekend. I then pay my deepest respects to the tragic passing of tormented music legend Kurt Cobain who died 29 years ago on this very day (Also my cool friend Mike Perez's birthday who ironically turned 27, the age Kurt was when he died) with my rendition of RHCP's spectacular hit "The Heavy Wing" from one of their most recent albums "Unlimited Love".

Greetings, fellow listeners. Widen your Vulcan ears and set your phasers to JAM because we're gonna beam you up a mix of Bowie's "Space Oddity" in observance of the 92nd birthday of Captain James T. Kirk himself, William Shatner (born March 22, 1931), and a quadruple spin of the album "Please Please Me" by The Beatles in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Fab Four's debut album (March 22, 1963).

Greetings, fellow listeners. For all those who don't give the slightest crap about the Ides of March, I've got nothing to say except catch me giving my rendition of the sweet-sounding melody "Toledo" by Elvis Costello and late composing legend Burt Bacharach. 

Greetings, fellow listeners. I'm boiling with suppressed rage and so I've decided to let it all out on your ears along with a double encore of "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison and the underrated ditty "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" from the Beatles White Album.

Slàinte, fellow listeners. The month of March has made it's way in a flash which means it's time to break out the green in all forms of product with shirts, hats, soap, deodorant, veggies, marshmallows, and barf. Let us kick off the month of luck with I harmonizing to "My Way" by none other than Frank Sinatra, the Chairman himself, as my way of saying "Happy Birthday" to my incredible close friend Jim Carpenter, who's turning 91 this Friday (March 3).

Happy second anniversary, fellow D&S listeners! It was two years ago this past Monday (February 20, 2021) when we launched into the pod-verse which started as just me and my dad sitting in front of a computer talking into a Blue Snowball microphone babbling BS for 10-15 minutes and then evolved into having 45-120-minute full-length in-depth conversations with people who really interest us and it's been an incredibly awesome on-going ride that's never going to stop. Celebrate with us while we acknowledge what we've accomplished so far with a little D&S one-on-one and an encore with "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.

Happy Valentine's Day, fellow lovebirds. Today is the day when Cupid shoots his arrows into your anuses and you fall for the gal or guy of your dreams and you shower them in chocolates and candies and flowers and smooches. NOT ME! I am just and always will be a single, lonely, and loveless fool. Hear me sulk about being anti-valentine and then suck it up with a triple encore consisting of "(It Looks Like) I'll Never Fall in Love Again" by Tom Jones, "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day in observation of the fifth anniversary of the terribly tragic Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (February 14, 2018), and "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles to drown away all the previous downers and dreariness. 

Greetings, fellow listeners. It's been quite a while since I went solo and now I've returned to babble on by myself for the forty-third time. I give an update about being stricken once again with COVID last week and now dealing with the burden of passing it on to my grandparents and now my mom. After that, I give a handful of shout-outs to a couple of peeps within my peer circle, observing the birthdays of living and deceased famous people, and giving y'all a double encore with my rendition of RHCP's hit "Otherside" and serving up "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in observance of the 80th birthday of badass mofo JOE F**KIN' PESCI!!! (born February 9, 1943).