well i i'll just start

with i didn't watch it for uh years because i was like the guy from the shaggy dog and my three sons no that movie's not gonna be any good he can't pull that at all so i ref i i never watched it i was like but you know as times went on and i heard i mean i only watched it for the first time a couple of years ago um thinking that fred mcmurray was gonna just be terrible.

I should never have thought that.

You should go in open-minded when you watch this stuff.

I've become such a huge Edward G. Robinson fan.

I was like, I want to check this out.

I've heard so many things about it.

side without giving it away and yes you bring up a good point this movie is unique because you kind of know the outcome from the beginning it's so well done you almost forget the beginning that's what i yeah you do

Mm-hmm.

Um, so my, my best friend growing up, uh, Jason Reedy, who's a great big Black dude, um, that, uh, we've been best friends since the eighth grade, uh, he passed away suddenly from a heart attack, um, back in January 2025.

I've talked about him and told some other stories about him on this show in the past, you know, on, on past episodes.

When he passed, I started kinda putting things out on Facebook, little stories about him, and it, it grew into something.

When I lost my full-time job last fall, I'd had some people come to me about those stories, how much they loved them.

And I got this idea to, I was gonna start writing for myself and work on a novel that I've put out, that I have.

And, you know, I got a whole career from journalism, but I'd never done any creative writing.

Mm-hmm.