Welcome to episode 698 with my guests Kim and Penn Holderness. You're listening to the

Medal of Happy Hour. Welcome to anybody who was a new listener.

I took the last two weeks off and aired best of episodes.

And so we're back to a fresh new episode this week and for those of you that

don't know my girlfriend is from Ecuador and so we traveled there to visit her family and I had a lot of anxiety

I don't know about a lot of anxiety but I'm not a fan of the unknown and my crystal ball was like the

flight there is going to be torture, you know, etc, etc.

But every it was it was great. You know I didn't have to worry about finances. Christina paid for the flights.

We stayed with their brother.

When we would meet their friends for something

to eat, her friends paid.

So that part was great. probably the biggest anxiety I had was

was being away from my dog Gracie but she stayed with a good friend actually the

person who found her when she was astray. So that it was, it was just, it was all good. It was all good. Those

are you that are Patreon people. I have post, you probably got a message, but I

posted and I'm still in the process of posting pictures and videos from my trip. Also on Patreon posting stuff about the way that I

would work and so I plan to do a bunch of them right now. It's about the first step of

building furniture which is the machines that you use to square up the lumber and the techniques kind of used and

the pitfalls and the mistakes that you can you can make I think one of my favorite things in

Ecuador was this breakfast dish called Tigrio which means a little tiger and it's savory plantains, cheese, egg, and then this sauce that they call ahi.

And I had it, the first time I tried it I knew that I was going to

want it every morning for breakfast and we found a good coffee place that that served it and I was just so

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