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Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to episode 283 of connecting with Walt.

I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, executive producer, and good friend Craig Williams.

Craig, how are you today?

I'm doing okay. How are you, Michael?

I'm doing well. Thank you. So just sort of

settling in and have a million tasks that I have to do and do all that. So did you,

did you celebrate Mardi Gras and Lent? Well, Lent, that's more my area. I should say in Valentine's Day.

I did not celebrate Valentine's Day unless you call celebrating getting myself an Arby's

roast beef sandwich, then I celebrated Valentine's Day. Now, it's, Kylie and I don't ever celebrate Valentine's Day anymore.

We just, we got past it.

So where, you know, we, we just, we, we go a little bit more all out on like our birthdays and such and keep Valentine's Day modest.

Marty Grail was kind of boring this year for us.

I ended up having to work really late because Tuesday, of course, is podcast recording day.

And so I had to make a really rush jambalaya.

And that was that was okay.

And then, you know, we did get a king cake from a local bakery here so

that was pretty fantastic and unfortunately i i found the baby in it so i'll have to buy the

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