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Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to episode 284 of connecting with

Walt. I am your host and dis-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 fantastic, Michael. How are you?

I am doing well. We were talking earlier that, you know, we've seen a little sun, and that's, that's nice.

It's just is making everyone out here so happy.

Although rain is coming.

Yeah, we're in an interesting place here in Orlando where we're having like we'll have a couple

days of just pure ugliness and then it's opening up and we're talking like blue sky days

with no clouds whatsoever.

And it's it's a really nice so i i everyone that's coming in for

the princess half marathon weekend this weekend i hope i hope they're going to have good weather

for all of that running none of which i'll be doing that's not for me i'm not not not

donning my two-two and going out for a run this weekend so but you have

my favorite festival is starting up in a few days and that's the epcot flower and garden festival

which actually is going to connect to what we're talking about today in a way. So that's something to look forward to.

It is. It's definitely an earlier start. I mean, not super early, but I feel like it always is right in

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