The One with Dad Jokes and Dreams: Mike Agrelius' Creative Journey

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Oh, yes, here we go, baby.

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We are back again.

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I am back again.

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Just Blane here.

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Becks is actually on a women's retreat in Hawaii, so I'm doing this solo this week, but the interview will have Becks.

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Let me address something real quick.

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We had some people hit us up and say, hey, what happened to last week's show? We had one.

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We were live at the pop up market at Novel Daybreak by Crescent Communities.

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I know the weather was beautiful.

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We still had some people show up.

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It was fun.

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It was nice out there.

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That's the last pop up market of the year until after it gets cold again.

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We move in to Soda Row next.

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So what happens then is the farmer's markets are going live.

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I believe that's the first or second Saturday in June.

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We'll get the.

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actual dates for that.

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We'll have Laura from Empowered Community Markets on with us again before that happens.

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We'll also be out there, Radio Daybreak, Ride the Wave Media, all the creators will be out at multiple farmers markets this summer broadcasting live for you people.

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So we love it.

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We'll have you out there.

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If you see us, come talk to us.

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We'll put you on with us.

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It'd be awesome.

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Can't wait to do that.

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What also I cannot wait for is today's guest.

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Mike Agrelius, Daybreaks, children's book author right here.

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He's also a manager over at nothing but cakes, but that's the least I even say it in an interview, I say, that's the least top thing about him.

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So we got to get to that.

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One more note, Daybreak business community, the DBC.

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We are meeting at Harmon's upstairs for the rest of this month.

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If April probably made to stay close to us for details on that.

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We've also got some mastermind.

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Events coming up.

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There's a workshop coming up.

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There's a field trip coming up Friday, April 26th.

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Let me make sure that date's right.

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April 26th.

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We're going to see Al and Avsani at R5 Homes and I think it's a Saratoga Springs.

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Be on the lookout for that from the DBC.

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There's the Facebook group.

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Also got to hit us up, RadioDaybreak.

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com.

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Well, I don't think we have merch yet, but it will be coming soon.

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I got to show you guys something from our guests today.

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Mike Agrelius posted this today.

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And I'm just gonna air this for you.

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I love this guy.

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He's one of my favorite people we've met, but he posted this, this, uh, I guess it's, it's, it's a, it's a problem for his book, but check this out.

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Why did the kid want a phone charger for his milk? Because the milk was only two percent.

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Did you know the British Psychological Society suggests that exposure to dad jokes Boosts confidence and increases the overall intellect in kids.

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Most people can't guess the answer to this next dad joke.

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Can you? What's the difference between a well dressed man on a bicycle and a poorly dressed man on a unicycle? Attire Here are three reasons.

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Jokes can increase kids' communication skills and confidence.

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One, if kids don't understand or know the answer, they have to ask a question.

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Two, when they ask a question, they have to listen to the answer.

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Three, their confidence goes up because they know something others don't.

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Making them want to share with their friends.

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I've written two other children's books, and I wrote this one specifically to help dads communicate with their kids.

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Tag a dad that would like this.

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If you want a copy of the book, comment jokes to get on our pre order list.

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I love it.

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The other two books he's got, we talk about those in the interview.

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My kids, I'm not, and I'm not kidding when I say this, they love these books.

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They actually met Mike at the pop up market and they got excited.

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They're like, he's, he's the one that wrote these books.

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I'm gonna stop talking about it.

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Let's get to the interview.

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Mike Agurlias.

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I can't wait for you guys to hear this.

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All right.

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Here he is.

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One of my favorite people we've met in Daybreak.

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We met him a couple months ago, Becks.

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Yes.

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He's got so many titles, nothing but cake, but nothing but cake is like the, the, the furthest one from him.

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I didn't want to talk about that one today.

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Mike Agrillius is with us.

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What? Poet? Poet.

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Game designer, uh, children's book writer.

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Awesome.

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Dad jokes.

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What were you a former, former travel executive? What else, Mike, what else can we throw in there? Well, you won't believe it, but I actually did do stand up comedy back in college.

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What? Yeah.

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You know what, with all this stuff in this crazy, diverse, creative portfolio, Where did it start? Like, what was the, that initial creative spark? Where did that come from for you? You know, I've got to say, I was born at a very young age, number one.

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And in Los Angeles, growing up there.

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Let me, let me set this up before people get, before, so they know what's going on.

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This is going to be filled with, you don't know if this is going in a joke or what's going on here.

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So go ahead, Mike, go ahead.

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I was born in Los Angeles.

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My mom was 100 percent Russian.

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So I'm 50 percent Russian.

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So English for my mom was kind of a second language.

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And that was a big reason why, because she told me how, you know, English is a kind of a tough language for people to learn, especially with all these words that sound the same and have totally different meanings.

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Um, and then when I was growing up, when I was a little kid, uh, my aunt, her little sister, was 15 years younger than my mom.

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But only 10 years younger than me or older than me.

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And so my, uh, my aunt would, uh, would read me Dr.

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Seuss books.

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And that's, I think where I got the love for books.

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And, uh, I always wanted to do my own little, uh, Uh, you know, kid books and a few years back, I, I put those down on a, on a vision board and boom, you know, uh, here five years later, I've got two and almost three books, uh, out on the market.

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Oh my word.

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And we want to talk about that.

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Oh, you've got one there, Blane.

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I've got my copy too.

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You can see, you can see just by the title here, what's here.

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Dr.

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Seuss had a huge influence on us.

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We're going to get into this.

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We're going to read a little bit of this later.

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I love this book.

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My kids love this book.

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My kids love this book and my kids are 19.

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My, my babies are 19 as well.

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Yours are a little younger, right Blane? Oh yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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We got, we got four and almost two, but all ages, all ages though, right Mike? That's how it goes.

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Yeah, it really is.

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Very true.

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And I need to get another couple of copies from you next time I see you.

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All right.

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That's great.

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That's great.

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So.

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So tell me about this upcoming.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Go ahead.

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Sorry, Blane.

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We're just both so excited to talk to you today.

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Your upcoming, your upcoming children's book featuring bad dad jokes.

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Sounds awesome.

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So give us a little sneak peek.

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What are, what can we expect? Well, you know what? I have an advanced copy right here.

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This is what it's going to look like.

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Okay.

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I don't know how to do this.

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Cause I'm not a product.

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And, um, it's going to be, uh, dad jokes.

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And it starts out like a regular rhyming children's book.

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Like my first two books, like here, what's here, if I can just give you like a couple of lines here, what's here goes, can you find a pair of pairs? Do you see the sea? Would you like to stare at stairs or maybe be a bee? And it goes on like that.

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This one starts out with, um, why did the chicken cross the playground? In fact, that one's on the back cover.

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Why did the chicken cross the playground to get to the other slide? Yes, this is how it's going down.

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So hang on for the ride and then it goes into some more rhymes and it rhymes for the first 16 or so pages.

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And then it goes into a bunch of one liners and kind of the way it started was with this one joke that I heard, and now I've got to tell you that the, the difference between.

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My dad joke book and other dad joke books are number one.

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I have some rhymes in the front of it.

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And number two, I have this fabulous artist who does these illustrations.

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And so you see the one on the top there and, uh, yeah, on the top, it says.

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Uh, what's the difference between a well dressed man on a bicycle and a poorly dressed man on a unicycle? And the answer is attire.

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And I love that riddle.

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And, um, uh, I, I just, I thought I should do it.

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My next book should be dad jokes.

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And I had to find a way to make it kind of unique.

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And the way to make it unique was having these rhymes at the beginning and then having my friend Val Chadwick Bagley, who did my first two books with me, Uh, illustrate some of the jokes throughout the whole thing.

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Not every one of them, more than 100 different riddles and rhymes have illustrations with them.

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Uh, but all the, all the rhyming stuff does.

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Most of them do though.

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I have actually, I have held a copy of this book.

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It's not the official.

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It's not the, it's not the one they're being shipped right now, but I saw a pre a pre release version of this book and it's incredible.

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I even told him, I was like, you got to get some stickers of this artwork, like for the kids.

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So that's a good suggestion.

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I'm going to have to do that.

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Yeah.

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This book, I'm telling you, I love it.

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I've seen most of the jokes in there.

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I've heard of him, heard the jokes.

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I always chuckle at every single one of them.

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It's, it's so funny.

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And you know what? I want to go back to his, the hear what's here book.

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And he mentioned the English.

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I didn't, I didn't know about the Russian and English.

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I know that is fascinating.

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If you look really, really closely here, he actually has the definitions of, of the words that are, that are used in there.

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So like this one right here says, is this not a not? Well, he's got both, both variations of not, and he's got them defined in every, every page is pretty much like that.

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That's incredible.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I love that you shared that, you know, your mom, some of that came from your mom learning.

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My mom was the best mom ever.

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She was like a walking encyclopedia too.

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I mean, here's, here's a lady.

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That never went to college, okay, but she was a typist and she, and she just, she, she loved the English language and all the little nuances that were there.

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And she taught me some Russian.

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She wanted to teach me more, but back then it was, you know, Russia was, you know, They were the bad guys with Khrushchev.

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That was way back when.

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I guess it's really improved now with Putin, so Oh yeah, they're the good guys with Putin now, right? Is that how they Look at this, though.

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Let's not forget about the sequel here.

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Oh, yeah.

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Elephant Glue.

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Now, this one is just as clever.

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Like, I've read this one.

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I've looked through it.

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It's Well, my wife likes that one better.

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She says this one, uh, the Elephant Glue one has a I said, nah, it's got more of a punch line.

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That's just a goofy, rhymey book, but little kids, it empowers little kids.

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I was at a Barnes and Noble doing a book signing a while ago.

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I had a little four year old come up with her eight year old, uh, sibling.

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And the eight year old said, let's read this book together.

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And they were, they, they came to the first page of Elephant Glue.

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And it has a, a rhinoceros on the very first page.

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In fact, let's see.

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Oh, that blank here.

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That's on the elephant blue page.

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The elephant one, elephant blue one here.

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Yeah.

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You can show it blank or I can show it.

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I got it.

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I think right here.

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That's a rhinoceros.

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You said this here.

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Yeah, first page.

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So there you go.

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So, and the little, the little 4-year-old said, that's too big a word.

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When she saw the word rhinoceros and the 8-year-old said, without me prompting or anything, said, well, what are those two animals? Well, that's a monkey and that's a rhino.

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Well, and the eight year old said, well, what do you think the word is? That starts with an R.

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And the four year old started to say rhinoceros and then she, or rhino.

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And then she realized it was a much bigger word.

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So she said, is it rhinoceros? And she was so proud of the fact that she got it right.

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There's other big words in there like crocodile and hippopotamus and stuff like that, but, uh, it just, it just kind of.

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uh, encourages kids to, to do some sight looking at, you know, what the context is and not just try to figure it out from the words.

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And stretch their vocabulary, which is awesome.

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Hippopotamus in there.

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That's a giant word there.

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I mean, let me, can I, can I read you a little bit of the first part of, uh, Um, whatever floats your goat.

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Absolutely.

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And that's the new book.

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I wanted to throw that in there cause we missed it, but that's the name of new one, Whatever Floats Your Goat.

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And it goes, like I said, what, why did the chicken cross the playground to get to the other slide? Yes, this is how it's going down.

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So hang on for the ride.

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What has more lives? Oops, I got to get back out here.

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No, over here.

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Has more lives than a cat.

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At least that's what they say.

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A bullfrog.

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Cause it's a fact.

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They croak each and every day.

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And that it goes on kind of like that with the little rhymes and stuff.

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And, and then it says, think of a riddle.

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Your gramps would tell about a kid out on a boat.

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And the punchline he would sell whatever floats your goat, which is where the title came from and it's, uh, it's a Kickstarter right now.

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We've only been one weekend.

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In fact, tomorrow is the first week into the Kickstarter.

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We've already passed our goal up, but if, if, uh, some of your.

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Viewers, listeners want to, um, you know, go to the, my Facebook page at Happy Valley Publishers on Facebook.

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Happy Valley Publishers.

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Uh, please like that page.

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That's number one and, or follow it.

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And then number two, if they want to just pledge a dollar or two, that'll help with the matrix in Kickstarter so that it'll rise to the top when people go to search children's books.

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I love that.

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And Happy Valley Publishing.

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Mike, that's, that's your publishing company, right? Happy Valley Publishers.

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Yes.

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I, I, I, I, that's an imprint I did.

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Okay.

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This is going to tell you how stinking old I am.

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Let me tell you.

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1978.

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Okay.

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And then, and then a night and then you kept doing stuff for Happy Valley and in 1986 you had, uh, Why Wait Till I'm Dead.

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That's a, that's a poetry book, I believe.

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And then you had, uh, what was the other one? Buy One, Get One Free.

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You had Beyond the Laughter Comes a Poet.

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Also a game designer.

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Count your blessings.

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You did Count Your Blessings, Do What is Right.

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What else you had? Missionary Blues Abstracts.

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Oh, we've got to talk about Abstracts, the game of Absurd Logic.

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We know that you were on David Letterman's show for that, right? Well, yeah.

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What happened was, was, um, that when that game came out, I like to promote stuff, okay? So, I, uh, I found out that, uh, Dan Quayle was going to be at, uh, Utah Valley University, which is called something different.

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And so, I paid 50 bucks to get a picture of me with Hanning Dan Quayle.

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Uh, a copy of the game and then, um, and then I, I took that picture with me to the New York Toy Fair when the, the game was introduced.

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Well Dan Quayle was, was one of the people, your guest famous people, places and things back, uh, based on abstract clues.

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That's how the game is played.

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And Dan Quayle was one of the famous people in the game.

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And, uh, when David Lamerill came by the booth and saw that.

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Dan Quayle was holding up this game at the booth.

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He goes, wow, what's this all about? Cause he didn't like Dan Quayle.

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Exactly.

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I already know the, I know the background.

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I wasn't around.

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Well, I guess I wasn't around right then, but.

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You were around.

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They didn't, he didn't like them so much.

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They were both from Indiana.

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And, uh, anyway, so he says, uh, he says to Dan Quayle, he says, uh, so is this, is this game just for Republicans? No.

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Is this game, uh, just for really dumb guys? You know, cause he didn't like Dan Gweth.

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Anyway, it got put on, uh, the David Letterman Show and it ran, uh, In fact, there was a couple of different repeats and I could tell when, uh, it ran, This was before social media and stuff.

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And, but when it ran, sales for the games would go up.

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Um, you know, it FAO Schwarz where it was sold and at, uh, Neiman Marcus and other stores and stuff like that.

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I feel like there's, you know, the, the game Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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I feel like there should be a new game called, you know, Seven Degrees of Mike.

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Thanks.

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Am I saying your last name correctly as well? Agrileus.

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Agrileus.

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Agrileus.

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Agrileus.

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Do you have any, do you use, do you have any, some other plays on your name though? That's right.

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You have, uh, Emma Grelias.

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Do you, are you using Emma Grelias or something like that? I use Emma Grelias for my poetry books.

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Yep.

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And, uh, then, uh, Michael Grelias when I'm in trouble.

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So that's about it.

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Okay.

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So that comes back to bite ya.

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I want to hear, I want to hear a poem.

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I want to hear something good right here, just off the top of your head.

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Off the top of my head? I'm better with the dad jokes.

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Blane.

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I'm better with a dad joke.

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Why do people paint Easter eggs? Because it's so much easier than wallpaper in them.

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I love it.

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They don't get old.

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These jokes don't get old.

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I mean, I'm a dad.

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Here's your Christmas one.

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All right.

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All right.

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Christmas one.

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All right.

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So how much did Santa's new, new sleigh cost? Nothing.

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It was on the house.

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Okay.

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Hey, so, so you got a lot of jokes built around, like holidays and stuff.

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They're just all kinds of jokes.

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I mean, one of, one of my faves, somebody, you know, and the way I got a lot of these jokes, like I was in an elevator one day going, uh, in, uh, upstairs to, uh, to visit somebody in the hospital.

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Okay.

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And as I'm going up, I, I said, uh, anybody got a dad joke for me? And this one lady says, Oh, I got one.

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And she told me one.

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I'd never heard it before.

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I said, can I put it in my book? And she said, sure.

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It was, why don't pirates shower? Because they usually just wash up on shore.

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I loved it.

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I loved it.

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There's one that, and I had never heard it before.

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So I put it in.

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Then there's one that everybody's heard before, uh, probably.

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Um, How much do pirates pay for corn? How much? About a buck, about a buck an ear.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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That was definitely more familiar.

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With you having all these dad jokes and stuff though, you got to be a family man, right? Like this has got to be Oh, yes, sir.

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Yes, sir.

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Yes, sir.

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Yeah, that's what I was kind of hinting at when I said you got a lot of jokes that revolve around the holidays, and I just kind of, I kind of, I kind of paint holidays with family, and you seem like Well, we got a big family, okay, so I, I have four kids, my wife has six kids, so between us we have ten kids.

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You beat me out, wow, that's not, that's hard to do.

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And between us, we have 17 grandkids.

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Oh, how fun.

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Grandkids are way more fun than the regular kids I hear because you can always just, you can leave them.

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All right.

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Goodbye.

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Here, have all this sugar and I'm leaving now.

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Yeah, exactly.

355
00:20:25,357.8892903 --> 00:20:25,567.8892903
Yeah.

356
00:20:25,727.8902903 --> 00:20:25,987.8902903
Yeah.

357
00:20:25,987.9902903 --> 00:20:26,442.7902903
Yeah.

358
00:20:27,82.8902903 --> 00:20:28,382.7902903
But that's, that's incredible.

359
00:20:28,382.8902903 --> 00:20:29,82.8902903
Yeah, go ahead.

360
00:20:29,82.9902903 --> 00:20:39,892.8892903
Did your, did your family, like, did your fathers or your grandfathers or, you know, that have any sort of, um, play into your work and dad jokes? You know, my dad, my dad's a funny guy.

361
00:20:39,942.8902903 --> 00:20:41,52.8902903
My dad's still alive.

362
00:20:41,442.8902903 --> 00:20:43,422.7902903
Uh, he's 90, 95.

363
00:20:43,422.8902903 --> 00:20:44,572.8892903
Oh, wow.

364
00:20:44,722.8902903 --> 00:20:52,807.8902903
Um, in fact, it was his 90th birthday that inspired me to really want to Uh, do my first kid book.

365
00:20:53,397.8902903 --> 00:20:58,477.8902903
So when he was nine, when he was 90, he, he asked me, he was a veteran of the Korean war.

366
00:20:58,637.8902903 --> 00:20:59,147.8902903
Okay.

367
00:20:59,917.8902903 --> 00:21:05,627.8902903
And, and he, he said, I want you to read a book before you come down to my birthday party.

368
00:21:05,627.8902903 --> 00:21:08,517.8892903
And it was a book about, about Korea and the Korean war.

369
00:21:09,217.8902903 --> 00:21:11,987.8902903
And I started reading it, but literally I had nightmares.

370
00:21:12,517.8902903 --> 00:21:15,467.8902903
And so I decided I'm going to listen to the audio version.

371
00:21:15,467.8902903 --> 00:21:16,357.8902903
Maybe it'll be better.

372
00:21:16,832.8902903 --> 00:21:20,512.8902903
And so I went to, I called the library and they said they had a copy.

373
00:21:20,512.8902903 --> 00:21:30,42.8902903
So I went in and while I was waiting to see if they had a copy, I noticed that, uh, to one side of me was a book that said yoga for old people.

374
00:21:30,752.8902903 --> 00:21:35,412.8902903
And next to it was a book that said, Yoga for Babies.

375
00:21:36,42.8902903 --> 00:21:40,572.8902903
And on the next, on the other side, it was Yoga for Dogs.

376
00:21:40,572.8902903 --> 00:21:41,412.8902903
I kid you not.

377
00:21:41,962.8902903 --> 00:21:45,432.8902903
And I said, this is the kind of stuff we're promoting in the library.

378
00:21:45,962.8902903 --> 00:21:47,662.8892903
I think I should do that kid book.

379
00:21:47,992.8902903 --> 00:21:51,892.8902903
So I called my friend Val and I said, Hey, I'm going to go for that book.

380
00:21:52,12.8902903 --> 00:21:53,292.8902903
And he said, I'm in.

381
00:21:53,582.8902903 --> 00:21:54,592.8902903
So we did it.

382
00:21:54,962.8902903 --> 00:21:56,472.8902903
And that was five years ago.

383
00:21:57,102.8902903 --> 00:22:06,532.8902903
And, uh, so now we have Hear What's Here, Elephant Glue, and before Father's Day, um, whatever floats your boat, we'll be out too.

384
00:22:07,142.8902903 --> 00:22:13,832.8892903
That's, that's the official release date, is right around, it's going to be, well, just before, like a week or two before Father's Day, it should be.

385
00:22:14,277.8902903 --> 00:22:17,327.8902903
So they're already, they're already, they're already printed and they're ready to go.

386
00:22:17,327.8902903 --> 00:22:19,627.8902903
And in fact, I think they're being shipped this week.

387
00:22:19,627.8902903 --> 00:22:24,297.8902903
So I posted a picture and it was a giant what a palette.

388
00:22:24,327.8892903 --> 00:22:30,617.8892903
Is that what you want to call it on your page? I bet you've already got that whole palette sold.

389
00:22:32,142.8902903 --> 00:22:33,402.8902903
I feel like it's got to be.

390
00:22:34,522.8902903 --> 00:22:34,802.8902903
Yeah.

391
00:22:34,802.8902903 --> 00:22:35,882.8902903
Cause I'm going to buy it.

392
00:22:36,322.8902903 --> 00:22:39,282.7902903
Oh, you're going to use that in all my game baskets.

393
00:22:39,562.8902903 --> 00:22:40,642.8902903
We should do that.

394
00:22:40,702.8902903 --> 00:22:42,172.8902903
We should absolutely do that.

395
00:22:42,182.8902903 --> 00:22:50,112.8902903
Mike, what else, man? I feel like there's a whole interview I want to do with you about the board games.

396
00:22:50,132.8902903 --> 00:22:50,972.8892903
No, not even kidding you.

397
00:22:51,72.8902903 --> 00:22:51,472.8892903
Not even kidding.

398
00:22:51,472.9892903 --> 00:22:54,52.8892903
I'll tell you what, that's so interesting.

399
00:22:54,52.8892903 --> 00:22:54,682.8892903
You would say that.

400
00:22:55,422.8902903 --> 00:22:56,152.8902903
Abstracts.

401
00:22:56,672.8902903 --> 00:22:59,672.8897903
I've done, I've done eight different board games and card games over the years.

402
00:22:59,672.8897903 --> 00:23:00,52.8892903
Okay.

403
00:23:00,52.9892903 --> 00:23:00,117.7902903
Okay.

404
00:23:00,117.9902903 --> 00:23:12,107.8902903
Made in the USA, which is a little card game that I did two days after 9 11, just to kind of honor the first responders and the, and, uh, the military people.

405
00:23:12,597.8892903 --> 00:23:18,197.8892903
And, um, I would love to, I would love to talk to you about, uh, abstracts.

406
00:23:18,317.8892903 --> 00:23:22,827.8902903
I need to find someone to finish off an app for the abstracts game.

407
00:23:22,887.8902903 --> 00:23:31,67.8902903
It's so if, if, if somebody happens to, you know, happens to, um, Want to help me with an app.

408
00:23:31,447.8902903 --> 00:23:33,517.8902903
I've got it three quarters of the way done.

409
00:23:33,687.8902903 --> 00:23:36,967.8902903
Um, but I need to finish it off and monetize it too.

410
00:23:37,357.8902903 --> 00:23:37,947.8902903
I love that.

411
00:23:37,947.8902903 --> 00:23:38,917.8902903
Let's see if we can figure that out.

412
00:23:39,297.8902903 --> 00:23:39,567.8897903
Yeah.

413
00:23:39,567.8897903 --> 00:23:41,847.8902903
I know a couple of people I'll, I'll be in touch with you.

414
00:23:41,847.8902903 --> 00:23:43,277.8902903
Yeah, let's do that.

415
00:23:43,477.8892903 --> 00:23:45,847.8902903
And then, like I said, I'd love to talk to you again.

416
00:23:46,432.8902903 --> 00:23:49,862.8902903
All about the board games, video games.

417
00:23:49,862.8902903 --> 00:23:51,982.8902903
Maybe even, I feel like you might even be a video game.

418
00:23:52,12.8902903 --> 00:23:52,832.8902903
I don't know.

419
00:23:52,842.8902903 --> 00:23:53,552.8902903
Video games.

420
00:23:54,492.8902903 --> 00:24:02,912.8892903
We can put a controller in your hands and I think you would, there's, there's a bunch of games out there that there are.

421
00:24:03,57.8902903 --> 00:24:04,967.8902903
Game designers, like that's what you do.

422
00:24:04,967.9902903 --> 00:24:09,337.8902903
It's, it's somebody who I used to be the director of Game Inventors of America.

423
00:24:09,387.8902903 --> 00:24:10,197.8902903
So there you go.

424
00:24:10,267.8902903 --> 00:24:10,967.8902903
You've got a whole story.

425
00:24:10,967.8902903 --> 00:24:14,257.8902903
I want to, I got to bring you on my video game podcast and we'll talk board games.

426
00:24:14,647.8892903 --> 00:24:15,467.8902903
Talk all that stuff.

427
00:24:15,497.8902903 --> 00:24:15,957.8892903
I love it.

428
00:24:16,707.8902903 --> 00:24:23,147.8902903
What else would you want to talk about with the, with the books? You got anything else that we left out? I'll give you a little thing that I learned.

429
00:24:23,147.8902903 --> 00:24:23,527.8902903
Okay.

430
00:24:23,567.8902903 --> 00:24:24,147.8902903
Because I.

431
00:24:24,582.8902903 --> 00:24:29,642.8902903
You know, the first two books were just poems I wrote when I was in high school, okay? From my little brother.

432
00:24:30,162.8902903 --> 00:24:35,542.8902903
And, um, and they were pretty easy and my friend just did the illustrations real quick and we got them out real quick.

433
00:24:36,52.8902903 --> 00:24:51,162.8902903
This last book, even though, you know, a lot of it is, is, is just borrowed stuff from dad jokes from all over the place, that, um, I, I did a lot of research on jokes for the last year, on dad jokes.

434
00:24:51,582.8902903 --> 00:24:52,702.8902903
Here's what I found out.

435
00:24:52,782.8902903 --> 00:24:55,632.8902903
Two major articles, one in the Wall Street Journal.

436
00:24:56,537.8902903 --> 00:25:00,967.8902903
And one in a thing called the British Psychological Society.

437
00:25:01,637.8902903 --> 00:25:11,167.8902903
Both state that kids that are exposed to dad jokes have better communication skills and an overall higher intellect.

438
00:25:11,677.8902903 --> 00:25:13,137.8892903
And the reason for that is.

439
00:25:13,687.8902903 --> 00:25:26,37.8902903
Is if kids don't understand why it's funny or what a word means, one of the ones I read you was croak, you know, they might relate, relate that to frogs, but they don't know why that's a funny joke.

440
00:25:26,37.8902903 --> 00:25:36,567.8902903
Well, why is that funny mom and dad? And then the communication channels open, they're receptive to learning and they continue to ask questions throughout their life.

441
00:25:37,617.8902903 --> 00:25:40,167.8702903
Oh, I like that.

442
00:25:40,167.8702903 --> 00:25:45,167.8902903
I was blessed to have a funny dad and a mom who loved the English language.

443
00:25:45,597.8902903 --> 00:25:54,337.8892903
And so that's how I, I kept asking questions all the time and mom was my own private dictionary and thesaurus, you know, I love that.

444
00:25:54,337.8902903 --> 00:25:57,757.8892903
And I love that that really shows in your work throughout your life.

445
00:25:57,767.8892903 --> 00:26:01,727.8892903
That's, I mean, look at the impact, just absolutely brilliant.

446
00:26:02,217.8892903 --> 00:26:03,317.8902903
Yeah, it really is.

447
00:26:03,317.8902903 --> 00:26:06,197.8902903
And, and we've known you for here for a couple of months.

448
00:26:06,687.8902903 --> 00:26:10,997.8902903
And before we go, I want to get you to do your 42 second.

449
00:26:12,507.8902903 --> 00:26:13,587.8902903
I could do that for you.

450
00:26:13,827.8902903 --> 00:26:15,157.8902903
I want that one, yeah.

451
00:26:15,347.8902903 --> 00:26:26,557.8902903
Alright, this is, this is, this is, uh, the entire book of Hear What's Here without the definitions or the cute illustrations, which Val does a great job with, with the illustrations.

452
00:26:26,557.8902903 --> 00:26:28,447.8902903
Are you going to time me, Becks? You're a timer.

453
00:26:29,327.8892903 --> 00:26:41,967.8902903
Okay, can you find a pair of pears? Do you see the sea? Would you like to stare at stairs or maybe be a bee? Do you think the deer's a deer? Is this knot a knot? Tell me what you hear here last night the night got caught.

454
00:26:42,277.8892903 --> 00:26:49,497.8892903
Have you heard a whale wail or seen a hare with hair? Do you think this pale is pale? Is that bear all bare? Which is my favorite illustration.

455
00:26:49,797.8902903 --> 00:26:52,847.8902903
Does the horse sound hoarse to you? Sail or sail, you can't.

456
00:26:53,137.8902903 --> 00:26:58,517.8902903
Has that one won one or two? Is that ant an ant? Did you see the flea flee? The maid has made the bed.

457
00:26:58,677.8902903 --> 00:27:00,487.8902903
That hole does not look whole to me.

458
00:27:00,657.8902903 --> 00:27:05,717.8902903
Have you read what's read? Can you find a pair of pairs? Do you hear what's here? These are more than just mere words.

459
00:27:05,787.8902903 --> 00:27:06,927.8902903
These are words that mirror.

460
00:27:07,297.8902903 --> 00:27:09,377.8902903
How'd I do? What's the time? You're under a minute.

461
00:27:11,7.8902903 --> 00:27:11,777.8902903
I timed it.

462
00:27:11,777.8902903 --> 00:27:12,197.8902903
I timed it.

463
00:27:12,207.8902903 --> 00:27:14,97.8902903
You were at about 38 seconds.

464
00:27:14,97.8902903 --> 00:27:15,617.8902903
Actually, you came in under.

465
00:27:16,477.8902903 --> 00:27:17,317.8902903
I love that.

466
00:27:17,317.9902903 --> 00:27:21,107.8902903
Just those two words, whole and whole.

467
00:27:22,647.8892903 --> 00:27:30,707.8892903
One means empty, void of things, and the other means everything complete, and they sound exactly the same.

468
00:27:30,837.8892903 --> 00:27:32,517.8902903
And people say, well, one has a W.

469
00:27:32,737.8902903 --> 00:27:34,897.8902903
Well, I can't see the W when we're talking.

470
00:27:35,357.8902903 --> 00:27:36,497.8892903
Yeah, correct.

471
00:27:36,537.8902903 --> 00:27:36,817.8902903
Yeah.

472
00:27:36,817.8902903 --> 00:27:38,367.8902903
The English language is wacky.

473
00:27:39,197.8902903 --> 00:27:39,647.8902903
It is.

474
00:27:40,237.8902903 --> 00:27:40,997.8902903
It really is.

475
00:27:41,7.8902903 --> 00:27:46,97.8902903
And I love what you did with, with, I'm looking at it right now.

476
00:27:46,97.8902903 --> 00:27:46,927.8902903
Hear what's here.

477
00:27:47,17.8902903 --> 00:27:47,617.8902903
That, that book.

478
00:27:47,647.8902903 --> 00:27:49,777.8902903
I'm telling you, I enjoy it.

479
00:27:49,777.8902903 --> 00:27:50,867.8892903
Just looking through it.

480
00:27:51,197.8902903 --> 00:27:53,477.8902903
And then I'm going to read it to my kids over and over and over.

481
00:27:54,427.8892903 --> 00:27:55,17.8902903
Beck School.

482
00:27:55,57.8902903 --> 00:27:56,807.8902903
19 year olds love these books.

483
00:27:56,807.9902903 --> 00:27:58,2.8897903
It's true.

484
00:27:58,2.8897903 --> 00:27:59,197.7892903
They do.

485
00:27:59,197.8892903 --> 00:28:00,867.8902903
It's seriously all of, for all ages.

486
00:28:01,127.8902903 --> 00:28:02,277.8902903
You're here for all ages.

487
00:28:02,277.8902903 --> 00:28:02,577.8902903
Literally.

488
00:28:02,597.8902903 --> 00:28:02,887.8902903
Literally.

489
00:28:02,997.8902903 --> 00:28:05,157.8902903
This is, this is one thing I can sign off on.

490
00:28:05,157.8902903 --> 00:28:06,207.8902903
That's for all ages.

491
00:28:09,7.8902903 --> 00:28:10,697.8902903
We had a little mix of both right there at the end.

492
00:28:10,697.8902903 --> 00:28:13,167.8902903
You had the reading of his book.

493
00:28:13,217.8902903 --> 00:28:13,817.8902903
I like that.

494
00:28:14,377.8902903 --> 00:28:15,757.8902903
Thank you for joining us here.

495
00:28:16,27.8902903 --> 00:28:17,57.8902903
We're going to be talking to you more.

496
00:28:17,887.8892903 --> 00:28:23,797.8902903
I really do appreciate getting to know you over the last couple of months and getting to know you even more.

497
00:28:23,937.8902903 --> 00:28:24,537.8902903
I really do.

498
00:28:25,347.8902903 --> 00:28:29,937.8902903
Can't wait to get to see more of what you do, because I know Pledge a buck on my Kickstarter.

499
00:28:29,937.8902903 --> 00:28:30,957.8902903
Just pledge one buck.

500
00:28:30,957.8902903 --> 00:28:31,477.8902903
That's all.

501
00:28:31,477.9902903 --> 00:28:32,57.8902903
Here you go.

502
00:28:32,117.8902903 --> 00:28:33,747.7902903
We absolutely will.

503
00:28:33,747.8902903 --> 00:28:34,657.8902903
I've already pledged mine.

504
00:28:34,667.8902903 --> 00:28:37,477.8902903
We'll make sure we get the link up in the show notes for this.

505
00:28:39,87.8902903 --> 00:28:41,742.6302903
Anything else we can do to help you, let us know, because I'm serious.

506
00:28:41,742.6302903 --> 00:28:42,357.2702903
You're wonderful.

507
00:28:42,357.2702903 --> 00:28:43,586.5502903
I appreciate you guys.

508
00:28:43,586.5502903 --> 00:28:44,508.5102903
I love it.

509
00:28:44,508.5102903 --> 00:28:49,957.8902903
And I, I will be, uh, at some of the farmer's markets over in Daybreak, uh, this year.

510
00:28:49,967.8902903 --> 00:28:50,897.8902903
So We'll be out there.

511
00:28:51,187.8902903 --> 00:28:59,412.8902903
Hey, he He was at the pop up market with us, uh, a couple of weeks back, came over, told a couple of jokes, said, I'm going to take a nap.

512
00:28:59,752.8902903 --> 00:29:04,352.8902903
He sat there and he really didn't think he fell asleep for about got up and I am old.

513
00:29:04,712.8902903 --> 00:29:11,282.8902903
What can I say? I don't think old has anything to do with it unless I am old.

514
00:29:11,292.8902903 --> 00:29:15,322.8902903
Maybe he walked up, literally told about.

515
00:29:16,137.8902903 --> 00:29:17,257.8902903
Three to five jokes.

516
00:29:17,257.8902903 --> 00:29:17,807.8902903
Great ones.

517
00:29:17,937.8902903 --> 00:29:19,277.8902903
And then, and then Sid is going to take a nap.

518
00:29:19,497.8902903 --> 00:29:20,677.8902903
I don't, I had no problem with it.

519
00:29:21,67.8902903 --> 00:29:21,847.8902903
I thought it was great.

520
00:29:22,887.8902903 --> 00:29:23,627.8902903
Thank you, Mike.

521
00:29:24,207.8902903 --> 00:29:24,817.8902903
Thank you.

522
00:29:25,307.8902903 --> 00:29:25,737.8902903
Mike.

523
00:29:25,797.8892903 --> 00:29:26,397.8902903
Take care.

524
00:29:26,656.620449 --> 00:29:27,306.620449
Oh my gosh.

525
00:29:27,306.620449 --> 00:29:31,56.620449
What a, just an incredible interview with an incredible dude.

526
00:29:31,816.620449 --> 00:29:34,226.620449
Mike Agrelius, super talented.

527
00:29:34,226.620449 --> 00:29:35,576.620449
I'm telling you, these books are amazing.

528
00:29:36,46.620449 --> 00:29:41,566.620449
Uh, if you want to back that Kickstarter he's talking about, I'll put the link up.

529
00:29:41,786.619449 --> 00:29:43,306.620449
You actually just go to kickstarter.

530
00:29:43,336.620449 --> 00:29:43,776.620449
com.

531
00:29:44,176.620449 --> 00:29:47,636.620449
If you search Mike Agrelius, it'll pop up for you.

532
00:29:47,636.620449 --> 00:29:49,36.620449
This is what it looks like right here.

533
00:29:50,326.620449 --> 00:29:55,156.619449
I just want you to see though, he's already met the goal, but that doesn't mean anything.

534
00:29:55,886.619449 --> 00:29:56,636.620449
Push him some money.

535
00:29:57,306.620449 --> 00:30:03,176.620449
A dollar, two dollars, whatever it is, because it'll put the algorithm, it'll, it'll bump up on Kickstarter for him.

536
00:30:03,256.620449 --> 00:30:06,686.620449
And it'll also let him know that you're interested in this book.

537
00:30:06,956.620449 --> 00:30:08,26.619949
You're not interested in this book.

538
00:30:08,26.619949 --> 00:30:09,616.620449
Why? What's wrong with you? No, I'm kidding.

539
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But the artwork is incredible.

540
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The kids will love this book.

541
00:30:13,696.620449 --> 00:30:14,846.620449
Dads will love this book.

542
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The jokes he has, he acquired these jokes over the years from around the world.

543
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Really.

544
00:30:21,246.619449 --> 00:30:24,606.620449
He told me he got sent to Mexico when he was down there just a couple of weeks back.

545
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Look, I got to tell you, I've seen the, the, the, Preview of this book and I love it.

546
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I can't wait for it to come out.

547
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Thank you so much for joining this week.

548
00:30:36,981.620449 --> 00:30:37,771.620449
Thanks, Mike.

549
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Thanks, Emma Agrelius, the poet.

550
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I love that part about him too.

551
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We'll talk to him again soon, man, and see how it's going.

552
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He's going to have multiple books out coming soon.

553
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And if you need anything from Radio Daybreak or from Ride the Wave Media, find us on social media at Ride the Wave Media at Radio Daybreak.

554
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See you guys next week.