How Fie Scoobie Became “Mr. Gainesville”

 Sometimes your side quests take you straight into the heart of your city.

In this episode of Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Josh and Amanda sit down at one of their favorite Gainesville pubs, The Bull, to talk with the man currently blowing up across town, local rapper Fie Scoobie, better known around here as “Mr. Gainesville.”

What started as a hometown anthem suddenly caught fire when the Florida Gators basketball championship celebration sent his song echoing through downtown. One minute he was working at a club trying to get DJs to play the track…the next minute crowds were rushing him on the street yelling, “You’re our guy!”

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Welcome And A Mortality Detour

Josh 0:00

Familiar Wilson's media. Relationships are the story. You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down. Alright, then.

SPEAKER_06 0:13

Super familiar with the Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons.

Amanda 0:23

I'm Amanda.

Josh 0:24

And I'm Josh, and we're the podcast about marriage 2.0 with kids.

Amanda 0:28

And all the side quests.

Josh 0:30

And Amanda, today we talked to Mr. Gainesville.

Amanda 0:34

Yeah, that was a big side quest. And uh a really fun time. I had no idea Mr. Gainesville was as big as Mr. Gainesville is within the Gainesville sphere.

Josh 0:44

Mr. Gainesville, also known as Fi Scooby, is a rapper local here to Gainesville. And all of a sudden he got really viral. So we're gonna talk to him about that and what that's like for him. But first, we've been getting a lot of good comments about our last episode with Madison, who used to work in a funeral home and used to embalm people.

Amanda 1:03

Yeah, it was I mean, it was a fascinating episode. Madison came with tons of history and facts, and we've just been hearing really great things about just how fascinating and interesting and well-spoken she is.

Josh 1:17

Around a subject that I'm very uncomfortable about.

Amanda 1:20

Did it feel uncomfortable when we were having the conversation?

Josh 1:23

No, it didn't. But in general, when I think about it, it fills me with dread, horror, and discomfort.

Amanda 1:28

Which is really interesting to me because you work in an industry where people around you are at the end of their lives, really. So it's it's gotta be something that you're confronting.

Josh 1:39

Well, what I'm confronting is my own sense of mortality.

Amanda 1:42

Oh, yeah.

Meeting Fi Scooby At The Bull

Josh 1:42

So anyway, boy, that was a great way for us to start our freaking episode. Um, go ahead and listen to that if you haven't heard it uh yet. We are going to move forward and listen now to our interview with Fi Scooby, Mr. Gainesville, and we interviewed him at the Bull, which is one of my favorite Gainesville pubs owned by my lovely friend Jacob Larson. So here is our chat with Fi Scooby, Mr.

SPEAKER_06 2:07

Gainesville.

Josh 2:10

So we are sitting here in one of my favorite places, The Bull, uh here in downtown Gainesville with the man of many names, Mr. Gainesville Fi Scooby. How you doing, sir? Hey, I'm doing good. Thank y'all for having me. When we told our daughter that we were gonna sit down and talk with you, she lost her mind. Oh my god. And she texted all of her friends and they were so excited. They're they're all at uh different colleges, but most of them at UF. Most definitely. So you are you're blowing up with the college kids, yeah?

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Yeah, I'm I'm I'm seeing that I'm I'm definitely blowing up with them and they rock it with me, so I'm definitely rocking with them back. Appreciate them.

Josh 2:46

I could not sound more like an old man when he's like, sound like a little guy.

Amanda 2:49

You're blowing up with the college kids. So it is funny though, because Josh was telling me where I was standing in the kitchen, he's like, you know, we're gonna interview Mr. Gainesville, and our daughter, who's a freshman at UAF, she's 19 from across the house because she happened to be home that day, and she was like, What? And then she starts, so then she starts texting her friends who um they call themselves the cookies. So if you could say hi to the cookies, you'd make their life.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

Hey man, shout out to the cookies right here in Gainesville, Florida. Let's go.

Amanda 3:15

Thank you. So I just sent them a picture of you, and I got back. Uh, his aura is reaching me through the screen.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Wow, that's pretty cool. Yes.

Amanda 3:25

So that but also we have now gained some like cool points in our house because tan gently related to the case. Just as many cool points.

Josh 3:36

There's like a cap. You know, on video games, there's only as strong as you can go. Yeah. My cool points cap is is already been. Yeah, yeah, you're doing good.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

That's what's up. I know Mr. Gainesville. Oh, you do that. Yeah, yeah.

Josh 3:47

Um so how did this all start? Because we were talking before we started recording, and you didn't plan on this.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

Yeah, see, um, like I said, um, you know, I dropped the song in 2017. I came up with it. I'm from Gainesville, and I just wanted to do a song for the city because, like I said, I never really heard no one represent for Gainesville. So I was like, you know what, let me do a song for us, you know, and you know, try to put something out. But I didn't know that it was going to reach this capacity and um blew me up the way it's blowing me up right now. But yeah.

Amanda 4:16

So you're a Gainesville native?

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Born and raised, been here my whole life. My family from here.

Amanda 4:20

You're an ACR, as they would say.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

Yes, yes.

Amanda 4:23

Um, where did you go to school?

SPEAKER_02 4:24

I went to GHS, I went to a lot of the elementaries here. Uh uh, went to middle school here, Lincoln Middle School, went to Toward Norton Elementary. So yeah, I'm born and raised here. Yeah, you are.

Amanda 4:34

You're a Gainesville, Gainesville boy.

Josh 4:35

Yeah. This kind of all happened around the time that we won the national championship, right? Did it happen because like it was hand in hand with that?

SPEAKER_02 4:43

That's the thing. I don't know how it kind of happened because I went on the radio station the week before and and I was promoting the song. Shout out to Magic 101.3, because I went on their radio station and promoted it. I dropped the video that Monday. So we went to the radio station Wednesday, Monday. We dropped the video. I was viral. Monday.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

But I think when the championship game came on, I don't know what was going on with that, but it took off from there, you know. And when we won the championship, like I was in the house that whole night, but people was calling me, like, man, you know, your song is blowing up.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

They play your song all downtown, they're going crazy, man. So I'm like, for real? I'm like, let me come outside then. So it was about maybe one o'clock. Man, when I come outside, I was like, Oh my gosh, everybody was like, There you go. And they just rushed me. And I'm like, they like, you're our guy.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

And I'm like, Me? They were like, Yes, you missed the gamesville, and and it's been great ever since. You know what I mean? So we've been going crazy.

Josh 5:41

People see you all over town. You like to do on your social shout-outs to different uh businesses and places here, and you're like at part like school parties and stuff that bring you in to what they come you they bring up.

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Yeah, they call that's the thing, man. Everybody call me, they want me to come through and turn them up, you know what I mean. So I I love turning everybody up, and you know, like I said, it's a blessing to even be doing this, you know, and represent for the city and having everybody showing me love. So that's why I don't mind showing the love back because in the beginning, people showed me love, even before I blew up, people were showing me love. I was working at Capone's for two years before I blew up. I was little guy in the bathroom, holding down the bathroom. And um, I used to like talk to the DJs about getting my song played through the club, and they was like, We're gonna work on it, we're gonna try. So, for like a whole year, I tried to get the song played, and I was like, one day they're gonna play it. And one day they played it. And um, by that time, I think I had them blew up though, because they kind of didn't know the song, yeah. Yeah, they didn't kind of knew who I was, but I was still working even as I was blowing up, I was still working in the bathroom. So people was coming in, like, what are you doing here? So then one guy he came in and he was like, Man, I don't mean to knock your hustle or nothing like that, but you're too big to be in this bathroom. Yeah, and then a light switch just cut on. I said, You know what? He's right, and that was my last thing. I've been going hard ever since then. But yeah, I mean, shout out to Capones. I started out with them first. So yeah, just a little guy doing work, you know, just trying to feed his family and dropped a song. We blew up, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're here, you know what I mean?

Josh 7:13

So I don't want that to be missed though, is like the the amount of work that you've done. Yes, yes, I like this. This viral thing, it happens, it happens to people, but like you're still you're still working hard. Yeah, and so I love that. That's great. So let me ask you, um, what is it about Gainesville?

SPEAKER_02 7:29

Um, it's where I'm from. I'm a native from here. You know what I mean? I'm born and raised from Gainesville. A lot of people that blow up from Gainesville, they're not from Gainesville. You know, and there's nothing to them, but you know, a lot of people that come from here, they're not actually from here. You know, they might have gone to college here, played football, basketball, tennis, baseball, or something like that. So I'm just like, you know, I'm always representing for my city. A lot of people used to tell me, hey, you need to leave to make it. And I tell them, no, you don't. You have to make it in your hometown first because how can you go to another city and blow up if you don't know anybody? You have a better chance of blowing up at home with the few people that kind of know of you. And then, you know, you grew up with the peers that you grew up with. So you have a better chance. So a lot of people used to always tell me, leave your town. I was like, no, I'm not. I'm gonna make something for my city and I'm gonna grind hard and I'm gonna put us on the map somehow, somehow. And that's where we're at today. When did you get bit by the music bug? Man, I've been doing music since I was about eight years old. I got inspired by a female rapper. Okay, who's that? Her name is DeBoss. Okay. She passed away now, but she was kind of like one of those gangster rappers. You know what I mean? She rapped really hard, and I I kind of grew up listening to her a lot, and I liked it the way she rapped. And just throughout my career, you know, I was like, I liked her style, and then I started liking Master P as I got a little older, so I gravitated to him too. So yeah, I've been I've been rapping since a little kid, you know, loving it.

Josh 8:57

Thank you for throwing Master P in there. So like I know who you're talking about. I got some homework now.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

All right, so who do you listen to now? Um, that's crazy because I listen to some of everything right now. I listen to a lot of rap. I listen to jazz, I listen to punk rock now. So um, yeah, I'm I'm just expanding my horizons when it comes to music because um I'm really trying to put out different types of music. So I'm listening for different sounds and different melodies, and also listen to people that came before me, how they really represent. You know what I mean? So always a student.

Gainesville Roots Family And Staying Local

Josh 9:31

Always, yep. Um, okay, so I I did want to ask you uh a little bit about your favorite places in Gamesville. Where's your go-to spot to eat?

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Man, that's crazy because we just now starting to, it's a lot of new restaurants here in Gainesville. As I'm making my way around to all these new businesses, I'm like, I'm gonna try them, I'm gonna try them. As a kid growing up, Harry's used to be one of my favorites in TJI Friday because my stepdad he worked at both. So we would eat Harry's and TJ Friday pretty much every day. You know what I mean? But now I really don't have a favorite, but I'm trying all the other new restaurants that's in town. So, you know, we just trying new stuff. You know what I mean?

Josh 10:11

But I like all I like all the new places that I have tried. Favorite place to just, you just want to go chill, and it can't be your home. That's cheating. No, I I I'm one of those guys that don't.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Um a guy told me today, he was like, You must be on your home because you're never there. I'm like, the wife and kids, they hold the house down. Um I'm outside, you know, I'm working, so yeah, I'm I'm never home. But uh, I I really don't have a favorite place, but what I do do is I take my kids to some of the places that I grew up at.

SPEAKER_06 10:42

Oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_02 10:43

So we I I spent a lot of time at Tom Petty's Park growing up because I live right around the corner and we go to a lot of the parks, you know, uh around Gainesville. We just went to Squirrel Park, like that's one of the newer parks that they just went to, and they love it over there. So it's a nice playground. Yes, it is, yes, it is. So I just try to take my kids around to some of the spots that I grew up at. We we go to the duck pond. Yeah and I used to tell them, I remember when the ducks used to be in there. They like, damn, where the ducks at now? I'm like, I haven't seen a duck in over 20 years. I don't know if they just packed up and left, but they're not there anymore. But yeah, I just try to show my kids the things that I grew up seeing when I was a kid around here. Like the clock. I tell them that clock used to ding every hour for 15 years now. That clock hasn't worked. Because they ask me all the time, Dad, does the clock work? And I'm like, yes, it should be dinging in the next hour, but it hasn't worked in over 15 years. So, you know, just putting my kids on the Gainesville that, you know, inheritance that I've done, you know, because uh, you know, they're gonna be just like me. Like I tell them, y'all gonna go to UF. I didn't go to UF, you know. I mean, I wish I could have, but look at me now, you know what I mean, with hard work and dedication. But I also I I definitely want to be able to send my kids to college here and you guys grow up and you be just like me, man. Just represent where you're from.

Amanda 11:57

How old are your kids?

SPEAKER_02 11:58

I got I got six kids, actually.

Amanda 12:00

We have four, so I can't imagine two more.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Yeah, but I you know, but um, it's all good, man. It's all it's all love, you know, because I don't I don't have any brothers or sisters, so my kids they they take up.

Amanda 12:09

Yeah, so you created your own big family, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:12

I got a lot of cousins and stuff like that. I used to look at them as being my brothers and sisters, but now I have my own little teeny. You know, hey, y'all, y'all, my y'all gotta take care of dad now, you know. But it's it's a blessing, though.

Amanda 12:24

So your younger ones that you take out, do they do you get stopped with them out that they understand like your influence?

SPEAKER_02 12:29

Man, it gets so crazy because now my kids, they be like, Dad, don't get out the car because they're gonna want to take pictures. Dad, don't, because like my my kids, they go to private school. So when I go to their school, like they had a picnic and we was debating on if they wanted me to go or not. Because they was like, Dad, you get all the shine when you come to our school. And I'm like, I just want to come and support y'all though. And they like, um, we'll think about it. So yeah, my kid, they they they love it, but sometimes they get overwhelmed. You know what I mean when they they see it. So it's a blessing though.

Amanda 13:01

Well, and you're talking about UF and how you know you wish you you could have gone there and send your kids there, but it's my understanding you're very big at UF and like the frats are paying playing, paying you to come and play, and like that's pretty great.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Yeah, and see that's the thing. I I really don't know how big I am, I just know that I'm big on doing the work.

Amanda 13:19

Yeah, you're doing you're putting the work in the college kids, the college scene, all the way from here up to Florida State and wherever you are big friends.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

Okay, yeah, and like I said, I that's nice to know because you know, I I don't never um let it go to my head. You know what I mean? I'm I'm always like when things don't go the way that I as fast as I want it to go, I be like, I'm gonna work a little bit harder. You know what I mean? That's my big thing. So I I try not to get discouraged with anything because you know, along the way, you know, it's always gonna be bumps in the road. So as I'm going on this journey, I just you know pray a lot and I just be like, you know, we're gonna keep going as hard as we can go.

Amanda 13:57

You know when the hard work's paying off, right? That it looks like you blew up overnight, but like Josh said, you've you've been working hard, you've been grinding for a long time.

Josh 14:04

Most definitely. Yeah, now you sound old.

Amanda 14:06

Right? Because I said you've been grinding for you.

Josh 14:07

You've been grinding.

Amanda 14:10

I'm younger than you, so it's all right.

Josh 14:12

Practical advice here for me. Tonight I have uh poetry reading, I write poetry down at Dad's Bar uh by Kuria. Any tips for me as I go to present my poetry in front of a crowd?

SPEAKER_02 14:24

Just always be ready, you know, and just have confidence. You know, stick your chest out a little bit and pray. I always do a show or anything I do, I pray and I just leave it in God's hand. But it's it's it's just all about the people. You know, you're coming out there and you're doing what you want to do, and just you know, hyping up the people and doing it for them, you know. Just enjoy it.

Josh 14:46

All right. Well, when we're done recording, I need you to give me a little bit of your aura. Okay.

Amanda 14:50

Yeah, because the aura, and also I have gotten um messages from the cookie about your fit. Yeah, your fit is on point, is what I have heard. And then lovely yellow look for spring. And apparently you're so gaggy, but I guess that's good.

SPEAKER_03 15:03

I don't know what I'm like, y'all. I I mean, especially when they be like the aura. I'm like, huh? All right, we was using different words. Yep.

Coloring Book Gold Pizza Trading Cards

Josh 15:14

All right, you need to get in the studio and right now. Yeah, yeah. I'm so gaggy. Hey, for sure. Y'all got me a new one going on. You do have a lot of things going, and I really want folks to know about the the different things, even that you have available. So, like, tell me about this coloring book.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

Yeah, for sure. But you guys check it out here. I got a coloring book. Shout out to my sponsors. And basically, the coloring book is based off my song, I'm from Gainesville, but it also has um a map of Florida, but we got Gainesville real big. You guys can take it out of there and check it out. Open it, it's like officially sealed. Yeah, I got you. It's you it's on the code. Wait now.

Josh 15:51

If we take it out of the packaging, though, it's not gonna be mint conditioned in 20 years.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

No, I brought that for y'all. Y'all can keep that.

Josh 15:56

I'm saying in 20 years, when we go to sell it at a comic book store, you know, we take it out of the packaging, you know.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Now, what you're gonna have to do is put it in a fresh one. You have to do it like they do the cars, you know what I mean? You can't call it a couple of things. Put it in a glass case. There you go. And go crazy like that. But yeah, it got quotes from the song. I'm from Gainesville, and then it got some cool pictures of me, you know what I mean, and then um me representing Gainesville. And then it also has a crossword puzzle. I love that with um some of the neighborhoods that I grew up in. That's so cool. Yeah, it's definitely a cool book. And like I say, I got quotes from the song. I'm from Gainesville, got a pack and a sack, and you know, uh pretty cool, you know.

Amanda 16:32

And where can people find this?

SPEAKER_02 16:33

Um, they can actually find this book at Second and Charles in Gainesville, Florida, and also you can find that at Book Gallery West in Gainesville, Florida. So, yeah, you definitely can find that book at those two places. Shout out to them.

Amanda 16:45

Well, thank you for that. Our our nine-year-old will love this. Thank you.

Josh 16:48

That's but that's not it though, because you dropped on me the fact that you have uh signature pizza, is that right?

SPEAKER_02 16:54

Yeah, I also have a pizza at Bowie Pizza called Mr. Gainesville Pizza. So y'all go over there and try it out. It has three different meat, I think three to four different meats with 24 karat gold, edible gold you can eat. So when you eat this, when you eat this pizza, your whole mouth is gonna turn gold. Yeah, like me. That's good. That's good. You know, I'm looking forward to that. So yeah, so yeah, you definitely uh go check that out over there at Bowie Pizza. I got a um a coupon right here that you could it's good for 10 days. So basically you feel that out. Yeah, you scratch that off. Yeah, you get a free pizza, you get a free drink.

Amanda 17:25

We are gonna go do that.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

And every Tuesday it's BOGO, buy one, get one. So you know, we we're gonna get it.

Amanda 17:30

All right, I can't wait for you to have the gold. I know.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Do you buy one, get one for gold? Yeah, every Tuesday they do buy one, get one, but throughout the day, yeah, yeah. So yeah, you know, it's a blessing to even be doing is like I say, we got the pizza at Bowie Pizza. We got the coloring book at uh Second and Charles and um Book Gallery West. I also have a rapper trading card. All right, is uh yeah, I'm one of the first rappers in Gainesville to have my own trading cards. Love it. Um, and also shout out the Hobby Box card because that's where you can find the trading card at Hobby Box card vending machine inside the Oak Small.

Josh 18:01

So the picture of you, is it you dunking on like an NBA player?

SPEAKER_02 18:08

No, no, no. It's basically um it got me on the front, but then it also has Gainesville in the back. That's cool in the background, University of Florida. So just me representing for Gainesville, and then it has my stats on the back. It shows that I got over 200,000 views, and then it shows you know how many shows I've done and things like that. So it basically has my track record on the back of it. So that's really cool. And height and weight, yeah, arm span. Yeah, yeah. Then when you look at it and you see me, it's like I don't know, that that kind of looked like him, but then again, I don't know. So for sure.

Josh 18:39

All right, so you have a show tonight, don't you? Uh content?

SPEAKER_02 18:42

Um no, I actually had a show last night. It was at Facinos last night, and then we just did a book uh sign in at Book Gallery West today, so that's why I'll let everybody know that if you want to go purchase my coloring book, you can also color um purchase it from Book Gallery West in Gainesville, Florida. Or you can go to Second and Charles and pick up the book from there, also.

Josh 18:59

And then what's next? Like, what's what's your next thing?

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Man, it's a lot going on. I got a lot more shows. I also have a record, I have my own record. I'm from Gainesville, so I'm probably finna get with uh one of these record stores, maybe Hear It Again records. I don't know yet, but we're gonna get with one of them and we're gonna do a listening party for my record. So that'll be pretty cool. So we're gonna try to get people to come out to that, and we're just gonna keep representing, man. You know, I'm just you know linking up with everybody that I can link up with and just try to get out there more, but I'm just networking with everybody. So, you know, just to let everybody know, man, I'm not in competition with anyone. Yeah, if anybody wants to worse with me, I'm willing to work with anybody, man. Let's do it. I don't mind.

Josh 19:40

We have quite a few listeners in the United Kingdom. So hopefully this is now we'll get you hooked up, get you get you over there and conquer. For sure. Shout out to the UK. That's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_07 20:19

Can you dig it? Can you dig it? Can you dig it?

Josh 20:31

No one likes to be told what to do. And now is the time in the program where we tell you what to do. Amanda, what should we do?

Amanda 20:38

Well, you should go visit the bowl because it is absolutely our favorite place in town to go and have beer or wine and just hang out uh with friends and build community. I am gonna recommend another bar now. We went last night for the first time to Dad's bar at Curia on the Drag. So this is a very Gainesville-centric recommendation. But if you were in the area, I've been to Curia, I've not been to Dad's bar, and you did a poetry reading and a singer-songwriter's night there last night. And it was their beer garden was lovely. I think the weather was really nice, but we sat outside and it was just a whole lot of fun.

Josh 21:13

Yeah, they have an old bus there that forms part of their stage or the backdrop to their stage. And I wonder which came first. Dad's or the bus was there and like build around it or just build a stage off of it.

Amanda 21:26

I don't know. But the bartender was nice. It's a it's a it's a small bar, but the outside area is is really nice and it's just beer and wine. Uh, but really, really lovely.

Josh 21:36

These small bars, like they're the best. Small pubs. Uh, I've been to several large like Weatherspoons in London. Like that's a frickin' massive Walmart looking place. No soul to that. Yes, right. Um, but these little tiny pubs that you step into just so charming, and it's the type of thing, it's so funny because you go into this little place, you're like, Oh, this is so gracious. Wish it were bigger, but then if it were bigger, it wouldn't be as great as it is. It wouldn't have the same feel. Dad's Bar is a great little place in Gainesville.

Amanda 22:08

And at Curia, they uh also have a vegan food truck that's there pretty much every um whenever they're open. And uh if you get a chance, get the tots with all of the lovely things on it. No tots available to us last night, but uh you had a a vegan Ruben, which was great. Muffy had uh a burrito was great. Also, that's my other recommendation uh because Muffy came to the show last night and it was her first time coming to your show, but then Daniel, uh our oldest, and his girlfriend and uh friend Eve and Raven's mom came, and it's really lovely to hang out with your adult kids, like to go out with your adult kids, and and Muffy's now getting into that scene, and it's just I'm the person that laments, like, oh my babies are growing up, and I know you don't you don't like to sit in that space.

Josh 22:55

I don't because I feel the same way, but I don't want to dwell on that.

Amanda 22:59

Right.

Josh 23:00

You know, with Winthrop, you know, I'm starting to feel that way because he's gone from a cute little little boy to now a smart alecky less little boy.

Amanda 23:09

What did he say today that you do you?

Josh 23:12

You do you. This is from my nine-year-old. Excellent.

Amanda 23:16

Yeah. So anyway, if you've got adult kids, go hang out with them. It's it's really a very special thing.

Subscribe Review Thanks And Credits

Josh 23:22

My recommendation is an audiobook that I just finished called Strong Female Character by Fern Brady. Fern Brady is a Scottish comedian that we were introduced to through the British TV show Taskmaster and then other panel shows. And very funny, very quirky. Come to find out that she's autistic and she's written this book about what it's like to be uh an autistic woman living in this world. Yeah, very interesting and fascinating to climb inside a mind of an autistic woman and see what it's like. It changed my views on several different things. It really did. Yeah. And I want you to listen to it as well. Strong Female Character by Fern Brady. Do you have a recommendation for us? Email us at familiarwilsons at gmail.com. All right, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What'd you think of that?

Amanda 24:15

I am just so excited to have met Mr. Gainesville and have some cool points with our kids now. Like we got him to make a video for them and it just made their life. And so I he was a lovely gentleman, but also has brought some some cool cachet to to my life.

Josh 24:32

See, I think you're overstating that. When you receive a delicious meal on a silver platter, you don't spend too much time considering the silver platter. We were the silver platter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They they had the ribb dinner and were happy, but I'm not sure what it gained for us.

Amanda 24:49

I know. But it made them happy, and that makes me happy.

Josh 24:52

Uh, yes. Um, listen, we don't often do this, but I do want to ask you all listening out there, especially you new listeners, because we've had a bunch of those recently, subscribe to us on whatever your podcast app of choice is and leave us a review, particularly if it's a good one. In fact, I'll go further and just say don't leave us a bad review.

Amanda 25:09

Just only good ones.

Josh 25:11

Keep that to yourself. Uh, but do um, because it does something with the algorithm or or what I don't even know, but I just understand that it's the fuel that feeds the fire, and so feed our fire friends. Speaking of friends, these are the folks that we hold dear that without whom we would not be able to really just move through this podcasting world with any sort of efficacy. We'd like to thank Antonio, who appeared today as Big Al, Matt as Marco Mondo the third, Josh Scar as Dave, Daniel J. Buckets as Frank's wife, Justin as Billy the Impaler, Leo as Super Philip the Battle Droid, Chicken Tom as the nosy neighbor, Joey, Joey, Ryan Baker as the guy in scene 12, Monique from Germany as Queen Starsha, Refine Gay Jeff as Rodolfo the Quaint, Mark and Rachel as the innkeepers, and Dan and Gavin appearing as always as themselves.

Amanda 26:08

Is this your Oscar timed? Thanks to everybody.

Josh 26:12

The Oscars, which happened tonight. I don't know that I'll watch that. But anyway, special thanks to Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors for our theme song, to Ricky Kendall, wonderful local Gainesville musician for a lot of our music and for some interstitial music, AJCW. Um check Ricky and AJCW out on all your streaming assets of choice. Well, of course, Spin Doctors as well. They're still doing it. Just released a new album, and we're gonna have Chris back on pretty soon because he's into it. So we'll do it.

Amanda 26:42

That's what sounds weird.

Josh 26:45

Okay, very good. All right, until next week, folks. Y'all try not to say anything that Amanda will laugh at.

Final Stinger And Sign Off

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Bye. Welcome back to the conversation. Tell me who I'm talking to. It on down to imagination. You are me and I am you.