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Okay, first of all, don’t lie. You know you just started singing Boyz to Men in your head. Especially if you were in high school in the 90’s!!

Yes folks, it’s sad but true . . . the Expelled Tour has come to its unofficial close. There’s a chance that we may be gearing back up again for a few weeks in Texas, but the guys and I have packed our bags and kissed the RV goodbye.

Our last couple of tour stops went really well. We made our way to Knoxville, TN for a few days and this rad guy named Ryan worked really hard to get us into University of Tennessee. But, the timing was too short and details didn’t pan out. Thanks anyways Ryan. You DA MAN. Tennessee wasn’t without its interesting experiences though. I did get to do an AM radio interview for like 45 minutes for a station in Knoxville. Everyone has always told me I had a face for radio.

We rolled into Atlanta and then back down to Orlando to screen the movie for a couple of different conferences there. The crowds LOVED it and we got a standing “O” at both venues. Well, everyone loved it except for that sneaky Orlando Sentinel reporter who lied and snuck in and then wrote a really nasty revue about it. Oh well, guess you can’t win em all.

I’ve gotten to see the film at least 5-6 times now, and I gotta tell you it still hasn’t gotten old to me. There’s so much good stuff packed into just an hour and a half. I can’t wait to take my girlfriend to see it. I think that now that I’m back in LA I’m going to work on organizing a whole screening with all of my LA crowd.

Anyway, here’s to all the great people we met on the road. It was our pleasure. Here’s to Ben Stein for letting me drive around with your face on the side of my vehicle for 3 months. And here’s to the RV. You will forever be in my heart . . . .

Signing Off~

Dairek

P.S. No tears please. You’ll still have an opportunity to see the big red Ben Stein-mobile at several different screenings in the coming months. It just won’t have me in it!!

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[singlepic=126,320,240,,left]Roaming around DC is an adventure in and of itself, but it’s made so much more enjoyable when you are with someone who SWEARS that there are snipers on every roof and that they are locked and loaded and ready to fire at you at any moment.

TJ was absolutely paranoid the entire time we were in DC, and Jesse and I were merciless in our harassment. According to TJ, its a wonder we made it out of the city alive!! There should probably be some sort of a cap on how many times one person can watch Conspiracy Theory.

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Did you know that there are no billboards in our nation’s capital?? It actually makes for a really beautiful skyline. As you’re driving around you notice how pretty the city looks and all the amazing architecture, and somehow it feels like something’s missing, and then finally it clicks - There’s no graffiti and no billboards with peeling flaky paper anywhere to be found. It’s quite nice, actually.

DC was FREEZING cold all week we were there. We’re talking like 15 degrees or something. I know those of you in the NorthEast reading this are thinking “oh, wow, you poor things”. But, c’mon, I live in Southern California. Our blood is thinner!!!

A couple of really cool things happened in DC, but I think the most notable was being there during the March for Life. It’s a huge political rally where about 50,000 people march around downtown rallying for right to life issues. Now, obviously, this is a pretty loaded and polarizing subject , but what really struck me about this event was a couple of things . . . a) how many young people participated, and b) how amazing the freedoms in our country really are.

As we watched the people march I kept thinking about the 1st amendment to our constitution and the right to peaceable assembly. It’s one of the foundational liberties of our country, and for the first time in my life I was able to see it demonstrated. No matter what you views on the abortion issue, you have to admit that it’s pretty amazing that our country allows us to rally and demonstrate even against the government or popular opinion. I kept thinking of how many other countries don’t allow this, and you could chance being arrested or shot for doing what these students did last week. It was particularly cool to see this freedom exercised by so many young people. I would guess probably 85% of those demonstrating were teenagers. Not an experience I will soon forget . . . .