The Your Daily Likes production team is taking a vacation at the end of June into July.

By the way, I’m the Your Daily Likes production team.

And I’ve been debating, do I bank a bunch of episodes ahead of time or do I just go Your Daily Likes free for that week and a half?

I still don’t know the answer.

My hunch is I’m just going to go dark, but I’m not opposed to banking.

It’s just that the last couple times I banked there were issues with the server I was using where the episodes went up early anyway and then it’s like why am I even bothering to bank and all that.

So who knows?

But anyway, speaking of vacations, let’s talk about a story from a different vacation that involves your friend and mine.

Well, I’m not going to tell you.

We’ll save it.

No spoilers.

Your Daily Likes.

So, many years ago, I was but a child.

I was a teenager.

I was on a cruise with my parents.

I believe neither sister of my two sisters joined us, but we were going on the Queen Elizabeth II on a cruise.

That would be the ship, not the now late queen, then alive queen.

We did not want to use her as a buoyant device, but rather a cruise ship that bore her name.

So my parents had a suite and I was staying in said suite.

I think on a couch, couch bed, some kind of situation like that.

But the first night we’re there in the dining room at our table and we see nearby, not too far away, hence nearby, we see another table and nobody’s sitting at that table.

And next to that table is a second table covered in alcohol.

In my mind, it’s top shelf alcohol, but I don’t know that as a kid I would have known whether it was good or not good alcohol, but it was covered with alcohol, like lots of alcohol.

And I’m not saying it was saturated with liquids.

I’m saying there were many, many bottles of booze on that table.

And then we see folks come in and sit down at the table.

And my parents are looking over and they’re like, who is that disgusting guy sitting at that table with a kid and not one, but really actually two beautiful women joining him at this table.

And I’m like, oh, well, that’s Rod Stewart.

You guys know Rod, my parents don’t know Rod Stewart.

I mean, they now know who Rod Stewart is, but they did not have any chance of recognizing Rod Stewart, nor did they.

But he was there at the time.

He was still married to Rachel Hunter and they had traveled.

I believe they had two suites.

In fact, they had a suite not far from my parents, but they had gotten two suites, one for the nanny and then one for themselves.

The nanny looks a whole lot like Rachel Hunter.

I want to be clear.

The nanny was also beautiful.

As was Rachel.

Rod was not.

You know, Rod has had for a long time what I would call a weathered look, which he had then too.

And I guess they really liked their alcohol.

But so there we were and wasn’t going to bother Rod Stewart, nor was he going to bother us, which was nice.

Except one day, you know, I’d made some some friends on the boat.

They were not, you know, pop singers, rock singers.

But I don’t know what you’re calling.

Anyway, so I’m there with some kids who I’ve met on the boat and we’re doing one of the most fun outdoor activities to do on a cruise ship when you’re a kid, which is shuffleboard.

And I don’t think anybody in the world is like good at shuffleboard because who has time to practice shuffleboard?

So we’re there playing shuffleboard and Rod Stewart comes up.

He’s solo at the time and he asks if he can join us.

And we’re like, sure.

And he does.

I don’t remember who won.

I’d love to have this story be and we kicked his ass or I’d love it to be that he kicked our ass.

Like just somebody kicking anybody’s butt in shuffleboard on a cruise ship when Rod Stewart is involved.

That sounds fun to me, but that’s not what happened.

We play shuffleboard.

Somebody won.

And then Rod Stewart bought us all sodas, which was very nice.

I think I probably had, you know, some kind of soda plan on that ship where I could have gotten my own soda, but it was fun to have it be built to Rod Stewart instead.

So thanks, Rod.

And if you’re listening to this and I’m sure you are, I don’t know.

I like some of your songs for sure.

And I like also that you’re like largely out of the limelight now that you’ve chosen to like be willing to age and retire and not keep going crazy.

Oh, I just checked your Wikipedia page, Rod, and you are both pop and rock.

So thank goodness I was confused.

But dear Mr.

Stewart is now 78 years old.

And according to Wikipedia, another name for him was Rod the Mod.

So there’s that.

He’s no longer married to Rachel Hunter.

They divorced in 2006.

He’s now married to a woman named Penelope Claire Lancaster.

Lady Stewart.

She goes by Penny Lancaster.

And she was born in 1971, making her 52.

So there you go.

You can do the math.

Anyway, enjoy what’s left of your Tuesday, June 6th.

And you know it.

We’ll talk again soon.

Lex.

You know, I’m just going to note that it says here that Rod, first of all, that Rod’s still performing.

He’s been performing as recently as May of this year.

But that in reference to his divorces, he’s on his third marriage, Stewart was once quoted as saying, instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.

That’s crappy, Rod.

That’s crappy, Rod the Claude.

That’s crappy, Rod the Claude.