S.K. Guiliano: My life has been one big, you know, melodrama.

Alex Chadwick: Yeah? What's the melodrama in it?

S.K. Guiliano: Well, I was married. I had children. I got divorced. You know, she took off with my best friend. Stuff like that.

John Brooks: I wrote a novel once.

Alex Chadwick: Yeah.

John Brooks: Yeah. But I didn't like the ending. It was about a college kid in 1968 who didn't want to go to Vietnam --

Alex Chadwick : (Think of Key West as a kind of wildlife refuge, the species humanicus dropouticus.)

John Brooks: I was in San Francisco. I was a graduate student in writing at San Francisco State in 1968. And I was writing my novel, and I was having a hell of a time with the ending. I didn't like the ending at all. And I finally -- one night I got, um, fed up. I took my 300-page manuscript out on to the Golden Gate Bridge at 3:00 in the morning, and I threw it over. And all of those white sheets of paper are floating down into the Bay. It was one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen.

Are you gay? What's going on?

Alex Chadwick: (Laughs.)

John Brooks: Oh, sorry.

Alex Chadwick: I'm just simply not married.

Michael Sandri: Oh no, this is very interesting. I took a bike ride just nary a year, a little over a year ago, a year-and-a-half ago, I took a two-week vacation, and I flew out to San Francisco. San Francisco. You're familiar with San Francisco.

Alex Chadwick: Yes.

Michael Sandri: Spent a couple of days there. And I got on a bicycle and I rode solo down to L.A., which is a 500 mile track.

Alex Chadwick: By yourself?

Michael Sandri: By myself. Yeah. On a bicycle with a tent and sleeping bag, and just kind of found myself, because I didn't know ...

Alex Chadwick: Did you find yourself?

Michael Sandri : Oh sure.

Alex Chadwick: Yeah.

Michael Sandri: Oh sure. Oh sure. I was there out on the coast. And now I know who I am, because I didn't know that before.

Alex Chadwick: Really?

Michael Sandri: Oh yeah.

Alex Chadwick: Well, what did you find out?

Michael Sandri: I found out that I like to ride a bike along the coast, and it's good. I found that out. But I most recently found out, this girl that I'm dating now told me when I moved to Atlanta, which is recently, and I told her that story, she circulated around to all her friends and everyone was very impressed with the fact that I had ridden a bike solo down the coast of California. So, I found that that's kind of a selling tactic and I can pick up lots of babes... (laughs)

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