Duke Ross is a son and a brother and a husband and a father and an all-around righteous dude.When he's not otherwise occupied behind the steering wheel of a tow truck, he can likely be found in the crowd at a Dead & Company show, or -- perhaps -- on a Mexican beach with a cold cocktail in his hand.Duke and I connected a little over two years ago via a Facebook group called Kansas City Dead Heads. He was pedaling some merch', and I said, Yes, please.Fast forward about 30 months, and I'll be darned if he wasn't down to swing by the studio to record a podcast episode with me.And I couldn't be happier than him choosing to do so.We had a great time chatting and getting to know one another. Or at least I did.We talked a fair amount of Dead & Co., but we also reminisced about growing up in the '80s and MTV and the funny paths life sometimes take ...