Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour Podcast listeners and welcome to this week's

edition and it's a it's a real fun one and it's long. Well we added some

extra content because I was on the road in a concert edition of the

Jefferson Hour. Sometimes public radio stations around the country do a live, as if live performance

of the Jefferson Hour where there's a local host in this

case it was a man named Dustin Triber in Pittsburgh Kansas and they go on because

this is an evening when 500 people have driven to this performing arts center.

One of the great...

And it's the University of Kansas at Pittsburgh, is that right?

And Pittsburgh without an H, so the U.S. postal system at one point tried to eliminate confusion so they took the

H off of this Pittsburgh. It's an old coal mining district. It's a beautiful

part of southeastern Kansas. I actually flew to Springfield in Missouri, and then drove in a rental car through some of the most beautiful farm country in North America.

You talk about, you were amazed at this new facility. It's the world-class you said.

I go all over and I perform in all sorts of places and I'm always happy in a small

theatre or a ramshackle old proscenium theater at town hall in Seattle.

And so every sort of venue that you can imagine.

So I didn't have very high expectations

because you think an auditorium is an auditorium.

They take me there, and it is this world-class gleaming

aluminum and glass place. Well I can say as an audio guy the the recording of the performance that they sent to us to

broadcast this week was just pristine, one of the best ever.

It was so much fun to be on that stage and to look out and I thought

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