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Hey guys, it's Mike Rowan. This is episode number 201 of the way I heard it. It's called

Everybody Peas in the Pool. Everybody Peas in the pool. It features a conversation that

goes completely off the rails in a totally delightful way. When my guest admits, proudly,

in fact, to not even bothering to listen to the chapter that I invited him onto this

podcast to discuss, now, normally I would take an umbrage at such a wanton display of

unapologetic indifference to the task at hand, but when your guest is smarter than you

and wiser than you, and considerably older than you, it's best just to roll with the

punches. And nobody punches through the all-too-predictable

pabulum of podcast landia like my old friend Paul Kelly, who was backed by popular demand

to wax eloquent on all things wise and wonderful. Paul made an appearance here a few months

ago when I invited him on to discuss our very unusual and very instructive years on the

graveyard shift at the QVC cable shopping channel. That conversation triggered thousands

of requests for more of Paul Kelly's unique brand of folk wisdom and storytelling acumen.

Well, since the days chapter also involves my Halcyon days of shameless pluggory in the

home shopping industry, I invited Paul back to continue our circuitous journey down memory

lane while discussing the true story of a man who took great pains to hide his true identity

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