Porn Free Radio Episode 207. When I was growing up, I had a favorite aunt. She was about 14 years

older than me. So even when I was, you know, four or five, she was still a teenager. And I looked up to

her. I idealized her. She taught me on a skateboard. She introduced me to Steve Martin and Bett Midler and Sarenet Live. She had a great

sense of humor. She was creative. I remember she was one of the first people to have a personal

computer. And I remember sitting with her and like going through a spreadsheet program similar to Excel it was called

lotus one two three and I remember thinking it was really cool and she she really

thought computers are going to be important especially personal computers and you

know little did I know how much that that would impact my life but you know it was just really cool

and I remember one time visiting her before she had kids herself and I think it was 13 and we she

lived outside of New York and we got tickets to go to David Letterman and I remember being 13 in December of

1983 and going to see David Letterman and his guests that night were Eddie Murphy and Billy Crystal. So, I mean, it was an amazing,

um, uh, it was an amazing trip. I, this was in the days where, you know, miners could fly places and

there wasn't a problem. So I flew out to New York and hung out with her and we even

went to the New York Stock Exchange I mean it was really cool like I just have these

memories of her just emblazoned in my head now Now, several years ago, I mean, I'm even having trouble remembering when this was,

but she passed away. She had cancer. And, you know, she had one of those prolonged fights,

and we thought she'd pull through, and she didn't.

And a couple nights ago, I had a dream where I was with my family, some of my extended family, her two brothers, my mom, a couple of people from my generation.

We were all at this sort of family gathering.

And she was there and she had come in.

And she was tired from a trip.

And I felt like I should go say hi to her.

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