Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it is there?

Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good. Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hey, Jason Gots here.

Just a quick announcement that Think Again will be taking a few weeks off to absorb the fact of the end of a decade.

We'll be back January 18th Saturday with the great mindfulness and insight meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein back for what is now a two-year tradition.

Lots of things are happening next year. To stay informed, please visit my website, jasongots.com,

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Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program.

Hi there, I'm Jason Gatz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

If you told me a couple months ago that a podcast about Dolly Parton could move me deeply and raise all kinds of questions that goes straight to the wounded heart of America today,

I guess I would have been skeptical, to say the least.

But that skepticism might be exactly the point.

America is an image factory, country music, rock and roll, New York City, Nashville.

We paint with big, broad brushes, and if we're not careful, we miss a lot of the details.

My guest today is Audio Storytelling Wizard, Jad Abumrad.

He's the creator and the host of Radio Lab, More Perfect, and now of Dali Parton's America,

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