Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Hang on.

Um, not what you this?

No, where in it?

Here, yeah.

Oh, there we go.

Okay, I got it.

Oh, wait, wait, we're on.

Couldn't you wait till I was finished cleaning up?

Okay, okay. Let me just put this over over here. And yeah, I'll get to that. Okay, I'm ready.

No, no, wait. I have to move these. I'll leave those bankers boxes out of the way for now. Okay, here. Hello there. I'm Ellen Cross, and you seem to have caught me in the middle of my end of year cleanup. I do research for ongoing history programs pretty much 24-7, looking for stuff to talk about, trying to figure out what topics need to be covered and, you know, all that stuff.

And let me tell you something, I accumulate a lot of material.

Here's a big stack of newspaper clippings.

This is a stack of magazines that I have turned down pages where I found something interesting.

There were dozens and dozens of books that contained cool nuggets of information,

and that's what the wump was.

What else?

More dog-eared pages and highlighted passages.

Here are some notebooks with some scribbles. And over here,

you can see all the Post-it notes that have something written on them. And please, don't get me started at all the web pages that I've bookmarked and all the documents and the research files on my

computer. Actually, computers. I don't come close to using all this information in any ongoing history project.

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