It's that time.

that time.

Lock and load. The Michael Vary Show is on the air. Oh, yeah. I may have a few tickets to give away to the Astros tonight. Do not email me yet.

Do not email me. I will confirm during the next break. If you email now, you're not going to

be chosen. We will, as usual, give those away to first responders and veterans or if you have a great story.

Remember the rules.

Don't email me until I tell you that we have tickets

so that I know how many I have.

It may be as many as two dozen, but I don't know that yet.

As soon as I know, I will let you know.

They're coming from Mac and he's coordinating right now.

So as soon as he gets them, I'll get mine by email, you'll get yours there.

But don't email me until we know because it clogs up the email filter.

So I will let you know, you just stay tuned right here for the next 30 minutes and the second

I know, then I'll be able to let you know.

And the same rules apply as always apply. Get to your point in the

first sentence. If you feel the need to say, huh, buckle up because this one's going to take a while.

Save yourself the time.

If you had a thousand emails to read,

you wouldn't read Dostoevsky's War and Peace.

You just wouldn't do it.

Have the discipline to get right to the point.

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