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For many years, I ended the program with an essay called The Outshot. It was something about something that I appreciated or recommended, and it has been a while,

but it has also been a while since I have been on stage in front of you.

So I thought that I would bring that back because after 25 years of doing this show, I have

been appreciating it. So this is the outshot. Radio is made of time and time is cruel.

Time is purely linear.

There is no going back.

It marches forward no matter how much you object.

Time doesn't wait for you to catch up.

If you make a mistake, it's a mistake made forever.

If you have nothing to say, you're left in the dust.

In radio, there is nothing more terrifying than filling the time.

When I was in high school, my classmate Susan's dad came in one day, and he was in this thing

called Toastmasters. And the idea was he was going to teach us his Toastmasters secret, that he was

going to teach us all to, I guess, make after-dinner speeches at the Rotary Club. And so one by one, he put us all in front of the class, and he asked us what we care most

about in the world.

He asked me, and I think I said baseball.

And then he pulled out a stopwatch, and he said, okay, start talking about baseball.

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