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But if you'll wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by.

And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the Airways, Eric Mott, Texas.

Hey there, folks. If you're watching, you can see that I'm back in the studio after four years off.

Actually, it wasn't four years off.

It needed to be for my mental and emotional health.

But it was only, I think, three weeks.

But I'm back and I'm feeling reasonably well.

We, oh my gosh.

Today is Wednesday, in case you didn't know that.

And we used to do a thing.

Well, we've done a thing over the years where we do like a listener writes.

So I got one just this morning, and I thought, I want to read this.

It's kind of raw.

But I wanted to read this.

Before I read this, I want to say, coming up in the next segment, our old friend, amazing, hipster, warrior, Doug Giles is my guest for Hour 1 today.

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