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What the hell was that?

Thank you very much for having me here, my name is Earl and I'm an alcoholic.

It is indeed an honor to be here at an event such as this.

The esteemed nature of this gathering is known far and wide.

Actually, that's true and I am honored to be here, I was supposed to be here last year

but I was having heart attacks or something, I don't know when I was going to make it.

In this trip, I got to tell you it was like payback already, right?

I should have just said, you know, then I'm going to have a heart attack on my way to

Nashville because this year I get on the, my dog wakes me, I got two dogs, dogs are great

for people, it's just unconditional love sitting right there and Lulu woke me up this morning

at 4.30 and just said, I know it's not light but get up.

So we got up, packed, went to LAX, LAX on a Friday morning is a nightmare.

Get up there and they tell us the plane is not coming, no wait, it's coming but it will

be late.

So the plane finally showed up, we're getting the plane, we started flying here and those

I was in a plane crash in 1974 but I was the only member of my family to survive the

crash.

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