Hello, and thank you so much for joining us.

Once again, it is the Nightly Pleasures podcast, episode number 85, and in true Nightly Pleasures format,

it's right before a vacation, so things have gone a little bit awry.

I had, in my hot little hand, a beautiful and weird piece, a little bit supernatural, that

just disintegrated literally within the last 12 hours after staying up till 3 a.m. for it.

So instead, right before I go on vacation, instead of doing a one-hour ramble or what have

you like I've typically done, especially since I did miss last week's upload and instead put

something on the blog for those of you who didn't see, what I'm doing today is just a best

of Cowboy Jack that you guys haven't heard on the podcast before.

It's a couple of different pieces today.

I do hope that you enjoy them.

It's three different Cowboy Jack stories.

Just before we go ahead and get into that medley today, I just wanted to assure you.

We're working very, very hard on getting everything done.

The alleged database is, it's near completion, it's getting there.

And I can't begin to tell you how amazing I think that is.

With that and the vacation and everything else, you how amazing I think that is.

With that and the vacation and everything else, we should be looking to having questions on the 8th and going forward.

And normal functions more or less should resume in addition to everything else.

One last note on the podcast after I come back in February, the podcast is going to get an update.

It's going to go from about four times a month to about seven.

The reason for that is that I do live shows.

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