From the high desert and the great American Southwest I did you all good evening or good

morning as the case may be across all these many political time zones stretching from the Tahitian and Hawaiian islands

out west eastward to the Caribbean south.

Into South America, north all the way to the pole and worldwide on the internet this is close to close

AM and I'm Arfeld.

Howdy partner?

We're going to be in open lines this hour and boy do I have some news for you. Next hour we're

going to be joined by Albert Taylor, the author of Soul Traveler and I have a really special reason for having

Al on.

He's been with us, oh I don't know, a half dozen times over the years and he is probably in my opinion the

world's leading authority on this thing called Soul Travel. And as you know I've had a significant thing that occurred

to me in Paris and so I jumped on Al Taylor real quickly and we'll talk about that in the next hour.

This hour.

Well let me see.

Spokesman Mike McCurry is going, White House spokesman out. His deputy will take over.

Joe Lockhart. I've kind of enjoyed McCurry. McCurry has a kind of a

dry sense of humor which as you know I enjoy because I kind of have one myself and so I enjoy one.

Sometimes people tend to mistake people who have a dry sense of humor for all kinds of things, you know, they take it the wrong

way.

I've always had that.

So I'm sorry to see McCurry go.

I've kind of enjoyed him. Pope John Paul II tightened Vatican control over national bishops conferences today,

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