The Welcome to episode 70 of the Charles CW Cook podcast.

Thank you to everyone who listened to the last episode,

Whiz Bang, and sent nice messages to me and to Luther.

I bet someone in Dallas at a breakfast who told me that he had up until the point at

which Luther appeared on this show for a sustained period of time, believed that Luther

was a figment of my imagination, that he didn't actually exist quite genuinely that I had made him up and that's why I kept killing him off as one might a bad sentence or a pesky fly.

But no, Luther does in fact exist.

He is flesh and blood almost as tall as I am. Perhaps the same height.

Also has a beard. Which is actually another odd thing, is that if I were going to make someone up, I probably would make him look a bit like me.

But no, I didn't.

He is real.

Since the last episode, I have taken another road trip.

This time from Jacksonville to Buffalo to

to watch Monday night football.

I'm not going to dwell on the game itself.

The Jaguar's lost 47 to 10. It was something of a disaster. They're now

O and 4. They're the only O and 4 team in the NFL. But the road trip itself was terrific

We went up through South Carolina and got some barbecue in Columbia.

Then... some barbecue in Colombia.

Then, I can already hear you groaning

at how incorrigible I have become.

Then we went to see the point again.

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